Mickel Phelip
Gold medals awarded at the Olympics can only be won at the Olympics. But, there are different competitions throughout the years leading up to the Olympics where medals are awarded as well. That's how someone can have more career gold medals than Olympic gold medals.
yes, china won the highest no of gold medals (51) in 2008 Olympics
Puerto Rico won 8 and more medals in the 2008 Olympics
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, no British athlete has won 8 Olympic gold medals. The most Olympic gold medals a British athlete has won is 5 by rower Steve Redgrave. Redgrave also won 9 World Championship gold medals and 3 Commonwealth Games gold medals.
more than 1
No. The Winter Olympics occur every four years, but are separated from the Summer Olympics by two years. There was a Winter Olympics in 2006 (Turin, Italy) and the next Winter Olympics will be held in 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.
In total there are 903 , 301 gold , 301 silver 301 bronze although in Athens 2004 there were more bronz then the others for some reason
The US has won far more than 1 Olympic Gold Medal We have won 896 gold medals in the Summer Olympics and 78 in the winter Olympics.
The 2006 winter Olympics were held in Italy, where they won 2. See "Gold medals for USA, Torino 2006" to the right for more on the answer.
China won 51 gold medals , more than any other country in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This was the largest victory since the Soviet Union won 55 in Seoul in the 1988 Olympics.
Baseball and softball are done in the olympics... No more medals to be awarded.
Michael phelps has won 8 in a single Olympics