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Los Paris 2024 Olympic Games They concluded their activities this Sunday with the final of the women’s basketball tournament at the Bercy Arena between France and the United Stateswhich was the one that defined the medal table in a movie-like epilogue for how that duel was resolved. The North American team won 67 to 66 because the French player Gabby Williams He stepped over the line on his last shot and the conversion was worth two points, not three. In this way, she won the gold medal – her sixth in a row – that her country needed to lead the ranking over China. Both nations have won 40 Olympic titles each, but the American team won 44 silver medals against 22 for the Asian team. They won 42 and 24 bronze medals, respectively.
The overall first place in the Olympic event had to be decided until the last day. On the sixteenth day of competition since the Opening Ceremony on the River Seine, the Chinese came in first place overall with 39 golds to the Americans’ 38. The organizers of the 2008 edition got one more gold thanks to the weightlifter Li Wenwen and the defeat of the hosts of the next Olympics lost the definition of the women’s volleyball tournament against Italy, which seemed to be the event that would tip the balance in favor of one or the other. However, that gold was ‘recovered’ Jennifer Valente in the cycling omnium event, and then the women’s basketball Dream Team suffered but fulfilled the logic to once again place the United States at the top of the sports world.
Simone Biles was one of the United States athletes who gave the delegation the most medals Santiago Filipuzzi / Special correspondent – Santiago Filipuzzi/ Special correspondent
Japan completed the podium with 20 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze medals. The top 10 was followed by Australia (18, 19 and 16, respectively); France (16, 26 and 22); the Netherlands (15, 7 and 12); Great Britain (14, 12 and 29); South Korea (13, 9 and 10); Italy (12, 13 and 15); and Germany (12, 13 and 8). In the ranking, the nations are ordered in relation to the quality of the medals they obtain (gold, silver and bronze) and not the quantity, so there are cases of delegations that add up to more than others but are lower in the table because they have fewer gold medals.
Argentina was far from the fight for first place because it only managed three podiums, one of each value, and was placed 52nd together with Egypt and Tunisia. Jose ‘Malign’ Torres It was gold in BMX freestyle; the dupla Mateo Majdalani – Eugenia Bosco silver in the Nacra 17 sailing class; the Leonas bronze in women’s hockey. Thus, the national delegation surpassed what was achieved in Tokyo 2020 – done in 2021 due to the Covid 19 pandemic – when it was 72nd overall without golds and with one silver medal (Las Leonas in women’s hockey) and two bronzes (men’s volleyball team and the Pumas 7s).
The first of all the medals was gold thanks to José Torres Gil. The ‘Maligno’, born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, where his parents worked, 29 years ago and settled in the Urca neighborhood of Córdoba since he was 10, led the BMX freestyle test at the Place de la Concorde with a score of 94.82 In his first attempt at the final and in the continuation of the test none of his rivals could surpass him. His escort was the British Kieran Reilly, while third was the French Anthony Jeanjean.
Then came the silver medal for the duo formed by Mateo Majdalani and Eugenia Bosco in the Nacra 17 sailing class.The Argentines, favourites for the podium in the preview, did not disappoint and took home what they went to the Olympic event to get after being two-time champions at the Pan American Games Lima 2019 and Santiago 2023, behind the Italian boat and ahead of New Zealand.
Finally, The Lionesses gave the country a bronze metal by beating Belgium 3-1 on penalties in the third-place match after a 1-1 draw in regulation time. The women’s hockey team went into the tournament hoping to be Olympic champions for the first time in their history, but they came up against the Netherlands – later winners of the gold medal over China – in the semi-finals and had to settle for the bottom step of the podium. This is no small feat: they achieved their sixth podium finish in the last seven editions.
The national team also received several diplomas, which were also awarded to the medalists. Those who did not get on the podium and received this distinction were Augustin Vernice (4th in K1 1000 canoeing and best historical performance of the sport after fifth place in Javier Correa in the same event in Sydney 2000); the Pumas 7s (7th), Julián Gutiérrez (8th in shooting); Matías Dell Olio (7th in skating); and the men’s soccer and hockey teams because they reached the quarter-finals.
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