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okr on 10 August 2012
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NintendoPie said:
okr said:
spurgeonryan said:
What is the biggest medal count ever at the Olympics? America is getting high with a few more days to go right?

Pasted from somewhere else, not entirely sure if the numbers are correct:
1980: Soviet Union (URS) 195 (western boycott)
1984: United States (USA) 174 (eastern boycott)
1992: Unified Team (EUN) 112 (non-boycott)

USA had 110 medals in Peking 2008.

94 medals at the moment. Will most probably go over 100. Still some medals to get for team USA, at least 3 medals are already secured (2 gold in basketball finals, 1 gold or silver in women's volleyball final). Plus track & field (last day tomorrow) and I bet a few more.

What is the Unified Team?

That's the in-between Olympic code used for Sovjet Union after the fall of the Iron Curtain and before Russia and its former satellite states started as own countries at Olympics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Team_at_the_Olympics

Today there's plenty of political tension and sports rivalry between most former EUN members and Russia, e.g. Ukraine and Georgia are not Russia's best friends, to put it mildly.