Breakdancing: All in for Quake
Representing Chinese Taipei, Quake won over the judges easily, besting his opponent, Billy from Morocco 2-0 and earning all 18 votes.
Soccer: USA takes on Brazil for gold
In just moments, the U.S. women's soccer team takes on Brazil in pursuit of a gold medal.
The USWNT is coming of a 1-0 win over Germany, while Brazil defeated Spain 4-2. Today's matchup marks the 41st all-time meeting between the U.S. and Brazil in women's soccer.
Soccer: Final chance for gold for Marta
Marta, who will be playing in her final Olympic match today, is considered one of the greatest women’s players of all time but a gold medal has eluded her so far.
Marta, 38, is playing at her sixth and final Olympics. She was a member of the 2004 and 2008 teams that took silver after losing to the USWNT.
Marta has not played in either of Brazil’s knockout round matches after receiving a red card in the final game of the group stage for inadvertently kicking a player in the head.
Now that her two-match suspension is over, Marta will return for the final. She has scored 13 goals in her Olympic career and is one goal shy of tying the all-time Olympic scoring record (men’s or women’s) of 14 goals, held by her former Brazilian teammate Cristiane.
Soccer: USWNT and Brazil have battled for gold twice in past Olympics
The U.S. women's soccer team is going for its first gold medal since London in 2012 and will battle a familiar foe.
This is the third gold medal match between U.S. and Brazil. in both 2004 and 2008, the USWNT defeated Brazil after extra time to win gold. Those two silver medals are Brazil’s only two medals in women’s soccer.
Breakdancing: The Netherlands continue to prove what they're worth
It was a decisive win for Menno from the Netherlands, who bested Kazakhstan's Amir 2-0.
Menno will hope to follow his female teammate, India, who placed fourth yesterday in the women's contest after having to battle into the round-robin in a pre-qualifier round to earn the 16th seed.
Spain claims first-ever women's water polo gold
Spain has won its first gold medal in women's water polo, defeating Australia 11-9.
Bea Ortiz led the charge with four goals, while Maica Garcia added three. Goalkeeper Martina Terre anchored Spain's defense with an impressive 15 saves.
Australia's Alice Williams scored a game-high five goals, bringing her total to 21 in Paris, as the team settled for silver.
Breakdancing: Lee takes this one
Smooth moves from from both Hongten (Korea) and Lee (Netherlands), but Lee ultimately won over the judges, taking this battle 2-0.
Fun fact: Lee's mom is a B-girl, according to the NBC announcers.
Breakdancing: A battle win for Team USA
USA's Jeffro bounced on stage, exploding with energy and power, hitting beats and breaking expertly to the music. After an exciting battle, he won 2-0 over France's Lagaet.
The crowd got loud for Lagaet, who proved he can break to the music in his own style. He used the crowd to his advantage in his second round, encouraging the home crowd to cheer him on.
A song change between the first two throw downs offered both breakers the chance to show of their range of style and expertise.
Breakdancing: Decisive win for Kuzya
Ukraine's Kuzya won his first battle of the day against Australia's J Attack 2-0, earning 17 of 18 available votes.
Ukrainian fans were seen excitedly cheering on Kuzya from the crowd. We'll see if he can follow his female teammate, Kate, to the knockout round.
How breaking is scored
Breakers will face off in head-to-head dance battles at the Paris Games, taking turns — or throw downs — to show off their fiercest moves and tricks.
Each battle will include a set number of throw downs from each competitor, which can’t be longer than 60 seconds. But, breakers won’t face penalties for too short or too long of a turn.
Each of the battles will be scored by a panel of judges, who will rate each of the performances on six criteria — creativity, personality, technique, variety, performativity and musicality.
The criteria: Each carry a different weight when it comes to scoring the battle, with technique, performativity and creativity counting for 60% of the total score and variety, musicality and personality making up the remaining 40%.
After each round, the panel of judges will submit their scores and the breaker with the highest points wins and moves on to the next round.
Read more on the rules of Olympic breaking here.