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    Battle of the sexes: U.S. men vs. U.S. women

    This is the first Olympic Games in which the U.S. sent more women than men (269 compared with 261), and that move paid off: U.S. women won 58 medals in London to the men’s 45 (plus one medal in tennis mixed doubles). Here’s our sport-by-sport analysis of who won the gender war. --By Pauline Vu, Yahoo! Sports

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    1. Olympics Day 1 - Archery
    2. United States' LeBron James and Kevin Durant react during the men's gold medal basketball game against Spain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, in London. USA won 107-100. (AP
    3. United States' Kerri Walsh Jennings, right, and Misty May-Treanor, left, react during the women's gold medal beach volleyball match against the other US team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wedne
    4. The United States' Claressa Shields, celebrates after winning her fight against Russia's Nadezda Torlopova, during the women's middleweight 75-kg boxing gold medal match at the 2012 Summer
    5. Sarah Hammer of The United States competes in the track cycling women's omnium individual pursuit, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
    6. Team USA celebrates with the bronze meda
    7. Olympics Day 4 - Gymnastics - Artistic
    8. Kayla Harrison of the United States (in white) competes against Gemma Gibbons of Great Britain for the gold medal during the women's 78-kg judo competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Thursday, A
    9. Olympics Day 6 - Rowing
    10. Olympics Day 8 - Shooting
    11. US tops Japan to take Olympic women's soccer gold
    12. Olympics Day 9 - Tennis
    13. Olympics Day 13 - Volleyball
    14. Olympics Day 5 - Water Polo
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    Overall Medal Count

    Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
    1 United States 46 29 29 104
    2 China 38 27 23 88
    3 Great Britain 29 17 19 65
    4 Russia 24 26 32 82
    5 South Korea 13 8 7 28
    6 Germany 11 19 14 44
    7 France 11 11 12 34
    10 Australia 7 16 12 35
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