Kahleah Copper, A’ja Wilson, and the US ladies’s basketball workforce have been awarded the 2024 Paris Olympics‘ remaining gold medal sealing a 40-40 tie atop the medal rely standings with China.
It marks the primary time in Summer season Olympic historical past {that a} tie has occurred. The one earlier Olympic gold medal tie occurred within the Winter Video games in 1948 between Norway and Sweden.
Nevertheless, the US ran away with the overall medal rely victory with 126 medals. China completed properly behind in second with 91. Nice Britain’s 65 medals have been good for third general and the host nation, France, completed with 64 complete medals.
China received eight golds in diving and 5 apiece in taking pictures, desk tennis, and weightlifting. It additionally received three in boxing and two in 5 extra sports activities.
Nearly all of the medals for the US got here in swimming (28) and observe and subject (34).
In years previous, the U.S. swimmers have dominated the Olympic video games however this 12 months, the title belonged to the observe and subject athletes who received 14 gold medals.
The 34 medals received by the observe and subject workforce is its finest end in trendy Olympics historical past and the 14 golds have been probably the most in a non-boycotted Olympics since 1968 after they received 15.
Noah Lyles highlighted the lads’s occasions successful the 100-meter with the assistance of a physique lean in a photograph end.
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas led the U.S. to wins within the ladies’s 4×400 and 4×100 to finish the American’s dominant run at this 12 months’s video games.
Swimming had a down 12 months. Usually, the US wins round 10 gold medals and this 12 months they received eight. Bobby Finke was the one male American swimmer to win gold and it was within the final occasion, the 1500-meter freestyle.
Ladies’s gymnastics had the third-highest gold medal rely with the workforce all-around, particular person all-around, and girls’s vault.
Simone Biles received the 2 particular person gold medals however the ladies’s meet has been overshadowed by the Worldwide Olympic Committee’s announcement on Sunday that the bronze medal given to American gymnast Jordan Chiles within the ground train on the Paris Video games shall be awarded to her Romanian counterpart Ana Bărbosu.
Males’s and girls’s basketball swept the gold medals, fencing and wrestling every had two first-place finishes.
With the Olympic Video games coming to a detailed, the US will now stay up for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. In 1984, the final time the Summer season Olympics have been held in L.A., the Individuals received their most complete medals with 174.
