2018 Official Medal Count

Posted on March 7, 2018. Filed under: Sporting News, Sports Business | Tags: 2018 Winter Olympics, 2018 Winter Olympics Medal Count, 2022 Beijing, Amateur Sports Magazine, Amateur Sports News Network, AmateurSports365, ASNN365, Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Pres Ro, Prez Ro, XXIV Olympic Winter Games |

Who won the most medals?

February 2018

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The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (Korean: 제23회 동계 올림픽, translit. Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpik) and commonly known as PyeongChang 2018, was a major multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February 2018, the eve of the opening ceremony. Pyeongchang was elected as the host city in July 2011, during the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa. This was the first time that South Korea had hosted the Winter Olympics and the second Olympics held in the country overall, after the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. It was the third time that an East Asian country had hosted the Winter Games, after Sapporo (1972) and Nagano (1998), both in Japan. It was also the first of three consecutive Olympics to be held in East Asia, the other two being the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

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The games featured 102 events in fifteen sports, with the addition of “big air” snowboarding, mass start speed skating, mixed doubles curling, and mixed team alpine skiing to the Winter Olympic programme. 2,914 athletes from 92 NOCs competed, including the debuts of Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria and Singapore. After a state-sponsored doping program was exposed following the 2014 Winter Olympics, the Russian Olympic Committee was suspended, and selected athletes were allowed to compete neutrally under the title “Olympic Athletes from Russia”. Despite tense relations, North Korea agreed to participate in the Games, enter with South Korea during the opening ceremony as a unified Korea, and field a unified team in women’s ice hockey.

Norway led the total medal tally with 39, followed by Germany’s 31 and Canada’s 29. Germany and Norway were tied for the most gold medals won; both won fourteen golds.

The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, will be hosted by Beijing 2022. The international multi-sport event will take place in Beijing and towns in the neighboring Hebei province, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.

Well, see you in four years, and hopefully things will be better for the United States team….