[Thor Joachim Haga]

Italy currently leads with the most medals, with 16. Then Norway with 14 and the USA with 13. But again, gold decides the rank, so Norway is still – just barely – on top with seven gold, as opposed to Italy’s six. But I have to say Italy is really going above and beyond what I expected. I mean – yes, it’s home turf, and they’ve always been a good winter sports nation – but still. Germany doing very well with nine medals, out of which four are gold.

Nice to see Australia and New Zealand on the medal count — not your typical winter nations.

Shame Ragne Wiklund lost by just a few hundredths of a second for the gold in the 5000 meters speedskate.

Expectedly, the French biathlon women are in a class of their own, same as the Swedish cross-country women. Norway has a long way to go to match these. But on the men’s side, we fare slightly better.

I tuned out of curling after the Norwegian couple exited, but I understand the regular teams are in action now. What’s the status?

Looking forward to the 10ks tomorrow, in men’s cross-country and biathlon.

…oh, and I don’t follow figure skating, but I understand there has been some film music there? JAWS and INTERSTELLAR?