Team USA’s Tokyo 2020 highlights and lowlights: our writers’ verdicts
by Bryan Armen Graham, Tom Dart, Joan Niesen and Andr from on (#5N3AB)
From Caeleb Dressel's glory to a star turn from Sunisa Lee, Guardian writers on the big stories from this year's Olympics
Gable Steveson. The 21-year-old Minnesotan, named after 1972 Olympic champion Dan Gable and competing in only his second senior-level international tournament, scored a pair of late takedowns in the 125kg final - the second with less than a second remaining - to dramatically turn an 8-5 deficit into a 10-8 victory over Georgia's Geno Petriashvili and win America's first heavyweight gold in freestyle wrestling since 1992. Even on a US wrestling team that brings home more medals than any non-host nation in history, Steveson's star-making run managed to steal the show. BAG
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