RIO DE JANEIRO – Team USA hit the 100-medal mark Thursday night when Ashley Spencer crossed the line third in the women’s 400-meter hurdles. The Americans will leave Rio with a massive win in the total medal count.
With just three days left, the United States has won 42 more medals than China and has a 35-22 edge on Great Britain in the number of golds. It’s a performance that should far surpass what the Americans did four years ago in London, racking up 103 medals and a 15-medal margin over China. (Russia, fourth in London, was here with a fraction of its normal contingent because of a doping scandal.