[5] Three days before the closing ceremony, Norway won its 14th gold medal, thus matching its record performance of 2018, as well as Canada's 2010 and Germany's 2018 results.

[7] The 2018 champion in the 30 km skiathlon, Simen Hegstad Krüger, qualified for the Olympics but tested positive for COVID just before the games.

Even though he had no symptoms, he was not allowed to fly to China with the rest of the team to get a chance to defend the title.

Earlier, Heidi Weng and Anne Kjersti Kalvå also tested positive and had to miss the Olympics.

Norway has qualified their men's team (five athletes), by finishing first in the round robin in the 2021 Olympic Qualification Event.