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.
Phelps had won five world titles by the time he opened his Olympic account at Athens 2004. Competing in eight events in the Greek capital, he took gold in the 100m and 200m butterfly, 200m and 400m individual medley and the 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays with his USA team-mates.