Published February 5, 2014 on AOL Travel || Sure, we’re all rooting for Team USA. But in the spirit of Olympic competition we wanted to know: what’s the best part of Team USA?

It turns out that when it comes to producing gold medal-winning winter Olympians, the 50 states are far from equal. 

From the snowy beginning — the 1924 games, when speed skater Charles Jewtraw from New York won the first gold medal ever awarded in a Winter Olympics (USA! USA!) — up through the 2010 Vancouver games, there have been 138 winter gold medalists from the United States. Read more…