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USA's wheelchair basketball team defended their Paralympic gold medal from Rio 2016 after beating the host nation Japan 64-60 at Tokyo 2020.
As a result of their triumph over Japan, the United States have become back-to-back Paralympic champions for the first time since Toronto 1976.
Team USA's captain Steve Serio has referred to their victory as a 'storybook ending' and claimed it was the team's 'belief in each other' that got them over the line.
USA's wheelchair basketball team defended their Paralympic gold medal from Rio 2016
The four-time Paralympian, Serio, said: 'Japan was the Cinderella story of this tournament but you couldn’t ask for a more storybook ending for us.
'We were up against a great team, in their home country, their home stadium, and we had a performance like this.'
Speaking specifically about his team-mates, Serio added: 'This team is just so resilient.
