RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The U.S. Olympic Team made itself right at home in Rio.
The British, they had a games to savor as well.
The host Brazilians got soccer gold that they craved, the Russians struggled on the heels of the exposure of a state-sponsored doping program, and the Chinese finished well below expectations.
So went the medal race at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, where the Americans — with women leading the way — dominated both the gold and overall totals. The U.S. will finish with 45 or 46 gold medals (depending on the men's basketball final) and 121 medals overall, its 51-total-medal margin over second-place China the largest in a non-boycotted Olympics in nearly a century.