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Olympic Gold

"In London a Harvest of French Medals," proclaimed the daily Le Monde.

Indeed the French Team has been doing extraordinarily well in London--keeping in third place until a few days ago. 
Now France is in fifth place having earned eight Gold medals.

The real contest is between China and the USA.  China still  holds the First Place position with Team USA slightly behind but in striking distance.  

The other day I was thinking that the Summer Olympics still tend to favor the economic powerhouse countries--the G8 for example.
Though China is not in the G 8,  the USA, Great Britain (now having surged to third place), France, Germany, Italy and Russia are. So too are Japan and Canada.   Tokyo has performed well but so far not Team Canada.

So is it a G8 Olympics?  

Equally the East Asian countries have surged--China, South Korea (number four), North Korea (number nine), and Japan down a few more notches.

By the way London is probably the real winner--all the criticism of the pre-planning aside, the Games are turning out to be a very class act.