The US Hockey team won gold at the Olympics and veteran Kendall Coyne Schofield summed that moment up with “We did it!” she exclaimed. Not including mixed events, American women were up to six gold and 17 medals overall through Saturday which was the next to last day of the games. In the previous US winter women’s olympics they got five golds in 1992, 2002, and 2018. And 13 medals in 2014 and 2022.
Including mixed events they got a total of 21 medals for the US women in mixed competition. Because of that more than 40 women will leave the game with at least one medal, which is another winter record for the US. Those numbers could keep rising, because there are still chances left for them to medal before the games are over.
Although to be fair the games have grown overtime, and that means more women have gotten the chance to become olympians. There were 41 events for women not including mixed events at Milan Cortina, compared to 37 at Turin in 2006 and 12 at Lake Placid in 1980.
Freestyle skiing has gotten four of the 17 women’s medals for Americans in these Games. Jaelin Kauf got two of those, both silver. “There’s an incredibly strong women’s team and moguls program in the U.S., (which is) exactly why it’s so good,” Kauf said. “We have become extremely dominant in the last handful of years, continuing to be the best women’s team in the world for four or five years now.” As a total group the US Olympic women’s team set a new standard.
