With his six medals at Milano Cortina, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo has broken​ and extended the previous record of eight for most career Winter Olympic gold medals.

Norway, led by the cross-country skiing sensation Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, topped the medal table for the fourth straight Winter Games.

Norwegian dominance, a U.S. hockey sweep and figure skating upsets ignited the 2026 Winter Olympics, which concluded Sunday in Verona, Italy.

Norway’s Johannes Klaebo stamped his authority on sport while a runaway dog somehow stole the biggest headline of all.

Norway is now unequaled when it comes to winter gold. A day after Johannes Dale-Skjevdal won the 15-kilometer mass start race to set a new mark, Norway was back at it Saturday, sweeping the podium in the men's 50-kilometer mass start race to extend its Winter Games record with its 18th gold medal.

TESERO, Italy (AP) — Norway swept the Nordic combined events at the Milan Cortina Winter Games with a victory in the team sprint through heavy snowfall Thursday in what could be the final time the sport is featured in the Olympics.

Norway's Sturla Holm Laegreid has had an eventful time at the Milano Cortina Games, going viral for a tearful confession of infidelity and then picking up no fewer than five medals - three silver and two bronze - in a turbulent two weeks few would have predicted.

COPENHAGEN, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Norway is relocating some of the around 60 soldiers it has in the Middle East to Norway as well as to other countries in the region on security grounds, a spokesperson for the Norwegian armed forces said on Friday.