On this 38th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice” when the United States men’s hockey team beat the Soviet Union to take the gold medal at the Winter Olympic games in Lake Placid, New York; history was once again made when in an exciting over time win the United States women survived a six round shootout to bring home the gold medal and deprived the Canadian team of a historic five Olympic Championships in a row.
The last time the U.S. won a gold medal in women’s hockey was 1998. It also marks the first loss for Canada since the 1998 Olympics.
New Zealand became the 27th country to get their names on the medal count with two bronze medals.
Norway has retaken the lead in the gold medal count and has added to their lead in the total medal count.
Thanks to some incredible tricks in the half pipe, the U.S. has moved up to fourth place in the gold medal count.
Medal count:
Norway – 33
Germany – 24
Canada – 21
United States – 21
Netherlands – 16
France – 14
Olympic Athletes from Russia – 13
Austria – 12
Switzerland – 11
Japan – 11
Sweden – 9
South Korea – 9
Italy – 9
China – 7
Czech Republic – 6
United Kingdom – 4
Finland – 4
Slovakia – 3
Australia – 3
Belarus – 2
Poland – 2
Ne Zealand – 2
Spain – 2
Ukraine – 1
Slovenia – 1
Kazakhstan – 1
Latvia – 1
Liechtenstein – 1