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The 2016 Summer Olympics came to an end Sunday night with a closing ceremony in Rio that had a little of everything: samba dancers, giant parrots, Simone Biles carrying the American flag, an encore from Tongas greased-up flag-bearer Pita Nikolas Taufatofua, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emerging from a huge green warp pipe dressed as Super Mario.Team USA marched with extra swagger, winning the medal count for the sixth straight Summer Games. The Americans not only led the way with 121 medals, they also led in every medal category -- gold, silver and bronze -- for the seventh time in Olympic history and first since 1948.Doing a great deal of the heavy lifting for America, once again, were the women, accounting for 61 of the countrys medals. The men won 55, and five were won in mixed events. That the American women out--earned the men for a second straight Games is particularly impressive considering that just 44 percent of the medals given out in Rio were in womens events.From Biles and Katie Ledecky to Claressa Shields and Kim Rhode, the U.S. women absolutely dominated. In fact, if Team USA were divided into separate mens and womens teams, the ladies 61 medals would be third overall at the Games, behind only the combined mens and womens efforts of Great Britain and China. Their 27 golds would be tied for first with Great Britain.The success of Americas female Olympians is due, in part, to the passing of Title IX in 1972. The law barred discrimination in education, greatly impacting athletic programs for women and girls from collegiate levels on down.Title IX paved the way and created so many opportunities for women in sport, nine--time Olympic medalist Allyson Felix told the United States Olympic Committee. I feel so proud and so inspired by the strong women on our team. Its such an amazing group to be a part of and I think about all the images of successful women reaching young girls back at home --- those are the things that last.Indeed, the Olympics are a rare time when viewers take in nearly as many images of female athletes as male. A time when the accomplishments of female athletes are given the same weight as those of their male counterparts. America seemed particularly enchanted with the achievements of the female gymnasts, swimmers and runners, who captured countless headlines and tons of airtime. And if fans wanted to watch events that might not make primetime --say, womens wrestling or weightlifting ?they could live stream them online. It was the most access viewers have had to Olympic events.With each medal won, the U.S. women demanded more and more of the spotlight. Yes, sometimes the coverage they received wasnt as winning as their athletic achievements, but even in those moments of misogyny, some progress could be found. Caitlin Kelly, managing editor of Vice Sports, spoke on my podcast about how the strong reaction to the sexist coverage is a win.One thing that was ... encouraging was seeing that people are pointing it out, Kelly said. I think more and more people have the language now to be able to point it out and to be able to discuss why its problematic and why portraying female athletes in the same way that male athletes have always been portrayed is so important.I think theres definitely progress being made, Kelly continued. People are more aware, maybe, of what we want our sports world to look like. And feel more empowered through social media and have a platform to say what we think people should be focusing on when they talk about women in sports.On Sunday night, in a sea of Olympians, Biles stood out, despite her 4-foot-9 frame. 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India were already assured of a top-four finish and thus a quarterfinal berth following Jordans victory over Philippines on the final day of league matches in the tournament.They will play their quarterfinal against the winners of group F, which will be determined following the last league match of that group between South Korea and hosts Iran.The nations finishing top five in the tournament will earn an extra berth for their respective sub-confederations for the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup -- a tournament that will host teams from both Asia and Oceania for the first time, and also serve as a qualifier for the FIBA World Cup to be hosted by China in 2019.Kazakhstan, who had lost all of their four matches in the tournament going into Thursday, started well by taking the first quarter 21--19.dddddddddddd India were dominant in the second quarter, picking up 32 points as opposed to 22 for the Kazakhs. The eight-point gap at half-time was nullified by Kazakhstan as they took the third session of 10 minutes 28-20. India were emphatic in the final quarter, taking 29 points to Kazakhstans 19 to end the match by hitting the 100-point mark for the first time in the tournament.Indias star performer of the day was point guard Talwinderjit Singh, who scored 32 points -- 25 of those came in the first half alone, and Amjyot Singh with 14 rebounds. Amjyot was also the most prolific on court with assists -- his tally of eight exceeding teammate Vishesh Brighuvanshi by one.Earlier in the tournament, India had beaten the Philippines, lost to Chinese Taipei and Jordan, before pulling off only their second win over China in the last five years on Tuesday. ' ' '