{"id":3973,"date":"2016-09-28T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2016-09-28T18:15:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:15:37","slug":"didnt-watch-olympics-no-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/didnt-watch-olympics-no-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Didn\u2019t Watch the Olympics? No Problem!"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Paige Scofield\r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you didn\u2019t have time to watch the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, we\u2019ve got you covered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, just how many medals did team USA win this year? NBC News reported: 46 gold, 37 silver and 38 bronze medals, for a total of 121 medals. American swimmers won a total 33 of those medals, our track and field athletes won 32 and our gymnasts won 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The USA won a few medals in every other sport, but the majority of medals were in these events. Team USA has always done well in the Olympics, bu<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-28-at-7.11.51-PM-1-280x300.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-28-at-7-11-51-pm\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4025 alignright\" \/>t this year we had a few record breaking wins in the mix. The amazing Simone Biles from the women\u2019s gymnastics team, a member of, \u201cThe Final Five,\u201d was the first gymnast ever to win four gold medals. She placed first in vault, team all-around, floor exercise and individual all-around. Biles even has a move named after her, aptly named, \u201cThe Biles,\u201d because she was the first to successfully execute it in competition. Biles is currently the only gymnast in the world able to do this. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simone Manuel of the women\u2019s swimming team was the first African-American women to win a gold medal in an individual swimming event. Katie Ledecky (also of the women\u2019s swimming team), beat four world records, two of which were her own from the previous Olympic Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, the 2016 Summer Olympic Games was a good year for team USA. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at journalcampuslife@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Paige Scofield Campus Life Editor &nbsp; If you didn\u2019t have time to watch the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, we\u2019ve got you covered. So, just how many medals did team USA win this year? NBC News reported: 46 gold, 37 silver and 38 bronze medals, for a total of 121 medals. American swimmers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}