(Laurent Salino/Getty Images)With five days of competition remaining, Canada currently sits third in the medal table in both golds and overall medals won, trailing only Norway and Germany. With 19 medals so far, Canada is on pace for its best-ever showing at the Winter Olympics, eclipsing the 26 medals won at home in Vancouver in 2010. Top nations in the Winter Games medal race as of Feb. 20, 2018. Over the weekend, the data-driven website FiveThirtyEight crunched the numbers and declared that America is on pace for "a lousy Olympics." (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)Over the weekend, CNN grumbled about how the U.S. is on track for its "lowest Winter Olympic medal count in two decades."

Source: CBC News February 20, 2018 18:22 UTC