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Olympics Buzz: Is the amalgamation of medals more important than the gold standard?

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In the last edition of Olympic Buzz, we examined why the United States seems fixated on total medals while the rest of the world bases success on the number of gold medals. Even NBC, through which 99% of America experiences the Games, uses a table based on total medals.

The unofficial answer, of course, is that the U.S. usually does better in total medals.

The first paragraph: "Team USA successfully defended the bronze medal it won in team figure skating four years ago as the event concluded Monday morning at the Gangneung Ice Arena.