Sports in the United States for the United States. U.S. athletes have won a total of 2,522 medals (1,022 of them being gold) at the Summer Olympic Games and another 305 at the Winter Olympic Games. Most medals have been won in athletics (track and field) (801, 32%) and swimming (553, 22%). American swimmer Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, with 28 Olympic medals, 23 of them gold. The United States has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern Olympic Games except the 1980 Summer Olympics hosted by the Soviet Union in Moscow, which it boycotted because of the
Croatia at the Olympics Ivica won four silver medals (in 2006, 2010 and 2014), and Jakov Fak won a bronze in 2010. This following list only contains Olympic medal winners for Croatia as an independent country. Croatia at the Olympics Croatia competed at the Olympic Games for the first time as an independent nation in 1992, and has participated in every Games since then. The National Olympic Committee for Croatia is the Croatian Olympic Committee, which was created in 1991 and recognized in 1993. Croatian athletes have won thirty-three medals at the Summer Olympic Games, including multiple gold medals by the men's handball team