RIO DE JANEIRO， Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- A US collection of NBA stars won its third consecutive Olympic gold medal as it beat Serbia 96-66 in the men's basketball final at the Rio Olympics on Sunday.
The basketball gold， which is the last one up for grabs at these Games， has improved the US' medals tally to 46 gold， 37 silver and 38 bronze medals.
After the runaway leader， Britain finished second on 27 gold， 23 silver and 17 bronze medals.
China finished out of top two for the first time since 2004 Athens Games， bagging 26 gold， 18 silver and 26 bronze medals for the third place.
The US beat Serbia in the preliminary round， but proved it was a different story when the gold medal was at stake.
"We played a great game today. It was a total team effort. Everybody knew what was at stake. We only beat these guys by three last time. We just raised the level of intensity and it was a great game，" Clay Thompson said.
An organized Serbian team produced enough trouble for the U.S.， as they did in the previous encounter， when the lead was exchanged five times and the game was tied four times in the first quarter.
But solid defence of the Americans shattered the confidence of the Europeans， who were hammered on one-on-one situation. The U.S. used a 24-7 run， initiated by Kevin Durant who scored 18 points in the second quarter， to take a comfortable lead on 43-22.
Serbia， which missed the 2008 and 2012 Games， never found their rhythm of typical teamwork and failed to pose real threat in the remaining time.
Host Brazil has more reason to cheer on the last day of the Games by winning the men's volleyball gold. Less than 24 hours ago， the host got soccer gold it has long been craving.
The Brazilian men volleyballers defeated Italy to win their third gold medal in the sport and cap their country's best Olympic performance with a total of seven golds in the Rio Games.
The Brazilians had lost to the Italians in a pool match but won the final in straight sets， handing Italy its third silver medal in men'svolleyball.
Brazil struggled in the pool stage， losing two matches， to the US and Italy， and only making it into the knockout rounds after a tense victory over France in the last game.
But having emerged from the pool， Brazil began to show its class and fueled by raucous home support， dropped just one set between the quarterfinals and clinching gold.
In men's marathon， Eliud Kipchoge stormed to a runaway gold medal under wet and cold conditions.
The Kenyan broke away at the 35km mark and romped home to win in a time of two hours， eight minutes， 44 seconds - over a minute quicker than Ethiopia's Feyisa Lilesa， who took silver.
American Galen Rupp， the 10，000m silver medalist in London four years ago， claimed bronze in 2:10:05.
After the US， Britain and China on the medals table， Russia came fourth with 19 golds， followed by Germany， Japan and France with 17， 12 and 10 golds respectively.
The Sunday Times recently reported that Japan has been paying 10 Malik Monk Authentic Jersey ,000 pounds per month to a British think tank, the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), to hype up "China threat" among British high-level politicians.
The scandal exposed Japan's twisted shrewdness and is a shame on British intellectual and political groups.
According to media reports, the HJS was paid by the Japanese Embassy in London to spread anti-China propaganda, via the conduit of public figures such as Malcolm Rifkind, a former British foreign secretary. Rifkind confirmed that he was approached by the HJS in August 2016 and asked to put his name to an article titled "How China could switch off Britain's lights in a crisis," which criticized Hinkley C, a UK-Chinese nuclear power station.
The practice is a clear violation of social standards and morals. Western media did not follow up on the story and Japanese media remained silent about the news. Such silence is unimaginable if China and Russia were found to have been involved in similar scandals.
The event shows that sabotaging China has been an important mission of Japanese overseas outposts, something China would never do. The behavior reveals the insidiousness and pettiness of Japanese diplomacy, which is humiliating for the entire East Asia.
With 10,000 pounds, the British think tank has sold both its spirit of independence and pride. Or maybe it's because we have overestimated the integrity of the intellectual groups of the UK. We do not know whether the scandal is merely the tip of an iceberg of anti-China drive or an isolated event. We also don't know to what extent the HJS is representative of other think tanks in the UK.
Some criticisms from the West are so obviously absurd and illogical that we can sense the bias or hostility toward China. We don't know why the Western intellectuals who are so keen on advocating a spirit of objectiveness and science have made so many shallow mistakes. Is it because of ideological differences or geopolitical "conspiracies" like the one plotted by the Japanese embassies?
Before and after the US presidential elections, the mainstream Western media were in a war with Donald Trump, showing the hidden "political hand" that was previously unknown to the Chinese audience.
Now, we are shocked to see what a mere sum of 10,000 pounds could do to the British public opinion. We hope that most British people are as angry as we are when they hear the story, and feel uncomfortable about such an inappropriate deal taking place in their own country.
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