Final Medal Count

Let’s see how my predictions did!

Norway Prediction: 43 Medals, 21 Gold

ROC Prediction: 29 Medals, 12 Gold

Germany Prediction: 27 Medals, 14 Gold

USA Prediction: 25 Medals, 9 Gold

Canada Prediction: 24 Medals, 9 Golds

Not too shabby. My big takeaways:

Norway was overall as dominant as expected. 14 medals in Biathlon! It’s basically USA’s version of Swimming and Track from the Summer Games.
Russia was second, as everyone predicted, not many golds which I can’t say I’m too upset about. 11 medals from cross country skiing, but only four from Biathlo. It’s an interesting division between these two countries in terms of sport dominance.
Germany dominated the sledding sports with 7 bobsled, 6 luge and 3 skeleton. I got the number of overall medals correct in this prediction!
Canada ended up getting 1 more overall medal than the America BUT we had 8 golds and they only had 4 so….
USA came in 5th for total medals, very respectable. Freestyle Skiing was our dominant sport with 8 medals and snowboarding with 4. The X-Games style sports have been more of our jam lately. If there had been 1 more gold I would have predicted this one perfectly. 2 more medals than 2018 so hopefully we are trending back towards getting higher up on the medal count in future years!