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RIO DE JANEIRO --?When Simone Manuel touched the wall to clinch a gold medal Saturday night, it was a moment 120 years in the making.The United States women won gold in the 4x100-meter medley relay Saturday night, edging Australia and Denmark and giving Team USA its 1,000th gold medal of all time.Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Dana Vollmer and Manuel?won the race in 3 minutes, 53.13 seconds. It marked the U.S. second straight gold in the event.?The count accepted by the U.S. Olympic Committee coming into the Rio Games was 977 gold medals, and even that was adjusted a bit in recent weeks over a debated medal from the 1904 St. Louis Games. That means the gold medal in the womens eights on Saturday morning was the 21st for the Americans in Rio, and No. 998 overall. Some sites say theres a few more, some say a bit less. The USOC count is the accepted one.And the relay win was No. 23 in Rio, so by the USOCs count that made it official.It was a memorable night for Samuel.Earlier, she took home her second individual medal of the Games when she won silver in the womens 50-meter freestyle. Manuel finished in 24.09, behind Denmarks Pernille Blume (24.07).Manuel made history Thursday, when she became the first African-American woman to win a gold medal in swimming. She tied for first in the 100-meter freestyle (52.70) with Canadas?Penny Oleksiak. She also earned a silver in the womens 4x100-meter freestyle relay.Team USA won 33 swimming medals at Rio 2016, its most since winning 33 at the Sydney Games in 2000.?A thousandth gold for team USA, Manuel said. Its a nice number ... sharing that with three other women is just icing on the cake.The next-closest team total is the USSR with 395. The next-closest active country is Great Britain with 248.?A remarkable achievement made possible by the culture of sport that is the fabric and foundation of Team USA, USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said Saturday night.James Connolly won the first gold for the U.S. in 1896, and of course no one has added more to the total than Michael Phelps, a 23-time gold medalist.Illustrating how not-so-simple this medal-counting business is, the official info portal for the Rio Games even has a different number than the USOC, saying the one the Americans will recognize as No. 1,000 is really No. 1,001.Whatever the real number, the U.S. is the first to reach four figures -- in a landslide.?Heres the significance: The next four best nations had 1,004 gold medals coming into Rio, said Bill Mallon, an Olympic historian. You add up the next four and they barely have more than we do.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Adidas NMD Womens Australia . 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Anthony Davis had 31 points and 17 rebounds in his seventh straight game with more than 20 points, but that was only enough to keep the Pelicans competitive into the final minutes. Andrew Bogut had 10 points and 15 rebounds for Golden State, which rebounded from a loss a night earlier in Oklahoma City and snapped a two-game skid. BASTAD, Sweden -- Former finalist Fernando Verdasco saved all five break points he faced in beating Swiss qualifier Henri Laaksonen 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the Swedish Open on Tuesday.Verdasco, who won his seventh ATP title in Bucharest in April, has reached the quarterfinals or better five times in Bastad, including the 2013 final. He next faces Spanish compatriot Albert Montanes, a winner of six clay-court titles, and who handed Elias Ymer of Sweden his 10th consecutive main draw loss, 6-4, 6-2.Im pleased about the way I played, especially as its my first match on clay since the grass swing, Verdasco said. Ive done well here in the past with a runner-up finish and a couple of semifinals, but Ill be working hard to lift the trophy this week.ddddddddddddther winners included Taro Daniel of Japan, who downed seventh-seeded Horacio Zeballos of Argentina 6-4, 6-2, Gastao Elias of Portugal, Dustin Brown of Germany, and Roberto Carballes of Spain.David Ferrer, the top seed and former two-time champion, had a bye into the second round and will play Calvin Hemery, who notched his first ATP main draw win against fellow Frenchman and qualifier Tristan Lamasine 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. ' ' '