The US ladies’s basketball crew held on to defeat France in the gold medal recreation on Sunday to finish out the Paris Olympics, 67-66.
A’ja Wilson led the sort with 21 ingredients, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks.
Kahleah Copper solid drive attach the U.S. up three with 1:22 left and the Americans had been in a position to invent adequate stops to withhold France from getting over the deficit.
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A’ja Wilson takes a shot over France’s Marieme Badiane in the girls’s gold medal basketball match all around the Paris Olympics at the Bercy Area on Aug. 11, 2024. (Paul Ellis/AFP by potential of Getty Photography)
Kelsey Plum sank two free throws to position the U.S. up four ingredients. But Gabby Williams made a 3-pointer to diminish France’s deficit to at least one level. After two Copper free throws, Williams had one extra likelihood to stand up a shot. She made it, however she was on the twin carriageway and it supreme counted as two ingredients.
France performed the U.S. extraordinarily subtle all recreation lengthy. The matchup was tied 25-25 at halftime as it regarded France was on the level of outrage the enviornment.
The French led by 10 ingredients as Marieme Badiane made a free throw with 7:23 left in the third quarter. But the U.S. staged an enormous comeback led by Plum and Wilson.
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Marieme Badiane of Crew France contests for a rebound towards A’Ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 11, 2024. (Elsa/Getty Photography)
The U.S. climbed support into the recreation and led by two ingredients at the cease of the third quarter.
Plum and Copper every had 12 ingredients off the bench.
Williams led France with 19 ingredients.
The gold marks the eighth consecutive gold medal for the USA ladies’s basketball crew. The U.S. national crew now has a 61-recreation a success inch.
Leila Lacan of Crew France drives past Kelsey Plum at Bercy Area on Aug. 11, 2024 in Paris. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Photography)
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The medal gain also marked the Fortieth gold medal for the U.S. at the Paris Olympics.
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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox Info Digital.
