Alex Ferreira wins tenth gold medal for Group USA, matching most ever in Winter Olympics : NPR

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Patrick Smith/Getty Photographs Europe LIVIGNO, ITALY - Alex Ferreira, a 31-year-old free skier from Aspen, Colorado, received a gold medal within the freeski halfpipe occasion on Friday night time. For Ferreira, who had beforehand earned a silver and a bronze medal on the previous two Winter Olympics, the gold medal on the Milan Cortina Winter Video games accomplished his set.

For Group USA, Ferreira clinched the tenth gold medal of those Video games, tying the nation's all-time document for gold medals earned on the Winter Olympics – a document set on the 2002 Winter Video games in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, based on Olympic historian Invoice Mallon.

Ferreira joins a gold medal streak began by alpine skier Breezy Johnson on February 8. Different gold medalists for the U.S. embrace alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin, bobsledder Elana Meyers-Taylor, determine skater Alysia Liu and the U.S. determine skating staff, Elizabeth Lemley on the freeski moguls, the U.S. ladies's ice hockey staff, and speedskater Jordan Stolz – the one American to date to earn two golds at these Video games.

At these Winter Olympics, the U.S. is second solely to Norway within the medal rely. Norwegian athletes have earned 17 gold medals on the Video games to date, breaking their very own document for essentially the most first place podium finishes of any nation in a Winter Video games (Their earlier document, set on the 2022 Beijing Winter Video games, was 16 gold medals, Mallon says).

There are nonetheless a number of alternatives for U.S. athletes to surpass the American gold medal document. On Saturday, speedskater Jordan Stolz races within the mass begin and bobsledder Elana Meyers-Taylor competes within the two-person race. The U.S. males's ice hockey staff is working its approach in the direction of a gold medal match Sunday.