Paris Olympics: USA Takes Silver, Bronze in Men’s Street Skateboarding
Monday’s slate for the Paris Olympics includes a blockbuster tennis match, a handful of the world’s biggest basketball stars, and some compelling swimming final
Jagger Eaton of Team United States competes during the Men's Street Finals on day three of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place de la Concorde in Paris on July 29, 2024. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
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USA Takes Silver, Bronze in Men’s Street Skateboarding
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USA Women’s Field Hockey Draws 1-1 With Spain
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British Silver Medalist Tests Positive for COVID
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USA Women’s Water Polo Loses to Spain, Will Play Italy Next
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USA's Budinger, Evans Net First Beach Volleyball Win
USA Takes Silver, Bronze in Men’s Street Skateboarding
Team USA's Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston took the silver and bronze medals, respectively, in the men's street skateboarding event.
Skateboarders did two runs and five tricks, keeping their top run and two best trick scores.
Eaton and Huston started strong. Eaton finished with 281.04 points, and Huston with 279.38 points.
USA Women’s Field Hockey Draws 1-1 With Spain
The U.S. women's field hockey team drew 1-1 with Spain, putting Team USA in fourth place.
“Anything can happen in tournament hockey, I think that that excites us,” captain Amanda Golini told reporters ahead of the games.
Team USA’s next game is against Australia on Wednesday.
British Silver Medalist Tests Positive for COVID
Adam Peaty tested positive for COVID-19 just minutes after narrowly missing the gold in the men's 100-meter breaststroke on Sunday, according to Team Great Britain on Monday.
Peaty tied with Team USA's Nic Fink for silver, both finishing .02 seconds behind Italy's Nicolo Martinenghi.
Gold Medalist Nicolo Martinenghi of Team Italy (C) and Silver Medalists Adam Peaty of Team Great Britain (L), and Nic Fink of Team United States (R) pose for a selfie on the podium during the Swimming medal ceremony after the Men’s 100m Breaststroke Final on day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Paris La Defense Arena Nanterre, France, on on July 28, 2024. (Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
USA Women’s Water Polo Loses to Spain, Will Play Italy Next
Team USA was defending two gold medals in women’s water polo entering the Paris Games and lost to Spain in the preliminaries.
But the team isn’t out of the running yet, as the top four teams from each preliminary pool will proceed to the quarterfinals. USA will play Italy on Wednesday.
Spain lost to Team USA in the Tokyo 2020 finals and took home the silver.
USA's Budinger, Evans Net First Beach Volleyball Win
Team USA's Chase Budinger and Miles Evans beat France's Youssef Krou and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat in their first beach volleyball game in two sets, 21-14 and 21-11.
Team USA's #02 Chase Budinger serves the ball in the men's pool F beach volleyball match between France and USA during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris on July 29, 2024. (Mauro Pimentel / AFP via Getty Images)
Nadal Reflects on Career as He Prepares for Doubles
Two-time gold medalist Rafael Nadal is out of the running for a medal in men's singles, but still in the running for men's doubles with Carlos Alcaraz.
"It's a beautiful thing," he said, calling teammate Alcaraz one of the best players of the moment.
"We are in different moments in our careers," Nadal told reporters after his defeat by Novak Djokovic. "It's hard to perform at the level that I used to."
USA Women’s Rugby Loses to France, Advances to Quarterfinals
Team USA lost to France 10-7 in women's rugby, but both will participate in the quarterfinals later today.
Twelve teams will compete in three pools of four, and wins give a team three points, a draw two points, and a loss one point. The top winners in each pool advance to the quarterfinals.
Teams USA and France had won their first two pool matches on Sunday.
Railway employees and law enforcement officers work at the site where vandals targeted France's high-speed train network with a series of coordinated actions that brought major disruption, in Croisilles, northern France, on July 26, 2024. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Several telecommunication lines in France have been targeted by vandals, causing network outages in some regions, officials said.
The incident, which occurred on Sunday night as France hosts the 2024 Olympics, affected network installations in six areas—Aude, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Hérault, Meuse, and Oise—BFM TV reported.
Police said that fiber optic cables in electrical cabinets had been cut.
Triathlon Training Canceled for Second Day Over Seine Water Quality
Olympic officials canceled triathlon training in Siene for a second day due to concerns about bacteria.
After much-publicized plans to clean up the Seine, heavy rains during the Paris Games opening ceremony raised bacteria levels in the river.
Despite the canceled training, French sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra told French news channel CNEWS on Monday that clean-up efforts have been effective and the games will go on.
Team Britain Defends Equestrian Gold
Great Britain won its first gold at the Paris Olympics Monday evening as Ros Canter, Tom McEwen, and Laura Collett defended the medal from the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Team France took the silver medal, and Japan took the bronze, its first equestrian medal in 92 years.
Djokovic Defeats Nadal
In a win for Serbia, Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal in the pair's 60th match against each other of their careers.
This was Djokovic's 36th victory against Nadal at 6-1 and 6-4.
Nadal's first break point came more than one hour into the second-round match, but it wasn't enough for a complete comeback.
Nic Fink Says Gold Was ‘Fingernail’ Away
Nic Fink sat down with celebrated Olympian Michael Phelps and the Today Show after his silver win in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke, describing just how close the race was.
“It was pretty surreal,” he said.
“A lot of times it’s almost cliché to say it’s a fingernail touch, but it actually was last night. I was a fingernail away from first but also a fingernail away from being off the podium, so it almost seems like it was meant to be second. And sharing the podium with Nico and Adam was really cool, too.”
At 2024 Summer Olympics, Rafael Nadal Will Meet Novak Djokovic for Record 60Th Time
Serbia's Novak Djokovic, left, and Spain's Rafael Nadal pose ahead of their quarterfinal match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, France, on May 31, 2022. (Christophe Ena/AP Photo)
Two days after serving as a torch bearer for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Rafael Nadal won his opening singles match to set up a showdown with a familiar opponent. Nadal defeated Hungarian Marton Fucsovics 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 in the first round at Paris 2024 to book a matchup with Novak Djokovic in the second round. Djokovic won his opener on Saturday 6-0, 6-1 over Matthew Ebden of Great Britain.
This will be the 60th meeting between the two men who have won the most Grand Slam singles titles in tennis history. Djokovic is the all-time leader with 24 major tournament victories, while Nadal ranks second with 22, just edging out another longtime rival Roger Federer, who won 20 Grand Slams.
The Nadal vs. Djokovic history couldn’t be tighter as Djokovic has 30 head-to-head wins while Nadal has 29. The 60 meetings between the two are the most ever between two men in the Open Era, which began in 1968 when the Grand Slam tournaments first allowed professionals to enter the events after previously only allowing amateurs.
Team USA Women’s Basketball Begins Quest for 8th Straight Gold
The U.S. women’s basketball team opens its pursuit of a record eighth straight gold medal. Team USA will face Japan at 9 p.m. CET (3 p.m. ET) at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium. The U.S. women are on a 55-game Olympic winning streak; they haven’t lost since 1992 in Barcelona. Japan took silver in Tokyo after losing to the U.S. 90-75.
In Photos: Stars Are out at the Paris Olympics. Here's a Look at Day 2
It was another action-packed day at the Paris Olympics.
LeBron James and Kevin Durant led the U.S. men's basketball team to an opening victory against Nikola Jokic and Serbia. Rafael Nadal set up a second-round tennis match against Novak Djokovic. Lee Kiefer won back-to-back gold medals in foil fencing, and her teammate Lauren Scruggs took the silver.
Lauren Scruggs of Team United States (L) competes with Lee Kiefer of Team United States during the Women's Foil Individual Gold Medal Bout between Lauren Scruggs of Team United States and Lee Kiefer of Team United States day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Grand Palais in Paris on July 28, 2024. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
Team USA's Lee Kiefer celebrates after winning against US' Lauren Scruggs in the women's foil individual gold medal bout during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Grand Palais in Paris, on July 28, 2024. (Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images)
Reona Aoki of Team Japan, Lilly King of Team United States, and Angharad Evans of Team Great Britain compete in the Women's 100m Breaststroke Heats on day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, France, on July 28, 2024 . (Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
A general view during the Men's Preliminary Phase - Pool E match between Team Czechia and Team Canada on day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris on July 28, 2024. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
Coco Yoshizawa of Team Japan competes during the Women's Street Final on day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place de la Concorde in Paris on July 28, 2024. (Lars Baron/Getty Images)
Team USA's Haley Batten competes in the women's cross-country mountain biking event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Elancourt Hill venue in Elancourt, on July 28, 2024. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP via Getty Images)
Team USA's Torri Huske (L) celebrates with Gretchen Walsh after winning the final of the women's 100m butterfly swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, on July 28, 2024. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty Images)
Torri Huske of Team United States competes in the Women's 100m Butterfly Semi-Final on day one of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, France, on July 27, 2024. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
Haley Batten of Team United States celebrates winning silver as she crosses the finish line during the Women’s Cross-Country Cycling Mountain Bike Gold Medal race on day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Elancourt Hill in Elancourt, France, on July 28, 2024. (Tim de Waele/Getty Images)
US' Stephanie Roble and US' Maggie Shea compete in Race 1 of the women's 49erFX skiff event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games sailing competition at the Roucas-Blanc Marina in Marseille on July 28, 2024. (Christophe Simon via Getty Images)
Caroline Marks of Team United States rides a wave during round one of surfing on day one of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 in Teahupo'o, French Polynesia on July 27, 2024. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
Carissa Moore of Team United States rides a wave during round one of surfing on day one of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 in Teahupo'o, French Polynesia on July 27, 2024. (Ed Sloane/Getty Images)
Devin Booker #15 of Team United States drives to the basket against Ognjen Dobric #13 of Team Serbia of the Men's Group Phase-Group C game between Serbia and the United States on day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille, France on July 28, 2024. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
Lee Kiefer of Team United States (bottm) and Martyna Jelinska of Team Poland (top) compete in the Fencing Women's Foil Individual Table of 32 on day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Grand Palais in Paris on July 28, 2024. (Rob Carr/Getty Images)
