Olympics: 08/12/2024 07:54am ET

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The United States is coming home from the Olympic Games
with a medal in men's water polo.

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The first battle for US sin men's waterpital in sixteen years.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Team USA took down the Hungary after dominating the penalty shootout.
Ben Hallick led the team in scoring with a couple
of goals on three shot attempts, an eighth straight gold
for the US women's basketball team, who beat France by
a point. Jennifer Valente secured her second straight Olympic gold
medal after winning the final of the women's omnium race.
She finished in first with one hundred and forty four

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omnium points to take the title once again. The victory
comes three years after she won gold at the Tokyo Games.
Valenti has also won Olympic medals in the women's team pursuit.
She earned silver at Rio in twenty sixteen before taking
bronze in twenty twenty one. The Olympics closing ceremony is underway.
Team USA finished with forty gold medals at one hundred
and twenty six overall, the eighth straight Olympics they finished

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atop the total medal standings. This has been an NBC
News Radio Olympic report