Winter Olympics 2014

The winter Olympics have been going on since the began on February 7th, 2014. The 2014 winter Olympics
 consisted of twelve events. These twelve events are the men and women's ski half-pipe, men and women's  ski slope-style, men and women's snowboard slope-style, snowboard parallel slalom, women's ski jumping, biathlon mixed relay, figure skiing team event, and lastly luge team relay. Each of these events have three places for winning them gold, silver and bronze. The countries that are in the winter Olympics are Russia, Norway, Canada, United States, Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. Russia is leading with 33 metals then Norway with 26 following Canada with 25. The United States has 28 metals, but since Norway and Canada have more gold metals they are ahead of the United States. These games were very excited to watch and i'm sure were all looking forward to the summer Olympics, which begin on August 5th, 2016 located in Rio.