Guys be prepared for today (August 4) to be a pretty bad day in the medal race (gold or total). China will likely only medal once today, in artistic swimming. Let's hope it's a gold but only expecting silver.
Unless US suffers horrible bad luck (which is possible of course), it will rack up a few medals today. It's already won 2 medals placing 1st and 2nd in women's 400m and will probably medal a few times in the remaining 4 athletics events today (though I don't think they'll medal in any other events).
Hopefully in the future US can at least be stopped somewhat in the team sports, boxing, and wrestling, because they are now threatening to pull away with the athletics onslaught AND medal a bunch in the former 3. Of course like I said, it's possible that even in athletics they get really unlucky, so China ends up leading in gold medal count. I think we will know a lot more by end of tomorrow (August 5) as to whether the US will get close to China's gold medal tally or not.