Zero US men in the Olympic long jump final is a rare absence for the nation of Carl Lewis and Jesse Owens

Lewis alone won four consecutive gold medals in the long jump — at Los Angeles in 1984, Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta in 1996. Look at the bigger picture, and Americans claimed 22 of the 29 gold medals at past Olympics. Until Miltiadis Tentoglou won his second gold in a row for Greece on Tuesday night, Britain was the only nation other than the U.S. even to have won two.