"We have worked hard over the past two years," Mohamed Chaoua, Khelif's coach since she was a teenager, said in a cafe outside the Olympic village. "The gold medal is the best response to these people."
Amid an apparent dispute with the Paraguay's Olympic Committee, it has come out that swimmer Luana Alonso reportedly preferred to swim for the US in the 2024 Olympics.
Breanna Stewart had 13 for the Americans, who haven't lost since the 1992 Barcelona Games and are now two victories away from an unprecedented eighth consecutive gold medal.
A touch of winter came to the Summer Games on Wednesday when the United States figure skating team finally got their gold medals as 2022 Olympic champions.
Olympic swimmers may have found a possible cure to beating the E. coli riddled Seine river that has been one of the huge storylines at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
That controversial penalty resulted in Johnny Hooper's ejection and helped Australia build on its first-quarter lead before the Americans rallied to advance to the semifinals.