LONDON (AP) — Most medals. Most gold medals. The U.S. left no doubt at the Olympics.
Victory by the men’s basketball team Sunday gave the United States its 46th and final gold medal in London, the most ever by Americans in a “road” Olympics.
The U.S. — winners of 104 medals overall at these Olympics — took home 45 golds from Paris in 1924 and Mexico City in 1968.
Those totals are still far behind the best medal hauls for the U.S at any Olympics: 83 golds (174 overall) at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, boycotted by the Soviet Union, and 78 golds (a whopping 239 overall) at the 1904 St. Louis Games.