Winter Olympics 2022: Team USA still without a gold medal in Beijing Games as pressure builds

It’s not often that the USA goes five days of a Winter Olympics without picking up a gold medal. At the last Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, it was something of an anomaly when it took two days for Team USA to claim their first gold. At Sochi 2014, Vancouver 2010 and Torino 2006, an American had topped the podium after the first 24 hours.

Ad/> As such, the fact that Team USA is still without a gold medal on day five at Beijing 2022 is a cause for much soul-searching. Beijing 2022'The risks he takes paid off' — Svindal praises Mayer after super-G gold8 HOURS AGO “The United States is off to a less than stellar start at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing,” grumbled USA Today on Monday. “The 2022 Winter Olympics haven’t started according to plan for the United States,” fretted NBC.

The longest the USA has gone without a gold medal at the Winter Olympics is nine days, a record stretching all the way back to 1936 when a two-man bobsled team of Ivan Brown and Alan Washbond belatedly topped the podium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. That was the USA’s only gold of that particular Games, in fact, though there were only 17 events back then as opposed to a record 109 in Beijing. In the modern era, it took the USA seven days to win gold at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary when figure skater Brian Boitano edged out Canada’s Brian Orser in the men’s singles.