Now that we are in our second full week of healthy athletic competition, its time for another update.
Medal Count (Top 5):
USA - 25 Golds, 25 Silvers, 26 Bronzes = 76 Total
China - 40 Golds, 14 Silvers, 17 Bronzes = 71 Total
Russia - 9 Golds, 13 Silvers, 17 Bronzes = 39 Total
Australia - 11 Golds, 11 Silvers, 12 Bronzes = 34 Total
Great Britain - 14 Golds, 7 Silvers, 8 Bronzes = 29 Total
Notes:
The women’s gymnastics all-around event finished as U.S. taking Gold (Nastia Luikin) and Silver (Shawn Johnson) - Prooving once again that sweatshop working kids just can’t jump into the gym and expect a gold medal in their future.
The U.S. Wrestler, Henry Cejudo, beats Japan’s Tomohiro Matsunaga for the gold - securing the another consecutive gold medal for the U.S. in a freestyle event in the last 9 Olympics. Prooving once again that just because you’re good at math, doesn’t mean you can calculate your way out of an Mexican-American Sleeper Hold.
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh advance to the Gold medal match, sweeping teams in the Semi-Finals. This is their 107th consecutive victory over any beach volleyball duo. They play top-seeded Tian Jia and Wang Jie. No anecdote here, I’m waiting the outcome.
The Redeem Team absolutely crushes the German team 106-57, and are just 3 wins away from the Gold. They even jumped to a 20-3 lead at one point in the first quarter. Prooving once again that once Hitler died, so did Germany’s basketball dreams (both thanks to the Americans)
GO USA!!!!
