Day 13 of the Tokyo Olympic Games saw U.S. men's basketball team beat Australia 97-78 on Thursday to advance to the gold medal game.
The big picture: Kevin Durant led the charge with 23 points to help the U.S. secure a final spot against either France or Slovenia on Saturday local time. Elsewhere, the U.S. added to its gold medals count, with shot putter Ryan Crouser and canoeist Nevin Harrison both winning their events.
Americans April Ross and Alix Klineman react in their women's beach volleyball semifinal match with Switzerland at Shiokaze Park in Tokyo, which they went on to win on Aug. 5. They're now guaranteed to earn at least an Olympic silver medal. Photo: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images
Australia's Keegan Palmer competes in the last skateboarding final — the men's park, which he won, at Ariake Sports Park Skateboarding in Tokyo on August 5. Brazil's Pedro Barros won silver and American Cory Juneau took bronze. Photo: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images
China's Quan Hongchan competes in the women's 10m platform diving final event at the Tokyo Aquatics Center on Aug. 5. Photo: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images
Crouser competes in the men's shot put final at the Olympic Stadium, where he broke his own Olympics record to snatch gold on Aug. 5. Photo: Andrej Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images
Nigeria's Tobi Amusan competes in the women's 4x100m relay heats at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Aug. 5. Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images
Jordan's Abdel Rahman Almasatfa (R) competes against Venezuela's Andres Eduardo Madera Delgado in the men's kumite -67kg elimination round of the karate competition duringat the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Aug. 5. Photo: Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images
Harrison competes to win the first Olympic women's canoe single 200m final at Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo on Aug. 5. Photo: Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images
Olympic cyclists compete in the men's track cycling omnium scratch race at Izu Velodrome in Izu, Japan, on Aug. 5. Photo: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images
The USA's Madeline Musselman, the Russian Olympic Committee's Anna Timofeyeva and Anastasia Fedotova (L-R) in the womens semifinal water polo match at Tatsumi Water Polo Centre, which the U.S. won. Photo: Sergei Bobylev/TASS via Getty Images
Minnie Soo Wai Yam playing as Hong Kong defeated Germany to win the bronze medal in women's table tennis on Aug. 5. Photo: Ina Fried
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