Photo: China's Wu Jingyu celebrates her victory over Thailand's Buttree Puedpong during their women's taekwondo gold medal match on August 20 in Beijing.
China continues to blow away the rest of the world in the gold medal standings at the Summer Olympics, with 45 gold medals through the conclusion of Day 12. Team USA is second with 26 golds.
The Americans maintain a narrow lead in the overall medal standings, with 81 medals in all. China has 79 medals.
China added two more golds today, with Wu Jingyu winning in the women's 49-kilogram and under taekwondo competition, and Yin Jian winning in women's sailing. China also picked up a bronze today when Wenxiu Zhang finished third in the women's hammer throw.
The Americans added medals today in the men's 200 meters (Shawn Crawford, bronze) and women's 400-meter hurdles (Sheena Tosta, silver).
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-20-2008 @ 3:03PM
JudKast said...
China is three times the size of the United States.>They should have more Golds and really should have more medals but Americans are showing their DETERMINATION, poise, posture, savy and capability.
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8-21-2008 @ 1:38AM
Freena said...
JudKast said:"China is three times the size of the United States." The truth is that China is a little bit smaller than USA in size.
8-21-2008 @ 4:14PM
TJ said...
Get an Atlas!
China is not bigger than the states!
Hahaha, what a moron
8-20-2008 @ 4:53PM
Saset said...
Take it to them China
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8-20-2008 @ 10:35PM
John said...
okay so nobody is going to comment on Buttree Puedpong? Seriously?
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8-22-2008 @ 12:10AM
Tommy said...
The golds indicate a great improvement of China
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8-23-2008 @ 12:20PM
Elvinjm said...
China is the new word Olympic leader.
Although is a poor country is better than USA
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