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Team USA faces France in the Olympic basketball final. USA's WNBA stars lead against France, the underdogs with home support. Stay tuned for updates!

Et voilà. At the end of a Mexican wave at the Grand Palais, France had its 16th gold medal and Althéa Laurin had hers in taekwondo - France's first in the sport. Cue La Marseillaise.

Medal success has offered the president welcome weeks of respite in his country’s fraught political climate – but what happens when the athletes go home?

The 2024 Olympics draws to a close with the final ceremony at Stade de France.

This year's Games have marked the Olympic debut of breaking, with hip-hop fans flocking to the pop-up Urban Park at Paris's Place de la Concorde to watch the world's best b-boys and b-girls show off their moves. But with the Los Angeles Olympics organisers having decided to leave breaking off…

Many athletes had starring roles at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, capturing the interest and admiration of the French and fans from all over the world. The US’s Simone Biles and Noah Lyles, France’s Leon Marchand and Antoine Dupont, and Serbia’s Novak Djokovic were just a few.

The success of the Olympic Games has surpassed the wildest dreams of many in France but in the next weeks President Emmanuel Macron still will have to face the reality of the deadlocked politics created by his calling of snap legislative elections.

Saturday was an emotional and proud moment for Team USA men's basketball, as its members received their Olympic gold medals.

Steph Curry brought out the "night-night" celebration to the Gold Medal Game at the Olympics.