With simply two days remaining within the Paris Olympics, the whole lot’s a medal spherical from this level ahead. This is the most recent from Friday’s motion.
The host nation hoped to win gold in its hottest sport Friday, however its neighbors to the south put a damper on these aspirations. Spain defeated France 5-3 in an epic back-and-forth gold-medal soccer bout that wanted additional time to settle. It was the highest-scoring Olympic soccer last in historical past and Spain’s first gold because the 1992 Barcelona Video games. Within the ladies’s bronze-medal match, Spain couldn’t match its male counterparts because it fell 1-0 to Germany.
The Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino broke the ladies’s 400m Olympic report Friday, changing into the primary girl to win gold for her nation. The race wasn’t even shut as Paulino broke away because the chief early and didn’t look again.