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The United States secured its fortieth gold medal on Sunday within the final occasion of the Paris Olympics – the ladies’s basketball closing.
The U.S. girls’s basketball crew defeated France, 67-66, after overcoming a 10-point deficit within the third quarter. It was the Americans’ eighth straight gold medal within the occasion and the one it wanted to safe a tie for many gold medals on the Summer Olympics.
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Gold medalist Simone Biles poses together with her gold medal on the rostrum at Bercy Arena on Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris. (Catherine Steenkeste/Getty Images)
China additionally had 40 gold medals within the Olympics. China hit No. 40 due to Li Wenwen, who gained gold within the girls’s 81-kilogram weightlifting. The U.S. stayed inside one in every of China when Jennifer Valente gained gold within the girls’s omnium.
The United States went backwards and forwards all through the Games. Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano, Hunter Armstrong and Caeleb Dressel helped the U.S. safe the primary gold for the crew final week. The wins piled up over the past two weeks because the pink, white and blue discovered victories in a number of occasions, together with girls’s soccer, males’s golf and far more.
Gold medalists Stephen Curry, LeBron James and Kevin Durant pose after the boys’s gold medal basketball match in opposition to France through the Paris Olympics on Aug. 10, 2024. (Damien Meyer/AFP through Getty Images)
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Japan completed with 20 gold medals. France, the host nation, secured 16.
The United States completed with 126 whole medals. China had 91 whole. Great Britain was third with 65, together with 14 gold medals.
Katie Ledecky reveals her gold medal for the 800m freestyle girls’s closing at La Defense Arena through the Paris Olympics on Aug. 3, 2024. (Deepbluemedia/Mondadori Portfolio through Getty Images)
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Both the U.S. and China had extra gold medals than they fared through the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. The U.S. had 39 gold medals and China took dwelling 38. Japan completed with 27.
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