Olympic Games is the world’s foremost sports competition and major international event featuring summer and winter sports in which thousands of athletes from more than 200 countries participate in hundreds of sports. It’s a game where each competitor of every nation has a chance to show outstanding performance and ability to the world.
Every nation also tries to show off by winning as many medals as they can. If we look back in the past, the United States of America and Russia were the two top nations who dominated the game and challenged each other to win the title as the first top nation with the most medals.
Nowadays it is completely different. China as the host of Olympic Games 2008 is one of the most serious and dangerous challenger for the United States because they shocked the world being the first place in the Olympic Games 2008 and broke many new world records.
In Olympic Games 2012, USA team won first place while China tried their best and won second place. Top five countries that won medals the most were: USA with 104 medals (46 gold medals), China with 88 medals (38 gold medals), Russia with 82 medals (24 gold medals), Great Britain with 65 medals (29 gold medals) and Germany with 44 medals (11 gold medals).
USA team is still the best team and they broke many new records in different sports such as swimming, basketball, women’s football and so on. Even though Jamaica does not rank in top ten, but their athletes also broke many records that the word should be aware of. Jamaican team broke a new record in running 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1200m in team and individual.
Paralympic Games is the world’s second biggest international multi-sports event, involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness and cerebral palsy. It is being held in England and China is on the top of the list of nations who received the most medals.
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