For the first time in history, Canada led the overall medal count at an Olympics.

This holds true for both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

The Star’s Cathal Kelly tweeted this out from Sochi on Monday, and it was confirmed in an email from Own The Podium’s Mike Christie: “Day 4 is the first time in Olympic history (Winter or Summer) that Canada lead both the total and gold medal standings on any given day at the Olympics,” he wrote.

Early on Day 4 of the competition, Canada has nine medals to briefly take the overall lead. Norway took the overall lead later in the day with 10 medals.

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Canada came close to leading in 1998 because Canada won a gold on the first day (Ross Rebagliati), but Russia won a gold and a silver that day. Canada was second.

Chris Rudge, the former CEO of the COC, doesn’t think we should read too much into Canada’s spot on the medals table this early.

Four years ago, Canada got off to a slow start and the nation’s nerves were on edge because many of this country’s best events were backend loaded, and this year, new events such as slopestyle and team figure skating — sports that favour Canada — came early in the schedule.

“We’ve always come on strong at the end,” Rudge said. “Yes, it probably is true that this is the first time Canada has led at an Olympics, but does it mean anything? It’s a bit of a mug’s game. We really won’t know until we get to the end of the Games. Having said that, it certainly does not detract from a spectacular performance by those athletes.”

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated with latest medal totals as well as correcting that Mike Christie is with Own The Podium.