Botswana upset Lyles as France reach men’s basketball final
Noah Lyles reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 two days before the race. The latest from the Paris Olympics.
The French men’s basketball team beat Germany 73 to 69 to face Olympic champions United States in the final on Saturday after their narrow 95-91 win over Serbia, which earned them their fifth consecutive Olympic final.
France remain the most successful European team in Paris, followed by the UK and the Netherlands – which added another gold to the tally with a victory against Germany in field hockey.
Italy trail behind the Dutch, despite retaining their Olympic title mixed team multihull.
China remain second in the medal table, after another victory in diving, while leaders United States were handed a painful defeat in the men’s 200 meters, as Botswans’s Letsile Tebogo finished ahead of American star Noah Lyles.
Lyles reportedly tested positive for Covid-19 two days before the race.
Joy for Morocco in football, who routed Egypt 6-0 to earn their first-ever podium placement at the Olympics.
Source: Euro News