For those who like their sport served with a side order of geopolitics and didn’t want to see the last great communist dictatorship score a public relations win, there was relief on the final day of the Olympic Games when the US beat China in the medal tally. While the rivals tied with 40 gold medals each, the US won because it collected 126 medals overall compared to China’s 91.
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