Sweden at the 2014 Winter Olympics participated in five Olympic tournaments. 55 athletes were Olympic debutants. Sweden won 15 medals in total, making the Sochi games Sweden's most successful Winter Games ever in terms of medals. However, the number of gold medals (2) was lower than in the two previous Winter Games. On 8 February, the first competition day, cross-country skier Charlotte Kalla won the first Swedish medal at the Games. She won the silver medal in the women's 15 km skiathlon event, finishing behind Norway's Marit Bjørgen. Snowboarder Sven Thorgren finished in fourth place in the men's slopestyle, just 1.25 points behind the bronze medalist.
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games This game formed the second part in Sega's exclusivity agreement with Nintendo after "Sonic Lost World" back on mid-October 2013 but followed by "" and "" on November/December 2014. Subsequently, a sequel game—"Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games"—was announced for release in February 2016. The players can only choose one of twenty characters that return from the previous two games and participate in a series of sixteen Olympic events. Events are controlled either using the Wii Remote MotionPlus and Nunchuk controllers, or the Wii U GamePad, with