America Canada "Lake Ontario – then, now and always” Prime Minister Carney posted, saying the name comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, pre-dating the foundation of both Canada and the USA, who proposed Lake America as a new name following Canada's retaliatory tariffs
Africa Nigeria Thirty-year-old Samuel Ikpefan has been the first cross-country skier in the history of Nigeria to compete in the Winter Games
Asia China The XXIV Winter Olympic Games will close today in Beijing; subject to a strong diplomatic boycott, the event was also highly contested for being environmentally unsustainable, with 100% artificial snow
Europe Ukraine Defending champion Oleksandr Abramenko won Ukraine’s first medal of the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday and celebrated with a hug from Russian skier Ilia Burov at a time of rising tensions between the countries
Africa Eritrea Shannon Abeda, Eritrean-Canadian, born in 1966, represented the country for the second time at the Winter Olympics after Pyeongchang 2018
America Jamaica Benjamin Alexander was Jamaica's first competitor in alpine skiing, finishing in a creditable 46th place in the men's giant slalom
Africa Madagascar Mialitiana Clerc competed in Alpine skiing finishing 47th in women's slalom and 48th in giant slalom; it was the country’s second appearance at the Olympic Winter Games after Torino 2006
Europe Germany Francesco Friederich entered history of the Winter Olympics as the first person to win the gold medal in bobsleigh in two consecutive editions; the country also scored a record-extending eighth sliding gold for the German team and won all three medals
Africa Ghana Carlos Mader, at 43, was the oldest competitor among the 6 African athletes at 2022 Winter Olympics
Asia Cyprus Alpine skier Yianno Kouyoumdjian was the flag bearer and only Cyprus athlete in these Olympics - he declared representing the country was one of his goals as an athlete; his mother and his uncle competed in the 1980 '84 '88 and 1992 Winter Games
Oceania New Zealand Two young athletes from the South Island resort town of Wanaka bring the country to win the first and second gold ever in the history of the Winter Games
America Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro ratified that the country is on its way to “an outstanding military cooperation” with Russia, supporting, if necessary, the operations at the Ukrainian border
Africa Morocco Yassine Aouich, representing Morocco at the Beijing 2022 Olympics and one of just 6 African athletes, is the only one who grew up sporting in his country
America United States Erin Jackson brings the US gold, missing since 1994, in the women’s 500-meter speed skating; it’s the first Black woman to win the event ever while Elana Meyers Taylor - bronze in bobsleigh - became the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Games history