So tell me why the US has so many more medals
What do you mean?
The first number
is as stated, it's the total medal count for
all of the Olympics.
As for the other numbers, well, those speak for themselves, I listed what medals they've won for this Olympic, including the what they've won for today.
As for what event, you gotta go to NBC news to find out.
It has nothing to do with the country these athletes represent, well a little -- in that some countries have better training facilities, it has more to do with the indiviual athletes, their type of training, their mentality and their coaching.
You also have to consider the history of modern Olympics,
when which countries entered, how serious they were about winning and how they trained their athletes for such an event. Take a look at Great Britain, they're overall medal count for the Olympics comes in
third, but they haven't done that well this Olympics. Every nation has their year, this just wasn't theirs. There's obviously no more Soviet Union.
I guess the real answer to your question is,
consistency.