Steve McClaren has left his function as first-team coach at Manchester United to take over as Jamaica head coach.

The 63-year-old was given a modified function by Erik ten Hag throughout his staffing restructure this summer time, however McClaren wished to tackle a brand new problem with the Caribbean nation.

The Reggae Boyz had been in search of a supervisor since Heimir Hallgrimsson resigned on the finish of final month to take cost of the Republic of Eire.

Steve Bruce additionally held talks with Jamaica, however McClaren has been appointed new head coach on a two-year deal.

He mentioned: “I’m extraordinarily proud and excited to take up the place of Head Coach for The Jamaica Males’s Nationwide Group. I had no hesitation in accepting a place that’s ideally suited to me at this stage of my profession.

“Previous to returning to Manchester United for a second spell, I frolicked at FIFA as a Technical Advisor on their International Eco Evaluation challenge. Jamaica was one of many groups I labored with and I shortly got here to comprehend the potential the nation possessed.

“Within the years since, that potential has grown considerably and there’s each cause to imagine that with continued exhausting work and growth a vibrant future lies forward.”

McClaren, who was Sir Alex Ferguson’s No 2 between 1999-2001, returned to United as assistant supervisor in the summertime of 2022 after Ten Hag’s appointment.

Having saved his job on the finish of final season, Ten Hag evaluated his workers and determined adjustments had been wanted, with Ruud van Nistelrooy and Rene Hake arriving as assistant managers, with Jelle ten Rouwelaar becoming a member of as goalkeeper coach, and Mitchell van der Gaag, Benni McCarthy and Richard Hartis leaving.

McClaren’s function was lowered to senior first-team coach. However quite than journey with the squad on the US tour he stayed at Carrington to select up returning gamers from the European Championship and Copa America and now McClaren has determined to depart. Sporting director Dan Ashworth has labored to make sure a clean exit.

McClaren had an 18-year managerial function together with 15 months in control of the England nationwide group alongside spells at Middlesbrough, Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, Derby County and Queen’s Park Rangers, amongst others.

Final week, Lillestrom head coach Andreas Georgson joined United as a primary group coach with Ten Hag saying the Swede would work particularly in areas of “particular person growth” and “set performs”.Darren Fletcher has switched from technical director to first-team coach and is an everyday in coaching matches in Los Angeles.

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Kari Lake gained the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona on Tuesday, establishing a fierce battle in opposition to Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego for a seat that may very well be essential to deciding Senate management.

In Maricopa County, which incorporates metro Phoenix and 60% of Arizona’s voters, Republicans additionally have been selecting between a slate of incumbents who’ve stood as much as former President Donald Trump’s lies in regards to the 2020 election and challengers who declare it was stolen.

The first will give insights about the place the narrowly divided state is headed going into the ultimate dash of the 2024 election, when Arizona is central to the struggle for management of the White Home and Congress.

Gallego ran unopposed within the Democratic major for Senate.

Accepting victory Tuesday night time, Lake known as Trump a “hero” and urged his supporters to again her as properly.

“He cannot do that alone,” Lake mentioned. “He wants backup in Washington, D.C. And I’ll be his backup.”

The once-crowded discipline of Republicans wanting on the Senate race thinned out when Lake, who constructed a nationwide profile in Trump’s “Make America Nice Once more” motion in an unsuccessful 2022 bid for Arizona governor, made clear she deliberate to run for the seat.

Lake defeated Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, who had contended he’s extra electable and one of the best candidate to safe the border. However he struggled to lift the cash wanted to make his case to voters. Via the top of June, Lake had raised $10.3 million in contrast with Lamb’s $2 million.

Lake faces Gallego within the race to switch Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who was elected as a Democrat in 2018 however left the celebration to grow to be an unbiased after her standing among the many Democratic base cratered. Sinema thought of working as an unbiased however opted in opposition to it.

Lake entered politics after leaving the information anchor desk on the Phoenix Fox affiliate and shortly turned a rising star on the correct. Grassroots Republicans have been drawn to her biting critiques of her former colleagues within the information media, her robust speak on border safety and her unwavering assist for Trump, who for a time thought of her for his working mate.

“Go vote,” Trump urged supporters in a phone rally with Lake on Monday night. “She’s improbable. She won’t allow us to down. Kari Lake, I simply assume she’s going to be nearly as good as you will get. There’s no person going to be higher.”

She defeated an establishment-backed Republican within the 2022 major for Arizona governor however narrowly misplaced the final election. Satisfied she had victory in hand after profitable the first, Lake didn’t transfer towards the middle or work to unify Republicans behind her.

Lake’s major marketing campaign

This time, Lake made gestures towards unity, inviting individuals who did not vote for her to hitch her. She mentioned she is going to want “folks from all walks of life” and instructed “conventional Republicans” from the GOP institution that “we love you.” However she additionally framed the final election as “a battle between good and evil” and between “the individuals who need to destroy this nation and the individuals who need to save America.”

Gallego, she mentioned, “is an excessive liberal Democrat from Chicago” who’s aligned with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Since launching her Senate marketing campaign late final 12 months, Lake has made fitful efforts to average her most unpopular views however has not been constant. She disavowed a near-total ban on abortion in Arizona, which she’d beforehand known as “an incredible legislation,” however later spoke favorably for it.

She has at occasions steered away from false claims of election fraud, however she continues making an attempt to overturn her loss within the race for governor. Simply this month she filed a longshot request for the Arizona Supreme Court docket to take up the problem, although the justices, all of whom have been appointed by Republican governors, have already rejected her claims.

In the meantime, Republican voters in Maricopa County bought their first probability to oust elected officers who didn’t embrace Trump’s and Lake’s false claims that the 2020 and 2022 elections have been rigged. Justin Heap, a state legislator backed by Lake, knocked incumbent Recorder Stephen Richer out of competition for the final election. Richer is likely one of the elected officers answerable for administering elections in Arizona’s most populous county however turned a pariah on the correct for aggressively defending election integrity.

Races for the county board of supervisors, which additionally performs a significant function in working elections, have been a combined bag, with establishment-backed candidates profitable in some districts whereas Republicans aligned with Trump’s MAGA motion led elsewhere.

The sensation that elections are rigged in opposition to Republicans has permeated the Arizona GOP, although judges, election specialists and Trump’s personal lawyer basic have repeatedly rejected claims of widespread fraud.

“I believe that there is primarily the dialogue about methods to do the elections and methods to do them much less corruptly,” mentioned Barb Schwisow, a retired essential care nurse who sat exterior a polling place at a desk stuffed with Republican pamphlets in Solar Metropolis West, a retirement group exterior Phoenix.

Republicans additionally had an eclectic group of candidates vying to switch retiring GOP Rep. Debbie Lesko in a protected Republican district. The sphere contains Blake Masters and Abraham Hamadeh, one-time allies who’ve turned bitterly on one another since each misplaced campaigns in 2022. A state lawmaker indicted for his involvement in Trump’s fake-elector scheme can be working, together with former Rep. Trent Franks, who resigned in 2017 when two aides mentioned he sexually harassed them by asking them to hold a baby by way of surrogacy. The race was too early to name.

On the Democratic facet, two hotly contested U.S. Home primaries within the Phoenix space additionally have been too early to name.

The winner within the 1st Congressional District will face Republican Rep. David Schweikert to signify an prosperous district centered in Scottsdale that exemplifies the altering make-up of the political events.

Two Democrats are additionally dealing with off in a bitter major within the third District, a protected Democratic district that features the center of the west Phoenix Latino group. The Democratic nominee is strongly favored in November to switch Gallego.

Wednesday 31 July marks day 4 of the 10-day Olympic browsing window on the Tahitian browsing venue of Teahupo’o in French Polynesia. The competitors has been on maintain since unfavourable circumstances blew in on the afternoon of Monday 29 July, delaying the ladies’s browsing spherical 3 competitors.

The competitors has seen a wide range of climate circumstances, most notably large waves on Monday morning throughout males’s spherical 3 — an occasion that may go down in browsing competitors historical past.

Olympics.com spoke with Worldwide Browsing Affiliation (ISA) president Fernando Aguerre at Teahupo’o, 9,000 miles from the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 host metropolis of Paris, in regards to the present circumstances and the scheduling plans.

After asserting an additional maintain Wednesday morning, Aguerre defined that that is “the ABC of any browsing competitors — you are on standby.” He mentioned that regardless of the delays, “there’s an pleasure you possibly can really feel once you stroll round right here. Even the surfers who’re out of the competitors, they’re hanging out with those who’re within the competitors.

“Everybody can loosen up and recuperate, significantly after that intense Monday. There have been many wipeouts; it’s not the identical to wipe out anyplace on the planet as to wipe out right here.

“Whenever you see a surfer going over the lip and falling on the reef, we’re glad we haven’t had any main accidents. And wish to proceed defending the athletes — that’s precedence one, after which it’s the competitors.”

The choice on whether or not to begin girls’s spherical 3 can be made at 5:45 p.m. Tahiti time on Wednesday 31 July (5:45 a.m. Paris time on Thursday 1 August).

As soon as the competitors is named again “on,” it’ll resume with girls’s spherical 3, adopted by quarter-finals, semi-finals and the bronze- and gold-medal matches.

The ten-day surf window runs by 5 August— see the total schedule right here.

Kari Lake has defeated Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb within the Republican major for U.S. Senate, in line with the Related Press, which known as the race for Lake shortly after preliminary vote totals have been launched by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Workplace on election evening.

With greater than 958,000 ballots tallied statewide, Lake led Lamb by almost 14 proportion factors as of late on election evening. She’s going to transfer on to face Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego, who was operating unopposed, within the basic election on Nov. 5.

Lake is a former longtime Phoenix information anchor who bought concerned in politics in 2021, when she ran for Arizona governor, garnering the assist of former President Donald Trump.

At her election watch get together on election evening, Lake thanked Trump for his endorsement, recommendation and friendship.

“That man is actually bulletproof,” Lake mentioned, referencing the tried assassination of the previous president on July 13.

She went on to say that she believes God saved the nation when he saved Trump’s life that day.

“He can’t do that alone, he wants backup in Washington, D.C., and I’m gonna be his backup,” Lake mentioned.

Lake misplaced the race for governor to Democrat Katie Hobbs in 2022, however has refused to just accept the outcomes of the election. She adopted in Trump’s footsteps, claiming that the election was rigged and unsuccessfully difficult the outcomes of the election in court docket.

Lake introduced her bid for U.S. Senate in October 2023, as she continued to attraction her losses within the election problem case. Lake filed her most up-to-date attraction within the case simply weeks in the past.

Her attorneys in that case have been sanctioned by the Arizona Supreme Court docket for mendacity in authorized filings about unlawful ballots being counted in Maricopa County in 2022. One in every of her attorneys was lately suspended from practising regulation for 60 days for that transgression.

She’s additionally within the midst of a defamation go well with, filed in June 2023 by Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, for falsely accusing him of deliberately sabotaging the 2022 election.

Lake has already legally conceded that the statements she made about Richer have been false, and the case is now in course of to find out how a lot in damages Richer is owed.

Lamb, who made a promise to safe the border a central a part of his Senate marketing campaign, was elected Pinal County Sheriff in 2017 and claimed he has been on the “entrance traces” preventing legal cartels. Pinal County doesn’t share a border with Mexico. Lamb ran his personal pest management enterprise till pursuing a profession in regulation enforcement.

Lamb ran on a platform of God, household and freedom and promised to face as much as the “woke left,” if elected.

Lake, who has loved a considerable lead over him in polls, declined to debate Lamb final month, however she beforehand debated him in Could. Within the runup to the 2022 election, Lake lambasted Hobbs and known as her a “hen” for refusing to debate Lake.

On election evening, Lake described Lamb and his spouse as her associates who she views as household.

Lake used her election evening speech to proceed to aim to entice conventional Republicans and Democrats to vote for her, after telling McCain Republicans throughout her 2022 gubernatorial marketing campaign to “get the hell out.”

“This isn’t a battle between Democrats and Republicans, it is a battle between good and evil,” Lake mentioned. “It is a battle between the individuals who need to destroy this nation and the individuals who need to save America.”

As she has finished prior to now, Lake continued to explain Gallego as the favourite congressman of President Joe Biden, this time including in that he’s additionally the favourite of Vice President and presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris.

Lake known as Gallego an “excessive liberal Democrat from Chicago” who was handpicked to maneuver to Arizona and attempt to make it socialist. She additionally accused him of voting for laws that “introduced the best inflation we’ve seen in 20 years” however didn’t describe which laws she was referring to.

Gallego is a Harvard graduate and embellished former Marine who was deployed to Iraq in 2005 and served a number of excursions of responsibility.

Lake went on to name Gallego an “open border zealot” who needs to grant asylum to undocumented immigrants and inaccurately claimed that he additionally needs to permit them to vote within the November election.

Lake additionally spoke to Arizona’s Latino group, saying that 75% of her household (her husband and two kids) are Latino.

“They work laborious, they care about their household, they care about their religion,” she mentioned.

Lake’s marketing campaign launched a memo Tuesday evening calling Gallego a “weak candidate,” and promising to defeat him in November.

“This pivotal win positions Arizona as one of many prime pickup targets for the Senate GOP within the upcoming November election,” the marketing campaign mentioned.

On election evening, Gallego launched an announcement, additionally welcoming Republicans, Democrats and impartial voters to assist him defeat Lake in November.

“Within the 554 days since we launched this marketing campaign, Arizonans in each nook of the state have made clear that they need a U.S. Senator who can deliver individuals collectively to defend abortion rights, reduce prices for households, defend our water future, and care for our veterans — and that’s precisely what I intend to do,” Gallego mentioned.

Lake has modified her stance on abortion, saying throughout the 2022 race for governor that she supported abortion bans, however then this spring talking out in opposition to Arizona’s whole abortion ban that originated in 1864 after the state Supreme Court docket dominated that it was enforceable.

Additionally in an election evening assertion, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Marketing campaign Committee, U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, known as Gallego a “confirmed fighter” for the priorities of Arizonans and their households.

“Whereas Ruben has at all times fought for Arizona, Kari Lake is an influence hungry liar who is just ever preventing to advance herself,” Peters mentioned within the assertion. “Lake’s file opposing reproductive freedom and supporting an 1864 abortion ban with out exceptions for rape or incest is simply one of many some ways she is out of line with Arizona voters. This November, Arizonans will reject Lake once more and elect Gallego to the Senate.”

The Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee launched its personal assertion on Tuesday evening, congratulating Lake on her “commanding victory.”

“Arizonans should unite to defeat Ruben Gallego, one of the vital radical Democrats within the nation,” NRSC Chairman Steve Daines mentioned within the assertion. “Ruben Gallego will work with Kamala Harris to abolish ICE, defund the police, and go extra reckless spending that can drive costs up. Kari Lake will work with President Trump to safe the border, get crime beneath management, and convey down costs.”

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Group USA males’s basketball is on the hunt to convey dwelling a gold medal. With a stacked roster that features superstars like LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Anthony Edwards, Jayson Tatum and extra, Group USA males’s basketball goes to be robust to beat.

One win into the Paris Summer season Olympics, LeBron and Co. are that a lot nearer to gold. Immediately they play South Sudan. Maintain studying to learn the way and when to look at the USA vs. South Sudan males’s basketball sport on the 2024 Summer season Olympic Video games in Paris.

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When does the Group USA males’s basketball group play subsequent?

The Group USA vs. South Sudan Olympic basketball sport shall be performed on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. P.T.) The sport will air on USA Community, and stream on Peacock and the platforms featured under.

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watch the U.S. vs. South Sudan basketball sport with out cable

Whereas many cable packages embrace USA Community and the opposite channels broadcasting the 2024 Summer season Olympics, it is simple to look at the Olympic basketball if these channels aren’t included in your cable TV subscription, or if you do not have cable in any respect. Your finest choices for watching are under. (Streaming choices would require an web supplier.)

Watch each occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Peacock

Along with main sporting occasions just like the 2024 Paris Olympics, Peacock gives its subscribers live-streaming entry to NFL video games that air on NBC and sports activities airing on USA Community. The streaming service has lots extra dwell sports activities to supply, together with Large Ten basketball, Premier League soccer and WWE wrestling (together with previously PPV-only occasions comparable to WrestleMania). There are 80,000 hours value of recorded content material to look at as nicely, together with hit films and TV sequence comparable to “The Workplace” and “Parks and Recreation.”

A Peacock subscription prices $8 per thirty days. An annual plan is on the market for $80 per 12 months (finest worth). You may cancel anytime.

Prime options of Peacock:

• Peacock’s Olympic protection will embrace “multi-view” choices through which followers can curate their viewing journey, selecting the Olympic occasions they’re most eager about watching.
• Peacock will air unique protection of PGA Tour occasions, Olympic trials and Paris Olympics 2024 occasions.
• Peacock options loads of present and traditional NBC and Bravo TV reveals, plus authentic programming such because the award-winning actuality present “The Traitors.”

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Stream the USA vs. South Sudan sport on Sling TV for half value

If you do not have cable TV that features NBC, probably the most cost-effective methods to the Group USA males’s basketball, and all the most important sporting occasions taking place this summer time, is thru a subscription to Sling TV. The streamer additionally gives entry to Olympic qualifiers, the 2024 Paris Video games, NFL soccer airing on NBC, Fox and ABC (the place obtainable) and NFL Community with its Orange + Blue plan.

That Orange + Blue plan usually prices $60 per thirty days, however the streamer is at the moment providing a half-off promotion to your first month, so you will pay simply $30. For the least costly Olympic-watching possibility, the Blue plan consists of the channels NBC, USA and E!, beginning at $45 per thirty days ($22.50 to your first month).

 Sports activities followers could need to up their protection with the Sports activities Additional plan, which prices $11 per thirty days, and consists of Golf Channel amongst others. You may be taught extra by tapping the button under.

Prime options of Sling TV Orange + Blue plan:

• Sling TV is our best choice for streaming main sporting occasions like NASCAR.
• There are 46 channels to look at in whole, together with native NBC, Fox and ABC associates (the place obtainable).
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• All subscription tiers embrace 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage.
• You may add Golf Channel, NBA TV, NHL Community, NFL RedZone, MLB Community, Tennis Channel and extra sports-oriented channels (19 in whole) by way of Sling TV’s Sports activities Extras add-on.

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Watch the USA vs. South Sudan sport free with Fubo

It’s also possible to catch Group USA Males’s basketball airing on community TV on Fubo. Fubo is a sports-centric streaming service that gives entry to network-aired sports activities just like the Tour de France, and nearly each NFL sport subsequent season. Packages embrace the dwell feed of sports activities and programming airing on CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN, NFL Community and extra, so you’ll watch extra than simply the Summer season Olympics- all and not using a cable subscription.

To observe the 2024 Summer season Olympic Video games with out cable, begin a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You may start watching instantly in your TV, telephone, pill or pc. Along with Olympic occasions, you will have entry to NFL soccer, Fubo gives NCAA school sports activities, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and worldwide soccer video games. Fubo’s Professional Tier is priced at $80 per thirty days after your free seven-day trial.

Sports activities followers will need to take into account including on the $7.99 per thirty days Fubo Additional package deal, which incorporates MLB Community, NBA TV, NHL Community, Tennis Channel, SEC Community and extra channels. Or improve to the Fubo Elite tier and get all of the Fubo Additional channels, plus the flexibility to stream in 4K, for an additional $10 per thirty days.

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• There are not any contracts with Fubo — you may cancel at any time.
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• Stream in your TV, telephone, and different units.

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You may watch Group USA males’s basketball and extra top-tier sports activities protection, together with NFL Community, with Hulu + Stay TV. The bundle options entry to 90 channels, together with Golf Channel. Limitless DVR storage can be included. Watch the 2024 Summer season Olympic Video games and each NFL sport on each community subsequent season with Hulu + Stay TV,  plus unique dwell common season NFL video games, well-liked studio reveals (together with NFL Whole Entry and the Emmy-nominated present Good Morning Soccer) and much extra.

Hulu + Stay TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+ for $77 per thirty days after a three-day free trial.

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Fanatics: Get the latest Group USA gear and merch

Whereas most of us could not make it to the 2024 Summer season Olympics in particular person, rooting from house is extra enjoyable with the most recent group merch. Fanatics is our first cease for the most recent drop of Group USA gear, that includes participant jerseys, Group USA shirts and jackets, plus iconic items just like the Polo Ralph Lauren Villagewear pullover sweatshirt.

Faucet the button under to get your Group USA gear simply in time to cheer on the house group.

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Olympics 2024: Group USA males’s basketball full schedule

Males’s basketball suggestions off on July 27, at some point after the opening ceremony in Paris. 12 nations will compete within the preliminary group stage.

Group USA will play in Group C, which incorporates Serbia, South Sudan and the winner of the Puerto Rico Qualifying Match.  The ultimate stage, which is single-elimination, will function eight groups to find out the gold, silver and bronze medals. The ultimate stage will encompass the highest two finishers in every group, and the 2 finest third-place groups.

Beneath is the schedule for the Group USA males’s basketball Group Stage on the Paris Summer season Video games. 

All occasions Japanese

Group Stage (Group C)

• July 28: Group USA 110 vs. Serbia 84 
• July 31: Group USA vs. South Sudan, 9 p.m. (USA Community)
• August 3: Group USA vs. W OQT PUR, 11: 15 a.m. (NBC)

August 6

• Males’s quarterfinals (4 video games), 5 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (E! and USA Community)

August 8

• Males’s semifinals (2 video games), 11:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. (USA Community)

August 10

• Bronze medal sport, 5 a.m.- 7 a.m.  (USA Community, replay at 1 p.m. ET on USA Community)
• Gold medal sport, 3:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. (USA Community, replay at midnight on USA Community)

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How will you watch the USA males’s Olympic basketball video games: TV and Streaming

The group stage of males’s basketball on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games is scheduled for Saturday, July 27 and can conclude on Sunday, August 4. The primary Group USA sport shall be performed on Sunday, July 28, 2024.

The knockout part begins on Tuesday, August 6. The gold medal sport for males is scheduled to be performed on Saturday, August 10.

Group USA’s males’s basketball video games will air on NBC, USA Community and the E! Channel, and all Olympic occasions will stream on Peacock.

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Who’s on the Group USA Basketball roster on the 2024 Paris Olympics?

12 NBA gamers are on the USA males’s basketball roster with a mixed 10 Olympic gold medals between them. Kevin Durant has gained three gold medals, whereas LeBron James is Group USA’s all-time main scorer (to not point out his two gold medals).  Bam Adebayo (2020), Devin Booker (2020), Anthony Davis (2012), Jrue Vacation (2020) and Jayson Tatum (2020) are every gold medal winners as nicely.

Group USA males’s basketball roster:

• Bam Adebayo (Miami Warmth)
• Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns)
• Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors)
• Anthony Davis (Los Angeles Lakers)
• Kevin Durant (Phoenix Suns)
• Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves)
• Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers)
• Tyrese Haliburton (Indiana Pacers)
• Jrue Vacation (Boston Celtics)
• LeBron James (Los Angeles Lakers)
• Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics)
• Derrick White (Boston Celtics)

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When was the final time the U.S. males’s basketball group gained gold?

Group USA took dwelling the gold medal on the 2020 Tokyo Summer season Video games after defeating France within the last. It was Group USA’s fourth consecutive males’s basketball gold medal.

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NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer time Olympics. For extra of our protection from the video games head to our newest updates.

NANTERRE, France — As Torri Huske touched the wall of the pool on Sunday evening within the Olympics ladies’s 100-meter butterfly race, she might see that she had received. However she did not but consider it.

“You possibly can type of see out of the nook of your eye, however you by no means actually know for certain,” she stated.

It was exhausting to argue with the truth that the sunshine on her block was the primary to activate — the official indication that she had received the race.

“Seeing that was very surreal,” Huske, 21, stated after the race. “You’ve got been dreaming about this second for thus lengthy, after which it lastly turns into a actuality. I do not even know easy methods to course of it.”

For Huske, Sunday’s gold medal end within the 100-meter butterfly was particularly rewarding and emotional after the ache of her fourth-place on the final Summer time Olympics in Tokyo.

In that race, in 2021, Huske led for a lot of it however pale as she closed in on the wall. In the end, she fell in need of the medal podium by the thinnest of margins: a single one-hundredth of a second.

“I am not going to lie, that was devastating,” Huske stated. “However I feel that actually fueled me, and it did make me higher.”

She had been “naive” going into the Olympics in 2021, she stated Sunday. Her success inside Crew USA had given her confidence that she would win a medal. “However it’s loads more durable than that,” she continued. “I do know now how exhausting it’s to medal, and I am simply actually grateful to be right here.”

One other a part of the explanation Huske’s win got here as such a shock — even to Huske — was as a result of one other U.S. swimmer, Gretchen Walsh, had been the heavy favourite to win the occasion.

Expectations have been sky-high for Walsh, 21, on Sunday after she set the world report within the 100-meter butterfly final month within the U.S. Olympic Crew Trials — then adopted that with an Olympic report in her warmth right here at Paris’s La Protection Enviornment on Saturday.

However these stellar finishes turned what was as soon as a “enjoyable, no-pressure” occasion for Walsh into the other, the swimmer stated after the race. “There’s positively stress now, and that is only a actuality that I’ve to face,” Walsh stated. “I used to be fairly nervous going into tonight.”

Ultimately, Walsh completed the race in 55.63 seconds — .04 seconds behind Huske’s 55.59, and a quarter-second behind her personal warmth end of 55.38 the evening earlier than.

“That one harm, for certain,” Walsh stated. “I left all of it on the market within the pool. It won’t have been the time I used to be essentially searching for, however to even medal at my first Olympics is one thing that I do not suppose many individuals get to say.”

The bronze medal was awarded to Zhang Yufei, the star Chinese language swimmer who has change into embroiled in a doping scandal after revelations that she was amongst 23 Chinese language swimmers who examined constructive for a banned substance in early 2021. She went on to compete within the Tokyo Olympics, the place she received 4 medals.

With their Sunday medals, each Huske and Walsh have now change into the primary Individuals to win a number of medals on the Paris Olympic Video games. They each received a silver medal on Saturday once they participated collectively within the ladies’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

Reporting contributed by NPR’s Brian Mann in Nanterre, France.

Group USA males’s basketball is again in motion on the 2024 Olympics as they tackle South Sudan in a Group C match on Wednesday afternoon.

There isn’t any query that Group USA, led by Lebron James, Steph Curry and others have this one circled in Paris after South Sudan almost pulled off one of many largest upsets in latest reminiscence, dropping by solely a degree, 101-100, to the USA on July 20 in an exhibition main as much as the Summer season Video games.

The US narrowly prevented the defeat because of a go-ahead layup by James with eight seconds remaining. Group USA discovered themselves down as many as 16 factors on this exhibition earlier than rallying to keep away from a surprising defeat.

Of their first recreation of group play motion, the USA took care of enterprise with a commanding 110-84 victory over Denver Nuggets middle and two-time MVP Nikola Jokic and Serbia final Saturday.

James and Kevin Durant have been good from the sphere within the first half and mixed for 44 factors with the staff taking pictures 56.3 % (18-for-32) from past the arc.

South Sudan did not let their momentum of just about knocking off the USA sluggish them down, as they upset Puerto Rico, 90-79, of their Olympic debut this weekend with a robust second half through which they outscored Puerto Rico 42-25 over the ultimate two quarters.

With all eyes on this rematch, this is the way to watch, stream and the betting odds for Group USA males’s basketball vs. South Sudan:

What channel is U.S. males’s basketball vs. South Sudan?

The US will search for a greater efficiency vs. South Sudan on Wednesday with the sport airing at 3 p.m. ET on USA Community.

If you do not have cable or entry to the channels the place the Olympics might be broadcast on (NBC, USA Community, CNBC, Golf Channel and E!), there is no have to sweat as FuboTV at the moment provides a free, seven-day trial to new subscribers of the streaming service.

Learn how to stream 2024 Olympics

The 2024 Olympics might be streaming all their protection on two platforms, Peacock and nbcolympics.com.

Streaming Olympics 2024:Learn how to watch 2024 Paris Olympics with a Peacock subscription

USA males’s basketball staff schedule for 2024 Olympics

After their matchup versus South Sudan, the U.S. can have one remaining recreation left in group stage motion. If Group USA emerges victorious on Wednesday, they’re going to qualify for a spot within the quarterfinals. Here is the schedule and time for the final recreation earlier than the knockout spherical:

Saturday, Aug. 3 at 11:15 a.m. ET: USA vs. Puerto Rico

Group USA basketball vs. South Sudan odds for Wednesday’s recreation

After being a whopping 43.5-point favourite of their first assembly, Group USA has dropped all the way in which down to twenty-eight.5-point favourite versus South Sudan in Wednesday’s recreation.

Whereas the moneyline is at the moment locked on a number of sportsbooks in New Jersey, South Sudan was reportedly a 30/1 (+3000) underdog to defeat Group USA earlier Wednesday morning on the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas.

Here is the present unfold and whole for USA vs. South Sudan of their Group C recreation on FanDuel Sportsbook in New Jersey:

Unfold: USA -28.5 (-110), South Sudan +28.5 (-110)

Whole: Over 191.5 factors (-110), below 191.5 factors (-110)

Moneyline: USA (N/A), South Sudan (N/A)

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NANTERRE — For Torri Huske, redemption got here within the type of an Olympic gold medal Sunday evening. The 21-year-old used a charging end to beat out USA teammate and present world report holder Gretchen Walsh by simply 4 one-hundredths of a second within the 100-meter butterfly. The duo are the primary American ladies to report a gold and silver medal within the occasion since 1984, when Mary T. Meagher and Jenna Johnson achieved the feat.

The Olympic ultimate of the 100-meter butterfly is acquainted territory for Huske. She was narrowly out-touched for third by Australia’s Emma McKeon in Tokyo, lacking the rostrum by only one one-hundredth of a second.

“I am not gonna lie, that was devastating,” mentioned Huske when requested in regards to the loss in 2021. “However I feel that it actually fueled me, and I feel that it did make me higher.”

The flexibility to study from her disappointment in Tokyo was on full show along with her victory right here in Paris. In 2021, Huske had a promising lead the primary 80-meters of the race earlier than falling behind on the house stretch. The story couldn’t be extra totally different three years later in La Défense. After handing over third place on the 50-meter mark, Huske discovered one other gear the final 20 meters of the race to complete in 55.59 seconds. Walsh was second in 55.63 seconds, forward of China’s Zhang Yufei, who took residence silver within the occasion in Tokyo.

The shock of successful the tight battle was worn throughout Huske’s face as she regarded up on the outcomes.

“It was actually surreal,” mentioned Huske. “You’ve got been dreaming about this second for thus lengthy, after which it lastly turns into a actuality. I do not even actually know the way to course of it. I felt like I used to be hyperventilating just a little bit.”

Huske wasted no time discovering Walsh after the race, embracing her over the lane line. The 2 stood side-by-side on prime of the rostrum because the flags have been raised and the nationwide anthem echoed in the course of the medal ceremony.

Going for gold-en donuts!

For a restricted time, Krispy Kreme is providing $1 donuts in honor of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The breakfast goodie franchise kicked off its Kreme-y celebration on Wednesday, July 31, permitting clients to take part within the “Go for the Glaze” Olympics promotion whereas provides final.

And on Thursday, Aug. 1, members of its rewards loyalty program can get Krispy Kreme $1 Authentic Glazed donuts in shops through the web site or app.

The corporate lately launched its new Go USA assortment, which features a dozen spherical treats iced in patriotic colours and designs.

The lineup options three kinds of donuts: Authentic Glazed, Chocolate Iced Glazed with Sprinkles and Go USA, the latter hand-dipped in white icing and adorned with crimson stripes and blue and gold sprinkles.

Nevertheless, when you don’t have a critical candy tooth, Krispy Kreme presents the Go USA Assortment individually and in a three- or six-pack.

Olympic-themed donuts aren’t the one particular dessert the franchise is providing; loyal clients can nonetheless buy a candy from its “Passport to Paris” assortment, too.

The Parisian-designed choice features a Créme Brûlée donut, a Double Chocolate Éclair and a Raspberry and Vanilla Créme donut.

“Most individuals can’t be in Paris to cheer on their nation’s crew. So, we’re providing you with a ‘Passport to Paris’ within the type of scrumptious donuts with Parisian dessert flavors,” mentioned Dave Skena, international chief model officer for Krispy Kreme, in a information launch.

Though each collections can be found at choose places, it’s just for a restricted time — so put the pedal to the medal and seize them whilst you can.

The primary skateboarding occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympics is within the books, with the ladies’s road ultimate concluding Sunday night in Paris.

In a break from the wet climate that kicked off the Video games throughout Friday’s Opening Ceremony—and compelled the postponement of Saturday’s males’s skateboard road ultimate to Monday—Sunday was scorching and sunny in Paris.

It was a protracted day for the eight girls who made Sunday’s ultimate out of the 22 who began the prelims at midday Paris time. After a three-hour qualifier throughout the hottest a part of the day, the ultimate kicked off at 5:00 p.m. CEST.

Every Nationwide Olympic Committee (NOC) may qualify as much as three athletes in every of the 4 Olympic skateboarding occasions (males’s and girls’s road and park).

Forbes2024 Paris Olympics: Yuto Horigome Defends Gold, Jagger Eaton And Nyjah Huston Medal In Males’s Skateboard AvenueBy Michelle Bruton

Japan, which boasted three of the highest 4 skaters on the planet within the lead-up to Paris, maxed out its allotted quotas, and all three girls—Coco Yoshizawa, 14; Liz Akama, 15; and Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist Funa Nakayama, 19—made it by to the ultimate.

Rounding out the sphere of eight within the ultimate have been China’s Chenxi Cui, 14; Australia’s Chloe Covell, 14; the USA’s Paige Heyn, 16; Brazil’s Rayssa Leal, 16, who was the Tokyo 2020 silver medalist; and the USA’s Poe Pinson, 19.

Tokyo 2020 gold medalist Momiji Nishiya, 16, was ranked seventh on the planet forward of Paris 2024, however as Yoshizawa, Akama and Nakayama have been ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 4, respectively, Nishiya couldn’t earn a qualifying place for Paris.

Equally, Japan’s Yumeka Oda, 17, was ranked fifth and in addition bumped out of qualifying place.

Yoshizawa and Akama took gold and silver in Paris with scores of 272.75 and 265.95, respectively.

With Yoshizawa’s win, Japan has now taken gold on this occasion on each events it’s been held on the Olympics.

Leal took bronze to change into, for now, the one feminine skateboarder with two Olympic medals. (Park skate boarders Kokona Hiraki and Sakura Yosozumi of Japan and Sky Brown of Nice Britain may be a part of Leal in that rarefied air if they will make the rostrum of their occasion subsequent week.)

Yoshizawa and Akama have been the highest two qualifiers, respectively, in Sunday’s girls’s road prelims. Coming into Paris 2024, they have been additionally ranked No. 1 (Yoshizawa) and No. 2 (Akama) on the planet.

Leal was ranked No. 3, making for an Olympic podium that completely adopted the world rankings previous to the Video games.

Within the press convention following the ultimate, Yoshizawa and Akuna have been requested why they suppose Japan is so robust in girls’s skateboarding.

“The rationale why we’re very robust is the Japanese individuals are diligent and earnest and make efforts towards their targets and desires,” Akama stated by an interpreter.

“The surroundings in Japan is superb for training and in addition the individuals who aren’t pretty much as good, we will educate one another, and we could be stronger,” Yoshizawa stated, additionally by an interpreter.

At simply 16, Leal is already a veteran of the ladies’s road self-discipline, and he or she’s developed a status as a more in-depth. At the beginning of the fifth and ultimate greatest trick makes an attempt, Leal was sitting off the rostrum in fifth.

However she placed on a clinic, completely touchdown her kickflip Smith grind to bump up into third place with a rating of 253.37, which not one of the 4 skaters not already on the rostrum may high.

The gang taking within the girls’s road ultimate on the Place de la Concorde was simply composed of one-third Brazilian followers, and when Leal scored 71.66 on her first of two runs after which a 92.88 on her second trick try and an 88.83 on her fifth, they erupted with cheers, waving a sea of Brazil flags.

Leal had solely landed one trick, which meant she would want to land the fifth efficiently to have any probability of constructing the rostrum.

She hadn’t practiced the kickflip Smith grind on the Olympic course. “I used to be sort of afraid; I gained’t mislead you,” she stated with a smile. However she consulted together with her crew and, although it “wasn’t simple,” she determined to go large or go dwelling on her ultimate try.

Does Leal really feel that she performs higher beneath stress?

“Effectively, I feel that I can carry out nicely beneath stress however not at all times, really. However after I want a trick, I at all times get it, and this time was no completely different,” Leal stated by an interpreter. “It’s true that someway I put myself beneath stress, as a result of I wish to give my greatest and carry out nicely and present all of the methods I’ve.”

Akama wasn’t capable of land her fifth trick try, which secured the gold medal for Yoshizawa.

The scoring construction for road skateboarding has modified from what was used on the Tokyo Olympics.

ForbesHow Skateboarding Is Scored At The OlympicsBy Michelle Bruton

In Tokyo, skaters additionally had two 45-second runs and 5 trick makes an attempt, with every scored on a scale of 0 to 10. The whole rating was the sum of one of the best 4 scores from any of the runs or trick makes an attempt.

In Paris, nevertheless, every run or trick is scored between 0 and 100. The whole rating elements within the skater’s greatest run out of two and two greatest trick makes an attempt, for a complete potential rating of 300.

The rule change was made partly to make sure that each runs and trick makes an attempt rely towards an athlete’s ultimate rating. (On the Tokyo Video games, as an example, males’s road gold medalist Yuto Horigome had his two lowest scores in his two runs, so his ultimate rating was primarily based solely on methods.)

The boys’s road ultimate will start with prelims at midday CEST on Monday, July 29.

Girls’s Skateboard Avenue Outcomes

1. Coco Yoshizawa (JPN): 272.75
2. Liz Akama (JPN): 265.95
3. Rayssa Leal (BRA): 253.37
4. Chenxi Cui (CHN): 241.56
5. Poe Pinson (USA): 222.34
6. Paige Heyn (USA): 163.23
7. Funa Nakayama (JPN): 79.77
8. Chloe Covell (AUS): 70.33