{"id":8888,"date":"2021-08-08T07:53:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T03:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/tokyo-2020-us-beats-france-to-win-mens-basketball-gold\/"},"modified":"2021-08-08T07:53:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T03:53:19","slug":"tokyo-2020-us-beats-france-to-win-mens-basketball-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/tokyo-2020-us-beats-france-to-win-mens-basketball-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020: US beats France to win men&#8217;s basketball gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Tokyo-2020-US-beats-France-to-win-mens-basketball-gold.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Less than two weeks after a stunning opening game loss to France, the U.S. men&#8217;s basketball team got payback &#8212; but it was not easy.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has won its fourth straight Olympic men&#8217;s basketball gold medal, holding off France 87-82.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant scored 29 points for the Americans and joined Carmelo Anthony as the only three-time gold medalist in men&#8217;s basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Durant already became the leading scorer in U.S. men&#8217;s history in this tournament. He scored 30 points in the gold-medal games in 2012 and 2016 and nearly got there again this time.<\/p>\n<p>France defeated the U.S in the teams&#8217; opening game in this tournament, snapping the Americans&#8217; 25-game winning streak in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The French almost beat them again Saturday while attempting to win their first gold in men&#8217;s basketball. They had to settle for a third silver, having also finished second to the U.S. in 1948 and 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Slovenia and Australia will play later Saturday for the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '800789640666009');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/report.az\/en\/team\/tokyo-2020-us-beats-france-to-win-men-s-basketball-gold\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Less than two weeks after a stunning opening game loss to France, the U.S. men&#8217;s basketball team got payback &#8212; but it was not easy. The U.S. has won its fourth straight Olympic men&#8217;s basketball gold medal, holding off France 87-82. Kevin Durant scored 29 points for the Americans and joined Carmelo Anthony as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/tokyo-2020-us-beats-france-to-win-mens-basketball-gold\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tokyo 2020: US beats France to win men&#8217;s basketball gold<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2833,2831,1744,667,2832,152,2812],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-basketball","tag-beats","tag-france","tag-gold","tag-mens","tag-tokyo","tag-win","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}