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Currently, the United States has five gold medals, three silver medals and four bronze medals, making it a total of 12 Olympic medals. Norway leads with 29 medals followed by Germany with 23 medals. Now, team USA works to obtaining gold medals in ice hockey.
U.S. Women’s Hockey Team Seeks Win
Meanwhile, the U.S. Women’s Hockey team seeks to end Canada’s 16-year claim of the Olympic gold medal when they face each other for the championship on Thursday (Wednesday 11:10 p.m. EST on NBC Sports Network).
Women’s hockey was featured in the Olympics as a sport for the first time in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Leading up to the event, Canada was the favored team to take home the gold, as they were dominating in every competition. However, the U.S. team was able to shock Canada and the world and secured the gold medal. As a result, Canada has taken home the gold.
Final matchup is set! #WinterOlympics
The U.S. Women's Team will face Canada for GOLD Wednesday at 11:10pmET on @NBCSN. #GoTeamUSA pic.twitter.com/Ux0lYxo6Vm
— USA Hockey (@usahockey) February 19, 2018
U.S Men’s Hockey Team Advances to the Quarterfinals
For the men, Team USA will face the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals tomorrow Feb. 21 at 12:10 p.m. local time. (Feb. 20 at 10:10 p.m. EST). Head coach for the USA Olympics Men’s Ice Hockey team, Tony Granato, believes his team has a solid chance to advance from the quarterfinals.
Hear from @TonyGranato, @troyterry1997 & @jameswisniewski following the U.S. Men's qualification round win over Slovakia. #GoTeamUSA
Recap: https://t.co/BDWxvkIsK6 pic.twitter.com/ZT9iNjA3Se
— USA Hockey (@usahockey) February 20, 2018
Between Ryan Donato‘s two goals and Troy Terry collecting three assists, the U.S. Men’s Ice Hockey team was able to top off Slovakia, 5-1, in the qualification playoff game.
FINAL | @DonatoRyan scores twice & @troyterry1997 picks up three assists to lead the U.S. Men's Team past Slovakia and into the quarterfinals! #GoTeamUSA
Recap → https://t.co/BDWxvkIsK6 pic.twitter.com/kERPSnGzLH
— USA Hockey (@usahockey) February 20, 2018
Team USA Takes Home Bronze in Ice Dancing
On Tuesday in South Korea, the U.S. brother and sister ice dancing team, Maia and Alex Shibutani, got the bronze medal. Most noteworthy, the Canadian ice dancing team, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, reclaimed the Olympic gold medal. And to many’s surprises, the French pair, Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, obtained the silver medal.
