RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When Simone Manuel touched the wall to clinch a gold medal Saturday night, it was a moment 120 years in the making.
The U.S. women's 4x100-meter medley relay team of Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Dana Vollmer and Manuel — winners at the Rio Games on Saturday night — is being recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee as delivering the nation's 1,000th gold medal in Summer Olympics history.
By their count, anyway. Keeping count of the gold total is not as exact a science as one might think.
The count accepted by the U.