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Originally Posted by henners88
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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
29 Gold medals for Great Britain. That's a gold for every 2.1 million Brits. The US has a gold every 7.1 million and China has a gold for every 35.4 million.
It's certainly our Olympics in more ways than one
LONDON --
Most medals. Most gold medals. The U.S. left no doubt at the Olympics.
When the U.S. men's basketball team took the Olympic title Sunday, it won the 46th gold medal for Americans in London, their
highest total at a "road" Olympics. The U.S. -- winners of 104 medals overall in London, easily the most of any country -- won 45 golds at Paris in 1924 and Mexico City in 1968.
LeBron James recognized that winning gold means more than, well, winning gold.
"It means more than myself, it means more than my name on my back. It means everything to the name on the front," he said.
The final numbers for the Americans in London won't go down as record-setting for all Olympics.
They won 83 golds (174 overall) at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, boycotted by most of the Soviet bloc countries;
and 78 golds (a whopping 239 overall) at the 1904 St. Louis Games, when U.S. athletes won roughly
seven out of every eight medals