Friday, December 4, 2009

Olympic Medal Compare


USA!

Michael Phelps of USA won his 7th gold medal {by .01 seconds! Holy crap!} in Beijing in the men's 100-meter butterfly final on Saturday and Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson were successful in gymnastics {Liukin gold, Johnson silver}, and the USA Basketball overall is very impressive. The men and women are both undefeated in basketball.

Medal compare {totals so far in the Beijing Olympics}:
USA 48

China 41

Austrailia 22

Russia 20

France 20

South Korea 19

Italy 15

Germany 14

Japan 14
Britian 9



Top 3 countries with most gold medals:
China 26

USA 15

Germany 8



Top 3 countries with most silver medals:
USA 14

France 10

China, South Korea 9



Top 3 countries with most bronze medals:
USA 19

Australia 10

Russia 8



USA leads in medals total, but China leads in gold medals total. Hope that the Americans can catch up to them. It's to bad Argentina and Spain aren't on the top 10 medals list. They both have pretty good countries. Most of their talent is soccer and basketball, though.