Olympics medals: will the USA be the next champion again?

2012 London Olympics, the United State have got the most models in the world. Americans got 116 in total, including 53 golden medals, 34 silver medals and 29 bronze medals.

Will the USA be the next champinon in 2016 Rio de Janeiro again?We investigate the medals this strong man have got form 1992 to 2012, and predict the USA will probably wins!

The table itself tells that the USA never be the third place because it got the first place four time and the second place two times in the summer Olympics during the past ten years.

medals in Summer Olympics from 1992 to 2012, the USA

From the chart one and chart three, although the athletes from the USA has been decreased year by year, they got more and more medals in total, touching the peak last year at 116, which means the overall quality of athletes are included in the Summer Olympic Games.

Chart 1: the number of Olympics Athletes from the USA

Chart 2: The trend of different medals,USA, from 1992 to 2012

Chart 3: the trends of total medals, USA, from 1992 to 2012

picture link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AhKbc5iuqPbOdHNoNUlfYWQwUG0yUDdKMENRVkhwU2c&output=html

And most significantly, they have got incresing golden medals, while the rate of silver and bronze medals have been declined in recent years.The statistics itself tells that it’s possible that the USA will be the winner again in the following Olympics.

Data resource: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/medals/countries