MILAN — These Winter Olympics were the most spread-out in history, with four venues hosting speedskating, hockey and figure skating in the city’s outskirts while the rest of the Games’ 12 sports were scattered across difficult-to-reach mountain towns hours away. But those who made the effort to get to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics witnessed a Games remembered for a “King,” crashes, cheating scandals, drones, historic medal hauls and triumphs by the host nation. Those dozen golds marked the most ever won by the U.S. at a single Winter Olympics. First-time gold medalists included bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor, the 41-year-old who won the monobob by four-hundredths of a second; Jordan Stolz, who won gold medals in long-track speedskating’s 500 and 1000 meters, and Alex Ferreira, the 31-year-old winner of freeski halfpipe. With a sweep of the hockey gold medals, the U.S. men won an Olympic tournament for the first time since 1980, and the women for the first time since 2018.…