The American women's skiing team has outperformed their male counterparts, winning four medals at the recent Alpine World Championships while the men did not medal at all. Cross-country skiing, currently being contested, sees hopefuls like Jessie Diggins leading the charge for the women, while the men are striving for any podium finish since 1982. This disparity extends to the Summer Olympics, where American women have consistently outpaced men in medal counts over the last four Games, prompting the male athletes to express a desire to improve and close the gap.
At the recently completed Alpine world championships, the American women captured four medals, two of them gold. The men left Saalbach, Austria, empty-handed.
While the women, led by Olympic and world champion Jessie Diggins, seem like a good bet to collect some hardware, the men haven't landed on the podium at an Olympics or world championships since 1982.
I wouldn't say it's a rivalry, but as a men's team, we aspire to do as well as the women do, Ben Ogden said.
At the Summer Games in Paris last year, American women accounted for 67 of the country's 126 medals. It was the fourth consecutive Summer Olympics where the American women outperformed the men.
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