As much as many would like to fill our sports world with partisan politics, it’s important that we retain some national pride in our global teams. And with its back against the wall, Team USA delivered a performance worthy of celebration.

The United States escaped the Tokyo Olympics with the most gold medals of any country, making it three victories in a row at the Summer Games. The chances of it happening looked bleak: Newsweek warned on Friday that Team USA was “unlikely to catch China.”