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US on track for lowest medal total in 20 years

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It's the halfway point in these Winter Games and time to look at how the U.S. is doing. And the optics are not good. Based on expected results, the U.S. should finish with between 19 and 23 total medals, its lowest total in 20 years.

It's probably not a breakdown in how the different governing bodies care and train their athletes but more a case of some

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