After the stopgap live album Any Given Thursday (Number 17, 2003), Mayer's studio follow-up, 2003's Heavier Things, debuted at Number One and yielded singles Bigger Than My Body (Number 33, 2003) and Daughters (Number 19, 2004). Another live record, As/Is, followed in 2004.
Bolt won gold at these Rio Games with a time of 9.81 seconds, besting American Justin Gatlin by 0.08 seconds. Canadaâs Andre De Grasse took bronze with a personal best of 9.91. The 29-year-old Bolt came to these Olympics intent on winning three more gold medals before walking away.
United States at the Olympics. U.S. athletes have won a total of 2,521 medals (1,022 of them being gold) at the Summer Olympic Games and another 282 at the Winter Olympic Games. Most medals have been won in athletics (track and field) (801, 32%) and swimming (553, 22%). Thomas Burke was the first athlete to represent the United States at the Olympics. He won gold in both the 100 meters and the 400 meters at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.