At a glance the Paris swimming medal table looks much as it did three years ago for the United States – top once again, both in golds and overall medals.on Sunday on the final day of the Olympic meet, he was salvaging pride for the American men rather than signing off from France with an exclamation point on behalf of his nation.
The result ended a 64-year unbeaten run for the Americans that stretched back to the event’s introduction in 1960. And American men reached the podium in only six of the 14 individual events. For the first time in 20 years, no one US men’s star ruled the pool in multiple events as Michael Phelps did between 2004 and 2016 and“Our goal is always to match our times or be better,” said the men’s coach, Anthony Nesty, according to“But obviously they could have been better.
The Americans won 30 medals in Tokyo and were also pushed close by the Australians, with the US’s 11 golds, 10 silvers and nine bronzes ahead of Australia’s nine golds, three silvers and nine bronzes, and Great Britain in third. Yet the Australians led the Americans in golds, 7-6, going into the final evening in Paris, raising the prospect of an upset: the US last failed to top the medal table in 1988. And Australia and China won more gold medals than the US at last year’s World Aquatics Championships.. “It’s a really healthy thing for the sport. If one country is always dominating, I can’t really sit there and say the sport is growing. So as much as it sucks that we’re not dominating anymore, it’s good for the sport.