2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
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The US had a huge night picking up two gold medals to put them only one behind Australia. Australia on the other hand did not win gold tonight.
The first gold for the US tonight came in the women’s 800 freestyle as Katie Ledecky earned the 9th gold medal of her career and 4th in the 800 freestyle. That made her the first woman to ever 4-peat in an event. Right after Ledecky, the US swam to gold in the mixed 4×100 medley relay, setting a new World Record in the process.
In all sports, the US won 17 total medals. That was the most-ever in a single day for the US since the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Tomorrow night features four finals, with the men’s and women’s 4×100 medley relays at the end of the session. The medal table might come down to the final race.
Canada had a big night, winning one gold, one silver, and one bronze. Summer McIntosh won her 3rd gold of the meet, becoming the first Canadian to ever win three individual gold medals in one meet. Josh Liendo won silver in the men’s 100 fly alongside Ilya Kharun who won bronze, becoming the 2nd time in which two Canadians have stood on the same podium.
Despite having nine total medals, China still only has one gold this week after narrowly finishing in 2nd behind the US tonight in the mixed medley relay, winning silver.
SWIMMING MEDAL TABLE
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 7 | 6 | 3 | 16 |
| 2 | United States | 6 | 12 | 7 | 25 |
| 3 | France | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Canada | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | Hungary | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Italy | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Great Britain | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 8 | China | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 9 | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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10
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Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Ireland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Romania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 13 | Sweden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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14
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Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
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16
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Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
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18
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South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
ALL SPORTS MEDAL TABLE
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China | 16 | 12 | 9 | 37 |
| 2 | United States | 14 | 24 | 23 | 61 |
| 3 | France | 12 | 14 | 15 | 41 |
| 4 | Australia | 12 | 8 | 7 | 27 |
| 5 | Great Britain | 10 | 10 | 13 | 33 |
| 6 | South Korea | 9 | 7 | 5 | 21 |
| 7 | Japan | 8 | 5 | 9 | 22 |
| 8 | Italy | 6 | 8 | 5 | 19 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 10 | Canada | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 |
| 11 | Germany | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 12 | Romania | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 13 | Hungary | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 14 | Ireland | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 15 | New Zealand | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 16 | Croatia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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17
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Belgium | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
| 19 | Azerbaijan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 20 | Brazil | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 21 | Israel | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 22 | Sweden | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 23 | Georgia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| – | Individual Neutral Athletes[A] | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 24 | Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 25 | Spain | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
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26
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Kazakhstan | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 28 | Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 29 | Uzbekistan | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
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30
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Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
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32
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Argentina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dominica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ecuador | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Philippines | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Serbia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Uganda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 41 | Mexico | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 42 | North Korea | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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43
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Greece | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Poland | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
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45
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Jamaica | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Kosovo | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Turkey | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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48
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Denmark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ethiopia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Fiji | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 53 | India | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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54
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Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Moldova | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Tajikistan | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
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57
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Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Grenada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Portugal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The Commonwealth vs. Europe (minus GB) would be a good Duel In The Pool.
Got a parlay going on Finke and both US medleys, let’s gooo
Thanks Steve… I’ve tried a bunch of swimming parlays and every time draft kings didn’t allow it, so I didn’t even think to try this morning until I saw your post. So, if it hits, I guess I owe ya lol! LET$ GO U$A
Good luck!
I guess it all comes down to the men’s medley relay… Or to be even more specific, whether the Chinese butterfly swimmer can stay close enough to the US. If it’s close at 300m, you’d guess it’d be lights out with Pan Zhanle on anchor?
USA Swimming has some questions as to who swims the anchor leg of the men’s 4 x 100 meter medley relay.
If Alexy swam in the prelims, I figured it would be Armstrong. No way they would put Guiliano on the final after finishing behind Alexy in the 100 and then missing semis in both the 50 and 200.
This comment aged poorly, I didn’t pick Finke’s amazing WR in the 1500! Incredible swim. The men’s medley relay wasn’t determinative in the end!
US won all men’s medley relay since 1984. This year they face the biggest challenge in this event.
china only needs 9 more golds to reach their target
If China randomly won the 3 events they’re entered in tomorrow to suddenly jump to 3rd on the table that would be hilarious
The 2024 Summer Olympics must be a major disappointment when compared the results at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships.
They’ll get a few in weightlifting
USA is definitely topping the table. This was inevitable as soon as Australia missed a gold on day 5. I said from the start there was a small chance we could top the table but it required 3 things:
1. Short to recover from his illness and convert at least 1 of his 2 strong gold chances (didn’t happen)
2. China to block some key U.S. golds (China has only blocked one gold and it was Australia’s lol)
3. Kaylee to repeat the backstroke double (yay we actually did this one)
Basically as soon as Short was out we had an uphill battle, and while we’ve had some amazing performances, we’ve had multiple toss ups not fall our way that… Read more »
It sounds like sour grapes to me.
Meanwhile, I have accepted the male contingent of USA Swimming have been a roaring tire fire at the 2024 Summer Olympics notwithstanding the men’s 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay.
China with only 1 gold? It only seems like Qin Haiyang underperformed, how does 1 dude affect a team as good as China that much?
SwimSwam gave China 4 golds and 3 of them ran through Qin Haiyang either individually or through relays
All Aussies knew – unless a couple of miracles happened – the US would inevitably top the medal tally, though it’s been a closer race than some of us might have predicted.
With 15x Australia’s population the US will almost always top AUS (& the rest of the world) in swimming & all-sport Olympic medal tallies. But we sure do punch above our weight!
Aussies were favored after Fukuoka.
Wrong. Americans spent months after Fukuoka saying that they’re actually better and Australia got lucky and can’t perform in Europe and USA always has an off year before the Olympics.
You can’t now pretend that none of that happened and that Australia was always favoured to win.
What people said doesn’t negate what actually happened lol. Even if it makes you feel better…
You had a psycho meltdown about Australia and Cate Campbell after Fukuoka which was legitimately concerning, so I don’t really take your opinions about Australia seriously.
Also you say “Aussies were favoured” but then “what people said doesn’t matter”. So who decides what is favoured and what isn’t? It’s the consensus of what people say. You can try to spin this story however you like to make yourself feel better but you’ll still be wrong.
What you say makes no sense.
Funny how they disappeared for so many months after that meltdown.
Needed to wait for an opportunity to criticise Australia again
The male contingent of Australian Swimming haven’t exactly rocked the world at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Some of us never left.
It’s an American based website. Someone from another country criticized said Americans on Australian national television. And not only criticized but was extremely rude about it. What may ask did you think the response would be.
You seem bothered by the current state of affairs.
NBS was selling “Cate Campbell Saga” really hard in Day 1 and it just quickly disappeared ever since. Their arrogance and stupidity hit all time high, and now they are humiliating themselves by saying that Australia was favorite to be top on the medal table. I recall more than 90% Americans here were saying Smith would beat McKeown in both 100 and 200. Smith should be able to sing Australian national anthem by now.
It doesn’t negate what actually happened.
But ‘favored’ implies someone was doing the favoring. And it sure wasn’t most posters here.
Though I agree, coming in the Aussies on paper were the stronger team, even if most people didn’t want to accept that.
And indeed there were performances that came up short (no pun intended nor disrespect to Short haha…) like Short, and MOC (partially in her case – she still won that tremendous gold in the W200 free).
They weren’t able to convert some minor medals to gold… Kyle at least won silver in the men’s 100 free, and the men’s 4×100 free relay were just marginally off their 2023 WC winning time.
The US also failed to back… Read more »
As for USA Swimming failing to back up gold medals, I seriously question the wisdom of the USA Swimming coaching staff placing a swimmer in the heats of the 4 x 100 meter medley relay when the aforementioned swimmer is scheduled to swim an individual final during the evening session on the same day.
I was questioning it was coaching decisions, but it must have been swimmers’ decision as I think it over. I’m pretty sure that the U.S. coaches told Smith that they would go MMFF in the final of the MMR, and made sure it’s her call whether she would go for that relay gold by swimming the heat swim instead of saving energy for the 200 BK final showdown in the afternoon. She lost 200 BK McKeown tight there even before she jumped in the pool.
The male contingent of USA Swimming have gone MIA at the 2024 Summer Olympics aside from men’s 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay on Day 1.