A Steph Curry lullaby 🥇🔥

Your Olympics essentials.

• What happened yesterday: The U.S. men’s basketball team won gold! The USWNT won gold, too! The U.S. women’s 4x400 relay team of Gabby Thomas, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Alexis Holmes and Shamier Little won gold! The U.S. men’s relay team of Chris Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Raj Benjamin also won gold! Masai Russell won gold in the 100-meter hurdles! Victor Montalvo won bronze in breaking! Check out all the day’s highlights.
• What’s happening today: The U.S. women’s basketball team plays France for the gold medal! The U.S. women’s volleyball team plays Italy for the gold medal! The U.S. men’s water polo team plays Hungary for bronze! More wrestling finals! Follow all the day’s action.
• The latest medal count: Entering Sunday, the U.S. led the medal count with 122 (38 golds, 42 silvers, 42 bronze), but China retook the gold medal count lead (39).

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Night, night 👏🏽

Steph Curry lost his mind in the fourth quarter against France. He showed exactly why he’s the greatest shooter on the planet, the greatest shooter to ever live. The NBA’s all-time leader in 3-pointers was launching ‘em from deep like he was launching merch from a T-shirt gun into the stands.

And he was splashin’ em. And he was hype as hell. And he rocked the French team to sleep in celebration. The man’s basketball résumé is ridiculous. But he had said the lack of an Olympic gold medal was glaring to him. No longer. He has that now. Curry, LeBron James and Kevin Durant powered the Americans to their fifth — count ‘em — fifth consecutive gold medal.

Summer of Mal.

When the final whistle blew, signaling the USWNT had won Olympic gold, forward Trinity Rodman said she immediately started bawling. She said she didn’t think she would, but there came the tears after the Americans won their first gold since 2012, their fifth overall — all in Emma Hayes’ 10th game with the team. 

It was Mallory Swanson’s goal in the 57th minute that gave the U.S. a 1-0 win over Brazil. And Swanson’s had a long road to this moment, tearing her left patella tendon in April 2023. Her teammates knew the significance of the victory for her.

"To be able to hug all my teammates, I’m so happy for Mal," Rodman said. "Her alone made me cry to see what she’s been through to be here. I was emotional for others as well as myself, but it was just everything. I’m so happy."

"To come back in the way that she did is even harder and she did it so gracefully," forward Sophia Smith said. "She did it just as Mal does everything, and it’s just been fun to watch and so much fun to play with her."

"I think most importantly, you’re probably hearing it, we’re playing with joy," Swanson said. "We’re having so much fun. I’m just so happy."