Anyways, the US still has the most medals, with a total of 11. Their Women's Gymnastics team had a few errors, what with Peszek not performing (other than the uneven beams), as well as costly falls by Sacramone and Luikin, not to mention several missteps in their floor routines. The only person without a single significant mistake (not counting Peszek in the one routine she DID perform) would be Shawn Johnson. They still came in second at the preliminaries though. The US got gold for basketball obviously. Hoff looked like she was a clear win for gold, but Australia surpassed her in the last 25 meters about of the 400 free. But then there was that AMAZING save by Jason Lezak in the Men's 4 X 100. He carried on Phelps' dream of an 8 gold medal season.
Chinese Taipei is still in second place, with the most gold medals (6). They also had a few falls in the Women's Gymnastics, the most severe of which would be the landing on the uneven beams by Jiang Yuyuan. I swear most of the girls on the team look sooo young! But whatever. Anyways, they came first in the preliminaries and will continue onto the finals! My favorite out of those would probably be Deng Linlin. She's pretty young, but she's really good.
Anyways, some of the turnouts of the Olympics are REALLY unexpected this year, but hecka fun to watch! My favorite routines to watch are still gymnastics though, both men's and women's. I can't wait until they get to the diving though, that's bound to be cool!
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