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The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in total. [15] The occasion marked the first time a gold medal tie among the two most successful nations has occurred in Summer Olympics history. [16]
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.
The women's tournament was a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each team had to submit a squad of 18 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers. Each team could also name a list of four alternate players, who could replace any player in the squad in case of injury during the tournament. [5]
Sha'carri Richardson (USA) in the women's 4x100m relay round 1 heats during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Stade de France on Aug. 8, 2024. The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the ...
In Paris, 13 Team USA athletes won multiple gold medals; 10 of those — including Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Gabby Thomas and other big names in Team USA — were women. Women won the first ...
The race for the most gold medals by country at the 2024 Paris Olympics came down to the Games' final event. And the United States' narrow 67-66 victory over France in women's basketball pushed ...
Australia captured the bronze medal with a win over Belgium. [4] 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 ...
The women's handball tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics was the 13th edition of the handball event for women at the Summer Olympic Games. It was held from 25 July to 10 August 2024. The preliminary round games were played at the South Paris Arena 6 in Paris and the final games at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille, France. [1]