Despite the fact that the medals – especially the gold ones – haven’t come in droves, Cuba leads  Latin America nations in the medal count at the Olympic Games in China.
The Caribbean island has earned a silver medal and a bronze. Colombia has also made its presence known with a silver medal, while Brazil has two bronze medals and Argentina received a bronze medal in judo.
Overall, it has been a subpar performance by the Latin American countries.  A Mexican athlete has been eliminated the fastest from the Games. That happened when fencer Angelica Larios was eliminated after only 2 minutes, 37 seconds.
Cuba earned its first silver in women’s judo via Yanet Bermoy, who lost the 48-kilogram final to Russian Alina Dumitru. Paula Pareto got Argentina the bronze in that event.

He’s the most besieged athlete at the Olympic Games and he aspires to accomplish a feat never before done: winning eight gold medals in one Olympics.
In his favorite event, the 200-meter freestyle, Michael Phelps dominated from beginning to end while supported by the thousands of fans joined at the Olympic pool known as the “water cube” and earned his third gold medal with a world record of 1 minute, 42.96 seconds. After four days, he has already won five gold medals and set five world records.
If Phelps reaches his goal, it will be in great part because of the performance by the United States in   the 400 relay, an event in which he also swam.  The United States earned a gold medal in dramatic fashion, when Jason Lezak beat out Alain Bernard on the last stroke with a time of 3:08.24, shattering the world record by almost 4 seconds.