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Lyles is the first American sprinter to win an Olympic gold medal in the men’s 100-meter since Justin Gatlin took the gold at the Athens 2004 Games. The U.S. women’s soccer team narrowly ...
For the fourth consecutive Summer Olympics, the U.S. women will win more medals than the U.S. men. As of early Saturday evening, American women have won 58 percent of the total U.S. medals.
The United States added gold medals in women's basketball and women's omnium, lifting them to tie China for most gold medals won at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The 2024 United States women's Olympic basketball team competed in the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad held in Paris, France. Led by coach Cheryl Reeve, the team won its ninth gold medal, and eighth consecutive, at the event. [1]
Diana Taurasi of the victorious American women's national team became the only basketball player with six Olympic gold medals, joining dressage equestrian Isabell Werth of Germany and Hungarian sabre fencer Aladar Gerevich as the only Olympians to win six gold medals in the same event. [5]
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
Of Team USA's 40 gold medals, 26 were won by women, ... The 2024 Paris Olympics reached a landmark as the first Olympics with total gender parity, where 50% of the athletes present were women. But ...
On July 9, 2024, USA Track & Field officially announced the final roster of 120 athletes (59 men and 61 women) qualified for the 2024 U.S. Olympic track and field team. [29] 16-year-old Quincy Wilson was selected for the 4x400-meter relay team, becoming the youngest male U.S. track athlete in history. [30]