By bozz.sports on Skatehive
Anyone else enjoying the Winter Olympic Games as much as I am? This has been a pretty eventful few days and we aren't even halfway done yet! Believe it or not, one of the things I love the most about these games is that none of the "regulars" are sitting at the top of the medal standings. At least not yet. Russia is still out of the games due to the invasion of Ukraine, aside from a handful of athletes who are competing on a freelance sort of basis. China is sitting down in the 14th spot as far as medal count as of this morning, and the US is down in the number 5 spot. Norway is kicking butt in the top spot with a total of 12 medals which is almost twice what the number two country Switzerland has at 7. It's also nice to see the host country Italy with 11 medals. You might think that should put them in the second place spot instead of Switzerland, but I guess they add some weighting to the type of medal the country has gotten. As you will see below. Likewise, Norway has the most gold m