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Meanwhile awesome to see Bruna higging Sami at the 10k finish made it to the big final Olympics overview they just showed  

With a single medal, better ranking for  compared to 2024 Summer Olympics (19 vs. 20) 

lol
 
 

Unpredictable did happen  with the silver medal & makes entry to the medal table.
This equals 30 NOC/Countries (highest ever) on the medal table.
(Counting AIN medal ofcourse)

10- 6 - 13  
 
29 medals unbelievable!!!!!

Norway sets the all-time record for most medals (40 so far) in a single edition of the Winter Olympic Games.

Hi !
 
Like 2024, I'll do the counts of the number of countries who will win at least one medal during these olympiades.
The record for Winter Olympic Games is 30 countries for Pyeongchang. Do you think we can reach this score in 2026 ?
 
Like the last time, I separate all the nations in 6 different categories :
 
 
 
 
Group 1 (14)
 
Countries that has reached at least 5 medals in each Olympic Games from Turin to Beijing
 
For these countries, I'm not afraid for them, I think they'll reach their minimal quota this year.
 
Concerned : Austria, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, AIN, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, USA
 
 
Group 2 (6)
 
Countries that has reached at least 5 medals in one of the 5 last Olympiades
 
I think they'll also gain at least one medal this year, but be careful !
 
Concerned : Czechia, Japan, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia, UK
 
 
Group 3 (6)
 
Countries that won at least 1 medal in at least 2 of their participations in Olympic Games from Turin to Beijing
 
they are still here, but they are not immune to poor performance !
From there, we will take a look on these countries.
 
Concerned : Australia, Croatia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Ukraine
 
 
Group 4 (6)
 
Countries that won at least 1 medal in at least 1 of their participations in Olympic Games from Turin to Beijing
 
We will clearly not bet on them, but they have already the experience of the win !
 
Concerned : Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Spain
 
 
Group 5 (18)
 
Countries that never won a medal in the last 5 Olympiads, but have at least 5 qualified Athletes this time
 
Maybe the quantity will prime above the quality for them !
 
Concerned (in order of number of qualified) : Denmark, Romania, Lithuania, Brazil, Israel, Georgia, New Taipei, Turkey, Argentina, Andorra, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Greece, Bosnia, Armenia, Moldova, Mexico, South Africa
 
 
Group 6 (42)
 
Else
 
 
(please note : I just check that, I don't know which athletes has the best chances in each sports).
 
 
So, if we go on the fact that groups 1,2,3 and 4 will win at least on medal for each, we have a base of 32 and make the record ! That will be our goal this time
 
(Also in the topic, i'll take the count for each Group during these Olympic Games)
 
Thanks for reading !
 
 
 
 
Current results
 
 
Groupe 1 : 14/14
Groupe 2 : 6/6
Groupe 3 : 3/6
Groupe 4 : 4/6
Groupe 5 : 3/18
Groupe 6 : 0/42
 
 
Total : 30/32

Here's a top 8 placements / points table (8 points for a gold, 7 for a silver,..., 1 for an 8th place).
 


 
Screenshot because copy/pasting gives some horrible formatting 

Congrats  for its first ever medal at Winter Olympics!! 

Did it!!
 
Record for gold in one edition: 8

Brava Italia!  Reaching 20 medals total today! One more to break the highest count.

Congrats to  for their first ever Winter Olympics medal, and it is a Gold! First Latin American country to do it!

Men's Giant Slalom
Final Results   Lucas PINHEIRO BRAATHEN 2:25.0(1:13.92+1:11.08)   Marco ODERMATT 30:00.4(1:14.87+1:10.71)   Loic MEILLARD 30:01.9(1:15.49+1:10.68) Full Final Result HERE
 

And something interesting I saw on Twitter: our two main Olympic sports, the one with the most medals (Judo) and the one with the most gold medals (Sailing), also started with a Brazilian who was born in another country (Japan and Sweden, respectively), so it has to start somewhere.

Last Carnival we won the Oscars, this Carnival we won a Gold metal at the Winter Olympics.
 
So, whats next?

Love the celebration & dance from Lucas & the love he got from entire Brazilian team . Historic day for Brazil 

Congrats to  for their first ever Winter Olympics medal, and it is a Gold! First Latin American country to do it!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 

Unbelievable. I honestly thought this day would never come. I'm speechless.

Congrats to  for their first ever Winter Olympics medal, and it is a Gold! First Latin American country to do it!

Women's 3000m
Final Results   Francesca LOLLOBRIGIDA 3:54.28OR   Ragne WIKLUND 3:56.54   Valerie MALTAIS 3:56.93 Full Final Result HERE
 

Can't really put into words how bizarre and amazing this was to see  
 
 
I mean, I've been a massive sports fan since I was a child, but never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I might end up having a family with an actual Olympic flag bearer  

I see we have some new users on the forum, maybe with the upcoming Winter Olympics we will get some new active users.
 
Let's welcome them to our community
 
 
@Timoteus welcome here! I hope you are enjoying Totallympics so far . It's great so see a user from Finland, which is a rare find for us here. So we would love you to stay and get involved in our chats 
 
 
@Nielo greetings, great to have you here  We have a few active Spanish users here and it's always nice to welcome in new users   
 
 
@mikto78 welcome to the community! Nice to have another member from Poland . We hope you get involved in the chats and have fun discussing sports and life with us here
 
 
@Micki welcome to Totallympics! We rarely find users from Switzerland so it's our pleasure to have you here! I hope you are enjoying your time here so far