Norway topped the gold medal table in 2002 with 13, and it wasn't simply because kids there grow up on cross-country skis.

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Shiffrin's victory is the U.S.'s fourth of the championships -- adding to Ted Ligety's wins in the Super-G, the Giant Slalom and the Super Combined -- and consolidates their place at the top of the medal's table with a total of four gold and one bronze.

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China beat South Korea to take the gold medal in the men's team table tennis final, and the bronze went to Germany.

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As Great Britain continues to climb the actual medal table, it also tops a more dubious medal count one not measured in gold, silver and bronze, but in lead, tin and zinc.

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