Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/August 14 to 20, 2016

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|The rhythm of the Summer Olympics went according to prediction. As swimming and Michael Phelps (#3) finished up, track took over, and Bolt took center stage, winning gold in both the 100m and 200m, for the third straight time. And he also won his third straight gold in the 4 × 100 m relay. Being regularly called the "greatest sprinter of all time" is not hyperbole at this point. An impressive 3.1 million views to lead the chart, though well shy of the astounding 5.4 million views Phelps got last week.

|2016 Summer Olympics

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|align="right"|2,125,265

| Holding steady at #2 for a second week, a drop of about 150,000 views.

|Michael Phelps

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|align="right"|1,946,890

|Down from #1 last week.

|P. V. Sindhu

|align="right"|1,858,843

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|Last week we noted that although India at the 2016 Summer Olympics was at #23 (#16 this week), the country had won no medals yet. Sindu became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal, in badminton. (And to tell you how lame American television coverage is, I had no idea badminton was a sport in the Olympics.) Sindhu was one of only two medalist from India, the second being a bronze won by female wrestler Sakshi Malik. Of course India's lack of medal haul regularly produces [http://www.theweek.co.uk/sport/london-2012/48149/why-cant-122-billion-indians-win-more-olympic-medals articles] [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/25/india.olympicgames2008 asking] [http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/sports/why-india-wins-only-a-few-olympic-medals/articleshow/53785641.cms why]. They are just SPORTS people. Let's celebrate those who compete and shine.

|Suicide Squad (film)

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|align="right"| 1,254,079

|Down from 2.15 million views last week -- and a fifth straight week in the Top 25. |DC Comics' ramshackle crew of press-ganged supervillains, forced to do the will of a shadowy organization or let their heads explode, are the stars of one of the most anticipated films in the nascent DC Cinematic Universe, which was released on August 5 to generally negative reviews. Nonetheless, it grossed $267 worldwide in its opening weekend.

|Simone Biles

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|align="right"|935,583

|The 19-year-old Olympic first-timer from America completed her medal haul with four golds (including the team competition) and one bronze.

|Stranger Things (TV series)

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|align="right"|920,502

| This Netflix science-fiction series is basically an 8-hour homage to early 80s kid-centric flicks like E.T., The Goonies and Explorers, though aimed mostly at adults. It has been a smash hit for Netflix, evidenced by its continuing appearance on this chart -- five straight weeks. The Internet has seized on even the most mundane facets of the show, such as turning minor character "Barb" into a [http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/08/barb-stranger-things-popularity celebrity].

|2012 Summer Olympics medal table

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|align="right"|874,861

|With over 250,000 more views than 2016 Summer Olympics medal table (#18). Everyone likes to do their statistical comparison it seems.

|Decathlon

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|align="right"|850,348

|The competition in this traditional Olympic event was won by American Ashton Eaton (#12). Women compete in the seven-event heptathlon. Both events derive from the five-event pentathlon of the Ancient Olympic Games.

|Rustom (film)

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|align="right"|780,159

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|This Indian crime thriller featuring Akshay Kumar (pictured) was released 12 August 2016.

|Justin Gatlin

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|align="right"|769,553

|The American sprinter took second to Bolt in the 100m. But in the 4 × 100 m relay a botched hand-off to Gatlin in the second leg caused the U.S. to be disqualified. And for those watching on American television, it infuriatingly came after a ridiculous touchy-feely video of the team members decrying their prior screwups, when it was obvious that Jamaica was going to win the whole time, screwups or not.

|Ashton Eaton

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|align="right"|766,113

|The American winner of #9 at #2.

|Ryan Lochte

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|align="right"|764,960

|The best swimmer in the world who isn't Michael Phelps won the gold in the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay. Sadly he's on this list because he also makes some ridiculously silly decisions in life, and claiming he was robbed in Rio is the latest of those decisions.

|Olympic Games

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|align="right"|721,409

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|People were probably looking for the latest Olympic Games.

|Whale fall

|India at the 2016 Summer Olympics

|align="right"|706,630

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|Just the odd article name tells you its [https://www.reddit.com/duplicates/4y526n/til_that_when_a_whale_dies_and_its_carcass_falls/ Reddit].

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|align="right"|674,308

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|Up from 414K views last week. See #4.

|Drew Barrymore

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|align="right"|651,078

|[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4yc39i/til_that_after_drew_barrymore_posed_nude_in/ Reddit] and nudity.

|2016 Summer Olympics medal table

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|The U.S. got the most.

|Deaths in 2016

|All-time Olympic Games medal table

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|The views for the annual list of deaths are remarkably consistent on a day-to-day basis. It is consistently higher in the first half of 2016 with a string of highly notable deaths, but things seem to be calming down a bit.

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|align="right"|736,339

|"Guess which country's on top. No really, you'll never guess. Afghanistan! Because the list is alphabetical." Seren used that line last week and it cracked me up.

|Sausage Party

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|align="right"|592,742

| It is the first CGI-animated film to be rated R (for Restricted) in the United States. This project first got press coverage in 2010, and people were skeptical about whether it was a hoax, as a "sausage party" is a euphemism for a party predominated by males. Yet, on a budget of $19 million, its already grossed $77 million. It has even gotten positive reviews.

|2020 Summer Olympics

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|align="right"|580,233

|The next summer Olympics will be in Tokyo in 2020. Interestingly, this article has existed since 2005, when it survived a deleted discussion. Eleven years later, the article is completely different, and continues to document the approach toward the next summer games.

|Mohenjo Daro (film)

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|align="right"|573,402

| The lead sentence of this article says it is a "2016 Indian epic adventure-romance film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker." I love seeing how movies get described in their first sentence, and this one seems extra special, doesn't it? It was released on August 12, and despite being an epic adventure romance film, it received generally negative reviews.

|Mohenjo daro

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|align="right"|564,866

| Presumably due to #23.

|Killing of Harambe