12 liters of caffeine? Good lord, my knowledge of the metric system is a bit fuzzy, but that sounds like a tremendous amount of caffeine. A fit person could leap over the pole vault bar with all that flowing through his or her veins!
Sorry, I meant the caffeine equivalent of 12 liters of American style coffee a day (that would be a little more than three gallons).
Well, that helps, but it's still a lot of coffee!
Update.
The US has taken now a clear lead over Cuba. The American swimmers have overpowered all the other countries (and the US won both men and women's gold medals in Waterpolo).
Cuba can brag that it beat the US, again, in the baseball finals (3-1).
Brazil is doing very well, winning several golds in judo, and both handball competitions, while Canadian swimmers haven't really been up to it.
Colombia (cycling) and Argentina are waking up, and the medal standings are approaching "normality" (my predictions), with the exception of Brazil surpassing Canada.
This are the current medal standings (first 10 nations):
USA: 83 gold, 58 silver, 51 bronze
Cuba: 58 gold, 30 silver, 34 bronze
Brazil: 22 gold, 29 silver, 37 bronze
Canada: 16 gold, 39 silver, 29 bronze
Mexico: 16 gold, 16 silver, 14 bronze
Venezuela: 9 gold, 16 silver, 18 bronze
Argentina: 7 gold, 13 silver, 17 bronze
Dominican Rep: 4 gold, 7 silver, 11 bronze
Colombia: 4 gold, 3 silver, 15 bronze
Jamaica: 4 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze
Final results.
The US won clearly, as usual. The swimming team was key to the clear difference over Cuba.
Cuba had good games, even if it lost some dear gold medals (like both volleyball finals). The Dominican government did all it could to prevent athletes dessertions. Nevertheless, it is confirmed that 5 Cuban athletes found asylum at foreign embassies.
Canada was less than expected, and barely kept it's traditional third place. Brazil did much more than expected and almost grabbed third place.
Mexico was at it's usual fifth, while Venezuela had great games and surpassed Argentina by one bronze medal. Enough to land sixth, for the first time in history. Argentina did terrible -except for their tremendous hockey teams and their men's soccer gold- and fell from 4th to 7th place.
The Dominicans won more medals as hosts than in their whole PanAm history. Puerto Rico lagged badly.
Barbados won their first gold medals ever, Cayman Islands and St. Lucia, their first Panamerican medals in history.
Final Medal Standing:
USA: 117 gold, 80 silver, 74 bronze
Cuba: 72 gold, 40 silver, 38 bronze
Canada: 29 gold, 56 silver, 42 bronze
Brazil: 28 gold, 40 silver, 55 bronze
Mexico: 20 gold, 27 silver, 32 bronze
Venezuela: 16 gold, 20 silver, 28 bronze
Argentina: 16 gold, 20 silver, 27 bronze
Colombia: 10 gold, 8 silver, 24 bronze
Dominican Rep: 9 gold, 11 silver, 20 bronze
Jamaica: 5 gold, 2 silver, 6 bronze
Puerto Rico: 3 gold, 4 silver, 9 bronze
Ecuador: 3 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze
Chile: 2 gold, 11 silver, 10 bronze
Trinidad-Tobago: 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze
Uruguay: 2 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze
Barbados: 2 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze
Peru: 1 gold, 1 silver, 7 bronze
Guatemala: 0 gold, 4 silver, 7 bronze
El Salvador: 0 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze
Bahamas: 0 gold, 2 silver, 0 bronze
Granada: 0 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
Guyana: 0 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
Haiti: 0 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
Bermuda: 0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze
Cayman: 0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze
Bolivia: 0 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze
Panama: 0 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze
Dutch Antilles: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze
Costa Rica: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze
Honduras: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze
St. Lucia: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze
11 countries (Antigua & Barbuda, Nicaragua, Paraguay, St. Kitts, Belize, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Surinam, St, Vincent, Aruba and Martinique) got no medals.
