The Beijing Winter Olympics got here to an in depth on Sunday evening as athletes marched into Nationwide Stadium, often called the Hen’s Nest, to the sound of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
The 2022 Winter Video games have been dominated by Norway, which gained the primary gold medal of the Beijing Video games, and captured its sixteenth and remaining gold on Sunday within the remaining cross-country snowboarding race of the Video games. Norway’s complete was a gold medal file for one nation at a single Winter Sport.
Closing Olympic Medals Rely: Norway’s 37 general medals was probably the most on this yr’s Olympics, and was 5 greater than Russia, which completed second within the medals depend. Russian athletes competed because the “Russian Olympic Committee,” as a result of a doping scandal leading to sanctions in opposition to the nation. Russia is anticipated to be formally acknowledged once more on the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
Germany was third general with 27 medals. Most of which have been gained in the sliding sports activities of bobsled, luge and skeleton, accounting for 16 medals. 9 of its 12 gold medals have been in these sports activities.
Canada was fourth general with 26. Whereas 11 medals got here from the motion sports activities of snowboard and freestyle snowboarding, 9 have been gained in brief observe and lengthy observe pace skating.
How The U.S. Ranked: The US completed fifth within the depend with 25 complete medals, eight gold, ten silver and 7 bronze. Workforce USA took dwelling 12 medals in snowboarding and freestyle snowboarding.
The People gained 13 medals in ladies’s-only occasions, eight medals in males’s occasions and 4 in blended workforce.
Sweden, Austria and Japan tied for sixth with 18 complete medals. Netherlands and Italy each had 17 to spherical out the highest 10.
Host nation China was eleventh with 15 medals.
Of the 91 international locations and territories on the Beijing Winter Olympics, 29 gained no less than one medal.
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