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Can you believe the Olympics are already over? Feels like the Games just started yesterday.
Here’s your final medal count for the Olympics:
— United States: 126 (40 gold, 44 silver, 42 bronze)
— China: 91 (40 gold, 27 silver, 24 bronze)
— Great Britain: 65 (14 gold, 22 silver, 28 bronze)
— France: 64 (16 gold, 26 silver, 22 bronze)
— Australia: 53 (18 gold, 18 silver, 16 bronze)
— Japan: 45 (20 gold, 12 silver, 13 bronze)
I don’t know what it is, but in each passing year I get more and more nostalgic for the Summer Olympics. They’ve always meant something to me as a sports fan, obviously. But as more time goes by the event becomes more emotional for me. My investment into athletes — many of whom I just learned about for the first time two weeks ago — grows deeper.
It doesn’t make much sense, but that’s the magic of the Olympics, right? It brings hundreds of cultures and millions of people from across the globe together and creates heroes and legacies that will last forever.
Simply put, it’s the best. Let’s review some of the moments we saw in these games.
The Good!
(Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)
The magic of the moments is what these Olympic games are about. We got plenty of them throughout these last two weeks in Paris.
Unfortunately, these Olympics weren’t without scandals and mishaps. It happens every cycle. There’s always something that takes a bit of the shine off of the clean fun we’re all having.
Jordan Chiles having her bronze medal taken away by the IOC after winning it in the floor routine doesn’t sit right with me. It’s not her fault the judges didn’t accurately assign her difficulty score beforehand.
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