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PBS News Hour - Segments

A look at Team USA's golden run at the Olympics in Paris

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The Paris Olympics will come to a close on Sunday and Team USA is eyeing a strong finish to an already golden games. For more on the ups and downs of the Olympics, Amna Nawaz spoke with Christine Brennan of USA Today. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

The Paris Olympics will come to a close on Sunday and Team USA is eyeing a strong finish to these already golden games.

0:08.0

Earlier tonight, and there are some spoilers here,

0:11.0

Rain poured down at the Stad of France but a slick track didn't

0:15.1

slow down Shaquare Richardson who anchored the US women in the 4 by 100

0:19.7

meter relay and earned her first gold. Later Ry Benjamin leapt to gold in the 400 meter hurdles making it an American sweep after

0:28.0

Sidney McLaughlin Lovroni's win in the same event yesterday and

0:32.0

weightlifter Olivia Reeves made history

0:35.0

taking home the first weightlifting gold for the US since Sydney back in 2000.

0:39.8

The 14th day ended with the US once again leading the field with 111 overall medals.

0:46.7

For more on the US, ups and downs rather of the Olympic Games,

0:50.9

I'm joined now by Christine Brennan of USA Today who joins us

0:54.7

from Paris and these games. Christine always great to see you. Let's start with

0:59.5

Noah Liles please. The earlier won gold of course in that incredible 100 meter

1:04.4

race he had to be wheeled off the track though after getting bronze in the 200

1:09.4

meter later revealing he had a COBIC diagnosis. Let's just with, what do we know about how he's doing?

1:16.0

Um, now, we believe he's doing okay, um, and he's going to be fine.

1:20.5

But who would have ever thought that after two straight COVID Olympics, Tokyo,

1:25.0

summer games three years ago, Beijing, two and a half years ago, the Winter Olympics,

1:29.0

that we would be talking about COVID here in Paris,

1:32.0

something that people did not expect. But he did come to the stadium

1:36.3

with a mask on. He then of course took it off and raced and he won the bronze medal and

1:41.3

then of course collapsed and we all found out very quickly what had happened and what was transpiring with him in his medical condition.

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