The United States is leading the 2024 Paris Olympics medal count with 20 medals, including three gold. The U.S. men’s gymnastics team secured its first medal in 16 years with a bronze, and Harvard student Lauren Scruggs made history as the first Black American woman to win a fencing medal. | CBS Evening News

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India is home to over 1.4 billion people yet our Olympic medal count has not even touched 100. China with a similar population dominates the Olympics with hundreds of medals. The difference is not in talent but in system and support. In other countries athletes are nurtured from childhood. In India an athlete must fight the system just to be visible.Support in India comes only after you win something. Before that you are ignored, underfunded and left alone to struggle. Sponsorships are rare. Cor