NANTERRE, France – You could not stage Léon Marchand’s coronation any higher.

Over the past week, earlier than an adoring and at instances tumultuous dwelling crowd in Paris, the younger Frenchman with a mop of blond hair has emerged as the following massive title in worldwide Olympic swimming.

Marchand, age 22, had by no means received a gold medal earlier than these Summer season Video games. He is now claimed 4 particular person gold medals in a single Olympics, placing him in a class of greatness as soon as reserved completely for 2 Individuals, Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps.

With every victory this week, together with his newest Friday night time the place he held up 4 fingers in celebration, Marchand additionally shattered the Olympic report.

“It was loopy,” Marchand mentioned of his closing particular person efficiency within the males’s 200 meter particular person medley closing at Paris’s La Protection area in a Paris suburb. “As soon as once more the general public was cheering. It was my final particular person race [of these Games] so I informed myself I needed to actually take pleasure in it.”

To say the general public was cheering would not start to seize the cultural second Marchand has sparked right here. Some French are ambivalent concerning the resolution to host the Olympics in Paris, however in every single place you go within the metropolis there’s Marchand fever. Taxi drivers speak about him. Youngsters swoon over him. At eating places, all the things stops when he races as all eyes flip to televisions exhibiting his victories.

Crowds on the swimming venue right here have been full of Marchand followers. After every of his victories, 1000’s joined in boisterous renditions of La Marseillaise, France’s nationwide anthem.

Marchand is anticipated to swim once more on Sunday in a staff relay closing the place one other gold medal could be very attainable.

One twist to Marchand’s emergence as a nationwide icon in France is the truth that his efficiency within the pool has been formed largely by America’s long-dominant swimming system. Marchand lives within the U.S. many of the 12 months and competed till lately within the NCAA system for Arizona State College.

After her race on Friday, U.S. swimmer Regan Smith, who typically trains side-by-side with Marchand, voiced admiration for the Frenchman’s capability.

“I’ve had the chance to share a lane with him in apply for the higher half of two years,” Smith mentioned. “I have been in a position to see what he is in a position to do each day in apply. He clearly has it bodily, he is extremely proficient. However what units him other than everybody else is what he has proper up right here [in his mind]. It is in contrast to anybody I’ve ever met. He has this It issue, this Je ne sais quoi. He is aware of tips on how to get s*** executed.”

Notably, Marchand is coached by Bob Bowman, the legendary American swimming coach who helped develop Michael Phelps’ expertise. Earlier this week, Bowman informed reporters Marchand has emerged in Paris as one of many all-time greats.

“I rank him on the prime proper now,” Bowman mentioned of Marchand. “He is acquired the velocity, he is acquired the endurance. He is not even reached his potential.”

Requested about the way it feels to coach a breakout expertise whose Olympic medals go to France, Bowman shrugged and mentioned, “I am nonetheless pink, white and blue in my coronary heart.”

After his win on Friday, Marchand mentioned he plans to maintain working with Bowman as he prepares for the following Summer season Olympics in Los Angeles.

“We shared wonderful moments right here. We’ve been working actually onerous over the past three years. I do not know tips on how to do the following half (of my sports activities profession). I believe (Bowman) will actually assist me with that, as a result of he is aware of quite a bit about it.

Requested about being in contrast with American Michael Phelps, who captured a profession complete of 28 Olympic medals — 23 of them gold — Marchand mentioned it is an honor. “After all, he’s a legend of the swimming world – and he’ll all the time be.”

Bitter rivals Actual Madrid and FC Barcelona are set to fulfill at MetLife stadium on Saturday, with Los Blancos head coach Carlo Ancelotti giving hints of what his beginning XI could be within the final coaching session earlier than the preseason pleasant.

On the US tour’s debut earlier this week, which was a 1-0 defeat to his former membership AC Milan on the Chicago Bears’ Soldier Discipline, Ancelotti handed Endrick his debut and went with a entrance line consisting of the Brazilian teenager as a striker flanked by Brahim Diaz and Arda Guler.

It was thought that Rodrygo, who joined the tour late on August 31, would take Guler’s place this time spherical however that hasn’t confirmed to be true as Ancelotti goes for a similar attacking trio.

In midfield, captain Luka Modric, Dani Ceballos, and Mario Martin maintain the fort.

As for the defence, Ancelotti examined a staff that had Eder Militao beginning at heart again alongside Antonio Rudiger, with Fran Garcia and Lucas Vazquez the left and proper backs respectively, and that is the method the Italian has gone for towards Barca.

Thibaut Courtois would be the goalkeeper, at a time when Andriy Lunin may nonetheless go away the membership within the ongoing switch window given his discontent with being changed by the Belgian upon his return from an ACL harm earlier within the spring.

The likes of Kylian Mbappe, Jude Bellingham and Dani Carvajal are nonetheless on vacation following their exploits on the Euros, however one additional shock becoming a member of the squad is Vinicius Jr.

Whereas these talked about gamers acquired to a minimum of the semifinals or closing with their international locations on the European match, Vinicius’ Brazil suffered a disappointing quarterfinal penalty shootout loss to Uruguay within the US with the Ballon d’Or hopeful unable to play the fixture due to a suspension picked up towards eventual finalists Colombia within the group stage.

As ‘Vini’ has been with the squad lower than 24 hours, although, he appears to be like set for the bench and won’t begin towards a staff that was rocked by his first half, 30-minute hat trick within the Spanish Tremendous Cup closing on the flip of the yr.

Actual Madrid Beginning XI Vs. FC Barcelona: Courtois; Fran, Rudiger, Militao, Vazquez; Ceballos, Modric, Mario Martin; Brahim, Endrick, Arda

Round an hour earlier than kick off, FC Barcelona shared its beginning line up on social media, reproduced under.

After preliminary scares the match could possibly be referred to as off due to unhealthy climate, it was given the inexperienced mild to go forward as initially scheduled.

Leon Marchand‘s coach Bob Bowman mentioned the French swimmer dealt with the strain of performing and delivering on house turf within the Olympics completely after the 22-year-old sensationally swept the gold medals in all 4 occasions he entered on the Paris Video games.

Marchand gained the 400m IM, then the 200m butterfly and 200m breaststroke on the identical evening, and eventually the 200m IM on Friday to earn hero standing in France as he shot to the highest of the medal charts amongst particular person athletes.

“It is an unbelievable collection of occasions. I really feel like he did every little thing that we may presumably count on of him on this setting, on this form of lead-up and preparation,” Bowman advised reporters.

“He could not have dealt with himself higher in between all of the races. So it was only a full success… He is simply 100% profitable. So I am very pleased with him, it takes lots to be good.”

Bob Bowman, coach of Leon Marchand and France, reacts throughout the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games at Paris La Protection Area.

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Bowman, who coached Olympic nice Michael Phelps, mentioned Marchand “manages himself very effectively,” figuring out precisely what to do together with his warm-ups, his follow timings, his restoration course of and his weight loss program.

The veteran coach additionally mentioned swimming on house turf definitely helped as the gang at a packed La Protection Area obtained their cash’s value when Marchand broke Phelps’s 200m IM Olympic report from 2008.

“I believe the closest I’ve seen was possibly Sydney in 2000 when (Ian) Thorpe swam. I bear in mind when Thorpe swam the 400m there, I felt just like the constructing was shaking and it was form of like this,” he mentioned.

Bowman mentioned the Frenchman was solely getting began and will additionally swim in different occasions sooner or later, just like the 100m butterfly when he will get older and stronger.

“I believe he can break (information) in different occasions,” Bowman mentioned. “He gave me some ammunition for the entire subsequent 12 months by not breaking that one. So now we’ve a objective, proper? We’ve issues to work towards.”

However first, Marchand can have just a few weeks off to soak in his achievements and reside with the newfound fame that comes with being the athlete that lit up France’s house Olympics and Bowman mentioned he hopes his scholar stays grounded.

“For the primary time, Leon’s going to exit into this setting in a really completely different life scenario than he was earlier than,” he mentioned.

“Sooner or later I am going to attempt to reel him again in and in six weeks or so, we’ll see if we won’t get him began.

“However for now, he will get a break as a result of he actually does want a break. He wants a psychological break and a bodily break.”

Spain vs Colombia

The 2024 Summer time Olympics proceed this week with the ladies’s soccer match quarterfinals. There are eight groups left within the competitors: The USA, Japan, Spain, Colombia, Canada, Germany, France and Brazil have made it previous the group stage. Subsequent up, Canada will face Germany within the knockout stage. The match kicks off at 1 p.m. ET, streaming dwell on Peacock and airing in Spanish on Universo. This is all the pieces you must know earlier than watching the Canada vs. Germany recreation, together with who’s enjoying and the remainder of the Olympic girls’s soccer schedule.

Methods to watch the Canada vs. Germany recreation:

Date: Saturday, Aug. 3

Time: 1 p.m. ET

TV channel: Universo (Spanish protection)

Streaming: Peacock

When is the Canada vs. Germany Olympic soccer recreation?

Canada performs Germany in its quarterfinal recreation of the 2024 Olympics at 1 p.m. ET immediately, Aug. 3.

Canada vs. Germany soccer recreation channel:

You’ll be able to watch each Olympic sport and occasion this summer season on Peacock, together with all the ladies’s and males’s soccer video games, from the knockout stage to the ultimate.

The place to look at Canada vs. Germany on TV:

Along with streaming on Peacock, the sport will probably be broadcast dwell in Spanish on Universo. If you wish to see what TV channels will air this recreation or some other Olympic occasion, try the official NBC Olympics schedule and toggle the filter to “TV solely.”

Methods to watch the Canada vs. Germany recreation with out cable:

Methods to watch Canada vs. Germany totally free

Peacock could be the most complete place to look at the Olympics, but it surely comes with a month-to-month subscription payment. When you’re enthusiastic about watching the Olympics totally free, you possibly can stream free sports activities protection from all all over the world with the assistance of a VPN. Seeking to attempt a VPN for the primary time? This information breaks down the perfect VPN choices for each sort of consumer.

For instance, to look at the Canada vs. Germany recreation with out signing up for Peacock, you possibly can tune into Australia’s 9Now for full protection of the sport. Simply signal into your VPN, discover a server positioned in Australia, then make a free account on 9now.com to stream all of the motion.

And if you happen to need assistance determining the way to livestream with a VPN in your TV, there is a information for that too.

What groups are nonetheless competing in girls’s soccer on the 2024 Olympics?

• USA

• Japan

• Spain

• Colombia

• Canada

• Germany

• France

• Brazil

2024 Olympics soccer schedule:

The entire girls’s soccer schedule is under; all video games can be found to stream on Peacock. To verify whether or not a match is airing dwell on TV, try the official NBC Olympics schedule and toggle the filter to “TV solely.”

Olympics 2024: Ladies’s soccer knockout stage schedule

All occasions ET.

Quarterfinals

Saturday, August 3

• USWNT vs. Japan: 9 a.m. (Telemundo)

• Spain vs. Colombia: 11 a.m. (Universo/E!)

• Canada vs. Germany: 1 p.m. (Universo)

• France vs. Brazil: 3 p.m. (Telemundo)

Extra methods to look at the 2024 Olympics:

A recall of Boar’s Head merchandise has expanded to incorporate a whopping 7 million extra kilos of deli and poultry gadgets in a lethal multistate outbreak of listeria infections.

As of Tuesday, 34 individuals have gotten sick throughout 13 states within the outbreak — together with 33 hospitalizations and two deaths. The fatalities had been a affected person in Illinois and one other in New Jersey.

Final week, the deli meat firm had recalled greater than 207,000 kilos of deli meat, together with liverwurst and ham merchandise, as a result of they could comprise the micro organism Listeria monocytogenes.

Boar’s Head has now expanded that recall, the U.S. Division of Agriculture’s Meals Security and Inspection Service (FSIS) introduced in a press launch Tuesday.

The enlargement consists of 71 merchandise — together with meat supposed for slicing at delis, and a few packaged meat and poultry merchandise —produced from Could 10 to July 29 underneath the Boar’s Head and Outdated Nation Model names.

The merchandise have “promote by” dates starting from July 29 by Oct. 17 this yr (view the recalled product labels right here), and had been distributed to retail areas nationwide, and a few to Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Panama. 

Boar’s Head mentioned in an announcement on its web site that it had initiated the recall after a liverwurst pattern collected by the Maryland Division of Well being had examined optimistic for listeria.

The Maryland Division of Well being and that Baltimore Metropolis Well being Division collected an unopened liverwurst product from a retail retailer for additional testing that decided the product pattern “examined optimistic for the outbreak pressure,” the USDA launch mentioned.

Boar’s Head mentioned that the primary voluntary recall was for its Strassburger Model Liverwurst, and a further 9 merchandise produced on the identical manufacturing line at its Jarratt, Virginia, facility.

On Monday, the corporate mentioned it realized from the USDA “that our Strassburger Model Liverwurst has been linked to the nationwide deli meat Listeria monocytogenes outbreak” — and consequently the recall was expanded to incorporate all gadgets produced on the Jarratt facility.

“Now we have additionally determined to pause ready-to-eat operations at this facility till additional discover. As an organization that prioritizes security and high quality, we consider it’s the proper factor to do,” the corporate mentioned.

“No phrases can absolutely categorical our sympathies and the honest and deep harm we really feel for the households which have suffered losses and others who endured sickness,” the assertion added.

Individuals who purchased the recalled merchandise ought to throw them away or return them to the shop, and likewise clear out their fridges because the micro organism can develop in chilly temperatures and unfold to different meals.

An investigation is underway by the FSIS, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention and state public well being companions. 

Listeria an infection is a meals borne bacterial sickness, mostly attributable to consuming improperly processed deli meats and unpasteurized milk merchandise, in accordance with the Mayo Clinic. It’s the third-leading reason for demise from meals poisoning within the U.S.

Signs often seem inside two weeks of consuming contaminated meals, and embody fever, muscle aches, tiredness, stiff neck and confusion. In extreme circumstances, the micro organism might trigger a blood an infection or meningitis. The an infection is harmful for many who are older, with weakened immune programs, and pregnant girls.

The CDC estimates that round 1,600 individuals get listeriosis annually, and about 260 die. Most circumstances aren’t linked to outbreaks, however there are often a number of outbreaks in a given yr.

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After battling accidents for a number of years, simply making it to the beginning line of the lads’s triathlon at Paris 2024 was an achievement for Tyler Mislawchuk.

Not solely did the Oak Bluff, Manitoba athlete compete, he was in medal competition for a lot of the race, ending a powerful ninth on a sizzling day in Paris.

“For me, I did every thing I may during the last three years,” an emotional Mislawchuk mentioned after the race. “I’ve come again from an Achilles tear, concussion, crashes… you identify it, I had it within the final three years. To face on the beginning line wholesome and provides it my all… I’m happy with the trouble. You need extra, however that’s all I had in me.”

Mislawchuk is a three-time Olympian however the ninth-place end is his finest ever at a Video games. In actual fact, it’s the first time a Canadian has damaged into the highest 10 of an Olympic triathlon since Simon Whitfield’s silver at Beijing 2008. Mislawchuk completed fifteenth at each Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. It was in Tokyo the place he partially tore his Achilles tendon throughout the person race after experiencing some ache throughout coaching the week prior, forcing him to withdraw from the combined relay.  

“For me, it’s every thing I had,” mentioned Mislawchuk. “Third Olympics. Final Olympics, you understand, with damage and all of the stuff that occurred, it was loads of ‘what if.’”

Mislawchuk mentioned there aren’t any “what ifs” this time round.

“It was completely every thing. I vomited 10 occasions after the race. Bought sizzling within the final laps.”

The lads’s triathlon was initially scheduled to happen on Tuesday however the occasion was postponed a day resulting from water situations within the Seine. Mislawchuk sat twentieth after the 1500m swim portion and stayed in the identical spot after the 40km bike experience.

It was within the 10km run the place the 29-year-old started to make his transfer. Mislawchuk shortly moved as much as tenth, then fifth after which into medal place. However the Canadian didn’t fairly have sufficient left within the tank to keep up a spot on the rostrum.

Mislawchuk mentioned he was mentally trying on the highway race in increments of 20 seconds. On the 6km mark, he mentioned he began to expire of gasoline.

“The final 4km felt like an eternity on the market however I simply stored repeating, ‘The remainder of your life. Let’s go. That is it.’”

After the race, Mislawchuk was reflective about his journey thus far – not simply the accidents he’s overcome, however the truth that somebody from small city Manitoba made it to the Olympic Video games as a triathlete.

“I wish to thank my supporters world wide. With out them I wouldn’t be right here and only a child from Winnipeg, Manitoba – or particularly Oak Bluff, the place it’s minus 50. I’m right here on the summer season Olympics. I got here fourth within the Manitoba Video games. I couldn’t even get on the rostrum there. Fifteen years later, I’m combating for a medal on the Olympics.”

It was fairly a end to the triathlon with Nice Britain’s Alex Yee passing New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde within the closing lap. Leo Bergere of France received the bronze.

Charles Paquet was the one different Canadian competing within the males’s triathlon, ending a stable thirteenth. Earlier within the morning, Emy Legault competed within the girls’s occasion and completed thirty fifth.

New Barcelona supervisor Hansi Flick made a triumphant begin to his tenure on Tuesday because the Spanish giants beat Manchester Metropolis on penalties after their pre-season pleasant at Orlando completed 2-2 at full-time.

Toni Fernandez, who signed with Barca earlier this month after turning 16, flicked in a left-footed shot previous reserve Metropolis goalkeeper Stefan Ortega to present the German supervisor’s facet a 4-1 win on penalties.

Barcelona kicked off their US tour within the pre-season contest in opposition to the four-time reigning Premier League champions, guided by former Barcelona participant and coach Pep Guardiola.

A sellout crowd of 63,237 spectators had been sad early as a storm delayed the beginning by 80 minutes, however had been delighted with a powerful early tempo, earlier than each groups gave reserve gamers considerable time on the pitch.

Barcelona jumped forward 3-0 on penalty kicks due to a left-footed shot by Alejandro Balde earlier than Amar Ahmed saved Metropolis in it by beating reserve Barca goalkeeper Ander Astralaga, setting the stage for the teenager newcomer’s heroics.

Pau Victor had opened the scoring in open play for Barcelona within the twenty fourth minute, taking a fast by way of ball move from Marc Casado and firing a right-footed blast from the precise facet into the purpose.

Nico O’Riley answered for Manchester Metropolis within the thirty ninth minute, firing in a left-footed shot from the left facet off a move from Josko Gvardiol, the Croatian worldwide making his first US tour begin.

Pablo Torre’s purpose within the second minute of first-half stoppage time gave Barcelona a 2-1 half-time lead.

The 21-year-old Spanish midfielder took a centering move from Gerard Martin on the left wing, nudged the ball to his proper, then blasted a right-footed shot previous Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson and contained in the left put up.

Jack Grealish equalized for Metropolis within the sixtieth minute off a formidable quick break.

Croatian worldwide Mateo Kovacic, making his first begin on Metropolis’s US tour, gathered a unfastened ball simply past the Metropolis field, cut up two defenders and raced upfield with the ball earlier than passing to English left winger Grealish, who outraced a defender and completed with an excellent left-footed shot from a steep angle excessive into the purpose.

Barcelona will proceed their US tour with pre-season matches in opposition to Actual Madrid and AC Milan.

Metropolis, who misplaced earlier US matches to Celtic and AC Milan, will shut the US tour by going through Chelsea on Saturday at Columbus, Ohio.

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