![]() The International Olympic Committee (IOC) through the Olympic Games and its frameworks encouraging cooperation and friendship continue to be a model for the way Pacific regionalism can work. ![]() The 2000 Sydney Olympics was critically important for the Oceania Continent as it was followed by the movement of greater resources toward Oceania, particularly the Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and this legacy continues to grow in the islands today. Both New Zealand and Australia have hosted the Commonwealth Games (formerly Empire Games) previously and Samoa (Apia) hosted the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2019. It was the first, and remains the only, hosting to date. In terms of hosting, the Oceania Continent received great acclaim in hosting the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. While Australia and New Zealand have a healthy legacy of medal wins at the Olympic Games, the Pacific Island countries boast three and continue to strive toward development of elite athletes and teams in its development programmes. The team had just seen its country and people reel from Cyclone Winston, a Category 5 Severe Tropical Cyclone, the strongest to hit the Southern Hemisphere and with a total bill of USD1.4 billion in damages when it clinched gold six months later. ![]() ONOC plays an enormous role in creating the scaffolding required to create this legacy via strengthening of NOCs, athlete support via Commissions, the Oceania Sport Education Programme (OSEP), management of Olympic Solidarity funds, and support toward governance and management through sport administration and leadership.Ģ016 The Fiji Sevens Rugby team led by Osea Kolinisau and coached by Ben Ryan won Fiji’s first and the Pacific islands’ third medal upon winning the Gold Medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The Oceania Continent can boast consistent and good participation at the Olympic Games through its two countries, Australia and New Zealand but its Pacific island countries need further strengthening. ![]() Iconic indigenous Australian 400m gold medallist, Cathy Freeman, lights the torch at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in what was Oceania Continent's first and only hosting of an Olympic Games to date. It has expanded from its format of the traditional Olympic Games, now termed the Summer Olympics to include the Winter Olympics, the Youth Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games, two formats, which are held alongside the Summer Games and Winter Games. Nauru has only competed in the Olympics for weightlifting and judo, sending a total of 13 athletes in the last. In its current contemporary format, the Olympic Games has proven to be a truly inclusive, progressive, and peacebuilding mechanism encouraging cooperation, friendship and excellence - the best of being human, a core part of the culture of humanity. The country has yet to medal since it first competed in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The International Olympic Committee was created on 23 June 1894 and the first Olympic Games of the modern era opened in Athens on 6 April 1896. The Olympic Games were revived by Baron Pierre de Coubertin who first announced his intention on a winter’s evening in Paris in 1892. Right now there’s no leader in gold medals as there are a whopping 12 athletes holding two gold medals.The Olympic Games in its current form, is known as the ‘modern Olympics’ and is the revival of the ancient Olympic Games held in Greece. They each have two gold medals and one bronze. There are two athletes with three total medals, both representing Norway and both biathlon athletes. Johannes Thingnes Boe and Marte Olsbu Røiseland are in the lead for 2022, so far. Coming in second is a three-way tie between the United States, Netherlands, and Sweden who all have five gold medals. We established that Norway has the most medals total and they are tied with Germany for the most gold medals at eight total each. Coming in a close second are Austria and Germany, tied for second place with 14 medals and ROC with 13 medals. 12 Which country has the most total medals?Īs of today, Norway has the most total medals with eight gold, three silver, and six bronze. ![]() What country has the most total medals and what country has the most gold medals? We’ll break them both down for you here. There are two ways to look at this number. But what does the leaderboard say about which country is bringing home the most bling? The 2022 Winter Olympics is well underway and many, many medals have already been handed out. Winter Olympics medal count: Which athletes and countries have the most medals? ![]()
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