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PARIS — France has defeated Argentina 3-2 on penalties under the lights of the Eiffel Tower for the gold medal in blind football on the penultimate day of the Paralympic Games. Frederic Villeroux scored the decisive spot kick to get the partisan home fans' party underway after the teams drew 1-1 in normal time. The United States equestrian team won three more medals in Paralympics dressage with Fiona Howard and Rebecca Hart clinching their third golds of the Paris Games. On a solid day for United States athletes, the men's team won the wheelchair basketball title after beating Britain 73-69 and American swimmer Jessica Long extended her mammoth Paralympics medal collection to 31 with gold in the S8 100-meter butterfly.
