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Winter Games Fact #111: Another event coming back in Ski Jumping in 2026 is the mixed team event. The inaugural event in 2022 was…chaos! Norway, Austria, Japan, and Germany lost points to DQ’s, and none medaled. But Russia (silver) won its first ever ski jumping medal, and so did Canada (bronze).

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Winter Games Fact #110: Time for some ski jumping facts! Like many other sports, ski jumping also has a new event for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Women's Large Hill ski jumping means that there are 2 women's individual events to match the 2 men's individual events.

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Winter Games Fact #109: Only one athlete, Great Britain’s Lizzy Yarnold, has 2 Olympic Gold medals in Skeleton (2014 and 2018). In fact, while a handful of athletes have medaled twice, there are no athletes with 3 Olympic medals in Skeleton.

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Winter Games Fact #108: John Heaton of the USA won silver in Skeleton at the 1928 Winter Olympics, finishing behind his brother Jennison. Skeleton wasn't in the Olympics again until 1948. John Heaton won silver again- 20 years later, at the age of 40. (He also won bronze in Bobsleigh in 1932!)

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Winter Games Fact #107: Italy has just one medal in Skeleton, a gold medal won by Nino Bibbia in 1948. It’s a notable medal, though, because it was Italy’s first Winter Olympic medal.

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Winter Games Fact #106: Only 4 countries won a medal in Skeleton in 2022. However, 3 of them (Australia, Netherlands, and China) won their first ever medals in Skeleton. Given that only 13 countries have ever won a medal in skeleton, that's actually a significant expansion of the medal table!

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Winter Games Fact #105: Skeleton has a new event for the 2026, the mixed team relay. (Once again, I should have led the week with that)

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Winter Olympics Fact #104: Great Britain has more medals (9) in Skeleton than any other country. Skeleton is the only Winter Olympic sport where Great Britain has the most medals.

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Winter Olympics Fact #103: Skeleton was first programmed at the Winter Olympics in 1928, and then not again until 1948, and then not again until 2002, when it became a permanent event.

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Skeleton facts this week! (The sport variety, not the collection of bones variety)

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Winter Olympics Fact #102: All three of the individual women’s short track gold medalists in 2022 (Arianna Fontana in the 500m, Suzanne Schulting in the 1000m, and Choi Min-jeong in the 1500m) are repeat winners in the same events from 2018. All could three-peat in 2026!

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Winter Olympics Fact #101: Only one short track speed skater has won an Olympic gold medal at every distance (500m, 1000m, 1500m, and team relay). That would be Viktor Ahn, who won golds in 2006 (as Ahn Hyun-Soo) while competing for South Korea and again in 2014 while competing for Russia.

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This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

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Winter Olympics Fact #100: Did you know that there was a short track speed skating medalist who also medaled at the summer games? Eddy Alvarez won silver as part of the US short track speed skating team in 2014, and then resumed his baseball career, winning silver in Tokyo 2020 and making it to MLB.

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Winter Olympics Fact #99: South Korea is typically the best nation in Short Track Speed Skating, with 40% of all gold medals ever awarded in Short Track going to South Korea. They've also won the most medals 6 of the 9 times Short Track has been contested at the Winter Olympics.

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Winter Olympics Fact #98: Arianna Fontana, in fact, has medaled in 5 consecutive Olympics, and can join a very small group with medals in six consecutive Olympics if she is able to medal next year in Milano-Cortina.

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Winter Olympics Fact #97: The most decorated Olympic medalist in short track speed skating history is still active. That would be Italy’s Arianna Fontana, with 11 career medals in Olympic short track (next highest is 8). She will be trying to add to that total in her home country in 2026.

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Winter Olympics Fact #96: Time for Short Track Speed Skating, so let's start simple. The short track speed skating venue is always shared with the figure skating venue. The sports...don't have a whole lot in common besides the ice surface and the fact that skates are involved.

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Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

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Winter Olympics Fact #95: In 6 of the last 7 Olympics, one of the athletes on the winning team in the Nordic Combined team event has ALSO won an individual gold medal in the same games. (The odd year out: 2010, when Norway didn't medal but Italy and USA did, with the Americans winning 4)

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Winter Olympics Fact #94: Nordic Combined's scoring system is called the Gundersen Method. The ski jump takes place first, with the leader getting to go first during the cross-country ski. Athletes have to wait to start based on how far behind they finished in the jump. First to the line wins!

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Winter Olympics Fact #93: Nordic Combined is at least doing something to change up the program for 2026. The team event is shifting from 4 to 2 competitors, with the ski portion being a team sprint (10 alternating rounds of 1.5km sprints). web.archive.org/web/20240720...

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Winter Olympics Fact #92: Because of the previously mentioned issues, there’s a very real fear within the sport of Nordic Combined that 2026 will be its’ final Olympics. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7466712

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Winter Olympics Fact #91: Austria, Germany, Japan, and Norway were the only countries to win medals in Nordic Combined at the 2022 Winter Olympics. And the 2018 Winter Olympics. AND the 2014 Winter Olympics. It’s been since 2010 since anyone else medaled.

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Winter Olympics Fact #90: For many years, ski jumping was also a men’s only sport at the Olympics, hence why Nordic Combined was also only for men. However, women’s ski jumping has been at the Olympics since 2014, but Nordic combined has yet to follow.

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Winter Olympics Fact #89: Nordic Combined is the only sport in the Winter Olympics that still has only a men’s competition. We’ll be exploring a bit of the weird world of Nordic Combined this week, including its’ murky Olympic future.

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Bonus fun fact: "Luge" was actually the winning word in the 1984 U.S. National Spelling Bee.

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Winter Olympics Fact #88: Doubles luge has, up until the coming Olympic Games, technically been an "open" event, but only men's teams have ever competed in it at the Olympic Winter Games since its' inception in 1964. Officially, things will split into Men's and Women's Doubles Luge in 2026.

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Winter Olympics Fact #87: Italian luge legend Armin Zöggeler is at present the only Winter Olympic athlete to have won medals in the same event in 6 consecutive games, from 1994-2014. One of those medals was at the previous Italian winter games in Torino.

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Winter Olympics Fact #86: Luge is the fastest of the three sliding sports, and can reach speeds of nearly 90 mph. (Skeleton and Bobsleigh are closer to 80 mph)

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Winter Olympics Fact #85: There’s a new luge event at the 2026 Winter Games! (Probably should have gotten to that fact sooner) It’s Women’s Doubles Luge that’s new.

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Winter Olympics Fact #84: Natalie Geisenberger of Germany has won three consecutive gold medals in women's single luge. Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl of Germany have won three consecutive gold medals in men's double luge. Germany (no surprise) has won three consecutive gold medals in the team relay.

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Winter Olympics Fact #83: If you include East Germany, West Germany, and the Unified Team of Germany, 38 of 52 all-time gold medals in Olympic luge have been won by the Germans. Only three other countries have ever won an Olympic gold in luge, in fact.

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Winter Olympics Fact #82: The Germans will win lots of luge medals. That can be said pretty clearly because the Germans (or East Germans or Unified Team of Germany) have been the top team in Luge at every Olympics except for 1994.

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Going to find some fun luge facts for you all this week!

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Winter Olympics Fact #81: From 1924 to 1988, the Olympic hockey tournaments were played using a double round-robin format. The top teams in each of two round-robin groups qualified for a round-robin final round. Since then, the tournaments have used playoffs after the first round-robin.

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Winter Olympics Fact #80: Great Britain has a gold medal in Ice Hockey. That feels odd to type, because Great Britain isn't known for being a hockey-playing nation. The gold medal in question was won in 1936 in Germany, and the British hockey squad has not qualified for the Olympics since 1948.

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Winter Olympics Fact # 79: After an absence in the last two Winter Olympics, NHL players will be returning to men’s ice hockey tournament in 2026. The previous two tournaments contested using NHL players were both won by Canada.

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Winter Olympics Fact #78: Because hockey qualification has already occurred, we can officially say that there will be no first-time entrants in the Olympic hockey tournament next year, either on the men's or women's side. (By contrast, there was a first-time entrant in 2022 and 2018, but not 2014)

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Winter Olympics Fact #77: The host Italians have never finished higher than 7th in an Olympic hockey tournament. That 7th place finish was in 1956, the previous time Cortina hosted the Olympics.

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Winter Olympics Fact #76: Assuming a Canada-USA women’s hockey final at next year’s games would be a smart bet. After all, the two squads have met in the Gold medal match 6 of the 7 times women’s hockey has occurred at the Winter Olympics, and both squads have won medals all 7 times.

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Winter Olympics Fact #75: Ice Hockey is dominated by Northern Europe and North America. In fact, no country from Asia has won a medal in Ice Hockey at the Winter Olympics.

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Hockey facts this week. Here we go!

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Winter Olympics Fact #74: Only 27 freestyle skiers have won 2 or more Olympic medals in their career, and only 7 have won 3 Olympic medals. Nobody has won four. (There are a variety of reasons for this.)

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Winter Olympics Fact #73: Since Freestyle Skiing joined the Winter Olympics in 1992, only two countries have won at least one Freestyle Skiing medal in every games since: USA and France.

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Winter Olympics Fact #72: With 15 medal events, it is actually freestyle skiing that will hand out the most medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics. That's especially wild when you consider that Freestyle Skiing has only even been in the Olympics since 1992!

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