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Algeria's Imane Khelif beat China's Yang Liu to claim the gold medal in the women's welterweight boxing.
Khelif, a silver medalist at the 2022 world championships, and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting have been in the spotlight at the Paris Games amid a gender controversy that has dominated headlines.
Rousing Relays: Team USA won the women's 4x100-meter relay gold as anchor Sha'Carri Richardson gave a stunning finish to the race. Paces before the finish, she turned her head as if to ascertain her lead, then shot past the finish line decisively. The relay didn't go as smoothly for the men's team—a botched baton pass slowed the team down significantly, with USA placing eighth in time before the team was disqualified when replay showed the baton was exchanged out of bounds.
Medal Firsts and Records: Team USA's Olivia Reeves won a gold in 76 kg women's weightlifting, the first time an American woman has taken the gold. USA's Helen Maroulis won bronze in women's wrestling, her third consecutive medal in three Olympics. In another gold streak, Nafi Thiam of Belgium became the first to win three consecutive gold medals in the women's heptathlon. Later in the day, Kenya's Beatrice Chebet became the third woman in history to win a gold in a 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter race in the same tournament, while delivering Kenya its first gold in the event. Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic became the first woman to deliver her country a gold by winning the 400-meter race, after becoming the first woman to win the country a silver in the Tokyo 2020 games.
Team USA's Rai Benjamin outran defending champion Karsten Warholm of Norway, winning gold in the 400-meter hurdles.
Benjamin had won silver in Tokyo, where Warholm took the gold, but has remained undefeated this year.
Beatrice Chebet of Kenya became the third woman in history to win a gold in both a 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter women’s race, also delivering Kenya its first gold in the event.
Nadia Battocletti of Italy, who just missed the podium in the 5,000-meter, trailed Chebet in the final sprint and took silver.
Team USA's Anna Hall was in fifth place of the women's heptathlon on Friday afternoon, but in the 800-meter run of the seven-event sport she maintained a steady lead. Her time gave a significant boost to her total score, but she feared it would not be enough for a medal before the results were announced. She shared a tearful moment with her family, telling them she gave it her all. Hall finished fifth.
Hall had knee surgery in January, putting her out of training for about half the year. Ahead of Friday's race, she told NBC that the journey to the Olympics was "harder than I've ever imagined," but also showed her "how resilient I am."
Team USA's Spencer Richard Lee won the silver medal in men's freestyle wrestling at 57kg. He lost to Japan’s Rei Higuchi in the gold match 4–2.
Aaron Brooks defeated Javrail Shapiev of Uzbekistan 5–0, winning the men's wrestling bronze medal at 86kg.
The Penn State wrestler is a four-time NCAA champion and four-time Big Ten Conference champion.
Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic won the gold in the women’s 400-meter race, making history in her country while setting a new Olympic record with a 48.17 time.
This is Paulino’s second Olympics; in the same event in Tokyo, she was the first woman from the Dominican Republic to win a silver medal.
In a thrilling race that saw a strong start from South Africa and the United States, the baton exchange for the Americans proved costly.
Japan and Italy led heading into the final stretch, but it was Andre de Grasse who delivered a sensational anchor leg to secure the victory for Canada in a time of 37.5 seconds. South Africa won silver with an African record of 37.57 seconds, while Great Britain took bronze in 37.61. In a shocking turn of events, the United States was disqualified for passing the baton outside of the zone.
The U.S. women’s track and field team clinched gold in the 4x100-meter relay final. Despite facing wet conditions, Sha’Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson, and Twanisha Terry were victorious.
This win marks the 12th Olympic gold medal for U.S. women in the event. Richardson, who anchored the team, won her first Olympic gold medal, adding to her previous silver in the 100-meter dash.
American rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Paris early morning on Aug. 9. Scott allegedly got into an altercation with a security guard, according to local authorities.
The Paris public prosecutor’s office released a statement confirming the arrest of a man “nicknamed Travis Scott for violence against a security guard” at the Georges V hotel after police were alerted to the incident at around 5 p.m. local time.
The altercation allegedly involved a hotel security guard, who intervened in a fight Scott had with his own bodyguard, according to the statement. Scott was then arrested for “violence against another person,” a police spokesman said.
Italy’s women won gold in the Madison track cycling final. In a Madison race, pairs complete a set number of laps around the track.
The Italian duo lapped the field earning a 20-point lead, a score given to any team that manages to lap the entire field. They also won points in the sprint battles, but their lap was the key to winning gold, bringing their score to 37.
The U.S. women advanced to their eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal game with a 85–64 victory over Australia.
The Americans, who extended their Olympic winning streak to 60 consecutive games, will face either France or Belgium on Sunday. Team USA is trying to become the first team to win eight consecutive gold medals, breaking the tie with the American men's program that won seven in a row from 1936-68.
German gymnast Darja Varfolomeev claimed the gold medal in the individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics final. The five-time 2023 World Champion delivered flawless performances with the hoop, ball, clubs, and ribbon for the top spot.
Bulgaria’s Boryana Kaleyn won silver, while Italy’s Sophia Raffaelli, the 2022 World Champion took home the bronze.
The United States men’s volleyball team took the bronze medal with a 3–0 victory over Italy.
Despite the clean sweep, the match was a fierce battle. Italy pushed the Americans to the brink in the second set, forcing a 30-point tie breaker.
Germany's women's soccer team defeated Spain in the bronze medal match, securing a medal they'd previously won consecutively three times between 2000 and 2008.
This means no medal for Spain, the World Cup champions. It was Spain's first-ever Olympic tournament.
Sprinter Beverley McDonald of Jamaica finally received her bronze medal from the Sydney 2000 Games on Aug. 9 before the Eiffel Tower.
McDonald originally came in fourth in the 200-meter sprint. But third-place runner USA's Marion Jones admitted to using prohibited substances after she won the medal, leading to her disqualification in 2009.
Four athletes were disqualified after testing positive for prohibited substances according to Paris Olympics organizers.
Sajjad Sehen of Iraq and Cynthia Temitayo Ogunsemilore of Nigeria were disqualified before the start of the judo and boxing competitions respectively. Mohammad Samim Faizad of Afghanistan tested positive and was disqualified after losing a judo elimination round. Eleni-Klaoudia Polak of greece was disqualified from women’s pole vaulting after participating in a qualifying round.
Valentin Bontus of Austria won gold in the men's kiteboarding. Toni Vodisek of Slovenia secured silver in the final, with Max Maeder of Singapore picking up bronze.
Bontus, 23, celebrated his win with a huge aerial jump on his foiling board pumping his fist after a dominant finish.
Team USA’s men’s water polo team is out of the race for the gold after a 10–6 defeat by Serbia in the semifinals, advancing instead to the bronze match.
This comes after the women’s water polo team fell to Australia, ending their attempt at a fourth consecutive gold.
Quincy Wilson is officially an Olympian. At age 16, USA’s Wilson is the youngest-ever athlete to compete in the Olympics track and field events, a title last claimed by Team USA’s Jim Ryun at age 17 back in 1964.
Wilson ran the first leg of the 4x400-meter men’s relay and helped advance the team to the final round.
Germany’s Lea Friedrich broke the women’s 200-meter sprint cycling Olympic and world record with a time of 10.029, but not before that record was smashed by five other cyclists first, and all in the qualifying round.
New Zealand’s Shaane Fulton rode a speed of 10.281, then Hetty van de Wouw of the Netherlands 10.263, Sato Mina of Japan 10.257, and Mathilde Gros of France 10.182, all breaking the Olympic record. Ellesse Andrews of New Zealand rode a time of 10.108, breaking both the Olympics and world record before Friedrich came out on top of the qualifying heat.
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi declared a half-day holiday to celebrate sprinter Letsile Tebogo bringing Botswana its first-ever Olympics gold medal.
Tebogo, 21, outran Team USA’s Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles in the men’s 400-meter, and did it in spikes bearing his mother’s date of birth.
New Zealand won Olympic gold in the women's kayak double 500 meters at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.
Hungary came in second to secure the silver medal, with Germany originally declared third. After a lengthy review, they were found to have tied with the second Hungarian crew, who also received a bronze medal.
The United States dominated the 4x400 meters women's relay qualifiers, while France also booked a place in the final thanks to Amandine Brossier sneaking past Belgium's Helena Ponette on the home straight.
Team USA has won every women's 4x400-meter relay since 1996 and look set to win their eighth straight title as the team brought it home in three minutes 21.44 seconds, more than three seconds ahead of Britain and the fastest time of the morning.
Hungary's Kristof Rasovszky won the men's 10-kilometer marathon swimming gold, holding off German silver medalist Oliver Klemet in a grueling slog along the final length of the Seine River.
David Betlehem won bronze for Hungary.
The first and potentially only Olympic medals for women's breaking—a sport that blends urban dance with acrobatic moves set to the grooves of hip-hop music—debuts with B-Girl rounds.
The sport is making its Olympic debut in Paris but will not be part of the Los Angeles 2028 Games.
Four gold medals are on offer in boxing on Friday: the men's welterweight and heavyweight divisions as well as the women's welterweight and flyweight classes.
In the women's welterweight final, Algeria's Imane Khelif, one of two fighters in the spotlight after a gender dispute over their eligibility for the Paris Games, meets China's Yang Liu.
It was medal-mania at the Stade de France for the red, white, and blue on Thursday, with Team USA taking home three gold, three silver, and two bronze.
Reigning champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set another world record. Grant Holloway won that elusive Olympic gold medal. Jasmine Moore made some American jumping history. Even Noah Lyles, who had tested positive for COVID-19, still managed to grab a bronze in the 200-meter final.
