Paris Olympics Aug. 10 recap, highlights: USWNT, USA men's basketball secure Olympic gold (2024)

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Here's what you should know from Day 15 of competition at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games:

• The U.S. women's soccer team defeated Brazil to win the gold medal.
• The U.S. men's basketball team defeated France for gold behind 24 points from Steph Curry.
• New Zealand's Lydia Ko won gold in the women's golf tournament, becoming the first golfer ever to win three Olympic medals.
• The U.S. swept the men's and women's 4x400m relays on the track.
• Masai Russell took the women's 100m hurdles crown for Team USA.
• Team USA's Brooke Raboutou won silver in the women's bouldering and lead combined final.
• American Nevin Harrison won silver in the women's C-1 200m event.
• In the first-ever men's breaking event, American Victor Montalvo walked away with bronze.
• Grant Fisher of the United States won the bronze medal in the men's 5000m final.

The U.S. women's soccer team is back atop the Olympic podium after its 1-0 win against Brazil in the gold medal match on Saturday in Paris, France.

In the 57th minute, Mallory Swanson dribbled upfield into a one-on-one against Brazil’s goalkeeper,Lorena, and struck clean into the back of the net to make it 1-0. Swanson's game winner was her fourth goal of the tournament and came during her 100th cap with the U.S. team.

"I had a couple of opportunities earlier," Swanson said. "I tried to put those behind me. It was a great feeling to score."

It's only been 70 days since Emma Hayes coached her first match with the U.S. team. She's now the fastest USWNT coach to win a world title after she notched nine wins and one draw in the first 10 games.

"I'm going through so many emotions, so many feelings," Hayes said. "I'm very emotional. I feel privileged to be the coach of this team. I have no words."

Results: Women's soccer

🥇United States (USA)
🥈Brazil (BRA)
🥉 Germany (GER)

In a rematch of the Tokyo Games' gold medal match, the United States beat France, 98-87, to win its fifth straight gold medal.

Steph Curry made a splash in his Olympic debut, leading the U.S. with 24 points, all coming from threes. During the Paris Games, Curry nailed 22 three-pointers, which is the fourth most for a U.S. man in a single Olympics. LeBron James nearly had another triple-double in his final Olympic game while Kevin Durant and Devin Booker each added 15 points.

In the bronze medal game, Serbia knocked off Germany 93-83, to earn its second medal in men’s basketball as an independent nation. Nikola Jokic recorded the second triple-double of the 2024 Olympics with 19 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists.

Results: Men's basketball

🥇United States (USA)
🥈France (FRA)
🥉 Serbia (SRB)

Team New Zealand's Lydia Ko won gold on Saturday at the Olympic women's golf competition during the Paris Games.

With the feat, Ko completed the medal trifecta, having won silver in the 2016 Rio Games and bronze in the 2020 Tokyo Games —the second New Zealand woman to do so after Valerie Adams (shot put).

She also earned the final point needed for inclusion into the LPGA Hall of Fame.

Germany's Esther Henseleit entered the final round seven strokes back of the leaders and shot a 66 (-6) on Saturday to earn silver. She was (+1) after the first two roundsin Paris

Xiyu Lin of China won bronze in her third Olympics, after finishing 38th in the 2016 Rio Games and tied for ninth in the Tokyo Games.

Results: Women's golf

🥇Lydia Ko (NZL)
🥈Esther Henseleit (GER)
🥉 Xiyu Lin (CHN)

The relay team of Shamier Little, Alexis Holmes, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas won the United States' eighth consecutive gold medal in the women's 4x400m relay, extending its impressive and long-standing win streak.

The Americans' time of 3:15.27 breaks a 36-year-old American record set at the 1988 Olympics.

McLaughlin-Levrone, who ran the second leg, earned her second gold of the Paris Games — the first came in the 400m hurdles earlier this week.

Results: Women's 4x400m relay

🥇United States (USA)
🥈Netherlands (NED)
🥉 Great Britain (GBR)

The United States clinched its third straight gold medal in the men's 4x400m relay in Saturday's final with an Olympic-record time of 2:54.43.

The American quartet of Chris Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benjamin narrowly missed the world record set by the U.S. in 1993.

Sixteen-year-oldQuincy Wilson, who ran in the heats, becomes the youngest male Olympic track and field gold medalist ever.

Results: Men's 4x400m relay

🥇United States (USA)
🥈Botswana (BOT)
🥉 Great Britain (GBR)

In her Olympic debut, Team USA's Masai Russell took the women's 100m hurdles crown.

Russell outran defending gold medalist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico.

"I'm the fourth-fastest woman ever in this event, so it wasn't about knowing if I could or couldn't (win)," Russell said. "It was just about remaining focused on what I could do —and honestly, just get over those hurdles and get to the line first."

Results: Women's 100m hurdles

🥇Masai Russell (USA)
🥈Cyrena Samba-Mayela (FRA)
🥉 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (PUR)

American Brooke Raboutou won silver in the women's bouldering and lead combined final on Saturday to earn the United States' second climbing medal of the Paris Games. Sam Watson previously won bronze in the men's speed event.

Slovenian Janja Garnbret's dominance in the sport continues as she defended her gold medal, besting Raboutou by 12.5 points. Austria's Jessica Pilz took bronze.

Unique to the sport, the podium — as well as the participants in the final — are more friend than foe. Raboutou also trains with Garnbret in Slovenia.

“This was just the dream," Raboutou said. "We have an incredible friendship, where we both want each other to do our best. That's what happened today, and it feels really good to share that with somebody.

“Obviously, we're competitive, but we want to compete against each other at our best, and that's what pushes us and pushes our sport."

Results: Women's bouldering and lead combined

🥇Janja Garnbret (SLO)
🥈Brooke Raboutou (USA)
🥉 Jessica Pilz (AUS)

In a photo finish, Canada's Katie Vincent edged out American and defending gold medalist Nevin Harrison by 0.01 seconds in the women's C-1 200m event on Saturday.

Harrison of Team USA won the silver, the second medal in her career. With Cuba's Yarisledidis Cirilo Duboys finishing third, it marks the first time in a women's canoe sprint event that a European nation did not make the podium.

The C-1 200m event, which debuted at the Tokyo Games, is the fastest canoe sprint sprint race on the Paris Olympics program.

Results: Women's C-1 200m

🥇Katie Vincent (CAN)
🥈Nevin Harrison (USA)
🥉 Yarisleidis Cirilo Duboys (CUB)

• New Zealand’sHamish Kerrtook down AmericanShelby McEwen in a dramatic jump-off for men's high jump gold.
• Team USA's Grant Fisher won the bronze medal in the men's 5000m track final. He's now the first man in U.S. history to win an Olympic medal in both the 5000m and the 10,000m.
• Team USA's Kyle Dake won bronze in the men's freestyle 74kg wrestling final.
• Victor Montalvo secured a bronze medal for the U.S. in the first-ever men's breaking event.
• Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia won Olympic gold in the men's marathon track and field event, finishing in 2:06:26. Tola gained the lead with just over 15km remaining and sustained it through the finish line to break the Olympic record.
• France bested Poland for the gold in the men's volleyball tournament. It is the first country to won consecutive gold medals in men's volleyball since the United States in 1984 and 1988. Team USA won the bronze medal after its bout with Italy on Friday.
• The U.S. women's water polo team lost the bronze medal match to the Netherlands, 11-10. Spain defeated Australia for the gold medal.
• China won gold in the rhythmic gymnastics group final while Israel took the silver and Italy earned bronze.
• Japan's Haruka Kitaguchi earned gold in the women's javelin competition, the country's first ever medal in the event.
• China won its second artistic swimming gold medal of these Games, after taking the highest spot on the podium in the duet category with a stellar performance by Wang Qianyi and Wang Liuyi.
• Cao Yuan won gold in the men's 10m platform final. For the first time ever, China has won gold in each of the eight diving events contested at these Olympics.

COMPLETE STANDINGS

On Saturday, Team USA won 11 medals (five gold, three silver and three bronze), extending its overall medal count to 122. Team China, while in second place among total medals, holds the most gold medals with 39. The U.S. sits just one gold medal behind China entering the final day, but has several strong opportunities to add to its total on Sunday:

• Women's basketball
• Women's volleyball
• Women's 76kg wrestling (Kennedy Blades)
• Women's omnium (Jennifer Valente)

Host country France boasts an overall total of 62 medals, with 16 of those being gold, but sits one behind Great Britain in the overall count.

Albania became the latest nation to win its first-ever Olympic medal when Chermen Valiev won his bronze medal match in men's freestyle 74kg wrestling. Three other countries (Saint Lucia, Dominica, Cape Verde) won their first medals earlier at these Games.