David K. Li

PARIS — With the cauldron here now extinguished, all summer eyes can look four years down the freeway to Los Angeles, when a handful of old friends drop by as others bid adieu.

PARIS — The U.S. and China each won 40 gold medals in the first Summer Games draw in Olympic history, with the Americans pulling into a tie Sunday with victory in the last event, women’s basketball.

Jordan Chiles must return her bronze medal in the floor exercise, the International Olympic Committee said Sunday, upholding findings that a coach's protest that got her on to the podium shouldn't have been allowed.

PARIS — Two-time WNBA champion A'ja Wilson scored 21 points as the U.S. survived — by inches — and topped an inspired French team 67-66 for America's eighth straight Olympic gold medal.

Two-time WNBA champion A’ja Wilson scored 21 points as the United States survived an unexpectedly close contest from host France, winning 67-66 for their eighth straight Olympic gold medal in women’s basketball on Sunday.

PARIS — Lin Yu-ting captured featherweight gold on Saturday, defeating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta and shaking off more than a week of specious allegations that she shouldn’t be fighting women.

PARIS — Steph Curry's late-game heroics and a lightning-fast American transition attack denied France its storybook basketball ending Saturday night.

Lin Yu-ting captured featherweight gold on Saturday, defeating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta and shaking off more than a week of specious allegations that she shouldn’t be fighting in the women’s division.

Steph Curry’s late-game heroics and a lightning-fast American transition attack denied France its storybook basketball ending Saturday night.

Algerian Imane Khelif won welterweight gold on Friday, dispatching China’s Yang Liu and overcoming more than a week of opponents wrongly questioning her gender.

PARIS — Americans played one electric quarter of basketball on Friday and that was more than enough to send them to the women’s gold medal game.