The 2024 Paris Olympics roll right into the first medal events today. Superstar U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky goes for her first medal of these Games in the 400m freestyle, as well as seven-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel, who will compete in the 4x100m freestyle relay. Jagger Eaton and his U.S. skateboarding teammates had their men’s street postponed until Monday due to weather.
At least seven U.S. squads are competing across six team sports, 24 sports in total are in action, and USA TODAY Sports will bring you live results, medal count, highlights, and more throughout the day. Follow along.
Olympic men’s basketball: Australia opens with win over Spain
Jock Landale (Houston Rockets) and Patty Mills (Miami Heat) helped Australia jump out to a big first quarter lead and the Aussies kept the pace the rest of the way in a 92-80 victory.
Landale scored 20 points and Mills added 19, while Spain’s Santi Aldama led all scorers with 27.
2024 Olympic medals: Who is leading the medal count? Follow along as we track the medals for every sport.
Peyton Manning visits USA Basketball practice
NBC’s Peyton Manning attended the U.S. men’s basketball practice in Paris on Saturday and said hello to a few players, including LeBron James. Manning watched the entire men’s practice and exited the Metropolitans 92 gymnasium with the team. James and Manning have teamed up, along with Barack and Michelle Obama, to produce an NBA show similar to Netflix’s “Quarterback” documentary series. — Jeff Zillgitt
Olympic swimming: US team wins women’s 4×100 freestyle heat
Abbey Weitzel, Simone Manuel, Erika Connolly and Kate Douglass were dominant Saturday morning in finishing their 4×100 relay in at 3.33.29, almost three seconds ahead of Great Britain in second place.
Australia, the reigning Olympic champions, won the other heat and finishing with the best overall time of 3:31.57.
The finals are set for Saturday afternoon at 3:37 ET.
Team USA members hope 2028 shooting events will be closer to Olympic Village
While organizers for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles are making plans to move shooting events outside of the city, current members of Team USA said they hope the venue is close enough that they still can enjoy the Olympic Village experience.
All shooting events at the 2024 Paris Olympics are being held at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre, about a 2 ½-hour train ride from Paris in the middle of France.
“I’m hoping in L.A. that shooting can stay in the main village as everybody else cause I’d love to get to know the rest of Team USA and all those people,” Rylan William Kissell said Saturday. “I mean, 3 ½ hours out. We’re all the way down here.” — Dave Birkett
Olympic rowing: US men, women make semifinals
U.S. teams in the men’s and women’s double sculls have advanced to the semifinals, which will be held Tuesday. The men’s team of Sorin Koszyk and Ben Davison finished third in their heat, as did the women’s team of Sophia Vitas and Kristi Wagner.
The women’s quad sculls crewed by Grace Joyce, Emily Delleman, Teal Cohen and Lauren O’Connor placed fourth in their heat and will move into the repechage round, which will be held Monday.
U.S. men’s gymnastics Olympic qualifying results
Brody Malone had at one point been considered the best chance for the U.S. men’s gymnastics team to win an individual all-around medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. But after a few critical mistakes on the first day of competition at Bercy Arena, including on his signature event, he will miss out on the individual all-around final altogether.
Malone, the reigning U.S. national champion and only returning member of the 2021 Olympic team, finished third among the U.S. all-arounders, and only two gymnasts per country are allowed to advance to the 24-person final, which is Wednesday.
Paul Juda and Frederick Richard will represent Team USA in the final instead, though it remains to be seen which American men will for apparatus finals. Only the top eight qualifying scores in each event advance to the final. — Tom Schad
First Lady Jill Biden, Dawn Staley cheer on US men’s gymnastics team at Olympic qualifying
The U.S. men’s gymnastics team kicked off the 2024 Paris Olympics with a star-studded cheering section watching.
First Lady Jill Biden and Olympic gold medalists Dawn Staley and Bart Conner were in the crowd for the U.S. men’s qualifying session Saturday morning. Denise Campbell Bauer, the U.S. Ambassador to France, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass were also with Biden.
Biden also made it to gymnastics when she was at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. But then she was one of the few people in the stands, with strict COVID regulations prohibiting fans. This time, she got to experience the entire atmosphere, with the crowds oohing and aahing over Frederick Richard’s high bar routine and gasping when Brody Malone fell of high bar.
Biden got into it, too, clapping several times during Richard’s floor exercise routine. — Nancy Armour
Olympic fencing: Americans move on in individual epee
Americans Anne Cebula and Hadley Husisian advanced to the table of 16 in individual epee. Cebula defeated 2016 Olympic silver medalist Rossella Fiamingo of Italy, 15-14, while Husisian edged Pauline Brunner of Switzerland, 12-11. Husisian is a two-time junior world champion competing in her first Olympic Games.
USA Basketball’s Kevin Durant expected to play vs. Serbia in Olympics opener
U.S. men’s basketball star Kevin Durant is expected to play against Serbia on Sunday in the Group C opener at the 2024 Paris Olympics after missing the team’s five exhibition games with a sore calf.
Durant, the men’s all-time leading scorer who is trying to become the first men’s basketball player to win four gold medals, practiced Wednesday, participated in a scrimmage Thursday and planned to practice Saturday.
“We’ll see how things go in practice (Saturday),” U.S. men’s basketball coach Steve Kerr said. “So far so good. He came through the scrimmage two days ago pretty well. … Having coached him before, he’s one of the few guys I’ve been around who can step back out on the court and look like Kevin Durant, a player of his caliber. Most players it would take some time to get your rhythm back, and it will, too, for him to a certain extent. But he’s pretty special.” — Jeff Zillgitt
What Olympic medals can be won today?
(All times Eastern)
- Shooting: 10m air rifle mixed team final (5 a.m., CNBC)
- Diving: women’s synchronized 3m springboard final (5 a.m., NBC)
- Cycling road: women’s time trial (9 a.m., NBC), men’s time trial (10:45 p.m., USA Network)
- Judo: three medal events for women’s -48kg, three medal events for men’s -60kg (11:18 a.m., Peacock)
- Rugby Sevens: men’s gold medal match (1:45 p.m., NBC), men’s bronze match (1 p.m., CNBC)
- Swimming: men’s 400m free final, women’s 400m free final, women’s 4x100m free relay final, men’s 4x100m free relay final (2:30 p.m., NBC)
- Fencing: women’s épée individual finals, men’s sabre individual finals (2:40 p.m., Peacock)
Team USA wins first medal of Paris Olympics
The United States is on the board!
After nearly retiring from diving three years ago, USA’s Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook seized the silver medal in the 3-meter synchronized springboard.
Had Bacon, 27, made the 2020 team for Tokyo, she would have retired from the sport. Instead, she and Cook, 29, stayed together all the the way to the medal stand in Paris. This was Bacon’s Olympic debut and Team USA’s first medal in women’s synchronized springboard since Kelci Bryant and Abby Johnston won silver in London in 2012. — Gentry Estes
US women’s gymnastics qualifying lineup
There are no surprises in the U.S. women’s gymnastics team lineup for qualifying at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles joining Simone Biles in doing the all-around.
That means Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera, at 16 the only member of the team who isn’t a returning Olympian, will each do two events Sunday.
- Balance beam: Chiles, Rivera, Lee, Biles.
- Floor exercise: Lee, Chiles, Carey, Biles.
- Vault: Lee, Chiles, Carey, Biles.
- Uneven bars: Rivera, Chiles, Biles, Lee.
Ledecky wins heat in 400 freestyle
In her qualifying heat for the 400-meter freestyle, Katie Ledecky won with a time of 4:02:19 and will go for the gold in the event final later today.
Swimming alongside her top rival in the event, Australian Ariarne Titmus, Ledecky swam a consistent race as Titmus pulled out to an early lead. But Ledecky outkicked her over the final 50 meters to pull out the win by 0.1 seconds.
The USA’s Paige Madden also qualified for the final by swimming the sixth-fastest time in her heat. — Steve Gardner
American rowers advance in single sculls
American rowers Jacob Plihal and Kara Kohler each advanced to the quarterfinal round of the single sculls.Rowing in the fourth heat of the men’s single sculls, Plihal covered the course in 6:54.95, 3.5 seconds behiind Yauheni Zalaty, an Independent Olympic Athlete as Russians are being called in Paris. Fourth at the 500-meter mark, Plihal steadily worked his way up, passing Brazil’s Lucas Verthein Ferreira for the second-place finish. Kohler won the sixth heat with a time of 7:32.46.
The quarterfinal round of the men’s and women’s single sculls is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
CHATEAUROUX, France —Team USA will have to wait for its first medal of the Paris Olympics.
Both American pairs entered in the 10-meter air rifle mixed competition failed to advance past the qualifying stage Saturday at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre.
Mary Tucker and Rylan Kissell finished 13th in the qualifying round with a combined score of 626., and Sagen Maddalena and Ivan Roe were 18th with a score of 624.9.
Tucker was part of Team USA’s silver medal performance in 10-meter mixed at the Toyko Games, along with Lucas Kozeniesky.
All four American shooters have two events remaining in this year’s games, the 10-meter rifle individual and 50-meter rifle three position. — Dave Birkett
Men’s street skateboarding postponed due to rain
PARIS — The rain didn’t stop Friday night’s opening ceremony, but the gloomy conditions that continued into Saturday impacted at least one sport’s competition.
The men’s street skateboarding preliminaries and finals – both scheduled for Saturday – have been postponed to Monday due to the inclement weather. It will be held Monday, July 29.
The U.S. has a pair of medal contenders in six-time world champion Nyjah Hutson and Tokyo bronze medalist Jagger Eaton. Chris Joslin is the other American competing in men’s street.
The women’s street preliminary and final rounds are scheduled for Sunday at Place de la Concorde. — Chris Bumbaca
Olympics schedule today
Here are some Olympic schedule highlights (all times Eastern). Peacock is streaming every sport and event live as it unfolds in Paris.
- Swimming heats start at 5 a.m. The finals for the men’s and women’s 400m free and men’s and women’s 4x100m free relay start around 2:40 p.m. NBC is airing the finals. Katie Ledecky is looking for her first medal of these Games.
- Qualification in men’s gymnastics is in three subdivisions, the first at 5 a.m., the second at 9:30 a.m., the third at 2 p.m. The U.S. is in subdivision 1. NBC is airing qualification.
- The men’s street final in skateboarding was originally scheduled for 11 a.m. However, with a gentle rain falling Saturday morning and more in the forecast throughout the day, organizers decided to postpone the men’s street skateboarding competition until Monday.
- Men’s basketball has four group stage games throughout the day.
- Men’s soccer has eight group stage matches — including the U.S. — throughout the day.
- Other sports in action: Tennis, fencing, boxing, beach volleyball, badminton, canoe slalom, cycling road, diving, handball, field hockey, judo, rowing, rugby sevens, shooting, surfing, table tennis, volleyball, water polo.
How to watch Olympics today
NBC is airing and streaming the Paris Olympics from all angles: Peacock is streaming every sport and event live as it unfolds; NBC, USA Network, CNBC and E! are carrying various live events and replays throughout the day. Here are 6 tips and tricks for getting the most out of Peacock during the Olympics.
Medal count today
The first medals of the 2024 Paris Olympics will be won in shooting. We’ll be updating our medal count tracker throughout the Games.
What U.S teams are playing at the Olympics today?
(All times Eastern)
- The U.S. men’s gymnastics team competes in qualification starting at 5 a.m. NBC airs it.
- The U.S. competes in men’s beach volleyball against Cuba at 8 a.m. NBC airs it.
- The U.S. women’s water polo team plays Greece in group play at 9:35 a.m. USA Network airs it.
- The USMNT faces New Zealand in group play at 1 p.m. USA Network airs it.
- The U.S. men’s volleyball team plays Argentina in pool play at 3 p.m. USA Network airs it.
- The U.S. women’s field hockey team plays Argentina in group play at 1:45 p.m.
- The U.S. competes in women’s beach volleyball against Canada at 4 p.m. NBC airs it.
Olympic swimming schedule today
(All times Eastern)
- Heats for the following events start at 5 a.m.: women’s 100m fly, women’s 400m free, men’s 100m breaststroke, men’s 400m free, women’s 4x100m free relay, men’s 4x100m free relay.
- Semifinals for the following events start in the afternoon: women’s 100m fly (2:30 p.m.), men’s 100m breaststroke (3:15 p.m.)
- Today’s finals: men’s 400m free (2:42 p.m.), women’s 400m free (2:55 p.m.), women’s 4x100m free relay (3:37 p.m.), men’s 4x100m free relay (3:50 p.m.).
Maria Laborde loses 48-kg judo bout in round of 16
American Maria Laborde scored a 10-0 victory over China’s Guo Zongying to open the 48-kg women’s judo competition. Laborde scored a waza-ari 1:07 into the bout and cruised to the victory. But Laborde lost to Assunta Scutto of Italy in the round of 16. Scutto scored an ippon at 3:23 to end the contest.
US mixed badminton duo opens with loss to China
The mixed doubles team of Vinson Chiu and Jennie Gai were defeated in their opening match of the 2024 Olympics by China’s Feng Yan Zhe and Huang Dong Ping, 2-0 (21-11, 21-14), at the La Chapelle Arena in Paris.
Chiu and Gai will continue pool play on Sunday with a match against Tang Jie Chen and Ee Wei Toh of Malaysia.
Olympic gymnastics today: What to watch
The U.S. men seek their first Olympic team medal in 16 years. The Americans will open qualifying in Subdivision 1 which includes Germany, Great Britain, Canada, and gymnasts from other countries that did not qualify an entire team. The USA’s path to an Olympic medal in the team event got easier when the European gymnastics federation voted against allowing Russian and Belarussian gymnasts to return to international competition.
Olympic diving today: What to watch
The first medals in the sport will be awarded in the women’s synchronized 3-meter springboard event. China dominated diving at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, winning seven of the eight gold medals.
Olympic shooting today: What to watch
Will Team USA’s first Olympic medal of the Paris Games come in shooting? The first medals in the sport will be contested in the mixed team air rifle event. In Tokyo, Americans Lucas Kozeniesky and Mary Tucker won silver.
Olympic swimming today: What to watch
Katie Ledecky leads the U.S. team in her fourth Olympics. She is a medal contender in the women’s 400-meter freestyle, an event she won silver in at the Tokyo Olympics behind Aussie Ariarne Titmus. In Rio, Ledecky won gold in the 400 free.
Olympic field hockey today: What to watch
After not qualifying for Tokyo, the U.S. women open the tournament against Argentina. Goalkeeper Kelsey Bing was instrumental in getting the Americans through qualifying and was Player of the Match in a 1-0 upset of India.
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