After an 0-3 start, the U.S. women's 3x3 basketball team rallied to beat Canada in the bronze-medal game Monday at the Paris Olympics.
Two things have made the Paris Olympics unique: the huge crowds and the iconic venues. More than 550,000 packed Stade de France for rugby sevens, the Eiffel Tower is drawing sellout crowds for beach volleyball, an estimated 30,000 walked the fairways for the final round of men’s golf in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, near Versailles, and 8,000 people showed up for each of the nine days of fencing at the classic Grand Palais in the heart of the French capital.
I wasn't a top basketball player coming out of high school, so this means a lot to me.” With Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee looking on, the U.S. fell behind early. But after losing its first three pool-play games, the team has spent the entire tournament playing catch-up and the bronze-medal game was no different.
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