While pundits posing as intellectuals predict Chinese medal dominance at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, we at Sports Crunch beg to differ. In fact, any sensible person looking at the facts (rather than fuzzy feelings) could see this from a mile away by simply looking at the latest round World Championship results.

Whatever the case (and we are sure that America will win the overall and gold counts) America jumps out to an early lead on day 1:

United States
Gold Medals: 2
Silver Medals: 2
Bronze Medals: 4
Total Olympic Medal Count: 8

China
Gold Medals: 3
Silver Medals: 1
Bronze Medals: 0
Total Olympic Medal Count: 4

South Korea
Gold Medals: 2
Silver Medals: 1
Bronze Medals: 0
Total Olympic Medal Count: 3

Australia
Gold Medals: 1
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 1
Total Olympic Medal Count: 2

Netherlands
Gold Medals: 1
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 1
Total Olympic Medal Count: 2

Russia
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 2
Bronze Medals: 0
Total Olympic Medal Count: 2

Czech Republic
Gold Medals: 1
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 0
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Romania
Gold Medals: 1
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 0
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Spain
Gold Medals:1
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 0
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Austria
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 1
Bronze Medals: 0
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Cuba
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 1
Bronze Medals: 0
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Italy
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 1
Bronze Medals: 0
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Turkey
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 1
Bronze Medals: 0
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Argentina
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 1
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Croatia
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 1
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

North Korea
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 1
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Switzerland
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 1
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Taiwan
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 1
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Uzbekistan
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 1
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1

Japan
Gold Medals: 0
Silver Medals: 0
Bronze Medals: 1
Total Olympic Medal Count: 1