2024 Paris Olympics live updates: U.S. male gymnastics team hope for first medal in 16 years

Reigning 10-meter synchronized platform divers China got to hear their anthem again in Paris, with divers Lian Junjie and Yang Hao clinching their first ever Olympic medals, and gold ones at that.

British superstar Tom Daley and his young partner Noah Williams bagged silver, with Daley adding a fifth medal to his haul of one gold and three bronze medals that he’d won in previous games.

Canadian divers Nathan Zsombor-Murray and Rylan Wiens walked away with a bronze — their country’s first medal this Games, while Team USA did not qualify for the event.

Brazilian surfer Filipe Toledo delivered a stellar performance in Round 2 of the men’s shortboard competition on Monday, with a score of 9.67. The surfing events of the Paris Olympics are taking place almost 10,000 miles from France, off Tahiti in French Polynesia.

Basketball veteran Chase Budinger steps on to Olympic sands for the first time on Monday afternoon in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.

The former Pacers, Suns, Timberwolves, and Rockets forward will team up with beach volleyball partner Miles Evans to take on the French duo of Youssef Krou and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat at 10 a.m. ET.

Budinger and Evans enter this tournament as the world’s number 13 duo and the Americans need a win over the number 34 Frenchmen because competition in Pool F will get more difficult. Their next two matches are against number five Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands and the number 17 Spanish team of Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira.

The top two teams of each pool are guaranteed spots in the knockout round of 16.

Two of the greatest tennis players of all time, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, will walk onto the court at Roland-Garros today. The legends meet in the second round of the Paris Games men’s singles tournament in the second match of the day, after women’s number one Iga Swiatek beat France’s Diane Parry.

It’s not the first time the Serbian and the Spaniard have met. In fact, it’ll be the 60th and the two could not be more evenly balanced. Djokovic has won 30 of those meetings to Nadal’s 29 since they first faced off on the very same Roland-Garros courts at the 2006 French Open.

While Djokovic’s career is still going strong — he recently made the final at Wimbledon before losing to Nadal’s Olympic men’s doubles partner Carlos Alcaraz — Nadal has suffered with injuries in what will likely be the last years of his career. The 38-year-old Spanish great will be looking to roll back the years to his success at the 2008 Beijing Games, when he beat Djokovic in the men’s singles semifinals on his way to the gold medal.

“It’s going to be possibly the last time we’re going to face each other on a big stage,” said Djokovic of Nadal. “Playing him is like finals, in any tournament. Particularly here, knowing what he has achieved and what he’s done for our sport.”

South Korea’s Ban Hyo-jin won gold in the women’s 10m air rifle event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. China’s Huang Yuting and Switzerland’s Audrey Gogniat claimed silver and medal, respectively.

A scintillating men’s 100m breaststroke final on Sunday came down to a photo finish between Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi, Great Britain’s Adam Peaty and Team USA’s Nic Fink. Martinenghi edged past the joint-silver winners by just 0.02 seconds.

Before the race, 2023 world champion Qin Haiyang of China had been joint favorite for the gold along with Great Britain’s Peaty.

Canada’s women’s soccer coach issued an apology Sunday, after she received a one-year ban from the game for her part in a spying scandal at the Paris Olympics. Bev Priestman said she would “take accountability” and cooperate with ongoing investigations.

“I am absolutely heartbroken for the players, and I would like to apologise from the bottom of my heart for the impact this situation has had on all of them,” she said in a letter issued by her lawyers. 

Team USA’s women surfers put on a show during Round 1 of Olympic surfing in Teahupo’o Tahiti.

All of the American surfers won their heats to automatically advance to Round 3 of the competition.

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach apologized to South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol in a phone call on Sunday, after organizers wrongly introduced the South Korean team as North Korean during the opening ceremony.

As the athletes made their way down the Seine on Friday, announcers identified them as “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” the official name of North Korea.

South Korea’s official name is “People’s Republic of Korea.”

“The problem was identified as a human error, for which the IOC is deeply sorry,” read the statement by the IOC.

Good morning! It’s day three of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Here are some of the medal events to watch out for as you wake up and beyond.

Shooting — 10-meter air rifle women’s and men’s final — 9:30 a.m. Paris/3:30 a.m. ET and 12 p.m. Paris/6 a.m. ET, respectively

Diving — Men’s synchronized 10-meter platform final — 11 a.m. Paris/5 a.m. ET

Equestrian — Eventing team jumping final and eventing individual jumping final — 11 a.m. Paris/5 a.m. ET and 3 p.m. Paris/9 a.m. ET, respectively

Cycling — Men’s cross-country mountain biking — 2 p.m. Paris/ 8:10 a.m. ET

Archery — Men’s team bronze medal and gold medal matches — 4:48 p.m. Paris/10:48 a.m. ET and 5:11 p.m. Paris/11:11 a.m. ET, respectively

Skateboarding — Men’s street final — 5 p.m. Paris/11 a.m. ET

Canoe slalom — Men’s canoe single final — 5:20 p.m. Paris/11:20 a.m. ET

Artistic gymnastics — Men’s team final — 5:30 p.m. Paris/11:30 a.m. ET

Swimming — Women’s 400-meter individual medley final — 8:30 p.m. Paris/2:30 p.m. ET

Swimming — Men’s 200-meter freestyle final — 8:40 p.m. Paris/2:40 p.m. ET

Swimming — Men’s 100-meter backstroke final — 9:19 p.m. Paris/3:19 p.m. ET

Swimming — Women’s 100-meter breaststroke final — 9:25 p.m. Paris/3:25 p.m. ET

Swimming — Women’s 200-meter freestyle final — 9:41 p.m. Paris/3:41 p.m. ET

Fencing — Women’s saber individual bronze and gold medal bouts — 8:50 p.m. Paris/2:50 p.m. ET and 9:45 p.m. Paris/3:45 p.m. ET, respectively

Fencing — Men’s foil individual bronze and gold medal bouts — 9:15 p.m. Paris/3:15 p.m. ET and 10:10 p.m. Paris/4:10 p.m. ET, respectively

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On July 20, Team USA lost 117-109 to a team of WNBA stand outs in the league’s All-Star game. 

What could have been a win for Team USA ahead of their departure for the Paris Games — and an opportunity to garner some hype as the women’s basketball team prepares to face off on the biggest international court — turned out to be a disappointing loss for some of the league’s biggest and most decorated stars, including Brittney Griner, Diana Taurasi and Sabrina Ionescu. 

But that shouldn’t be a discouragement for Team USA — in 2021, ahead of the Tokyo Games, they also lost to team WNBA in the all-star game, but went on to win gold at the Olympics anyway.

Neftalie Williams has parlayed his passion for skateboarding into directing San Diego State University’s new Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports and Social Change.

“We’re looking at how skateboarding helps young people build communities, and particularly at a time when people who have dis-similar backgrounds and at a time when in the US right now we need more reasons to see each other or see the other is the self,” Williams said.

Williams isn’t just a sociologist and assistant professor at SDSU, he’s also the first “Ambassador of Skateboarding” and envoy for the U.S. Department of State.

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The 2024 Paris Olympics will take on a particularly special meaning for Brittney Griner.

The WNBA star will be competing for her country for the third time in Paris — and the first time since she was detained in Russia on drug charges for nearly 10 months in 2022.

“BG is locked in and ready to go,” Griner told NBC News. “I’m happy, I’m in a great place. I’m representing my country, the country that fought for me to come back. I’m gonna represent it well.”

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