2024 Paris Olympics: U.S. men's gymnastics team claims bronze, first medal since 2008

Stephen Nedoroscik had plenty of time to watch his teammates before he took to the pommel horse as the U.S. men’s team tried to win its first Olympic medal in 16 years.

Nedoroscik said that his teammates paved the way and that “going up to pommel horse, last guy up in the whole competition, I had a good feeling that our team was in a great spot.”

“I just knew I had to go up there and do my job,” Nedoroscik said in an interview after he and his team won bronze.

There was a moment in his routine when he became worried, he said, watching the routine back in the studio.

“I was like, ‘Let’s just get it done; let’s go for it,’” Nedoroscik recalled. “Right here, I was like, ‘If I put this dismount up, Team USA gets a medal!’”

He said landing the dismount was “the best moment of my life.”

The American rapper Flavor Flav became the most prominent U.S. women’s water polo team supporter by signing a five-year sponsorship deal as the official hype man for the team. 

A look at how it happened.

The U.S. women's rugby team is headed to the semifinals tomorrow after it defeated Great Britain in the quarterfinals today.

The team faces off against New Zealand at 9:30 a.m. ET to see who will make it to the finals.

The U.S. is searching for its first Olympic medal in women’s rugby after it fell short in Rio and Tokyo.

The winner of tomorrow's game will go on to the gold medal match and the loser to the bronze medal match. Either way, both teams look poised to claim spots on the podium.

The U.S. men's gymnastics team set out to win a medal at the Paris Games, and its third-place finish did the job.

“It feels amazing,” said Fred Richard, who predicted the team would come home with hardware.

“Because, I mean, we had some highs and lows. You know, qualification wasn’t perfect. But I had no doubt in this team — and it showed today,” he said.

The bronze is the first medal won by the U.S. men's gymnastic team in 16 years. The last medal, also a bronze, came at the 2008 Beijing Games.

Japan won gold at the Paris Games, and China claimed silver.

American swimmer Lilly King said she was disappointed in fifth-place finish in the 100-meter breaststroke but is now focusing on the rest of the competition in Paris.

“I was really just trying to build that last 50, and things kind of fell apart last 10 meters,” said King, who won gold in the event at the Rio Games in 2016 and bronze at the Tokyo Games in 2020.

South African Tatjana Smith won gold, Tang Qianting of China won silver, and Mona McSharry of Ireland won bronze.

“Obviously, disappointed but still got a lot of meet left,” King said. She said she was shifting her focus to the 200-meter breaststroke, which is Wednesday with a final on Thursday, Paris time.

The dominant U.S. women’s water polo team is going for its fourth straight gold medal — and attacker Maddie Musselman has been a critical part of its success.

However, last fall, Musselman's life took a turn when her fiancé, Pat, was diagnosed with cancer. Unsure at first whether she wanted to continue playing, Musselman chose to support him through treatments while continuing to train with the team.

Her teammates and coaches have been inspired by the couple’s grace through the tough situation.

The pair have both been fueled by dreams of going to Paris. Now, they’re here.

Distance didn’t dampen any enthusiasm in California as Brody Malone and Asher Hong helped Team USA men win its first Olympic medal in 16 years.

Their fellow gymnasts at Stanford, which both either attend or graduated from, cheered as Team USA won the bronze medal in artistic gymnastics. Hong is a sophomore, and Malone graduated last year.

The last time the U.S. men team won a medal was in the Beijing Games in 2008, when they also won bronze.

Snoop Dogg puts his wingspan and “lung power” to good use when he hits the pool with Michael Phelps at the Paris Olympics. 

American gymnastics star Simone Biles practiced normally today after she experienced pain in her calf during qualifiers yesterday, USA Gymnastics said.

Biles, 27, will compete in all four finals, the team said.

Biles was seen with part of her leg taped yesterday. Her coach, Cecile Landi, said after the competition that Biles “felt a little pain in her calf” but that she never considered pulling out.

U.S. swimmer Ryan Murphy dedicated his bronze medal in today's 100-meter backstroke to his soon-to-be daughter. Murphy told reporters his wife revealed the gender of their child, who is due in January, while he was still in the pool after his race.

She "was holding up a sign, and it said, 'Ryan it's a girl,'" he said. "So I'm having a baby girl in January. That was the first time I heard the gender. We honestly both thought it was going to be a boy."

Murphy finished third behind Italy's Thomas Ceccon and China's Xu Jiayu with a time of 52.39 seconds.

"That's a really talented field. My initial emotion is 'yeah, I want to win,' but getting third behind Thomas and Xu, they're both really talented guys," Murphy said.

"We've been in a place where there's parity around the world. The world is really, really talented, especially on the men's side. It's going to be exciting over the next couple of days. We do have some really good shots at gold."

It’s not bragging if you have the Olympic gold to back it up: Romania’s David Popovici, who gave himself the nickname “Chlorine Daddy,” won gold in the men’s 200-meter freestyle in Paris.

Popovici, 19, of Bucharest, won the first gold medal for his country at the Paris Games.

He was also at the Tokyo Games in 2020 and came in fourth, failing to medal.

His other nickname is “Magician,” according to his Olympic profile.

If you build it, they will come — but they might not stay.

The cramped bedroom quarters inside the Olympic Village at the Paris Games have apparently raised eyebrows among some athletes, including a few who chose to ditch their new digs for hotel rooms.

In a video on TikTok, Team USA tennis star Coco Gauff gave her followers a seven-second tour of the tight spaces where women were trying to do their hair and makeup. “10 girls, two bathrooms,” Gauff wrote in a text overlay. (The video was accompanied by screaming sound effects drawn from the horror movies “Pearl” and “Hereditary.”) 

“I would go to a hotel,” a TikTok user commented. Gauff’s reply: “all the tennis girls moved to a hotel except me. so now just 5 girls two bathrooms.” She elaborated in another reply: “well it’s only 5 girls now so I have the room alone. roommates are very chill.”

It was not clear exactly why the tennis players left the village.

Read the full story here.

Today, Frederick “Flips” Richard, helped the U.S. break its medal drought as part of the bronze-winning men’s gymnastics squad in a sport he's spent most of his life practicing.

Richard, 20, grew up in Stoughton, Massachusetts, and first hit the gym at 2 years old.

After his parents saw him on their bed throwing flips he’d seen in his older sister’s gymnastics classes, they decided to put him in class, too. But he wouldn’t listen to the instructors at that age, he said, so his parents took him back when he was 4.

Competitions started when he was 6, and he “never did another sport.”

Starting young helped Richard build a strong foundation, he said. Not only was he required to repeat levels to stay within age parameters, but he was also training with kids three years his senior.

“And then I compete against kids my age and destroy them,” Richard said.

Read the full story here.

Ukraine has its first piece of Paris hardware.

Fencer Olga Kharlan captured bronze in women’s saber today to claim her country's first medal of the Games.

“Ukraine, I love you,” Kharlan exclaimed after the win. “This is for you, my dear, this is for you!”

Kharlan overcame a six-point deficit to defeat South Korea’s Choi Sebin.

“I brought a medal to my country, and it’s the first one, and it’s going to be a good start for all our athletes who are here, because it’s really tough to compete when in your country is a war,” she said. “Every medal, it’s like gold. I don’t care [that] it’s bronze. It’s gold.”

Kharlan was disqualified from last year’s world championships because she refused to shake the hand of a Russian opponent. The International Olympic Committee granted her an exception to compete after the disqualification sparked backlash.

Read other standout moments from Day 3 of the Paris Games.

U.S. swimmer Katie Grimes said her disappointing fourth-place finish four years ago at the Tokyo Games was “all I could think about” going into the women’s 400-meter individual medley in Paris.

She won silver, behind Canada’s Summer McIntosh. American Emma Weyant came in third.

It’s the first Olympic medal for Grimes, 18.

“It means a lot, just because last year, last time in Tokyo I got fourth, and that was really devastating for me,” she said.

At Tokyo, Grimes was the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic team.

“It’s completely different. I feel like I’m such a different person than when I was 15, and I think everything that happened along the way led me to this moment.”

Let’s get to know Canadian swimmer and Summer McIntosh, who won her first Olympic medal today in the 400-meter individual medley.

• Career highlight: She beat Katie Ledecky in an 800-meter freestyle race on Feb. 8, ending Ledecky’s winning streak at that distance, which had gone back to 2010.
• Go-to daily dish: chocolate chip pancakes for predawn breakfast and again for breakfast No. 2 after morning training.
• Her name, “Summer,” was inspired by Fox’s teen drama “The O.C.” and Rachel Bilson’s character, though McIntosh said she’s not at all familiar with the show.
• The family has three cats back in Toronto, one of them named Mikey in honor of all-time swimming great Michael Phelps.
• Older sister Brooke McIntosh won pairs bronze at the 2022 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Mother Jill Horstead finished ninth in the 200 butterfly at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Pre-race hype music: Toronto’s own Drake.

Read here for more on McIntosh.

Five Australian water polo players and a British swimmer have tested positive for Covid at the Games, officials said. The uptick in cases has raised questions about the measures in place to stop the spread of Covid at the Olympics.

This year’s Games are considered the first post-pandemic Olympics. Unlike at the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, there are no strict protocols or restrictions around Covid in Paris.

However, Covid is still spreading around the world. The U.S. is facing a summer wave, and the virus is also spreading in Europe, including in the Olympic Village.

Coco Gauff’s gold medal quest continues after her second-round win over Maria Lourdes Carle of Argentina.

The father of Hezly Rivera, the youngest member of Team USA women’s gymnastics, and the parents of gymnastics legend Simone Biles share the journeys they’ve all been through. 

Snoop Dogg may take the gold in unlikely duos, from his surprising friendship with Martha Stewart to his hometown alumna Billie Jean King.

King posted a selfie with Snoop today, saying she was able to meet the fellow Californian at the Olympics. Snoop is one of NBC's commentators, and King is a member of the Team USA Hall of Fame.

"Both of us were born and raised in Long Beach, California, and graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School," King wrote.

American surfer John John Florence has been knocked out of the competition with a score of 9.07, falling to Australia's Jack Robinson, who scored 13.94.

Tough weather conditions made for a choppy performance for Florence, who had high scores in previous heats and even earned the top score of his heat over the weekend.

Colin Jost of "Saturday Night Live," who has been serving as surfing correspondent, captured the harsh waves in an Instagram story right before Florence's heat.

"Waves have almost doubled in size since this morning...and may double AGAIN," a caption on Jost's story read.

"Oh, my God, whoa," Jost, who is normally a "Weekend Update" anchor on "SNL," said as he looked onto the waves, his voice cutting in and out with the wind's roar.

The USA women's beach volleyball team of Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss won its match against Australia.

The duo were playing Australia's team of Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar, silver medalists in Tokyo.

The match makes it two wins for Kloth and Nuss in their preliminary pool.

After more or less sleepwalking to an 11-point lead at halftime, Team USA put its foot down in the second half, ultimately beating Japan 102-76.

This was not close. The U.S. had a comical size advantage and exploited it the entire game. A'ja Wilson scored 24 points, Breanna Stewart had 22, and Brittney Griner, Sabrina Ionescu and Kelsey Plum each had 11.

The U.S. won the rebounding battle 56-27. The States had more offensive rebounds (19) than Japan had defensive rebounds (18). Japan did hit 15 3s to keep things briefly interesting but were ultimately overwhelmed by the U.S.’ talent.

The U.S. next plays Belgium on Thursday.

Team USA is leading Japan 79-57 after three quarters.

Japan managed to stay within 11 at halftime thanks to some hot three-point shooting, but the U.S. is simply dominating the game with their size. A'ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart and Brittney Griner have combined for 55 points on 25-of-34 shooting. Japan has absolutely no answer for them in the paint. Kelsey Plum has 9 points, leading USA’s perimeter group.

In addition to the hot shooting, the U.S. is cleaning the glass, outrebounding Japan 43 to 20. They are also shooting 72.7% on two-point field-goal attempts. The States have only hit one three, but they are so big it doesn’t matter.

Defending Olympic champion Team USA narrowly lost to China 3-2 Monday, in their opening women's volleyball game.

Despite having the edge in final attack and serve statistics, China held on courtesy of contributions from Zhu Ting, Gong Xiangyu and Li Yingying.

The epic five-set thriller saw China get off to a quick 2-0 set advantage before Team USA's Avery Skinner and Kathryn Plummer helped pull USA back in the crucial third set.

Team USA also had notable contributions from Andrea Drews, Haleigh Washington and Chiaka Ogbogu.

Their next match takes place Wednesday against Serbia.

Team USA's Lily Zhang fell to the floor with emotion after beating Brazil's Bruna Takahashi 4 games to 2 in the women’s singles table tennis round of 32. After Zhang dominated the first two games, Takahashi battled back with two of her own before Zhang took the final two for a decisive win.

Zhang aims to win the United States' first table tennis medal, hoping to draw more attention to a sport she describes as lacking the respect and interest of other mainstream American sports.

Fellow American Amy Wang is currently playing her round of 32 match, while Kanak Jha, in men's singles, has yet to play his.

It's hard to know what's a bigger win for Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina: earning an astonishing 9.90 in his heat today or the incredible photo taken just as he finished.

Medina earned the best score for an individual wave so far during the men's third round in Teahupo’o, Tahiti. He earned a 17.40 overall score, which crushed opposing surfer Kanoa Igarashi, who earned a total of 7.04 in today's heat.

Right as he finished his run, Medina had a moment to strike a pose, resulting in the gravity-defying image below.

Australian Mollie O’Callaghan set an Olympic record in winning the 200-meter freestyle, surpassing the mark held by her teammate and silver medalist Ariarne Titmus.

O’Callaghan’s 1:53.27 edged Titmus’ record time set in Tokyo of 1:53.50. Titmus still holds the world record of 1:52.23.

Hong Kong’s Siobhán Haughey, who led for much of the race, took bronze.

For anybody sitting on their couch thinking, "I could do that," let U.S. Olympics volleyball player Erik Shoji show you what it's like to try to return an elite-level serve.

Shoji posted a video to TikTok in June from a recent tournament in which he tried to return a particularly wicked serve.

"That is me getting absolutely destroyed by that serve," he said in the video. "And it's OK. I'm just impressed with that serve. That was crazy, that spin, that speed."

Shoji is a libero for the team, most easily identified because they wear a different jersey from their teammates. The libero is usually a defensive specialist adept at passing.

Shoji has posted a variety of videos from his time in Paris with the team, including some reviews of the food and their opening ceremony outfits.

Earning her very first gold medal, 17-year-old Summer McIntosh is doing her best to have fun and soak in the moment.

McIntosh gave Canada a first-place finish in the 400-meter individual medley, an early birthday gift to herself just weeks before she turns 18. But the teenager says she's already turning her attention to her next event: the 200m butterfly.

"Every single time I get to race on the world stage, I learn more and more about handling it mentally and physically and emotionally," McIntosh said. "I'm trying not to get too high or too low depending on my race results."

Still, this win and her silver medal finish on Saturday were major accomplishments for the young Olympian. McIntosh competed in the Tokyo Games at the age of 14 but fell just short of the podium, placing fourth in the 400m freestyle and 200m freestyle relay.

Her story can be anyone's story, she says, hoping to inspire young kids watching at home.

"If I can do it, they can do it too," McIntosh insists. "I was once in their shoes watching the Rio Olympics, and now I'm here eight years later."

Fencing uses three different weapons: epee (or épée), foil and saber. While they share a lot of basic rules, differences between their shapes and target areas change the speeds and styles of fencing matches. If you’re new to the sport, here’s a breakdown of the three weapon types:

• Foil is the smallest and most lightweight weapon. Foil fencers also target the smallest area — the torso — using only the tip of the blade. Scoring is largely based on how the point was made correctly, so you might think of foil as the most technical of the three.
• Epee uses only the blade’s point like foil does, but is a much larger and heavier weapon. The whole body is a valid target — the goal is to hit and not get yourself hit. Fencers must carefully choose their moments to strike while positioning themselves strategically, before they jump into action to get a “touch,” or a valid hit.
• Saber hits not only with the tip but also the edge of the weapon, in a slashing motion, that targets everything from the waist up, including the head. These matches are usually the fastest, involving swift exchanges of movement and rigorous footwork.

In foil and saber, there’s a “right of way” rule that doesn’t apply in epee. Whoever begins an attack first takes the right of way and only that fencer may score. If both players hit at the same time, it’s up to the referees to decide who initiated the move.

There is no definitive “most difficult” or “best” weapon, though every fencer has their preference. Foil is often used as an introductory weapon to teach blade control and right of way, but that doesn’t make it any easier to strategize against your opponent.

Team USA women pulled it out in the second half of their quarterfinal rugby match against Great Britain, winning 17-7.

They'll now head to the semifinal round, where they'll contend for a medal.

The U.S. women’s basketball team is taking care of business vs. Japan so far, leading 50-39 after two quarters.

The frontcourt has been dominant — A'ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart have combined for 31 points on 14-of-19 shooting. USA has an obvious size mismatch vs. Japan, and hasn’t been shy about exploiting it, constantly getting the ball into the paint. The U.S. is shooting a whopping 21-of-28 from 2-point range — a 75% field-goal percentage on non-3s.

The rebounding battle has been thoroughly dominated by the States, which has 30 boards compared to Japan’s 14. The U.S. has 10 offensive rebounds alone, which has been a massive problem for the Japanese defense.

Frankly, it’s impressive Japan has stayed this close. Their strategy of letting it fly from 3 is paying off. Japan is shooting 9-of-22 from deep, and has outscored the U.S. by 24 points from the arc. That’s the only reason this game is even relatively competitive right now.

The 2024 Paris Olympics is already making waves for uncharacteristically slower times in men’s and women’s swimming meets and there may be a culprit: the water might be too shallow.

The pool constructed at the Paris La Defense Arena measures at 2.2 meters deep, falling short of deeper pools at previous Olympic games. World Aquatics put in place a minimum depth of 2.5 meters for swimming and water polo in 2023. However, when Paris had its bid for the 2024 Olympics approved in 2017, regulations allowed for a pool of 2.2 meters.

A more shallow pool can impact swimming times as the water becomes more wavy due to the swimmers strokes bouncing off the surface.

When asked in May if a more shallow pool could impact swimming times, John Ireland, the chief technical officer of Myrtha Pools who designed the last five Olympic swimming pools, believed the difference is minimal.

“A lot of this is perception vs. reality,” Ireland told Yahoo Sports. “If you were to talk to many very accomplished coaches, they would say the pool has to be a minimum 3 meters deep. Most of our research shows that anything over 2 meters is frivolous. Obviously, some depth is very important. But after a certain point, it’s diminishing return.”

South African Tatjana Smith won gold in the 100-meter breaststroke, as American Lilly King missed the podium.

Evansville, Indiana, native King, who finished fifth, won gold in this event in Rio and bronze in Tokyo.

Smith edged out silver medalist Tang Qianting of China and Mona McSharry of Ireland, who took home bronze.

Team USA's Nick Itkin defeated Japan's Kazuki Iimura 15-12 to secure the bronze medal in men's individual foil. This is America's third foil medal in Paris, following Lee Kiefer's gold and Lauren Scruggs' silver in the women's event.

Itkin's bronze redeems his disappointing performance in Tokyo, where he placed 12th in the same event.

Hong performed the hardest vault in the world in his effort to earn a medal with his team in today's final. The risky move payed off, and he cashed the check in bronze.

He is one of 60 Stanford-affiliated athletes at these Games. A standout on the gymnastics team there, he won the 2023 NCAA team championship.

The U.S. women's rugby team is trailing Great Britain after the first half of the quarterfinal, 7-5.

USA's one score was by Naya Tapper, earning 5 points with just more than a minute left to play in the first half.

TikTok star Ilona Maher was close to earning more points for the team before the half closed out, but didn't quite make it.

Ukraine has gotten its first medal in these Games: a bronze in the women's saber in fencing.

Olga Kharlan defeated South Korea’s Choi Sibin 15-13.

Kharlan is a four-time Olympian and a four-time Olympic medalist.

Despite watching her train for years, Nellie Biles never imagined in her "wildest dreams" that her daughter would have achieved this level of success at the international level.

Simone Biles' parents spoke with NBC News' Lester Holt about what it was like to raise the gymnast, who has been dubbed by so many as a the "greatest of all time."

"I mean, Simone enjoyed the sport, but I didn't think that we were gonna end at the Olympics, never did," Nellie Biles said. "And not ... I mean end up with one Olympics, this is her third. So, this is incredible."

Watch "NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt" tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT.

Italian Thomas Ceccon won the 100-meter backstroke, capturing gold in an event for which he holds the world record.

China's Xu Jiayu took silver, and Florida native Ryan Murphy captured bronze for Team USA.

The UC Berkeley alum Murphy won gold in the 100 back in Rio and bronze in this race in Tokyo.

Emma Weyant pushed her way to the podium today in the women's 400-meter individual medley and she said it was the best she'd swam in two years.

Her bronze-medal win was a slight surprise at the end of the race, as she had been trailing just behind Great Britain's Freya Colbert. But Weyant was excited to be able to stand next to her Team USA colleague Katie Grimes at the end.

"Yeah, this is kind of like a redemption year," Weyant said. "That's been my mindset the whole year ... putting in the work to get back to where I need to be."

The Florida native got silver in this same competition at the Tokyo Games, but has struggled on the world stage since. She earned bronze at the World Championships in 2022.

"This is the best I've been in two years, so, I'll take it," Weyant said.

Frederick "Flips" Richard has been captivating an audience of nearly 1 million followers on TikTok and Instagram for many years, but now his feats have reached an even bigger stage: the Olympic podium.

He led the U.S. men to their historic bronze medal, performing five stellar routines. The highlight of his day was a high bar routine that would have clinched a silver medal at last year's world championships.

The U.S. men's gymnastics team just medaled for the first time in 16 years.

The young team, made up almost entirely of first-time Olympians, is basking in the glory that comes with a bronze medal hanging around their necks.

"I mean, it’s unbelievable," Asher Hong told NBC News. "We put in so much hard work at home, and we just put our trust and belief in each other, and we went out there, had fun."

Brody Malone, the only Olympic returner of the bunch, said it's "incredible" to be "representing the best country in the world" at the Paris Games.

"It’s just an incredible feeling any time you get to, you know, wear USA on your chest, but especially at the Olympic Games," Malone said.

He also shouted out the "phenomenal" crowd in the Bercy Arena who he said "were backing us the whole way" and "made it really easy to go out there and slam our sets."

A quick 8-0 run in the second quarter and the U.S. is leading Japan by 12, with just over seven minutes left in the first half.

Breanna Stewart has gotten going in the second, and she’s up to six points on 3-of-3 shooting. The U.S. already has 21 rebounds, and is shooting 13-of-18 on shots from inside the 3-point line.

U.S. national all-around champion Brody Malone may have been knocked down in Sunday's qualifying round, but he didn't stay there.

He rallied in today's team final, bolstering the U.S. men to a historic bronze medal finish. Malone's Olympics may be over, but he'll leave Paris with some precious hardware around his neck.

USA is leading Japan 22-15 after the first quarter of their group play opener.

A'ja Wilson is leading the way with 10 points, while Kelsey Plum added five of her own.

This is a serious mismatch for Japan, which is getting crushed on the glass. The U.S. out rebounded its opponent 16 to seven in the first quarter, grabbing a whopping six offensive rebounds. The States’ frontcourt is massive, and it’s causing issues for Japan.

Japan is trying to compensate by letting it fly from 3, attempting eight shots from beyond the arc in the first, connecting on three of them.

A'ja Wilson is off to a hot start in USA’s women’s hoops opener vs. Japan.

She has eight of the team's first 12 points, as the States jumped out to a 12-7 lead about five minutes into the first quarter.

This is going to be an uphill climb for Japan, which is at a serious size disadvantage against the U.S.

Summer McIntosh wore the Maple Leaf Flag as a cape and did a victory lap — on her feet — around perimeter of Paris La Défense Arena.

A Canadian flag, flanked by two sets of Stars & Stripes, were raised here as "O Canada" played in honor of McIntosh, silver medalist Katie Grimes and bronze winner Emma Weyant following their 400 IM race.

There's some long lines to get into Olympic venues. They're being treated to a particularly French way to pass the time: mimes.

David Popovici won the 200-meter freestyle, delivering Romania its first medal of these games.

The 19-year-old from Bucharest also won his nation’s first swimming medal since 2004.

Great Britain's Matthew Richards took silver and American Luke Hobson took bronze.

In his Olympic debut, Italy's Filippo Macchi secured a 15-11 victory over USA's Nick Itkin. Macchi will face defending Olympic champion Cheung Ka Long, from Hong Kong, in the gold medal match later today.

Itkin, 24, was part of the U.S. foil team that won bronze in Tokyo but finished a disappointing 12th in his individual event. He is ranked second in the world and will now fight for the bronze against Japan's Kazuki Iimura.

What a moment for Team USA.

The crowd at Bercy Arena went nuts when everyone learned that the American men's team earned a spot on the podium for the first time since 2008.

Less that 24 hours before the triathlon is set to begin and its still not clear whether high bacteria levels in the River Seine will force a delay. Officials say the water quality will be measured again overnight and a decision made in the early hours of Tuesday.

But it is still possible to swim in the city if you go to places like Bassin de la Villete, an artificial lake that runs into the main waterway. Today NBC News found families swimming to escape the hot weather. 

Nine-year-old Ivy Sous said the water was "cold but nice and refreshing," while Lyra Moggach, 12, said she "exhilarated when I got in," and she felt fine when she got out.

To test that theory, NBC News’ took a dip and, while the water was cold, it seemed clean enough and clear enough to see your feet below.

They did it!

Team USA men's gymnastics made it on the podium in the team final for the first time since 2008, a goal they have been loudly chasing throughout these Paris Games.

The men's team earned bronze, behind Japan then China. Great Britain and Ukraine took fourth and fifth, respectively.

Today's showing was a welcome improvement from Saturday's qualifying round, with the mostly green Olympic team hitting all of their routines.

Next up: Frederick Richard and Paul Juda will compete in the all-around final and Stephen Nedoroscik will try his hand in the pommel horse final.

Americans Katie Grimes, Emma Weyant, Ryan Murphy, Lilly King, Luke Hobson and Claire Weinstein have reached the finals of races set for Monday night just outside of Paris.

Grimes is considered a medal contender in the 400-meter individual medley in a race that also includes Weyant and Canadian Summer McIntosh, who is listed as the favorite for the event at 8:30 p.m. local time (6:19 p.m. EDT).

Murphy is slated for the 100-meter backstroke at 9:19 p.m./3:19 p.m. while King swims in the 100 breaststroke at 9:25 p.m./3:25 p.m.

Luke Hobson and Claire Weinstein are racing in each of their 200 freestyle races at 8:40 p.m./2:40 p.m. and 9:41 p.m./3:41 p.m., respectively.

After a heart-pounding lead-up, Nedoroscik delivered a historic routine for the U.S. on his one and only event, the pommel horse.

He anchored a near-perfect competition for the U.S. team with a 14.866.

In the last rotation of the day, China suffered a fall on high bar. The team is a solid favorite to medal, but there's no telling what this mistake will do to their overall standing.

Stephen Nedoroscik, Team USA's secret weapon today, is being called the "Clark Kent" of the pommel horse as viewers watch the unassuming, bespectacled athlete wait to take the stage.

"OK, Stephen Nedoroscik, the US men’s gymnastics pommel horse specialist, has these thick-rimmed glasses. He takes them off when he does pommel," one X user wrote. "Is anyone else thinking Clark Kent/Superman vibes?"

The men's gymnastics team is 2/3 on pommel horse with just one more routine of the day from Stephen Nedoroscik.

Brody Malone stuck his landing and earned a score of 13.700.

Malone, who was plagued by falls and mistakes in the qualifiers, had a much stronger showing in the team event today.

All smiles — and what looked like some teary eyes — after Paul Juda completed his routine on pommel horse, his last event of the day before the all-around final later this week.

He scored 13.900 — starting Team USA off very strong on their trickiest event. The men's team is just two routines away from potentially getting on the podium for the first time since 2008.

If you haven't yet watched the world's best surfers take on Teahupo'o, you're in for a treat. After making its debut in Tokyo, surfing is back with some of the world's most formidable waves - and they're massive.

Watch Team USA’s Carissa Moore and John John Florence explain to Colin Jost why the Tahitian surf zone presents such a daunting challenge. Both Moore and Florence won their opening heats on Saturday and face their next ones later today.

After a nearly three-hour wait, the biggest moment of Stephen Nedoroscik’s career is upon him.

He's struggled in international team final competitions, but he's one of the best in the world on pommel horse. He's more than capable of clinching a historic medal for his team if all goes well.

With one rotation left to go, Team USA sits in third place behind China and Japan.

Only pommel horse stands between this team and a medal, and all-star Stephen Nedoroscik will anchor the team with what is expected to be a stand-out performance.

As the U.S. anchor on floor, Richard delivered a clutch routine to wrap up the penultimate rotation. One of his skills on floor stems from breakdancing, a sport that is making its Olympic debut in Paris.

A podium finish is in their grasp as he earns a 14.466, but they'll have to get through the pommel horse first, which is never an easy task.

Asher Hong did what he needed to on the floor, save for a few small hops and a minor step out of bounds.

He exited the mat screaming "come on, USA!" before receiving his score of 14.133.

It's Hong's last event of the Olympics. He won't compete for his team in the final rotation, pommel horse, and he didn't make any individual event finals.

As the U.S. men kicked off their fifth rotation of six, Paul Juda was a steady lead off on floor.

His secure tumbling landings earned him a healthy 14.200.

China's women's volleyball team defeated the defending champion United States in the preliminary round match.

The match was played over a full and nail-biting five sets.

The top three teams from each pool advance to the next round, so a lot will be riding on Team USA's next match two days from now.

China is set to play France next on Aug. 1.

While female gymnasts dance and flip to music on floor exercise, the men tumble a capella.

The focus remains on the acrobatics, with little artistic flair.

He sticks the landing!

It was a simplified bars routine for Malone, but still earned him a score of 14.166.

Malone told NBC News he was gunning for a medal on the high bar — his specialty — but he did not qualify for the individual event final after a few falls in qualifiers. His performance today could earn him a team medal instead.

He appears in better shape today so far, performing on every event except for floor.

The stellar high bar routine comes off a fourth-place finish in Tokyo and a nearly career-ending knee injury on the event last year.

So far, Frederick Richard has been a rock for Team USA. He performed a monstrously difficult routine on high bar, sticking his dismount and posting a 14.833.

That score would have won a silver medal at world championships last year.

Paul Juda kicked off the fourth rotation of the men's gymnastics final for the U.S. with what appeared to be a nearly perfect high bar routine.

He scored 13.366 — perhaps lower than he was hoping for — and will perform again on the apparatus in the individual all-around later this week.

After three excellent rotations, the U.S. men are in second behind China. They've exceeded expectations so far, but they're headed to high bar.

It's one of the riskiest events in men's gymnastics and American fans in Bercy Arena and at home will likely be holding their breath.

We all know Snoop as a smooth talker, but how does he sound as a sports commentator? Watch the rapper find an impressive flow as he narrates some of week one's highlights — it's profoundly satisfying.

Chants of "USA" erupted in Bercy Arena after Asher Hong became the third American to sail through parallel bars. He earned a 14.400, putting the U.S. in the second spot for now.

Up next on the parallel bars was Frederick Richard, a first-time Olympian who is hungry to get on the podium.

Richard earned a 14.566 on the event, which he'll repeat in the all-around final later this week.

The third rotation of six is underway for Team USA. Sometimes topping the leaderboard can lead to jitters, but not for Brody Malone.

He hit a clean set on parallel bars, earning a 14.433.

A strong start for the men's gymnastics team has the U.S. in first heading into the third rotation with a total score of 86.764.

They're followed closely by China in second and Japan in third. Other teams to look out for are Great Britain and Ukraine.

It's still a bit early to tell if the U.S. is going to make the podium for the first time since 2008, but their current standing puts them in a good position for now.

The U.S. men will compete on parallel bars next.

In a thrilling finale, USA's Jagger Eaton got the silver medal for men's street skateboarding, missing gold by 0.1 points. Nyjah Huston takes the bronze. Huston had the lead for the majority of the event, but was overtaken after missing his final three tricks.

When it counted the most, defending gold medalist Yuto Horigome from Japan landed a perfect trick that no other skater attempted, to score the highest trick of the final at 97.08. Sora Shirai missed his trick by a hair to miss the podium.

Christa Deguchi from Canada took home gold for women’s lightweight judo. This is Canada’s first-ever judo gold, and Canada’s first Olympic gold these Games.

Deguchi fought against Korea’s Huh Mi-Mi, who will walk away with silver. Both finalists are first-time Olympians.

Japan’s Haruka Funakubo and France’s Sarah-Léonie Cysique tied for bronze. This is Cysique’s third career Olympic medal after earning two in Tokyo — a silver for this same event and a gold in mixed team.

Japan and France have now each won a medal in 4 out of 5 judo events in Paris. Another medal event will happen later today.

Pommel horse is often called the balance beam of men's gymnastics, which means that even the best in the world can face heartbreak on the apparatus.

Reigning all-around world champion Daiki Hashimoto slipped on pommel horse, earning a 13.100 for the Japanese team, who are the favorites for team gold.

The Belarus sprinter who defected three years ago during the Tokyo Olympics is competing at the Paris Games for Poland.

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is scheduled to run in the women's 200-meter dash and the women's 4X100-meter relay, according to her official Paris Olympics bio page.

"I am an Olympian," the 27-year-old athlete declared on her Facebook page.

Tsimanouskaya made a desperate dash for freedom on Aug. 1, 2021, as she was about to board a flight to Minsk at a Tokyo-area airport.

The U.S. women's field hockey team fought hard for a 1-1 tie against Spain today, managing to get fourth place in their group.

It's a much-needed rebound for the U.S. team after their loss 4-1 to Argentina just two days ago.

Asher Hong just performed the hardest vault in the world — and he knew he did it well.

High fives and "yeahs!" preceded Hong's score of 14.833, sliding U.S. into the first place spot for now.

Jagger Eaton throws his hands up, in disbelief that he just landed his fourth trick. His 95.25 has him overtaking Nyjah Huston. Huston missed his fourth trick and remains in second place.

Meanwhile, Japan's Sora Shirai perfectly executed and scored a 94.21, sliding back into third. Defending gold medalist Yuto Horigome will have one more attempt after missing his third trick in a row.

Canada's Cordano Russell is also making a big comeback after landing a fourth difficult trick scoring him a 94.93. His failed two runs, however, will keep him off the podium.

"I dare Brody to stick," one NBC commentator said, and he did.

The U.S. national all-around champion nailed his vault, building more momentum for Team USA.

First seed Novak Djokovic bested 14-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal, 6-1, 6-4 at the Paris Olympics on Monday to punch his ticket to Round 3.

And see this amazing slide shot that won the match for him.

Both Nyjah Huston and Jagger Eaton sit on their first two tricks, as Huston has his first miss of day and Eaton misses as well. The standings remain with the Americans in the lead.

Brazil's Kelvin Hoefler slid into third after a third trick scoring 92.88.

A perfectly stuck landing for Juda, who kicked off the second rotation of the men's gymnastics final. He was visibly excited about his performance as he whooped and punched the air on his way off the mat.

A score of 14.666 is a high start for the men. Brody Malone will compete next.

Americans Nyjah Huston and Jagger Eaton remain in the top two spots after strong second tricks.

Huston lands with a smile after a big second trick scoring him 93.22, keeping him in first place. Jagger Eaton continues to match his fellow American, scoring 93.87 and staying in second.

Fatigue began to show in the skaters' second tricks, with Yuto Horigome and Sora Shirai each bailing on theirs.

Stephen Nedoroscik is performing on just one gymnastics apparatus in Paris — the pommel horse. It’s a difficult event and a typical weak spot for the U.S. men’s gymnastics team that they are hoping to overcome in their quest to medal for the first time since 2008.

The Peacock broadcast displayed a countdown until Nedoroscik can compete: two hours and 30 minutes remain.

He’ll work to stay focused and warm until the time comes.

After the Olympic trials in June, Nedoroscik knew he nailed his single event, and told reporters “I had a good feeling I made this team.” This year is Nedoroscik’s Olympic debut.

It’s a risk to put someone on the team who can only perform one of six events, but Nedoroscik is a world champion on pommel horse, and he could be the missing piece to the men’s team’s long-awaited team medal.

Thanks to Frederick Richard's improvements, the U.S. have already increased their rings score from qualification by four tenths. The team had posted underwhelming results from the qualifying sessions.

Fortunately, scores refresh after the first round, and it's a clean slate for the team final.

Nyjah Huston remains in first place in the men's street final, with his first trick scoring 92.79. Eaton followed with a 92.80 and remains in second.

The field of skaters runs deep, with defending gold medalist from Japan Yuto Horigome in third.

For the first time, Simone Biles landed the "Biles II" vault at the Olympics, securing first place in qualifying with a score of 15.800 on Sunday.

The vault is a Yurchenko double pike, and it bears her name because she was the first woman to successfully perform it at an international meet.

The final score is composed of a combination of a difficulty rating and an execution rating. The vault has an epically high difficulty of 6.4

The Biles II is the fifth skill the athlete has named after her. The others include another vault, two floor skills and a balance beam skill.

Coco Yoshizawa says she was a "nobody" before the Paris Olympics. Now, she sets her sights on fame after becoming an Olympic champion at 14.

Yoshizawa scored a 96.49 on her final and fourth trick to secure a gold medal on Sunday. In second place: fellow Japanese athlete Liz Akama, 15.

After a devastating qualifying round that took him out of all individual finals, Brody Malone appears to be in better form today, scoring a 14.166 on rings.

The U.S. men are off to a stellar start with Frederick Richard on still rings. A clean exercise and a stuck landing earned him a 14.033.

Paris isn’t just the U.S. women’s gymnastics team’s redemption tour. It’s gymnast Brody Malone’s redemption tour, too.

After a disappointing finish on the high bar at the Tokyo Olympics and a devastating knee injury last March that could have ended his gymnastics career, Malone is looking to bring home the gold on his best event.

A minor mistake in Tokyo led to Malone finishing fourth on the high bar, which “leaves a really bad taste in your mouth,” he said.

Read the full story here.

Frederick “Flips” Richard is already making a name for himself in men’s gymnastics and has big plans for the sport’s future.

Richard, 20, first hit the gym at 2 years old. After his parents saw him on their bed throwing flips he’d seen in his older sister’s gymnastics classes, they decided to put him in class, too. But he wouldn’t listen to the instructors at that age, he said, so his parents took him back when he was 4. Competitions started when he was 6, and he “never did another sport.”

Now a rising junior at the University of Michigan, where he trains and competes, he’s on the precipice of fulfilling a dream shared by many young athletes.

“I want to enter the Olympics with the whole country knowing, like, that’s Frederick Richard, like this man is going to do it,” he said.

Read the full story here

Nyjah Huston leaves a commentator speechless as he scores a big 93.37 with his second run, before Jagger Eaton also skates an impressive 91.92. Both make the skating look way too effortless.

In third is Japan's Sora Shirai, who sits on his first 90.11 run after stumbling twice on his second.

USA Gymnastics has released the lineup for today's men's team final. The U.S. will start on still rings and end on the pommel horse. Despite a rocky qualification round where he fell multiple times, U.S. national all-around champion Brody Malone is scheduled to compete in all events, save floor.

It will be a dramatic set-up for Stephen Nedoroscik, who anchors the U.S. on the pommel horse tonight. It's his only routine of the night.

After the first round of runs in the men's street final, Japan's Sora Shirai leads with the highest score of 90.11.

Defending gold medalist Yuto Horigome from Japan is right behind with 89.90. American Nyjah Huston scored an 87.06 run, placing him at fifth, while fellow American Jagger Eaton had an uncharacteristic fall, putting him at seventh with a 61.77 run. He'll have to turn around his second run if he hopes for a medal.

Snoop Dogg is also seen entering the arena to cheer the skaters on.

For the first time since 2008, a member of the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team will not compete in the team final.

Hezly Rivera, 16, is not in the lineup for tomorrow's final. She did not qualify for any individual finals, so as it stands now, her Olympics are over. In the qualifying round, she was the lowest scorer on the two events she competed, bars and beam.

Should the team win, Rivera will still receive a gold medal.

After falling on floor in qualifying, Jade Carey is scheduled to compete only on vault. The reigning floor champion said Sunday that she has not been feeling well in Paris.

Slovakia’s Richard Tury started things off with a smooth, authoritative first run before another from Brazil's Kelvin Hoefler, Tokyo silver medalist. Japan's Yuto Horigome then took the lead with a run riddled with difficult tricks. Horigome's run scored 89.90, Tury got 87.85 and Hoefler earned 87.25.

Each skater will get two 45-second runs and five tricks, the final score combining points from the best run and best two tricks. USA's Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston have yet to show off their first runs.

Britain's Adam Peaty tested positive for Covid today, a blow for the Englishman who was set to compete in the relay events later in the Paris Games.

“He is hopeful to be back in competition for the relay events later in the swimming programme,” the team said in a statement. “As in any case of illness, the situation is being managed appropriately, with all usual precautions being taken to keep the wider delegation healthy.”

According to the statement, Peaty began to feel unwell yesterday just before his 100m breaststroke event and his symptoms persisted following his silver-medal win at the race. He was only 0.02 seconds behind Italian Nicolò Martinenghi, tying with American Nic Fink.

Peaty had been seeking his third-consecutive gold medal in the 100m breaststroke this year.

In today's men’s gymnastics team final, the U.S. could medal for the first time since 2008.

“We’re in a much different position now,” high performance director Brett McClure said of the Paris Olympic team. “We’re gonna be able to control our own destiny. We’re gonna get back on that podium. That’s the expectation and that’s our goal.”

McClure estimated the U.S. men’s scoring potential to be third in the world, behind China and Japan. In the qualifying round, they struggled with consistency and placed fifth.

In today's final, three gymnasts from each team will perform in six events — floor, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar. Unlike the qualifying round, all scores count.

The team final kicks off at 11:30 a.m. ET.

The USA's water polo team, the two-time reigning gold medalists, have lost to Spain, the reigning silver medalists, in the women's preliminary rounds.

While Spain's win avenges the country after it didn't walk away with gold in Tokyo, it's not over for Team USA yet, which is going for a historic fourth consecutive gold medal.

A final point tally determines which four teams from each preliminary pool will move on to the quarterfinals. The Americans have lost one match and won one match so far. Their next match will be against Italy on Wednesday.

Three years after winning all-around gold in Tokyo, Suni Lee finds herself among the best gymnasts in the world once again. She will defend her Olympic all-around title and her uneven bars bronze after narrowly defeating her teammate and roommate, Jordan Chiles, in Sunday's qualifying.

She'll also vie for gold with the team on Tuesday as well as a balance beam medal after missing out on both in Tokyo. Regardless of where she places in Thursday's all-around final, she and Simone Biles will make history as the first Olympic all-around champions to go head-to-head in an all-around final.

Former NBA journeyman Chase Budinger and beach volleyball partner Miles Evans made quick work of a French duo, winning their opening match in two sets, 21-14 and 21-11.

The Americans were too tall, powerful and fast for the French duo of Youssef Krou and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat, who benefitted from a spirited home crowd at the makeshift volleyball stadium in the shadows of the Eiffel Tower.

After the first set, fans spontaneously broke out into “La Marseillaise,” briefly energizing Krou and Gauthier-Rat.

After a rainy start to the Paris Games, temperatures are expected to climb this week, with the host city expected to hit a high of 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday.

The onslaught of heat prompted France’s meteorological agency to issue a “yellow alert” for the coming days. Yellow is the second of four alert levels and indicates that vulnerable populations and people working outdoors or engaging in outdoor activities may be at heightened risk.

Olympics volunteers passed out these pass-shift fans to spectators at metro stations near venues.

Some areas of Southern France are under an orange alert, with triple-digit temperatures expected in some places.

The heat wave will likely make for grueling conditions in some Olympic events this week. Ahead of the summer games, several athletes spoke out about their concerns of soaring temperatures in Paris, and how heat waves intensified by climate change are threatening the future of certain sports.

USA's Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston just delivered the highest qualifying scores in the men's street skateboarding preliminaries. The final is set to begin at 11 a.m. ET.

Both Eaton, 23, and Huston, 29, will seek redemption after Tokyo, where Eaton won bronze on a broken ankle and Huston placed a disappointing seventh.

Following closely with strong preliminary scores were Japan's Sora Shirai and defending Olympic champion Yuto Horigome. Japan, a skateboarding powerhouse, took gold and silver in women's street on Sunday.

Rafael Nadal has been knocked out of the men’s singles competition, beaten by Novak Djokovic, 6-1, 6-4, in a hard fought match in the Paris heat.

Djokovic was nearly flawless, only losing the upper hand toward the middle of the second set before coming back and serving out the match with an ace.

Djokovic is through to the third round of the men’s singles, aiming for a first Olympic gold medal, while Nadal will compete in the doubles.

That could be the last time we see these two greats play each other in a major tournament.

Germany's Michael Jung took the gold for individual eventing jumping this morning, making history as the only rider to do so three times.

Jung and his horse Chipmunk finished the course in 21.80 seconds including penalties at Chateau Versailles today, looking back after he finished his round to assure himself of the record run. He took the gold with his former horse, Sam, at the London and Rio Games.

The 41-year-old was previously tied with Mark Todd of New Zealand, who won two golds and a bronze in the same event.

Long before Jagger Eaton jumps on his skateboard in Paris, he faced a true high-pressure opponent: that of nonrefundable travel.

Eaton’s family, looking for the best deal possible, made those cost-effective, use-it-or-lose-it reservations for Paris during the Olympics well ahead of him officially qualifying.

With or without him, “they’re already going to be there,” a chuckling Eaton told NBC’s podcast “The Podium.” “That’s not pressure-filled at all.”

Eaton did qualify for Paris, and the Tokyo bronze medalist is looking to earn an award of another color.

“I’m really stoked, the faith they have in me and my ability to perform,” Eaton said.

The U.S. women's rugby team lost its final pool play match against host France. After closing out the half leading 10-7, France went aggressive on the attack, scoring back-to-back tries. America's Naya Tapper was able to turn it around with a try, but another try from the French secured the 31-14 win.

Both the U.S. and France secured spots in the quarterfinals yesterday by winning their first two pool play matches. France's win over the U.S. secured first place in Pool C as teams head to the quarterfinals beginning at 3 p.m. ET today.

For the third consecutive Olympics, Simone Biles qualified in first place in the all-around yesterday. She will advance to five finals and is favored to medal in all of them: team, all-around, vault, beam and floor later in the Games.

Biles next competes in the team final on Tuesday, where the U.S. women will be in the hunt for a gold medal.

Nadal’s comeback proved to be short-lived.

The Spaniard won a spectacular rally to win his second break and take the score to four games each in the second set.

He then saved three break points, only for Djokovic to win the game with a sublime drop shot.

The Serb served out the final game to win this somewhat one-sided but still compelling match between two of the greatest tennis players of all time.

Team Britain earned its first gold of the 2024 games today as it defended its title in the equestrian team event.

It's Team Britain 's second-straight gold in the event after placing first in Tokyo four years ago.

The squad — Ros Canter, Tom McEwen and Laura Collett — also set an Olympics record for best team dressage score during the first day of that event. And Collett, who nearly died in 2013 after a dramatic fall in competition, set an individual eventing dressage record astride horse London 52.

Britain's equestrian team drew headlines in the run-up to the games after three-time gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin withdrew following video emerging of her repeatedly whipping a horse.

Is this the start of a fightback from Rafael Nadal?

At the start of the second set Novak Djokovic was still in cruise control against fellow legend and longtime rival Nadal.

Then the 38-year-old Spaniard has made a valiant fightback, winning three games in a row and going from 4 -0 down to bring the score to 4 -3.

The U.S. women's gymnastics team overcame some nerves, pain and an apparent stomach bug to post the best score of any country Sunday as it made its highly touted debut at the Paris Games.

The squad was led by Simone Biles, who, fighting a tweaked calf, still finished as the top scorer among all-around qualifiers.

Biles' performance came in the aftermath of an uncharacteristically flat one by Jade Carey during her floor routine, something the Arizona native later attributed to illness.  

“I just have not been feeling well the past few days and haven’t been able to eat or anything,” Carey told Olympics.com.

Later Sunday, Carey's mother, Danielle Greenberg, told Today that Carey's condition had improved.

“Trying to hydrate, get some food in, ready to go,” she said of her daughter.

Carey’s father and coach had missed training Thursday due to an illness, USA Gymnastics announced last week.

Carey still finished third in her vault routine and will fight for a medal in the apparatus final.

The youngest member of the squad, Hezly Rivera, looked shaky at times on beam and uneven bars in her Olympic debut. While she did not qualify for any individual finals, her scores later this week will still count toward the team's overall effort.

With Sunday's qualifier conclude, here are the athletes set for finals appearances:

All around: Simone Biles and Suni Lee

Vault: Jade Carey, Biles

Floor: Jordan Chiles, Biles

Beam: Biles, Lee

Bars: Lee

The Chinese duo of Lian Junjie and Yang Hao bested Great Britain’s Tom Daley and Noah Williams to win gold in the men’s diving synchro platform.

Team USA swimmer Nic Fink was within a sliver of glory or disaster when he ended up winning a silver medal in the men’s 100-meter breastsroke in an incredible photo finish in Paris.

The New Jersey native reflected on the heart-pounding finish on "TODAY" on Monday after winning his first Olympic medal.

“It was pretty surreal,” Fink said alongside Olympic legend Michael Phelps. “A lot of times it’s almost cliché to say it’s a fingernail touch, but it actually was last night.

“I was a fingernail away from first, but also a fingernail away from being off the podium, so it almost seems like it was meant to be second. And sharing the podium with Nico and Adam was really cool, too.”

Fink, 31, tied Britain’s Adam Peaty for silver at 59.05 seconds, while Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi edged them by two-hundredths of a second to win gold.

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This may be one of the great rivalries in tennis, but so far it’s Novak Djokovic who has made it count when in matters, breaking Nadal’s first two service games. 

The world number two is in complete control. 

Can Nadal, the King of Clay, dig himself out of this hole?

Some heroes wear capes. One wears a scant pair of floral swim trunks. 

Team USA swimmer Emma Weber lost her cap at the bottom of the Olympic pool. That’s when a man wearing a floral Speedo dubbed “Bob the Cap Catcher” dove in to scoop it up — and became an internet sensation. 

Growing up in Miami, Ashleigh Johnson and her four siblings took swimming lessons as kids, primarily to ease the mind of their mother, who feared they could drown in the family pool while she was at work.

Those lessons led to falling in love with swimming, which led to joining the local Riptides swim team at nearby Cutler Ridge, which eventually led them to a unique sport for Black youths: water polo.

Johnson’s sister and three brothers all took lessons from Carroll Vaughan and thrived in the sport. But Ashleigh Johnson soared as a goalkeeper, using her spindly body, quickness and understanding of angles to become an All-American at Princeton University, where she compiled 100 victories and was the school’s all-time saves leader.

Read the full story here.

China’s Sheng Lihao claimed his second gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics after winning the men’s 10-meter air rifle event.

Snoop Dogg is watching Nadal vs. Djokovic while sitting next to Billie Jean King — it's the combo we never knew we needed.

Novak Djokovic has been ruthlessly dominant in the first set, despite some typically pugnacious resistance from 14-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal.

The Spaniard was only able to hold one of his service games, making several unforced errors and mishits.

By contrast, Djokovic had an answer for nearly everything Nadal has thrown at him.

Still, this is a highly entertaining heavyweight clash.

The crowd, which is firmly behind Nadal, has gone a little quiet out on court Philippe-Chatrier.

Organizers canceled triathlon training for the second day in a row today due to concerns over the Seine's water quality, but said they were "optimistic" that the actual event will go as planned tomorrow.

"There’s been quite a lot of rain in the last couple of days, but we are monitoring very closely," Paris 2024 chief executive Étienne Thobois said this morning at a news conference.

Since 2015, organizers have invested more than $1.5 billion to clean up the Seine and earlier this month, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the river to show it was finally clean enough.

The first triathlon event, men's individual, kicks off tomorrow morning.

"We are still optimistic that we can hold the competition within the Seine river," Thobois said. "We hope that tomorrow morning when they'll wake up they will be able to participate."

Djokovic has a solid start against Nadal, with the Serbian holding his serve in a nervy opening game, and breaking Nadal’s serve in the second game. 

We’re already seeing some great rallies between these two icons of the game.

Play is underway on court Philippe-Chatrier at Roland-Garros in the second round of the men's singles tennis. It's a veritable clash of the titans: Novak Djokovic vs. Rafael Nadal, playing against each other for the 60th time in their careers.

Authorities in France are investigating whether far-left militants were behind the sabotage of parts of the country’s rail network, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told French television this morning.

Several train lines across the country were sabotaged ahead of Friday's opening ceremony.

Darmanin said that far-left militants had used similar methods in the past, and that investigators will seek to establish if those responsible for Friday's attacks had acted on their own accord, or had been "manipulated” by others.

Several telecommunications networks in France were damaged last night, according to Digital Affairs Minister Marina Ferrari. 

Internet and phone services have been affected in local areas, according to Ferrari, who said on X: “I condemn these cowardly and irresponsible acts in the strongest possible terms.”

Services in Paris do not appear to be affected.

Telecoms network SFR says that its long-distance fiber optic network was “vandalised” in six regions across France last night.

The regions affected are Bouches-du-Rhône, Aude, Oise, Hérault, Meuse and Drôme. 

Teenager Sheng Lihao already won one gold at the air rifle mixed team event on Saturday. The Chinese shooter just added another one, this time solo, at the men's 10-meter air rifle with a record-Olympic score.

Behind him by just 0.8 points was Victor Lindgren, who made his Olympic debut for Sweden.

Miran Maricic, from Croatia, won the bronze.

Although Team USA did not qualify for the finals this Games, the Olympic record broken by Sheng was previously held by USA's William Shaner at the Tokyo Olympics.

The Tokyo Olympics did not go as planned for track and field sprinter Noah Lyles, who had cited his mental health as a roadblock to success during the last Games. But the current fastest sprinter on the planet says he’s more prepared this time around to step into the blocks and bring home some medals for Team USA. 

In 2021, the racial strife in the U.S. and the Covid pandemic upended life for plenty of people, including the athletes, but Lyles said part of what threw him off during the last Games was what wasn’t there: “If there is no crowd, that is most likely when you will see me lose,” he said, referring to the Tokyo Olympic Games that had extremely limited audiences. 

“Even this one has had its own fair share of trials and tribulations, but gosh, I can finally say I’m showing up to an Olympic Games not depressed, and it feels amazing,” Lyles, 27, said at a press conference this morning. 

Lyles, who is hoping to win gold in the men’s 100-meter and 200-meter, told reporters that he was thriving with the help of three therapists: everyday therapist, sports therapist and a grief therapist. 

“As I go into this championship, this biggest stage of the world, I’ve been through the hardest parts. I’ve been at the bottom. I’ve fought my way back up. I’ve fixed the weaknesses. Now here I am stronger than before. If I lose this time, it’s not going to be because I beat myself. It’s just going to be, they had to be that much better.”

Read more about Noah Lyles here. 

The gold medal for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics team figure-skating event will be reallocated in a ceremony at the Champions Park in Paris at 5:00 p.m. local time (11:00 a.m. ET) on Aug. 7, the IOC said this morning.

The International Skating Union retroactively dropped the Russian team from gold to bronze after Kamila Valieva, one of the team's skaters, was given a four-year ban for doping. Russian athletes are competing in Paris as individual neutral athletes due to the war in Ukraine.

The move will see Team USA upgraded to gold and Japan boosted to silver.

Other reallocations will take place on Aug. 9 at 1:45 p.m. local time (7:45 a.m. ET).

Reigning 10-meter synchronized platform world champion divers from China got to hear their anthem again in Paris, with divers Lian Junjie and Yang Hao clinching their first Olympic medals, and gold ones at that.

British superstar Tom Daley and his young partner Noah Williams bagged silver, with Daley adding a fifth medal to his haul of one gold and three bronze medals that he'd won in previous games.

Canadian divers Nathan Zsombor-Murray and Rylan Wiens walked away with a bronze — their country's first medal this Games, while Team USA did not qualify for the event.

Brazilian surfer Filipe Toledo delivered a stellar performance in Round 2 of the men’s shortboard competition today, with a score of 9.67. The surfing events of the Paris Olympics are taking place almost 10,000 miles from France, off Tahiti in French Polynesia.

Basketball veteran Chase Budinger steps on to Olympic sands for the first time this afternoon in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.

The former Pacers, Suns, Timberwolves, and Rockets forward will team up with beach volleyball partner Miles Evans to take on the French duo of Youssef Krou and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat at 10 a.m. ET.

Budinger and Evans enter this tournament as the world's number 13 duo and the Americans need a win over the number 34 Frenchmen because competition in Pool F will get more difficult. Their next two matches are against No. 5 Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands and the No. 17 Spanish team of Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira.

The top two teams of each pool are guaranteed spots in the knockout round of 16.

Two of the greatest tennis players of all time, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, will walk onto the court at Roland-Garros today. The legends meet in the second round of the Paris Games men's singles tournament in the second match of the day, after women's No. 1 Iga Swiatek beat France's Diane Parry.

It's not the first time the Serbian and the Spaniard have met. In fact, it'll be the 60th and the two could not be more evenly balanced. Djokovic has won 30 of those meetings to Nadal's 29 since they first faced off on the very same Roland-Garros courts at the 2006 French Open.

While Djokovic's career is still going strong — he recently made the final at Wimbledon before losing to Nadal's Olympic men's doubles partner Carlos Alcaraz — Nadal has suffered with injuries in what will likely be the last years of his career. The 38-year-old Spanish great will be looking to roll back the years to his success at the 2008 Beijing Games, when he beat Djokovic in the men’s singles semifinals on his way to the gold medal.

"It’s going to be possibly the last time we’re going to face each other on a big stage," Djokovic said of Nadal. "Playing him is like finals, in any tournament. Particularly here, knowing what he has achieved and what he’s done for our sport."

South Korea’s Ban Hyo-jin won gold in the women’s 10-meter air rifle event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. China’s Huang Yuting and Switzerland’s Audrey Gogniat claimed silver and medal, respectively.

A scintillating men’s 100m breaststroke final yesterday came down to a photo finish between Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi, Great Britain’s Adam Peaty and Team USA’s Nic Fink. Martinenghi edged past the joint-silver winners by just 0.02 seconds.

Before the race, 2023 world champion Qin Haiyang of China had been joint favorite for the gold along with Peaty.

Canada’s women’s soccer coach issued an apology yesterday, after she received a one-year ban from the game for her part in a spying scandal at the Paris Olympics. Bev Priestman said she would "take accountability" and cooperate with ongoing investigations.

"I am absolutely heartbroken for the players, and I would like to apologise from the bottom of my heart for the impact this situation has had on all of them," she said in a letter issued by her lawyers. 

FIFA deducted 6 points from the Canadian team and suspended British-born Priestman after a staff member used a drone to spy on the opponent team last week. That means the team has been stripped of all points won in its first two group A games, leaving their gold-medal defense in jeopardy.

The Canadian government also released a statement yesterday in light of the allegations mentioning that funding related to Priestman and the two other implicated Canada Soccer officials, Joseph Lombardi and Jasmine Mander, will be withheld for the duration of their FIFA sanction.

Team USA's women surfers put on a show during Round 1 of Olympic surfing in Teahupo’o Tahiti.

All of the American surfers won their heats to automatically advance to Round 3 of the competition.

Check out the best of the action below and on Peacock.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach apologized to South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in a phone call yesterday, after organizers wrongly introduced the South Korean team as North Korean during the opening ceremony.

As the athletes made their way down the Seine on Friday, announcers identified them as "Democratic People's Republic of Korea," the official name of North Korea.

South Korea's official name is "People's Republic of Korea."

“The problem was identified as a human error, for which the IOC is deeply sorry,” the statement by the IOC read.

Good morning! It's Day 3 of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Here are some of the medal events to watch out for as you wake up and beyond.

Shooting — 10-meter air rifle women’s and men’s final — 9:30 a.m. Paris/3:30 a.m. ET and 12 p.m. Paris/6 a.m. ET, respectively.

Diving — Men’s synchronized 10-meter platform final — 11 a.m. Paris/5 a.m. ET.

Equestrian — Eventing team jumping final and eventing individual jumping final — 11 a.m. Paris/5 a.m. ET and 3 p.m. Paris/9 a.m. ET, respectively.

Cycling — Men’s cross-country mountain biking — 2 p.m. Paris/ 8:10 a.m. ET.

Archery — Men’s team bronze medal and gold medal matches — 4:48 p.m. Paris/10:48 a.m. ET and 5:11 p.m. Paris/11:11 a.m. ET, respectively

Skateboarding — Men’s street final — 5 p.m. Paris/11 a.m. ET.

Canoe slalom — Men’s canoe single final — 5:20 p.m. Paris/11:20 a.m. ET.

Artistic gymnastics — Men’s team final — 5:30 p.m. Paris/11:30 a.m. ET.

Swimming — Women’s 400-meter individual medley final — 8:30 p.m. Paris/2:30 p.m. ET.

Swimming — Men’s 200-meter freestyle final — 8:40 p.m. Paris/2:40 p.m. ET.

Swimming — Men’s 100-meter backstroke final — 9:19 p.m. Paris/3:19 p.m. ET.

Swimming — Women’s 100-meter breaststroke final — 9:25 p.m. Paris/3:25 p.m. ET.

Swimming — Women’s 200-meter freestyle final — 9:41 p.m. Paris/3:41 p.m. ET.

Fencing — Women’s saber individual bronze and gold medal bouts — 8:50 p.m. Paris/2:50 p.m. ET and 9:45 p.m. Paris/3:45 p.m. ET, respectively.

Fencing — Men’s foil individual bronze and gold medal bouts — 9:15 p.m. Paris/3:15 p.m. ET and 10:10 p.m. Paris/4:10 p.m. ET, respectively.

Follow all the action and track upcoming calendar events before they happen so you’ll never miss a beat.

On July 20, Team USA lost 117-109 to a team of WNBA standouts in the league’s All-Star game. 

What could have been a win for Team USA ahead of their departure for the Paris Games — and an opportunity to garner some hype as the women’s basketball team prepares to face off on the biggest international court — turned out to be a disappointing loss for some of the league’s biggest and most decorated stars, including Brittney Griner, Diana Taurasi and Sabrina Ionescu. 

But that shouldn’t be a discouragement for Team USA — in 2021, ahead of the Tokyo Games, it also lost to team WNBA in the All-Star game, but went on to win gold at the Olympics anyway.