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Team Australia won gold in the women's 200-meter x 4 freestyle relay. The team holds the Olympic record and was the favorite to win the event.
Team USA won silver, which means that celebrated swimmer Katie Ledecky has again broken records with a historic 13 Olympic medals in her name, the most of any American female athlete. Yesterday, she smashed records in taking her eighth gold and 12th Olympic medal.
Team USA took its first-ever gold in team fencing as the women's foil team beat Team Italy 45-39.
Team USA's Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul won their doubles match with Great Britain's Dan Evans and Andy Murray. The crowd erupted into "Andy, Andy!" chants as the British great gave a tearful goodbye.
This was Murray's last tennis game. The Americans applauded him at the end of the game, and he signed autographs as he left the court. Highly decorated, Murray is the holder of three Grand Slam titles, two Olympic golds, and 46 ATP singles titles. He has also won victories over Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, and Novak Djokovic.
Novak Djokovic of Serbia beat Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in two sets. He advances to the semifinals, where he will play Lorenzo Musetti of Italy.
This puts Djokovic another step closer to an Olympic gold; the 24-time Grand Slam winner has only ever taken the bronze at the Olympics.
Kate Douglass took the gold in the 200-meter breaststroke, Team USA's eighth gold this Olympics.
Her 2:19.24 time sets an American record in the event.
After her all-around gold, Biles still has the opportunity to take more medals on the vault on Aug. 3, and beam and floor on Aug. 5.
Hungary’s Hubert Kos won gold in the 200-meter backstroke, the first for his country at the Paris Games.
Kos closed in on Apostolos Christou of Greece with less than ten meters to go, and the Greek swimmer finished second.
Summer McIntosh of Canada won gold in the 200-meter butterfly, her second gold and third medal this Olympics.
The 17-year-old was initially neck and neck with Zhang Yufei of China but came off the wall in the last lap at a speed that put her far ahead.
Reigning champion Suni Lee took bronze in the women's gymnastics all-around event. A medal was all but secured as she began her floor routine, sticking the landing of her first pass and giving a huge smile as the crowd exploded in cheers. The gymnasts before Lee had trouble with that landing, most stepping out of bounds.
Brazil's Rebeca Andrade was second to last on the floor, the last of the event, and USA's Simone Biles closed it out. The gymnasts were seen cheering each other on throughout the event.
Rebeca Andrade of Brazil was a breakout star in the women's gymnastics all-around event, winning silver after impressive scores in each event.
Halfway through the final, Andrade took the lead after Biles botched a transition on the uneven bars.
Simone Biles pulled off one of the most difficult floor routines in the world, claiming the gold in the all-around women’s gymnastics event at the Paris Olympics.
After leading the women’s team to gold, Simone Biles is back in action today for the all-around final. She aims to make history as the oldest woman all-around champion in over 70 years.
Standing in her way are formidable opponents including Brazilian Rebecca Andrade and defending Olympic champion Sunisa Lee.
Zac Stubblety-Cook is the latest Olympic competitor to test positive for COVID-19. Just hours after winning the bronze medal in the mens 200-meter breaststroke on July 31.
British swimming star Adam Peaty disclosed his positive test less than 24 hours after winning silver in the 100-meter breaststroke, and Australia’s Lani Pallister withdrew from the competition to conserve energy for the upcoming 4x200 freestyle relay.
American swimmer Katie Ledecky hasn’t finished setting Olympic records.
Ledecky earned her eighth career Olympic gold medal and 12th overall with a victory in the 1,500-meter freestyle in the Paris Games. She’s tied with Americans Dara Torres, Natalie Coughlin, and Jenny Thompson for the most medals ever by a female swimmer.
She is the first female swimmer to win gold medals in four Olympic Games. However, the 27-year-old Ledecky has no plans to retire and has her sights on competing in the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.
Team USA's Tommy Paul lost to Carlos Alcaraz of Spain and is out in men's singles.
Alcaraz, ranked No. 1 in the world in singles, is onto the semifinals in his first Olympics.
Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs, who took the gold and silver respectively in the individual foil fencing event, are joined by Jacqueline Dubrovich for team foil fencing.
The team defeated Canada and will next face Italy for the gold.
The men’s skiff sailing event was paused earlier mid-race because there was not enough wind.
With winds now blowing at 8-10/mph, organizers have announced the race would go on—boats will return to the starting position, but points will carry over.
The International Boxing Association (IBA) issued a statement explaining a prior disqualification decision after Italian boxer Angela Carini forfeited her match against Alergian boxer Imane Khelif less than a minute into her match.
The IBA had disqualified Khelif from the world championships in 2023, and Carini's dramatic exit from the ring spurred online reports, some including falsities, that alleged the female boxer was matched against a "biological male" who failed testosterone tests.
Team USA's Andy Benesh and Miles Partain, the youngest duo in the running, won their beach volleyball pool match against Andre Loyola and George Wanderley of Team Brazil in three sets.
USA took the first set but Brazil rallied and made a strong comeback in the second set. The third set went smoothly for the Americans and ended at 15–8.
Both men’s and women’s 3x3 basketball teams have been losing their pool games and have only two and one games left, respectively, before they must drop out.
The men’s team, which did not qualify for the last Olympics, lost to Serbia and Poland in their first two games. Today, they will play Lithuania and then Latvia. If they win both games, they will secure a chance to continue in the playoffs for a spot in the semifinals.
World No. 1 Iga Swiatek lost in the semifinals after a close quarterfinal match with Team USA’s Danielle Collins, which ended only when Collins retired due to an undisclosed medical issue.
Zheng Qinwen of China won in two sets—6–2 in the first, then a massive break in the second set with 7–5.
Germany and the United States topped the board at the Olympic showjumping team qualifiers on Thursday, ahead of Britain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Switzerland, seen as one of the favorites this year, unexpectedly dropped out.
The United States won gold in the men's four Olympic final at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium on Thursday.
The New Zealand four finished second to secure the silver medal, with Britain taking the bronze.
Simone Biles will chase her sixth Olympic gold medal and her second of the Paris Olympics when she competes in the women's gymnastics all-around final on Thursday.
Biles led the United States to their fourth gold medal in the women's gymnastics team event on Tuesday at the Paris Olympics, delivering stellar performances on all four apparatuses.
The U.S. women’s basketball team looks to extend its Olympic winning streak to 57 games when the Americans play Belgium. The team has not lost in the Olympics since the 1992 Barcelona Games.
A’ja Wilson scored 24 points, and Breanna Stewart added 22 to help the United States beat Japan 102–76 in Monday night’s opening game.
The men’s golf tournament begins at Le Golf National, with Xander Schauffele seeking a second straight gold medal after winning at the Tokyo Games.
Schauffele is the only player in the field to have won both an Olympic gold and a major—he's coming off wins at the PGA Championship in May and the British Open title two weeks ago.
Thursday starts the first day of the 72-hole competition for the men’s golf tournament at the Paris Summer Olympic Games.
The event will be played at Le Golf National, just outside Paris in Saint-Quention-En-Yvelines. The par-71 course will play 7,174 yards, and the facility previously hosted the 2018 Ryder Cup matches and the 2022 World Amateur Team Championship (Eisenhower Trophy).