The United States won gold in women’s soccer and men’s basketball on day 15 of the Paris Olympics, while Great Britain and Northern Ireland won medals in synchronized swimming, athletics, diving and taekwondo.

Great Britain won its first medal in synchronized swimming when Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe took silver with an exquisite duet routine.

Noah Williams won Britain’s first medal of the day – and his second of the Games – with bronze in the men’s 10m platform final.

Meanwhile, Caden Cunningham narrowly missed out on becoming the first Briton to win Olympic gold in taekwondo, taking silver in the over 80kg category.

Georgia Bell ran a British record time to take bronze in the 1500m, while the men’s and women’s 4x400m quartets also took bronze medals on the final night of the Athletics Games.

With one day to go, Great Britain has now won 63 medals – one less than at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Team GB is in sixth place in the medal table with 14 gold, 22 silver and 27 bronze medals.

If they can win five medals on Day 16, the 2024 team will surpass the foreign record of 67 medals set in Rio 2016.

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Hayes leads resurgent US team to gold, James & Co. dominate on the court

In women’s football, England’s Emma Hayes led the United States to triumph in her first tournament since taking office in May.

The 47-year-old, with a successful streak as a club coach, maintained her golden touch in her first appearance on the international stage, as Mallory Swanson’s calm second-half finish helped the Americans win the gold medal for the first time since 2012.

This ensured that there would be no fairytale ending for Marta. The icon of women’s football and six-time World Player of the Year retires at the end of her sixth and final Olympic Games at the age of 38 with a third silver medal.

The United States has been crowned champion five times since women’s soccer was added to the Olympic program in 1996.

American dominance extends – not surprisingly – to the basketball court, where the Americans have now won every single men’s competition in which they have participated – with the exception of 1972, 1988 and 2004.

A star-studded team featuring LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant proved too strong for a French team that included NBA Rookie of the Year Victor Wembanyama.

With a halftime lead of 49-41, the USA finally secured a 98-87 victory, to which Curry contributed 24 points.

Shortman and Thorpe make history

Britain’s best ever result in synchronised swimming – formerly known as synchronised swimming – was fourth place, achieved by Caroline Holmyard and Carolyn Wilson in Los Angeles in 1984, when the discipline made its Olympic debut.

However, Shortman and Thorpe’s Olympic success had been in the making for some time after they became the first Britons to win a medal in the duet at the World Championships earlier this year, where they took silver and bronze.

The pair narrowly missed the podium places after Friday’s technical routine, although a score of 264.0282 put them less than a point behind the Netherlands, who finished third overnight.

And an excellent free skate was judged to be the best of the 17-strong field on Saturday. With a total score of 558.5367 points, Shortman and Thorpe left both Austria and the Netherlands behind and took the silver medal behind China.

Williams surprisingly wins bronze in diving

A week after winning his first Olympic medal with the silver medal in the men’s 10-meter synchronized diving alongside Tom Daley, Noah Williams can add another medal to his collection.

The 24-year-old won bronze in the men’s 10-meter platform diving individual final and improved significantly over the course of the competition.

He qualified for the final in twelfth place before capitalising on the mistakes of the others in the final and scoring 94.35 points on his last jump, securing him a place in the top three.

China’s Cao Yuan won gold and Japan’s Rikuto Tamai took silver.

With Cao’s victory, China has won all eight medals in diving at the 2024 Games, making it the first overall Olympic diving victory.

Cunningham takes silver in taekwondo

Cunningham said he could become the “King of Taekwondo” after winning a silver medal in the men’s over 80 kg category.

The 21-year-old defeated three world champions on his way to the gold medal fight, which he narrowly lost 1:2 to Iranian Arian Salimi.

“It’s the beginning of everything I want,” Cunningham said. “I work very hard. If I choose something different, I choose something different and I’m going to get it done.”

“If I stick with it, I will easily be the Taekwondo king for the next four years.”

With Cunningham’s silver medal, Great Britain maintained its record of winning an Olympic taekwondo medal at every Games since Athens 2004.

Fellow British athlete Rebecca McGowan missed out on a place on the podium when she was beaten by Turkey’s Nafia Kus Aydin in the fight for the bronze medal in the over 67 kg class.

Bell-Stars and GB are happy about further relay successes

In total, Great Britain won six medals on Saturday, half of them during a hectic phase on the track.

With her sensational performance in the 1500 meters, Bell achieved a personal best and set a new national record, finishing behind Faith Kipyegon of Kenya and Jessica Hull of Australia.

The men’s 4x400m quartet – consisting of Alex Haydock-Wilson, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Lewis Davey and Charlie Dobson – set a European record of 2:55.83 to take bronze behind the USA and second-placed Botswana.

And while they celebrated at the Stade de France, Victoria Ohuruogu, Laviai Nielsen, Nicole Yeargin and Amber Anning also finished third, setting a British women’s national record of 3:19.72. The USA took gold again, this time ahead of the Dutch team, whose last-place finisher was the fast-finishing Femke Bol.

This was GB’s fifth relay podium result after the team also won silver in the women’s 4x100m and bronze in the men’s 4x100m on Friday, having won bronze in the mixed 4x400m last week.

This success contributed significantly to the team winning ten athletics medals – their highest number at an Olympic Games in 40 years. 16 medals went to British athletes in Los Angeles in 1984.