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
Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics for 10 metre running target, which replaced 50 metre running target on the Olympic program, as well as the first games with the new targets in all rifle and pistol events except 50 metre pistol, leading to a large number of automatic Olympic records. The shooting events at the 1992 Olympics mark the first time that Independent Olympic Participants, competing under the Olympic flag, have won medals in any sport at any Olympic competition. A total of 407 shooters, 290 men and 117 women, from 83 nations competed at the Barcelona Games: Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics The shooting