2008 Summer Olympics

When Alex McLain '11 competed in a national sea kayaking competition in San Francisco last weekend, she was the only female paddler who was not an Olympian. She came home with a silver medal. McLain, who finished the 17-mile course in two hours and 47 minutes, was out-paddled only by Nikki Mo...

By Claire Noland 1. Jamaica (10) - 280,433 2. Bahamas (1) - 307,451 3. Slovenia (5) - 401,542 4. New Zealand (9) - 463,717 5. Australia (42) - 490,496 6. Armenia (6) - 494,764 7. Trinidad & Tobago (2) - 523,683 8. Cuba (19) - 601,260 9. Belarus (16) - 605,360 10. Estonia (2) - 653,802

See, Serbia was part of one of the world's best water polo teams in Athens. Serbia and Montenegro were one nation then ... and they finished with the silver medal. In 2006, Montenegro declared their independence and split up the talent among two countries.

By Claire Noland 11. Cuba (11) - 1,038,541 21. Finland (3) - 1,818,649 22. Great Britain (33) - 1,846,785 28. Latvia (1) - 2,245,423 30. Canada (13) - 2,554,822 40. Russia (42) - 3,350,049 41. Greece (3) - 3,574,272 42. United States (79) - 3,845,881 58. China (76) - 17,500,586 70. Iran (1) - 65,875,223

BEIJING—Eleven days into the Beijing Olympics Tuesday, the Philippines continued to lay a big fat egg while five of the country’s Southeast Asian Games rivals have already barged into the medal standings.

I was in danger of going an entire day without writing the word "Michael" followed by the word "Phelps." So to make sure that doesn't happen, I thought I'd do a little two-days-late wrapup of the swimming competition, in a rather non-Phelps-ian way. The United States swimming team entered t...

SHUTTLER Lee Chong Wei has ensured that Malaysia will be recorded for posterity in the Beijing Olympics medal standings with his silver medal finish in the ... China's Badminton Star Takes Gold TIME Chong Wei Makes History, Fourth Olympic Medal For Malaysia Bernama

By Greg Johnson 1. Slovenia (4 medals won) — one medal per 501,927 Slovenians 2. Armenia (5) — 593,717 3. Australia (33) — 624,268 4. New Zealand (6) — 695,576 5. Jamaica (4) — 701,083 6. Belarus (11) — 880,542 7. Denmark (6) — 914,120 8. Norway (5) — 928,891 9. Cuba (11) — 1,038,541

By Claire Noland Why, that’s Medals Per Capita poetry. The top 10 (pending Iceland’s Sunday medal): Photo: Members of Iceland's team celebrate victory over Spain in a men's handball semifinal at the Beijing Olympics. Credit: PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images

Trailing until a final lunge to the wall, Phelps secured his seventh gold medal of the Beijing Olympics and a spot in history when he beat Serbia's Milorad ... Phelps Secures Gold No. 2, China Tops Olympic Medal Standings Bloomberg China money traders bet on 40 to 42 golds Reuters

By juler It is day five of the Summer Olympics games 2008, the latest Beijing Olympics 2008 medal count is the most popular word to search online. People around the world want to know the current medal standings of their own country, ...

Using a few simple factors, Dartmouth professor Andrew Bernard can guess, with a high degree of accuracy, how many medals countries will win at the Beijing Olympics. Bernard talks with Renee Montagne about his economic model for predicting the medal count.