FULL STORY: We’re in the home stretch of the Olympics, and Team USA ended Day 13 still hanging onto the gold medal lead. But only by a thread.
We snagged three more golds yesterday, all in track-and-field: Tara Davis-Woodhall won the women’s long jump . . . Grant Holloway won the men’s 110-meter hurdles . . . and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone broke her own world record for the SIXTH TIME in the women’s 400-meter hurdles.
We also scored three silvers and two bronze medals in track-and-field . . . a bronze in men’s sport climbing . . . and the men’s basketball team came back from 17 down to beat Serbia 95 to 91 in the semifinal. They’ll go for their fifth gold medal in a row when they play France tomorrow in the gold medal game.
Coming into today, the U.S. led China in the overall medal count, 103 to 73. But China had cut the lead in golds to just ONE.
Team USA with 30 golds . . . China, 29 . . . Australia, 18 . . . France, 14 . . . and 13 each for Great Britain, South Korea, and Japan.
If the U.S. doesn’t end up with the most golds, it wouldn’t be the first time. But it’s pretty rare for the Summer Games.
The last time we finished second was at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 when China topped us by 12. And the worst we’ve ever done was third in golds at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, and the 1976 games in Montreal.
First and second at both of those were the Soviet Union and East Germany, two nations that don’t exist anymore. (The Winter Olympics are a different story. The only time we ever won the most golds there was way back in 1932.)
(You can track the medal count in real time at Olympics.com.)
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