GANGNEUNG, South Korea — If the United States had won as many medals per capita at these Winter Olympics as the Netherlands, the American team would have racked up 247 (instead of nine) already — and there are only 306 on offer — after eight days of action.
The Dutch are superhuman when it comes to these Games, sitting in fourth place in the overall medal count with 13 despite a population of 17 million, making it the 67th most populous in the world.
The reason is predominantly one sport, long track speed skating, in which the Dutch are so overwhelmingly good that everyone else is racing for silver.