Isn’t it interesting that almost half of the gold medal harvest of the United States is produced (or co-produced) by Michael Phelps? Here’s the merman celebrating after winning his seventh gold medal in the men’s 100 meters butterfly. Photo source: beijing 2008
Posts Tagged ‘China vs the United States’
Yu Yang and Du Jing: China’s Gold Medalists #26
China’s answer to the U.S. victories in the Olympic swimming pool on Day 7 came from weightlifting, judo, and the badminton duo of Yu Yang and Du Jing who beat South Korea’s Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Kyung-won to pocket the gold, China’s 26th overall, in women’s badminton doubles. So what’s the gold medal race like [...]
Tong Wen Bags Gold Medal #25 for China
Tong Wen sure deserves to be lifted by her coaches after winning the gold, China’s 25th, in women’s judo, 85 kg category. Photo source: xinhua/beijing2008
Lu Yong: China’s Gold Medalist # 24
Chinese athletes do rule weightlifting, no? They grabbed eight of the 11 gold medals awarded so far. Here’s China’s Lu Yong celebrating after winning gold medal number 24 for China. Lu tied with Andrei Rybakou of Belarus as both lifted 394 kilos but he was awarded the gold because he registered a lighter body weight [...]
Another Olympic Medal Prediction
I didn’t realize that accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is also into Olympic “crystal ball gazing” but, apparently, it is. The firm foresees China emerging as the overall Olympic champion with one more medal than the United States: China (88) vs. U.S. (87) It also predicted that Russia will drop to third place with 79 medals followed [...]
