"I saw royalty," New Zealand sevens star Michaela Blyde said on Instagram, brought to tears after spotting Jamaican track legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the Olympic village. Later, the two met in an emotional embrace, a heartwarming moment captured on video.

Blyde was the first female player to win back-to-back World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year titles, in 2017 and 2018. At the Tokyo Games in 2021, she helped lead New Zealand to a gold medal victory. Her hero, Fraser-Pryce, is known as one of the greatest sprinters of all time, with eight Olympic medals, including two golds in the 100m.

Levi Jung-Ruivivar is a former U.S. national team member and incoming freshman at Stanford University, where she will compete in NCAA gymnastics. Her lifelong Olympic dreams became a reality after training at WOGA Gymnastics in Texas, but she won't be wearing stars and stripes on her leotard.

She is representing the Philippines in gymnastics after obtaining citizenship through her ancestral heritage — a route to the Olympics that is growing increasingly common as a deep field of American gymnasts competes for just five Olympic spots.

NCAA Champion from LSU, Aleah Finnegan, and UCLA standout, Emma Malabuyo, also switched their delegations from the U.S. to the Philippines and are competing in the third subdivision. Malabuyo was an alternate for the U.S. Olympic team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Alabama's Luisa Blanco and Denver's Lynnzee Brown are competing for Colombia and Haiti, respectively.

When skateboarding made its debut at the Tokyo Olympics, the medalists in the women's street competition were all aged 16 or younger, setting a new record for the youngest average age of a podium in Olympic history.

That podium was topped by Japan's Momiji Nishiya, then 13 years old. Another 13-year-old, Brazil's Rayssa Leal, took silver and bronze was won by Japan's Funa Nakayama.

Nishiya failed to qualify for these Games amid a stacked Japanese squad, but Leal and Nakayama are back and both finished in the top eight of qualifying to progress to the final.

The street event has been dominated by Japan in recent years with six Japanese women ranked in the top 10 of the event's world rankings. Fellow teenagers Coco Yoshizawa, aged 14, and Liz Akama, 15, qualified first and second, while Australia's Chloe Covell, 14, will also challenge for a medal.

Team USA will have two skaters in the eight-strong field for the final. Paige Heyn, aged 16, qualified in 6th and will be joined by 19-year-old Poe Pinson, who will be one of the eldest in the field at 19. The women's street final takes place at 11 a.m. ET (5 p.m. local) .

The 1992 U.S. men’s basketball team is considered one of the best sports teams ever assembled. Led by Michael Jordan alongside Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, the U.S. were dominant in Barcelona as they went undefeated on their way to gold.

The Team USA of these Games is also stacked, drawing comparisons to the legendary 1992 squad. LeBron James will appear at his first Olympics since 2012. With him are a host of other NBA superstars, such as Kevin Durant, who could win a record fourth gold medal in Paris, and Steph Curry, who will make his long-awaited Olympic debut.

The American men’s basketball team tips off its Olympic tournament in an hour and will be 13.5-point favorites over Nikola Jokić’s Serbia.

The three-time MVP will be joined by Atlanta Hawks guard Bogdan Bogdanovic in what could be a competitive game against the United States which has won the last four men’s basketball golds.

The Americans, led by LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant, narrowly beat South Sudan and Germany in their final tuneups before this opener in Lille. Tip is at 5:15 p.m. local time and Americans back home can watch the game on NBC at 11:15 a.m. ET/8:15 a.m. PDT.

Rafael Nadal won his first set against Hungarian Marton Fucsovics, 6-1, with relatively few errors.

Though Nadal had a few forehand errors in Game 6, the Spanish champion took the final game in just a matter of a few minutes to secure the first set of the match.

Jha defeated Korea’s Cho Daeseong 4-2 in the Round of 64 in men’s table tennis singles. He will compete in the Round of 32 on Wednesday.

In his first Olympics in Rio, Jha was the youngest member of the entire U.S. delegation at 16. Now 24, he makes his third Olympic appearance as the only male table tennis player representing the U.S. in Paris. The U.S. has yet to win a medal in the sport.

Earlier this year, Jha set up a Gofundme to support his path to Paris, citing the financial burdens of maintaining his training and competitions. He has raised over $12,000, though it is short of his $100,000 goal.

The gymnastics GOAT pushed through calf pain this morning to lead Team USA to the top of the leaderboard after the second subdivision. Her individual qualifying score was also the highest of the cycle.

Team USA’s Haley Batten clinches silver in the women’s cross-country cycling after narrowly winning an epic battle with Sweden’s Jenny Rissveds for second place.

The gold medal never seemed in doubt for France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, who never looked like surrendering her wide lead on the undulating course at Élancourt Hill west of Paris.

Batten and Rissveds spent much of the seven-lap race glued to each others’ wheels, frequently swapping places as they battled it out.

Batten pulled away at the end of the last lap and pointed to the sky as she crossed the line. After the brutal contest, she shared a long embrace with the Swede while still on their bikes.

Still breathless from her silver medal victory, Batten spoke to NBC News about the brutal race-long battle with Rissveds.

“We’ve had just the most epic and most exciting battles all year,” said Batten, 25, from Park City, Utah. “I know Jenny really well, and we support each other; I’ve actually looked up to her for a long time. I knew what her strengths and weaknesses are. But more than anything, I just wanted it really bad. I focused on myself today, and I fought so hard.”

She thought her medal chance had gone when she busted her wheel on an earlier lap. But thanks to a swift wheel change from “the best mechanic in the world,” as she put it, she soon climbed back up the positions.

Asked how she finally bested Rissveds, Batten said that the Swede “did one pretty big attack and I was able to hold on. I knew that might be one of her last attacks.” She added, “My strength is to be really strong in the in the end of the race. And so I waited for that and I chose my moment.”