It was a thrilling performance by Simon Biles in Paris as the legendary gymnast won the gold medal in the individual all-around competition. It was the second time Biles won gold in the event. Team USA also won gold medals in fencing, swimming and rowing. NBC News' Stephanie Gosk reports from Paris.
Katie Ledecky claimed her 13th medal — a silver in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay — making her the most decorated female Olympian.
Simone Biles, Kate Douglass, the U.S. four rowing team, and the women’s team foil won gold medals today.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 won silver in Tokyo, Scruggs and Lee Kiefer, Jackie Dubrovich and Maia Weintraub beat the Italian team for the top Olympic honor. Scruggs, 21, is from Queens.
Simon Biles and Suni Lee, who won gold and bronze in the women’s gymnastics all-around, are inspiring the next generations of young gymnasts.Despite missing Jimmer Fredette, the U.S. men’s 3x3 basketball team came agonizingly close to an upset of Latvia, but the defending gold medalists scored six unanswered points to snatch a 21-19 win.With her gold medal swim in the 200-meter breaststroke, Kate Douglass has rounded out her Olympic collection.
"Simone Biles inspires me, and I'm pretty sure she inspires you, too," Beyoncé says."Such confidence in her strength, such beauty in her power, such a great lesson in her story." Older sister Brooke McIntosh won pairs bronze at the 2022 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Mother Jill Horstead finished ninth in the 200 butterfly at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.The gooey chocolate muffin made famous by Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen has now caught the interest of Olympians across the Olympic Village.going to track down the viral muffin.
Murray is the second of the “big four” to bow out after Federer’s emotional retirement at the Laver Cup in 2022.“Great day. It’s a great day. It’s a great day,” Griner said after the U.S. women’s basketball team beat Belgium 87-74 to clinch a berth in the quarterfinals. “We’ll talk more about it later. But head over heels happy for the families right now. Any day that Americans come home, that’s a win. That’s a win.
Djokovic has faced a challenging path in Paris, defeating Rafael Nadal in round 2 and Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarterfinals, 6-3, 7-6. Djokovic is looking for a strong result after losing the men's Wimbledon final to Carlos Alcaraz of Spain. American women took silver in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay, putting an all-time record 13th medal around the neck of living legend Katie Ledecky.
That would set Ledecky up in Saturday’s 800m freestyle final to break her tie with Thompson for the most Olympic gold medals for an American woman in any sport and to tie the record for Olympic gold medals for any woman in any sport with Larisa Latynina, a Soviet gymnast who won nine golds in the 1950s and ‘60s.
Biles is now the owner of six Olympic gold medals and has become the first gymnast to win two Olympic all-around championships nonconsecutively. No American has won the Olympic all-around more than once. In Round 3, Japan's Sera Azuma dueled Canada's Yunja Zhang. Both fencers had even touches at 5 each. Entering Round 4, the score remains tied at 10-10.The first matchup had Japan's Yuka Ueno facing Canada's Jessica Ji Zia. The evenly competitive first round ends with a tied score of 3-3.After two of four rotations in the women’s gymnastics all-around final, Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade is in the lead, with Kaylia Nemour from Algeria in second, behind by .2 points.
Zhendong, nicknamed Xiao Pang or “Little Fatty,” plays an attacking style with a shakehand grip. He won the silver medal in men’s singles, as well as team gold, at the 2020 Tokyo Games.And we’re live! It’s officially go time for Biles and Lee, who will face each other — and the 22 other top gymnasts — for the gold in the individual all-around final.
Meanwhile, the men's 3x3 team isn't faring too well either. Jimmer Fredette and Co. are 0-2 and take on Lithuania in a must-win matchup later today.
That makes quite a difference since the last time the French city hosted the Games, in 1924, when the International Olympic Committee more or less excluded women from competing. As recently as the 1984 Los Angeles Games, when swimming and rhythmic gymnastics made their debuts and the women’s marathon was first held, less than a quarter of the competitors were women.
Team USA medalists Perris Benegas and Evy Leibfarth celebrated their medals with “TODAY” live in Paris.They were joined by Public Enemy co-founder Flavor Flav, “official hype man” of the U.S. women’s water polo team.Team USA is guaranteed at least a silver medal in the women's team foil event after beating Canada in the semifinals.
In the 20 years since the U.S. women’s gold-medal streak in the Olympic all-around began, the sport and the lives of those who reach its loftiest heights have evolved significantly.That's actually good news for the U.S. team of Ian Barrows and Hans Henken, who were slow at the start and struggled to get into the race.Straight off their gold-medal win in the women’s gymnastics team final, Simone Biles and Suni Lee will compete against each other in the all-around final.
After Zheng, who reached the Australian Open final earlier this year, took the opening set 6-2, gold medal favorite Swiatek looked to be back on track after racing into a 4-0 lead in the second. But the momentum quickly swung away from her and Zheng’s rattled off four straight games, breaking Swiatek’s serve twice and leveling things up.
The Frenchman will be hoping to go 4 for 4 with gold in the 200 IM, with further medal opportunities potentially to follow in two medley relays. Israel’s secret intelligence service Mossad said in May that Iran had stepped up efforts ahead of the Games to target Israelis overseas. Israel has its own security teams in Paris, and NBC News has reported that officers from the Shin Bet, the country’s internal security service, are protecting the Olympic delegation.
Both the U.S. men's and women's 3x3 basketball teams have gotten off to nightmare starts in their respective Olympic tournaments and might be running out of time to turn it around. It appears to be the largest live audience for an archery competition and quite a contrast from Tokyo, when Ellison came in as the top seed but failed to win a medal when he lost to the eventual gold medalist Mete Gazoz in the quarterfinals.“I mean Tokyo was kind of like an Olympic jail, right? We weren’t allowed to do anything.”
South Korea's Kim Yeji also went viral earlier in the Olympics with her shooting style as she took silver in the women's individual 10-meter air pistol event.American Lauren Scruggs made history at the Paris Olympics on Sunday when she took the silver medal in women’s foil fencing. The American quad consisted of Michael Grady, who was the lone returnee from the boat that finished fifth in this event in Tokyo, alongside Liam Corrigan, Justin Best and Nick Mead — all of whom competed in the eight boat in Tokyo. The group had won silver at last year's World Championships, and it has now added Olympic gold.
The American is due to perform double duty today — he is also due to team up with Taylor Fritz in the men's doubles as they take on Great Britain's Andy Murray and Dan Evans tonight. Other notable matches include Novak Djokovic taking on Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas tonight and women's world No. 1 Iga Swiatek taking on China's Qinwen Zheng.China has extended its lead at the top of the gold medal table after taking its 11th gold of the Games in the women's 20k race walk.
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