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American and French roads meet at the Tokyo Games for the second time. The first meeting of the teams took place in the first round of the group competition, when Les Bleus was a bit more unexpected – 83:76.
But the value of the duel on Saturday is much greater. The price of victory is gold medals.
Olympic champions three times in a row, basketball players from the USA already aiming for the 16th title, the French team has never triumphed in the history of the Olympic Games.
The greatest achievements of the French so far are two sets of silver medals (in London in 1948 and in Sydney in 2000). By the way, the US men beat them in both finals: 65:21 and 85:75, respectively.
Final of the Olympic Basketball Tournament: United States – France
The Frenchman had two attacks in a row in a difficult moment, finishing 218cm tall Moustapha Fallas – 28:24.
Khris Middleton also joined the US triples – 28:20.
At the end of the first quarter, Jayson Tatumas also hit from distance – 22:18.
After falling in love with K. Durant, who scored 10 points in a row, the Americans not only recovered very quickly, but also re-weighed the result in their favor: 18:15.
Soon the triple was added by E. Fournier and Gregg Popovich needed a minute break – 4:10.
The final was started with more success by the French, who went ahead 4: 7 after the powerful play of R. Gobert, the advance of E. Fournier and the flight of G. Yabuseles.
The top five of the US national team: Jrue Holiday, Damian Lillard, Devin Booker, Kevin Durant and Bam Adebayo. / Usabasketball / status / 1423833237814607877 / photo / 1
En route to the final of the Tokyo Games, Team USA achieved 97:78 with Australia in the semi-finals, and France beat Slovenia by just 90:89 in the final seconds after the no-block blocking of Nicolo Batumas.
Australians with Slovenians from 2pm. You will discover the fate of the bronze awards.
Interestingly, the US Olympic delegation (31 gold medals, 36 silver medals, 31 bronze medals) still does not deny the thoughts and hopes of overtaking and surpassing the Chinese athletes (36 gold, 26 silver, 17 bronze) in the general classification even after the penultimate day of the Games.
While the Chinese are strong enough to lead, the Americans are serious about winning gold in at least six other disciplines: men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball, women’s water polo, and men’s 4 to 400 meter running relays and female.
DAY 14 at # Tokio2020
MEDAL TABLE:
1. #CHN [34/26/17] = 77
2. #USA [32/33/31] = 96
3. #JPN [24/11/14] = 49
Four. #ROC [18/24/20] = 62
5. #GBR [18/20/19] = 57#Olympic Games
– OLYMPIC GAMES: Tokyo 2020 (@ _Tokyo_2020_) August 6, 2021
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