A record-setting Winter Olympics: 6 golds and 15 medals for the US in women’s events ...
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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The U.S. women’s hockey team had just won Olympic gold, and veteran forward Kendall Coyne Schofield summed the moment up perfectly. “We did it!” she exclaimed. Plenty of American women — more than ever at a Winter Olympics — had the same sentiment at these Milan Cortina Games. When it came to winning medals, they indeed did it. And in record numbers, too. American women — not even counting mixed events — went into Saturday, the next-to-last day of these Olympics, with six golds and 15 medals overall. The previous U.S. winter women’s-only marks: five golds (done in 1992, 2002 and 2018) and 13 medals (done in 2014 and 2022). “Our team is so...