It’s been a long couple of days since Team USA scored a gold medal at Sochi, but thanks to Meryl Davis and Charlie White who won the ice dance competition – the first U.S. gold medal in that event in history – we’re now up to 5. Which puts us in a tie with Team Anti-Gay with both having won 5 gold medals and 19 medals overall, just behind The Netherlands. Which, considering its name, shouldn’t be in front.

I’m not sure that when you call what you did at the Olympics a ‘performance’ that it should really be called a sport. No other athletes take bows after their competition. And it’s not like ballroom dancing is part of the Summer Games. But since Sochi is shaping up as the worst performance by Team USA when it comes to gold medals, we’ll take what we can get.

On the plus side, with so few pieces of gold being taken back home, I’ll have plenty of flag-draped gold medal worthy hunk photos for the Games in Rio in two years.

While I’m on the subject (the medals, not the hunks) before the Sochi Games began, here’s the total gold medal count by the leading countries:

1. U.S. 1,063
2. Russia 642 (473 when it was the Soviet Union)
3. Germany 446 (192 of them belonged to East Germany)
4. Great Britain 245
5. Italy 235
6. France 229
7. China 210
8. Canada 111
9. Sweden 101

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