It wasn’t fairly, however the USA girls’s basketball group secured its eighth straight gold medal with a good 67–66 win over France on Sunday at Bercy Area to wrap up the Olympic Video games.
A back-and-forth battle for Olympic immortality, the sport was tied at 55–55 with 3:45 to play. France caught round within the remaining minutes, trimming Staff USA’s result in one with 5 seconds remaining at 65–64, however Kahleah Copper knocked down a pair of free throws and French ahead Gabby Williams’s foot was on the road on buzzer-beater that she banked in.
As she has all through the complete Olympic competitors, A’ja Wilson starred for Staff USA, tallying 21 factors, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks in 33 minutes. Copper and Kelsey Plum have been the one different two People to attain in double figures with 12 factors apiece.
Williams was the driving power behind France’s near-upset, scoring 5 of her team-high 19 factors within the remaining 5 seconds. She nailed a three-pointer with 5 seconds left to make it a one-point recreation, and banked in a shot after catching a go from teammate Marine Johannes as time expired—however her foot was on the road.
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The gold medal recreation in Paris marked simply the third time throughout its present 61-game successful streak within the Olympics that the USA gained by fewer than 10 factors—a four-point win over Russia in 2004, a nine-point victory over Nigeria in 2021 and a one-point win in opposition to France in 2024.
France led by as many as eight factors early within the second half, however the People went on a 20–10 run to shut out the third quarter and entered the fourth up by two factors. Staff USA struggled offensively within the first half, scoring simply 25 factors—their lowest whole in a half in these Olympic Video games.
The USA now has gained gold medals in 10 of the 13 girls’s basketball tournaments in Olympic historical past. The People gained the silver medal in 1976, withdrew from the 1980 Video games and gained the bronze in 1992. U.S. girls’s basketball’s present 61-game successful streak within the Olympics dates again to its final loss to the Soviet Union in 1992.
