Countries with the Most Winter Olympics Medals

Super easy

Missed only switzerland.

It is consistent.

West Germany = Germany = Federal Republic of Germany.

East Germany = German Democratic Republic.

East Germany was a separate country that no longer exists.

It's not about the country as such, though, is it? It's about the people. The people who won those medals for East Germany were from places which are now (and were previously) part of Germany, and those who are still alive are German citizens.

Usually Czechia works for Czech republic, you could add that as an answer.

Got eveything except... Russia *facepalm*

I would have thought that either Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia would have showed up. Didn't Sarajevo host the 1984 Winter Olympics?

ROK should work for South Korea

Amazing that Czechia scored 31 medals since 1994 while the ČSSR (which I still think should work as a type-in) only scored 25 from 1928 to 1990.

100%!

Interesting to note; of the 130 medals, the Netherlands won 121 in long track speed skating and another 5 in short track speed skating.

russia and urss should count as one

I don't know, I've never heard of the URSS.

I think he was trying to say USSR

Only one I didn't get was USA! I cant even begin to think how that could have happened!

Probably because the USA are better known for their prowess in the Summer Olympics. Interesting, though, that USA still shows up at 100%, so your fail hasn't made much of a splash.

If the East Germany medals would be considered as Germany/West Germany medals it would be the country with most medals ever.

Yeah except that if you could all medal won by the United States, USSR, and Norway as medals won by Zimbabwe then Zimbabwe would be #1 and it would make the same amount of sense.

could all medal = count all medals

East and west germany are now the same country. The usa finland and zimbabwe aren't.

East Germany no longer exists. It's not part of any country. West Germany did not win those medals, just as Zimbabwe did not win any of the medals previously won by the USSR.

East Germany didn't win these medals but their athletes did and these people are German citizens living in Germany nowadays (if they're still alive that is). Sure you could argue that it would be unfair to count both east and west German medals as medals won by Germany because many of these medals were won by east and west Germans in the exact same disciplines (especially if there's a limit on how many athletes from one country are allowed or if it's a team discipline where only 1 team per country is participating). Still that doesn't change the fact that these athletes were Germans and it's a completely different situation with countries like the Soviet Union because they didn't have only Russians winning their medals but also athletes from other soviet republics like Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia etc.

Norway isn't exactly tiny. Look at Vatican.

Got everything except the Netherlands!

Missed East Germany, but only cos I had it in my head I'd already tried it. I was at the stage of typing in increasingly, wildly, improbable answers.

It's embarassing I didn't guess the Czech Republic - my homeland. I just didn't really expect it would be on the list.

I managed to guess East Germany but not Canada🤣