PARIS (AP) — A’ja Wilson scored 21 factors and the U.S. girls’s basketball crew survived the largest problem of its unprecedented run to eight straight Olympic gold medals with a 67-66 win over France on the Paris Video games on Sunday.
No crew had been capable of push the People throughout this spectacular streak of 61 consecutive wins. Solely two of these victories had been by single digits earlier than the sport towards France.
The eight straight golds broke a tie with the American males’s program that gained seven in a row from 1936-68. The ladies’s victory got here lower than 24 hours after the U.S. males’s crew additionally beat France within the title sport. This was the primary time in Olympic historical past that each gold medal video games featured the identical two groups.
Not like the boys’s sport this one got here all the way down to the ultimate minute and one final shot by France that was simply contained in the 3-point line.
The People have been up 67-64 with 3.9 seconds left after Kahleah Copper hit two free throws. Marine Johannes introduced the ball up the court docket to Gabby Williams who caught the ball simply contained in the 3-point line and banked in over the outstreched arms of Breanna Srewart for the ultimate margin.
There was a quick delay earlier than the officers signaled that it was a two-point shot, which led to the start of a celebration and a whole lot of joyful hugs for the People and left the French gamers standing in disbelief as they fell simply quick.
Williams, who completed with 19 factors, had hit a deep 3 a couple of seconds earlier to get France inside one earlier than Copper’s free throws.
