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Has it been sixteen days already? With the end of the 2008 Olympics comes the beginning of the planing for 2012. London is hosting the next summer games. What do we all want to know? How the medal count turned out.

The United States came out on top with 110 total medals. The Chinese had a total of 100 medal, however, they top the gold medal chart with 51. The Americans received the the second most gold with a count of 36. Russia was third all around with 72 total medals and 23 golds.

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chupacabra on cop cam

A couple of weeks ago a sheriff in southern Texas turned onto a dirt road and saw what he thought was just a dog. He flipped on his dash cam and got it all on tape.

 A chupacabra, you might say its just a dog but there’s no dog that is this ugly, well maybe. But this short video might make it a little clearer for you. Enjoy!

So at the beginning of this year’s Olympics I didn’t believe all the hype about China using underage girls in their gymnastic team. Now it seems I should have been paying attention more closely. I read today that more evidence has come out to support this claim. A gymnast competing in the Olympics has to be sixteen the year that the Olympics takes place. The girl in question is one He Kexin was reported to be 14 by a government web page that was brought down and re-posted with different dates later. All of this could lead to four of China’s medals being in jeopardy. Beside He, two of China’s other gymnasts are under scrutiny and a full investigation is under way. More on this as the matter develops.

Fianlly the last medals for gymnastics. These are all women’s events if you are interested in how the men did refer back to my previous blogs.

In the Trampoline event china took gold, Canada won the silver and Uzbekistan came in third. Next is the Uneven Parallel Bars China won gold again, Nastia Liukin won silver for America, and bronze went to Yinlin Yang of China. An upset for China, Romania won gold, in the Floor Exercise, and the US picked up silver and bronze respectively going to Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin. Finally , in the Horse Vault, North Korea won the gold, Germany was awarded silver, and China rounded out the podium with the bronze.