How Many Olympic Medals?

"If an athlete wins a medal at the Olympics and nobody reports it, was it really won?"

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You'll be pleased to know that there has been an Olympics going on, and that some of you have been watching it.

Not many, but some.

Just about half of previous Olympics, to be sure, which was about half the previous one, but some, to be sure.  

However, those nice folks at NBC have been a bit negligent in reporting the proper medal count.  Perhaps they don't think you care to know who won all the medals in Japan.  Especially medals where they don't, shall we say, "approve" of the sport.  Whatever the reason, three of our Countrymen and Women have won Gold Medals at the woebegone Japanese Olympics.

Three.

And two others have won Silver and another Bronze.  For a total of Six.  That's quite a number of unreported medals, I'm sure you'll agree.

Of course, the so-called "MainStreamMedia" has been somewhat lagging in their reportage of this fact.  Maybe they didn't notice.  Or maybe they don't want you to know your Countrymen and Women are pretty handy with guns.  Those would be the items we can "keep and bear" without Governmental interference.  In any case, The Chuckmeister, your Scribe Without Portfolio, will unearth the truth:

     -  Amber English, 31, Gold, Skeet.  Amber is a proud U. S. Army 1st Lieutenant.

     -  Vincent Hancock, 32, 3rd Individual Gold Medal, Skeet.  Previously won Gold in both 2008 and 2012.

     -  William Shaner, 20, 10 Meter Air Rifle.  This is William's first Olympics, and first Gold, having arrived via the 2020 World Cup.

And once again, in addition to these three Gold, two of our best scored two Silver Medals and a Bronze Medal as well.  But somehow, someway, the National Broadcasting Corporation has been wont to provide suitable reportage.  

I wonder why?