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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.

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.

of the gymnastic medal standing. As usual I will start with the men’s events and then move to the women’s.

Now the United Stated did not place in any of these events so if that’s all you care about read my next post which will have the women’s standings. In the Men’s Horse Vault, Poland took first, France came in second, and Russia finished with bronze. In the Men’s Rings event, China went one-two for the silver and gold with the Ukraine winning the bronze. Next in line is the Pommel Horse competition where China again took gold. For the silver we have Filip Ude of Croatia and bronze went to Louis Smith of Great Britain. China won gold one more time in the men’s competition with th Floor Exercise. Silver was awarded to Spanish gymnast, Gervasio Defer, while bronze was won by Russia.

So far, in this year’s Olympics, the United States is leading the Chinese in total medal count. The official number is US 95 medals and the Chinese have finally started to trail and now have 83 medals. Until now the Americans and Chinese have been in a close race for the country with the most total medal count. The next country in the standings is Russia, they trail the Chinese by 32 medals, with 51 total medals. On the other hand, the Chinese have won more gold medals than the Americans, with 46 gold medals to the Americans 29. As the Olympics continue we will see how things turn out. Anything could happen!