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Florida athletes win more Olympic medals than Jamaica

The large contingent of Florida athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro completed its competition schedule on Saturday — and it did so with a flourish, garnering four medals to push Gator Nation’s Rio tally to 13.

Arman Hall and Tony McQuay ran the first two legs of the gold medal-winning men’s 4 x 400 meters relay for the United States, later Gator Chomping while draped in their medals and the American flag. Novlene Williams-Mills anchored Jamaica’s silver-winning performance in the women’s 4 x 400 meters relay for her fourth medal. And Kelly Murphy earned Florida’s first medal for indoor volleyball by helping Team USA down the Netherlands for a bronze.