Kate Douglass wins gold in 200m breaststroke

There are 25 gold medal occasions Friday, essentially the most of those Video games up to now.

Highlights embrace the primary race on the monitor, French swimmer Léon Marchand’s quest for a fourth gold and each BMX races. 

Listed below are among the medal occasions tomorrow:

Capturing

Ladies’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions remaining, 3:30 a.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. Paris

Diving

Males’s Synchronized 3m Springboard remaining, 5 a.m. ET / 11 a.m. Paris

Rowing

Males’s Pair finals, 5:30 a.m.  / 11:30 a.m. Paris

Ladies’s Pair finals, 5:45 a.m. ET / 11:42 a.m. Paris

Males’s Light-weight Double Sculls finals, 6:02 a.m. ET / 12:02 p.m. Paris

Ladies’s Skiff, 6:13 a.m. ET / 12:13 p.m. Paris

Ladies’s Light-weight Double Sculls finals, 6:22 a.m. ET / 12:22 p.m. Paris

Trampoline Gymnastics

Ladies’s Trampoline finals, 7:50 a.m. ET / 1:50 p.m. Paris

Males’s Trampoline finals, 1:50 p.m. ET / 7:50 p.m. Paris

Badminton

Blended Doubles, bronze medal match, 9 a.m. ET / 3 p.m. Paris

Blended Doubles, gold medal match, 10:10 a.m. ET / 4:10 p.m. Paris

Crusing

Ladies’s Windsurfing, 8:03 a.m. ET / 2:03 p.m. Paris

Males’s Windsurfing, 8:23 a.m. ET / 2:23 p.m. Paris

Archery

Blended Workforce, 10:24 a.m. ET / 4:24 p.m. Paris

Tennis

Blended Doubles, gold medal match, 3 p.m. ET / 9 p.m. Paris

Swimming

Males’s 50m Freestyle remaining, 2:30 p.m. ET / 8:30 p.m. Paris time

Ladies’s 200m Backstroke remaining, 2:36 p.m. ET / 8:36 p.m. Paris

Males’s 200m Particular person Medley remaining, 2:43 p.m. ET / 8:43 p.m. Paris

Observe and Area

Males’s 10,000m finals, 3:20 p.m. ET / 9:20 p.m. Paris

Biking BMX Racing

Males’s remaining, 3:35 p.m. ET / 9:35 p.m. Paris

Ladies’s remaining, 3:50 p.m. ET / 9:50 p.m. Paris

With gymnastics, swimming, rowing and fencing, the U.S. added 4 extra gold medals on Day 6 of competitors on the Paris Video games, bringing the USA second behind solely China within the variety of prime medals.

The U.S. had 9 gold medals, and a prime 37 medals total on the finish of the day of competitors Thursday. China has 11 gold medals and an total 24.

Simone Biles, Kate Douglass, the U.S. 4 rowing crew, and the ladies’s crew foil received gold medals right now.

France is third in gold medals, with eight, and has 27 medals total.

Reporting from Nanterre, France

4 extra units of swimming medals had been handed out tonight at Paris La Défense Enviornment.

Within the 200-meter girls’s butterfly, Canadian prodigy Summer season McIntosh, China’s Zhang Yufei and Smith had been thought-about the favorites with Carmel, Indiana’s Alex Shackell additionally within the combine.

It was McIntosh who prevailed to take the gold. The USA’s Regan Smith completed second so as to add one other medal to her assortment, which now boasts 5. She additionally received silver within the 100 backstroke Tuesday. Zhang took bronze.

The lads’s 200-meter backstroke featured Hungary’s Hubert Kós, Switzerland’s Roman Mityukov and Arizona native Keaton Jones. It was a race most notable for who wasn’t there — Ryan Murphy, who received silver in Tokyo, didn’t qualify. 

Jones was shut out of the rostrum. Kos took gold, Apostolos Christou of Greece the silver, and Mityukov the bronze.

Indiana’s Lilly King, a five-time medalist with two golds on her mantle, confronted a stiff problem within the 200-meter breaststroke from South Africa’s Tatjana Smith and Kate Douglass, of Pelham, New York. In the long run, Douglass took gold, Smith silver and Tes Schouten of the Netherlands the bronze.

Swimming powerhouses the U.S., Australia, Canada and China confronted off in one of many signature races of those video games, the 4×200-meter girls’s freestyle relay.

Australia could have received the gold, however Katie Ledecky got here out on prime together with her Thirteenth medal — a silver medal — that cemented her as essentially the most embellished feminine Olympian.

Simone Biles and Suni Lee celebrated their wins for the ladies’s gymnastics particular person all-around competitors. Biles took residence a gold medal, whereas Lee earned a bronze.

Ledecky grew to become essentially the most embellished U.S. feminine Olympian of all time together with her silver medal win alongside the 4×200-meter freestyle relay crew in Paris right now.

Here is a reminder of all her {hardware}:

London 2012: Gold in 800m free

Rio 2016: Gold in 200m free; gold in 4x200m free relay; gold in 400m free; gold in 800m free; silver in 4x100m free relay

Tokyo 2020: Gold in 1500m free; gold in 800m free; silver in 4x200m free relay; silver in 400m free

Paris 2024: Gold in 1500m free; silver in 4x200m free relay; bronze in 400m free

Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC Information Digital.

Upon profitable gold and bronze within the all-around right now, Simone Biles and Suni Lee shared their Olympic nails, which had been a nod to the host nation.

“A little bit one thing *french* for right now’s nail examine,” USA Gymnastics mentioned in a put up, together with a photograph of the gymnasts’ French manicures.

Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC Information Digital.

Rebeca Andrade of Brazil claimed the silver medal within the girls’s gymnastics all-around competitors with a surprising remaining ground routine to wrap up her competitors.

New York Metropolis Corridor was lit up in purple, white and blue after New York native Lauren Scruggs helped her crew win a gold medal in girls’s crew foil.

Scruggs and Lee Kiefer, Jackie Dubrovich and Maia Weintraub beat the Italian crew for the highest Olympic honor. Scruggs, 21, is from Queens.

The U.S. girls’s gold is the primary U.S. crew gold within the historical past of the Olympic sport. The U.S. girls received silver on the Beijing Video games in 2008.

Cuban wrestler Mijaín López started his Olympic journey in 2004 in Athens, the place completed fifth. Now, 20 years later in Paris, López hopes to earn his fifth Olympic gold.

Forward of her Olympics debut, monitor and area athlete Veronica Fraley had a extra urgent concern on her thoughts than the Video games: paying her hire on time.

Fraley, 24, lamented her scenario on social media right now as she ready for her girls’s discus throw qualification spherical in Paris.

“I compete within the Olympic Video games TOMORROW and might’t even pay my hire” Fraley, the 2024 NCAA discus champion, wrote on X. “my college solely despatched about 75% of my hire whereas they pay soccer gamers (who haven’t received something) sufficient to purchase new automobiles and homes”

Her put up shortly drew the eye of rapper Taste Flav and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who each responded on-line pledging to assist by sending Fraley some cash straight.

Learn the complete story right here.

Reporting from Spring, Texas

Simon Biles and Suni Lee, who received gold and bronze within the girls’s gymnastics all-around, are inspiring the following generations of younger gymnasts.

They embrace a gaggle who watched them carry out from Biles’ gymnasium in Spring, Texas. 

Anne Thompson

Ukrainian excessive jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh’s journey to the Olympics was affected by the continuing battle in her residence nation. 

Together with her gold medal swim within the 200-meter breaststroke, Kate Douglass has rounded out her Olympic assortment.

She now has a medal in each coloration.

She collected a silver in Paris as a part of the 4X100 freestyle relay and scored bronze within the 200-meter medley in Tokyo.

However simply because she has one in each coloration does not imply she’s performed trying to find gold. She competes once more Saturday within the 200-meter particular person medley.

Lester Holt

One man having a ball in Paris is none aside from Snoop Dogg, the hip-hop nice who’s a particular NBC Olympics correspondent in the course of the Paris Video games.

It seems his love of the Olympics goes manner again. 

A day after Frederick Richard positioned fifteenth within the males’s gymnastics all-around remaining and three days after his crew received bronze within the crew occasion, he mentioned he is “on prime of the world” and “having fun with the journey.” He mentioned he is trying ahead to representing Workforce USA in L.A. 2028.

Paul Juda, who was additionally part of the crew and positioned 14th within the all-around, mentioned Richard, his teammate on the College of Michigan, as effectively, pushes him to do the “cooler factor” in his gymnastics.

“I feel bringing again [a bronze medal] is unquestionably the cooler factor on this regard,” Juda mentioned.

He mentioned he’ll keep in mind this expertise “for a lifetime.”

The pair shall be cheering on their teammate Stephen Nederoscik within the pommel horse remaining Saturday, when he’s anticipated to clinch one other medal for the lads’s gymnastics crew.

If anybody can acknowledge the best of all time, it is Beyoncé.

The legendary singer provided her voice to Simone Biles, narrating an introduction for the ladies’s all-around gymnastics for NBC. The background music is the music “Only for Enjoyable,” from Beyoncé’s most up-to-date album.

“Simone Biles conjures up me, and I am fairly positive she conjures up you, too,” Beyoncé says. “Such confidence in her power, such magnificence in her energy, such an important lesson in her story.”

“Brilliance, it would not come straightforward. Gold is usually a hell of a journey,” she continues. “And the best of all time is keen to place that title on the road each time she walks on the market.”

Summer season McIntosh of Canada acquired the gold within the 200-meter butterfly, however Workforce USA’s Regan Smith claimed silver — and a brand new American document (2:03.84).

It’s Smith’s second straight silver on this occasion.

She now has 5 Olympic medals — 4 silvers and a bronze.

• Profession spotlight: She beat Katie Ledecky in a 800-meter freestyle race on Feb. 8, ending the American’s profitable streak at that distance, which had gone again to 2010.
• Go-to day by day dish: Chocolate chip pancakes for predawn breakfast and once more for breakfast No. 2 after morning coaching.
• Her identify, “Summer season,” was impressed by Fox’s teen drama “The O.C.” and Rachel Bilson’s character, although McIntosh mentioned she’s under no circumstances aware of the present.
• The household has three cats again in Toronto, one among them named “Mikey” in honor of all-time swimming nice Michael Phelps.
• Older sister Brooke McIntosh received pairs bronze on the 2022 World Junior Determine Skating Championships. Mom Jill Horstead completed ninth within the 200 butterfly on the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Pre-race hype music: Toronto’s personal Drake.

Learn extra about McIntosh’s Olympic journey right here.

The gooey chocolate muffin made well-known by Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen has now caught the curiosity of Olympians throughout the Olympic Village.

Ebony Morrison, a hurdler with Liberia, posted a vlog-style TikTok video going to trace down the viral muffin. Morrison famous that she is not even a fan of chocolate however that after she had one she declared that it was “bussin” and a “high quality muffin.”

“Yeah, consider the hype,” Morrison mentioned.

Christiansen posted a video right now noting that he had caught his nemesis, the “cookie man,” with a chocolate muffin. Singaporean swimmer Jing Wen Quah advised her followers she’d snag a muffin after her races, however within the meantime she’s averting her eyes “so the Norwegian muffin man would not seem.”

Michael Grady and Justin Finest have a good time their historic achievement with the U.S. males’s 4 rowing crew and Workforce USA’s first gold medal since 1960.

And so the curtain has come down on Andy Murray’s glittering tennis profession. Three Grand Slam titles, two Olympic gold medals and 41 weeks because the world No. 1 — all within the biggest period within the historical past of males’s tennis together with Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

Murray, 37, indicators off as one among Nice Britain’s biggest ever sportspeople, together with his profession drawing to an in depth this night after a straight-set loss alongside associate Dan Evans to American pair Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul. The end result places the Individuals within the semifinals of the lads’s doubles and ensures that they are going to play for a medal.

After a heartbreaking loss to Federer within the Wimbledon remaining in 2012, Murray went on to take Olympic gold on the identical courts weeks later, capturing the hearts and minds of the British public and a worldwide viewers, actually establishing himself as a worldwide icon.

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Reporting from Villeneuve-D’Ascq, France

Brittney Griner is aware of solely too effectively the swirling feelings of being concerned in a prisoner swap, and she or he mentioned right now she is “head over heels” that fellow Individuals are going residence from Russia.

“Nice day. It’s an important day. It’s an important day,” Griner mentioned after the U.S. girls’s basketball crew beat Belgium 87-74 to clinch a berth within the quarterfinals. “We’ll speak extra about it later. However head over heels joyful for the households proper now. Any day that Individuals come residence, that’s a win. That’s a win.”

Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, went by way of her personal high-profile prisoner trade with Russia in 2022 after having been sentenced to 9 years in jail for drug possession and smuggling that 12 months.

So Griner was thrilled to listen to that Wall Road Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, a company safety govt from Michigan, each convicted of espionage fees that the U.S. authorities thought-about baseless, had been going residence.

Beiwen Zhang was the final American standing within the badminton event however misplaced within the spherical of 16 to Spain’s Carolina Marina.

It is a rain delay in Paris as lightning forces evacuations of the out of doors seaside volleyball and 3×3 basketball courts.

Workforce USA had simply caught up with China in girls’s seaside volleyball when it was compelled to cease, delaying the third and remaining set. Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth rallied to return again from a loss to safe the second set.

In the meantime, Serbia was main host nation France 13-10 in 3×3 males’s basketball after they had been compelled to cease due to the inclement climate.

The U.S. girls’s basketball crew held off Belgium, profitable 87-74, to maneuver to 2-0 in group play.

The rating belied how shut the sport was. Belgium competed laborious with a U.S. crew that has not misplaced in Olympic play since 1992. Emma Meesseman was arguably the star, bullying her technique to 24 factors for Belgium.

However the U.S. nonetheless has the perfect frontcourt on this planet. Breanna Stewart and A’ja Wilson mixed for 49 factors. Wilson had 23 — connecting on 8 of 12 pictures after beginning 1-for-5.

It was a powerful effort by the Belgium girls, who had the help of the group in Lille, which is just a brief practice experience from Belgium.

The U.S. subsequent performs Sunday in opposition to Germany.

Serbia’s 24-time main champion, Novak Djokovic, will face Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti within the males’s tennis semifinal tomorrow.

Musetti is coming off a powerful efficiency in opposition to Germany’s Alexander Zverev. He defeated Zverev, the world’s present No. 4, in straight units right now, 7-5, 7-5. Musetti is seeking to proceed his type this summer time after advancing to the Wimbledon semifinals in July.

Djokovic has confronted a difficult path in Paris, defeating Rafael Nadal in spherical 2 and Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas within the quarterfinals, 6-3, 7-6. Djokovic is in search of a robust end result after shedding the lads’s Wimbledon remaining to Carlos Alcaraz of Spain.

Each males are aiming for his or her first gold medal. Djokovic received bronze within the 2008 Olympics. In the meantime, Musetti is taking part in his first profession Olympics in Paris.

The opposite aspect of the bracket will characteristic two extra kids, as Alcaraz, 21, and 23-year-old Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada will combat for a spot within the finals.

Alcaraz is the youngest man to achieve the singles semifinals on the Olympics since Djokovic in Beijing in 2008. Auger-Aliassime is the primary Canadian to achieve the semifinals in singles in Olympic historical past.

Belgium is giving USA every thing it will possibly deal with by way of three quarters.

U.S. leads 60-53 after three in what’s been a extremely aggressive recreation.

Breanna Stewart and A’ja Wilson have mixed for 33 factors, however no different American participant has scored in double figures. In the meantime, Emma Meesseman has been an absolute beast inside for Belgium, main all scorers with 20 factors on 9-of-13 taking pictures.

Must be an thrilling end!

Reporting from Nanterre, France

American girls took silver within the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, placing an all-time document Thirteenth medal across the neck of dwelling legend Katie Ledecky.

The crew of Ledecky, Claire Weinstein, Paige Madden and Erin Gemmell positioned second, bested solely by Australia because the mighty Dolphins turned in an Olympic-record time of seven:38.08.

China took bronze. Three years in the past in Tokyo, China recorded the perfect time in Olympics historical past.

No lady has received extra medals than Ledecky, although lively Australian swimmer Emma McKeon has 12. Retired U.S. greats Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres and Natalie Coughlin even have a dozen.

It is one other first for the U.S. on the 2024 Paris Video games because the nation’s prime fencers deliver residence the gold in a crew fencing occasion.

Lee Kiefer, Lauren Scruggs, Jackie Dubrovich and Maia Weintraub got here out on prime of the ladies’s crew foil right now, beating out the Italian crew 45-39.

This ties the U.S. with Hong Kong and South Korea for fencing gold medals in Paris.

That is Scruggs’ second medal ever, including to her silver in particular person foil. Kiefer now has essentially the most career-fencing Olympic gold medals of any U.S. athlete.

After ending the primary quarter in a tie, USA leads Belgium 46-38 on the half.

The States led by as many as 13 within the second interval. Breanna Stewart leads the crew with 15 factors. After a gradual begin, A’ja Wilson scored six factors within the second, hitting three of her 5 field-goal makes an attempt.

The U.S. isn’t bullying Belgium as simply as they did Japan. The 2-headed heart monster of Emma Meesseman and Kyara Linskens has held its personal, combining for 18 factors for Belgium.

Belgium is giving the U.S. girls’s basketball crew a battle after one quarter.

The groups are tied at 23 after 10 minutes.

The dimensions benefit the ladies had in opposition to Japan isn’t as excessive vs. Belgium. Whereas Breanna Stewart is dominating within the frontcourt with 11 early factors, A’ja Wilson remains to be discovering her footing — she has 4 factors on solely 1-of-5 taking pictures.

Belgium has had a balanced assault, with 4 of their 5 starters scoring not less than 4 factors

Reporting from Nanterre, France

The U.S. girls’s 4x200m freestyle relay is anticipated to win a medal tonight. If that occurs, Katie Ledecky breaks her tie for essentially the most girls’s swimming medals (at present 12 with Individuals Natalie Coughlin, Dara Torres and Jenny Thompson and Australian Emma McKeon) and most medals for an American lady in any sport (12 with Coughlin, Torres and Thompson).

That might set Ledecky up in Saturday’s 800m freestyle remaining to interrupt her tie with Thompson for essentially the most Olympic gold medals for an American lady in any sport and to tie the document for Olympic gold medals for any lady in any sport with Larisa Latynina, a Soviet gymnast who received 9 golds within the Nineteen Fifties and ‘60s.  

Reporting from Nanterre, France

Hungary’s Hubert Kos received his first Olympic medal by profitable the 200-meter backstroke with a robust remaining 50.

Kos needed to rally previous upset-minded silver medalist Apostolos Christou of Greece, who accomplished the primary 100 in 28.75 whereas the eventual winner Kos hit the midway level at 29.24.

Switzerland’s Roman Mityuko took bronze and Arizona native Keaton Jones completed fifth.

Earlier than this race, not less than one American had medaled within the occasion since 1992. Ryan Murphy, who received silver in Tokyo, didn’t qualify on Wednesday. 

Reporting from Nanterre, France

Canadian wunderkind Summer season McIntosh received her second gold medal of the Video games, profitable a power-packed 200-meter butterfly race in Olympic-record time.

American Regan Smith grabbed silver and defending Olympic champ Zhang Yufei took bronze.

Earlier in these Video games, the 17-year-old McIntosh struck gold within the 400 IM and silver within the 400 free.

The Canadian prodigy’s 2:03.03 within the 200 fly bested Zhang’s earlier mark of two:03.86 which she set in Tokyo.

She did it once more.

After having to drag out of the person all-around occasion in Tokyo on account of struggles with the “twisties,” Biles has regained her gold-medal standing simply days after she led Workforce USA to a gold medal within the crew occasion.

Biles is now the proprietor of six Olympic gold medals and has change into the primary gymnast to win two Olympic all-around championships nonconsecutively. No American has received the Olympic all-around greater than as soon as.

Rebeca Andrade of Brazil — and Biles’ prime competitors — walked away with silver, the identical place she completed in Tokyo within the all-around.

And American Suni Lee took residence the bronze, in maybe essentially the most cutthroat combat of the day, since Biles and Andrade had been extremely favored to go one and two.

Japan defeated Canada in girls’s foil crew fencing to win a bronze medal.

After a fair contest between each groups within the first 4 rounds, the fifth proved to be decisive for Japan, opening a margin it by no means relinquished.

Canada had a comeback in Spherical 6 led by Eleanor Harvey slicing the deficit to 20-17.

The ultimate spherical was the closest, with Canada’s Harvey at one level slicing Japan’s result in simply 1 in opposition to Yuka Ueno. Japan finally held on for the win, with a remaining rating of 33-32.

The reigning all-around champ simply completed up the occasion remaining for the second time in her profession.

She wanted to offer the perfect ground routine of her profession (with a rating of not less than 13.535) to drag forward of D’Amato and get into bronze medal place.

She scored a 13.666, which ensures her one other Olympic all-around medal, following up her gold in Tokyo on the identical occasion.

Lee flashed an enormous smile after she caught her first tumbling move, an indicator of what was to return.

These girls have only one extra probability to show they’re worthy of a medal.

After three rotations, right here is who could be topping the rostrum:

1. Simone Biles (USA)
2. Rebeca Andrade (Brazil)
3. Alice D’Amato (Italy)

Comply with full protection right here.

The U.S. males’s 3×3 basketball crew is now an ignominious 0-3 after a loss to Lithuania on Thursday.

It was a decent battle, as Lithuania held on for a 20-18 win as time expired. Jimmer Fredette, the previous BYU star hoping to recapture basketball glory on the Paris Video games, didn’t play because the U.S. modified up its lineup from its first two contests.

Exterior taking pictures continues to be an issue for the States. Whereas USA dominated contained in the arc, Lithuania hit 4 2-pointers versus the U.S.’s one. With these baskets value double, the 2-point line turns into a fair greater recreation changer in 3×3 hoops.

The U.S. could have one other probability to document its first win, in opposition to Latvia, at 5:05 p.m. ET.

As we close to the midway level, Canada vs. Japan has been a balanced contest to this point.

After a aggressive opening spherical, Japan’s Karin Miyawaki confronted off in opposition to Canada’s Eleanor Harvey in Spherical 2. Each had even performances, leaving the rating tied at 5-5.

In Spherical 3, Japan’s Sera Azuma dueled Canada’s Yunja Zhang. Each fencers had even touches at 5 every. Getting into Spherical 4, the rating stays tied at 10-10.

The primary matchup had Japan’s Yuka Ueno dealing with Canada’s Jessica Ji Zia. The evenly aggressive first spherical ends with a tied rating of 3-3.

After two of 4 rotations within the girls’s gymnastics all-around remaining, Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade is within the lead, with Kaylia Nemour from Algeria in second, behind by .2 factors.

Simone Biles is trailing in third by .267 factors after executing a below-average bars routine.

Biles and Andrade are anticipated to go one and two in right now’s remaining.

Alice D’Amato and Suni Lee are in fourth and fifth — and each are thought-about excessive contenders to medal right now, as effectively.

Biles and Lee will each shut out the competition with the ever-tricky steadiness beam up subsequent then will head to the ground, the place Lee will contend on the occasion for the final time this Video games.

Two rotations down, two rotations to go.

At present, on the prime of the leaderboard:

1. Rebeca Andrade (Brazil)
2. Kaylia Nemour (Algeria)
3. Simone Biles (USA)

Biles and Lee — together with Andrade — head to the ever-difficult beam subsequent.

Comply with full protection right here.

In simply moments, Japan and Canada will face off within the girls’s foil crew fencing match for bronze.

Canada is coming off a robust efficiency in opposition to america earlier right now, whereas Japan enters the match after narrowly shedding to Italy.

After the primary rotation, the present standings are:

1. Simone Biles (USA)
2. Rebeca Andrade (Brazil)
3. Elsabeth Black (Canada)

Don’t pay an excessive amount of consideration to the place everybody stands proper now, although. These gymnasts every have three extra possibilities to show they’re worthy of a gold medal.

Comply with full protection right here.

China’s Fan Zhendong, 27, superior to the lads’s singles semifinals after mounting a powerful comeback in opposition to Tomokazu Harimoto, 21, of Japan.

Zhendong, who misplaced the primary two video games, received the following two earlier than falling quick once more in Recreation 6. The ultimate Recreation 7 provided a tense back-and-forth, which Zhendong finally pulled away to win 11-7.

Zhendong, nicknamed Xiao Pang or “Little Fatty,” performs an attacking fashion with a shakehand grip. He received the silver medal in males’s singles, in addition to crew gold, on the 2020 Tokyo Video games.

His semifinals look shall be Aug. 2 at both 5:00 p.m. ET or 8:30 p.m. ET.

And we’re dwell! It’s formally go time for Biles and Lee, who will face one another — and the 22 different prime gymnasts — for the gold within the particular person all-around remaining.

Other than our Workforce USA reigning champs (Biles received gold on this occasion in Rio and Lee received it in Tokyo), control Rebeca Andrade (Brazil), Kaylia Nemour (Algeria) and Qiu Qiyuan (China), who’re all in competition to medal as effectively.

The actual showdown shall be between Biles and Andrade, who shall be battling for the highest spot in right now’s meet.

Comply with full protection right here.

For archers competing on the famed gardens of Les Invalides, the searing situations weren’t solely impacting their efficiency. A number of broadcasters on the prime of the stands had been taking cowl — fairly actually — beneath umbrellas as they shielded themselves from the solar. Sounds of play-by-play commentary wafted above the cheers … main us to show our heads and discover the broadcasters laborious at work.

Workforce USA’s 3×3 girls’s basketball crew fell to 0-3 after a 17-15 loss to Australia on Thursday morning. The U.S., which beforehand misplaced to Azerbaijan and Germany, now sits useless final in its group of eight groups.

It must get within the winner’s circle quickly, as a result of solely the highest two groups qualify for the semifinals and the following 4 qualify for the play-in video games. The ladies will face Spain later Thursday.

In the meantime, the lads’s 3×3 crew is not faring too effectively both. Jimmer Fredette and Co. are 0-2 and tackle Lithuania in a must-win matchup later right now.

Australian swimmer Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner revealed Wednesday shortly after profitable silver within the males’s 200-meter breaststroke that he had examined optimistic for Covid.

Prepare dinner is the most recent to hitch a rising variety of athletes who’ve examined optimistic, together with British swimming star Adam Peaty, who introduced his analysis lower than 24 hours after profitable silver within the 100-meter breaststroke on Monday.

Australia’s Lani Pallister withdrew simply hours earlier than the Ladies’s 1500 freestyle on Tuesday, opting to “save her vitality” for Thursday’s 4×200 freestyle relay as an alternative, in accordance with the Australian Olympic Committee. As of now, Pallister is anticipated to compete in right now’s relay this afternoon.

This brings the whole variety of athletes confirmed with Covid to 9, together with not less than 5 Australian water polo gamers who examined optimistic previous to the Video games’ kickoff.

Regardless of the obvious surge in infections, the Paris Olympics don’t have any stringent protocols or preventive measures in place, in accordance with French newspaper Le Monde.

American duo Miles Partain and Andy Benesh received their match right now in opposition to Brazil to shut out preliminaries in males’s seaside volleyball.

Partain and Benesh will now await the outcomes of later matches on Thursday to be taught in the event that they’ve superior to the spherical of 16.

Partain, 22, is the USA’s youngest seaside volleyball participant to ever compete at an Olympic Video games. Benesh, 28, is among the many tallest, standing 6-foot-8.

Desk tennis has supplied viewers with dramatic moments and nail-biting matches all through the Paris Video games, and it’s persevering with to blow up in reputation. Willie Geist joins “TODAY” to take his shot with Workforce USA’s Rachel Sung.

Each of Workforce USA’s males’s and ladies’s soccer squads have superior to the knockout stage, with the lads’s crew doing it for the primary time in additional than 20 years. Gamers Benjamin Cremaschi, Caleb Wiley and Gabriel “Gaga” Slonina be a part of “TODAY” to speak in regards to the younger crew’s efficiency and enjoying in the summertime warmth.

Paris 2024 has made historical past as the primary Olympic Video games with an equal variety of female and male rivals.

That makes fairly a distinction because the final time the French metropolis hosted the Video games, in 1924, when the Worldwide Olympic Committee roughly excluded girls from competing.

The 135 feminine athletes, representing lower than 5% of the three,089 rivals, had been restricted to swimming, diving, tennis and fencing occasions.

In response to the exclusion, a number of women-only video games had been independently held, beginning in 1921 in Monte Carlo. 

On the 1928 Amsterdam Video games, the IOC allowed feminine athletes to compete in gymnastics and a few track-and-field occasions, however later banned girls from all monitor races over 200 meters (the restriction lasted till 1960).

As not too long ago because the 1984 Los Angeles Video games, when swimming and rhythmic gymnastics made their debuts and the ladies’s marathon was first held, lower than 1 / 4 of the rivals had been girls.

Immediately, the IOC, which has a principally male govt board, concedes {that a} gender hole nonetheless exists for officers and coaches at Paris 2024. The group says that it continues to actively promote gender equality inside the Olympic motion.

Workforce USA has dominated the 2024 Paris Olympics — not less than by some metrics.

American media organizations — together with NBC Information, The New York Instances and The Related Press — rank nations based mostly on their variety of medals total. By that measurement, the U.S. led the sector as of 4 p.m. ET Wednesday, with 30 medals complete, in accordance with standings on the NBC Olympics web site.

However some nations and organizations outdoors America kind nations based mostly on their variety of gold medals. By that customary, China topped the chart as of 4 p.m. ET, with eight gold medals. The U.S. was in seventh place, with 5 gold medals. Google is following swimsuit in search outcomes.

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Félix Lebrun, France’s 17-year-old desk tennis sensation, superior to the lads’s singles semifinals following a dramatic win over Yun-Ju Lin, 22, of Chinese language Taipei.

The match, which went the utmost seven video games, ping-ponged backwards and forwards with the gamers buying and selling wins for the primary six rounds. However Lin could not overcome Lebrun’s lightning-hot Recreation 7 begin, opening with seven unanswered factors. The sport ended 11-6.

Lebrun, who performs with the normal and largely deserted “penhold grip,” has been described by The Wall Road Journal because the “LeBron James” of desk tennis.

His semifinals look shall be Aug. 2 at both 5:00 p.m. ET or 8:30 p.m. ET.

Workforce USA medalists Perris Benegas and Evy Leibfarth celebrated their medals with “TODAY” dwell in Paris.

Benegas received silver in BMX freestyle, and Leibfarth took residence bronze in canoe slalom (her coach is her dad!).

They had been joined by Public Enemy co-founder Taste Flav, “official hype man” of the U.S. girls’s water polo crew.

Workforce USA is assured not less than a silver medal within the girls’s crew foil occasion after beating Canada within the semifinals.

The U.S. girls are excelling within the foil occasions within the fencing at these Video games, with the U.S. taking gold and silver within the particular person occasion earlier this week. Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs took these medals, respectively, and they’re joined by Jacqueline Dubrovich within the crew occasion.

They may now tackle Italy within the gold medal match at 2:30 p.m. ET.

Sharpshooter Manu Bhaker has change into the primary Olympic athlete from India to win two medals in the identical Video games. Bhaker, 22, received bronze in each the ladies’s 10-meter air pistol and later the blended crew occasion with Sarabjot Singh. 

As of Thursday, India has three medals, with one other bronze in males’s 50-meter taking pictures from Swapnil Kusale.

Workforce USA’s Scottie Scheffler is again within the clubhouse at Le Golf Nationwide having carded a strong, if unspectacular, opening spherical rating of 4 beneath par within the males’s golf competitors.

Scheffler is making his Olympic debut in Paris and acquired his spherical off to the proper begin, with a birdie on the primary gap and additional birdies at holes three and 9. Nevertheless it was a irritating placing day for the American, with a number of wayward birdie putts all through the again 9 seeing him fail to achieve momentum. It was finally a bogey-free spherical, although, and Scheffler will definitely stay in competition because the competitors heads to the second of 4 rounds tomorrow. A 26-foot putt on the seventeenth completed off a good spherical for the world No. 1.

He’s at present 4 strokes behind the present chief, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters champion. Matsuyama has the clubhouse lead at eight beneath par. Eire’s Rory McIlroy, who was paired with Scheffler, sits at three beneath.

Xander Schauffle remains to be out on the course and is at present two pictures off the lead. He’s six beneath after 13 holes.

Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC Information Digital.

Athens, Beijing, London, Rio and Tokyo.

For 5 straight Olympic Video games, American girls have topped the all-around podium in gymnastics, cementing their names within the sport’s most unique membership.

Within the 20 years because the U.S. girls’s gold-medal streak within the Olympic all-around started, the game and the lives of those that attain its loftiest heights have developed considerably.

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The ultimate of males’s skiff has been postponed midrace due to inadequate wind.

That is truly excellent news for the U.S. crew of Ian Barrows and Hans Henken, who had been gradual firstly and struggled to get into the race.

There’s been no indication from the race committee but when the ultimate shall be rescheduled.

Straight off their gold-medal win within the girls’s gymnastics crew remaining, Simone Biles and Suni Lee will compete in opposition to one another within the all-around remaining.

An American has received gold on this occasion at every of the final 5 Olympics, however that is the primary time within the historical past of the game that two former champions will go head-to-head. NBC’s Kaylee Hartung reviews for “TODAY.”

In equestrian, a rider actually can not win a medal with out their horse, and for Japanese rider Yoshiaki Oiwa, he actually wished to share the second with the steed that helped ship the silverware.

Check out this lovable selfie taken by Oiwa with the bronze medal the pair received within the crew night competitors — the nation’s first equestrian medal on the Olympics since 1932.

An Algerian boxer who was beforehand barred from a girls’s occasion over chromosome-based gender testing received a preliminary-round match in opposition to an Italian opponent.

Imane Khelif, who failed to fulfill eligibility checks on the Ladies’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi final 12 months, defeated Italian Angela Carini in 46 seconds right now after Carini deserted the bout.

In keeping with The Related Press, Carini’s headgear twice grew to become dislodged in the course of the temporary square-off, and she or he refused to shake Khelif’s hand after the bizarre end to the match as she cried within the ring earlier than leaving.

Khelif beforehand received a silver medal on the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation’s 2022 world championships, however that very same group disqualified her in a 12 months later simply previous to a gold-medal match over what it mentioned had been elevated testosterone ranges. Khelif has not recognized as transgender.

NBC Information beforehand reported that the Worldwide Olympic Committee formally cleared all athletes taking part on this 12 months’s boxing occasions.

Iga Swiatek is the world girls’s tennis No. 1 and she or he’s by far the world’s most dominant participant on clay courts — she’s received the final three French Open titles at Roland Garros. However she is not going to be the Olympic champion after struggling a shock defeat to China’s Zheng Qinwen in straight units.

After Zheng, who reached the Australian Open remaining earlier this 12 months, took the opening set 6-2, gold medal favourite Swiatek seemed to be again on monitor after racing right into a 4-0 lead within the second. However the momentum shortly swung away from her and Zheng’s rattled off 4 straight video games, breaking Swiatek’s serve twice and leveling issues up.

One other break for Zheng at 5-5 put her on the point of one of many greatest wins of her profession. After surviving a break level to take the second set 7-5, Zheng collapsed onto her again, screaming into the air in pure elation.

Zheng, who’s the primary Chinese language participant to achieve the gold medal match of the singles on the Olympics, will play for gold in opposition to the winner of tonight’s match between Wimbledon semifinalist Donna Vekic and Anna Karolina Schmeidlova. Poland’s Swiatek will nonetheless have a shot on the bronze medal.

Workforce USA’s Shaine Casas and Carson Foster are safely by way of to tomorrow’s semifinals of the lads’s 200m particular person medley alongside France’s Leon Marchand.

Marchand, France’s poster boy for these Video games, was again within the pool after profitable golds within the 200 butterfly and 200 breaststroke final evening. In doing so, he grew to become the primary male swimmer to win two particular person golds on the identical day since Australia’s Freddie Lane did so within the 1900 Olympics.

The Frenchman shall be hoping to go 4 for 4 with gold within the 200 IM, with additional medal alternatives probably to comply with in two medley relays.

Workforce USA has certified fourth quickest for tonight’s 4×200 freestyle relay, having rested Katie Ledecky following her gold within the 1500 freestyle final evening. She is going to virtually actually race in tonight’s remaining.

Caeleb Dressel squeezed by way of to the semifinals of the 50 freestyle — his time of 21.91 acquired him by way of in joint-Thirteenth.

Phoebe Bacon and Regan Smith certified as effectively for the ladies’s semifinals of the 200 backstroke, inserting 4th and sixth respectively.

Even earlier than Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran on Wednesday, Israel’s international minister had warned France in regards to the potential menace posed by Iran and its proxies to the nation’s Olympics crew in Paris in mild of the continuing battle in Gaza.

Israel’s secret intelligence service Mossad mentioned in Might that Iran had stepped up efforts forward of the Video games to focus on Israelis abroad. Israel has its personal safety groups in Paris, and NBC Information has reported that officers from the Shin Wager, the nation’s inside safety service, are defending the Olympic delegation.

France’s home intelligence service, in the meantime, has recognized these nationwide groups and competitors occasions that it deemed at further threat, and the nation’s safety providers have put in place additional measures round Israel’s delegation.

America’s Ian Barrows and Hans Henken are competing right now within the first medal occasion in crusing, the lads’s skiff.

The duo are in fourth place heading into the ultimate, which is scheduled to start out at 8:40 a.m. ET.

The U.S. crew of Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea are within the girls’s skiff remaining at 9:43 a.m. ET, and occupy the tenth spot.

The U.S. has not received a medal in crusing since 2016. 

Present wind situations off Marseille are about 10 knots, forecast to extend to a average 15 knots by race time. 

Each the U.S. males’s and ladies’s 3×3 basketball groups have gotten off to nightmare begins of their respective Olympic tournaments and may be working out of time to show it round.

The 0-3 American girls, who took gold in Tokyo, have dropped video games to Germany, Azerbaijan and moments in the past to Australia. They will nonetheless contend for a medal however have a slim margin for error.

The U.S. males, who did not qualify for Tokyo however had been anticipated to problem for a medal right here, are 0-2, with losses to Tokyo bronze medalist Serbia after which Poland.

Each the lads’s and ladies’s groups are in eight-team tournaments, enjoying a spherical robin of seven video games. The highest two groups within the group transfer straight to the semifinals, whereas groups ranked third by way of sixth face playoffs to find out the remaining two locations. The U.S. girls’s crew is at present eighth.

The U.S. males play twice on Thursday, first in opposition to Lithuania at 1:05 p.m. ET and seven:05 p.m. native time, earlier than taking up reigning gold medalists Latvia at 4:05 p.m. ET and 10:05 p.m. native time. Workforce USA’s girls have one recreation left right now, in opposition to Spain at 3:30 p.m. ET and 9:30 p.m. native time.

American Brady Ellison simply received his spherical of 32 match in archery at Les Invalides on a vivid and sunny day — in entrance of stands seating round 7,400 individuals.

It seems to be the most important dwell viewers for an archery competitors and fairly a distinction from Tokyo, when Ellison got here in as the highest seed however didn’t win a medal when he misplaced to the eventual gold medalist Mete Gazoz within the quarterfinals.

On whether or not there’s much less stress and the variations in Paris?

“I imply Tokyo was type of like an Olympic jail, proper? We weren’t allowed to do something.”

“The individuals make the Olympics, not the venues. The crowds make it. You need to come out right here and carry out for the individuals … and this crowd is superb.”

He has one other match arising shortly for a spot within the quarterfinals.

After profitable gold in her signature 1500-meter freestyle occasion final evening, Katie Ledecky will goal to make historical past tonight by profitable a document Thirteenth Olympic medal within the 4×200 freestyle relay. That might make her essentially the most profitable feminine American Olympian of all time.

NBC swimming analyst Rowdy Gaines takes a have a look at what makes Ledecky so dominant.

At Olympic taking pictures occasions, you may often see rivals utilizing a giant pair of ear protectors and fancy lenses to assist them goal. However Turkey’s Yusuf Dikec did not want any of that in Tuesday’s blended air pistol crew occasion — all he wanted was his humble pair of prescription glasses.

The 51-year-old Dikec strolled as much as the taking pictures line with out the flamboyant gizmos of his rivals. What he did subsequent has taken the web by storm.

With the relaxed insouciance of a person ready for a bus, the Turkish athlete positioned his left hand in his pocket and coldly took his pictures as he helped his nation to silver. Dikec and his associate had been finally crushed to gold by Serbia, however the man’s informal aura will certainly be unmatched all through the remainder of the Video games.

South Korea’s Kim Yeji additionally went viral earlier within the Olympics together with her taking pictures fashion as she took silver within the girls’s particular person 10-meter air pistol occasion.

American Lauren Scruggs made historical past at the Paris Olympics on Sunday when she took the silver medal in girls’s foil fencing.

Scruggs, from Queens, New York, grew to become the primary Black American lady and the primary Black out lesbian to win a person fencing medal.

She described the expertise as “surreal” and mentioned she hopes her medal exhibits different people who fencing, which has traditionally lacked range, “is for you.”

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Workforce USA has claimed its first gold medal within the males’s 4 because the 1960 Rome Olympics. It’s Workforce USA’s sixth gold medal of the Video games.

In a nail-biting race, the U.S. and New Zealand had been largely even all through, however a remaining surge within the final 200 meters noticed Workforce USA take the gold. World champions Nice Britain had been the favorites, however an terrible begin noticed them languish behind, finally recovering to take bronze.

The American quad consisted of Michael Grady, who was the lone returnee from the boat that completed fifth on this occasion in Tokyo, alongside Liam Corrigan, Justin Finest and Nick Mead — all of whom competed within the eight boat in Tokyo. The group had received silver ultimately 12 months’s World Championships, and it has now added Olympic gold.

U.S. Rowing made large adjustments after failing to medal in rowing in Tokyo for the primary time ever. New technical director Josy Verdonkshot’s extra data-driven strategy has paid immediate rewards, with different U.S. boats additionally going sturdy at these Video games. Workforce USA additionally completed fifth within the girls’s 4 remaining earlier, with the Netherlands edging out Nice Britain for gold.

U.S. boxer Jennifer Lozano began fascinated about how far the game might take her at 9 years previous in Laredo, Texas. When she secured her spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics at October’s Pan American Video games, she lastly realized a dream years within the making.

“That was surreal. I simply couldn’t consider what was proper in my hand,” she advised NBC Information. “One thing I used to be working so laborious for. One thing I had dreamt of for thus lengthy for years since I used to be a child and every thing I needed to undergo simply to be right here.”

However getting thus far wasn’t straightforward. Lozano, who fights Finland’s Pihla Kaivo-oja later right now, was typically teased at school for her weight and her Spanish accent, although she lived in a metropolis the place about 90% of the inhabitants speaks Spanish at residence. When she sought recommendation about find out how to deal with bullying, she turned to the individual she trusted essentially the most: her grandmother.

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Many Paris Olympics followers have questioned simply what the smiling purple mascot of the Video games is. Effectively, marvel no extra.

Tommy Paul is the final American standing within the males’s tennis singles at Roland Garros, and now he faces some of the daunting duties within the sport — taking up Carlos Alcaraz.

Spain’s Alcaraz is likely one of the favorites for gold in Paris after profitable each the French Open and Wimbledon over the previous couple of months. Alcaraz beat Paul within the Wimbledon quarterfinals final month and would be the favourite to take down Paul on the clay at Roland Garros.

However the American is in sturdy type and has received every of his three singles matches up to now on the Olympics in straight units. Paul and Alcaraz are second up on Roland Garros’ central court docket right now, getting underway at 8 a.m. ET.

The American is because of carry out double obligation right now — he’s additionally on account of crew up with Taylor Fritz within the males’s doubles as they tackle Nice Britain’s Andy Murray and Dan Evans tonight. Different notable matches embrace Novak Djokovic taking up Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas tonight and ladies’s world No. 1 Iga Swiatek taking up China’s Qinwen Zheng.

China has prolonged its lead on the prime of the gold medal desk after taking its eleventh gold of the Video games within the girls’s 20k race stroll.

In sweltering situations the place many racers opted to put on ice towels round their necks, China’s Yang Jiayu led for over half of the race as she took the highest spot on the rostrum by a cushty 25-second margin forward of Spain’s Maria Perez. Australia’s Jemina Montag took bronze.

China has claimed a 3rd taking pictures gold of the Video games, with Yukun Liu taking victory on this morning’s males’s 50-meter rifle three-position occasion.

Ukraine’s Serhiy Kulish took silver, with Swapnil Kusale profitable bronze to safe India’s third medal of those Olympics.

Workforce USA’s Katie Ledecky received her signature occasion on the Paris Olympics, the 1,500-meter freestyle, incomes her eighth Olympic gold medal. French swimming celebrity Leon Marchand received his second gold. And the lads’s and ladies’s triathlons had been held after the water high quality of the Seine was deemed protected sufficient.

The primary medals of Day 6 of the Olympics have already been handed out, with Ecuador’s Brian Daniel Pintado taking gold within the males’s 20km race stroll.

Pintado pulled away from the remainder of the sector with 2 kilometers to go, and the Ecuadorian pulled out Cristiano Ronaldo’s signature “siuuu” celebration as he crossed the road. Silver went to Brazil’s Caio Bonfim, who completed 14 seconds behind, and bronze went to Spain’s Alvaro Martin.

These race strolling medals are the primary of the Paris Video games track-and-field occasions. The principle distinction between race strolling and working is that athletes should have one foot involved with the bottom always, with time penalties if that rule is damaged.

The ladies’s race is now underway — Workforce USA didn’t qualify for both occasion.

Max Butterworth

A bolt of lightning strikes throughout a storm in Paris this morning over an Eiffel Tower adorned with the Olympic rings.

With Individuals sweeping all 4 golf majors this season, hopes are excessive for an American gold as Xander Schauffele appears to defend the Olympic title over the following 4 days at Paris’ Le Golf Nationwide.

Schauffele has already received the PGA Championship and the Open this season, changing into the primary participant since 2018 to win two majors in the identical 12 months. Fellow Individuals Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau, who will not be on the Olympics, took the Masters and the U.S. Open respectively.

Scheffler, the world No. 1, will even be a medal favourite in Paris, having received six tournaments throughout a superb 2024. Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa spherical off Workforce USA’s four-strong crew.

Elsewhere within the area, Eire’s Rory McIlroy shall be in search of redemption following his brutal collapse on the U.S. Open in June and after lacking the reduce on the Open a fortnight in the past. He’ll be decided for redemption right here. Nice Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood and Spain’s Jon Rahm have good information at Le Golf Nationwide and may be among the many podium chasers.

Good morning! It is Day 6 of the 2024 Paris Olympics. We have a bumper day of gold medal occasions for you right now, with 18 gold medals up for grabs over the course of the day.

Maybe most enjoyable for our readers stateside would be the inventive gymnastics girls’s particular person all-around remaining, the place Workforce USA’s Simone Biles shall be trying so as to add to her haul. That is at 12:15 p.m. ET and 6:15 p.m. native time.

The USA’s swimming crew additionally competes. For the ladies, Katie Ledecky and the remainder of Workforce USA race within the 4×200-meter freestyle relay at 4:03 p.m. ET and 10:03 p.m. native time. Earlier than that, Regan Smith races within the 200 butterfly at 2:30 p.m. ET and eight:30 p.m. native time. Kate Douglass races for the 200 breaststroke medal at 3:11 p.m. ET and 9:11 p.m. native time.

In males’s swimming, Keaton Jones is probably Workforce USA’s greatest hope within the 200 backstroke occasion at 2:38 p.m. ET and eight:38 p.m. native time.

In nonmedal occasions, the Workforce USA girls’s basketball crew performs Belgium at 3:00 p.m. ET and 9:00 p.m. native time; and in tennis, Tommy Paul takes on Carlos Alcaraz within the males’s singles quarterfinal after 12:00 p.m. native time and 6:00 p.m. Novak Djokovic additionally performs Stefanos Tsitsipas at 1:00 p.m. ET and seven:00 p.m. native time.

Particular NBC Olympics correspondent Snoop Dogg has been everywhere in the Video games, carrying the torch, getting a swim lesson from Michael Phelps, touring by bus and practice with the U.S. males’s basketball crew.

“Man, this can be a grind out right here,” Snoop advised NBC’s Mike Tirico on Wednesday’s prime-time Paris Video games broadcast. “However I’m having a lot enjoyable.”

“Mike, I could be the MVP of the Olympics, simply saying,” Snoop mentioned.

Snoop joined the lads’s basketball crew on its bus and practice journey all the way down to Lille, the place group-phase video games are being performed.

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