RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Serena. Simone. Solo.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that some of the best-recognized names on the U.S. Olympic team belong to women. The Americans brought 292 women to Rio de Janeiro, an Olympic record for a single country. Their first gold medal of the games – won Saturday by a woman, of course: Ginny Thrasher in shooting. Reporters from The Associated Press predicted the United States would capture 128 medals – 69 by women and 59 by men.
Among those winners could be:
* Serena Williams, who already has four gold medals and could win two more – one in singles and another in doubles, along with her sister, Venus.
* Simone Biles, who has a legitimate chance to pull in a record five gold medals from gymnastics.