My hometown is on this map! Never thought I’d see that… Hooray for the Olympics! What should I be watching on TV now? Other than Shark Week and the Paralympics of course… theatlantic: Which American Cities Won the Most Medals?  Michael Phelps has more medals than many countries. But even the greatest medal-winner in Olympic history did not earn enough in these games to push his hometown of Baltimore into first-place among United States metros[…] Los Angeles leads with a whopping 45 medals, San Francisco is a distant second with 11, followed by Miami, Gainesville, and Trenton-Ewing with 10 each; New York and Austin have 9 each; San Diego has 8 and Athens, Georgia, won 7. Baltimore and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul brought home 6 each; and Denver, Charlotte, and Portland, Oregon have 5 each. Read more. [Image: Martin Prosperity Institute] 

My hometown is on this map! Never thought I’d see that… Hooray for the Olympics! What should I be watching on TV now? Other than Shark Week and the Paralympics of course…

theatlantic:

Which American Cities Won the Most Medals? 

Michael Phelps has more medals than many countries. But even the greatest medal-winner in Olympic history did not earn enough in these games to push his hometown of Baltimore into first-place among United States metros[…]

Los Angeles leads with a whopping 45 medals, San Francisco is a distant second with 11, followed by Miami, Gainesville, and Trenton-Ewing with 10 each; New York and Austin have 9 each; San Diego has 8 and Athens, Georgia, won 7. Baltimore and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul brought home 6 each; and Denver, Charlotte, and Portland, Oregon have 5 each.

Read more. [Image: Martin Prosperity Institute] 

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Source: theatlantic

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