Not Everyone Is Gunning for Gold at the Rio Olympics

Before the Games, forecaster Gracenote Sports predicted that Team GB would win 51 medals including 18 golds in Brazil.

After an upsetting lose, he worked extremely hard over the course of the next four years to make himself the best swimmer of all time.

Another return to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Phelps claimed six more medals, five of them being Gold to bring the Final medal count to 28 all over and 23 Gold Medals.

Olympians in the highest income bracket – with a tax rate of 39.6% – will pay the highest “victory” taxes on their bonuses; specifically, as much as $9,900 for gold medals, $5,940 for silver medals, and $3,960 for bronze medals, per the report. The Brazilian duo reached the gold-medal match when they stunned Team USA’s Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross in the semifinals late Tuesday.

“You’re kidding me? The country which has never finished above China is about to”, read the tweet, which was later deleted.

Their opponents, unexpected finalists who outlasted the 2012 London Olympic runners-up Japan in full five games Monday in the semis, however, should be satisfied after settling for a silver, a first ever Olympic medal in history for Germany’s women paddlers.

“We support our fellow athletes throughout the whole Olympic team, we’re always cheering them on throughout all the events”, Waterhouse said.

Many commentators said that enjoying sport, rather than obsessing about gold medals, was increasingly important to China.

The Americans, who have been vulnerable in their last three wins, take on Argentina in the quarterfinals. Its domination of badminton was also shaken when its mixed doubles pairs and second-ranked women’s doubles pair were eliminated.

The country’s top sports officials had warned before the Olympics that the team faced a myriad of challenging factors, including unfamiliarity with South America, rule changes in some sports and the “diminishing dividend” of the 2008 Olympics.

“After Beijing was selected as the host city in 2001, China started a long-term talent training plan for the Games”, Gao Zhidan, China’s General Administrator of Sport, told Xinhua in July. “That will be another challenge”.

British Olympic Association chief executive officer Bill Sweeney said: “We said we believed this to be our most talented Team GB squad and everything we have seen to-date has proven that to be true”.

“The British Olympic Association has done and is doing a truly world-class job of supporting our athletes at the preparation camp in Belo Horizonte and here in Rio, leaving nothing to chance, to ensure they are the best supported team at this Games bar none”.

Fu Yuanhui has become a social media celebrity thanks to her candid and humourous poolside interviews on topics ranging from menstruation to boys.

“The Chinese people have made progress, we don’t need gold medals to boost our confidence and are no longer as harsh on our athletes”, said one user on China’s Twitter-like Weibo.