The Agony of Defeat

America took first with 110 and China took second with 100, although China surpassed us in gold medals. The Russians took third place in the Olympics medal count, with 72.

Given the whining that Moscow has been forcing us to endure over their well-deserved loss of empire, I had a laugh when I realized that if you added in all the former bits of the former Soviet Union, the old USSR would have won with 179 medals.

I'm sorry, but that cracked me up. Heh.