Crazy Olympic Record Broken

Congratulations to Norway for setting a new Olympic medal count record of 39 total medals, 14 gold medals, 14 silver medals, and 11 bronze medals, beating the old record of most total medals won at a single Olympic Games. This break out year was lead by Norway’s elite Alpine Skiers who are so good that they have received the name “The Attacking Vikings”. Germany came in second this year with 31 total medals with 14 gold medals, 10 silver medals, and 7 bronze medals. The U.S.A finished forth with a respectable 9 gold medals, 8 silver medals, and 6 bronze medals. The host country, South Korea, did well in the medal count finishing in 7th place in the medal count. They ended the Olympics with 5 gold medals, 8 silver medals, and 4 bronze medals. Next Winter Olympics will be in Beijing where China will have a home field advantage for their athletes, but do you think that will really be a factor?

The 2018 Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals.

Snowboard Slopestyle Champs!

This event is AWESOME and apparently the U.S.A Olympic team is pretty good at it too. This is one of the newest events in the Winter Olympics because Slopestyle is only making its second appearance ever. The only other time that Slopestyle was an event was in the 2014 Sochi games. It is a unique event that uses terrain park features that snowboarders (and Skiers) must ride down and do tricks to impress a panel of judges all while not falling down. So far in the history of this event, which hasn’t been that long, American’s have won all of the snowboard Slopestyle gold metals and all but one ski Slopestyle gold medals as of February 16, 2018. The biggest upset in this event ever happened at this years winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, were a 17 year old kid, Red Gerald, had a incredible final run allowing him to win an upset gold metal. After he won, Red said that he wasn’t even projected to make the finals. Better yet, this was the first medal for team U.S.A in that years Olympics.

Red Gerard preparing to make a run though the course at the 2018 Olympics

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