Triumph, Cuteness and Controversy Make the Olympics a Messy Mix on Social Media

From Bolt to Baby Phelps to #LochteGate

Thursday's buzziest moments from the Summer Olympics were a strange mix of triumph, cuteness and controversy. Media technology player 4C looked at the highlights and lowlights that garnered the most combined social chatter on Facebook and Twitter and discovered the following handful of items:

1. An Olympian on fire
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is the man at the Olympics, and Thursday he went two-for-two in winning the 200-meter gold, garnering 572,746 engagements (likes, comments and retweets) on Facebook and Twitter.

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