The team won 67 at Rio 2016, including 27 golds, and finished second in the medal table. Team GB named a record-breaking squad of 376 - their largest ever for an overseas Games - on 8 July and have been set a medal target of between 45 and 70. The competition continues until Sunday, 8 August, with the closing ceremony taking place later that day. In the 2014 Sochi Games, Alvarez won silver in the men's 5000m relay speed-skating event.The opening ceremony for the 33rd summer Games takes place at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, 23 July and the first medals will be won the next day. American infielder Eddy Alvarez, who served as an opening ceremony flag bearer, became the third American in history to earn medals in both the summer and winter Olympics. Japan, which won its first medal since 2004 and first ever gold, became the first host country to win an Olympic men's baseball final. Team USA won its first ever Olympic silver medal in a 2-0 loss to Japan in the men's baseball final. Ryan Crouser, the world-record shot-putter, was the other American gold-medal winner. men's track and field golds in Tokyo, the fewest it's ever had in a single Olympics. Michael Cherry, Michael Norman, Bryce Deadmon and Rae Benjamin dominated the men's 4x400 relay, finishing with a season-best time of 2:55.70 - well ahead of silver-medalist Netherlands (2:57.18) and bronze-medalist Botswana (2:57.18).
in the 2021 Games, but its finish was anything but. Men's track and field was largely a struggle for the U.S. Her 10 coming into the race was tied with fellow American Carl Lewis. The silver gave the 35-year-old Felix - who's competing in her fifth and final Games - her 11th Olympic medal, the most by any U.S. Poland finished second with a national-record time of 3:30.53 while Jamaica took bronze with a season-best 3:21.24. The American foursome sped to a gold medal-winning time of 3:16.85, the event's fifth-fastest time ever. Team USA trotted out its biggest stars for the women's 4x400 relay final in Sydney McLaughlin, Allyson Felix, Dalilah Muhammad and Athing Mu. This U.S.-Sweden matchup is a rematch of a prior classic, as the Americans bested the Swedes in a jump-off at the 2018 world championship. McLain Ward and Jessica Springsteen, the daughter of singers Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, won silver alongside Kraut in the event. A two-time Olympian, Kraut also won gold in the team jumping event in the 2008 Beijing Games. American equestrian Laura Kraut, 55, became her country's oldest Olympic medalist since 1904. took home silver in the jumping team final, falling just shy of Sweden in a jump-off for gold. This is the Americans' second gold medal in golf in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, as Xander Schauffele won gold on the men's side last Sunday. Inami and Ko finished with silver and bronze, respectively, after they competed in a playoff for second. She fended off strong competition from Japan's Mone Inami and Australia's Lydia Ko, who tied at 268, to win by a single stroke. Nelly Korda, the world's top-ranked golfer, shot a 17-under 267 to win Team USA's first women's golf gold medal since 1900.
This was just the third ever marathon for Seidel, a four-time cross-country champion at Notre Dame, and she made the most of it. Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir and Brigid Kosgei finished 1-2 and just above Seidel (2:27:46) with season-best times of 2:27:20 and 2:27:36, respectively. its first women's marathon medal since Deena Kastor's bronze in 2004 and third all-time. Fellow American Jayson Tatum contributed 19 points and seven rebounds.Īmerican Molly Seidel claimed bronze in the women's marathon, giving the U.S. The 32-year-old forward now joins Carmelo Anthony - who he just passed on Team USA's all-time scoring list - as the only three-time men's basketball gold medalists in Olympic history. while adding six rebounds and three assists. Kevin Durant scored a team-leading 29 points for the U.S. Team USA collected its fourth consecutive gold medal in a 87-82 victory over a France team led by Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier. Stay up to date with how countries are performing at the Games by checking out our medal counter. Here's what to watch on Saturday, Day 16 of the Games, and a quick recap of all the Olympic action that transpired on Friday. Finals in women's basketball, women's volleyball and the men's marathon are set for Saturday, the Games' penultimate day, with the U.S. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics may be coming to a close on Sunday, but the competition looks to remain as exciting as ever in the interim.
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