Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins his third gold medal and breaks his third world record. Amazing athlete. On a per capita basis Jamaica must be on top of the gold medals chart with 6 golds.

The U.S. once a boxing powerhouse wins a single bronze medal in boxing, the same as India!

China with one bronze medal and three boxers in the final gold medal round has more boxing medals than boxing superpower Cuba!

The British have had their best showing in the gold medal rankings since 1920!

China, the new olympics superpower, will end up with at least 10 more gold medals than America. There were also quite a few chinese athletes and coaches representing other nations.

Europeans continued their domination in the sports involving boats, bikes and horses which are among the least international of the olympic events.

On the contrary I think that given the very diverse skills(track, swimming, fencing, equestrian), equipment(pistols to horses) and environment(track , pool and equestrian course) needed for training for the pentathlon, it is very expensive and also hard to find coaches and horse trainers/veternarians to sustain this sport. The decathlon while being more in number is still essentially track & field, which doesn’t require widely varying equipment & environment.

Despair not my friends. The next Decathlon is belongs to nerds, cos we have cracked the code. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ok, enough.

Those events are not exactly the most popular spectator sports. The Decathlon which has ten events in track and field is far more popular and the winner is anointed the World’s Greatest Athlete.

He won 9-4.

One would think that the modern pentathlon (epee fencing, pistol shooting, 200 m freestyle swimming, a show jumping course on horseback, and a 3 km cross-country run) would be the Olympic event that would produce the best known all-around stars. But oddly there does not seem to be much interest, even though most of the individual events that comprise the pentathlon produce media/sports stars. In fact it is in danger of being scrapped as an Olympic event altogether. General George S. Patton competed in the first modern pentathlon in Stockholm in 1912.

5 · Moti Lal said

…..if any of these three make it to the top, the country will celebrate as if Michael Phelps was their very own.

What’s the big deal about Phelps winning eight gold medals? I wouldn’t care if he won twenty as long as they were all in swimming. I mean if you had people compete in variations of the same sport several times there’s much chance the same team or individual will win multiple golds. If Phelps had for example divided his golds among say swimming, boxing, track, shooting, pole vault, water polo ( I’ll give him that one ) it’d have been deserving of all the current hungama. People don’t think. They’ll just buy what Costas on NBC has to hype. The most gold medals in the history of modern olympics my ass. Clearly very few people in this world must share my acute thinking power. It’s so frustrating to be so smart but so alone.

Jitender’s bout was much closer. They had about the same points in the first two rounds, but his defending was terrible in the third round (I blame the coach and Akhil, who were advising him but weren’t very helpful) making a comeback in the final round impossible.