The 2016 Summer Olympics held their closing ceremony in Rio on Sunday, but not before one more U.S. athlete made history. Twenty-one-year-old Claressa Shields of Flint, Michigan, won her second consecutive gold medal in boxing—the first U.S. woman to do so. The U.S. men’s basketball team also continued their Olympic dominance on Sunday, taking gold for the sixth time in seven Games. On Saturday, the U.S. women’s basketball team won their sixth straight gold medal. The women’s team has not lost an Olympic basketball game since 1992.
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