The Paris Olympics are formally total. Do not sob due to the fact that it’s over, smile since it took place.
The International Olympic Committee revealed Sunday that American gymnast Jordan Chiles need to return her bronze medal after it was considered her coach’s rating appeal was submitted 4 seconds too late. Romania’s Ana Barbosu is now the main third-place finisher with Chiles in 5th. Chiles is the very first professional athlete to be removed of an Olympic medal due to an evaluating mistake. All other cases were for doping or rule-breaking.
Group USA guys’s water polo required a perfect shootout efficiency to beat Hungary 11-8 for the bronze medal on Sunday. Serbia beat Croatia 13-11 for the gold.
The USA clinched bronze in males’s water polo with a FLAWLESS shootout efficiency versus Hungary. ✅ ✅ ✅ #ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/XaaVtjYs47
— NBC Olympics & & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 11, 2024
Denmark guys’s handball won its 3rd successive Olympic gold on Sunday, beating Germany 39-26. Mathias Gidsel led the group with 11 objectives. Spain won the bronze-medal match 23-22 over Slovenia.
Now that the competitors is done, fans can anticipate the celebration that is the closing event. Organizers have actually teased a California-based, star-studded efficiency as Paris hands the baton to Los Angeles. There may even be a Tom Cruise cameo in the mix.
Medal count
#Paris 2024 is formally over! The U.S. and China TIED in the gold medal count, the very first time because 2008 that Team USA did not tally one of the most. pic.twitter.com/Hck7mRs5FG
— Austen Alvarez-Bundy (@AustenBundyDC) August 11, 2024 Three huge aspects of Team USA
1. Women’s basketball wins 8th straight gold
It was the tightest video game the U.S. ladies needed to play the whole time they remained in Paris, however eventually A’ja Wilson and Co. did the job, beating France 67-66. Group USA has actually now won 8 straight golds and has actually not lost an Olympic video game in 61 shots. Just South Korea has a longer Olympic group streak with 10 straight golds in archery.
— NBC Olympics & & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 11, 2024
2. Women’s beach ball wins 5th straight Olympic medal
While it wasn’t the color they desired, the ladies of Team USA still kept their Olympic medal streak alive after being up to Italy in straight sets and making silver on Sunday. The Americans have not rounded off the podium considering that the 2004 Games in Athens.
3. U.S. bicyclist takes gold in females’s omnium
Jennifer Valente effectively protected her Tokyo gold medal on Sunday. The four-discipline occasion saw Valente end up 15 points ahead of her nearby rival after they stopped working to score anything in Sunday’s point race.
You will not think this
The Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan won the females’s marathon Sunday, marking completion of an amazing Paris Games for her. Hassan likewise made bronze in both the ladies’s 10km and 5km races on the track previously today. She was the very first professional athlete to try the Olympic treble in 40 years and just the 2nd to medal in all 3 occasions.