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The final day of the 2024 Paris Olympics is highlighted by the U.S. women’s basketball team facing France as the Americans go for the eighth straight gold medal. Following USA vs. France live coverage and highlights.

Elsewhere, the U.S. and Italy face off in the women’s volleyball gold medal match, men’s water polo and men’s handball settle their bronze and gold medal games, and wrestling holds nine medal events.

USA TODAY Sports will bring you live results, coverage, highlights, medal wins and more throughout the day. Follow along.

A lot of people thought the U.S. would have a cakewalk to its eighth consecutive gold. France has other ideas. After an 8-0 run that gave the French a 33-25 lead to open the second half, the U.S. needed a timeout to talk things over. This crowd is only going to get louder. — Lindsay Schnell, Nancy Armour

French police briefly evacuated the area around the Eiffel Tower on Sunday after there were reports a man attempted to climb the 1,083-foot structure. The incident, reported by the Associated Press and in unverified eyewitness posts on social media, took place just hours before the Olympic closing ceremony was due to get underway. The shirtless man was spotted just above the Olympic rings that decorate the second section of Paris’ famous landmark, the city’s tallest building. The Eiffel Tower was a centerpiece of the opening ceremony. A purpose-built stadium directly in front of it hosted beach volleyball events. Blind football events will be played there during the Paralympics. The tower is not part of the closing ceremony. — Kim Hjelmgaard

The women’s basketball gold medal game is all tied up at the half after a crucial tip-in from Team USA’s Napheesa Collier just before the buzzer.

Real talk: That half was ugly. The U.S. shot 29%, France shot 28% and the teams combined for 19 total turnovers. A’ja Wilson has six points but is just 2-of-9 from the field, while Stewart is 1-of-6 with five points. Wilson and Collier have nine rebounds each. Gabby Williams leads France with eight points.

The U.S. looks sloppy and disjointed and if it wants to keep the streak of seven-gold-medals-in-a-row-and-counting going, the Americans going to need to clean up a lot in the second half. — Lindsay Schnell, Nancy Armour

Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan and Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa tangled. They jostled. They were one false move away from taking each other out. Then, in the blink of an eye, Hassan was gone; a blur of Netherlands orange leaving Assefa behind and streaking to the gold medal. And when she crossed the wire in an Olympic record 2 hours, 22 minutes and 55 seconds, there was just one question left.

How is it possible for a human to do this?

Read Dan Wolken’s column on the extraordinary performance in the women’s Olympic marathon.

NANTERRE, France — Team USA men’s water polo were victorious in a thrilling 11-8 bronze-medal match that ended in a shootout against historical powerhouse Hungary on Sunday to win its first Olympic medal since 2008. 

The American’s not only won the match and bronze medal, but they also shut out Hungary in the shootout, 3-0, at París La Défense Arena.

USA goalkeeper Adrian Weinberg – who stood on his head, especially in the final minutes and was spectacular in the shootout – made 16 saves on 24 shots, while American captain Ben Hallock led the team in scoring with two goals. 

Read more on Weinberg from Michelle Martinelli.

American Jennifer Valente won her second consecutive gold medal in women’s Omnium cycling at the National Velodrome on Sunday.

Valente totaled 144 points, edging Poland’s Daria Pikulik (silver) and New Zealand’s Ally Wollaston (bronze). Omnium consists of four races (scratch race, tempo race, elimination and points), and points are awarded for each race. Valente won the 2022 and 2023 world championship in Omnium.

“It’s been a really long week of racing. I raced (team pursuit) qualifying over a week ago, and we had some really good performances, so to pull it off on the last day, I’m really excited,” Valante said. 

Valente, who won the event three years ago at the Tokyo Olympics, was also part of the squad that won gold in team pursuit in Paris. — Jeff Zillgitt

The U.S. women’s basketball team gets to bring down the curtain on the 2024 Paris Olympics.

In the final event of these Games, the United States plays France with an eighth consecutive gold medal on the line. The Americans have mostly cruised through this Olympics tournaments, with each of their five wins coming by double digits, and three coming by 19 or more points. A’ja Wilson (18.2 points per game) and Breanna Stewart (18.0) have been leading the way, with Wilson also leading the team in rebounds (9.6), blocks (2.4) and steals (1.6).

Follow along for updates and highlights.

In stripping Jordan Chiles of her bronze medal, the International Olympic Committee is not following the precedent it set for itself in the most publicized double-medal controversy in Olympic history.

At the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, in what became known as the French judge scandal, the IOC gave out two gold medals – to Canada and Russia – rather than take the gold medal from the Russian pairs skaters nearly a week after they received it, as it should have. 

Read more from Christine Brennan.

PARIS — The repeat dream is over for the U.S. women’s volleyball. Italy swept the Americans (25-18, 25-20, 25-17) in a match that lasted 81 minutes to deny the USA a second consecutive gold medal. 

Italy’s opposite hitter Paola Egonu supplied the bulk of her team’s attack, as she went off for 22 kills and was by far the best player on the court. 

Jordan Thompson led the Americans with eight attack points. Italy finished with seven aces – five coming in the third set. — Chris Bumbaca

PARIS — The teams traded points through the first part of the second set, but Italy pulled away during the middle portions and took the frame, 25-20. Now the Americans are on the ropes and will have to win three straight sets to claim their second consecutive Olympic gold medal. 

The U.S. looks out of system defensively and Italy is keeping the Americans off balance with a variety of attacks. 

Paolo Egonu has 15 kills for Italy. 

Avery Skinner leads the way for the U.S. with six kills, and Jordan Thompson has five. Jordan Larson and Andrea Drews both have four. — Chris Bumbaca

Wenwen Li of China secured her country’s 40th gold medal Sunday in the women’s +81kg weightlifting competition, extending China’s gold medal lead over the United States to 40-38 with several medal events remaining on the final day of competition at the Paris Games.

Li lifted a total of 309 kilograms (136 snatch, 173 clean & jerk) to take gold with relative ease over the Republic of Korea’s Hyejeong Park (299 kg) and Great Britain’s Emily Campbell (288 kg).

Team USA’s Mary Theisen Lappen finished fifth with a total of 274 kg (119 snatch, 155 clean & jerk). — Chase Goodbread

PARIS — In a gold-medal match, that was not the first set the U.S. women’s volleyball team was looking for.

Italy, behind a crowd decidedly in favor of the Italians, rolled to a first-set victory, 25-18. 

A 6-1 start for Italy set the tone. The Americans could not navigate Italy’s block, and Italy finished with four block points in the frame. 

U.S. coach Karch Kiraly burned both timeouts by the time his team trailed 12-6. That deficit turned into 14-7. The Americans battled to 18-15 but were unable to overcome the rest of the margin. 

Meanwhile, the fans got loud for Italy.

“It-a-lia! It-a-lia!” they chanted. — Chris Bumbaca

American wrestler Kyle Snyder failed to win his third Olympic medal on Sunday afternoon, losing 4-1 to Iran’s Amirali Azarpira in a men’s 97kg freestyle bronze medal match.

Azarpira gained an early 2-0 advantage, and it held up in stop-and-start match that featured multiple medical stoppages. Snyder needed a series of bandages applied to a cut on his head, while Azarpira received attention twice in the match’s final 31 seconds.

Snyder, 28, was a gold medalist in Rio in 2016 and a silver medalist in Tokyo. — Gentry Estes

A protest from the second-place finisher in the women’s marathon was rejected and the results stand with Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands winning gold and Tigst Assefa of Ethopia winning silver.

Just a couple hundred yards from the finish line, the two competitors appeared to bump as Hassan tried to break through an opening inside of Assefa near the fence. After a little bit of a shove between them, Hassan took the lead and pulled away for a three-second margin of victory.  — Dan Wolken

PARIS — The result of the women’s marathon is still under review after a protest from second-place finisher Tigst Assefa of Ethopia against the winner Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands.

Just a couple hundred yards from the finish line, the two competitors appeared to bump as Hassan tried to break through an opening inside of Assefa near the fence. 

After a little bit of a shove between them, Hassan took the lead and pulled away for a three-second margin of victory. 

Race officials informed the media that the medal ceremony and press conferences would be delayed until a decision is made whether to change the finish. — Dan Wolken

PARIS — U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles will be required to return the individual bronze medal she received at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the International Olympic Committee announced Sunday morning.

The news comes less than 24 hours after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the judging panel for the women’s floor exercise final made a mistake in granting an inquiry filed by Chiles’ coaches, which moved the American gymnast into medal position. The Romanian Gymnastics Federation had challenged the validity of that move, saying it was filed four seconds beyond the deadline by which any inquiries had to be submitted.

The IOC said in a statement that it will reallocate the bronze medal to Romania’s Ana Barbosu. — Nancy Armour and Tom Schad

Sifan Hassan — who won the bronze medal in both the 5,000- and 10,000-meter race — completed an incredible 2024 Paris Olympics by winning the women’s marathon on Sunday, finishing in an Olympic record time of 2:22:55.

It required a late sprint to the finish for the track star, who out-paced Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa to the finish line of the 26.2-mile race. Assefa finished three seconds behind Hassan to win silver. Kenya’s Hellen Obiri won the bronze.

PARIS — Near the halfway point of the women’s marathon on Sunday, American Dakotah Lindwurm found herself in the lead. It was a scenario the former hockey player from Minnesota, ranked No. 138 in the world, could have never imagined.

“I looked up and said, ‘God, you’re crazy – I can’t believe I’m at the front of the Olympic marathon right now,’” she said. “But you’ve got to put yourself in that position if you want to run well, and I’m not afraid to take the lead. I never have been, and it was fun.”

Though it was a temporary thrill, Lindwurm surpassed all expectations by finishing 12th on the difficult, hilly course in a time of 2 hours, 26 minutes and 44 seconds. The only disappointment was that she couldn’t stay in the top 10, finishing 34 seconds behind that milestone. 

Still, being at the head of the pack was something she’ll always remember.  She even choked up a bit talking about the fact that she wasn’t the most likely Olympian and how happy she was just to be a part of this event. 

“I swear I could hear all of Minnesota cheering for me in the moment when I took the lead,” she said.

Lindwurm led the American contingent, as Emily Sisson finished 23rd and Fiona O’Keefe dropped off the pace and stopped just a few kilometers into the race due to injury.

Sisson, who qualified for the Olympic team in Tokyo for the 10k, said her run did not meet expectations.

“I’m pretty disappointed,” she said. “Pretty sad. I think there were signs. Three marathons in a year is too much for me. I had some good workouts and no major injuries or anything. I like challenging myself and wanted to do a fall marathon for learning experience and it did help me in the trials. Btu this marathon didn’t feel like the last two, like I needed to freshen up my legs. Lesson learned, unfortunately.”

Both Americans were amazed to learn that Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands had won the race, barely outfinishing Tigst Assefa of Ethiopa. The marathon was Hassan’s third event of these Olympics, having already won bronze medals in both the 5k and 10k.

“Oh my God,” Lindwurm said. “My legs are trashed and I don’t know how she’s running on tired legs. She’s amazing.”

Said Sisson: “I’m not surprised. She’s a generational talent. I think she is solidified as the GOAT now, if she wasn’t already.” — Dan Wolken

Dakotah Lindwurm managed to stick with the lead runners through the 13.1-kilometer halfway point, but has since dropped off the pace set by the lead pack.

Through 30k, Lindwurm — the lead American runner — was 46 seconds behind the leaders. Another America, Emily Sisson, was more than two minutes behind the leaders.

Still attached to the lead group of Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands, winner of the bronze medals in the 5,000m and 10,000 at Stade de France. The lead group also included three Kenyan runners (Sharon Lokedi, Peres Jepchirchir and Hellen Obiri), two Ethiopians (Tigst Assefa and Amane Beriso Shankule), Romania’s Delvine Relin Meringor, Japan’s Yuka Suzuki and Bahrain’s Eunice Chebichii Chumba. Lokedi clocked in with the top time through 30k at 1:43:59.

The women’s marathon is underway in Paris, and 29-year-old American Dakotah Lindwurm was right in the mix with the lead group through the halfway point of the race.

Lindwurm was in third place with a time of 1:13:25 at the 13.1-kilometer mark, with Australia’s Jessica Stenson just ahead in first place at 1:13:22. Lindwurm was among 20 runners that comprise the lead group.

The Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan, who also won bronze medals in the women’s 5,000- and 10,000-meter races at the 2024 Paris Olympics, also is among those runners in the lead group.

Fellow American Emily Sisson was 27 seconds off the lead. A third American in the race, Fiona O’Keeffe, dropped out of the race during the opening miles.

Here are some Olympic schedule highlights. Peacock is streaming every sport and event live as it unfolds in Paris.

(All times Eastern)

  • Closing ceremony begins at 3 p.m. and runs through 6 p.m. (NBC)
  • Women’s basketball wraps up with the USA vs. France gold medal game (9:30 a.m., NBC) and the Australia vs. Belgium bronze medal game (5:30 a.m., USA Network).
  • Men’s water polo has the bronze medal match between the USA and Hungary at 4:35 a.m. with the gold medal match between Croatia and Serbia at 9:35 a.m. (NBC). 
  • Women’s volleyball holds the gold medal match between the USA and Italy at 7 a.m. (NBC).
  • The women’s marathon opens the day with a 2 a.m. start. USA Network is airing.
  • Men’s handball features the gold medal match between Denmark and Germany (7:30 a.m., USA Network) and the bronze medal match between Slovenia and Spain (3 a.m.).
  • Men’s water polo holds the gold medal match between Croatia and Serbia (8 a.m., USA Network) and the bronze medal match between the USA and Hungary (4:35 a.m., USA Network).
  • Wrestling holds nine different medal events, starting at 6 a.m. and running through 7:45 a.m.
  • Cycling holds four medal events, starting 6:45 a.m. and running through 7:56 a.m.
  • The women’s modern pentathlon wraps with one last event at 5 a.m.

NBC is airing and streaming the Paris Olympics from all angles: Peacock is streaming every sport and event live as it unfolds; NBC, USA Network, CNBC and E! are carrying various live events and replays throughout the day. Here are 6 tips and tricks for getting the most out of Peacock during the Olympics.

Our 2024 Paris Olympics medal count tracker updates after every single medal event.

(All times Eastern)

  • The U.S. men’s water polo team plays Hungary in the bronze medal match at 4:35 a.m. USA Network is airing.
  • The U.S. women’s volleyball team plays in the gold medal match against Italy at 7 a.m. NBC is airing.
  • The U.S. women’s basketball team plays France in the gold medal game at 9:30 a.m. NBC is airing.

(All times Eastern)

  • Women’s hoops: Bronze medal game (5:30 a.m., USA Network), gold medal game (9:30 a.m., NBC)
  • Marathon: women (2 a.m., USA Network)
  • Modern pentathlon: women’s final laser run (6:40 a.m.)
  • Wrestling: Nine medal matches (6 a.m.)
  • Water polo: men’s bronze match (4:35 a.m., USA Network), men’s gold match (8 a.m., USA Network)
  • Volleyball: women’s gold match (7 a.m., NBC)
  • Handball: men’s bronze (3 a.m.), men’s gold (7:30 a.m., USA Network)
  • Cycling track: women’s sprint (7:15 a.m.), men’s keirin (7:32 a.m.), women’s sprint (7:44 a.m.), women’s omnium points race 4/4 (7:56 a.m.)

The U.S. women have won a medal at every Olympics since women’s basketball was added to the program in 1976. If they make the final, they could send 42-year-old Diana Taurasi home with an unprecedented sixth Olympic gold.

In Tokyo the U.S. women won their first Olympic gold in the sport of indoor volleyball, beating traditional power Brazil. Indoor volleyball has been on the Olympic program since 1964 and the U.S. has one gold, three silver and two bronze. Jordan Larson returns as captain of the team after being named MVP of the Tokyo Games.

It’s the women’s marathon day, which will take runners on a scenic route that includes Hotel de Ville de Paris, past the Eiffel Tower and Chateau de Versailles. For many years, the men’s marathon was held on the final day, bringing the Olympics to a close. In Paris, the women will be showcased on the final day of the Games, ending just a few hours before the closing ceremony.

Unlike the opening ceremony, the closing ceremony will be held at the national stadium with NBC and Peacock offering live coverage beginning at 2 p.m. ET. Jimmy Fallon and Mike Tirico are slotted in as NBC’s hosts. The parade of athletes brings a party atmosphere with music and dancing. At the end, Paris will hand off to the organizers of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

Team USA has showed off its speed and strength at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The Americans fared well in the pool, but dominated athletics.

The U.S. won by far the most medals in track and field with 34 overall, the most for the U.S. since winning 40 the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. — Jordan Mendoza

PARIS — If U.S. women were a nation unto themselves, their results at the 2024 Paris Olympics would make them one of the most dominant athletic countries on earth.

The exhilarating U.S. soccer victory over Brazil Saturday evening added an exclamation point to what already have been a fabulous Olympic Games for the American women. 

They are winning medals at such a terrific rate that if they jettisoned the guys, they would be third in the overall medal standings, behind only the full U.S. team and China. 

That means half of the U.S. team is performing better at the Paris Olympics than the full teams of about 200 other nations, including 85 countries that have won at least one medal. — Christine Brennan

PARIS — Victor Montalvo became the first Olympic bronze medalist in the history of men’s breaking Saturday night.

He knows he might also be the last.

Organizers for the next Summer Games in Los Angeles in 2028 had the ability to propose new sports they wanted to include and opted for flag football, cricket and lacrosse over breaking − despite the dance’s deep history in the United States, including the fact its birthplace is the Bronx. — Tom Schad

PARIS − After the Paris Olympics conclude Sunday, the Paralympics will run Aug. 28 to Sept. 8, then the squash racket, lacrosse stick and cricket ball − all sporting additions to the 2028 Games − will be in Los Angeles’ court.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and and LA28 Olympic Games chair Casey Wasserman, who are in Paris as part of a U.S. presidential delegation to the Olympics that was led by First Lady Jill Biden, provided a few details Saturday to reporters about what sports fans − and Angelenos − can expect to see four years from now. — Kim Hjelmgaard

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