{"id":1163492,"date":"2026-02-22T22:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163492"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:33:17","slug":"norway-cleans-up-at-winter-olympics-thanks-to-dominance-on-skis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/norway-cleans-up-at-winter-olympics-thanks-to-dominance-on-skis\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway cleans up at Winter Olympics thanks to dominance on skis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norway extended its Winter Olympic dominance this year, departing Italy with the most golds and highest total medal count.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/sports\/olympics\/norway-winter-olympics-success-234a38ab?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqdRM8xpo76ikNqooGSwLxMZxdhaNM6v1hvsNYKQzPDHkz0HiONV3mWuLS6qtIY%3D&amp;gaa_ts=699b6d74&amp;gaa_sig=ofIfw9LFjpGGF-zTGbo0GZXOOo1KwHSkc4sdSVC5fqpHre0Lrls0F9t4HSvd8ZmYJZqMzin8ALPqyUbMMZX39g%3D%3D\">racked up the hardware<\/a> by winning the most events on snow, namely skiing: Cross-country skier Johannes Kl\u00e6bo won a record six golds.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands, meanwhile, cleaned up on ice rink-based events, while Japan excelled in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/22\/upshot\/winter-olympics-leaders-nations.html\">events with judging involved<\/a>, a New York Times analysis showed.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Norway\u2019s wins were a welcome spurt of good news for the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/22\/world\/europe\/2026-winter-olympics-klaebo-norway-epstein.html\">after a slew of scandals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian crown princess is under fire after the Jeffrey Epstein files revealed her close relationship with the sex offender. And her adult son is on trial on rape charges.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/jd-capelouto\">J.D. Capelouto<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/norway-cleans-winter-olympics-thanks-223317024.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/norway-cleans-winter-olympics-thanks-223317024.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway extended its Winter Olympic dominance this year, departing Italy with the most golds and highest total medal count. The tiny country racked up the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1163493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}