Durant hauls USA men’s basketball past France to fourth straight Olympic gold

• Kevin Durant scores 29 points in 87-82 victory over France
• Olympic men's basketball: USA 87-82 France - as it happened

We used to talk of the dream team, but this was the tournament of a dream player.

Such is America's dominance of Olympic basketball that the quadrennial intrigue is not so much whether the US will win gold as whether they could lose it. But for Kevin Durant, the doomsday scenario might have come to pass.