The Associated Press
August 16, 2026 - 3:49 pm
DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The United States successfully defended the men’s rubric astatine the emblem shot satellite championships connected Sunday but mislaid the women’s rubric to Canada, portion Mexico’s women and Canada’s men earned qualification spots for the 2028 Olympic Games successful Los Angeles.
The U.S. men bushed Italy 46-26 to unafraid a sixth consecutive rubric and the women missed retired connected a 4th consecutive rubric aft losing 27-20 to Canada.
“Gold is the lone standard,” said men’s backmost Nico Casares, who threw 2 touchdown passes. “That’s our motto. That’s what we play by, that’s what we unrecorded by.”
The U.S. women started powerfully arsenic backmost Akemi Higa, the former Desert Oasis star, threw a touchdown walk to erstwhile Coronado standout Maci Joncich connected the archetypal play of the game. But it was tied 14-14 astatine the interruption aft Caroline Moquin-Joubert caught backmost Sara Parker’s walk astatine the extremity of the archetypal half. Parker acceptable up Frederique Morneau astatine the commencement of the 2nd fractional arsenic Canada took control.
The U.S. had a 4th down, yards from the line, with 3 seconds left, but could not marque the last play count. It was Canada’s 3rd rubric and archetypal since beating the U.S. successful the 2014 final.
“I consciousness truthful happy, I can’t judge it,” Parker said aft hugging her mother. “Literally the champion time ever.”
The International Federation of American Football ran the title tournament, which doubled up arsenic a qualifier, successful the German metropolis of Düsseldorf.
The apical 2 men’s and apical 2 women’s teams earned a spot astatine the 2028 Games, on with the U.S. men’s and women’s teams due to the fact that they already qualified arsenic hosts.
Sunday’s 2 different finalists — the Italian men and Canadian women — earned an Olympic spot by reaching the last against the U.S. teams, meaning that the bronze-medal games decided who joined them.
Mexico women cried with joyousness aft a 20-19 triumph implicit Great Britain — which rallied from 20-6 down — for the women’s bronze and an Olympic spot.
But Mexico’s men mislaid 34-26 successful overtime to Canada, which claimed an Olympic spot.
Flag shot was among 5 sports fixed Olympic presumption for the 2028 Games backmost successful 2023, with the crippled played five-on-five successful 2 20-minute halves, nary tackling and an accent connected velocity and elusiveness.
The NFL has said it plans to motorboat women’s and men’s nonrecreational emblem shot up of the Olympics.
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