2024 Olympics: Grant Fisher medals in 10,000m, Léon Marchand adds fourth gold, Sha’Carri Richardson debuts

The USA added three silver medals and three bronze medals to its tally at the Paris Games today, bringing its total medal count to 43 — still top among competing nations and groups.

The three silvers were in shooting, equestrian and swimming, and the three bronze medals were in sailing, archery and track and field.

The U.S. has nine golds, 18 silvers and 16 bronze medals, which puts it in fourth place when only gold medals are considered.

China leads in gold medals, having excelled in diving and shooting, and France and Australia are tied at 11 each.

Team USA sprinter Noah Lyles says he intends to win not one, but four gold medals in Paris. For Lyles, a repeat of bronze in Tokyo just won’t do.

A week ago, hometown hero Leon Marchand had no Olympic medals. And now, with his fourth gold, which he claimed in the 200M IM, he's among the most decorated French swimmers. He is now tied for the most gold medals of any French Summer Olympian, it's a four-way tie that includes Teddy Riner who also won his fourth gold today, and can win his fifth tomorrow

Marchand is the first person to sweep both IM races since Michael Phelps did so in 2004 and 2008. (Marchand and Phelps do share a coach, Bob Bowman.)

THe French swimmer is only the fourth swimmer to win four individual races in one Games. Michael Phelps did it twice — in 2004 and 2008; Mark Spitz in 1972; and Kristin Otto in 1988 have done so.

Phelps won five individual races in 2008.

It's a backstroke sweep for Australia's Kaylee McKeown. When she touched the wall first in the 200M backstroke today, it was a repeat of her Tokoyo 100-200 sweep.

She's only the third woman to win the 200M event twice.

She now has six career Olympic medals, five golds and a bronze. and becomes the first Australian swimmer to win four individual swimming events.

With her silver-worthy performance in the race, American Regan Smith claimed her sixth Olympic medal.

Kylie Masse of Canada took bronze, and American Phoebe Bacon just missed the podium with her fourth-place finish.

Back-to-back losses left Caeleb Dressel crying on the pool deck after his last individual event at the Paris Olympics ended in heartbreak.

Dressel placed sixth in the men’s 50-meter freestyle final, an event he set an Olympic record for in Tokyo.

Then, less than an hour later, Dressel missed the final for the 100-meter butterfly. At the Summer Games in 2021, his gold medal-winning time of 49.45 seconds set an Olympic and world record, which still stands.

“It was very obviously not my best work,” Dressel said after the races. “It hasn’t been my best week. I don’t think I need to shy away from that. But the racing has been really fun here. Walking out for the the 50 and the 100 fly, it was special. I don’t want to ever forget that. I’d like to be quicker, obviously. Not my week.”

The U.S. men's rowing team won gold for the first time since the 1960 Games in Rome. To celebrate the win, special guest Snoop Dogg stopped by and held one of the gold medals.

"Let me see what that gold looks like!" Snoop said.

One of the medalists told Snoop about the medal, which is encrusted with a piece of iron from the Eiffel Tower.

"So you're taking a piece of Paris home with you?" Snoop said. "This is special."

Simone Biles has long been nicknamed a “GOAT” — or the “Greatest Of All Time.” Now, she has an accessory to match the acronym.

The American gymnast, who became the most decorated American gymnast in the history of the Olympic Games this week, drew praise from fans online after showing off a new necklace alongside her gold medal.

The white gold necklace, which she clung onto proudly while on the podium on Thursday, is a diamond-covered goat. It was custom made for the Olympian by Janet Heller, founder and CEO of Janet Heller Fine Jewelry in Calabasas, Calif.

“She reached out to us about five weeks ago to say that she wanted to do a goat necklace,” Heller told NBC News. Biles didn’t give Heller too many specifics, she said, and so the jeweler went through “several iterations” of the goat before landing on the final design.

“What she didn’t know we would be doing, which was a huge surprise to her, was that we made it 3D,” Heller said. The necklace has 546 diamonds.

Read more about the necklace here.

Judoka Teddy Riner won an unprecedented fourth judo gold and a sixth medal overall in front of a rowdy crowd.

French TV commentators couldn't contain their excitement as they called Riner's win. Take a listen.

With the Paris Olympics almost at the halfway point, major track and field events have begun.

Lewis Johnson of NBC Sports breaks down which Team USA athletes to watch.