What a day! Even if it won’t last for that long…China leads not only in Gold medals by a stretch, but also it leads the total tally of medals ahead of the United States!
If there is ever a chance that China could beat the US as the country with the most decorated athletes, this is the one on home ground! Unfortunately for China, the US in their last olympics went home with 102 medals, 36 of them gold vs. China with 32 gold but only 63 overall medals. The surprise is that this year Russia looks like it is no longer as a Federation, so its medal count evaporated from pervious years.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Brazil is 43… XD LOL
August 18th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Based on the latest 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Medal Count/Medal Tally, China’s medal machine is showing no sign of loosening its grip on the top spot. Looks like they really prepared for this year’s competition. The US is stuck in second place and not even the heroics of Michael Phelps could give them their traditional top spot in the 2008 Olympic medal tally/medal count.