It’s Day 16, and the end of the line for the 2024 Paris Olympics. I hope you’ve had as much fun as I have had writing these daily posts and hosting Sports Illustrated’s Daily Rings, my daily podcast with Dan Gartland. This is my final viewing guide, but we’ll have two more episodes of the podcast looking back at the entire Olympics.
The Paris Games aren’t quite over yet, though. We still have one more day of sports. The U.S. and China are also battling for the most gold medals, with China ahead 39 to 38. China’s Li Wenwen is the defending champion in the lone remaining weightlifting competition. But the U.S. has a great chance to nab golds in the women’s basketball game and in Kennedy Blades’s wrestling final. It could very well come down to the women’s volleyball final, in which the U.S. is the defending Olympic champion but Italy, its opponent, is ranked No. 1 in the world.
