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The Netherlands are the second-ever 3x3 basketball gold medalist.

After Japan won gold at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in the first year of the event, the Netherlands defeated France 18-17 on Monday to claim gold in Paris.

France defeated the world No. 1 Serbia in a play-in game before defeating Latvia in the semifinal while the Netherlands dominated Lithuania 21-9 in the semifinal to advance to the gold medal game.

The two teams battled back and forth for the entirety of the game and the Netherlands' Arvin Slagter hit a clutch two-pointer to tie things up going into the final minute. Down one with 16 seconds remaining, the Netherlands missed a two to take the lead but Worthy de Jong got the rebound to tie it up with a layup and send the game to overtime.

After his clutch layup to send it to overtime, de Jong came out as the hero in extra time, hitting a two-pointer to give the Netherlands the win. Though he was 0-of-6 on two-pointers in regulation, de Jong made the one that mattered most, and now he has a gold medal to show for it.

De Jong finished with seven points, Jan Driessen added 6, Slagter had three and Dimeo van der Horst put up two in the win.

The Netherlands now has 17 total medals, seven of which are gold.

With a podium sweep in the men's 10,000 meter race on Tuesday, the Netherlands continued to dominate the speedskating competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games.

In taking the gold, Jorrit Bergsma recorded the fastest sea-level time in the history of the event, with a mark of 12 minutes, 44.45 seconds. He also broke the Olympic record of 12 minutes, 58.55 seconds, previously held by South Korea's Lee Seung-hoon, Tuesday's fourth-place finisher.

Meanwhile, Sven Kramer—who entered Tuesday's race as an event favorite—placed second, with 37-year-old Bob De Jong earning a bronze medal to complete the Dutch sweep.

Of the 27 medals awarded in speedskating at Sochi thus far, Dutch athletes have racked up a staggering total of 19, topping the previous record of 13 set by East Germany in 1988.

Overall, the Netherlands have earned six gold, six silver and seven bronze speedskating medals in Sochi, with no other country earning more than two medals in the sport in the process.

Tuesday's medal sweep was the 10th in Olympic speedskating history—and the fourth one turned in by Dutch skaters in Sochi—with the next scheduled speedskating event being the women's 5,000 meter race on Wednesday.