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Team USA has women to thank for more than half of its Olympic medals
If American women were their own country, they would rank third in the 2024 Olympic medal count. Women brought home 67 of Team USA’s 126 medals, though one remains in contention.
Final Olympic medal tally puts U.S. on top in Paris
The fight for national bragging rights over gold medals — considered by many countries to be the most coveted prize — came down to the wire and in the end China and the U.S. tied with forty apiece.
U.S. women hold off France to win eighth straight Olympic basketball gold medal
The U.S. survived the biggest challenge of its unprecedented run to eight straight gold medals with a 67-66 win over France on Sunday. No team had been able to push the Americans during this impressive streak of 61 consecutive wins.