PinnedDry Spell Over: Team USA took medals in several events it hadn't featured in decades, including Hampton Morris's bronze in weightlifting, a first in 40 years, and the artistic swimming team's silver, a first in 20 years.
Out in Beach Volleyball: But Team USA's last beach volleyball duo, Miles Partain and Andy Benesh, fell in the quarterfinals today, making it the first time in 24 years the USA won't be getting a medal.
Winter Olympics Medal: Team USA's figure skaters from the 2022 Beijing Games also received medals in Paris after a doping scandal disqualified Russian medalists.
American wrestler Sarah Hildebrandt won 3-0 over Yusneylis Guzman of Cuba, taking the gold in the women’s 50kg freestyle wrestling event.
Earlier, Indian athlete Vinesh Phogat was disqualified for failing her weigh-in, opening up the replacement match between Hildebrandt and Guzman.
Team USA’s Kenneth Rooks took the lead near the end of the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, winning the silver in the end.
Soufiane El Bakkali of Morroco defended his gold as he overtook Rooks in the end. Abraham Kibiwot of Kenya took the bronze.
Team USA's Katie Moon won silver in the women's pole vault event with a 4.9 score, toppling the bar on her last attempt to score higher.
American sprinter Quincy Hall dug deep in the last leg of the men’s 400-meter race, pushing past the favorite, Great Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith, to take the gold.
All four of the top finishers set personal bests: Hall at 43.40 seconds, Hudson-Smith setting a European record with 43.44, Muzala Samukonga of Zambia winning the bronze with 43.74, and Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago setting his own national record with 43.78.
Team USA took silver in the artistic swimming (previously synchronized swimming) event, its first medal in 20 years. This is the USA's 90th medal in the Paris Olympics.
The U.S. men’s water polo team won a thrilling 11–10 victory over Australia in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Hannes Daube and Alex Bowen scored two goals each for Team USA, and goalkeeper Adrian Weinberg was exceptional with two saves in a penalty shootout. The team will play Serbia in the semifinals.
The United States is gunning for its first medal in men’s water polo since winning silver at the Beijing Games in 2008. The top seeds, Greece and Spain, have been eliminated.
American sprinters Erriyon Knighton, Kenneth Bednarek, and Noah Lyles qualified for the 200-meter final, where they will compete for a medal.
Bednarek and Knighton won their respective heats, but Lyles, who has been vocal about wanting the gold in the 200-meter, placed second in his semifinal round.
Team USA’s Grant Holloway moves forward in the men’s 110-meter hurdles. This comes after he finished at 12.98 seconds in the first heat, securing his spot in the finals.
Holloway, along with fellow American teammates Freddie Crittenden and Daniel Roberts, will face tough competition from Orlando Bennett, Rasheed Broadbell, Enrique Llopis, and defending champion Hansle Parchment.
Team USA won gold in the women’s team cycling. A formidable team featuring road race champion Kristen Faulkner and time trial medalist Chloe Dygert, the Americans quickly established a lead against New Zealand.
Despite a late surge from New Zealand, the Americans held on and secured victory. Their time of 4:04.306 fell just short of the world record, but it was enough to cinch the gold medal.
Hampton Morris became the first American man to win an Olympic weightlifting medal in 40 years, winning bronze in the men’s 61-kg division.
After a challenging snatch round that left him in fifth place, Morris’ hopes for a medal hinged on a strong clean-and-jerk performance. He lifted 172kg on his second attempt, propelling him into third place. A bid for a world record of 178kg fell short, but Morris’ earlier success secured his historic bronze.
Australian Keegan Palmer defended his Olympic men’s park skateboarding title, with a first run score of 93.11.
Claiming silver was Tom Schaar of Team USA, whose second run earned him 92.23. Brazil’s Augusto Akio secured the bronze with a final run score of 91.85, narrowly edging out teammate Pedro Barros.
After a Russian doping scandal disqualified figure skating medalists, Team USA’s Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou, Karen Chen, Alexa Knierim, Brandon Frazier, Madison Chock, Evan Bates, Madison Hubbell, and Zachary Donohue received medals from the 2022 Winter Olympics during an awards ceremony on Aug. 7.
The newly crowned 200-meter champion Gabby Thomas says she lost track of where she was in the race, only realizing it was over when she won.
"It was such an intense feeling and I was really in my flow, I didn't know where in the race I was until those last meters, where I think I was approaching the finish line and about to win—and I was in complete disbelief," she told Today.
Great Britain’s Andy Macdonald, 51, is a father of three and making his Olympics debut.
The 14-year-old Australian who unseated Japan from its dominance over the skateboarding events said her gold medal win means her parents might finally get her the pet she’s been asking for—a duck.
“My dad’s been like saying yes this whole time, but my mom was saying no,” Arisa Trew, women’s park skateboarding champion, told 10 Sport. “But then I said, ‘If I did win, could I get a duck?’ And she said yes.”
Katie Ledecky, who just became the most decorated female swimmer in sports history, credited her parents for providing the supportive foundation for her success.
“We had early morning practices when I was in middle school, high school. Some of those practices would start at 4.45 a.m. My parents would be up at 4 a.m., make me a quick breakfast, drive me to the pool, and definitely sacrifice some hours of sleep,” she told CNN.
Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat was disqualified from the gold medal for failing her weigh-in, and now organizers have announced a replacement match.
Yusneylis Guzmán Lopez of Cuba, who lost to Phogat in the semifinal match, was set for a silver medal but will instead face Team USA’s Sarah Hildebrandt—originally set for the bronze—for the gold.
Matt Richardson of Australia rode a 9.091 in the men’s cycling speed qualifiers, setting a world record that was broken just moments later when Dutch cyclist Harrie Lavreysen scored a time of 9.088, just three-thousandths faster than the Australian. Both will compete in the finals.
Marit Bouwmeester of the Netherlands won the gold medal in the women's dinghy, with Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark securing silver.
Line Flem Hoest of Norway did enough in the medal race to win bronze on overall points.
Poland's world-record holder Aleksandra Miroslaw clinched the gold medal in women's speed climbing, in the sport's Olympic debut as a stand-alone event.
The 30-year-old had been the clear favorite after breaking her own world record twice in the lead-up to the finals, climbing the 15-meter wall in 6.06 seconds two days ago.
The familiarization session for the Paris Olympics marathon swimming event in the Seine River will go ahead as scheduled on Wednesday after water quality tests met the required thresholds, organizers said.
A similar session planned for Tuesday was canceled due to concerns over water pollution.
Spain's two-time world champions, Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez, won the gold medal in the mixed marathon race walk relay by nearly a minute as the event made its Olympic Games debut.
The Spaniards, who each collected gold in both the 20km and 35km races at last year's World Championships in Budapest, finished in two hours, 50 minutes, and 31 seconds, with Perez pulling away over the final lap.
The excitement in track and field continues with the men's 400-meter final at 9:20 p.m. CET (3:20 p.m. ET) at the Stade de France.
Grenada's Kirani James posted the fastest time in Tuesday's semifinals, finishing his heat in a season-best 43.78 seconds. Muzala Samukonga sprinted to the final in 43.81 seconds, setting a new national record for Zambia. American Quincy Hall qualified with a time of 43.95 seconds.
Led by two-time WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson, the seven-time defending champion United States extended its impressive Olympic winning streak to 58 games on Sunday. The U.S. women will take on Nigeria in the quarterfinals at 9:30 p.m. CET (3:30 p.m. ET) at Bercy Arena.
Nigeria is the first African country to reach the men’s or women’s elimination round at the Olympics.
American Cole Hocker delivered one of the biggest Olympic surprises when he won the 1,500 meters gold with a stunning finish, overtaking British world champion Josh Kerr, while defending champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen faded to fourth.
It was part of a great night for the United States on the track, with Gabby Thomas finally claiming the global title she had promised for so long in the 200 meters.
Meanwhile, Australia's 14-year-old Arisa Trew led a group of teenagers who swept the podium in the women's park skateboarding competition, as the younger generation showcased their dominance.
