Slovakia earned its first hockey medal in Winter Olympics play by blanking Sweden 4-0. The Finnish were not the only team to add to the history books this year. Now that the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing have come and gone, check out the final Olympic medal counts (gold, silver, bronze) for Team USA and more. They earned their victory, defeating every opponent put in front of them before besting a ROC team that had been the favorite to win gold. The gold medal-winning group outscored opponents 22-8. We have come close a couple of times and it is finally nice to get the first one," Finland captain Valtteri Filppula said after the historic victory, per Ryan Quigley of. 1 It was the first time that Birmingham hosted the games and also marked England's third time hosting the Commonwealth Games after London 1934.
" It is hard to put in words what this means. The 2022 Commonwealth Games (officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games) was a multi-sport event held in Birmingham, England, from 28 July to 8 August 2022. The Finnish squad wrapped up an undefeated run in Beijing by coming back, down 1-0, to etch its name in the history books. New Zealand won its first two gold medals in Winter Olympic history while Great Britain took home two medals (one gold, one silver) after being shut out early in the games.įinland secured its first Olympic gold in men's hockey Sunday with a 2-1 victory over the ROC. A ruling against the country or Valieva’s involvement would impact its gold medal count. The Russian Olympic Committee finished second with 32 overall medals, though there is still controversy looming in the form of Kamila Valieva and her performance in the Figure Skating Team Event. "I’m born in a small place where there’s a lot of wind and a lot of cold temperatures in the region, so this was nothing for me," she said, according to Martha Bellisle of the Associated Press. I was so, so happy 14 days ago when I got my first one, and I cannot believe I should have more," Johaug said after collecting her third gold medal of the games, per Andrew Das of The New York Times.Įven fierce winds and cold temperatures could not thwart her chase for the top prize in her sport. Unable to compete in the 2018 games in PyeongChang due to a positive drug test, she exploded back onto the international scene in 2022 with dominant performances in the 30-kilometer freestyle race, the women's skiathlon and the 10-kilometer. Most interestingly is that the country's medal-winning started and ended with the same athlete: cross-country skier Therese Johaug. The games were postponed by one year as part of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports. Some 14 of those 37 came in the biathlon, an event the Norwegians typically have a stronghold on, with others coming in sports like ski jumping, speedskating and cross-country. The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 July to 8 August 2021. The country dominated the competition in this year's games en route to 16 golds and a total of 37, tops in each of those categories. Now that the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing have come and gone, check out the final Olympic medal counts (gold, silver, bronze) for Team USA and more. The United States is the all-time leader in Olympic medals with nearly 3,000, followed by the United Kingdom, Germany and France.No team has ever won as many gold medals in a single Olympic games as Norway did in Beijing. In fact, there are 72 countries recognized by the International Olympic Committee that have never won an Olympic medal.
While there are enough medals for every country to hypothetically go home with one - 309 across 33 sports - many countries will go home without any hardware. There are 206 countries competing in Tokyo with over 11,000 athletes representing them. The United States once again dominated the medal podium at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
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