The USA remained on the right track for an eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal in girls’s basketball by reaching the Paris 2024 last.
The US stretched their Olympic successful run to 60 video games as they beat Australia 85-64 within the semi-finals.
They led 45-27 at half-time and 66-40 on the finish of the third quarter, earlier than stretching their benefit to 30 factors at one stage through the last quarter.
Breanna Stewart scored a game-high 16 factors for the US whereas Jackie Younger added 14.
The final time the US girls’s group misplaced on the Olympics was within the semi-finals at Barcelona 1992, after they had been crushed by a group from the Commonwealth of Impartial States (CIS), shaped after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The second semi-final on Friday proved to be a far nearer contest as Belgium took France to time beyond regulation earlier than the Video games hosts clinched a nail-biting 81-75 victory in time beyond regulation.
The ultimate might be performed on Sunday (14:30 BST) and the US can even face France within the males’s last on Saturday (20:30 BST).