
With the start of the Summer Olympics in Paris just 10 days away, all eyes are on the new individual and team records to be set.
On Saturday, the Paris Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games posted a list of records to watch on its website.
First up, National Basketball Association (NBA) superstar Kevin Durant will become the first male athlete in history to win four gold medals in a team event if the United States wins gold in men’s basketball in Paris.
Durant collected three gold medals as a member of Team USA at London 2012, Rio de Janeiro 2016, and Tokyo 2020.
France’s Nicolas Karabatic, the three-time International Handball Federation Male Athlete of the Year, will use the Games in his home country as his retirement showcase and go for his fourth gold medal after Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Tokyo 2020.
Durant and Karabatic will be vying to become the first men’s team to win a fourth Olympic gold medal. Maybe they’ll both laugh, maybe only one will laugh, maybe they’ll both cry.
Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young, who won gold in women’s 3-on-3 basketball at Tokyo 2020, are going for gold in 5-on-5 basketball in Paris.
If they win, Plum and Young will become the first women to win both 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 Olympic basketball titles.
German women’s equestrian Isabelle Wert and American swimmer Kate Rudecki already have seven Olympic gold medals, and with two more, they will tie the record for the most gold medals won by a woman in Olympic history held by former Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina.
She will also become the most decorated gold medalist of all time if she touches the touchpad in first place in at least three of the four events she competes in.
Georgia’s shooter Nino Salukvadze is on track to become the first woman to compete in 10 Olympic Games. The 55-year-old made her debut at the 1988 Seoul Games, where she won one gold, one silver and one bronze medal in 25-meter pistol and 10-meter air pistol.
Uzbekistan is sending a men’s soccer team to Paris to make its team competition debut.
Uzbekistan finished runner-up at the Confederation of Asian Football Confederations U-23 Asian Cup in April, earning a direct ticket to Paris for the third-place finish.
A win in Paris would give the U.S. Women’s National Team its eighth consecutive gold medal since the 1996 Atlanta Games, the longest winning streak in team history.
The U.S. Women’s National Basketball Team is tied with the U.S. Men’s National Basketball Team for the most consecutive titles in this category, having won seven from 1936 in Berlin to 1968 in Mexico City. 바카라사이트