Brittney Griner racked up 30 factors, as well as the USA won its 7th straight gold medal in females’s basketball, defeating Japan 90-75
Sue Bird as well as Diana Taurasi have actually belonged to 5 of those gold medals. No one has actually played extra Olympic ready the UNITED STATE than Taurasi with38 Bird is 2nd with 36 in her last Olympics.
This gold touch began in 1996 in Atlanta with Dawn Staley a gamer. Staley signs up with the late Anne Donovan as the only Americans to aid the UNITED STATE win gold as gamers, aides and after that head trainers.
A’ja Wilson included 19 factors as well as Breanna Stewart racked up 14 as the Americans controlled within once again. The UNITED STATE expanded its Olympic winning touch to 55 successive video games dating to the 1992 bronze medal video game.
Japan completed with the silver in the host country’s opening night in the medal round. Japan ended up 8th at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Gamings.
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