CLOSING CEREMONY UNDERWAY
Australia’s most successful Olympic Games is drawing to a spectacular end, with the closing ceremony in Paris currently in full flow. Finishing with a record 18 gold medals (plus 19 silver and 16 bronze, making a total of 53), the Australian team ended the 2024 games in 4th place overall.
The United States topped the final table after finishing with 40 gold medals, the same number as China, but with a superior total medal count — 126 to 91. Team USA’s final gold came in the last event of the entire Olympics, the women’s basketball, and came down to the final play in an unbelievably tight final against France.
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