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U.S. outlasts France to win 8th straight women's hoops gold

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PARIS -- A'ja Wilson scored 21 points as the U.S. women's basketball team survived the biggest challenge of its unprecedented run to eight straight Olympic gold medals with a 67-66 win over France at the Paris Games on Sunday.

No team had been able to push the Americans during this impressive streak of 61 consecutive wins. Only two of those victories had been by single digits before the game against France.

The eight straight golds broke a tie with the American men's program that won seven in a row from 1936 to 1968. The women's victory came less than 24 hours after the U.