Sunday, August 21, 2016

The Rio Farce: And now the numbers...

As widely expected, but maybe not by this wide of a margin:  As things stand right now, the USA has won both the gold and total medal counts for the second consecutive Summer Games, and by significant margins in both.

Golds:
  • USA:  46, matching their London total.
  • Great Britain snagged second in the golds table with 27, two short of what they got in their home games.
  • China was third with 26, TWELVE short of what they got in 2012.  (Hence, the reaction (since deleted) of "You gotta be kidding me." from the state media.)
  • Russia was fourth with 19.  That's five short of the 2012 total.  They got six golds in athletics in London.
  • Germany fifth with 17.  That's six better than London.
  • Japan sixth with 12.  Five better than London.
  • France got 10 for seventh, one fewer than London.
  • South Korea 9 for eighth.  Four fewer than London.
  • And these tying for ninth with 8 each:  Italy (same), Australia (+1), Netherlands (+2), and Hungary (same).
54 nations scored gold medals in London.  (BBC chart)

59 have in Rio, including first golds by Fiji, Kosovo, Singapore, Jordan, Bahrain, the Independent Olympic Athletes/Kuwait, Puerto Rico, Vietnam, Tajikistan, and the Ivory Coast.

Total:
  • USA:  121.  17 more than London.  Most medals won by the USA in the history of a non-boycotted Games.  Beijing was the old record with 110.
  • China had 70.  18 less than London, and the margin between #1 and #2 was the largest in nearly a century.
  • Great Britain had 67.  2 more than London and a new Olympic record.  The first country ever to get more medals four years after an Olympics they hosted than the one they did!
  • Russia had 56.  26 fewer than four years ago.  Russian track and field snagged 14 medals in London.
  • Germany and France tied for fifth when they had 42 each.  2 fewer than London for Germany, 8 more for France.
  • Seventh was Japan with 41.  Three more than London.
  • Then a drop-off:  Australia eighth with 29.  Six fewer than London.
  • Ninth was Italy with 28.  Same as London.
  • Tenth was Canada with 22.  Four more than London, when 12 bronzes made their total 18.  They scored 15 third-place finishes in Rio!
According to the BBC chart, 84 nations medaled in London.

86 medaled in Rio.

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