Sign in to comment!    2012 Olympic Medal Count: Team USA
Overtakes China With Pack Of Track Medals  The United States
took back the lead in the overall medal count at the 2012
Olympics on Wednesday's Day 12. Seven medals from four events on
the track, including gold medals by Allyson Felix, Aries
Merritt, and Brittney Reese, helped propel Team USA past China.
Felix broke through for her first individual gold in the women's
200 meters on Wednesday, making her the first woman ever with
three Olympic medals in the 200 meters and ending an eight-year
rivalry with Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown. Merritt and
countryman Jason Richardson won gold and silver in the men's
110m hurdles. And Reese won just the second U.S. gold in the
women's long jump, giving the U.S. three of the four individual
track and field golds awarded on the day. In the fourth event,
Lashinda Demus won silver in the women's 400m hurdles.  Bronze
medals from Carmelita Jeter in the 200 meters and Janay DeLoach
in the women's long jump helped p