The United States is strongly favored to win the most overall medals when the Paris Olympics open in a month. The big question is this: will the Americans also top the gold-medal tally in a close race with China?
open in a month. The big question is this: will the Americans also top the gold-medal tally in a close race with China?
This would be the eighth straight time the United States has won the most overall medals in the Summer Games. In 1992 at Barcelona, the so-called Unified team topped the overall count. Those athletes were from the former Soviet Union, which had just broken up as a sovereign state. The next 10 are: Hungary , Canada , Spain , Ukraine , Brazil , New Zealand , Poland , Denmark , Turkey , Ethiopia .
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