They are only being beaten by Team USA, who now have 84 medals, with 28 golds, 28 silvers, and 28 bronzes.
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“Avoid leaving the village after dark in anything other than British Olympic Association/Local Organising Committee/UK Athletics transport”, noted the mail, adding that “taxis can not be considered safe late at night”.
Meanwhile, the country’s Olympians never had to surrender one medal because of analeptics usage during the same period.
“You’re kidding me?” read the tweet, which was later deleted.
China once spent billions of dollars annually on its state sports development budget in a Soviet-inspired sports program that hot-housed young talent but which has been criticized for ignoring the general public.
Phelps said having finished his career he would now concentrate fully on his family life.
British athletes won a grand total of 65 medals including 29 golds, 17 silvers and 19 bronzes in the British capital.
Other successful US athletes who might owe a decent amount of money on taxes stemming from Olympic medals won include gymnast Simone Biles (four golds, one bronze) and swimmer Katie Ledecky (four golds, one silver). According to Ahiza Garcia of CNN, the cash prizes given away by US Olympic Committee comes out to be $25,000, $15,000 and $10,000 for gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.
One user commented: “Though I’m not in favour of gold medal-ism, not even being in second place is still a bit sore”.
The agency predicted that Rio 2016 could well see China recording its lowest medal haul in two decades, noting that in some of its strongest sports like badminton and diving, its athletes have not performed up to mark.
Officials have hinted that the political interest and funding that peaked at Beijing in 2008 is now on the wane.
“The plan continues but is not as vigorous as then”, he said.
In the early days of the games, Chinese media sought to play down the athletes’ relatively poor showing, instead praising their competitive spirit and arguing that medals were not “the be-all and end-all of the Olympics”.
“Otherwise, we’re not patriotic”.
Olympic medalists shouldn’t jump for excitement just yet, as Sen.
South Africa’s Caster Semenya sailed into the semi-finals of the 800m to remain on track for a gold medal nearly certain to divide opinion.
“It’s a shame. I can only point to the fact you can look at athletes here who are simply not at their best”, he said.
The ad shows Phelps’ (who snared his 23rd gold medal in the Rio pool) gruelling training regime under the tagline “It’s what you do in the dark that puts you in the light”.
We know how close the women’s Final Five are this year, following in the footsteps of their gold-medal-winning predecessors from 1996 and 2012.
Retired Shandong University professor and veteran rights activist Sun Wenguang said there has been something of a public backlash against a system that eats up huge amounts of public resources. Partners are invariably described either as “very understanding” or “long-suffering”, none more so than Dean Golding, who got engaged to dressage champion Charlotte Dujardin four years ago but is still waiting for a date to be set.
“It’s very insane. To think what I’ve done, its been an awesome experience and I don’t think I could be more proud of myself”. That was going through my head the whole time and I was replaying a lot of my past and my swimming career throughout the last 24 years. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
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Reported by Yang Fan for RFA’s Mandarin Service.
