The 2022 Winter Olympics held in Beijing concluded with the closing ceremony on Sunday. Norway was the most successful country with 16 gold medals in the games where 3,000 athletes competed.
Germany came after Norway in the medal ranking, while host China took the third place with 9 gold medals, ahead of the USA.
Sweden also took fifth place in the medal standings.
Breaking the record for the country with the most gold medals in the history of the Winter Olympics, Norway maintained its position as the country with the most medals of all time in the Winter Olympics.
7 athletes represented Turkey in 4 branches at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In ski jumping, Fatih Arda İpcioğlu drew attention by getting the right to compete in the first round.
Furkan Akar also got the right to compete in short track speed skating for the first time and finished the competitions with 6th place.
England had the lowest number of medals since 2010.
England, who won a gold medal in women’s curling on the last day of the games, finished the games with 1 gold and 1 silver.
The disappointment of 15-year-old Kamila Valieva
The most striking event of the Winter Olympics was the discovery of a banned substance in 15-year-old Kamila Valieva, who is seen as the most talented athlete of recent years in ice skating.
Valieva, who was the first female athlete to perform the quadruple jump in ice skating at the Olympic games, was allowed to participate in the individual competition after objections. However, after the controversy surrounding his name, the 15-year-old star was disappointed by falling in the final series.
18-year-old Chinese snowboarder Eileen Gu came to the fore by winning gold medals in the halfpipe and big air competitions.
Shaun White from America, who is shown among the greatest snowboarders of all time, announced that he ended his Olympic career with these games.
In his closing speech, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach also touched upon the efforts to combat Covid and called for “equal vaccination for all”.
The next winter games will be held in Milan, Italy in 2026.