On Sunday, Kahleah Copper of North Philly and the U.S. women’s basketball team will end the spectacular Olympic Games with the prospect of the eighth consecutive gold medal for the U.S. women’s basketball team.

The USA will play host France at 9:30 a.m. Philadelphia time, live on NBC, Telemundo (in Spanish) and streamed on Peacock. Breanna Stewart, A’ja Wilson and Co. are considered clear favorites, but WNBA veterans Gabby Williams and Marine Johannès surprisingly led Germany and Belgium to the final.

There are still eleven gold medals up for grabs on Sunday, and the USA will be in the spotlight in three of them: women’s basketball, women’s volleyball and women’s wrestling.

The volleyball team will face Italy at 7 a.m. This will be the first broadcast of the day on NBC. Wrestling hopes rest on Kennedy Blades, a Chicago native, who will face Japan’s Yuka Kagami in the finals in the 76-kilogram (167-pound) division. The whole thing will be broadcast live on Peacock. The wrestling schedule starts at 5 a.m. and that is the last match, so it’s not yet clear when it will take place, but it will probably be early in the morning.

All of this is not just important for its own sake, and there is of course plenty of that. It is also important for a specific reason, namely in terms of the medal table. While the US media likes to rank countries by the total number of medals won, the rest of the world ranks countries first by the number of gold medals won – and likes to make fun of the USA for it.

At the end of Saturday’s competition, China had 39 gold medals and the USA had 38. The USA has won gold at the last three Olympic Games, and this time it could be exciting again.

China’s Li Wenwen has a good chance of winning gold in the women’s 81-kilogram weightlifting class. She is a two-time world champion and reigning Olympic champion at this level. Since the women’s basketball match is the last event, this could be the deciding factor for the placing.

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The closing ceremony begins at 3 p.m. It will take place at the Stade de France, the national stadium that hosted rugby and track this summer. NBC will broadcast the event live. Mike Tirico will host the event along with Jimmy Fallon, Terry Gannon, Tara Lipinski and Coatesville native Johnny Weir.

Swimming star Katie Ledecky and Chester County native Nick Mead, who helped the U.S. win its first gold medal in the four-man bobsled since 1960, will be the American flag bearers. Snoop Dogg, who has been everywhere with NBC this summer, will attend the handover ceremony, which sets the stage for Los Angeles in 2028.

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NBC has a lot of coverage on its broadcast and cable channels. On Sunday, the rest will be on NBC and USA in English and on free-to-air Telemundo in Spanish. USA has been running 24/7 coverage every day and will wrap up at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Each event can be streamed live on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. You’ll need to sign in with your pay-TV provider, whether it’s cable, satellite or streaming platforms like YouTube TV, FuboTV and Sling TV. If you’re not a pay-TV subscriber, you can watch through the premium tier of Peacock, NBC’s online streaming service. A subscription starts at $7.99 per month or $79.99 per year.

The NBC Sports and Peacock apps are available on mobile, tablet and connected TV devices including Android TV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Samsung TV and more. There is an FAQ page on NBC’s website here with more details.

If you have a Comcast Xfinity X1 cable box, just say “Olympics” into the remote’s voice control feature and everything will show up, whether on TV or online. Other cable and satellite TV providers may offer similar features.

You can find the full schedule of events for the entire Olympic Games here and the live results here.

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