The U.S. Olympic men's basketball team won its fifth consecutive gold medal in Paris. For all the discussion about how the rest of the world has closed the gap on the birthplace of the sport, the Americans have lost once in an Olympics since 2004 — to France in Tokyo, a defeat they avenged.
The semifinals and championship game of these Olympics were no cakewalk. Come 2028, Serbia's Nikola Jokiu0107 will still be at the tail end of his prime, assuming he does not retire to pursue horse racing full time, and Victor Wembanyama will be a 24-year-old on the precipice of Lord Knows What for the Frenchmen.