Medal for US males’s gymnastics group, A’ja Wilson’s massive day on the court docket
USA girls’s basketball continues Olympic domination and US swimmers Katie Grimes, Caeleb Dressel add to medal depend.
At present is a marquee day on the 2024 Paris Olympics with Simone Biles and the U.S. girls’s gymnastics group competing within the group last, which begins at 12:15 p.m. ET. The Olympic swimming schedule in the present day options three finals, Katie Ledecky’s 1,500m warmth, and semifinals for males’s 100m free and 200m fly.
No less than six U.S. squads are competing throughout 5 group sports activities, 26 sports activities in complete are in motion, and USA TODAY Sports activities will carry you reside outcomes, medal depend, highlights, and extra all through the day. Comply with alongside.
Group USA males’s volleyball held off a livid comeback try from Germany to win in 5 units on Tuesday.
The People took the primary two units (25-21, 25-17) earlier than Germany stole the following to to pressure a deciding fifth set.
In the long run, USA emerged victorious and on prime of Group C. They play Japan within the last group stage recreation on Friday, Aug. 2.
Group USA’s Catalina Gnoriega was knocked out within the second spherical of the ladies’s archery particular person match, successful her opening match Tuesday earlier than letting one get away within the spherical of 32.
Gnoriega swept Germany’s Katharina Bauer 6-0 within the opening spherical and missed an opportunity to shut out Indonesia’s Diananda Choirunisa earlier than in the end dropping 6-5 in additional time.
On her last arrow of regulation, the 21-year-old Gnoriega had an opportunity to advance with a rating of 9 or higher. She ended up with an 8, sending the match a one-arrow shootoff: Choirunisa shot a ten, and Gnoriega adopted with an 8.
American teammates Casey Kaufhold and Jennifer Munico will shoot Thursday to succeed in the spherical of 16. The USA’s Brady Ellison begins play within the males’s match Thursday as nicely.
The ultimate levels of the ladies’s archery particular person occasion shall be Saturday with the boys on Sunday. Kaufhold and Ellison will compete collectively in Friday’s combined group occasion. – Gentry Estes
PARIS — Enjoying in entrance of a packed home at Stade de France, the U.S. girls’s rugby group fell 24-12 to New Zealand within the Olympic semifinal.
The U.S. girls’s rugby group knew they had been going up in opposition to a juggernaut in opposition to the defending Olympic champion, and New Zealand outclassed them on the pitch.
Group USA’s Alev Kelter scored the primary attempt of the sport. Nonetheless, New Zealand answered shortly with a attempt from Stacey Waaka and a conversion to observe.
New Zealand held a slim 7-5 lead on the half.
Waaka opened issues up within the second half with one other attempt to push New Zealand’s result in 12-5 – and the island nation within the southwestern Pacific Ocean poured it on from there with two extra tries.
Kristi Kirshe scored a attempt late in rubbish time for the U.S.
The U.S. girls may have an opportunity to play for the bronze medal in opposition to the loser from the Canada vs. Australia match. The bronze medal recreation is ready to start at 1 p.m. ET. – Tyler Dragon
Exterior of Katie Ledecky’s dominance, quite a few Olympic swimmers additionally superior within the pool.
- Within the males’s 200 meter butterfly, Thomas Heilman advances to the semifinal spherical with a time of 1:55.74, good for eleventh place.
- Jack Alexy had the quickest time within the 100 meter freestyle heats, posting a 47.57.
- Within the girls’s 100 meter freestyle, Torri Huske (53.53) and Gretchen Walsh (53.54) had the seventh- and eighth-fastest occasions, punching their tickets to the semifinal rounds.
- Josh Matheny (2:10.39) and Matt Fallon (2:10.49) transfer on the in males’s 200 meter breaststroke, with the tenth and eleventh quickest occasions, respectively.
- The Group USA 4×200 meter freestyle relay group of Drew Kibler, Brooks Curry, Blake Pieroni, and Chris Giuliano gained their first warmth and posted the second quickest time total, advancing to the ultimate on Tuesday night.
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PARIS – Tennis star Coco Gauff, who was chosen because the Olympic opening ceremony flag bearer for Group USA, is out of the ladies’s singles competitors after dropping 7-6, 6-2 to Donna Vekic of Croatia.
It was a loss that was mired in some controversy. Down 7-6, 3-2 in a match that was tightly contested throughout, Gauff confronted a large break level at 30-40. As she retreated to hit a backhand, the linesperson made an out name earlier than Gauff swung her racket and she or he instantly decelerated, inflicting a miss.
However the chair umpire noticed it in another way, overruling the out name and awarding the purpose to Vekic.
A five-minute argument ensued by which Gauff known as the match supervisor and gave the impression to be crying, whereas saying “I really feel like I’m getting cheated consistently on this recreation.”
Gauff nonetheless has an opportunity to take house medals in doubles and combined doubles, however her efficiency Tuesday was shocking and disappointing given how strong she seemed within the first two rounds of the match and her robust observe report on the clay of Roland Garros in the course of the French Open. – Dan Wolken
How about these Olympic males’s golf pairings for the primary two rounds?
The star-studded group of Scottie Scheffler (USA), Rory McIlroy (Eire) and Ludvig Aberg (SWE) will tee off collectively at 4:11 a.m. Japanese time (10:11 a.m. domestically) on Thursday and 12:06 p.m. domestically on Friday.
In different featured teams: Xander Schauffele (USA) will play alongside Viktor Hovland (Norway) and Jon Rahm (Spain) at 11:55 a.m. domestically Thursday.
Collin Morikawa (USA) is within the Thursday 12:06 p.m. pairing with native French favourite Matthieu Pavon (France) and Matt Fitzpatrick (Nice Britain) in a gaggle that ought to get pleasure from a raucous following at Le Golf Nationwide.
And Wyndham Clark (USA) will play at 9:44 a.m. domestically Thursday alongside Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) and Tommy Fleetwood (Nice Britain). – Gentry Estes
Kara Kohler superior to the semifinals with a second-place end in the course of the first girls’s single sculls quarterfinal. She maintained second place all through the race and completed in 7:34.96, 4.39 seconds behind Australia’s Tara Rigney. New Zealand’s Emma Twigg had the quickest time within the quarterfinal at 7:26.89. The semifinals shall be Thursday.
Katie Ledecky’s dominance within the 1500-meter freestyle was on full show throughout Tuesday’s preliminary heats.
Together with fellow American Katie Grimes, Ledecky competed within the third and last warmth and simply certified for Wednesday’s finals by leaping out to an early lead that solely acquired greater and larger over the period of the race. Ledecky gained he warmth with a time of 15:47.43, practically 20 seconds forward of her closest competitor, Li Bingjie of China.
Grimes didn’t qualify for the finals.
American girls’s tennis star Coco Gauff has began her third spherical match in opposition to Donna Vekic of Croatia. Gauff has dominated in Paris thus far, dropping a complete of solely 9 video games throughout six units in three matches — which incorporates one doubles match with companion Jessica Pegula.
American boxer Roscoe Hill was defeated by France’s Billal Bennama within the spherical of 16 males’s on the 51kg division. Hill misplaced by break up resolution, 3-2.
Listed here are some Olympic schedule highlights. Peacock is streaming each sport and occasion stay because it unfolds in Paris.
(All occasions Japanese)
- Swimming heats begin at 5 a.m. The finals for the ladies’s 100m backstroke and males’s 100m free are again to again, beginning at 4:27 p.m. The ultimate for the boys’s 4x200m free relay is at 3:50 p.m. NBC is airing the finals. USA Community is airing heats.
- The girls’s gymnastics group last is at 12:15 p.m. Comply with our stay protection for full outcomes. NBC is airing.
- Males’s soccer has eight group play matches: Dominican Republic vs. Uzbekistan (9 a.m.), Spain vs. Egypt (9 a.m.), Ukraine vs. Argentina (11 a.m.), Morocco vs. Iraq (11 a.m.), U.S. vs Guinea (1 p.m.), New Zealand vs. France (1 p.m.), Paraguay vs. Mali (3 p.m.), Israel vs. Japan (3 p.m.).
- Males’s basketball has 4 group stage video games: Spain vs. Greece (5 a.m.), Canada vs. Australia (7:30 a.m,.), Japan vs. France (11:15 a.m.), Brazil vs. Germany (3 p.m.).
- 3×3 basketball opens its slate with eight video games beginning at 11:30 a.m. and working by means of 4:35 p.m. NBC is airing the U.S. males’s (4:35 p.m.) and girls’s video games (11:30 a.m.).
- Different sports activities in motion: Archery, badminton, seashore volleyball, boxing, canoe slalom, biking BMX freestyle, equestrian, fencing, handball, judo, rowing, rugby sevens, crusing, capturing, browsing, browsing, desk tennis, tennis, volleyball and water polo.
NBC is airing and streaming the Paris Olympics from all angles: Peacock is streaming each sport and occasion stay because it unfolds; NBC, USA Community, CNBC and E! are carrying varied stay occasions and replays all through the day. Listed here are 6 suggestions and methods for getting probably the most out of Peacock in the course of the Olympics.
Our 2024 Paris Olympics medal depend tracker updates after each single medal occasion.
(All occasions Japanese)
- The U.S. girls’s gymnastics group competes within the group last at 12:15 p.m. NBC is airing.
- The U.S. males’s volleyball group performs Germany in pool play at 7 a.m.
- The U.S. males’s water polo group performs Romania in group play at 10:35 a.m. USA Community is airing.
- The U.S. girls’s 3×3 basketball group performs Germany in pool play at 11:30 a.m. NBC is airing.
- The U.S. girls’s gymnastics group competes within the group last at 12:15 p.m. NBC is airing.
- The USMNT performs Guinea in group play at 1 p.m. USA Community is airing.
- The U.S. males’s 3×3 basketball group performs Serbia in pool play at 4:35 p.m. NBC is airing.
- The U.S. is competing in males’s seashore volleyball in opposition to Morocco at 9 a.m. NBC is airing. The People compete once more in opposition to the Netherlands at 2:15 p.m. E! Is airing.
- The U.S. girls’s rugby sevens group performs New Zealand within the semifinals at 9:30 a.m. ET. The bronze medal match (1 p.m.) and gold medal match (1:45 p.m.) additionally happen on Tuesday.
(All occasions Japanese)
- Gymnastics: girls’s group last (12:15 p.m., NBC)
- Swimming: girls’s 100m backstroke (2:57 p.m.), males’s 800m free (3:03 p.m.), males’s 4×200 free relay (3:59 p.m.) NBC airing all of the finals.
- Browsing: males’s bronze (8:12 p.m.), girls’s bronze (8:53 p.m.), males’s gold (9:34 p.m.), girls’s gold (10:15 p.m.) NBC airing the finals.
- Capturing: 10m air pistol combined group bronze (3:30 a.m.), 10m air pistol combined group gold (4 a.m., USA Community), entice males’s last (9:30 a.m.).
- Fencing: epee group bronze match (1:30 p.m.), girls’s epee group gold match (2:30 p.m.)
- Rugby Sevens: girls’s bronze match (1 p.m. E!), girls’s gold match (1:35 p.m., E!)
- Judo: Six medal matches (11:18 a.m. begin)
- Desk tennis: combined doubles bronze (7:30 a.m.), combined doubles gold (8:30 a.m.)
- Triathlon: males’s (2 a.m., USA Community)
(All occasions Japanese)
- Heats for the next occasions begin at 5 a.m.: males’s 200m fly, 100m free, 200m breaststroke, 4x200m free relay; girls’s 1,500m free, 100m free
- Semifinals for the next occasions begin within the afternoon: males’s 100m free (2:30 p.m.), males’s 200m fly (2:41 p.m.), girls’s 100m free (3:25 p.m.), males’s 200m breaststroke (3:46 p.m.)
- At present’s finals: girls’s 100m backstroke (2:57 p.m.), males’s 800m free (3:03 p.m.), males’s 4x200m free relay
With one medal already secured, American swimming star Katie Ledecky goes for her first gold of the 2024 Paris Video games because the overwhelming favourite within the 1500-meter freestyle.
Ledecky, 27, is undefeated within the 1500 in her skilled profession, having gained 5 world titles and the first-ever Olympic gold medal within the occasion on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Due to the size of the race and the endurance it requires, the 1500 free preliminaries and last shall be held over a two-day span, with heats being held Tuesday.— Steve Gardner
PARIS — Air pollution within the Seine river compelled Olympic organizers on Tuesday to postpone the boys’s triathlon occasion, threatening to derail a centerpiece of the Paris Video games the place a large, $1.5 billion clean-up effort aimed to permit athletes to compete within the notoriously soiled waterway that runs by means of the center of town.
An announcement issued by Paris 2024 and World Triathlon stated exams confirmed the water high quality within the Seine was nonetheless beneath an appropriate normal for a race day. The boys’s race has been postponed to Wednesday at 10:45 a.m. native time (4:45 a.m. ET), instantly following the ladies’s occasion, which is scheduled for 8 a.m.
Each triathlons stay topic to water exams complying with the established World Triathlon thresholds for swimming, and the unique contingency competitors day of Friday, Aug. 2 additionally stays in place, the World Triathlon assertion stated. — Kim Hjelmgaard
Within the pool, American Bobby Finke is the reigning Olympic champion within the males’s 800-meter free. In Paris he probably shall be challenged by Australia’s Samuel Brief and Eire’s Daniel Wiffen.
It’s the day of the ladies’s group last and the People have had this one circled on their calendars. In Tokyo, Simone Biles withdrew from the group occasion after struggling on vault. The People went on to win silver behind Russia (or ROC because the group was known as). It was the primary time because the 2010 world championships that the People didn’t win the group title at a worlds or Olympics. For the Paris Olympics, Russia is just not allowed to compete as a group. Led by Biles, the U.S. gained the gold on the 2023 world championships adopted by Brazil (silver) and France (bronze).
PARIS — Hours earlier than the males’s gymnastics group last on the 2024 Paris Olympics, Stephen Nedoroscik solved a Rubik’s Dice in 9.32 seconds. It is a passion of his. And that point, for context, is kind of spectacular. “Good omen,” he wrote on Instagram.
It was certainly.
In arguably probably the most pressure-packed state of affairs that one may think about in males’s gymnastics − the final routine of the final rotation of the Olympic last − Nedoroscik delivered in a giant method Monday night time, placing collectively a easy, assured displaying on pommel horse that wrapped up the bronze medal for the U.S. males’s gymnastics group. — Tom Schad
➤ Social media reacts to Stephen Nedoroscik’s bronze medal-clinching routine
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Amongst them is the social media account @ArtButMakeItSports. — Austin Curtright
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