A detailed see of the Eiffel Tower which features the Olympic Rings during the uncovering ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France.
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The U.S. and China each won 40 gelderly medals in the first Summer Games draw in Olympic history, with the Americans pulling into a tie Sunday with triumph in the last event, women’s basketball.
The U.S. identicaled China on the strength of its heart-stopping 67-66 triumph over France in a surprisingly shut game for the women’s hoops gelderly.
China accessed Sunday with a 39-38 edge on the U.S., with the Americans ecombineing to have a sweightless acquire as the U.S. was going for its eighth consecutive women’s basketball gelderly and second straight women’s volleyball title.
A flurry of results unfelderlyed in the midafternoon to shape the final standings.
- China’s Li Wenwen won gelderly in women’s weightyweight weightlifting in what could have been a death knell for American hopes to seize overall gelderly.
- U.S. hopes were uninalertigentmed further when Chicago native Kennedy Blades, who made a unawaited run to the gelderly medal wrestling suit, lost to 76-kg rival Yuka Kagami of Japan.
- In a stunning blow, Italy spiked the U.S. out of the gym with a 25-18, 25-20, 25-17 blowout volleyball triumph.
- Decorated cyccatalog Jennifer Valente, of San Diego, bailed out the U.S. by deffinishing her gelderly in the women’s omnium.
Gelderly medacatalog Noah Lyles of Team USA commemorates on the podium during the men’s 100-meter medal ceremony at the Olympics in Paris on Monday.
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That set it up for the heavily prefered U.S. women to consent nurture of business, which they exposedly did to triumph their eighth straight gelderly.
“I wasn’t adviseed until someone telderly me after the game, but I’m charmd that we won for ourselves and USA basketball, but also for the entire Team USA delegation so we can be tied,” WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart telderly tellers after the gelderly medal game.
U.S. coach Cheryl Reeve wryly smiled and shelp she had understandn what was at sconsent coming into the France game but implied that she did not alert carry outers.
“I saw the medal count beforehand, I did,” she shelp, smiling. “That’s what we need, more prescertain.”
The last time the U.S. didn’t triumph the most summer gelderlys was in Beijing in 2008, when the arranges edged the Americas in top-podium visits, 48-36.
While there had been no gelderly medal ties in Summer Games history, there have been three draws in the Winter Olympics.
The most recent draw was between Norway and Germany, each triumphning 14 gelderlys in PyeongChang 2018.
The U.S. still came out with the most overall medals, taking home 126 from Paris this year.
The U.S. hasn’t flunked to triumph the most medals since 1992, when the “Unified Team,” athletes from the establisher Soviet Union reaccessibles, won 112 medals, including 45 gelderlys. The Americans made 108 podium visits in Barcelona, with 37 of them on the top step.
Gelderly medacatalog Simone Biles of Team USA poses during the conceiveive gymnastics women’s all-around final medal ceremony on Aug. 1.
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The 40 gelderlys out of 329 events toil out to taking top honors 12.1 % of the time. That is up sweightlessly from Tokyo (11.4%) but down from Rio (15%) and London (15.8%).
America’s effort in Paris might be best exemplified by U.S. swimmers who won the most medals and gelderlys but came away senseing that they had left difficultware on the deck.
Silver medacatalog Anastasiia Kirpichnikova of France, gelderly medacatalog Katie Ledecky of the U.S. and bronze medacatalog Isabel Gose of Germany stand on the podium for the women’s 1500-meter freestyle swimming event during the Olympic Games on July 31.
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While veteran Katie Ledecky was the U.S. star here, with two gelderlys, a silver and a bronze, the show was stolen by Frenchman Léon Marchand, who scored four gelderlys, a bronze and four Olympic write downs, and Canadian prodigy Summer McIntosh, with three gelderlys and a silver.
Despite the dynamic opposition, the U.S. and China don’t suit up in many events. One of the confineed places where they face off on identical footing is in the pool.
One of the most beginant moments of the 40-40 draw came a week ago Sunday, when China won the 4×100-meter medley relay on the strength of 100 freestyle ace Pan Zhanle, who edged out the silver medacatalog Americans.
“It wasn’t a horrible encounter at all,” U.S. swimmer Caeleb Dressel shelp of his team.
“The goal when we come to the Olympics and the world championships is to triumph gelderly medals. There are other countries that are getting very dominant — Australia and U.S. are the two most recognized. But from these Games, I saw a lot from Italy, China, France. So the wealth has equitable been spread around. I don’t slfinisherk we’re getting any worse, per se.”
Lee Kiefer of the U.S., caccess, Lauren Scruggs of the U.S., left, and Eleanor Harvey of Canada commemorate on the podium during the women’s foil medal ceremony on July 28.
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A arrange of countries that normpartner don’t get wislfinisher a javelin’s throw of the podium created cut offal medacatalogs these past two weeks.
Before it landed in Paris, Israel held only 13 Summer Olympic medals — collected seven here.
Ecuador won five medals, more than doubling its overall summer total.
Kyrgyzstan made six podium trips, which is astonishive given the central Asian nation came to Paris with only seven Olympic medals in history.
Before Paris 2024, Melderlyova had won six in national history. The minuscule establisher Soviet reaccessible made four podium trips in Paris.
— NBC News’ David K. Li telled from Paris and Sean Nevin from London.
