#6 The American Supremacy
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The United States of America leads the medal tally by some margin. They have won a staggering number of 2399 medals int the Summer Olympics and another 282 in the Winter Olympics. The Americans have taken home a total of 976 golds, 757 silvers and 666 bronze medals from the 26 games they have participated in.
Second in the list are USSR who have participated in only 10 Games and have less than half the number of medals that the USA have won, but average more medals per edition. However, the USA are not the country that top the all-time medal tally of the Winter Olympics. Norway leads that table with a total of 329 medals comprising of 118 gold, 111 silver and 100 bronze medals.
Along with Austria and Liechtenstein, Norway is one of the three countries who have won more medals at the Winter Olympics than the Summer Games.
