Games thoughts after 10 days.

The USA is doing well in these games, winning 69 medals so far and 26 gold. China is next with 45 total medals. After a slow start in swimming the USA won 33 total swimming medals with 16 gold, 8 silver, 9 bronze. USA swimmer Michael Phelps won 6 medals, 5 gold and 1 silver. Katie Ledecky of the USA won 4 gold medals and 1 silver medal and Simone Manuel won 4 medals total, 2 gold and 2 silver. Some other swimming stars were Nathan Adrian, Maya Dirado, and Ryan Murphy. The USA women's gymnastics team lived up to expectations with a team gold and Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and Madison Kocian shined for the USA.

USA 10M synchro divers David Boudia/Steele Johnson won silver!

The biggest disappointments so far were the elimination of the USA women's soccer team by Sweden in penalty kicks and the USA men's beach volleyball team of Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson being eliminated after going 1-2 in pool play. Serena Williams also losing early in the tennis tournament also disappointed. USA 3M women springboard divers Abby Johnston and Kassidy Cook did not medal and finished way out of the running for a medal with Johnston finishing 12th in the finals and Cook finishing 13th in the semifinals;
Lastly, the USA men's gymnastics team faltered a bit and finished 5th.

The USA women's volleyball team went undefeated in pool play, while the men's team went 2-2 in pool play but did beat Brazil.

Track and Field has started well for the USA with gold by Jeff Henderson in the long jump and silver medals for both American men and women in the 100. Silver medals by Tori Bowie and Justin Gatlin had mixed emotions for me because they both lost to Jamaica, the USA's biggest rival.

Look for Brazil vs USA semifinals and or finals in beach and indoor volleyball. Should be interesting to watch.

Also successes in rowing, weightlifting, mixed doubles tennis, judo and shooting have contributed to the big USA total in medals won.

Even though I had predicted 98 total medals of the USA, the USA will surpass that easily. Look for the USA to do well and top 100 medals and well over 40 gold. After 10 days, I have correctly predicted the top three countries medal totals as being the USA, China and Great Britain. Russia is currently 5th. Japan has surprised many at these games.

Looking forward to the last week of these games!