Well, the performance the US seems to be slightly better in terms of medal counts in this olympics than in the last one. They have managed to achieve this in spite of the strong emergence of China.  The american media should emphasize this rather than putting ridiculously sorted lists with USA appearing at the top, when everyone knows that China has outperformed the US this time.

"Don't be surprised from the next olympics if they sort out the medals based on the number of medals won in swimming pool. "

nice comment...