Women's basketball, track & field, and Boudia capture gold

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Twenty years of gold. That's how long the U.S. women have owned the 4x400 relay after winning the event again. The U.S. foursome of DeeDee Trotter, Allyson Felix, Francena McCorory, and Sanya Richards-Ross were never seriously challenged, grabbing a 10-meter lead after the first leg by Trotter and never looking back. With three clean handoffs, Richards-Ross took the baton on the final leg with a 40-meter lead and never relented, holding that margin through the anchor and capturing gold in 3:16.87. The time was the third fastest in U.S. history. Russia (3:20.23) took silver and Jamaica (3:20.95) finished with the bronze.


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American David Boudia plunged off the 33-foot tower, somersaulting and twisting over and over on his last dive to win an Olympic gold medal by 1.80 points over Qiu Bo of China in the closest men's platform contest since 1988. Boudia's victory gave the U.S. its first gold in diving since 2000, and was the first by an American man since the late Mark Lenzi won the three-meter springboard at the 1992 Barcelona Games.


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Team USA's women's basketball team won their fifth straight gold medal after routing France, 86-50 and putting more distance between themselves and the rest of the world heading into the 2016 Rio Games. Candace Parker scored 21 points, including eight straight during the game-changing run in the second quarter as the U.S. won its 41st straight Olympic game.


OTHER USA MEDALS WON...

SILVER - Women's Volleyball, Track & Field (Brigetta Barrett - Women's High Jump and Men's 4x100m Relay)

BRONZE - Cycling (Georgia Gould - Women's Mounatin Bike), Wrestling (Coleman Scott - Men's Freestyle 60kg)