RIO DE JANEIRO ¨C Japan may be riding high in the medal table at the Rio Olympics, but the host country is not having the same luck.
By the end of Saturday¡¯s events, Brazil had won only one gold medal ¡ª through Rafaela Silva in the women¡¯s 57-kg judo competition ¡ª as well as one shooting silver and two judo bronzes, at a sporting festival that cost the country an estimated $12 billion to host.
That put Brazil 26th in the overall medal table, far behind fifth-place Japan and well short of the Brazilian Olympic Committee¡¯s target of a top-10 position by the time the competition ends on Aug. 21.
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