Olympics Highlights: Is America’s Slow Start at the Olympics Historic?
The U.S. didn’t win ANY gold medals in the first four days of the Winter Olympics. So is that a big deal? Well, it’s a slow start, but not historically slow.
The record for us is the first NINE days without a gold. It happened in 1936 when our two-man bobsled team finally snagged one. And it was our ONLY gold that year, but there were fewer events back then.
More recently, we went seven days without a gold medal in 1988, and four days in 1998. So it’s not THAT weird.
In action late last night, U.S. skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle picked up a silver in men’s Super-G.
Last we checked, the U.S. had 4 total medals, all silver. Here’s the latest leaderboard we saw. (Tuesday, February 8th at 5:00 A.M. ET)
1. Russia: 8 . . . 2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze.
2. Austria: 7 . . . 2 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze.
3. Norway: 6 . . . 2 gold, 0 silver, 4 bronze.
4. Canada: 6 . . . 1 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze.
5. China: 5 . . . 3 gold, 2 silver, 0 bronze.
(You can check the up-to-the-minute medal count at NBCOlympics.com.)
