
They are just one win away from winning a seventh consecutive gold medal and becoming the greatest dynasty in their sport– men or women. –
The margin of victory may not have been overwhelming in group play like the 2016 Rio team, but it is obvious Team USA has its eye on the prize and no one in the history of the sport with the possible exception of the 1976 Soviet Union gold medal team with 7-7-0 Uljana Semjonova, who won 15 straight European Champions Cups and two Olympics and never lost in an official international competition, has a front court that can compete with them. .
Dick Weiss is a sportswriter and columnist who has covered college football and college and professional basketball for the Philadelphia Daily News and the New York Daily News. He has received the Curt Gowdy Award from the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and is a member of the national Sportswriters Hall of Fame. He has also co-written several books with Rick Pitino, John Calipari, Dick Vitale and authored a tribute book on Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.

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