Fer GUA

I am happy that  and  both earned their quotas via a W instead of having to put their faith in a tie-breaker system.

Bertagnolli   gold medal 
 
  16 medals

qualified to LA 2028!

De Silvestro gold medal   para ski sitting!!!
 
Update: New record for   14 medals: best Winter Paralympic ever!!!!!!!

Silver medal for Bertagnolli  para ski
 
  have now 13 medals: best Winter Paralympic ever!!!!!!!

Cristian Ribera 

After much controversy, it's time for the competitions
12 titles up for grabs today: downhill skiing and biathlon sprint.

This is so cool! El Salvador at Winter Paralympics!!!
 
Good luck!!
 

This is so cool! El Salvador at Winter Paralympics!!!
 
Good luck!!
 

This is so cool! El Salvador at Winter Paralympics!!!
 
Good luck!!
 

This is so cool! El Salvador at Winter Paralympics!!!
 
Good luck!!
 

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