One other point should be made about the U.S. performance. The all-time record for U.S. gold medals in an Olympics held outside the United States is 45 -- a mark that was reached in both 1924 and 1968. We are only four short of that mark right now.
Russia is supposedly furious about their performance -- this will be their first time before the old Soviet days that a Russian team will not be in the top three in gold medals -- but their total-medal OES is actually higher this time than it was in 2008.
1. United States: 94 total medals (41G/26S/27B) -- OES of 0.447
2. China: 81 (37/25/19) -- OES of 1.224
3. Russia: 63 (15/21/27) -- OES of 4.242
4. Great Britain: 57 (25/15/17) -- OES of 1.539
5. Germany: 42 (10/18/14) -- OES of 0.881
6. Japan: 35 (5/14/16) -- OES of 0.481
7. Australia: 31 (7/14/10) -- OES of 2.185
8. France: 30 (9/9/12) -- OES of 0.846
9. S. Korea: 27 (13/7/7) -- OES of 1.620
10. Italy: 21 (7/6/8) -- OES of 0.753
The Russians were reportedly at the time hacked about their performance at the 2010 Winter Olympics, too.
ReplyDeleteHey, cool ... after that last comment, an ad for a tabletop-hockey game just appeared at the HP.
ReplyDeleteStill at 41, but the women's basketball team is up 30 on France in the gold-medal game near the end of the third quarter. So, at the risk of a big jinx, that's 42.
ReplyDeleteWe need the men's basketball team tomorrow.
We need a track-and-field surprise tonight.
And we need a hero or two tomorrow: maybe Todd Wells of Kingston, N.Y., or Sam Schultz of Missoula, Mont., or Margaux Isaksen of Fayetteville, Ark., or Ryan Hall of Big Bear Lake, Calif., or Jake Varner of Bakersville, Calif., or Jared Frayer of Clearwater, Fla.
Tape-delay tonight on track and field, I mean.
DeleteHURRAH! Three U.S. gold medal today ... 44 total!
DeleteAnd the men's basketball team takes care of its business, and Jake Varner does, in fact, play the part of Day 16 hero! FORTY-SIX GOLD MEDALS!
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