Blue Devils in the Paris Olympics Recap – Aug. 10

PARIS – The Blue Devils continued competitors on the 2024 Olympics on Saturday with motion in golf, basketball and monitor and area. Here’s a recap from motion on Aug. 10 in France.

Tatum, United States Defeat France to Seize Gold Medal
Jayson Tatum secured his second profession Olympic gold medal as america held off a rally by host France for a 98-87 victory in Saturday’s closing. Tatum contributed two factors, three rebounds and a steal in 11 minutes of motion off the bench.

A standout at Duke in 2016-17, Tatum additionally gained gold with USA on the Tokyo Olympics. 

Boutier Playing cards High-20 End for France
Former Duke ladies’s golf standout Celine Boutier closed motion on the Olympics in France with a top-20 end, which was contested on the Le Golf Nationwide in Paris. Boutier, a local of France, performed the final 4 days in entrance of her dwelling followers, together with in the future of main the sector. 
 
A 2016 Blue Satan graduate, Boutier posted rounds of 65, 76, 71 and 74 for a 2-under, 286, to complete tied for 18th. 
 
Representing Slovenia within the Olympics for the primary time, 2020 Duke graduate Ana Belac totaled scores of 77, 72, 76 and 76 for a 301, which was tied for forty ninth. 
 
Seeing motion in her third Olympics for Eire, 2018 Blue Satan graduate Leona Maguire closed robust with a 1-under-par, 71, to complete 59th.  She posted 4 birdies in her closing spherical. 
 
Lydia Ko (278) of New Zealand, Esther Henseleit (280) of Germany and Xiyu Lin (281) of China had been the medal winners.
 
Canada Locations Sixth in Girls’s 4x400m Relay
Crew Canada concluded monitor and area competitors Saturday within the ladies’s 4×400-meter relay closing, closing the door on the 2024 Paris Olympics with a sixth-place end. Canada turned in its greatest race of the season on the largest stage as the ladies’s quartet clocked a season’s greatest time of three:22.01.

Former Duke all-American and relay alternate Maddy Worth didn’t compete. 

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