France's Swim team had a good day winning a gold medal in the Men's Freestyle Relay and another one in the Women's 400m Freestyle.
The US secured one with Dana Volmer.
But the US beat France at Men's Basketball.
Now, one story that picquet my interest was the story of Ariel Hsing, a 16-year old girl from California playing Table Tennis* for Team USA. After defeated a world champ in her second Ms. Hsing, Ranking 115th worldwide, played her 3rd round and went up against the "second-seeded" player and 24-year veteran of the game, Li Xiaoxiao. A very mis-matched game and she did lose, but she lost after 6 rather close games in the match. If you are going to lose a game, at least make your opponent sweat. And it appears she did.
She will be going back home after this but she said she may want to come back in 4 years. So I'd keep an eye on her.
Link: http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_21187713/mark-purdy-san-joses-ariel-hsing-makes-most
Post-script: The US has never won an Olympic medal in Table Tennis while the Chinese are the undisputed masters. The Men's singles player Timothy Wang lost yesterday. The Women's Team plays later this week, not sure who will be on it. . . yet.
Congrats to all the members of Team USA. If you ever read this. not matter
*Table tennis=Fancy name for ping-pong
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