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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Phelps won five individual races in 2008.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After the losses, Dressel was visibly crying on the pool deck. After giving someone a long hug, he was filmed wiping his eyes, which were stained red.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read more about the necklace here.

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

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

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

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

The official hypeman of the U.S. women's water polo team, Flavor Flav, added some star power to the crowd at today's match.

The mayor of Flavortown himself, Guy Fieri, cheered on the women as they defeated France 17-5, clinching a spot in the quarterfinals.

"With Guy Fieri at the match today, the United States has been cooking," Water polo commentator and five-time Olympian Tony Azevedo said.

Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei won men’s 10,000m final in Olympic-record time. American Grant Fisher took bronze, becoming just the second U.S.-born men’s 10,000m medalist since 1964. 

Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes of the United States defeated Germany’s Svenja Mueller and Cinja Tillmann in straight sets, going undefeated in Pool C and rolling into the beach volleyball Round of 16.

Huang Yaqiong of China got proposed to after she took home the mixed doubles gold by her new fiancé and fellow Chinese shuttler, Liu Yuchen.

The Grand Palais, one of the iconic venues of the 2024 Paris Olympics, was originally constructed for the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900 and features ornate glass vaults and iron and light steel framing.

In a TikTok video filmed ahead of her Olympic all-around win yesterday, Biles said she's been receiving so much attention from other athletes in the Olympic Village cafeteria that she is unable to eat there.

"A lot of people were asking me for photos, like nonstop, and whenever I sat down to eat, my anxiety was so bad that I was shaking and I couldn't stop shaking," she said in the video.

"I was so overwhelmed ... I haven't gone back to the cafeteria in like five days."

Biles said she's been going to the store instead to stock up on food, but otherwise stays in her room.

"It gets me so anxious," Biles said of the attention.

After meeting in the Wimbledon final just a few weeks ago, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will go head-to-head on Sunday for a gold medal.

Djokovic can become the fifth player to ever complete the “Golden Slam” — winning all four Grand Slam titles and gold at the Olympics. The 37-year-old would be the oldest player to win the Olympic singles tournament since 1908. Olympic gold is the only thing missing from his trophy case. He has won 24 Grand Slam titles — the most of any man in history.

Alcaraz, 21, looks to become the youngest man to win the singles tournament at the Olympics. American Vincent Richards holds the record (21 years, 115 days), taking home gold in Paris in 1924.

France defeated Argentina 1-0, sealing a place in the men's semifinal.

The rematch of the 2022 World Cup final saw the host nation score early in the 5th minute, courtesy of Jean-Philippe Mateta. A second goal from France in the 83rd minute was ruled off, after a VAR check found France's Maghnes Akliouche fouled Argentina's defender shortly before the goal.

Despite Argentina dominating possession of the game and having more shots on target, France capitalized in key moments to advance.

France will face Egypt on Monday for a chance to play for gold. The second semi has Morocco playing 2020 Olympic silver medalist Spain.

Canyon Barry scored a game-high 14 points and knocked down the walk-off jumper as the United States beat China, 21-17, to keep its hopes for a medal alive.

The United States, left for dead at 0-4, won twice today and is now in a 2-4 tie with France and Poland for fifth place. 

The top six move to elimination play. 

The U.S. is playing without prolific scorer Jimmer Fredette who hurt his leg earlier in the day. He was in uniform but did not get into the game against China.

Maghnes Akliouche found Michael Olise in the box during the 83rd minute for what would've been a 2-0 lead over Argentina. But a VAR check ruled Akliouche's boot made contact with Argentina's defender, leaving the game still at 1-0 in France's favor.

Ten minutes of extra time has been added as the game crosses the 90th minute.

The scene at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines BMX stadium was mayhem as the crowd celebrated the first French triple podium in 100 years.

After the race, gold medalist Joris Daudet described what went through his mind as he realized he had won the race.

"We worked so hard and we knew we could do it today and we were able to deliver when it counted, an amazing performance," Daudet said.

The last time France medaled across the podium was during the 1924 Paris Games.

Whether this is the beginning of a new French BMX dynasty wasn't clear to Daudet.

"I'm getting old so I don't know how much longer for me, but yeah, we were the favorite and we were able to deliver on the home front, in front of our family and all the French people," Daudet said.

He described the roaring cheers of the crowd behind him as "unreal" and "so special."

After the race, the cyclists got a presidential pat on the back from Emmanuel Macron, who was rooting for the athletes from the stands during the race.

Egypt's Ibrahim Adel scored the decisive penalty in the team's win over Paraguay, 1-1 (5-4), advancing to the men's semifinal.

Although Paraguay got scoring underway in the 71st minute courtesy of Diego Gomez, Adel found the back of the net in the closing stages of the game, beating Paraguay's keeper in the 88th minute to tie the game at 1-1.

After 90 minutes and extra time, Egypt went a perfect 5 for 5 during the penalty shootout, sealing its victory.

Paraguay had more shots on target, but Egypt dominated possession of the game, capitalizing in key moments.

Egypt will now face either Argentina or France in Monday's semifinal. The second semifinal match has Spain taking on Morocco.

Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei signed off in style, finishing what he has hinted to be the final track race of his career with a gold medal and an Olympic record of 26:43.14.

The world champion and world record holder hung out in the back of the lead pack for most of the race, but pushed past the leading Ethiopian runners to take home the gold.

The race happened at breakneck speed. During any other year, the top 13 finishers of the race would have all set Olympic records. All of them ran under the previous Olympic record of 27:01.

Cheptegei is expected to hang up his spikes and turn to the marathon after the Paris Games.

Ethiopia’s Berihu Aregawi came in second and America's Grant Fisher ran a season best to take home the bronze. Fisher is the first American to medal in the 10,000 meters since Galen Rupp won the silver at the 2012 London Games.

Cheptegei and Fisher both ran very smart races, rarely moving off the rail until the last 600 meters of the race.

Yomif Kejelcha, who had the best time of the year, was a favorite coming into the race but was ultimately denied a medal. He finished sixth.

France is leading 1-0 at halftime over Argentina after 45 minutes.

France scored the lone goal thus far in the 5th minute, courtesy of Jean-Philippe Mateta.

Despite the scoreline, the match has been even, with Argentina controlling possession while France has more shots on target.

After 90 minutes plus extra time, Paraguay and Spain remain tied at 1-1 and are now heading for the penalty shootout.

Pandemonium here at the men’s BMX racing final as France takes gold, silver and bronze.

French President Emmanuel Macron showed up just before the clean sweep, with Joris Daudet taking the top podium spot and sending this Gallic crowd into ecstasy on a balmy night.

Egypt and Paraguay are in extra time, vying for a coveted spot in the men's semifinal.

Paraguay scored the first goal in the 71st minute, courtesy of Diego Gomez. But Egypt found an equalizer in the 88th minute from Adel Ibrahim.

The winner will play either France or Argentina.

Spain and Morocco have already clinched their spot in the first semifinal, taking place Monday.

The U.S. set a world record in the 4x400-meter mixed relay, winning the race with a time of 3:07.41.

The quartet was made up of Bryce Deadmon, Shamier Little, Vernon Norwood and Kaylyn Brown.

This is the U.S.' first world record of the competition.

Team USA’s Cameron Wood has just qualified for the final, the first American to do so in this competition.

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — The semifinals of the men’s and women’s BMX racing are now underway just outside of Paris.

It’s a beautiful evening at the open-air SQY BMX Stadium, whose speakers are pumping drum ’n’ bass into the pink evening skies.

It’s a mixed picture for Team USA so far, with riders battling to get into the finals later this evening. The big American hope is Alise Willoughby, who scored a valuable second-place finish in her first heat.

Léon Marchand won his fourth gold medal, swimming away with the 200-meter individual medley in Olympic-record time to the delight of a delirious French crowd.

His time of 1:54.06 bested the previous mark set by Michael Phelps, who covered the course in 1:54.23 in Beijing.

The 22-year-old Arizona State product won the 200 butterfly and breast on Wednesday after a 400 IM triumph on Sunday.

He’d have another medal shot on Saturday in the 4x100 medley relay, but his fate would be more in the hands of three teammates and not just himself.

Duncan Scott of Great Britain took silver while Wang Shun of China won bronze, edging fourth-place Carson Foster for a spot on the podium.

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.

Canyon Barry scored a game-high 15 points and kept America’s medal hopes alive with a thrilling 21-19 victory over France in 3x3 basketball.

The United States entered the day 0-4 at the bottom of eight-team standings, in need of finishing sixth to make knockout play.

It looked bleak with France leading, 16-12, before Barry scored 7 points in a game-closing 9-3 American run. 

French judo legend Teddy Riner has won gold in the men’s 100+kg judo amid jubilant scenes at the Champ de Mars Arena in Paris.

Heavyweight Riner beat world No. 1 Minjong Kim from South Korea to claim his third Olympic title since Beijing 2008, and his sixth medal in total.

He is now the most decorated Olympic judoka ever.

Riner was one of the two French athletes who lit the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony, alongside Marie-Jose Perec.

The French are also delighted to overtake Great Britain in the gold medal table, with nine in total.

The 35-year-old Riner will be back in action tomorrow for the team competition. 

It was a day of dual celebrations.

Chinese badminton player Huang Yaqiong won gold ... and then moments later got a diamond ring.

Huang and Zheng Siwei took first place in the badminton mixed doubles today, beating South Korea’s Kim Wonho and Jeong Naeun and Japan’s Watanabe Yuta and Higashino Arisa.

According to posts on social media, after Huang's win her boyfriend and teammate, Liu Yuchen, got down on one knee and proposed. The Olympic champion happily accepted, video posted on X showed.

Athletes compete in the swim leg of the women’s individual triathlon competition today.

While athletes compete at the Olympics, two unlikely celebrities are bringing their ongoing feud to Paris.

"Sesame Street's" Elmo and Rocco, the rock, have been fighting for over a decade, but in 2022 the disagreement reached a fever pitch when a clip of Elmo and Rocco from May 3, 2004, went viral. Social media users began ascribing words like "savage" and "unhinged" to Elmo, the typically cute and cuddly character.

Since then, the ongoing battle between Elmo and Rocco has been a favorite among the extremely online. Rocco, literally a pet rock who does not speak or move, belongs to Elmo's friend Zoë. The disagreement between Elmo and Rocco originated from Zoë treating Rocco like a living, breathing friend while Elmo often reminds those around him that "Rocco’s just a rock! Rocco’s not alive!”

So Elmo appeared dismayed in a clip shared by the "TODAY' Show, in which he realized Rocco was also in attendance at the Olympics.

"Elmo's here with the "TODAY" show for the Paris Olympic Games," Elmo declared in the video, in which he is wearing a beret and standing in front of the Eiffel Tower. "Elmo's hoping to see some really cool people."

The camera then panned down, revealing Rocco was sitting just below Elmo.

"Oh, great," Elmo muttered in disappointment as he laid eyes on Rocco.

In a post to X, Elmo reminded everyone that Rocco was not eligible for the Olympics.

“Rocco is just a rock, he can’t win an Olympic medal!” Elmo wrote.

Elmo and Rocco were not immediately available to comment on the feud or the Paris Olympics.

Paris prosecutors said the artistic director of the opening ceremony lodged a complaint on Tuesday alleging online harassment, public insults, death threats and defamation in relation to his origins and sexual orientation.

The Paris Prosecutor's office said that the director, Thomas Jolly, said ”he was the target of threatening and insulting messages on social networks criticizing his sexual orientation and his wrongly assumed Israeli origins.” The investigation was referred to the French Central office for combating crimes against humanity and hate crimes “given the national dimension of the messages sent,” the Paris Prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo reacted and expressed her “unwavering support” to Jolly, adding that he carried “our values high” and that “Paris was proud and honored to count on his talent to celebrate our city.”

Several artists and performers of the opening ceremony have been exposed to strong backlash after some viewers interpreted a scene in the “Festivities” segment as mocking “The Last Supper” and took offense. Jolly however denied taking inspiration from the da Vinci painting showing Jesus and his apostles, saying that it was meant to refer to the gods of Olympus.

The French DJ Barbara Butch, who took part in the “Festivities” segment, took legal action this week, saying she was the target of numerous antisemitic, homophobic and sexist insults and was threatened with death, torture and rape. Le Monde is reporting today that drag queen Nicky Doll, also part of the scene, filed a complaint today alleging defamation against British activist Laurence Fox, who on X called the artists taking part in the scene “deviant little pedos.”

Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider will be the first Russian athletes to win a medal at Paris 2024, even though there’s no Russian team at these games and you won’t see any Russian flags or anthems.

The doubles pair defeated Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-1, 6-2 in the semi-final, and will play in Sunday’s final at Roland Garros.

Russia was banned from sending a national team to the Olympics following the invasion of Ukraine.  

Instead 15 athletes with Russian passports are competing in Paris as neutrals, after being invited by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 

The IOC barred athletes who have supported the war in Ukraine or are linked to Russia’s military or security agencies. Russia teams were also excluded. 

Just over half the Russian athletes deemed eligible and invited by the IOC declined to compete in the games.  

Riders Karl Cook, Laura Kraut, and McLain Ward — and their horses Caracole de Roque, Baloutine and Ilex, respectively — helped the U.S. secure second place on Friday. 

It’s the third time in a row that the U.S. nabbed silver at the Summer Olympics. 

Cook and Ward had clean runs. Cook learned he would ride just hours before qualifying after Kent Farrington’s horse suffered an allergic reaction. 

Kraut, 58, took the only penalty when her horse missed a jump. Her win Friday made her the oldest female Olympian to win a medal for the U.S. since 1904. 

Great Britain won gold, the country’s first medal in the event since 2012 when they also nabbed gold. France took bronze.

Earlier this week, Great Britain also won gold in the Equestrian Team Eventing. If they win Team Dressage on Saturday, it will be the first time a country came in first place for all three events since West Germany in 1988. 

The United States' archery mixed team of Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold will walk away with bronze.

Germany took silver and South Korea continued its reign over the sport taking home yet another gold.

This is the fourth Olympic medal for Ellison, 35, making him the most decorated American archer ever. He has the chance to add to his arsenal, still competing in the men’s individual competition, currently up to the round of 16.

The rest of the bracket will be completed on Sunday.

Kaufhold, 20, won her first medal in her second Olympics.

This is the U.S.' first medal in this event, which made its debut in Tokyo, and its first archery medal since the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Soufiane Rahimi, Ilias Akhomach, Achraf Hakimi and Mehdi Maouhoub all scored in Morocco’s 4-0 victory over the United States, sending the Americans packing in the quarterfinals of Olympic soccer.

All three goals set off celebratory flares across packed Parc des Princes, as the decidedly pro-Moroccan crowd delighted in the Atlas Lions’ domination.

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Poland's Iga Swiatek defeated Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in the bronze medal match, becoming Poland's first tennis player to win an Olympic medal in tennis.

Swiatek, who is the World No. 1 player, won 6-2, 6-1.

The gold medal match between China's Qinwen Zheng and Croatia's Donna Vekic will take place tomorrow.

Sha’Carri Richardson will be facing tough competition during her semifinal heat for the 100-meter women’s sprint tomorrow.

Richardson was placed in the same heat as Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, a three-time medalist for this event, and Julien Alfred, the third-fastest woman in the world this year behind Richardson.

Richardson, Fraser-Price and Alfred were three of the five fastest women in the first round. Fraser-Pryce was the fastest, recording a 10.92 — the second-best overall time that round.

To qualify for the final, runners must be one of the first two in their semifinal heat or the next two fastest overall.

The semifinal will take place tomorrow at 1:50 pm ET, with the final 90 minutes after.

Achraf Hakimi's long run and score in the 70th minute gave Morocco a 3-0 lead and likely put finishing touches on America's appearance in the men's soccer tournament.

The goal was greeted with more celebratory red-and-green flares set off around Parc des Princes.

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting defeated Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan by unanimous decision today. The result moves Yu-ting on to the quarterfinals on Sunday. Her opponent is yet to be determined. 

Yu-ting, along with Imane Khelif of Algeria, have come under scrutiny at the Paris Games this week after both failed to meet gender eligibility tests at the Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi last year. At the time, sporting officials alleged that the boxers failed an unspecified test because they had male chromosomes.

Khelif defeated Angela Carini of Italy after Carini quit 46 seconds into the match Wednesday. 

Tsai Ing-wen, the former president of Taiwan, showed her support for Yu ting on Thursday. 

“When I met boxer Lin Yu-ting, I saw an athlete who is fearless in the face of challenges, whether they come from inside or outside the ring,” she said on social media. “Today, when she represents Taiwan on the Olympic stage, we will be behind her & all the Taiwanese Olympians making us proud.”

Ilias Akhomach converted a cross from teammate Oussama Targhalline in the 63rd minute as Morroco extended its lead over the United States.

The goal survived a VAR check for possible handball on the buildup.

Team USA duo Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold will compete for bronze in the mixed team archery event at Les Invalides after suffering a semifinal defeat to Germany.

With the scores tied at 3 after both sides won a set each and drew another, both teams could take the victory by winning the next set. Two 10s from Germany with their first two arrows piled the pressure on Ellison and Kaufhold, and they could only respond with two 8s, allowing Germany to take the match with their final two arrows.

Team USA will face India for bronze at 10:24 a.m. ET with Germany facing top seed South Korea for gold.

According to Le Parisien, a volunteer at the Olympic Games filed a complaint Wednesday against the father of the Judo champion from Croatia, Barbara Matic.

The French media reported that the volunteer said the man kissed her against her will right after his daughter won. The Paris Prosecutor’s office confirmed to NBC that it had “received a complaint from an Olympic Games volunteer who claims to have been forced to receive a non-consensual kiss from the father of a judo champion just after his daughter’s victory.”

Asked about it by NBC, the Paris 2024 press office said they have been “informed that a volunteer has filed a complaint against a spectator concerning sexual assault at a competition venue” adding that “Paris 2024 offers her its full support and strongly condemns these acts.”

The Paris Prosecutor’s office said the accused has been placed in police custody on Thursday and that “investigations are ongoing.”

Simone Biles loves her "black job."

The Olympic gymnast, who won two gold medals in Paris making her the most decorated U.S. gymnast, took a swipe at former President Donald Trump in a post today on X.

The 27-year-old shared a post from singer Ricky Davila who celebrated Biles as she posed for photos clutching her medal and a “Goat” necklace.

“Simone Biles being the GOAT, winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black job,” Davila wrote.

“I love my black job,” Biles responded, adding a black heart emoji.

The post appears to be in response to remarks Trump made at a June debate.

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Carlos Alcaraz's incredible summer is continuing, and he will now play for Olympic gold in Paris after easing past Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 6-1 at Roland Garros to book his spot in Sunday's gold medal match.

The 21-year-old, who becomes the second youngest man in Olympic history to reach the men's singles final, has already won the French Open and Wimbledon this summer. He could face Novak Djokovic in a repeat of last month's Wimbledon final here with the Serbian playing his semifinal against Italy's Lorenzo Musetti tonight.

The Spaniard will be hoping to emulate compatriot Rafael Nadal in winning the French Open, Wimbledon and Olympic gold in the same year — which Nadal did in 2008.

Soufiane Rahimi converted a penalty to give Morocco a 1-0 lead in the 29th minute, following a foul by Nathan Harriel.

The score triggered a red-and-green smoke bomb in lower stands here at Parc des Princes, filled largely with Moroccan supporters.

Moments later, the public address announcer reminded fans that it was illegal to shoot off fireworks in the stands.

If Team USA are to reach the men’s soccer semifinals, they will have to do so inside a cauldron of hostile atmosphere at the Parc des Princes.

There are far more Moroccan fans inside the stadium than Americans, owing to Morocco’s historical ties with France and large modern-day diaspora in the country. Not only did these Moroccans belt out their own anthem, they also booed the announcement of the Team USA starting line up and some of them whistled during the Star-Spangled Banner.

We’ve just kicked off here, and the crowd are jeering an early period of American possession.

Team USA gymnast Suni Lee said she was "in shock" when she secured bronze in yesterday's individual all-around final.

Speaking to "TODAY," the 21-year-old Lee, who almost had to walk away from the sport after being diagnosed with a rare kidney disease back in early 2023, said that just being at the Games was an accomplishment for her.

"I honestly started getting a little bit emotional," Lee said when asked how it felt when she landed her floor routine to secure bronze. "I don't know if you can tell but I almost started tearing up. But I was just so happy."

Check out the full interview with Lee and teammate Jordan Chiles, who competes in Monday's individual floor final, below.

Giannis Antetokounmpo and Greece remain on the brink of elimination.

They need to beat Australia to have any chance of progressing to the quarterfinals, and the two-time NBA MVP is doing everything within his power with 15 points to help Greece to a comfortable 53-36 lead at the half.

The second half has just begun over at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille.

Caeleb Dressel is the reigning champ of the sprint that is the 50-meter freestyle race. He won a gold medal in the event in Tokyo with a time that stands as the Olympic record: 21.07.

Dressel finished fifth in the semifinal yesterday, with a time of 21.58, only 0.2 seconds behind the semifinal winner, Britain's Benjamin Proud, who clocked a time of 21.38.

If he wins today, Dressel will add an eighth gold medal to his collection.

Gabriel Medina headlined the surfing competition on the men’s side as he, Alonso Correa, Kauli Vast and Jack Robinson all punch their tickets to the semifinals. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and streaming on Peacock, July 26 — Aug 11.

After securing gold in the individual all-around for a second time yesterday, Simone Biles was donning another jewel — her custom-made GOAT necklace.

Featuring 546 hand-set diamonds and 14-karat white gold, the necklace took jeweller Janet Heller five weeks to produce. Heller has shared on TikTok how she made that stunning necklace for the Texan.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has defended the inclusion of two female boxers at Paris 2024 and condemned what it called the "current aggression against these two athletes."

Algeria's Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting were disqualified from last year's World Boxing Championships for failing to meet eligibility rules after tests found they had "competitive advantages over other female competitors," according to the International Boxing Association, which said the nature of the tests are confidential.

“As with previous Olympic boxing competitions, the gender and age of the athletes are based on their passport” the IOC said in a statement, adding that the two athletes have competed in international boxing competitions for many years in the women’s category, including at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and International Boxing Association tournaments.

“Eligibility rules should not be changed during ongoing competition,” the statement said, adding “The IOC is saddened by the abuse that the two athletes are currently receiving.”

On Thursday Khelif won her women’s 66kg prelim flight in just 46 seconds after her opponent, Italy’s Angela Carini, withdrew from the bout.  

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the contest was unequal. “I think that athletes who have male genetic characteristics should not be admitted to women’s competitions,” Meloni said according to Italian news agency ANSA. “And not because you want to discriminate against someone, but to protect the right of female athletes to be able to compete on equal terms.” 

Several American politicians, including former President Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, also shared their views on the match.

“I WILL KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS!” Trump wrote on his social media site, Truth Social.

Team USA is going for a place in the men's soccer semifinals today with a game against Morocco kicking off at 9 a.m. ET.

The United States won 3-0 against Guinea to advance beyond the Olympic group stage for the first time since Sydney 2000.

Win today at Paris’ Parc des Princes — home to Paris Saint-Germain soccer club — and the U.S. will have a guaranteed shot at a medal.

Team USA's Xander Schauffele is having a brilliant round at Le Golf National. After 14 holes, he is five-under-par and that puts him top of the leaderboard overall on 11-under.

The defending Olympic champion has overtaken Japan's overnight leader, Hideki Matsuyama. Matsuyama is through the first seven holes in his second round and is so far one-under for the day. That puts him on nine-under-par on the leaderboard.

Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood is paired with Matsuyama today and he is also off to a flier. He is five-under-par through seven holes, having eagled the third. He also sits two shots behind Schauffle on nine-under.

Scottie Scheffler is back in the clubhouse having carded an even-par day. That leaves him on four-under-par heading into tomorrow's second round.

Los Angeles Sparks forward Dearica Hamby’s layup with four seconds left gave the United States a 14-13 victory over host France in 3x3 basketball. The win gives the struggling Americans a huge push toward elimination play.

The two teams came into Friday in a three-way tie for sixth place, each with only one win out of three. Only the top six go on to knockout play.

The Americans play Canada tonight and China on Saturday to end pool play.

With more than enough wind blowing across the sunny Marseille marina this Friday, the men’s skiff final is at last underway.

Ten sailors are competing in this medal race, initially scheduled for Thursday but postponed due to a lack of wind. Team USA has not won a medal in sailing since 2016 so will be hoping to break that drought.

America’s Ian Barrows and Hans Henken, racing in their first Olympics, will start in fourth position behind leaders Spain, second-placed Ireland and just behind New Zealand. They'll also want to keep one eye on the Polish team, which is just behind them in fifth.

The race is set to begin in the next few minutes so stay with us.

Sha'Carri Richardson flew to victory in 10.94 seconds in her first-ever Olympic race. In doing so, she qualified for the semifinal round of the women’s 100m at the Paris Olympic Games.

It's the end of the road for the French table tennis sensation Félix Lebrun. China's Fan Zhendong, who won silver at Tokyo as well as the last two world singles titles, outplayed the seventeen year-old in the semifinal, winning in straight games.

Fan dominated the match with his strategy of targeted the center of the table in order to test Lebrun's backhand. In all, the French wunderkind's ordeal lasted just about thirty minutes.

But that's not the French player's last chance to medal. He's set to play for a bronze medal on Sunday.

China has won yet another gold medal to continue their dominance in the diving events at the Games. The country's team has won all the other synchronized diving events with ease at Paris, but this competition proved much tighter, with Mexico's pair snatching the lead with a beautifully executed dive in the fourth round.

But Wang Zongyuan and Long Daoyi thrived under the pressure, landing the biggest score of the day with 95.76 in their sixth and final dive to just about secure gold. Mexico pushed China to the end, eventually taking silver. Great Britain took bronze.

A disastrous third-round dive killed off any medal chances for Team USA's Tyler Downs and Greg Duncan. Duncan got his leap off the board all wrong with one foot slipping off the board, before he almost belly-flopped into the water. Downs also faltered on the team's fifth dive, failing to enter the water vertically.

This was the last of the synchronized diving events, with the individual competitions beginning Monday.

It's close but no cigar for the Team USA women's rowing pair team. Azja Czajkowski and Jessica Thoennes have been pushed into fourth at the end of a race that the Netherlands dominated.

A visibly jubilant Dutch team retains the gold, with Ymkje Clevering and Veronique Meester crossing the line first. Romania finished second and Australia took the bronze.

Sha’Carri Richardson is through to the semi-finals of the 100m sprint, after winning her heat comfortably with a time of 10.94 seconds.

The other Americans running in the 100m prelims are Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry.

The International Surfing Association has removed Australian surfing judge Benjamin Lowe from the Paris Olympics judging panel after a photo circulated online showing him embracing Australian Olympian surfer Ethan Ewin and his coach along the shore’s edge in Tahiti this week.

"The ISA is aware of a photo circulating on social media in which one of the Olympic surfing judges from Australia is seen socially interacting with an Australian athlete and the team manager," the ISA said yesterday in a statement, calling the interaction "inappropriate."

The surfing federation said the decision was made in accordance with its code of conduct and the Olympics' code of ethics, adding that it had "communicated with all judges and teams to remind them of their responsibilities regarding appropriate behavior."

Team USA won the women's rugby sevens bronze medal after a last-minute breakaway against Australia, when Alex Sedrick strong-armed her way past Australia’s defense and placed the ball down in a try that leveled the score. 

Sagen Maddalena has won Team USA's first medal of the day, taking silver in the women's 50m three-position rifle event.

An army sergeant who helps train shooters at Fort Moore in Georgia, Maddalena had finished just shy of the medals in the 10-metre air rifle earlier in the Games, but the 30-year-old now has an Olympic medal —  she came fifth in this event in Tokyo in her Olympic debut three years ago.

The medal is Team USA's first shooting medal of these Games, with Switzerland's Chiara Leone edging out Maddalena for gold.

Great Britain’s Andy Murray and Dan Evans lost to Team USA's Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul in the men's tennis doubles quarterfinals late Thursday. The defeat ended Murray’s run and meant that he has now retired from professional tennis, in a move he flagged at the start of the Paris Games.

Even though he shed tears on court as he gave up pro tennis, he found his sense of humor after the game. "Never even liked tennis anyway," the two-time Wimbledon champion joked afterwards on X, where he also changed his bio from "I play tennis" to "I played tennis."

Murray, 37, who won gold in men’s singles at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games as well as silver in mixed doubles in 2012, received a standing ovation from the crowd as well as praise from British officials.

Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, said Murray was "Scotland’s greatest ever sportsman," while British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called him "a true British great."

Team USA's first medal of the day could very well come early, with Sagen Maddalena currently leading the pack in the women's 50m three-positions rifle event.

Maddalena, who set the Olympic record in qualifying yesterday, is currently ahead of reigning world champion, Zhang Qiongyue of China.

The second round of the men's golf is underway this morning at Le Golf National, and Americans Xander Schauffle and Scottie Scheffler are keeping pace.

Defending Olympic champion Schauffle is currently second on the leaderboard having shot a six-under 65 yesterday to sit two shots behind the early leader, Hideki Matsuyama of Japan. Scheffler is also in the mix after carding a bogey-free four-under 67 to sit two shots further back.

Team USA's Collin Morikawa is at one-under, while Wyndham Clark endured a nightmare day on the course yesterday — he will need a miracle today to recover from four-over-par.

Schauffle has just teed off for the day, while Scheffler starts his second round at 6:06 a.m. ET.

Good morning! It’s day seven of the 2024 Paris Olympics.  

It’s another action-packed day in the Olympics Aquatics Centre at Saint-Denis. Fans of Team USA will want to pay attention to the men’s swimming 50m freestyle, in which Caeleb Dressel will both be facing tough international competition for medals at 2:30 p.m. ET and 8:30 p.m. local time.

A few minutes later, Phoebe Bacon will be racing in the women’s 200m backstroke at 2:39 p.m. ET and 8:39 p.m. local time. The men’s 200m Individual Medley medal event is also happening at 2: 43 p.m. ET and 8:43 p.m. local time. Leon Marchand, arguably France’s breakout star of the Games, races in the men’s 200m individual medley at 2:43 p.m. ET and 8:43 p.m. local time.

Elsewhere, in rowing, Michelle Sechser and Molly Dressel will be hoping for success in the women’s lightweight double sculls at 6:22 a.m. ET and 12:22 p.m local time. 

Tennis has three medal events today. The mixed doubles final between the Czech and Chinese teams takes place at 10:00 a.m. ET and 4:00 p.m. local time. The Canadian and Dutch teams play in that tournament’s bronze medal match is set to happen at 9:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. ET. The women’s singles bronze medal match between Poland’s Iga Swiatek — who suffered a surprise defeat yesterday — and Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova is at 09:30 a.m. ET and 3:30 p.m. local time.

Before all of that, the two men’s semi-Finals featuring Carlos Alcaraz and Felix Auger-Aliassime, and Novak Djokovic versus Lorenzo Musetti at 7:30 a.m. ET and 1:30 p.m. local time, and 7:00 a.m. ET and 1:00 p.m. local time respectively.

Simone Biles secured her second career Olympic all-around gold yesterday, and there was a camera on her at pretty much all times. Take a look behind the scenes as she put herself on the path to gold.

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Full prime-time coverage begins tonight on NBC and Peacock at 8 p.m. ET.