At the onset of the week, the People’s Republic of China led the gold medal count with 16. Following close by were the United States (14), France (12), Australia (12), and Great Britain (10). On the other hand, the United States has the most overall medals (61). Next was the People’s Republic of China (37), France (41), Australia (27), and Great Britain (33). The People’s Republic of China has shown Summer Olympics betting excellence in Diving and Shooting, with four gold medals in each. Meanwhile, the United States flashed three gold medals in artistic gymnastics and seven total medals.
2024 Summer Olympic Games
| Date: | July 26 Through August 11, 2024 |
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| Location: | Paris, France. |
| TV Coverage: | NBC Family of Networks |
2024 Summer Olympics Medal Count SBG Odds Overview
In sum, the Americans captured 18 medals across several different sports on Saturday. Those medal triumphs included five Olympic titles. Namely, Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, and Ryan Crouser were online wagering winners.
With 61 total medals, Team USA opened up a 20-medal advantage over second-place France. Following a gold medal-less Day 7, the U.S. is now up to 14 golds and sits just two behind China for first.
Simone Biles added another chapter to her comeback story with a gold medal triumph in the women’s vault. Biles, who won the event at the 2016 Rio Games, reclaimed the Olympic title with a score of 15.300. The 27-year-old broke out the Yurchenko double pike, the Biles II. In turn, she scored 15.700 on her first attempt before posting a 14.900 on her second attempt.
Biles, the most decorated American gymnast of all time, became just the second woman to win vault gold twice. As a result, she joined Vera Casalavska of Czechoslovakia. With three gold medals in Paris (vault, individual all-around, team all-around), she now owns seven for her career and 10 Olympic medals overall.
Meanwhile, Carey earned bronze in the vault with a score of 14.466. She finished behind silver medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil. Also, Carey helped Team USA win all-around gold, has won two medals in Paris, and owns three for her career.
And then Katie Ledecky closed out her latest Olympics by making even more history. The 27-year-old fended off Australia’s reigning silver medalist Ariarne Titmus. Thus, she won the women’s 800m freestyle for a fourth straight time, finishing in 8:11.04.
Ledecky joined Michael Phelps as the only swimmer ever to beat the Summer Olympic Games odds in the same event. And with nine gold medals, she’s now tied with four other athletes for the second-most Olympic titles of all time. Only Phelps, who claimed 23 Olympic golds in his legendary career, owns more.
American Paige Madden (8:13.00) finished behind Titmus (8:12.29) to earn her second medal of the Paris Olympics and third overall. Also, she won silver in the 4x200m freestyle relay earlier in the Games when she teamed up with Ledecky. In addition to Ledecky’s 800m free gold and 4x200m free relay silver. Additionally, she claimed a 1500m free gold and 400m free bronze in Paris. Correlate that Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs continued to own the men’s shot put competition. Crouser, the world record holder, became the first athlete to capture three Olympic shot put titles — and he won them consecutively. The 31-year-old battled elbow and pectoral injuries earlier this year. Yet he secured his three-peat with a throw of 22.90 meters.