Teams carry their existing points into the final, with the medal race worth double. Those scores are combined to produce their overall score and the team with the lowest number of points wins.

While the overall swimming medal count wasn't that close, the United States edged Australia in golds by one. FULL MEDAL COUNT ... in the Olympic medal race. But it's not surprising that these ...

In fact, the first Boston Marathon medal was a pin-on number like a military medal rather than one that goes around your neck. Today’s massive medals with moving pieces, inlaid glitter ...

The United States is expected to at least tie that number if it wins both basketball gold-medal games and in women's soccer and one more gold in track and field. Team USA did not come up empty ...

Sponsor Message Anchored by three sports, diving, shooting and table tennis, Chinese athletes have kept the gold medal race close ... have racked up a crazy number of total medals (43 currently ...

Team USA won 17 medals on Saturday. That was its highest single-day Olympic medal total since Oct. 1, 1988 during the Seoul Olympics, according to the team. There were 27 medal events Saturday and ...