{
 "updated": "2026-07-02",
 "games": "Milano Cortina 2026",
 "official": "XXV Olympic Winter Games",
 "dates": "6–22 February 2026 (selected events from 4 February)",
 "hosts": "Milan & Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy · the first Games officially co-hosted by two cities. Milan staged the ice events; mountain clusters around Cortina, Livigno and the Fiemme Valley (Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige) took the rest. Italy's third Winter Games after Cortina 1956 and Torino 2006.",
 "numbers": {
  "athletes": "2,900 athletes from 92 NOCs",
  "events": "116 events in 16 disciplines across 8 sports",
  "debut_sport": "Ski mountaineering made its Olympic debut",
  "debut_nocs": "First Winter Games for Benin, Guinea-Bissau and the UAE",
  "medalling_nocs": "29 NOCs won a medal; 19 won gold",
  "first": "First Olympics under IOC president Kirsty Coventry"
 },
 "medal_table": [
  {
   "code": "NOR",
   "noc": "Norway",
   "gold": 18,
   "silver": 12,
   "bronze": 11,
   "total": 41,
   "rank": 1
  },
  {
   "code": "USA",
   "noc": "United States",
   "gold": 12,
   "silver": 12,
   "bronze": 9,
   "total": 33,
   "rank": 2
  },
  {
   "code": "NED",
   "noc": "Netherlands",
   "gold": 10,
   "silver": 7,
   "bronze": 3,
   "total": 20,
   "rank": 3
  },
  {
   "code": "ITA",
   "noc": "Italy",
   "gold": 10,
   "silver": 6,
   "bronze": 14,
   "total": 30,
   "rank": 4
  },
  {
   "code": "GER",
   "noc": "Germany",
   "gold": 8,
   "silver": 10,
   "bronze": 8,
   "total": 26,
   "rank": 5
  },
  {
   "code": "FRA",
   "noc": "France",
   "gold": 8,
   "silver": 9,
   "bronze": 6,
   "total": 23,
   "rank": 6
  },
  {
   "code": "SWE",
   "noc": "Sweden",
   "gold": 8,
   "silver": 6,
   "bronze": 4,
   "total": 18,
   "rank": 7
  },
  {
   "code": "SUI",
   "noc": "Switzerland",
   "gold": 6,
   "silver": 9,
   "bronze": 8,
   "total": 23,
   "rank": 8
  },
  {
   "code": "AUT",
   "noc": "Austria",
   "gold": 5,
   "silver": 8,
   "bronze": 5,
   "total": 18,
   "rank": 9
  },
  {
   "code": "JPN",
   "noc": "Japan",
   "gold": 5,
   "silver": 7,
   "bronze": 12,
   "total": 24,
   "rank": 10
  },
  {
   "code": "CAN",
   "noc": "Canada",
   "gold": 5,
   "silver": 7,
   "bronze": 9,
   "total": 21,
   "rank": 11
  },
  {
   "code": "CHN",
   "noc": "China",
   "gold": 5,
   "silver": 4,
   "bronze": 6,
   "total": 15,
   "rank": 12
  },
  {
   "code": "KOR",
   "noc": "South Korea",
   "gold": 3,
   "silver": 4,
   "bronze": 3,
   "total": 10,
   "rank": 13
  },
  {
   "code": "AUS",
   "noc": "Australia",
   "gold": 3,
   "silver": 2,
   "bronze": 1,
   "total": 6,
   "rank": 14
  },
  {
   "code": "GBR",
   "noc": "Great Britain",
   "gold": 3,
   "silver": 1,
   "bronze": 1,
   "total": 5,
   "rank": 15
  },
  {
   "code": "CZE",
   "noc": "Czech Republic",
   "gold": 2,
   "silver": 2,
   "bronze": 1,
   "total": 5,
   "rank": 16
  },
  {
   "code": "SLO",
   "noc": "Slovenia",
   "gold": 2,
   "silver": 1,
   "bronze": 1,
   "total": 4,
   "rank": 17
  },
  {
   "code": "ESP",
   "noc": "Spain",
   "gold": 1,
   "silver": 0,
   "bronze": 2,
   "total": 3,
   "rank": 18
  },
  {
   "code": "BRA",
   "noc": "Brazil",
   "gold": 1,
   "silver": 0,
   "bronze": 0,
   "total": 1,
   "rank": 19
  },
  {
   "code": "KAZ",
   "noc": "Kazakhstan",
   "gold": 1,
   "silver": 0,
   "bronze": 0,
   "total": 1,
   "rank": 19
  },
  {
   "code": "POL",
   "noc": "Poland",
   "gold": 0,
   "silver": 3,
   "bronze": 1,
   "total": 4,
   "rank": 21
  },
  {
   "code": "NZL",
   "noc": "New Zealand",
   "gold": 0,
   "silver": 2,
   "bronze": 1,
   "total": 3,
   "rank": 22
  },
  {
   "code": "FIN",
   "noc": "Finland",
   "gold": 0,
   "silver": 1,
   "bronze": 5,
   "total": 6,
   "rank": 23
  },
  {
   "code": "LAT",
   "noc": "Latvia",
   "gold": 0,
   "silver": 1,
   "bronze": 1,
   "total": 2,
   "rank": 24
  },
  {
   "code": "DEN",
   "noc": "Denmark",
   "gold": 0,
   "silver": 1,
   "bronze": 0,
   "total": 1,
   "rank": 25
  },
  {
   "code": "EST",
   "noc": "Estonia",
   "gold": 0,
   "silver": 1,
   "bronze": 0,
   "total": 1,
   "rank": 25
  },
  {
   "code": "GEO",
   "noc": "Georgia",
   "gold": 0,
   "silver": 1,
   "bronze": 0,
   "total": 1,
   "rank": 25
  },
  {
   "code": "BUL",
   "noc": "Bulgaria",
   "gold": 0,
   "silver": 0,
   "bronze": 2,
   "total": 2,
   "rank": 28
  },
  {
   "code": "BEL",
   "noc": "Belgium",
   "gold": 0,
   "silver": 0,
   "bronze": 1,
   "total": 1,
   "rank": 29
  },
  {
   "code": "AIN",
   "noc": "Individual Neutral Athletes",
   "gold": 0,
   "silver": 1,
   "bronze": 0,
   "total": 1,
   "rank": null,
   "note": "Belarusian and Russian athletes competing as neutrals; not ranked in the IOC table"
  }
 ],
 "medal_table_note": "Official IOC table: ranked by gold, then silver, then bronze. Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN · approved Russian and Belarusian athletes) are shown but not ranked, per IOC convention. Shared medals: silver was shared in the men's team combined (AUT/SUI) and women's giant slalom (NOR/SWE) with no bronze awarded, and bronze was shared in men's normal-hill ski jumping (JPN/SUI) · so 116 golds, 118 silvers and 115 bronzes were awarded.",
 "storylines": [
  {
   "title": "Norway rewrites both records",
   "text": "Norway topped the medal table for the fourth straight Winter Games · and its 18 golds and 41 total medals are both the most any nation has won at a single Winter Olympics, beating its own records (16 golds in 2022, 39 medals in 2018)."
  },
  {
   "title": "Klæbo's clean sweep",
   "text": "Cross-country skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo won six events · six golds, the most by any athlete at one Winter Games · taking his career total to 11 golds and 13 medals, behind only Marit Bjørgen (15) and Ole Einar Bjørndalen on the all-time Winter list."
  },
  {
   "title": "Best-ever Games for the USA, Netherlands and the hosts",
   "text": "The United States' 12 golds (33 medals) and the Netherlands' 10 golds are each their best Winter Olympics by golds; Italy's 30 medals are its most ever. Italy and the Netherlands tied on 10 golds · the Dutch took third on silvers (7 to 6)."
  },
  {
   "title": "Brazil's first · and it's gold",
   "text": "Lucas Pinheiro Braathen won the men's giant slalom on 14 February · Brazil's first Winter Olympic medal of any colour, and the first for any tropical, Latin American or South American nation. Georgia also won its first Winter medal, silver for figure-skating pair Metelkina and Berulava."
  }
 ],
 "source": "2026 Winter Olympics medal table (rev. 1358474585; table cites olympics.com) and 2026 Winter Olympics (rev. 1361348790) · fetched via the MediaWiki API and cross-checked 2 July 2026. Swatches use a flag colour per NOC.",
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  "Australia": "#00843D",
  "Austria": "#EF3340",
  "Belgium": "#F5C300",
  "Brazil": "#009739",
  "Bulgaria": "#00966E",
  "Canada": "#D80621",
  "China": "#DE2910",
  "Czech Republic": "#11457E",
  "Denmark": "#C8102E",
  "Spain": "#AA151B",
  "Estonia": "#0072CE",
  "Finland": "#002F6C",
  "France": "#0055A4",
  "Great Britain": "#012169",
  "Georgia": "#DA291C",
  "Germany": "#3D3D3D",
  "Individual Neutral Athletes": "#8F8F8F",
  "Italy": "#008C45",
  "Japan": "#BC002D",
  "Kazakhstan": "#00AFCA",
  "Latvia": "#9E3039",
  "Netherlands": "#FF6600",
  "New Zealand": "#101010",
  "Norway": "#BA0C2F",
  "Poland": "#DC143C",
  "Slovenia": "#005DA4",
  "South Korea": "#0047A0",
  "Switzerland": "#DA291C",
  "Sweden": "#FECC02",
  "United States": "#3C3B6E"
 }
}