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.

This is quite simple: the German Olympic comitee exists continuous since 1895. It was the same before, during and after the cold war. The East German Olympic comitee was a totally new entitee founded in 1951 and disbanded in 1990. That is why West Germany and Germany are together, East Germany isn't, and IOC uses it that way in their statistics.

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?

They sure did!

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.

So they're good at speed skating. Not that many mountains in the Netherlands; hard to train in some of these other sports.

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

I've heard of ROUS's

as you wish

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.

yeah, ALWAYS try USA on quizzes, except, you know on select quizzes away from the generalization of the world.

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.

it's not different. You just want it to be. If a Chinese olympiad moved to Boston and gained American citizenship, his medals wouldn't then be won by the United States.

yeah except it's not. dg, projecting and being embarrassingly hypocritical as always, making statements that are objectively false and disproven easily in a matter of a few seconds of googling or a split second of thinking about it, accusing others of traits and bias he is himself guilty of.

Norway isn't exactly tiny. Look at Vatican.

Norway is 118th in the world in terms of population. Vatican has 0 medals. Norway has more than other countries of similar climate that have significantly larger populations.

Plus Norway has more than the US, which is waaay bigger by both size and population and is similar in terms of development. This isn't to mention the fact that the US is usually considered to have the best sports programs in the world (I mean, we absolutely dominate the Summer Olympics) and has many regions with the perfect climate for winter sports training.

No matter how you look at it, Norway's tally is pretty mind-boggling.

Norway is not tiny. Get an atlas. Oy vey.

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.

by "everyone" dg of course means only himself and a small handful of biased/bigoted dullards suffering an obnoxious inferiority complex. As demonstrated here since the commenter being responded to states plainly he only missed the obvious answer because he thought he had already tried it. Sort of like replying to someone saying that he likes hamburgers with some condescending retort stating "you're only saying that because everybody hates hamburgers." ... the reply is preemptively refuted by the comment being responded to.

IOC doesn't. I think they have some legitimity in Olympic statistics

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🤣

That's German Wikipedia. Unsurprisingly. Where they take a ridiculous invented concept that uniquely advantages them and disadvantages every single other country in the world and just run with it as if it were what everyone accepted. The main Wikipedia page takes a much more neutral stance, even though it devotes more page space than it should to this silly concept of successor states that in the past could field multiple teams and gain medals with both of them. The English-language US-based site presents all sides to this plainly and matter-of-factly. The German side does not. No wonder people from German-speaking countries have such a buggered and myopic view of things, while believing that others who aren't are guilty of the same sins. Unfortunate.

no

An update is needed to include Beijing!

Russia should not include R.O.C. and "Olympic Athletes from Russia".

If they were called that way it's because Russia as a state cheated with doping people.

It is fair to take that into consideration and remove what they earned under any flag but Russia ones.

I hardly recommand that Russia incudes only Russia and neither R.O.C nor O.A.R.

Is there a reason why the United Kingdom appears as Great Britain?

It is always called that way during O.G. I don't know why...