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The American basketball players, led by Britney Griner y A’ja Wilson, they proclaimed olympic champions by seventh consecutive time, surpassing 90-75 to the Japanese in the final of the Tokyo Games, in Saitama.
It is oro is he ninth conquered for him ‘Team USA‘ in once participations in Olympic Games. He too fifth, in a personal capacity, for Sue Bird y Diana Taurasi, 40 and 39 years old respectively.
Both enter a select club of athletes crowned in five different editions of the Games, joining the British rower Steve Redgrave, the canoeist german Birgit Fischer, the esgrimistas húngaros dating in Pal Kovacs, Aladar Gerevich and the Italian Valentina Vezzali, and the german horsemen Reiner Klimke e Isabell Werth.
United States it keeps undefeated in official competitions of women’s basketball from September 2006 and carry now 55 wins in a row in matches of the Olympic Games. An exceptional streak that started in Barcelona 1992, with the duel won to hang then the bronze.
In the end, United States, as expected, imposed his superiority and logic before the amazing japanese female players, that they eliminated Belgium in quarter finals already France in the semi-finals, bringing a new air to the landscape of the women’s basketball.
The final was followed in the stands by the footballer Megan Rapinoe, bronze in Tokyo 2020 with the American team and sue bird couple.
United States achieved the oro in the men’s basketball by defeating 87-82 a France.
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