The Americans failed to reach their medal target, and other countries will catch up in the sports where Team USA thrived
On the surface the United States’ collective showing at the Pyeongchang Olympics doesn’t look so bad: 23 medals and nine golds, good for fourth on the table no matter how you sort it behind Norway, Germany and Canada. But appearances can be deceiving.
There is no sugar-coating Team USA’s lowest medal haul since the 1998 Nagano Games, when they won 13 medals (there were 68 events then compared to 102 this time around). The raw figures upon closer inspection only look worse and will be the subject of no small consternation as the United States Olympic Committee opens the inquest in search of where it went wrong for the biggest American delegation in history.
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