They scheduled an Olympic basketball tournament _ and a North Korean election broke out.
The U.S. women have stormed into the gold-medal game with seven straight blowout wins. Average score: 102-64.
"For other teams, competing with the U.S. is a little like jumping into a swimming pool and facing five clones of Katie Ledecky," wrote Mimi Kimes of ESPN.com, "or battling an army of Simone Biles-bots on the gymnastics mat."
