Top Country of the 2012 Olympics

Who will be the top country at the 2012 Olympics? That could be whichever of the 204 participating nations win the most medals, which country takes home the most gold medals or which country's athletes make the biggest splash regardless of how they finish. So vote up the countries you think did the best, vote down those you think didn't and leave us a comment telling us why you voted the way you did.

Stacked with athletes like record-breaking swimmer Michael Phelps and the dominant US Men's Olympic Basketball team, many expect the United States to take home the most medals. America has numerous promising Olympians but those representing the stars and stripes will have plenty of competition in the medal race.

In fact, roughly one-third of the way though the games it's actually China who was the medal leader in both total medals won and gold medals. All other nations were far behind making this battle of the winningest country at the 2012 Summer Olympics nearly a head-to-head battle between the top two. Japanese Shows">Japan, Germany, South Korea">South Korea and France all were far behind but plenty ahead of the host nation of Great Britain.

So however you decide which country was the best at the 2012 Olympics, or even if you just vote for your home country, it will be interesting to see which nation reigns supreme in the votes and the medal counts as the 2012 Summer Games play out in London.