The U.S. earned more gold and total medals in women's events than men's for the sixth straight Olympics

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1. Title IX responsible for so many women's Olympic medals for Team USA

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2026/02/22/usa-women-winter-olympics-medal-count-title-ix/88813627007/

MILAN — If the headlines and captions look the same and seem redundant, it’s because they are. This happens every Olympic Games now, winter and summer, for the U.S. Olympic team:

"Girl Power."

"The Women’s Olympics."

"Team Title IX."

As the 2026 Winter Olympics have come to a close, for the third consecutive Winter Games, U.S. women have won more gold medals and more medals overall than U.S. men. The final tally here in Milan: American women won six gold medals and 17 medals overall. The U.S. men? Four golds and 12 overall. Two other gold medals and four overall (the U.S. ended up with an historic 12 golds and 33 overall) were in mixed gender events.

This mirrors what is happening in the much larger Summer Olympics, in which U.S. women have won more golds and more medals than U.S. men for the past four consecutive Summer Games, going back to the 2012 London Olympics. In Paris a year and a half ago, U.S. women won 65% of the 40 gold medals won by Americans (26-13, with one won in a mixed gender event.) And they won 68 medals overall to 52 for the men, with six in mixed events.