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Olympic games soccer is not won by a person, but by a national team. In 2004 it was Argentina.
The USA men's basketball team won the bronze medal in 2004! Silver was Italy and gold was Argentina.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that is 17 gold medals at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens.
Jim Thorpe was an American of European and Native American decent. He was in the 1912 Olympics in Sweden. He won gold medals in the pentathlon and the decathlon. In the 2008 Games in Beijing, Abhinav Bindra became the first athlete representing the country of India to win gold in an individual event when he won the men's 10 meter air rifle competition. This was India's 9th gold medal in Olympic competition. The other eight have been won by the hockey team.