One of the best that the World Cup-winning U.S. girls’s soccer workforce can do at these Video games now’s a bronze medal. The workforce misplaced to Canada, 1-0, on Monday within the semifinal. It was a measure of revenge for Canada, which misplaced a traditional semifinal to the U.S. on the 2012 Video games.
Within the girls’s flooring train occasion, Jade Carey of the US received the gold medal, the primary in a person occasion for the U.S. Carey had tripped within the vault last, shedding an opportunity at a medal.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico received the ladies’s 100-meter hurdles, beating Kendra Harrison of the US, the world report holder. It was solely the second Olympic gold medal for Puerto Rico, following Monica Puig’s win in girls’s tennis on the 2016 Video games. It was Puerto Rico’s first gold in observe, and its second medal within the sport, after a bronze within the males’s 400 hurdles for Javier Culson in 2012.
The U.S. girls’s basketball workforce accomplished a 3-0 group stage with a win over France, which stayed inside 14 factors and likewise superior.
