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Candace Parker leads U.S. women at Olympics

Former Tennessee great Candace Parker had 14 points and 12 rebounds to lead the U.S. women to a 90-38 rout of Angola in the Olympic basketball tournament.

The win stretched the women's winning streak to 35 games in the Olympics.

The team is after their fifth consecutive gold medal.

Angola is still looking for its first Olympic victory and African nations have won only one of 25 games since first qualifying 16 years ago in Atlanta.

This was the Americans closest game ever against an African nation though; the U.S. beat Zaire by 60 points in 1996 and then Mali by 56 at the Beijing Games in 2008.