Photo: Diana Taurasi bites her medal as she celebrates with teammates on the podium after the women's basketball gold medal match at the Olympic basketball arena in Beijing.
With one day of competition to go in Beijing, the China will win the gold medal tally for the first time in the history of the Olympic Games. China won two gold medals on Saturday.
China has now won 49 gold medals, an insurmountable lead over second-place Team USA, with 34. China's golds have come from a diverse group of sports, with gymnastics, weightlifting, diving and shooting leading the way.
The Americans have been strong in many of their old standby sports, with swimming giving Team USA 31 medals and track and field adding 23.
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8-23-2008 @ 2:36PM
Martin said...
"China's golds have come from a diverse group of sports, with gymnastics, weightlifting, diving and shooting leading the way."
Not to mention badminton (3) and ping pong (4). Where's Forrest Gump when America needs him?
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8-23-2008 @ 2:38PM
Martin said...
"China's golds have come from a diverse group of sports, with gymnastics, weightlifting, diving and shooting leading the way."
Not to mention badminton (3) and ping pong (4). Where's Forrest Gump when America needs him?
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8-23-2008 @ 4:02PM
Bill said...
I'd like to see pea-shooting and corn-shucking in the medal sports as well.
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8-23-2008 @ 6:10PM
t said...
Am I the only one who thinks its funny that the gold medals are stamped with 'Made in China'?
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8-25-2008 @ 9:29AM
Marge said...
No, also made in China are new Chinese names for all the athletes names... all 10,000 of them. Can you imagine when the USA held the olympics we gave all the athletes new American names. Check the story in the Wall Street Journal Saturday 8/23. The Chinese people can't connect the real names with future news of the athletes after the games, no Heros but made in China ones.
8-23-2008 @ 6:58PM
Lady NE said...
We Won!!! We are the best!!!
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8-23-2008 @ 8:39PM
AT said...
Its worth noting that neither the US or CHINA are "tops" when looking at the number of persons per medal (i.e. Population / medals)...Go Jamaica, and the folks down under!
Persons
per medal (~) COUNTRY
254,545 Jamaica
434,783 Australia
444,444 New Zeland
500,000 Cuba
500,000 Belarus
1,276,596 Britain
1,580,645 S. Korea
1,684,211 France
1,703,704 Ukraine
2,000,000 Germany
2,028,986 Russia
2,148,148 Italy
2,831,776 US
5,080,000 Japan
13,541,667 China
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8-23-2008 @ 9:26PM
Michael said...
I congradulate the Chinese medalists for their hard work over the last decade. It is really amazing to see a country stand behind the Olympics like they have. Whatever the country's government stands for or promotes, the athletes are non-political and should be applauded for their individual achievements.
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8-23-2008 @ 9:41PM
Sue said...
Congratulations Americans! Job well done! A life time of commitment has paid off. You have represented our counrty well! GO AMERICA!
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8-23-2008 @ 9:41PM
Martin said...
AT - good point, but it's also worth noting that there were around 100 countries competing and Phelps got more gold medals than all but nine of those countries.
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8-24-2008 @ 3:36AM
Gevin said...
Who cares if phelps got more medals?
It's not possible to get more than ONE medal in many other Olympic sports... frankly, swimming just has too many medals to give out.
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8-24-2008 @ 1:44PM
ck said...
did u guy mention that the medals that China got in the Olympic Games is exactly the time where the SiChuan earthquake taken place?
51Gold22silver28Bronze
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it is May (5) 12th 2:28
what a coincidence!!!!
so eerie!!!!
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