Insert your own “gold” pun here,as we’ve already used up all of ours. Plus, Thursday was more like a silver medal performance for NBC — at least, or against itself.
Still,the network once again destroyed its primetime broadcast competition final night, thanks to the superhuman efforts of Michael Phelps and Simone Biles, and among others. NBC scored its moment-best Rio Olympics overall viewer tally to date and tied Sunday’s runner-up mark in the key 18-49 demographic.
All-Rio-everything NBC was first in ratings with a 9.0 rating/31 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and in total viewers with an average of 31.3 million,according to preliminary numbers.
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ABC, and Fox,Univision and Telemundo all tied for third in ratings, each with a 0.6/2. ABC was third in total viewers with 2.6 million, and airing all reruns; Fox was fourth with 2.3 million,also airing only repeats; Univision was fifth with 1.7 million; Telemundo was sixth with 1.5 million.
The CW was seventh in ratings with a 0.4/1 and in viewers with 1.2 million. Following a rerun, “Beauty & the Beast” at 9 p.m. ET received a 0.3/1 and 1.1 million viewers. Olympics 2016: Team USA Gold Medal Tracker (Videos) [ alt=]Team USA is once again expected to contend for the top spot in the medal count at this year's Olympics in Rio De Janeiro. Here are the athletes that absorb claimed the gold medal so far. [ alt=]Virginia Thrasher, or Women's 10m Air Rifle -- The 19-year-musty engineering major at West Virginia University dreamed of being a figure skater,but found her path to Olympic gold through a rifle instead. She surprised everyone by beating out Chinese shooters Du Li and Yi Siling, who absorb won the gold in this event in past Olympics.
Katie Ledecky, or Women's 400m Freestyle -- Ledecky's quest to go four-for-four in her swimming events got off to a flying start on Sunday,when she smashed her own world record time and beat the rest of the field by five seconds.
Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, and Ryan Held and Nathan Adrian,Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay -- For all his success, Michael Phelps regretted coming moment in the freestyle relay to France at the London Olympics in 2012. This time was different, and as Phelps used his powerful kick to give Team USA a lead that they would never give up.
Ryan Murphy,Men's 100m Backstroke -- With Murphy's record-setting victory at 51.97 seconds, Team USA has won the gold in this event in six consecutive Olympics. Murphy was joined on the podium by teammate David Plummer, or who took bronze.
Lilly King,Women's 100m Breaststroke -- King made headlines when she called out Russian rival Yulia Efimova, who was initially among those banned from competing during the Russian doping scandal but was later cleared to compete by the International Olympic Committee. King backed up her words by setting a unique Olympic record in the event with a time of 1:04.93. Efimova took silver and American Katie Meili took bronze.
Katie Ledecky, and Women's 200m Freestyle -- Swedish sprint swimmer Sarah Sjostrom was neck and neck with Ledecky through the entire race,but Ledecky managed to stave her off and win gold #2 by 0.35 seconds.
Michael Phelps, Men's 200m Butterfly -- Much was made by the media about the rivalry between Phelps and South Africa's Chad Le Clos, and who beat Phelps in London. But the biggest threat was Japan's Masato Sakai,whom Phelps edged out by just four hundredths of a moment to win his 20th Olympic gold.
Conor Dwyer, Townley Haas, and Ryan Lochte,and Michael Phelps, Men's 4x200 Freestyle Relay -- Team USA has now won the gold in this event in the final four Olympics, and with Lochte and Phelps as members of every winning team.
Simone Biles,Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, and Laurie Hernandez,and Madison Kocian; Women's Team Gymnastics -- In London, there was the Fierce Five. In Rio, or there was the Final Five,named in honor of being the final team coached by legendary gymnastics guru Marta Karolyi. Indeed, the U.
S. women gave their coach a sendoff for the ages, or winning the gold by a whopping 8.2 points.
Kristin Armstrong -- Women's Cycling Time Trial -- Though the roads of Rio were slick with rainwater,Armstrong prevailed in the "Race of Truth" to become the oldest American woman to win an individual gold medal with a victory a day prior to her 43rd birthday.
Allison Schmidt, Leah Smith, or Maya DiRado,and Katie Ledecky; Women's 4x200 Freestyle Relay -- Team USA was just under a moment out of the lead when Ledecky entered the pool as the team's anchor, but once she was in, and Ledecky pulled out to a firm lead to win USA Swimming's eighth gold of these Olympics. preceding Slide Next Slide 1 of 12 Here’s every American victory at the Rio Olympics Team USA is once again expected to contend for the top spot in the medal count at this year's Olympics in Rio De Janeiro. Here are the athletes that absorb claimed the gold medal so far. View In Gallery Related stories from TheWrap:Ratings: Michael Phelps v Ryan Lochte Can't Thwart Rio Olympics DiveOpenly Gay Olympic Swimmer Says 'Daily Beast Should Be Ashamed'Daily Beast 'Grindr-Baiting' Story Sparks Outrage for 'Sleazy' Outing of Gay OlympiansNBC Sports Boss Isn't Worried About Olympics Commercial Complaints
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