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Updated Aug. 10, 2024, 4:01 AM GMT+1
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The team of Sha’Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry earned gold in the 4×100-meter relay. The men’s relay team, which didn’t include Covid-hit Noah Lyles, could not overcome its history of mistakes in the event. Despite a seventh-place finish, a fumbled baton pass led the men’s team to be disqualified.
Breaking, or breakdancing, made its Olympic debut, but Team USA’s Logan Edra (B-Girl Logistx) and Sunny Choi (B-Girl Sunny) did not advance out of the round-robin stage to the quarterfinals. The men’s competition will be tomorrow.
The U.S. women’s basketball team soared past Australia 85-64 to advance to Sunday’s gold medal game.
The U.S. men’s volleyball team defeated Italy for the bronze medal, winning in three sets. Host France fell to European Championship-winner Spain in the men’s soccer final, 5-3.
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There are 39 medal events tomorrow, the most of any day of these Games.
Among them is the men’s basketball gold medal match between the USA and France.
The U.S.’ Victor Montalvo (known just as Victor) is the favorite in the new Olympic event of breaking. And the USA women are also favored in the Women’s 4x400m Relay.
Here are some of the events Saturday:
Track and Field
Men’s Marathon, 2:00 a.m. ET / 8:00 a.m. Paris
Men’s High Jump, 1:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. Paris
Men’s 800m, 1:15 p.m. ET / 7:15 p.m. Paris
Women’s Javelin, 1:30 p.m. ET / 7:30 p.m. Paris
Women’s 100m Hurdles, 1:35 p.m. ET / 7:35 p.m. Paris
Men’s 5000m, 1:50 p.m. ET / 7:50 p.m. Paris
Women’s 1500m, 2:15 p.m. ET / 8:15 p.m.
Men’s 4x400m Relay, 3:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 p.m. Paris
Women’s 4x400m Relay, 3:14 p.m. ET / 9:14 p.m. Paris
Golf
Women’s Final Round, 3:00 a.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. Paris
Handball
Women’s Tournament, bronze medal match, 4:00 a.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. Paris
Table Tennis
Women’s Team, bronze medal match, 4:00 a.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. Paris
Women’s Team, gold medal match, 9:00 a.m. ET / 3:00 p.m. Paris
Water Polo
Women’s Tournament, bronze medal match, 4:35 a.m. ET / 10:35 a.m. Paris
Basketball
Men’s Tournament, bronze medal game, 5:00 a.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. Paris
Weightlifting
Men’s 102kg/224 lbs., 5:30 a.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. Paris
Women’s 81kg/178 lbs., 10:00 a.m. ET / 4:00 p.m. Paris
Men’s 102+ kg/224+ lbs., 2:30 p.m. ET / 8:30 p.m. Paris
Sport Climbing
Women’s Bouldering and Lead Combined, 6:35 a.m. ET / 12:35 p.m. Paris
Canoe Sprint
Women’s K-1 500m, 7:00 a.m. ET / 1:00 p.m. Paris
Men’s K-1 1000m, 7:20 a.m. ET / 1:20 p.m. Paris
Women’s C-1 200m, 7:50 a.m. ET / 1:50 p.m. Paris
Volleyball
Men’s Tournament, gold medal match, 7:00 a.m. ET / 1:00 p.m. Paris
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Group All-Around, 8:00 a.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. Paris
Diving
Men’s 10m Platform, 9:00 a.m. ET / 3:00 p.m. Paris
Handball
Women’s Tournament, gold medal match, 9:00 a.m. ET / 3:00 p.m. Paris
Water Polo
Women’s Tournament, gold medal match, 9:35 a.m. ET / 3:35 p.m. Paris
Soccer
Women’s Tournament, gold medal match, 11:00 a.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. Paris
Cycling
Men’s Madison, 11:59 a.m. ET / 5:59 p.m. Paris
Modern Pentathlon
Men’s Event, 1:10 p.m. ET / 7:10 p.m. Paris
Artistic Swimming
Duet, 1:30 p.m. ET / 7:30 p.m. Paris
Wrestling
Men’s Freestyle 74 kg/163 lbs., medal matches, 1:30 p.m. ET / 7:30 p.m. Paris
Men’s Freestyle 125 kg/275 lbs., medal matches, 2:15 p.m. ET / 8:15 p.m. Paris
Women’s Freestyle 62 kg/136 lbs., medal matches, 3:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 p.m. Paris
Taekwondo
Men’s Olympic Heavyweight (80+kg/176+ lbs.), medal rounds, 2:19 p.m. ET / 8:19 p.m. Paris
Women’s Olympic Heavyweight (67+kg/148+ lbs.), medal rounds, 2:34 p.m. ET / 8:34 p.m. Paris
Beach Volleyball
Men’s Tournament, bronze medal match, 3:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 p.m. Paris
Men’s Tournament, gold medal match, 4:30 p.m. ET / 10:30 p.m. Paris
Breaking
Men’s Event, medal battles, 3:19 p.m. ET / 9:19 p.m. Paris
Basketball
Men’s Tournament, gold medal game, 3:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 p.m. Paris
Boxing
Women’s Featherweight (57kg/125 lbs.), 3:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 p.m. Paris
Men’s Featherweight (57kg/125 lbs.), 3:47 p.m. ET / 9:47 p.m. Paris
Women’s Middleweight (75kg/165 lbs.), 4:34 p.m. ET / 10:34 p.m. Paris
Men’s Super Heavyweight (92+kg/202+ lbs.), 4:51 p.m. ET / 10:51 p.m.
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USA wins 8 medals, including 3 golds, on Day 14 of competition
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The United States won three gold medals — including the women’s relay in which Sha’Carri Richardson was able to glance at the competition on her way to victory — bringing its total to 33.
China has caught up when it comes to just gold medals and also had 33 at the end of Day 14 of competition at the Paris Games. Australia is next with 18.
Overall, the U.S. has 111 medals: 33 gold, 39 silver and 39 bronze. It continues to lead all other nations and groups in the overall medal count.
Alison Palaia and Eric Quinlan grew up not far from New York City in the 1980s, just when breaking was becoming a thing in the Bronx.
“I remember kids in my school throwing down cardboard boxes on the floor and doing all of these moves,” said Quinlan, 50, now a software engineer who lives in Norwalk, Conn. “And so to see it at the Olympics all these decades later is just amazing.”
The married couple have become quite the breaking fans since buying their tickets.
“We’ve watched a lot of breaking over the past year, and that final was everything we hoped for,” said Palaia, 48, who works as an artist. “I love the way the athletes get in each others’ faces in a theatrical way, but then after they finished they were hugging and laughing. You can tell they all know each other.”
Like others leaving the final, they are dismayed the sport won’t be at L.A. 2028.
“We’re pretty bummed out about it, especially because breaking was invented in the U.S, in New York City,” she added. “I just hope they bring it back for the next one.”
PARIS — Friday night was a “powerful moment for hip hop” and a “powerful moment for dance,” as one of the first-ever Olympic breaking hosts put it after Japan’s Ami was crowned the winner of an arduous day of dance battles.
She faced off against Lithuania’s Nicka in the final, proving her worth and her standing entering the arena as a two-time breaking, or breakdancing, world champion.
Today, Ami added another medal to that list.
The athletes, and Paris, shined during the Olympics
Lester Holt
Paris itself soared to Olympic heights during the two weeks of the Olympic Games. A look at the starring roles of the athletes and the city itself.
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American hurdler Rai Benjamin is on a roll
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Rai Benjamin’s winning streak for 2024 continues.
With gold in the 400m hurdles in Paris, his undefeated streak lives on. He’s won all nine of his races at any distance so far this year.
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US’ Rai Benjamin celebrates after winning the men’s 400m hurdles final in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on Friday.Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP – Getty Images
He bested Karsten Warholm of Norway to grab his first global gold medal in the event today.
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It was a familiar scene for Team USA in the men’s 4×100-meter relay, as their formidable speed was halted once again by a botched baton pass.
In their quest to win their first Olympic gold medal in the event in 24 years and end a 20-year Olympic medal drought, they not only finished off the podium but were disqualified after they flubbed the first exchange.
American track legend Carl Lewis, who has long been calling for a coaching overhaul on the men’s side, condemned the program’s repeated failure to meet the moment.
“It is time to blow up the system. This continues to be completely unacceptable,” Lewis wrote on X. “It is clear that EVERYONE at USAFT [USA Track & Field] is more concerned with relationships than winning. No athlete should step on the track and run another relay until this program is changed from top to bottom.”
After stumble and relay disqualification, Kyree King says ‘we went out there and went big’
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After the U.S. team of Christian Coleman, Kenneth Bednarek, Kyree King and Fred Kerley suffered a baton bungle in the 4×100 relay and were disqualified, King said they gave it their all.
“We came out here and we had the mind-set of no risk, no reward, so we went out there and went big. It didn’t happen,” King said.
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The baton handoff problem was between Coleman and Bednarek.
Team USA’s men’s 4×100-meter team strikes out again
Sean Nevin
The history of sports is littered with legendary curses — the Chicago Cubs’ 108-year World Series hoodoo, only broken in 2016, is one particularly famous example. When the Team USA men’s 4×100-meter relay team advanced to tonight’s final there was hope they could break a decades-long streak of bad luck.
Since taking silver in Athens back in 2004, Team USA has failed to win a single Olympic medal in this event, and in the last 20 years, the team has been its own worst enemy, with a litany of mistakes and a doping scandal putting pay to its chances of an Olympic medal.
In 2008, the baton was dropped during the exchange between Doc Patton and Tyson Gay in the heats. A silver medal for the team in London in 2012 was retracted after Gay returned a positive drug test after the Games. Another botched baton exchange in Rio in 2016 — this time the baton passed outside of the legal area — again saw Team USA disqualified. And it was more of the same in Tokyo, with a bungled exchange between Fred Kerley and Ronnie Baker seeing the team failing to progress to the final.
But the team, without individual 100-meter champion Noah Lyles, couldn’t break through. Christian Coleman’s pass to Kenny Bednarek set the team back, with Coleman appearing to run into Bednarek, and Team USA could not catch up.
Coleman tries to hand the baton to Bednarek
Christian Coleman of the United States, struggles to hand the baton to teammate Kenneth Bednarek, in the men’s 4×100-meter relay final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, on Friday.Bernat Armangue / AP
The U.S. finished in seventh, far behind winner Canada, but the fumbled baton pass meant they were disqualified.
In U.S. women’s relay gold performance, a baton and trust in one another
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There was trust on both sides of a crucial baton handoff as the U.S. women powered to a gold medal in the 4×100 relay in Paris.
It happened between Gabby Thomas and Sha’Carri Richardson in the final handoff of the race, and each had faith in the other, they said.
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“I just remember trusting Gabby and knowing that she’s gonna put this stick in my hand no matter what, and to leave my best on the track,” said Richardson, who blew past her competitors to finish the race.
Thomas expressed a similar faith in her teammate.
“Obviously, passing the baton to Sha’Carri is a very special and unique thing. She is so fast,” Thomas said. “We know we’re in good hands as soon as she gets her hands on the baton. I felt very proud.”
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The United States won the women’s 4x100m relay after Sha’Carri Richardson came from behind in the anchor leg to take the race. Teammates Melissa Jefferson, TeeTee Terry and Gabby Thomas ran the first legs of the race.
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Americans played one electric quarter of basketball today and that was more than enough to send them to the women’s gold medal game.
Jackie Young, A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart and Copper Kahleah all scored in double figures as the U.S. cruised to a 85-64 victory over Australia in a semifinal game at Bercy Arena.
The Americans, going for their eighth consecutive gold medal, will play at 3:30 p.m. Sunday local time against France or Belgium in what will likely be the last competition of these Olympics.
American Anna Hall says fifth place in heptathlon ‘very bittersweet’
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Anna Hall called coming in fifth in the heptathlon “very bittersweet,” and found some things to be proud of after the disappointing finish.
“I did everything that I could do, so I’m trying really hard to be proud of myself,” Hall said. “It definitely hurts really bad, but I’m really proud of how hard we fought in order to come as far as we came.”
Hall came in first in the final event of the heptathlon today, the 800-meter run, but overall she came in fifth and missed the podium.
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The heptathlon involves seven events.
Hall said she gave everything that she had.
“This is the most tired I’ve ever been in my entire life,” she said. “Absolutely hardest thing I’ve ever done.”
From breaking to tango — a celebration of dance in Paris
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While tango originated in Argentina, the beloved dance form arrived in Paris in the early 1900s and quickly caught on. Tango music was influenced by styles from places like Europe and Africa. NBC News explores open-air dances in Paris that attract people from all over the world.
If the United States beats France tomorrow night, Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry will get to put an Olympic gold medal in his trophy case and join a small club.
At this moment, only eight players can boast of having an NBA championship ring, regular season MVP honor, finals MVP award and Olympic gold.
That group includes Curry’s Team USA colleagues LeBron James and Kevin Durant. The others are Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Hakeem Olajuwon and Shaquille O’Neal.
Olajuwon, known as “The Dream,” was born in Nigeria, immigrated to the United States to attend the University of Houston and became a naturalized American citizen in 1993.
Fans might wonder why 11-time NBA champ Bill Russell’s name isn’t on this list? That’s because the finals MVP honor wasn’t in existence until the final year of Russell’s legendary career — and it was won that season by Jerry West.
And in a fun historical twist, that postseason honor is now called the Bill Russell NBA Finals MVP Award.
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When the Olympic flame is extinguished at the Olympic Closing Ceremony, the City of Light will go dark. But in two weeks, another showcase will begin: the Paralympics.
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Not far from the Olympic action in Paris is nearby Giverny, where Claude Monet’s gardens inspired some of his most famous paintings.
Boxing: Algerian gold medalist relishes victory after week clouded by false allegations
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Olivia Reeves claimed gold in her Olympic debut, making her the first U.S. weightlifter, male or female, to win gold since 2000.
The 21-year-old from Tenesses is also the first U.S. weightlifter, male or female, to finish an event in first place since Chuck Vinci won gold in 1960.
She is the youngest American weightlifter to win gold since Ike Berger in 1956.
Her final total was 262 kg, five kg better than Sanchez.
Reeves also set an Olympic record in the snatch (117kg).
Beatrice Chebet on Kenya stormed to victory in the women’s 10,000m today, completing her sweep of the distance double. With this medal added to her 5,000m gold, she is the third woman in history to pull of the double feat.
Wrestling: Team USA’s Maroulis pins opponent in 24 seconds for bronze
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Team USA’s Helen Maroulis pins her opponent in 24 seconds to earn bronze in women’s 57kg freestyle wrestling. The bronze is Maroulis’ third Olympic medal.
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We’ve Olympic’d like the French, here’s how to vacation like them
Keir Simmons
Reporting from Marseille, France
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NBC News’ Keir Simmons takes a break from the Paris Olympics to visit Marseille for a taste of authentic France. He enjoys bouillabaisse, or “fish soup,” with an American travel writer while discussing the history of France’s second-largest city.
Volleyball: Watch Carambula’s ‘sky ball’ serve
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Adrian Carambula has one of the most unorthodox serves in men’s beach volleyball. Watch the Italian’s “sky ball” serves from the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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China wins fifth straight gold in men’s team table tennis
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Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin defeated Sweden 3-0 on in the men’s Olympic team table tennis gold medal match. China has won every edition of team table tennis since it debuted in the Olympics in 2008.
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