Assured that the u. S. Would return home with more Gold M metals than any other country. And the u. S. Left it late. Yeah, a complete team effort. Track and field grabbed seven golds, then sunday u. S. Womens basketball captured their 7th straight Gold Medal. And then the Volleyball Team winning their first eever Gold Medal and there were tons of tears on the court after they scored that last point. The u. S. Had meddled five times before making the Gold Medal match three different times, but this the first time the women were able to capture the gold and pretty cool, it is also what got Team Usa Over The Top in the Gold Medal count. The u. S. Basketball team is a dynasty, they captured their seventh straight Gold Medal which tied the longest streak in any olympic Team Sport beating japan in the final. Brittney griner Setting A Gold Medal Game Record Scoring 30 points to lead the team. And the Usa Basketball legends playing their final game together for the team, they go out winning th
Kipchoge is the oldest to win the men s marathon since 1984, he now has four olympic medals. he is the world record holder for a marathon and in 2019 became the first man to run a marathon in under 2 hours but it wasn t a record because it was done in nonrace conditions. now, today it was 81% humidity in tokyo but he still finished in 2:8:38. and that is 4:54 per mile on. a. ju on average. and just incredible. and so the united states will finish the olympics with the most gold medals of any team for the third straight summer games. u.s. also going to finish with the total medals for the seventh straight summer games. and kim, almost done there in tokyo. just one event left, it is men s water polo going on right now between greece and serbia. and then it will be a wrap for
Evacuated and it seems to be that people are now heading to the coastal area. so if they need to get out, they will be moved by boats. again authorities there are on standby and more than a thousand people have already been moved. and unfortunately we re hearing that winds are picking up, so as a result things are getting more critical as well. not good news there. all right, elinda labropoulou, thank you so much. the olympic gold medal count is important to china and for a while it was leading the u.s. before being overtaken. we ll take a look at the intense pressure china puts on its athletes to finish first.
China probably isn t too happy about being overtaken by the u.s. in the gold medal race. it is a matter of national pride to finish first and intense pressure is put on athletes to chief that goal. selina wang takes look at the for y forces driving china s efforts. reporter: again and again, this anthem has been played, these medals are a symbol of sporting prowess and more important for china of national strength. one of the things that the olympics does for china to show that china is able to succeed in something which the whole world regards as being a premiere arena for international performance. reporter: a week before the games, china s director of sports administration called on athletes to, quote, fight for the glory of their country with pride, honor and responsibility. i don t know what to say. i m a bit speechless. i took it step by step one move
The tokyo olympics. thanks so much, andy scholes. appreciate it. and here in the u.s., the delta variant is driving case numbers to their highest levels since february. the u.s. seven day average is more than 100,000 new cases per day. this comes as just over 50% of the u.s. population is now fully vaccinated. and florida seems to be getting the worst of it, the sunshine state has the highest number of hospitalizations per capita nationwide and also the highest weekly number of new covid cases since the pandemic began. despite raging case numbers, governor desantis is holding firm rejecting the idea of a mask mandate in schools. and he is using it as an issue to inflame his supporters in the covid culture wars. but desantis is not going unchallenged. two lawsuits have been filed against him over his executive order banning mask mandates. florida officials are also criticizing a lack of