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Team USA Has History-Making Olympic Start In Tokyo Despite Early Failures, Worst Olympic Ratings In Three Decades

Emily Zanotti
Team USA Has History-Making Olympic Start In Tokyo Despite Early Failures, Worst Olympic Ratings In Three Decades
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The United States is off to its best Olympic start in recent memory, picking up ten medals in the Games’ opening days despite sagging Olympic ratings — the worst in 33 years.

Team USA swimmers led the way, with “medals in every event of the first finals session, including the first U.S. gold medal of the games in any sport,” The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. By the end of competition on Sunday, Team USA had 10 medals, including 4 golds. Only China had more, with 11 medals, 6 of which were gold.

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