Superstar gymnast Simone Biles dominated during her debut at the 2024 Paris Olympics after shaking off an earlier injury, but it’s in the pool where Team USA is already piling up the hardware. TODAY’s Craig Melvin shares highlights from the early days of the Games.
are hoping to take home their first medal in the team event since 2008 starting at 11:30 a.m. ET and at 3 p.m., the U.S. women's basketball team will play Japan in its first group stage.
The loss was a blow for Peaty, who had been seeking his third-consecutive gold medal in the 100m breaststroke this year.In today's men’s gymnastics team final, the U.S. could medal for the first time since 2008. While Spain's win today avenges the country after it didn't walk away with gold in Tokyo, it's not over for Team USA yet, which is going for a historic fourth consecutive gold medal.
Former NBA journeyman Chase Budinger and beach volleyball partner Miles Evans made quick work of a French duo, winning their opening match in two sets, 21-14 and 21-11. The heat wave will likely make for grueling conditions in some Olympic events this week. Ahead of the summer games, several athletesof soaring temperatures in Paris, and how heat waves intensified by climate change are threatening the future of certain sports.just delivered the highest qualifying scores in the men's street skateboarding preliminaries. The final is set to begin at 11 a.m. ET.
Djokovic is through to the third round of the men’s singles, aiming for a first Olympic gold medal, while Nadal will compete in the doubles.Germany's Michael Jung took the gold for individual eventing jumping this morning, making history as the only rider to do so three times. Both the U.S. and France secured spots in the quarterfinals yesterday by winning their first two pool play matches. France's win over the U.S. secured first place in Pool C as teams head to the quarterfinals beginning at 3 p.m. ET today.yesterday. She will advance to five finals and is favored to medal in all of them: team, all-around, vault, beam and floor later in the Games.
Carey’s father and coach had missed training Thursday due to an illness, USA Gymnastics announced last week.The youngest member of the squad, Hezly Rivera, looked shaky at times on beam and uneven bars in her Olympic debut. While she did not qualify for any individual finals, her scores later this week will still count toward the team's overall effort.
Fink, 31, tied Britain’s Adam Peaty for silver at 59.05 seconds, while Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi edged them by two-hundredths of a second to win gold.This may be one of the great rivalries in tennis, but so far it’s Novak Djokovic who has made it count when in matters, breaking Nadal’s first two service games.Team USA swimmer Emma Weber lost her cap at the bottom of the Olympic pool.
"There’s been quite a lot of rain in the last couple of days, but we are monitoring very closely," Paris 2024 chief executive Étienne Thobois said this morning at a news conference. Although Team USA did not qualify for the finals this Games, the Olympic record broken by Sheng was previously held by USA's William Shaner at the Tokyo Olympics.The Tokyo Olympics did not go as planned for track and field sprinter Noah Lyles, who had cited his mental health as a roadblock to success during the last Games. But the current fastest sprinter on the planet says he’s more prepared this time around to step into the blocks and bring home some medals for Team USA.
“As I go into this championship, this biggest stage of the world, I’ve been through the hardest parts. I’ve been at the bottom. I’ve fought my way back up. I’ve fixed the weaknesses. Now here I am stronger than before. If I lose this time, it’s not going to be because I beat myself. It’s just going to be, they had to be that much better.”The gold medal for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics team figure-skating event will be reallocated in a ceremony at the Champions Park in Paris at 5:00 p.m.
It's not the first time the Serbian and the Spaniard have met. In fact, it'll be the 60th and the two could not be more evenly balanced. Djokovic has won 30 of those meetings to Nadal's 29 since they first faced off on the very same Roland-Garros courts at the 2006 French Open.
The Canadian government also released a statement yesterday in light of the allegations mentioning that funding related to Priestman and the two other implicated Canada Soccer officials, Joseph Lombardi and Jasmine Mander, will be withheld for the duration of their FIFA sanction.Team USA's women surfers put on a show during Round 1 of Olympic surfing in Teahupo’o Tahiti.Mithil Aggarwal
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