The Winter Olympics are undoubtedly the largest and most influential winter games in the world, from the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924 to today's 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which has been successfully held for 24 sessions. Like the Summer Olympic Games, the Winter Olympics are also held every four years, and before that, in fact, the Olympic Games were not divided into the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games, often an Olympic Games was held directly from summer to winter, but due to the consumption of a lot of manpower, material resources and time, the Olympic Games are divided into the Winter Olympic Games and the Olympic Games, which are separated by two years, which has evolved into what we are familiar with today.
Like the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics award gold, silver and bronze medals to the top three winners, so the country that wins the most gold medals each year is also the top of the medal table. So, now that the Winter Olympics have been held five times since the new century, namely the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, who are the top three medallists of these five Winter Olympics?
The 2002 Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, but the top of the medal table was not the host United States, which ranked third with 10 gold medals and a total of 34 medals, with Germany and Norway in second and first place, with Germany winning 12 gold medals and Norway winning 13 gold medals. At that Winter Olympics, China ranked 13th with a score of 2 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze.
The 2006 Winter Olympics were held in Turin, Italy, the second time in Italian history that the Winter Olympics were held. The top three of this Winter Olympics are Germany, the United States and Austria, of which the last second place Germany ranked first with a score of 11 gold, the United States and Austria are both 9 gold, but due to the advantage of medals, the United States is also in second place. Norway, the first place in the medal table of the last Olympic Games, did not perform well this year, only winning 2 gold medals in 13th place, while the mainland also won 2 gold medals, but ranked 14th due to the disadvantage of medals.
The 2010 Winter Olympics came to Vancouver, Canada, another major country in North America, and they also won 14 gold medals in this Winter Olympics, the most gold medals in participating countries, but they were not the first in the medal table! The reason is because they have too few medals, this time the first place is the United States, which won nine gold medals, their number of medals is 37; the second Germany has 10 gold medals for a total of 30 medals; and the third Canada has 14 gold medals and 26 medals. It is worth mentioning that this Winter Olympics is also the best performance in China in recent years, and we have won a total of 5 gold medals, ranking 8th.
The 2014 Winter Olympics came to Sochi, Russia, and this time, as the host, Russia also won the most gold medals and medals, respectively, 13 gold medals and 33 medals; the second place was Norway, they won 11 gold medals; the third Canada was 10 gold medals, and the United States, which at the top of the medal table last year, was still 9 gold medals, but it was fourth. At this Winter Olympics, China won three gold medals, ranking 12th in the medal table.
The 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will be held in South Korea, the champion of this Winter Olympics is still Norway, which is the second time that Norway has topped the medal table in the new century, they won 14 gold medals at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the second Germany also won 14 gold medals, but due to the disadvantage of medals, it also ranked second, and the third Canada was 11 gold medals. In summary, Norway's results in the past 5 Olympic Games, two firsts, 1 second, 1 fourth are very dazzling, and I have to say that this Nordic country is indeed impressive. （ikuet）