United States, three-time Olympic Games champion

The United States entered the day this Sunday with two golds short of China and thanks to the women they overtook the Asian giant to emerge as Olympic Games champions for the third time in a row.

The two gold metals that were missing to tie the Asian giant came in women’s basketball and the omnium trials, cycling.

Sue Bird ended her Olympic career spanning 17 years with her fifth consecutive gold medal.

These two giants have now won 5 consecutive Olympic gold medals!

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She and her United States teammate Diana Taurasi have only won at the international level, and are now the only five gold medalists, the first basketball player to reach the milestone since Sunday’s victory. 90-75 on Japan.

The United States now has seven past Olympic gold medals, equaling the US men’s event with the longest series of its kind. Men did it between 1936 and 1968.

With the Bird Orchestra and Taurasi conducting the shooting, they have been the constant engine that has stabilized the American Women’s program since Athens 2004. He has won all 38 Olympic matches in which he has competed.

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For her part, Jennifer Valente gave the U.S. cycling team a gold medal after recovering from a crash in the final omnium race to maintain her lead.

Valente took the opportunity to overtake Yumi Kajihara (Japan) and Annette Edmundston (New Zealand) to win the race.

Kajihara won silver and Dutch Kirsten Wilde won bronze.

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And then it was the turn of women’s volleyball to make history. The Americans defeated the representative of Brazil in three sets to win their first gold in history in this discipline, with which they beat China in the overall medal tally.

As the United States celebrated the victory, China had their last chance to tie them, when Qian Li lost to Britain’s Lauren Prince in the women’s boxing middleweight final.

Thus, the United States rose to 38 gold medals from China. Overall, the Americans won 113 and the Asians won 88 medals.

The American was able to reach 40 gold, but Richard Torrez lost to Uzbek Bakhodir Jalolov in the men’s boxing final, heavyweight category.