Saturday, August 10, 2024

Day 16 - August 10, 2024











The USA women's soccer team wins gold by beating Brazil 1-0. Only goal scored was by Mallory Swanson in the 57th minute. Brazil wins silver. Germany beat Spain 1-0 for bronze.

American Kyle Dake wins bronze by beating Hetik Cabolov of Serbia 10-4 in men's freestyle wrestling 74kg bronze medal match. 

American Shelby McEwen (2.36) wins silver in the men's high jump. Hamish Kerr of New Zealand (2.36) wins gold in a jump off vs Shelby McEwen as they both jumped the same height. The jump off was won by Hamish Kerr. Mutaz Essa Barshim  (2.34) of Qatar wins bronze. 

American Bryce Hoppel finishes 4th in the men's 800 in an American record 1:41.67. 

American Masai Russell (12.33) wins gold in the women's 100 hurdles by .001 of a second over Cyrena Samba-Mayela (12.34) of France who wins silver. Jasmine Camacho Quinn (12.36) of Puerto Rico wins bronze. 

American Grant Fisher (13:15.13) wins bronze in the men's 5000. Jakob Ingebrigtsen (13:13.66) wins gold and Ronald Kwemoi (13:15.04) of Kenya wins silver.

The USA men's 4 by 400 relay team (Olympic record 2:54.43) of Chris Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benjamin wins gold. Botswana (2:54.53) wins silver and Great Britain (2:55.83) wins bronze. Great finish to this relay.

The USA women's 4 by 400 relay team (American record 3:15.27) of Shamier Little, Sydney McLaughlin Levrone, Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes win gold. The Netherlands (3:19/50) win silver and Great Britain (3:19.72) win bronze. Big lead for USA in the final handoff. 

Victor Montalvo of the USA wins bronze by beating Shigekix of Japan 3-0 in men's Breaking B Boys bronze medal battle 31. Phil Wizard of Canada wins gold by beating Dany Dann of France 3-0, France wins silver.

The USA men's basketball team wins gold by beating France 98-87. The USA led at halftime 49-41. The game was close in the second half and was as close as 3 point lead for team USA but Stephen Curry's flurry of 3's sealed the win for the USA. The USA was led in scoring by Stephen Curry with 24 points. Devin Booker and Kevin Durant each had 15 points for team USA and Lebron James added 14 points. The USA shot 54 percent for the game.  France wins silver. Serbia beat Germany 93-83 to win bronze. 


Medal Count as of 9:45pm Eastern time

USA                  38 gold, 42 silver, 42 bronze - 122 total
China                39 gold, 27 silver, 24 bronze - 90 total
Great Britain     14 gold, 22 silver, 27 bronze - 63 total
France               16 gold, 24 silver, 22 bronze - 62 total
Australia           18 gold, 18 silver, 14 bronze - 50 total

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