34 Days

The U.S. won a record 34 medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the most they've ever won at a Winter Games. That's more than double their previous high, which was 13. Four years later, in 2006, American athletes won 25 medals in Turino.

You know a course is tough when thirty-four of the best competitors (82 in total) in the world cannot not finish a ski course. That's what happened at the first of two runs on the men's giant-slalom course at the 2006 Olympics. American Bode Miller finished both races and placed sixth overall, in a race at which he was hoping to medal. Neither of the other two American medal contenders, Daron Rahlves and Ted Ligety, were able to finish. Austrian Benjamin Raich won, with Hermann Maier in bronze. Joel Chenal of France won silver.