2024-08-01 02:20:03
The 2024 Paris Olympics have a huge day in store Wednesday. LeBron James and the U.S. men’s basketball team play South Sudan. Superstar U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky competes in the 1,500-meter final.
The U.S. women’s national soccer team continues group play, with a match against Sam Kerr and Australia. The Olympic gymnastics men’s all-around title will be settled. BMX freestyle will see the men and women compete in the park finals. The Olympic swimming schedule features five finals.
At least eight U.S. squads are competing across six team sports, 25 sports in total are in action, and USA TODAY Sports will bring you live results, the medal count, highlights, and more throughout the day. Follow along.
Spanish tennis stars Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcarez fell to Americans Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4, in the men’s tennis doubles quarterfinals at the 2024 Paris Games.
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Nadal – known as the “King of Clay” for his 14 titles at the French Open – and Alcaraz – the reigning French Open champion – seemed a formidable pair in this year’s event, being held at Roland Garros, the site of the year’s second major. Though neither player has the same prowess in doubles as in singles, Nadal won the gold in the doubles tournament at the 2016 Rio Games, and the duo had taken care of business in their first two matches.
Where the Spaniards were lacking in experience, the Americans slot into the opposite end of the spectrum. Krajicek and Ram are each former world No. 1 players in doubles, and they each looked the part in the win over Nadal and Alcaraz.
The Americans, who finished fourth in the 2020 Tokyo Games, advance to the semifinals once again for another shot at reaching the gold medal match. — Jack McKessy
The U.S. men’s basketball team took a 55-36 lead over South Sudan into the locker room at halftime of their Group C game on Wednesday. Bam Adebayo led all scorers with 14 points, while LeBron James added 10 and Kevin Durant had nine. Team USA shot 54% from the field (19-for-35) and 44% from 3-point range (7-for-16).
NANTERRE, France — Katie Ledecky, the greatest female swimmer in history, won Olympic gold Wednesday night in one of the two races she has dominated for more than a decade, the 1,500-meter freestyle.
Ledecky took command of the race early and never was threatened, winning in an Olympic record 15:30.02. It is her first gold medal of these Games to go along with a bronze she won Saturday in the 400 freestyle.
France’s Anastasiia Kirpichnikova took the silver with a time of 15:40.35, and Germany’s Isabel got bronze in 15:41.16.
Ledecky now has won 12 medals in four Olympic Games, tying her for the most Olympic swimming medals won by a woman with Americans Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres and Natalie Coughlin and Australian Emma McKeon, who also is competing here. Ledecky has two more events at the Paris Olympics, the 4 x 200 freestyle relay and the 800 freestyle. — Christine Brennan
The U.S. women’s national soccer team beat Australia 2-1 in the final match of group play at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Wednesday, setting up a quarterfinal showdown with Japan, Saturday in Marseille.
Trinity Rodman’s goal in the 43rd minute opened the scoring for the Americans, and Korbin Albert scored from long range in the 77th to give the Americans some insurance. Alanna Kennedy pulled one back for Australia in the 91st minute, but her side was unable to find an equalizer in the seven minutes of stoppage time.
The U.S. won all three of its group games against Zambia, Germany and Australia, outscoring opponents 9-2.
Click here for a full recap of Wednesday’s game.
Leon Marchand electrified the fans once again as the French superstar won the men’s 200-meter buttefly. Marchand edged world record holder Kristof Milak of Hungary, winning the gold medal with a time of 1:51.21 to set a new Olympic record.
Milak, who set the previous Olympic record in the Tokyo Games (1:51.25), finished with a time of 1:51.75 on Wednesday to take the silver. Milak’s world record of 1:50.34 was set on June 20, 2022 in Budapest Hungary. Canada’s Illya Kharun earned bronze with a time of 1:52.80. No American swimmers made the final.
20-year-old Korbin Albert scored from long range in the 77th minute, extending the USWNT’s lead with her first career international goal.
Albert became the center of controversy in March when she reposted a TikTok video of a sermon that talked how being gay and “feeling transgender” is wrong, according to The Athletic. It was also discovered Albert liked a meme celebrating Megan Rapinoe’s injury in her final professional match.
Rapinoe publicly called out Albert for the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and she later issued an apology for liking and sharing several “offensive, insensitive and hurtful” social media posts.
Albert was not disciplined for the incident even though several current and former players like Alex Morgan, Lindsey Horan and Christine Press expressed disappointment with the midfielder. When Albert entered a match vs. South Korea in June, she received boos from the crowd. Fans also expressed disappointment when Albert was announced as part of the Olympic roster.
NANTERRE, France — From the outside lane, American swimmer Torri Huske pulled off an absolute stunner to win silver in the women’s 100-meter freestyle final Wednesday night at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström, the 30-year-old world record holder, hit the wall for gold with a time of 52.16, while Huske won silver with a 52.29. Siobhan Bernadette Haughey of Hong Kong earned bronze at Paris La Défense Arena.
Sjöström set the world record July 22, 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.
This is the second individual medal of the Paris Games for Huske following Sunday’s women’s 100-meter butterfly final, where Huske won her first Olympic gold. — Roxanna Scott
The three-time reigning Olympic champion USA women’s water polo squad defeated Italy handily on Wednesday by a score of 10-3.
Maddie Musselman netted a hat trick in the matchup with seven others notching a goal apiece.
The win keeps the U.S. near the top of Group B ahead of their final group play matchup against France on Friday at 6:30 p.m. ET. They sit a half game behind undefeated Spain in Group B.
The United States women’s volleyball team won an important match Wednesday for its medal hopes, getting past Serbia in five sets after blowing a two-set lead.
The final tally: 25-17, 25-20, 20-25, 14-25, 17-15.
So that’s two much-needed points in the standings for an American team that dropped its first match in the Paris Games.
“It just shows the grit that this team has,” said Haleigh Washington of the U.S. team. “Obviously, this wasn’t an easy win. We knew that we were going to be pushed by Serbia.”
The U.S. team, reigning Olympic gold medalists and medalists in the past four games, has faced a difficult challenge early in this tournament. The Americans’ four-team pool includes China, Serbia and host France. China is ranked fifth in the world (the U.S. is sixth), while Serbia won the sport’s most recent world championship two years ago.
After dropping its Olympic opener to China in five sets, the U.S. needed this result against Serbia. Looked like they were going to get it earlier, too, but then momentum swung to Serbia, giving way to a tense fifth set.
Of the match’s 203 points, Serbia won 102 and the U.S. 101.
“I mean, Olympic champion and world champion, we see what we can expect from this game,” said Serbia’s Maja Aleksic. “… The U.S. team fought really, really, really good. I don’t know what to say. I hope we meet again.”
The Americans will be favored against their third preliminary opponent. France is 19th in the world rankings and added to the field automatically as the host nation.
“It’s kind of like playing Mario, but you start with the Bowser level and then you go to the tutorial level,” said Washington, referencing the famous video game. “Not that France is that easy of an opponent, but you’re going from the boss battle to a little bit lesser, which is interesting. It’s sometimes reversed. …
“Not to denounce France, though. They are a very good team. Anything can happen. We need to be ready.” – Gentry Estes
Nikola Jokic came oh-so-close to making Olympic history Wednesday in France, and the Serbian basketball star can thank a teammate, and perhaps his coach, for falling just short.
Jokic, the reigning NBA MVP, finished one assist shy of the fourth triple-double in Olympic men’s basketball history in Serbia’s 107-66 win over Puerto Rico in Group C play at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Denver Nuggets star had 14 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists over 23 minutes in the blowout, which came on the heels of Serbia’s loss to the United States to open up the 2024 Paris Olympics.
With less than two minutes left in the third quarter, Serbian teammate and Miami Heat forward Nikola Jovic missed a relatively easy fastbreak layup that would have also been Jokic’s 10th assist. It loomed especially large when Jokic was subbed out by Serbian coach Svetislav Pesic with 30 seconds remaining in the third quarter and never returned to the game. – Mark Giannotto
After her kayak slalom didn’t go the way she’d wanted, Evy Leibfarth stuck it out and earned a bronze medal in women’s canoe slalom on Wednesday, adding to Team USA’s medal count.
“My goal is to just go out there and have a run that I’m proud of,” she said of the canoe slalom. “Not going to share my goals, but I’m feeling good about it.”
Well, she was in the right to feel that way: She is the first women’s canoeist to medal for the U.S. in solo canoe. It’s also the first medal in canoe slalom for the U.S. in 20 years.
A medal was not meant to be for Team USA fencing on Wednesday.
The sabre squad of Eli Dershwitz, Mitchell Saron, and Colin Heathcock defeated Canada in the seventh-eighth placement match after losing to Iran and Italy in tightly contested bouts earlier in the day.
Following a dangerous high boot vs. Spain on Wednesday, Brazil soccer icon Marta was shown a red card and sent off.
Marta nearly connected cleat-to-face with Spanish defender Laia Alexandri. She was in tears as she was sent off.
The Olympic men’s gymnastics individual all-around final is currently underway. USA TODAY Sports is providing live updates, highlights and more from Wednesday’s events.
American boxer Jahmal Harvey, a medal hopeful, needed a decisive third round Wednesday to keep his Olympic hopes from dissolving into a nightmare.
He trailed on the judges’ scorecards entering the final round of his opening bout at the Paris Games. He did enough to over the final three minutes against Brazil’s Luiz Gabriel Oliveira to secure a victory by split decision and advance into the quarterfinals of the featherweight division at 57 kg.
The bout featured almost as much wrestling as boxing at the North Paris Arena during the Round of 16 bout. Harvey got the nod from three of the five judges.
Harvey, a 21-year-old from Maryland, is seeded No. 3 in the featherweight division and will fight again Saturday. – Josh Peter
PARIS — Get yourself a teammate like Simone Biles.
Biles used an Instagram post celebrating the U.S. women’s gold medal to defend her teammates against MyKayla Skinner’s criticism of them last month. In a since-deleted YouTube video, Skinner said with the exception of Biles, the Americans lack talent and and the current gymnasts don’t work hard enough.
“Lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions,” Biles wrote, adding heart, gold medal and U.S. flag emojis. Her post included four photos of the Americans celebrating their win Tuesday night.
Suni Lee, who added the team gold to her all-around title from Tokyo, chimed in, saying, “Put a finger down if Simone Biles just ended you.” Skinner made a TikTok video of the “Put a finger down” challenge over the weekend, citing her Olympic experience.
Serena Williams won the 2017 Australian Open while pregnant. Now, Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez has shown the world you can win an Olympic fencing match-up while expecting, too.
Hafez, 26, revealed she was seven months pregnant one day after advancing to the round of 16 in the individual women’s saber competition at the Paris Olympics.
“What appears to you as two players on the podium, they were actually three! It was me, my competitor, and my yet-to-come to our world, little baby!” Hafez wrote Tuesday on Instagram. – Carrie McDonald
American trap shooter Derek Mein finished fifth in men’s trap shooting on Wednesday, missing out on on a medal opportunity.
Mein’s score of 26 wasn’t good enough to advance past the first round of finals. Nathan Hales (Great Britain) secured the gold medal, shooting an Olympic record of 48. Silver medalist Qi Ying (China) shot a 44, while bronze medal winner Brol Cardenas (Guatemala) won Bronze.
PARIS — The U.S. women’s field hockey team was shut out by Australia.
Australia’s Renee Taylor had a goal just three minutes into the game and the Aussies didn’t look back from there. Australia scored goals in the first, second and fourth quarters to defeat the U.S. 3-0 on Wednesday afternoon.
The loss dropped the U.S. women to 0-2-1. They are currently in fifth place in Pool B.
The women’s club will face Great Britain on Thursday. – Tyler Dragon
Snoop D-oh-double G is in the hizzle fo’ shizzle.
The rapper and NBC correspondent for the 2024 Olympic Games has been all over the place in Paris so far, and he made his latest appearance on Wednesday morning, taking in the Team USA vs. France beach volleyball matchup.
Snoop is a big fan of the women’s squad of Kelly Chang and Sara Hughes, saying he admires their values and teamwork.
“I had a chance to meet these ladies and fell in love with them,” Snoop said in an interview. “I love their whole strategic approach, as far as how they teach teamwork, and keep family and sisterhood. That’s so important to me, and I just love supporting that.”
Snoop might be Chang and Hughes’ good luck charm: Team USA advanced in two sets vs. France..
PARIS — The two American men who advanced to the finals of the BMX freestyle competition Wednesday at the Place de Concorde did not make the podium.
Marcus Christopher came agonizingly close. His second run, tactical and clean, left him less than one point – 0.65 points – from besting France’s Anthony Jeanjean for bronze. But the judges determined it wasn’t enough to medal.Justin Dowell, the other USA competitor, took seventh.
Argentina’s Luis Torres Gil’s first run of 94.82 (out of 100) was enough to hang on for gold. Kieran Reilly posted a 93.91 to nearly overtake him but had to settle for silver. – Chris Bumbaca
American Tommy Paul defeated Corentin Moutet in their third-round matchup at Roland-Garros. Paul persevered in the first set before cruising in the second for a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win. Paul is trying to become the first American since 2016 in Rio to reach the medal finals.
Novak Djokovic beat Dominik Koepfer, 7-5, 6-3, in their third round men’s singles match in Paris. Next up for Djokovic will be Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in the quarterfinals.
VAIRES-SUR-MARNE, France — Team USA rowers Michelle Sechser and Molly Reckford finished third in their semifinal heat of the lightweight women’s doubles sculls Wednesday to advance to Friday’s finals at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.
Sechser and Reckford qualified in a time of 7:05.03, behind rowing power Great Britain (6:59.79) and New Zealand (7:02.86). Sechser and Rexford finished fifth, a second behind the gold-medal winning Italian team, at the 2020 Olympic games. — David Birkett
PARIS — A day that looked to be golden for United States BMX freestyle rider Hannah Roberts ended in disappointment, but American teammate Perris Benegas took silver in the women’s BMX park freestyle competition Wednesday at Place de la Concorde. China’s Yawen Deng took gold with a best score of 92.60. Australia’s Natalya Diehm won bronze.
Roberts’ first run started auspiciously and looked to be cruising into first, the position in which she entered finals. But she could not nail a front flip at the end of her first run.
Then in her second run of two, Roberts could not land her first jump and conceded the attempt in agony. The five-time world champion and Tokyo silver medalist left Paris empty-handed. — Chris Bumbaca
Serbia star Novak Djokovic fought off Germany’s Dominik Koepfer in their first set, 7-5, and has jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the third-round match. Djokovic beat Spain’s Rafael Nadal in straight sets during the second round.
Alex Yee of Great Britain barely edged Hayden Wilde of New Zealand down the stretch to win the gold medal in the men’s triathlon Wednesday. The event was staged after two days of uncertainty over unsafe bacteria levels in the Seine.
Leo Bergere of France placed third for the bronze.
Yuxi Chen and Hongchan Quan came away with the gold medal in the women’s synchronized 10-meter platform event.
Jin Mi Jo and Mi Rae Kim of North Korea placed second to take silver, while Andrea Spendolini Sirieix and Lois Toulson of Great Britain will take home the bronze.
Americans Jessica Parratto and Delaney Schnell, who won silver in Tokyo, placed sixth. Schnell will compete in the 10-meter individual event later in Paris.
Kate Douglass and Lilly King were among the top 16 finishers in the 200-meter breaststroke prelims and will swim in Wednesday’s semifinals.
Douglass finished first in her heat — and second overall — with a time of 2:23.44. The only swimmer to post a better time was South Africa’s Tatjana Smith with 2:21.57.
King barely missed a medal in the 100 breaststroke earlier in the week.
Regan Smith, who has already won a silver medal in Paris in the 100-meter backstroke, posted the second-best time in prelims – and best time in her heat – for the 200m butterfly (2:06.99). Smith will move on to the semifinals in the event in which she won the silver medal in Tokyo.
Teammate Alex Shackell, at 2:07.49, also advanced with the fifth-fastest time.
American Ryan Murphy moved on to the 200-meter backstroke semifinals after finishing his heat in second place with a time of 1:57.03. Murphy finished 0.41 seconds behind Roman Mityukov of Switzerland.
Keaton Jones, 19, placed fourth in his heat and qualified for the semifinals with the 11th-fastest time at 1:57.54.
PARIS – After two days of uncertainty about whether the Olympic triathlon would be held as a full event due to unsafe bacteria levels in the River Seine, athletes finally got the go-ahead early Wednesday morning and plunged into the river under a sprinkle of rain.
By the time the women’s event entered the final few kilometers, the skies had parted and a pack of four runners were bunched tightly together, far ahead of the field.
In the end, France’s Cassandre Beaugrand made a late surge to win gold, finishing the circuit in 1 hour, 54 minutes and 55 seconds. Switzerland’s Julie Derron took silver six seconds behind, while Great Britain’s Beth Potter won the bronze.
Defending Olympic champion Flora Duffy finished in fifth place. The top American was Taylor Spivey in eighth place.
After more than 100 years of banning swimming in the Seine, France spent 1.4 billion Euros to clean it up and prevent sewage from spilling into the river in order to hold this competition. It is also a legacy project: After the Olympics, the hope by city leaders is that citizens will be able to swim in it. — Dan Wolken
Beiwen Zhang will compete in the knockout rounds of the women’s badminton tournament after winning her group (2-0) with a 22-20, 22-20 victory over Thuy Linh Nguyen (Vietnam) on Wednesday.
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Katie Ledecky has looked superhuman in the 1,500 free, an event she has dominated since winning gold at the 2013 world championships when she was 16. In Tokyo, the women’s 1,500 was finally added to the Olympic program. She won gold by 4 seconds. Will she repeat in Paris?
Team USA’s star-studded team of LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant and company are set to play South Sudan, a team making its first Olympic appearance. The Bright Stars are led by guard Carlik Jones, who averaged 26 points while playing for the Chicago Bulls’ G League team in 2022-23. Phoenix Suns center Bol Bol, son of Manute Bol, could also make the South Sudan roster along with Khaman Malauch, who is headed to Duke. Malauch is a 7-foot-1, 250-pound center who honed his game at the NBA Academy in Senegal.
Twenty-one-year-old Nevin Harrison of Seattle won gold in the women’s canoe sprint at the Tokyo Olympics. The women’s canoe 200 sprint was added to the Olympic program for Tokyo as a push toward gender equity. Harrison overtook veteran Laurence Vincent Lapointe of Canada in the Tokyo final.
Organizers cleared the 2024 Paris Olympics women’s and men’s triathlons to go ahead on Wednesday after the latest water tests on the Seine river showed lower levels of bacteria, ending days of uncertainty over whether the central Paris swim was viable after heavy rains.
The men’s triathlon had been scheduled to take place on Tuesday but was postponed until Wednesday after the river failed water quality tests. — Reuters
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