The United States won the most medals in the Summer Olympics, which concluded Sunday, continuing a streak that stretches back to the 2012 games. Team USA had 126 medals, 35 ahead of second-place China. It tied with China for most golds at 40, but won the tiebreaker with a 44–27 edge in silvers.
Looking back, America’s dominance of the Summer Olympics is astonishing. Yet it’s even more a testament to the greatness of the U.S. that Americans manage to win medal after medal without obsessing over the games like totalitarian states do.
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