Olympic 2008 Overall Medal Standing

I love games and i love to know about the medal standing so i found a site that has this records. I am surprise that China has lots of gold medal compared to US. Well, hubby said if you are the host of the Olympics you should do your very best to win against the visitors so China doing their very best to win. Here are the Overall Medal Standings as of now:

The Top 5 Medalist:

1. United States
gold-22
silver-24
bronze-26
Total - 72

2. China
gold - 39
silver-14
bronze-14
Total - 67

3. Russia
gold-8
silver-13
bronze-14
Total - 36

4. Australia
gold-11
silver-10
bronze-12
Total - 33

5. France
gold-4
silver-11
bronze-13
Total - 28

Source: Olympics Updates