The final day of the 2024 Paris Olympics is highlighted by the U.S. women’s basketball team facing France as the Americans go for the eighth straight gold medal. Following USA vs. France live coverage and highlights.
Elsewhere, the U.S. and Italy face off in the women’s volleyball gold medal match, men’s water polo and men’s handball settle their bronze and gold medal games, and wrestling holds nine medal events.
USA TODAY Sports will bring you live results, coverage, highlights, medal wins and more throughout the day. Follow along.
France starts second half with surge
A lot of people thought the U.S. would have a cakewalk to its eighth consecutive gold. France has other ideas. After an 8-0 run that gave the French a 33-25 lead to open the second half, the U.S. needed a timeout to talk things over. This crowd is only going to get louder. — Lindsay Schnell, Nancy Armour
Evacuation takes place near Eiffel Tower
French police briefly evacuated the area around the Eiffel Tower on Sunday after there were reports a man attempted to climb the 1,083-foot structure. The incident, reported by the Associated Press and in unverified eyewitness posts on social media, took place just hours before the Olympic closing ceremony was due to get underway. The shirtless man was spotted just above the Olympic rings that decorate the second section of Paris’ famous landmark, the city’s tallest building. The Eiffel Tower was a centerpiece of the opening ceremony. A purpose-built stadium directly in front of it hosted beach volleyball events. Blind football events will be played there during the Paralympics. The tower is not part of the closing ceremony. — Kim Hjelmgaard
US women’s hoops tied with France at halftime
The women’s basketball gold medal game is all tied up at the half after a crucial tip-in from Team USA’s Napheesa Collier just before the buzzer.
Real talk: That half was ugly. The U.S. shot 29%, France shot 28% and the teams combined for 19 total turnovers. A’ja Wilson has six points but is just 2-of-9 from the field, while Stewart is 1-of-6 with five points. Wilson and Collier have nine rebounds each. Gabby Williams leads France with eight points.
The U.S. looks sloppy and disjointed and if it wants to keep the streak of seven-gold-medals-in-a-row-and-counting going, the Americans going to need to clean up a lot in the second half. — Lindsay Schnell, Nancy Armour
