The 2026 Winter Olympic Games are over and it was a record setting event on many levels.
For the first time in Olympic history, the Games were scattered across several locations including holding the opening ceremony in three locations with 92 nations from around the world competing in 116 events.
Norway and the United States set new medal records. Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo became the winningest athlete in the Winter Olympics by sweeping all six of the cross-country ski events. Norway earns a total of 41 medals – 18 of them gold.
And for the first time in 46 years, Team USA took home the gold medal in hockey beating Team Canada 2 to 1 in overtime to join the women’s Team USA hockey team who also beat Team Canada in an overtime finish for the gold.
Team USA skier Mikaela Shiffrin finally broke the curse and brought home the gold medal in women’s slalom.
The Team USA women set a record of their own with a total of 21 event medals in women’s and mixed events and a total of 40 female athletes earning at least one medal.
Alysas Liu took the gold medal in figure skating for the first US gold medal in over 20 years!
Of the 33 total medals for Team USA, 12 of them were gold – the most ever for an American Olympic team.
Georgia and Brazil won their first ever medals in the Winter Olympics.
There were a number of siblings competing in these Olympic Games; but for the first ever there was also a mother-son pair of athletes in the Games.
A total of 13 or the 29 medal winning nations earned at least 10 medals.
In the final Milan-Cortina Medal Count:
Norway – 41
USA – 33
Italy – 30
Germany – 26
Japan – 24
France – 23
Switzerland – 23
Canada – 21
Netherlands – 20
Austria – 18
Sweden – 18
China – 15
South Korea – 10
Australia – 6
Finland – 6
Czechia – 5
Great Britain – 5
Slovenia – 4
Poland – 4
New Zealand – 3
Spain – 3
Bulgaria – 2
Latvia – 2
Brazil – 1
Denmark – 1
Estonia – 1
Georgia – 1
Kazakhstan – 1
Belgium – 1