I try to limit the non-babe posts these days since those are the only ones that really get hits and the reason why I switched mostly to that format.
However, every 2 years I get Olympics fever. (yes, the winter and summer games are staggered 2 years now for those who forgot) I don’t know what it is. Perhaps it is that I played and enjoyed many of those games as a kid? Perhaps it was the magic of Carl Lewis in 1984 and beyond. I don’t know.
However, the US Ladies Soccer team won it’s 3rd all time gold medal (and 5th major world title overall) beating the upstart Brazilian team.
More importantly, it marked the 1000th gold medal the US has ever won. (total doesn’t include the 1906 games since it’s not recognized by the IOC)
Needless to say this is BY FAR more gold medals than any other nation. The second nation on the list is more than 1000 total medals and 500 gold medals behind the US and they don’t even exist anymore (the USSR, just so you know)
It also gives the US well over 2200 total medals which is about 1500 more than the next ‘still active’ nation, Great Britain.
Congrats to the US Ladies soccer team and to Team USA for keeping up the fantastic run.
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