Reaching the equator of the Olympic Games 2024, which will be held in Paris, the total medal table is dominated by USA with 9 golds, 18 silvers and 15 bronzes. That is why, historically, it has more than 3,000 Olympic medals and a clear dominance in areas such as swimming, athletics and artistic gymnastics. But, even so, there are five modalities that still resist it.
Badminton
In badminton, a world-renowned sport with individual and doubles categories for both men and women, and even mixed pairs, USA has never achieved a medal Olympic.
The sport was introduced in 1992 at the Barcelona Games with separate singles and doubles, and it was in 1996 when mixed doubles came into effect. Since then, in the seven Olympic Games where table tennis has been present, USA has only managed to reach the quarter-finals.
Handball
The American giant has not won either medal in HandballIn fact, their last qualification for one of these was in 1996 in Atlanta, when they were the hosts. Even so, they did participate on six occasions historically, achieving their best result in the 36th minute with the men’s team, but they only managed to win four games in total in all their participations. In the case of the women’s team, they were in four Olympics between 1984 and 1996, and reached a maximum of fifth position in their first participation.
Rhythmic gymnastics
Although rhythmic gymnastics arrived in individual format in the 1984 Olympics and in teams in 1996, the dominance was always of Europe since its inception. China and Canada also stand out as competent countries in this sport in the nine participations it has had.
Instead, USA They only managed to finish eleventh in 1984 in Los Angeles with Valerie Zimring and in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro with Laura Zeng in the individual category; in the team category they only managed to qualify for Rio, for the first time since they were hosts in Atlanta in 1996, finishing last in the competition. In Tokyo 2020 they participated in both categories, but without reaching the top spot. medal.
Table tennis
The Americans have not risen to the podium In table tennis, the sport made its first appearance at the Olympics in 1988. Its best result was in Beijing 2008 with Chen Wang in the women’s singles, where it reached the quarter-finals.
Trampoline
Trampoline gymnastics came to the Olympic Games In 2000, the 30 medals were shared between nine countries since then. On the part of USA, Savannah Vinsant achieved the best ranking for the country with a seventh place in 2012.
They did achieve double representation in 2016 with Logan Dooley finishing 11th in the men’s draw and Nicole Ahsinger finishing 15th in the women’s draw, who also competed at Tokyo 2020, without achieving medalaccompanied by Aliaksei Shostak in the men’s category
Ahsinger will represent USA at the event once again in Tokyo, while Aliaksei Shostak will compete on the men’s side.
