LONDON - When it was over — finally, mercifully, exhaustively — they laughed, shrugged, danced, hugged and celebrated for a solid hour, as if they had won. Which in a sense, the French did. They only lost by 36 points. The same U.S. women's Olympic basketball team that beat France 86-50 for the gold medal Saturday night beat Canada earlier in the tournament by 43, China by 48 and Angola by 52. "I think it speaks directly to what we've got going on in our country in women's basketball and in women's sports in general," U.S. point guard Sue Bird said. "We wear teams down, bottom line. We come at them in waves and when they sub and we sub, it's a huge...
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