The 2016 Olympics just completed its first week. The Olympics have two more weeks left. The first week of the Olympics has had a lot of medal opportunities for the athletes. This week consisted of gymnastics, swimming, diving, fencing, beach volleyball, soccer, judo, and so on. The United States grabbed a lot of medals in these events, while others were only competing preliminary rounds. America had a lot of different results. If you watched the Olympics this week, you saw two of the best athletes ever win gold, and you saw some other athletes struggle.

The women's gymnastics team had a very successful week. The United States women's gymnastics team grabbed the team gold along with grabbing the gold and silver in the all around. Simone Biles grabbed the gold in the all around and Aly Raisman grabbed the silver after losing the bronze in 2012 to Russia's Aliya Mustafina in a tie-breaker. Mustafina grabbed the bronze again in the all around. In the team final, the U.S. finished on top with Russia grabbing the silver for the second Olympics in a row with China receiving the bronze after not medaling in 2012. However, the men's gymnastics team finished fifth in the team final. Sam Mikulak and Chris Brooks competed in the all around but were unable to place. Mikulak finished seventh and Brooks was 19th. Every single U.S. gymnast from the women's team qualified for an event final which will take place next week.

United States swimming also had a very successful week. Micheal Phelps proved why he is the greatest of all time by winning four gold medals last week to give him 22 gold medals and 26 total Olympic medals. Lilly King also received a gold medal. Maya Dirado received three medals this week in swimming, one in every color. Katie Ledeckey received four medals this week- three of them were gold and one was silver. Simone Manuel received two medals- a gold and silver medal. Missy Franklin has received one gold medal. These are just some of the swimming athletes for the United States that have received medals this week in Rio. The U.S. leads all countries in swimming medals at these Olympic games. The US has 24 swimming medals. Katinka Hosszu from Hungary had a very successful Olympics games as well. She has broken at least one world record and she has won several gold medals.

The United States also grabbed the first gold medal of the games in shooting along with two more bronzes in shooting. The U.S. has also received a gold and silver in judo, a gold in road cycling, two silvers and one bronze in fencing, two silvers in diving, a silver and bronze in archery, two bronzes in equestrian, and one bronze in tennis. Virginia Thrasher received the gold, with Kim Rhode and Corey Cordell taking the bronzes in shooting. Kayla Harrison and Travis Stevens received the judo medals. Kristin Armstrong received the cycling gold medal. Alexander Massialas received an individual silver and a team bronze in fencing, along with Daryl Homer receiving a silver. Miles Chamley-Watson and Gerek Meinhardt received a team bronze in fencing. Steele Johnson and David Boudia won a silver medal in 10m platform synchronized diving and Michael Hixon and Sam Dorman received a silver in 3m synchronized diving. Bradley Ellison has received a silver and bronze medal in archery. Phillip Dutton received a bronze in equestrian along with Steffen Peters, Laura Graves, Kasey Perry-Glass, and Allison Brock receiving a team bronze medal in equestrian. Jack Sock and Steven Johnson received a bronze medal in doubles tennis.