Olympic Gold Ladies!
Sports Desk, Aug 10 (EFE).-
The United States men’s basketball team, led by NBA stars Stephen Curry, LeBron James, and Kevin Durant, won the final of the Paris Olympics, 98-87, over host France, which gave its all at the Bercy Arena on Saturday.
The US team became the Olympic basketball champion for the fifth time in a row, raising its own record number of titles to 17.
Victor Wembanyama, the young local star, was the game’s leading scorer with 26 points.
The US women’s soccer team, winner of four World Cups, won its fifth gold medal with a 1-0 victory over Brazil.
It was the final international tournament for Brazilian idol Marta Viera da Silva, a six-time World Player of the Year who has never won a World Cup or Olympic gold.
Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola, winner of the 2023 New York Marathon, clinched the gold medal at the Paris Marathon after Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge retired from a race for the first time in his career.
Tola broke away from the pack at the 25km mark and ran solo from there to the finish, while Kipchoge – widely regarded as the greatest marathoner of all time – started walking at the 28km mark, then took off his running shoes, handed them to a fan and got into an official vehicle.
Marathon world record holder and rising superstar runner Kelvin Kiptum died unexpectedly in a car accident six months before the Paris Olympics.
Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, one of two boxers at the center of a sex chromosome controversy, won a gold medal in the women’s featherweight division.
On Friday, the other boxer at the center of the debate, Algerian welterweight Imane Khelif, won gold in her division.
Lin and Khelif are competing in Paris despite being disqualified from last year’s world championships by the International Boxing Association after failing sex chromosome tests.
On the second to last day of the Olympics, China led the medals table with 39 gold medals, one more than the US. In terms of total medals, the US leads with 122, followed by China with 90. EFE
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