This is true. There are four Olympic figure skating events: men's singles, women's singles, pairs, and ice dancing. As for "less technical" – that's completely subjective, and given the number of difficult rules in ice dancing (the skaters can never be more than 2 arm's lengths apart, they can only skate to the beat and not the melody, screwing up synchronization is more heavily penalized, etc.), fairly unsupportable.
Seriously. I’ve been a figure skater for 17 years. Ice dancing is figure skating - and who the heck thinks it’s not technical? Have you seen how they score those twizzels????
Got them all except for the Norwegian figure skater that won her first gold the year before my grandmother was born. Not to take anything away from her achievements, but that question seemed pretty obscure for a general knowledge quiz. And the fact that it's currently the least guessed and over 20% lower than the next least guessed tends to support this...
If you include West & East Germany then yes it’s higher but they were separate countries at the time. Furthermore, if you add all Russian teams/entities together then they are the best. Keep it simple, the answer is Norway.
They had two different teams due to being two different countries. Germany, commonly known as West Germany, had a team and then East Germany had a team as well. After reunification, they became one.
Would you count medals won by Ukrainians in the USSR for Ukraine? Would you count medals won by Czechs or Slovaks in Czechoslovakia for either the Czech Republic or Slovakia. Should North and South Korea have their medals counted together?
The ice dancing answer *really* needs to be changed. It is figure skating, it’s *very* technical, and I didn’t get this answer despite being a figure skater for 17 years who has done ice dance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Winter_Olympics
As of 2014 there are now five with the addition of the team event.
USA = 305
Germany = 240
If you include West & East Germany then yes it’s higher but they were separate countries at the time. Furthermore, if you add all Russian teams/entities together then they are the best. Keep it simple, the answer is Norway.
Why wouldn't you include West and East Germany?
Would you count medals won by Ukrainians in the USSR for Ukraine? Would you count medals won by Czechs or Slovaks in Czechoslovakia for either the Czech Republic or Slovakia. Should North and South Korea have their medals counted together?
And how is Germany commonly known as West Germany :D
Germany has won 408 medals which is the most. This is a fact. (2022 not included)
I see that it might be unfair because in team events they had two teams. But that's another discussion.