The United States surged past China for the lead in gold medals on the final day of the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday.
The U.S. women’s volleyball team defeated Brazil and secured the American’s 39th gold medal, one more than the Chinese delegation. The U.S. won 25-21, 25-20, 25-14 against a team that had defeated them in the gold medal matches in both 2008 and 2012. It was the United States’ first ever gold medal in women’s volleyball.
The victory was especially sweet for several members of the team, including Jordan Larson and Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson, who were part the team that lost to Brazil in 2012.
“I’m just still in a state of shock,” Larson said. “I cried more in the last 24 hours than I think I have in my career. I’m not an emotional player, an emotional person. But I think just the emotions got the best of me. I’m now in kind of this euphoria, a state of shock.”
The U.S. also won the overall medal count for the seventh consecutive Olympics with 113, including 41 silver and 33 bronze. China finished a distant second with 88.
Japan, the host country for the pandemic-delayed Summer Games, set a national record with 27 gold medals and won 58 medals overall.
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