![Miles Partain of Team United States attacks the net against a block attempt by Mohammed Abicha of Team Morocco during the Men's Preliminary Phase-Pool D match on day four of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris on July 30, 2024. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2F30%2Fid5696500-GettyImages-2164385201-1200x800.jpg&w=1200&q=75)
USA beach volleyball team Miles Partain and Andy Benesh, the youngest duo in the event in Olympics history at age 22 and 29, respectively, won their match against Morroco 21-12 and 28-26 amid a Paris heatwave.
They will play Brazil on Aug. 1.
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Team USA's Danielle Collins will advance to the women's singles quarterfinals after beating Camila Osorio of Colombia.
This will be Collins's first and last Olympics, as she is set to retire at the end of the year.
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Heat alerts have gone out in Paris as temperatures are expected to climb to 95 degrees.
Thunderstorms may also occur in the evening, which may delay some outdoor events.
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Team USA lost to New Zealand, reigning champions defending their gold, and will proceed to the bronze match against either Canada or Australia.
New Zealand advances to the gold round after their 24-12 win.
Team USA beat Germany 3–2 in men's team volleyball, remaining first in the pool. The team's next game is against Japan on Aug. 2.
![Miles Partain of Team United States attacks the net against a block attempt by Mohammed Abicha of Team Morocco during the Men's Preliminary Phase - Pool D match on day four of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris on July 30, 2024. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2F30%2Fid5696438-GettyImages-2164385201-1200x800.jpg&w=1200&q=75)
After winning gold in the 2008 Beijing Games and bronze in the 2016 Rio Games, Team USA suffered a disappointing defeat during the pool stage in the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Taylor Fritz beat Jack Draper of Great Britain in singles and is advancing to the third round.
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Later today, Fritz will also play in mixed doubles with Coco Gauff, who ranks No. 2 in the world in singles and No. 1 in doubles.
American Coco Gauff's hopes of singles gold at the Olympics evaporated in the third round as she fell to a 7–6(7) 6–2 to Croatia's Donna Vekic in furnace-like conditions at Roland Garros on Tuesday.
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The 20-year-old United States' second seed marched into a 5-2 lead in the opening set but Vekic responded in inspired fashion to turn the match on its head with some stunning ground strokes.
Australia's Lani Pallister, a medal hope in the women's 1,500 meters freestyle, has withdrawn from the event after testing positive for COVID-19 at the Paris Olympics, the team said on Tuesday.
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A team spokeswoman said the decision had been made to save Pallister's energy for the 4x200m freestyle relay which starts on Thursday.
The U.S. women begin defending their 2021 Olympic title in 3x3 basketball when the competition starts Tuesday. Dearica Hamby and Rhyne Howard of the WNBA join Hailey Van Lith, a college basketball player at Texas Christian University, and former WNBA player Cierra Burdick on the team. They face Germany at 5:30 p.m. CET (11 a.m. ET) at La Concorde.
Later, the U.S. 3x3 men’s team will take on Serbia. The U.S. men did not qualify for the Olympics in 2021.
Ledecky is back in the pool for the women’s 1,500-meter freestyle, one of her signature events. The qualifying heats start at 11:44 a.m. CET (5:44 a.m. ET) on Tuesday. Ledecky holds the world and Olympic record in the event and is a favorite to win, retaining her 2021 title.
The women’s 100 backstroke final will take place at 8:56 p.m. CET (2:56 p.m. ET). That’ll be followed by the men’s 800 free final. Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen qualified in first place in the heats, at 7:41.53.
The last swimming final Tuesday is the men’s 4x200 free relay at 10:01 p.m. CET (4 p.m. ET).
The 27-year-old Biles is in the lineup to compete in all four events of the team final despite a calf injury. Biles tweaked her left calf while warming up for floor exercise during qualifying on Sunday. She still topped the all-around, with the highest scores on floor and vault.
Competition begins at 6:15 p.m. CST (12:15 p.m. ET) on Sunday at Bercy Arena. The Americans are favored to win gold after finishing runner-up to Russia in 2021.
Biles’ teammate Jordan Chiles also will compete in all four events. Chiles finished fourth in the all-around during qualifying, behind Biles, Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade and 2020 Olympic champion Sunisa Lee.
![Olympic Officials Postpone Men’s Triathlon Due to Seine Water Quality Concerns](https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2024/07/30/id5696471-GettyImages-2162942069-OP.jpg)
The men’s individual triathlon race at the Paris 2024 Olympics Games has been postponed due to concerns over poor water quality in the Seine River, the sport’s governing body announced early Tuesday, local time.
World Triathlon issued a statement saying that officials from the sport, the International Olympic Committee, and the City of Paris met at 3:30 a.m. local time after water quality tests were carried out and decided to postpone the event.
“Paris 2024 and World Triathlon reiterate that their priority is the health of the athletes. The tests carried out in the Seine today revealed water quality levels that did not provide sufficient guarantees to allow the event to be held,” World Triathlon said in a press release.
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For just the third time in a century, golf will be contested at a Summer Olympics. The men’s golf tournament for the 2024 Paris Olympics begins on Thursday, wrapping up on Sunday, marking the third straight Olympic Games featuring the sport. It originally debuted at the 1900 Games and stuck around for the 1904 Summer Olympics before a 112-year gap. The sport returned in 2016.
Le Golf National, a par-72, 7,331-yard course in a southwest suburb of Paris, will host golf at the 2024 Olympics after hosting the Ryder Cup in 2018. Qualification for the tournament is a bit unique in that, while it does rely on Official World Golf Ranking, nations are limited to four golfers each. Only the top 15 ranked players automatically qualified – provided they were among the top four for their country. After that, the remainder of the field was filled out according to ranking, with a maximum of two players per nation and each continent having at least one representative.
As a result of this qualification system, Patrick Cantlay, who is No. 8 in the world but the fifth-ranked American, did not qualify, but Finland’s Tapio Pulkkanen, ranked No. 378, did qualify. Even with that, the tournament has a stacked field, with each of the top seven-ranked golfers and eight of the top 10 players in the world. The U.S. contingent features Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa, who are all among the top six in the world.
All over the Paris Olympics came a stream of memorable moments. On water, and on land. On all kinds of fields.
On Monday, Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal as the longtime tennis rivals competed for perhaps the last time. Team USA took the bronze medal in men's team gymnastics, the team’s first trip to the podium since winning the bronze in the 2008 Olympic Games.
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![(L–R) Team USA Brody Malone, Asher Hong, Fred Richard, Paul Juda, and Stephen Nedoroscik celebrate their bronze medal during the men's artistic gymnastics team finals round at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, on July 29, 2024. (Abbie Parr/AP Photo)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2F30%2Fid5696173-APTOPIX_Paris_Olympics_Artistic_Gymnastics_24211711388022-1200x800.jpg&w=1200&q=75)