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Diana Taurasi of Team USA celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's basketball tournament of the 2024 Paris Olympics, August 11, 2024 at the Bercy Arena in Paris. FIBA photo

Diana Taurasi of Team USA celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's basketball tournament of the 2024 Paris Olympics, August 11, 2024 at the Bercy Arena in Paris

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2024 Paris Olympics

Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1723440561152081224_FIBA_USA-Diana Taurasi.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Diana Taurasi of Team USA celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women&#x27;s basketball tournament of the 2024 Paris Olympics, August 11, 2024 at the Bercy Arena in Paris. FIBA photo"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Diana Taurasi of Team USA celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women&#x27;s basketball tournament of the 2024 Paris Olympics, August 11, 2024 at the Bercy Arena in Paris. <em>FIBA photo</em></span></span></span></div><p>PARIS, France -- Diana Taurasi capped her international career with a sixth Olympic gold medal on Sunday, calling it &quot;truly an honor&quot; to represent the USA and see the growth of the global game.</p><p>The United States won their record eighth straight gold with a gritty 67-66 victory over host nation France.</p><p>Taurasi, with gold in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024, surpassed Sue Bird for the most Olympic golds by an American women&#x27;s basketball player, but despite the United States&#x27; long dominance Taurasi never thought it was a sure thing.</p><p>&quot;These games are tough,&quot; Taurasi said. &quot;Everyone always thinks it&#x27;s going to be easy to win gold medals. But a game in France against a French team -- they play physical, they play hard, play for their country. It was a tough win.&quot;</p><p>The Phoenix Mercury guard, owner of three WNBA titles, didn&#x27;t play in the final, but US coach Cheryl Reeve said before the Games her experience was a &quot;tremendously valuable&quot; asset.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/8/11/paris-2024-usa-fend-off-france-for-womens-olympic-basketball-gold-2357">READ: USA fend off France for women&#x27;s Olympic basketball gold</a></div><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/8/11/us-pip-china-in-olympic-medal-table-race-as-paris-readies-final-curtain-033">READ: US pip China in Olympic medal table race as Paris readies final curtain</a></div><p>&quot;She&#x27;s one of the greatest competitors women&#x27;s basketball, and sports, has ever seen,&quot; Reeve said. &quot;There&#x27;s no substitute for that level of experience.&quot;</p><p>Taurasi counseled her younger teammates that the United States&#x27; history of success was no guarantee of gold.</p><p>&quot;I just told the team before the tournament, history doesn&#x27;t earn you another one. You&#x27;ve got to go and earn it.</p><p>&quot;All these teams have anted up, they&#x27;re all investing in their teams and you see it in this tournament. Every night any team could have won,&quot; she said. &quot;It&#x27;s been fun to be a part of that.&quot;</p><p>She&#x27;s also enjoyed playing alongside changing generations of talent. With her sixth gold in hand, she said, &quot;I think I&#x27;ll just look back on 20 years of being able to wear the jersey.</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;ve been lucky to be around some of the best players to ever play.</p><p>&quot;When I was young (with) some of my idols, in the middle my counterparts and now to see these young guys to go out there and get this gold medal. It&#x27;s a lot of luck and a lot of hard work -- here I am.&quot;</p><p>Taurasi has clapped back at suggestions she should have made way for a younger player, saying &quot;only a woman would have 20 years of experience and it&#x27;s an Achilles heel instead of something that is treasured and used as a way forward for sport and women.&quot;</p><p>But she has no plans for another Olympics, even though the 2028 Games will be in her hometown of Los Angeles.</p><p>&quot;I know, LA, I&#x27;ll be there with a beer on the beach,&quot; she said.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7gv0VaGPhW0?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Diana Taurasi capped her international career with a sixth Olympic gold medal on Sunday, calling it "truly an honor" to represent the USA and see the growth of the global game.</p>

Diana Taurasi capped her international career with a sixth Olympic gold medal on Sunday, calling it "truly an honor" to represent the USA and see the growth of the global game.

Paris 2024: USA icon Taurasi bows out of Olympic basketball with sixth gold

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Paris 2024: USA icon Taurasi bows out of Olympic basketball with sixth gold

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Rebecca Bryan

Published Aug 12, 2024 05:30 PM PHT

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