The United States remain on course for an eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal in women's basketball as they reach the Paris 2024 final.
The United States remained on course for an eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal in women's basketball by reaching the Paris 2024 final.
The US stretched their Olympic winning run to 60 games as they beat Australia 85-64 in the semi-finals. They led 45-27 at half-time and 66-40 at the end of the third quarter, before stretching their advantage to 30 points at one stage during the final quarter.The last time the US women's team lost at the Olympics was in the semi-finals at Barcelona 1992, when they were beaten by a team from the Commonwealth of Independent States , formed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The final will be played on Sunday and the US will face either Belgium or hosts France, who were in action later on Friday.The fraudster whose luxury lifestyle ended in prisonOh no! Mexico's Vazquez Montana scores no points after 'disastrous dive' VideoGB's Hudson-Smith narrowly misses out on gold in men's 400m. Video'They destroyed each other!' Kerr takes silver as Ingebrigtsen misses out.
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