Here are the top 7 interesting facts you need to know entering the final week of the Olympics.
1. The United States is on pace for its worst winter Olympics since 1988.
US athletes are tied for the most medals with Netherlands, but this could be their worst medal count since 1988 where the USA ranked 9th. There's still plenty of time though to change their fortunes.
2. The Netherlands have as many medals in speed skating as every other nation has in all sports combined.
Dutch speed skaters have won 16 medals in the oval. That would be tied for first in the total medal count with United States and Russia.
3. The Dutch are doing this with a tiny delegation.
Every country has more than 6 medals in Sochi and has over 100 athletes at the Games. Russia, US, and Canada have 233, 230, 221 athletes and respectively The Netherlands have 41. That's quite the difference!
4. The Sochi Olympics will likely be the most global Winter Olympics ever.
There have been 26 different flags flown during medal ceremonies in Sochi, the same total during the entire 2006 and 2010 Winter Games, With 56 medal events down and 42 more to go it seems that Sochi will go down as the global games.
5. Germany leads in gold medals and could make a strange kind of history.
German athletes have won the most golds in Sochi but the country ranks 6th in the overall medal count. In the 90 year history of the Winter Olympics, no gold medal leader has ever finished worse than 3rd in the overall medal count.
6. Poland won as many gold medals on Saturday (2) as it had in every previous Winter Olympics combined.
In addition to that fact, Poland has 4 golds from Sochi. From 1976 to 2006, Poland won 4 total medals at the Winter Games.
7. Russia needs a strong second week to make history.
Russia's 16 medals are tied for the second most with the United States and one behind the Netherlands' 17. No host nation has ever won the most medals at an Olympics since Norway in 1994. Canada was the last host nation to win the official medal count taking the crown with 14 golds.Information brought to you by Usa Today
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