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2024 Paris Olympics: Biles takes silver on floor; Thomas and Lyles advance in 200-meter races

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  • Follow along for live coverage here
  • Americans Noah Lyles, Erriyon Knighton and Kenny Bednarek all easily qualified for the next round of the men's 200-meter race. Gabby Thomas of the U.S. and 100-meter winner Julien Alfred aced their heats in the first round of the women's 200-meter race. Brittany Brown and McKenzie Long will join them in the next round.
  • The U.S. women's 3x3 basketball team lost to Spain in the semifinal today and will be in the bronze medal game. The U.S. men's volleyball team will face Brazil in the quarterfinals, and the beach volleyball duo of Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth fell to Canada.
  • Simone Biles and Suni Lee fell off the balance beam today and did not get medals. Biles takes silver on floor routine after multiple penalties while Rebeca Andrade of Brazil takes her first gold medal of the Games. Jordan Chiles took bronze after appealing her initial score.
  • Stream every moment and every medal of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Peacock. Read more NBC News coverage of the Games and the athletes competing in Paris.
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37w ago / 11:00 PM EDT

On tap for Tuesday

NBC News

There are 15 medal events tomorrow, including five in track and field, plus the first gold medals awarded in boxing and wrestling.

Here are some of the events:

Equestrian

Individual Jumping, 4 a.m. ET/10 a.m. Paris


Sailing

Women’s Dinghy, 8:43 a.m. ET/2:43 p.m. Paris

Men’s Dinghy, 9:43 a.m. ET/3:43 p.m. Paris


Diving

Women’s 10m Platform, 9 a.m. ET/3 p.m. Paris


Skateboarding

Women’s Park, 11:30 a.m. ET/5:30 p.m. Paris


Wrestling

Greco-Roman (60 kg/132 lbs), medal matches, 1:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. Paris

Greco-Roman (130 kg/286 lbs), medal matches, 2:05 p.m. ET/8:05 p.m. Paris

Women’s Freestyle (68 kg/149 lbs), medal matches, 2:50 p.m. ET/8:50 p.m. Paris


Track and Field

Women’s Hammer Throw, 1:57 p.m. ET/7:57 p.m. Paris

Men’s Long Jump, 2:15 p.m. ET/8:15 p.m. Paris

Men’s 1500m, 2:50 p.m. ET/8:50 p.m. Paris

Women’s 3000m Steeplechase, 3:14 p.m. ET/9:14 p.m. Paris

Women’s 200m, 3:40 p.m. ET/9:40 p.m. Paris


Cycling

Men’s Team Sprint, medal rounds, 2:05 p.m. ET/8:05 p.m. Paris


Boxing

Women’s Lightweight (60kg/132 lbs), 5:06 p.m. ET/1:06 p.m. Paris

37w ago / 10:53 PM EDT

USA, China knotted up in race for gold medals

NBC News

The U.S. won two gold medals, four silvers and two bronze medals on Day 10 of competition at the Paris Games, bringing its total medal count to 79.

The USA leads nations in total medals, but that has been the case throughout these Games.

The U.S. is tied for first with China when it comes to gold medals. Each country has 21 of those.

France and Australia each have 13 golds, and Great Britain has 12.

37w ago / 10:46 PM EDT

3x3 basketball probably sticking with four-man team

Reporting from Paris

Don't expect a new “Jimmer Rule” to come out of Paris 2024.

The U.S. men’s 3x3 basketball team didn’t medal, and a key factor was the loss of scoring machine Jimmer Fredette — who went down with a serious injury early in the tournament, forcing America to play with no bench.

Asked whether rules might be changed to allow for an alternate fifth player, world basketball chief Andreas Zagklis said today that’s been discussed but that “in principle, we don’t have it in our plans to add a substitute player.” 

A more likely scenario is the tournament’s expanding from the current eight teams so pool play could divided into at least two divisions. That would lead to fewer games per team, so a squad dealing with injury could better manage the workload, Zagklis said.

An expanded field could also allow more nations — not known for their basketball but fielding strong 3x3 teams — to make it. Such teams that didn’t qualify for Paris but came close include Mongolia, Austria, Belgium and Japan.

37w ago / 10:39 PM EDT

The crowds are full and raucous at the Paris Olympics. Outside the events? Not so much.

Reporting from Paris

PARIS — For athletes and audiences, these have been the Olympics when raucous crowds have roared once again following years of lockdown restrictions.

But outside the din of the stadiums, it’s impossible to ignore that Paris is relatively quiet.

The International Olympic Committee promises that hosting the Games “generates powerful economic benefits.” And Paris 2024 has vowed that tourism, hotel and catering sectors “will benefit first and foremost from the influx of visitors.”

Clockwise from top left: A man cycles down a quiet street in Paris. Portuguese tourists on the Metro. Beneath the trains at Barbes Rochechouart subway station. French gendarmes exit a subway at Place de la République.Rafael Yaghobzadeh for NBC News

This does not appear to have happened.

Business is significantly down for shops, restaurants and cafés, according to trade data and dozens of interviews by NBC News. Taxi drivers sit idle at their ranks, some blaming the Olympics for driving away fares. Major streets and attractions are remarkably calm — and even the “Mona Lisa” is less mobbed than usual.

Read the full story here.

37w ago / 10:30 PM EDT

Mondo Duplantis breaks his own world record — again — on his way to pole vault gold

NBC News

Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record for an incredible ninth time after securing gold at the Paris Olympics, clearing a height of 6.25 meters. 

37w ago / 10:23 PM EDT

Jordan Chiles' win has echoes of Aly Raisman's 2012 medal

Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.

Aly Raisman knows exactly how Jordan Chiles was feeling today.

The six-time Olympic medalist faced an identical situation in the balance beam finals at the 2012 London Games. After losing an all-around bronze medal in a heart-wrenching tiebreaker, Raisman thought she was fourth again on the beam.

But her coach, Mihai Brestyan, knew something was not right. He appealed her score and, like Chiles a dozen years later, it made the difference between the bronze and no medal at all.

“I remember my coach was rushing to put in the inquiry and just making sure that he was writing everything down correctly,” Raisman told NBC News. “So it’s definitely a race against the clock, and it’s a lot of pressure. It was just so emotional and so special when it went my way.”

Read the full article here.

37w ago / 10:20 PM EDT

Men's water polo: U.S. heads to quarterfinals with momentum win over Croatia

NBC News

The U.S. men’s water polo team defeated Croatia today to finish pool play with a win and head to the quarterfinals with momentum as the No. 3 finisher in Group A. 

The team's next match will be against Australia on Wednesday as the U.S. seeks its first semifinal appearance since 2008, when it brought home silver in the event. Head coach Dejan Udovicic said he believed in this team.

"In my more than 25-year coaching career, this is one of the most talented teams I have ever coached," Udovicic said.

37w ago / 10:16 PM EDT

Olympics have inspired the internet to share its sporting fails

Many athletes are living out their Olympic dreams in Paris — while others on TikTok are showing off why they didn’t make the cut.

In what’s become a viral trend, dozens of people online are posting videos of times when their various athletic endeavors have gone awry, joking it’s “why I didn’t make it to the Olympics.”

Those taking part in the trend have often used a remixed version of the American national anthem called “Star Bangled (Bass Boosted)” as the sound to accompany their videos. More than 250,000 people have used the audio as of Monday afternoon, though not all videos are linked to the trend itself.

Many have placed text over throwback videos of themselves partaking in various sports that are part of the Games, joking that they are “sorry to announce” or “sad to report” before the video why they very obviously were not selected to compete.

Read the full story here.

37w ago / 10:11 PM EDT

Simone Biles poses with her Paris hardware

Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC News Digital.

Biles closed out her competition in Paris with a silver in today's floor final, which will accompany her three gold medals back to the States.

"More than my wildest dreams," Biles, now an 11-time Olympic medalist, said in an Instagram post. All those medals might need their own suitcase.

37w ago / 10:07 PM EDT

American rugby player marvels at the perks of free health care in the Olympic Village

While some people might think the chance at gold is the best perk of the Olympics, Team USA's Ariana Ramsey is enjoying a benefit very foreign to her: free health care.

Ramsey has posted a series of TikTok videos telling fans how she is taking advantage of the free medical care in the Olympic Village now that her rugby sevens tournament is over. So far, Ramsey says, she's gotten a dental exam, an eye exam, glasses and a pap smear all without cost.

U.S. Olympian Ariana Ramsey poses at the USA House in Paris on Thursday.Joe Scarnici / Getty Images for USOPC

Apparently, Ramsey’s videos have made the rounds of French media, as she says some of the health care workers at her eye exam told her that they’ve seen her videos on the news and thanked her.

"Anyway, America needs to do better with their health care system," Ramsey said in a video today. "There is no reason that me, an American girl, should be so amazed by free health care.”