The Rio 2016 Olympics is comes to an end tomorrow, August 21st at 2:45 pm eastern time. The US Men's Basketball Team defeated Spain with a final score being 82-76. It was not the closest game the US men have played this summer but it was one of the toughest. Both teams were not playing to the best of their ability because this was a low scoring game. Klay Thompson finished 22 points as the scoring leader for Team USA. Pau Gasol finished the game with 23 points with a calf injury heading into the game. Both teams committed a lot of fouls and the shooting performance wasn't that great. Team USA grabbed 21 on the offensive board, which helped create additional buckets. Spain trailed most of the game due to their shooting struggles but were able to cut the 10 point deficit in the first half by going on an eight-point run. The was close
but the US Men's National Team came out on top.

US Men's National Team after defeating Spain to advance to the Gold Medal game.

Spain's Rio 2016 Olympic Men's Basketball featured nine current and former NBA players. Those NBA players include Pau Gasol, Nikola Mirotic, Ricky Rubio, and Jose Calderon. Spain will be going against Australia tomorrow on the August 21st at 10:30 am eastern time. Australia played Serbia in the semi-finals and was blown out by 26 points this week. Score was 87-61. Both of these teams put of a fight against USA. Australia had the lead the whole game and lost it in the fourth quarter and never recovered. They lost to USA 88-98. Serbia was neck and neck with USA til the end, losing the game by three points with the score being 91-94. Serbia is getting their rematch in the Gold Medal game tomorrow against USA. It should be a good game.

Simone Biles and her 2016 Rio Gold Medal.

USA in their 2016 Rio Olympic run in all their sports did really well and is bringing back home a lot of medals, USA have 43 gold medals, 37 silver medals, and 36 bronze medals. They have a chance to bring back more this Sunday. There top sports include swimming, track & field, and gymnastics. Michael Phelps lead all swimmers with the most medals in the Rio Olympics having six medals. He had five gold medals and one silver. He participated in the Men's 4x200m freestyle relay, 200 butterly, 4x100m medley relay, 4x100m freestyle relay, 200m individual medley, and 100m butterfly. Allyson Felix leads track and field in the 2016 Rio Olympics with three medals. She participated in the women's 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay, and the women's 400m. She won two gold medals and one silver. Simone Biles lead gymnastics winning five medals. She participated in the women's vault, team all-around, floor exercise, individual all-around, and beam. She won four gold medals, and one bronze medal. Congratulations on the success Michael Phelps, Allyson Felix, and Simone Biles.

There are athletes who did their best and won their medals. Even to though who didn't win a medal this summer. It's a blessing participating in the Olympics. I never done it but it looks like a great experience either if you are participating or there watching it. It's a whole different atmosphere when it comes to the Olympics even being at home watching it. Congratulations to every one who made it to the Olympics this summer because it's one in a lifetime thing being different athletes in their prime at the Olympics. It's athletes who participated in their final Olympics and are retiring from their sport. So it's good to catch them while you can. So I encourage everyone to try to take trip to the next Olympics in four years or start watching it if you haven't started yet. Your country will need you support anyway to succeed against other countries, so why not? This was interesting summer, and I hope everyone who went out to the Olympics in Rio make it back home safe and get back to their normal life. Gold bless everyone and once again congratulations to my Rio participates.