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RIO DE JANEIRO --?When Simone Manuel touched the wall to clinch a gold medal Saturday night, it was a moment 120 years in the making.The United States women won gold in the 4x100-meter medley relay Saturday night, edging Australia and Denmark and giving Team USA its 1,000th gold medal of all time.Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Dana Vollmer and Manuel?won the race in 3 minutes, 53.13 seconds. It marked the U.S. second straight gold in the event.?The count accepted by the U.S. Olympic Committee coming into the Rio Games was 977 gold medals, and even that was adjusted a bit in recent weeks over a debated medal from the 1904 St. Louis Games. That means the gold medal in the womens eights on Saturday morning was the 21st for the Americans in Rio, and No. 998 overall. Some sites say theres a few more, some say a bit less. The USOC count is the accepted one.And the relay win was No. 23 in Rio, so by the USOCs count that made it official.It was a memorable night for Samuel.Earlier, she took home her second individual medal of the Games when she won silver in the womens 50-meter freestyle. Manuel finished in 24.09, behind Denmarks Pernille Blume (24.07).Manuel made history Thursday, when she became the first African-American woman to win a gold medal in swimming. She tied for first in the 100-meter freestyle (52.70) with Canadas?Penny Oleksiak. She also earned a silver in the womens 4x100-meter freestyle relay.Team USA won 33 swimming medals at Rio 2016, its most since winning 33 at the Sydney Games in 2000.?A thousandth gold for team USA, Manuel said. Its a nice number ... sharing that with three other women is just icing on the cake.The next-closest team total is the USSR with 395. The next-closest active country is Great Britain with 248.?A remarkable achievement made possible by the culture of sport that is the fabric and foundation of Team USA, USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said Saturday night.James Connolly won the first gold for the U.S. in 1896, and of course no one has added more to the total than Michael Phelps, a 23-time gold medalist.Illustrating how not-so-simple this medal-counting business is, the official info portal for the Rio Games even has a different number than the USOC, saying the one the Americans will recognize as No. 1,000 is really No. 1,001.Whatever the real number, the U.S. is the first to reach four figures -- in a landslide.?Heres the significance: The next four best nations had 1,004 gold medals coming into Rio, said Bill Mallon, an Olympic historian. You add up the next four and they barely have more than we do.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Vapormax Herren Outlet . Dukurs winning time was 1 minute, 45.76 seconds, a quarter-second better than Russias Alexander Tretiakov. Lativas Tomass Dukurs was third, 1.41 seconds off the pace. Jon Montgomery of Eckville, Alta. Vapormax Damen Outlet . White came in fourth place in the event. He was the two-time defending gold medallist. The gold medal went to Swiss snowboarder Iouri Podladtchikov. http://www.vapormaxkaufenschweiz.com/air-max-97-schweiz.html . "Jeff is a hard worker who was an important special-teams contributor for us last season," said Stamps GM John Hufnagel. Air Max 97 Kaufen . The Dutchmans tenure got off to a poor start when referee Guido Winkmann awarded a penalty within two minutes for Niklas Starks clumsy challenge on Alexandru Maxim. Nike Vapormax Damen Schweiz . -- Arizona raced out to a big lead and did not back off, hitting the accelerator instead. Following relegation from the North American League Championship Series, NRG Esports has terminated the contracts with its entire League of Legends lineup, making each member a free agent for the upcoming season, sources close to the former team members and the organization tell ESPN.The termination of Diego Quas Ruiz, Lucas Santorin Tao Kilmer Larsen, Lee GBM Chang-seok, Oh Ohq Gyu-min and Alan KiWiKiD Nguyen was prompted by a clause in each members contract with the organization, which sources say provides for lawful termination should the team be relegated from the LCS. That clause was triggered following the teams loss at the hands of Echo Fox on Sunday, prompting the demotion of NRG to the secondary league, the Challenger Series.Most of the former NRG players have begun their roads hoome, with GBM and Ohq returning to Korea with NRG manager Barry KoreanEdelweiss Lee, as tweeted by Lee.ddddddddddddGetting ready to leave the house and head off to Korea with @GBM_lol and @OhQ_lol. Its been a good 2 months, regardless of results.- Barry Lee (???) (@KoreanEdelweiss) August 11, 2016While no future teams are set in stone for any of the players, sources say that Santorin is in demand with other teams after one of his best splits of competition yet. Santorin told ESPN after being released that he will evaluate all competitive offers, both in North America and Europe, but desires to remain in North America if possible.NRG Esports declined to comment. ' ' '