The United States won 46 gold medals and a total of 121 medals – the most medals since the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
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In Rio, the US women shined with 61 of 121 medals, including 27 out of 46 golds (59 percent). Plus, the women won 27 gold, which is more than any other country’s female athletes. It is also very much present in the legacy that the Games will leave for the residents of the host city.
For the ninth straight Olympics, the Rio Games were most popular with TV viewers in Salt Lake City, where they averaged a 20.4 rating, according to Nielsen data.
“NBC has had about 24% more people who streamed the Rio Olympics through NBC’s app and website than streamed the London Games over the same period”, he wrote.
But there were also ugly episodes, like American swimmer Ryan Lochte’s fabricated story about a harrowing robbery that was actually an intoxicated-fueled vandalism of a gas station bathroom, and freakish issues like Olympic diving pools going from crystal blue to gunky, algae green – at a time when Rio’s water quality in open waters is one of the biggest local environmental issues.
The U.S. women’s 4×400 meter relay team members, Courtney Okolo, Natasha Hastings, Phyllis Francis and Allyson Felix celebrate their gold medals on the podium during athletics competitions at the Summer Olympics inside Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dressed as the video-game character Mario to accept the honor before performers from his homeland danced around fluorescent-lit cubes and executed gravity-defying flips, offering a glimpse of what is to come four years from now.
One last stat about their dominance: The United States had 19 more gold medals than second-place finishers Great Britain.
OTHER: The Paralympics will go ahead next month despite being forced to implement further “major budget cuts” to the games in Rio de Janeiro. “It was like war”.
For the men, Phelps added five more gold medals and one bronze to his resume.
Bolt, 29, made history when he sealed the sprint “triple triple” in his final Games, his third consecutive 100m, 200m and 4x100m sweep.
And 10 teams – including the independent team – won their first golds, including Monica Puig in women’s tennis for Puerto Rico.
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