Diana Taurasi, Tamika Catchings and Sue Bird have been together for three Olympics with the U.S. women's basketball team, the central figures in the continued dominance on the international stage. They've won three gold medals, including the one they earned with a 36-point victory over France on Saturday night.

But it appears the group is nearing the end of the line. Catchings says this will be her last Olympics, even though Taurasi is trying to get her to keep an open mind on Rio in 2016. Bird will be 35 then and knows that the odds of being on that team are slim.

Maybe that's why Taurasi, who says she normally isn't very emotional, was tearing up on the podium.

"It does feel different," Taurasi says. "As you get older, maybe you reflect a little more on what you had to overcome to get here."

— Jon Krawczynski — Twitter http://twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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