The United States won both the first and the last gold medals of Rio – Virginia Thrasher won the women’s 10m rifle shooting event on August 6, and the US men’s basketball team, featuring NBA All-Stars, blew out Serbia 96-66 Sunday for the gold. Newly released data from Twitter reveals that athletes Michael Phelps, Simone Biles, Neymar, and Usain Bolt were the most buzzed about Olympians online at the 2016 event.
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“Probably our biggest surprise in the consumption metrics was that more than one-third of those who streamed coverage did so from connected TV devices-meaning those people were in front of their TVs watching the Olympics, but in a different way”, Lazarus says. She is followed by South Africa with 10 medals: 2 gold, 6 silver and 2 bronze.
Smiling and waving athletes danced into the Maracana stadium to launch an all-night party after the Rio Games were described by Olympics chief Thomas Bach as “marvellous”. Felix now owns nine medals across her four Olympic appearances.
In the previous Summer Olympic Games eight years ago in Beijing, China set a record-breaking 51 gold medals bringing analysts and experts to question whether the country has gotten over its “obsession” over the glitz and glamour of winning. The 20-year-old became the nation’s sweetheart simply because she displayed such pure enjoyment on learning that she had achieved a new personal record. “This is the most ambitious task in the media business, and our team. all deserve a gold medal”. US track star Allyson Felix, now a six-time gold medalist and a victor of nine medals in all, was particularly delighted to learn that women are bringing more medals home to American than the men. The 121 medals won by the U.S. was 51 more than the next closest country, China.
Ban recalled, with pleasure and honour, his participation at the opening ceremony, in the Olympic Torch relay, visit to the Olympic Village and attending some of the events, Dujarric said.
It said that the country had accrued 26 gold, 11 silver and 12 bronze medals in the Paralympics since the Barcelona Games.
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No doubt these Olympic games held some of the most memorable moments in sports, and the United States will take these next four years to come back even stronger for the 2020 Tokyo games.
