Over the past five years, nearly 48,000 people have been killed in suspected drug-related violence in Mexico, the country's federal attorney general announced this month. In the first three quarters of 2011, almost 13,000 people died.
By: Charlotte Wilder | August 10, 2016 11:31 am. If medal counts were the way we determined what or who constitutes a nation, Michael Phelps would probably be invited to the G8 summit at this point. Heâs won 25 Olympic medals, 21 of them gold, which is more than any Olympian in the history of the Olympics. But Phelps has also won more medals than most countries competing in the Olympics.
Led by Ledecky and inspired by Phelps, the American swimmers won 27 individual medals, including 11 golds. In his individual swan song, Phelps won the silver in the 100 butterfly, beaten by Joseph Schooling of Singapore, who had his photo taken with Phelps in 2008. The fifth-place finisher in the 200 butterfly, Daiya Seto of Japan, had his photo taken with Phelps as an 8-year-old. Schooling, Seto and so many others grew up wanting to be like Michael.