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OLYMPIC LET-DOWN: MUST WIN MORE MEDALS BEFORE HOSTING GAMES
The New Indian Express
|August 13, 2024
IN a glittering ceremony on Sunday, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach declared the Paris Summer Games closed.
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The flame was extinguished and the flag handed over to the Los Angeles 2028 team. There were no surprises in the top two slots on the medals tally. Like in Tokyo, the US claimed the top spot after edging out China in the last event on the final day-women's basketball. Both ended with 40 gold medals but the US's overall count was 126, while China had 91. India finished 71st, lower than the 48th in Tokyo. It was not a performance to be celebrated.
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