Australia’s Cameron McEvoy won his fourth career medal — and first gold — by taking the 50-meter freestyle, edging silver medalist Benjamin Proud of Great Britain.

The defending Olympic champ, American Caeleb Dressel, finished sixth.

The French crowd roared with approval as Florent Manaudou took bronze.

Australia’s Kaylee McKeown won gold in the 200-meter backstroke in Olympic-record time, outdueling American rival Regan Smith, who picked up her third silver medal.

The decorated Dolphin now has six medals, five of them gold, including the top prize in the 100 backstroke earlier this meet.

She needed a 2:03.73 to edge Smith's 2:04.26 and break the Olympic record of Missy Franklin, who had set the mark of 2:04.06 in London.

Snoop Dogg continued his tour around Paris on Friday when he had a brief chat with the U.S. men's rowing team, who took home gold.

The four crew members, who were the first Americans to take the top spot at the Olympics since 1960, showed off their medals to Snoop, who is a special correspondent for NBC at the Games. Snoop Dogg also got a chance to hold and observe the gold medal for the first time, saying, "This is special."

Giannis Antetokounmpo led Greece to its first win at the Paris Games, hitting 20 points during Friday’s game to beat Australia 77-71.

The win gives Greece hope of advancing to next week’s quarterfinal round. 

“We didn’t want to leave this tournament without getting a win,” Antetokounmpo said after the win, according to The Associated Press. “We felt like we had a very good team to not get the win. And we competed. We fight for all three games. And I think this has been a game that we had to fight for until the end.”

Australia’s Cameron McEvoy won his fourth career medal — and first gold —  by taking the 50-meter freestyle, edging silver medalist Benjamin Proud of Great Britain.

The defending Olympic champ, American Caeleb Dressel, finished sixth.

The French crowd roared with approval as Florent Manaudou took bronze

Throughout their Olympic encore, Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles observed a burgeoning lightness and international kinship in elite gymnastics.

“I think the environment has changed so much in gymnastics to where it almost feels like you’re at an NCAA meet now,” Lee said of the competitive camaraderie in Paris. “People will cheer after your first pass — like we can, we smile, we’re laughing, we’re having fun on the floor.”

Chiles credits “the voices of the athletes” with breaking the icy tension of the Olympic environment.

“We do have big voices and I feel like if you can hear it and you are understanding it, it will kind of bring that atmosphere back up throughout our sport,” she said.

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If Leon Marchand wins the 200-meter individual medley today, he will become the fourth swimmer to win four individual gold medals at a single Olympics after Michael Phelps (2004, 2008), Mark Spitz (1972) and Kristin Otto (1988).

If Marchand swims faster than 1:54.23, he will leave Phelps with just one Olympic record. Phelps still has the 200-meter freestyle Olympic record.

The men’s 200-meter IM is the last standing individual Olympic record time from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when Olympic records were set in 30 of the 32 events (including relays) during the high-tech suit era.

There are still two Olympic records from 2008 in relays (men’s 4x100-meter freestyle and 4x200 freestyle, both of which Phelps was part of).

Last summer, Marchand broke Phelps’ last remaining individual world record in the 400-meter IM at the world championships. Phelps still has world records as part of relays.

America's 3x3 women's basketball team won a pair of dramatic one-point games and suddenly look like the medal contenders the U.S. expected to be.

Rhyne Howard's 2-point shot at the buzzer gave her team an 18-17 overtime triumph over Canada after Dearica Hamby’s layup gave the U.S. a 14-13 victory over host France.

The Americans, gold medalists of Tokyo, ended the day at 3-3 and in fifth place. The top six of eight squads make it to elimination play.

Canada survived a scare on Friday, defeating Spain 88-85 to remain unbeaten through three games. The Spaniards, 1-2 and last place in Group A, are all but surely out of the Paris Games.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Andrew Nembhard combined for 38 points to lead Canada. Dario Brizuela, who poured in 18 points, paced Spain.

Only the top eight teams through the group stage will make the quarterfinals, which begin Aug. 6.