{"id":306106,"date":"2026-02-23T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/306106\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:42:10","slug":"eu-tops-combined-medal-standings-at-milano-cortina-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/306106\/","title":{"rendered":"EU tops combined medal standings at Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games wrapped up, European Union member states emerged as the dominant force when their results were combined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Netherlands, Italy, Germany and France all placed inside the top six, underlining Europe\u2019s strong presence at the Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EU countries collectively won 54 gold, 56 silver and 54 bronze medals, for a total of 164 medals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Norway finished first overall with 18 gold medals and 41 in total, followed by the United States (12 gold, 33 total).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The European Commission and the European Parliament celebrated the success of EU athletes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The unofficial combined score marks a major achievement among the bloc&#8217;s members, with Italy taking first place, Germany second and France rounding off the top three among the 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Congratulations to all competitors on their dedication and this achievement,&#8221; the Parliament said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games wrapped up, European Union member states emerged as the dominant force when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[153993,153992,8074,7596,1685,153991,85,46,105,143883],"class_list":["post-306106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bronze-medals","tag-dominant-force","tag-european-commission","tag-european-parliament","tag-european-union","tag-gold-medals","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-winter-olympic-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}