The USA women's basketball team wins gold by beating Japan 90-75. Japan wins silver. The USA led at halftime 50-39. The USA shot 54% for the game. The USA was led in scoring by Brittney Griner with 30 points followed by A'ja Wilson with 19 points and Breanna Stewart has 14 points and also 14 rebounds for team USA. This is the 7th straight Olympics gold medal for the USA. Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi have now won 5 gold medals each. France wins bronze by beating Serbia 91-76.
Jennifer Valente of the USA wins gold in the Track Cycling Omnium race. Yumi Kajihara of Japan wins silver and Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands wins bronze.
American Keyshawn Davis wins silver in losing to Andy Cruz of Cuba 4-1 in the men's light (57-63kg) boxing final bout.
Richard Torrez of the USA wins silver in losing to Bakhodir Jalolov of Uzbekistan 5-0 in men's super heavy 91 kg boxing final bout.
The USA women's volleyball team beat Brazil to win gold 3-0, 25-21, 25-20, 25-14. Brazil wins silver. Serbia beat Korea 3-0 for bronze. This is the first USA women's volleyball team gold. USA head coach Karch Kiraly has now won gold medals as a player in indoor, the beach and now as a coach.
The closing ceremony started at 8pm on NBC. NBC's Lewis Johnson interviewed the gold medal winning USA women's volleyball team followed by the song 'Remember This" performed by the Jonas Brothers. The opening ceremony was a collection of Japanese culture and a celebration of all of the athletes. The NBC hosts for the closing ceremony was Terry Gannon, Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir. At the beginning of NBC's coverage all the flag bearers from different countries entering the stadium forming a circle and then all of the athletes joined them with lots of USA athlete smiles and tears. Then there was a high tech light presentation where all the athletes participated in a light show that formed the Olympic rings above the stadium. Then there was a presentation by The Tokyo SKA Paradise Orchestra with dancing in an effort to present contemporary Tokyo. Then the Olympic flag was lowered and IOC President Bach declared the games closed. Next was a presentation by Paris 2024 where a bike rider was riding on the buildings of Paris that stops with a shot of a big crowd near the Eiffel Tower cheering as a Paris 2024 flag was flown attached to the Eiffel Tower. More singing and dancing led to the Olympic flame bring extinguished and torch closed and the words "arigato" (thank you) on the video board, ending NBC's coverage. Mike Tirico had a final statement and showed highlights of memorable Olympic performances. NBC's coverage ended at 10:30pm.
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