She took bronze in each the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters, and on the ultimate day of competitors she capped it off by profitable the 26.2-marathon…in a dash end. That, by the best way, was on a course extensively considered exceedingly troublesome because of all of the hills and warmth, but she ran a time of two:22:55, a brand new Olympic document (that’s a 5:27 per mile tempo, BTW).
11. “Triple Espresso” powered girls’s soccer again to gold.
Below the helm of latest head coach Emma Hayes, the US Nationwide Ladies’s Workforce is again to its profitable methods. And there’s a brand new trio of younger famous person forwards—Trinity Rodman, 22, Sophia Smith, 24, and Mallory Swanson, 26—main the best way, scoring 9 of the ten objectives that received Workforce USA to the ultimate on Saturday, the place they defeated Brazil 1-0 because of a objective scored by Swanson.
LYON, FRANCE – AUGUST 6: Sophia Smith of the USA celebrates her objective with teammates Mallory Swanson, Sam Coffey, Lynn Williams and Trinity Rodman in the course of the Ladies’s semifinal match between United States of America and Germany in the course of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de Lyon on August 6, 2024 in Lyon, France. (Picture by Daniela Porcelli/ISI Images/Getty Pictures)Daniela Porcelli/ISI Images/Getty Pictures
Announcers had given them nicknames—like Trident and Holy Trinity—however on the At this time present on August 8, they shared their most well-liked time period: Triple Espresso. “We’re going to place that out into the air and let individuals run with that, as a result of we like that,” Rodman stated. We’d order a type of, for positive!
12. And American basketball reigned supreme.
It was a little bit of a nail-biter, however after a buzzer shot by France’s Gabby Williams was dominated a two-pointer quite than a 3, Workforce USA received an unprecedented eighth-straight gold medal in hoops. (And oh yeah, the blokes additionally beat France to win gold, making 5 straight Olympic championships on the boys’s aspect.)
13. Weightlifter Olivia Reeves did some heavy lifting to finish a US medal drought.
Olivia Reeves, a 21-year-old sociology main on the College of Tennessee at Chattanooga, targeted on historical past as a substitute on Friday when she set an Olympic document of 117 kilograms—that’s about 258 kilos—within the snatch. She adopted that with a clear and jerk of 145 kilograms (320 kilos) to hoist a complete of 262 kilograms and win Workforce USA’s first gold in weightlifting since 2000.