USA continues to hold a slim lead over China in the Gold Medal count, and a substantial lead in overall medal count.
I am morbidly fascinated by this duel: China has proven me wrong at least three times already, as far as anticipating their medal decline. They have, at least, to my point of view, overperformed in multiple events, whereas the US has underperformed in events where we have historically been dominant, the aforementioned beach volleyball, just to name one.
Even so... United States remains Gold Medal favorites in multiple team events that China either has not fielded a team, or has already been eliminated, and I am still expecting those to put the "race" out of reach.