Chase Budinger and Miles Evans of the U.S. fell to the Dutch duo Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot in straight sets in their second Olympic beach volleyball match at Eiffel Tower Stadium.

Did Hong Kong’s Cheung Ka-long actually defeat Italy’s Filippo Macchi for men’s foil gold, and does pineapple really belong on pizza? 

These are the difficult issues brought on by Cheung’s narrow — Italians would say unjust — 15-14 victory yesterday. As Italian and Hong Kong netizens debated the match, online discourse shifted to pizza and some Hong Kong citizens’ enjoying tropical fruit on their slices, which is sacrilege to Italians.

Hong Kong Pizza Hut got into the debate and is offering free pineapple topping on pizza till tomorrow in celebration of Cheung and the greater Hong Kong effort during the Games.

Ilona Maher posted a selfie taking a bite of her bronze medal after the women's rugby sevens team earned its first-ever Olympic medal.

Maher became a viral sensation after the Games in Tokyo and has used her social media platform to promote women's rugby to new audiences.

"Delicious," she captioned the photo on X.

Defending world champion Serbia rudely welcomed the U.S. to 3x3 Olympic basketball, pulling away for a 22-14 victory, holding American scoring machine Jimmer Fredette to just 4 points.

Strahinja “Dr. Strange” Stojačić nailed a long-range 2-pointer to win it.

Kareem Madbox paced the U.S. with 6 points. The U.S. led 10-9 before Serbia ended on a 13-4 run.

Serbia won the FIBA 3x3 World Cup, beating the U.S. in the final. The U.S. didn’t qualify for the Tokyo Games, which Latvia won, with Serbia taking bronze.

Great Britain took home the gold in the men’s 4x200-meter freestyle relay.

Duncan Scott closed out the relay for the Brits, who led for much of the race and won comfortably. Their time of 6:59.43 was more than a second faster than that of the U.S., which finished in 7 minutes and 0.78 seconds.

It was still an impressive finish for the U.S., who won silver after having not even medaled in the event in Tokyo. Australia won bronze, holding off China and France.

Josh Matheny just took what many thought would be fellow American Matt Fallon's place in the finals in the men's 200-meter breaststroke. Fallon missed qualifying by 0.07 seconds.

Also vying for gold tomorrow will be Australia's Zac Stubblety-Cook, the defending Olympic champ, and French favorite Léon Marchand.

There are athletes who get recognized in public, and there are athletes who literally stop traffic. 

Even more than a decade removed from the height of his fame as a college basketball star, Jimmer Fredette is among the latter.

On a recent picture-perfect day in Marseille, France, Fredette decided to walk the one mile to his team’s practice ahead of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour, a sport that was added to the Olympics in 2020. Packed with vacationers that late May afternoon, cars sped past heading to and from the beautiful Mediterranean beaches. 

Then everything halted. 

Read the full story here.

U.S. swimmers Torri Huske and Gretchen Walsh swam just fast enough to qualify for the women's 100m freestyle finals, posting the seventh and eighth fastest times in the semis.

In tomorrow's final, Huske and Walsh will face tough competition from 2023 World Champion Mollie O'Callaghan from Australia and Tokyo silver medalist Siobhan Haughey from Hong Kong.

The U.S.’ Bobby Finke won a silver medal in the men’s 800-meter freestyle final.

Finke finished second to Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen in the marathon race. Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri took home the bronze.

Wiffen finished in 7 minutes and 38.19 seconds. Finke finished slightly behind him at 7 minutes and 38.75 seconds.