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Foster a feline meow, er, now – NBC Los Angeles

What to Know

  • Worldwide Cat Day is Aug. 8
  • Rescue teams and shelters throughout Southern California want fosters throughout kitten season and all year long
  • LA Animal Companies has an inventory of how you possibly can help kittens and cats, from fostering to donations

Throwing a splashy, over-the-top Worldwide Cat Day celebration to your cat, the form of celebration that is filled with decorations, presents, video games, and feline-inspired enjoyable?

It is true your cat might purr over your efforts and present his appreciation by rubbing his head towards your leg. However cats can be amazingly cool-headed about our human shows of enthusiasm, which means he may solely reply with a flick of his tail.

Both means, cats are unbelievable.

Aug. 8, which is certainly Worldwide Cat Day, is all about celebrating the awesomeness of our feline buddies.

However the event can be a purr-tastic and vital immediate for folks, too; it helps us to do not forget that 1000’s of cats and kittens require our adoring help.

Actually 1000’s, simply in Southern California, the place shelters are stuffed with felines as summer time heats up.

In case you are not throwing your individual cat an Worldwide Cat Day bash — and a loving ear scratch might suffice, actually — think about aiding a neighborhood rescue group with their many pressing wants.

Aug. 8 does arrive within the warmth of kitten season, when shelters are going through a heartbreaking inflow of tiny animals that require loads of TLC.

LA Animal Companies has a number of routes for us to take ought to we wish to present some TLC to those tiny, loving cats. (Nope, that is not what TLC historically stands for, however we will go together with it as a result of it completely suits.)

Fostering a kitten, or a number of kittens, is all the time an emotion-filled possibility. It is a great way to assist, and a bottle, if you cannot supply the infant a everlasting residence.

There’s additionally a Kitten Want Listing, which incorporates gadgets like meals, feeding implements, and toys.

Pleased Worldwide Cat Day, feline buddies; give your individual furry roommate a scritch, then assist LA Animal Companies, or a neighborhood rescue group, as they assist cats in numerous methods.

Quincy Wilson, 16, is the youngest male U.S. track Olympian in history

PARIS — American males have competed in monitor and discipline on the Olympic Video games for 128 years. By no means earlier than, nevertheless, has there been somebody as younger as Quincy Wilson.

The 16-year-old ran the opening leg of the U.S. 4×400-meter relay staff Friday inside Stade de France. With that run, Wilson grew to become the youngest male U.S. monitor Olympian, eclipsing middle-distance runner Jim Ryun, who was 17 on the 1964 Olympics.

Wilson pale within the final 150 meters at hand over in seventh place, three seconds behind the leaders. However Workforce USA didn’t panic, with sturdy legs from the opposite American runners seeing the U.S. recovering to complete third and into Saturday’s last.

With out going into element, Wilson stated afterward that he was not utterly wholesome.

“I knew I had an amazing three legs behind me,” Wilson stated. “I knew it wasn’t simply myself, as a result of on my own we’d be in final place.”

Wilson handed off to teammate Vernon Norwood, whose 43.54 leg acquired the U.S. again in competition. Norwood described himself as “very proud” watching Wilson.

“I used to be form of within the second as a result of I’m watching a 16-year-old operating the Olympics — Olympics historical past,” Norwood stated.

There isn’t a assure Wilson will run within the last; it’s common for nations to change their lineups between preliminaries and finals. 

Quincy Wilson competes within the males’s 400-meter last on the U.S. Monitor and Subject Trials on June 24.Patrick Smith / Getty Photos file

Even at an Olympics the place the youngest competitor is an 11-year-old Chinese language skateboarder, and a 14-year-old Australian skateboarder has earned a gold medal, Wilson’s presence was outstanding given the energy and endurance required by his chosen occasion.

The 5-foot-9 Wilson, nevertheless, had confirmed himself in latest months by not solely dominating within the 400 towards his highschool friends whereas on the Bullis Faculty in Potomac, Maryland, however producing one of the vital beautiful performances on the U.S. Monitor and Subject Trials in Eugene, Oregon, in June, operating a sub-45-second 400 in three consecutive rounds and ending sixth within the last. 

At a meet in Florida on July 18, Wilson backed up Workforce USA’s determination by decreasing the Underneath-18 world file to 44.20 and outkicking a discipline of execs. The time ranks because the world’s Eleventh-fastest time of the season, fourth-fastest by an American, and would have been ok for sixth in Wednesday’s Olympic 400-meter last.

The exhibiting led USA Monitor & Subject to incorporate him within the pool of runners eligible to run on a U.S. relay in Paris. Making the relay pool solely certifies an athlete is an possibility for U.S. coaches to contemplate, nevertheless. When Wilson wasn’t chosen to run on the combined 4×400-meter staff that finally gained silver, {the teenager}’s alternatives to don the U.S. jersey dwindled.

Wilson’s sister, Kadence, is a sprinter and lengthy jumper for James Madison College whereas a cousin, Shaniya Corridor, runs for the College of Oregon, and there have been early indicators Wilson would be part of them as a sprinting star. After an 8-year-old Wilson completed fourth within the 400 on the AAU Junior Olympic Video games, he returned the following 12 months and gained the primary of his 5 nationwide championships. 

However no stage, in fact, was as massive as Friday on Stade de France’s purple monitor. 

The U.S. is already deep on the 400, with three males making Wednesday’s last, together with gold medalist Quincy Corridor, however Wilson’s emergence on the worldwide stage has sparked important expectations getting into the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. Earlier than he can begin an Olympic encore, nevertheless, he should start his junior 12 months of highschool. 

Skylar Park remporte le bronze en taekwondo – Équipe Canada

Skylar Park a remporté la première médaille olympique du Canada en taekwondo en 16 ans.

L’athlète de 25 ans, originaire de Winnipeg, a combattu avec détermination dans les repêchages pour décrocher le bronze dans l’épreuve féminine des 57 kg à Paris 2024.

La journée de Park avait bien commencé avec une victoire de 2-0 (6-2, 4-3) contre la Tchèque Dominika Hronova en huitièmes de finale. Mais la quatrième tête de série a ensuite été shock en quarts de finale par la Sud-Coréenne Kim Yujin, s’inclinant 2-0 (7-6, 9-5). Lorsque Kim a remporté sa demi-finale pour se qualifier pour le match pour la médaille d’or, cela a permis à Park d’aller en repêchage.

Dans un match serré contre la cinquième tête de série, Hatice Kubra Ilgun de Turquie, Park l’a emporté 2-0 (6-4, 3-2), se qualifiant ainsi pour le fight pour une médaille de bronze contre Laeticia Aoun du Liban.

Bien qu’aucune des deux athlètes n’ait marqué de level lors de la première ronde de deux minutes, Park a remporté ce spherical par supériorité. Lors de la deuxième ronde, après une révision vidéo, Park a été récompensée pour un coup de pied à la tête, prenant ainsi l’avantage 3-0. Elle a obtenu un autre level lorsque Aoun a été pénalisée. Une pénalité contre Park a réduit l’écart à 4-2. Et puis, avec une seconde restante au chronomètre, Aoun a demandé une révision de ce qu’elle pensait être un coup de pied à la tête de Park, mais son appel a été rejeté, offrant ainsi la victoire à la Canadienne.

That is Canada’s third Olympic medal in taekwondo for the reason that sport made its debut at Sydney 2000. At these Video games, Dominique Bosshart gained bronze within the girls’s +67kg occasion. Eight years later at Beijing 2008, Karine Sergerie took silver within the girls’s 67kg occasion.

C’est la troisième médaille olympique du Canada en taekwondo depuis que le sport a fait ses débuts aux Jeux de Sydney 2000. Lors de ces Jeux, Dominique Bosshart a remporté le bronze dans l’épreuve féminine des plus de 67 kg. Huit ans plus tard, à Beijing 2008, Karine Sergerie a décroché l’argent dans l’épreuve féminine des 67 kg.

USA’s Tara Davis-Woodhall wins gold in women’s long jump

(Grey Information) – Tara Davis-Woodhall of the US gained gold within the girls’s lengthy leap occasion Thursday on the Paris Olympics.

Davis-Woodhall gained her first Olympic title, and first Olympic medal of any variety, with a leap of seven.10 meters.

Tara Davis-Woodhall, of the US, celebrates after competing within the girls’s lengthy leap last on the 2024 Summer time Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France.(Bernat Armangue | AP Photograph/Bernat Armangue)

Her fellow teammate, Jasmine Moore, gained bronze with a leap of 6.96 meters. Malaika Mihambo of Germany got here in second with a leap of 6.98 meters.

In response to the Related Press, Davis-Woodhall is the fourth American girl to win an Olympic gold in girls’s lengthy leap.

Tara Davis-Woodhall, of the US, celebrates after profitable the ladies’s lengthy leap last on the 2024 Summer time Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France.(Petr David Josek | AP Photograph/Petr David Josek)

Along with her gold medal already secured, Davis-Woodhall made sand angels within the pit throughout her last leap. Afterward, she ran to hug her husband, Paralympian Hunter Woodhall, within the stands.

That is Davis-Woodhall’s second Olympics, having debuted within the Tokyo Olympics.

Thought-about “America’s Cowgirl” on-line, she donned her signature cowgirl hat earlier than ringing the bell.

‘Pure joy and gratitude’ for Paris 2024 taekwondo medallist Skylar Park – Team Canada

Candice Ward/COC

It’s been a protracted day for Skylar Park, en path to an Olympic bronze medal in taekwondo—however she’s had her household together with her all the best way.

The 25-year-old received Canada’s first Olympic taekwondo medal in 16 years on Thursday, claiming bronze within the girls’s 57kg occasion. Proper alongside her was her father Jae Park, who can also be her coach.

“It’s an honour,” mentioned Skylar, of successful bronze. “I used to be simply telling my dad and my crew, I don’t suppose it’s totally sunken in but.

“However when that last buzzer went off, it was simply pure pleasure and gratitude for what we’ve been by means of as a crew and my household.”

Skylar Park hugs her father and coach Jae
Workforce Canada’s Skylar Park celebrates together with her father and coach after successful a bronze medal in girls’s -57kg taekwondo on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games in France on Thursday, August 8, 2024. Photograph by Candice Ward/COC

Her household has been by means of loads within the sport of taekwondo. There are 16 black belts in her prolonged household, together with her brothers Tae-Ku Park and Braven Park, who competed with Skylar ultimately yr’s Pan American Video games. Tae-Ku had an official assist position in Paris as his sister’s coaching associate.

READ: Momentum: Skylar Park finds her independence inside her household’s taekwondo legacy

That household legacy, and her personal Olympic expertise at Tokyo 2020, had Park coming into Paris 2024 with the objective of successful a gold medal. However competing on the Grand Palais on Day 13 was in contrast to something she’d been by means of earlier than.

“To start with, entering into this enviornment, it’s lovely, it’s large and there’s an enormous crowd, one thing that we’re not all the time tremendous used to in taekwondo,” she mentioned. “So I believe it took my breath away a little bit bit once I first stepped on the market, and I simply needed to shake off the nerves, however we have been in a position to get by means of that first match.”

Workforce Canada’s Skylar Park competes in girls’s -57kg taekwondo on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games in France on Thursday, August 8, 2024. Photograph by Candice Ward/COC

Regardless of a self-described “rocky begin”, Park moved by means of the Spherical of 16 with a 2-0 (6-2, 4-3) win over Czechia’s Dominika Hronova. She felt good transferring into the quarterfinals in opposition to South Korea’s Kim Yujin, together with her father telling her earlier than the match: “win as a crew, lose as a crew”.

That knowledge loomed massive as Park could be upset by a rating of 2-0 (7-6, 9-5) within the quarterfinal, dashing her gold-medal goals. All was not misplaced, nonetheless; if the Korean athlete received her semifinal match, Park would get a possible shot at bronze by means of the repechage.

“I reconnected with my household within the stands after which I simply form of sat there, in my mother’s arms the entire time as we watched that semifinal go down,” mentioned Park. “Gratefully, Korea received and so I used to be in a position to get again within the repechage.”

READ: Park household able to compete within the ‘motherland’ at Santiago 2023

As soon as that was confirmed, Park was “full focus” on incomes that bronze medal.

Workforce Canada’s Skylar Park celebrates successful a bronze medal in girls’s -57kg taekwondo on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games in France on Thursday, August 8, 2024. Photograph by Candice Ward/COC *MANDATORY CREDIT*

Within the repechage, she defeated Hatice Kubra Ilgun of Turkey 2-0 (6-4, 3-2). Then, within the bronze-medal match, Park received 2-0 (0-0, 4-2) over Laeticis Aoun of Lebanon.

“It’s been a protracted day,” mentioned Park, of the 4 matches that despatched her from awe to doubt to disappointment to elation.

And although she completed the day on a beautiful excessive, she additionally remembers what her dad informed her on the day’s low level, after her sudden quarterfinal loss:

“Simply that he was happy with me.”

Texas’ Tara Davis-Woodhall takes gold in Olympic women’s long jump final

Tara Davis-Woodhall is the Olympic champion in girls’s lengthy bounce.

The previous Texas observe star unleashed an enormous leap within the lengthy bounce finals Thursday with a bounce of seven.10 meters.

Her 6.90 to steer qualifying Tuesday was solely .01 behind the bounce that gained her silver on the worlds final yr and higher than the 6.84 that positioned her sixth in Tokyo.

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“I didn’t count on to be in Tokyo,” Davis-Woodhall stated Tuesday. “I used to be a university child, identical to, on the market leaping for enjoyable. I’m nonetheless leaping for enjoyable, however now I’m leaping for a motive.”

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Fellow American jumper Jasmine Moore of Grand Prairie gained bronze with a bounce of 6.96 meters after profitable bronze within the triple bounce on Saturday.

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New McDonald’s Collector’s Meal features 6 collectible cups: Here’s what they look like

McDonald’s is including some fan-favorite collectibles to the menu with a brand new all-day meal that includes memento cups that reimagine nostalgic Pleased Meal toys starting from the Coca-Cola polar bears to the Whats up Kitty crew.

McDonald’s is launching the Collector’s Meal which options six collectible cups.

McDonald’s

The 2 new Collector’s Meals embody a Sausage McMuffin with Egg sandwich, Hash Brown and Scorching Espresso throughout breakfast hours and a 10-piece Rooster McNuggets or Huge Mac sandwich with fries and a gentle drink all through the remainder of the day.

New collectible cups at McDonald’s

McDonald’s is launching the Collector’s Meal which options six collectible cups.

McDonald’s

Every meal, accessible beginning Aug. 13, comes with a collectible cup impressed by six previous iconic collectibles: Barbie and Scorching Wheels; Beanie Infants; Coca-Cola; Whats up Kitty and Peanuts; Shrek, Jurassic Park and Minions; and eventually, McDonald’s that includes former characters corresponding to Cowpoke McNugget Buddy from 1988 and McDonald’s Dragster from 1993.

McDonald’s is launching the Collector’s Meal which options six collectible cups.

McDonald’s

McDonald’s is launching the Collector’s Meal which options six collectible cups.

McDonald’s

McDonald’s is launching the Collector’s Meal which options six collectible cups.

McDonald’s

“There’s an simple thrill if you snag that one elusive McDonald’s collectible or the ultimate piece to finish your assortment,” the quick meals chain’s International CMO Morgan Flatley mentioned in an announcement. “These new collectible cups commemorate a few of our most unforgettable designs and international collaborations over time, permitting longtime followers to relive treasured moments and serving to a brand new technology make their very own lasting recollections.”

McDonald’s is launching the Collector’s Meal which options six collectible cups.

McDonald’s

To carry the Golden Arches’ nostalgia to life, the corporate partnered with artists to reimagine the enduring characters and collaborations for a brand new technology of followers.

McDonald’s is launching the Collector’s Meal which options six collectible cups.

McDonald’s

McDonald’s can also be internet hosting pop-up occasions free to followers who carry their Collector’s Meal cup to the Santa Monica Pier in California for a Collector’s Membership Poolside Paradise full with a DJ and limited-edition drinks on Aug. 17.

There shall be an identical occasion the identical day in New York at Coney Island, the place followers can use the Collector’s Meal cups to unlock a free journey on the Phoenix Curler Coaster.

Actor Gabriel Olds Arrested on 7 Felony Sexual Assault Charges

Veteran character actor Gabriel Olds was arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday and has been charged with seven felony sexual assault fees, in accordance with the LAPD. The 52-year-old actor who performed Pat Robertson within the Jessica Chastain starrer “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” was taken into custody by West Bureau investigators round 9:40 a.m. close to the world of Norway Lane and Norman Place in Brentwood. Olds is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

Los Angeles Police Division’s Operations-West Bureau’s Particular Assault Part detectives say they’re now looking for extra victims and witnesses in a collection of sexual assaults within the Los Angeles space that they imagine could also be tied to Olds, a Yale College alum and son of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds.

On January 19, 2023, a 41-year-old lady advised police that Olds raped her at her dwelling in Los Angeles. Two extra grownup victims subsequently got here ahead and made comparable studies courting again to 2013. They described consensual courting encounters that descended into violent sexual assault.

On July 19, the L.A. County District Legal professional’s workplace charged Olds with seven felony sexual assault fees and the Los Angeles Superior Courtroom issued a warrant for his arrest for $3.5 million.

The New York native, whose credit date again to the 1993 Jason Priestly starrer “Calendar Woman” and extra just lately appeared in “NCIS: Los Angeles,” can be a screenwriter who marched the picket traces final 12 months throughout the WGA strike. His alleged victims advised police that he used his standing as an Ivy League graduate with success within the movie trade to satisfy girls by way of courting apps. Police say the three Jane Does reported that Olds lured them right into a false sense of safety throughout their preliminary encounters, then turned violent with out looking for their consent.

Investigators have recognized two extra girls who reported lesser violent sexual conduct. As a result of Olds’ travels as an actor, detectives imagine there could also be extra victims nationwide which have but to return ahead.

“We heard the identical story repeatedly,” says Det. Brent Hopkins, a Particular Assault Part supervisor. “Mr. Olds began off charming, however then used brutal violence to hold out these rapes. A few of these survivors suffered in silence for years earlier than discovering the power to talk up. Now that he’s off the streets, we wish to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to be heard.”

Olds has labored for many years in tv, showing in a gradual stream of community police procedurals in addition to acclaimed collection like “Boardwalk Empire” and “Six Ft Beneath.” He is also a mainstay within the New York theater world, with credit that embrace Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” on the Roundabout Theater.

Olds is represented by Imperium 7 Expertise Company, a boutique company whose purchasers embrace Gina Gershon and Paula Patton. The company didn’t reply instantly to a request for remark.

McDonald’s new ‘Collector’s Meal’ comes with nostalgic cups

The brand new McDonalds Collectors Meal cups are pictured in a supplied picture. (Credit score: McDonalds)

McDonald’s is hoping to faucet into the nostalgia of its clients with its new “Collector’s Meal,” which options six totally different collectible cups that highlight some traditional “keepsakes.”

The quick meals big on Wednesday debuted the brand new collectible cups and stated they “unlock core recollections round a few of our favourite McDonald’s moments.” This contains the Cowpoke McNugget Buddy in 1988, McDonald’s Dragster in 1993, the 2000 Howdy Kitty Crew Keychain and extra.

McDonald’s stated followers who order the Collector’s Meal have the selection of a Sausage McMuffin with egg sandwich, hash brown and occasional throughout breakfast hours, or the selection of a 10-piece Rooster McNuggets or a Huge Mac sandwich with fries and a mushy drink all through the remainder of the day.

They’ll be accessible nationwide beginning on Aug. 13.

Right here’s the six-cup lineup:

  • Barbie & Sizzling Wheels: McDonald’s stated the design “places a recent spin on beloved Mattel toys that ignite our creativeness.”
  • Beanie Infants: This cup was designed as an “homage to the Teenie Beanie craze of the 90s,” and options the Golden Arches Bear (2004) and different beloved characters.
  • Coca-Cola: This cup is described as a “fashionable twist on traditional Coca-Cola designs that remember iconic collabs with McDonald’s through the years.”
  • Howdy Kitty & Peanuts: This cup was meant to embody “the enjoyment of being with our greatest pals.”
  • Shrek, Jurassic Park & Minions: McDonald’s stated this cup was impressed by iconic movie franchises and highlights “unforgettable scenes and characters we have liked for generations.”
  • McDonald’s: The quick meals firm stated it wished to indicate like to iconic keepsakes by spotlighting the Grimace Glass, Boo Buckets, and Humorous Fry Buddies on their very own cup.

McDonald’s hopes to lure in inflation-weary clients

The restaurant business has been coping with price-conscious customers who look like consuming out much less typically due to excessive inflation. 

Final month, McDonald’s reported that gross sales had dipped for the primary time because the pandemic – and in Could, the burger chain launched a brand new $5 meal deal to assist lure in clients.

Different fast-food giants have performed the identical, together with Sonic’s $1.99 menu, Burger King’s $5 “Your Approach Meal,” and even Starbucks with a lower-priced “pairings menu.” 

In the meantime, McDonald’s has additionally tapped into nostalgia earlier than in an effort to lure in clients, bringing again grownup Completely happy Meals with McNugget Buddies, Boo Buckets, and debuting a brand new Grandma McFlurry.

Taliyah Brooks 2024 Olympic games women’s heptathlon results

Comply with this web page for updates on how Wichita Falls native Taliyah Brooks is faring through the girls’s heptathlon competitors on the 2024 ParisOlympics.

The competitors began Thursday morning and finishes on Friday.

A stream devoted simply to the heptathlon’s numerous occasions might be discovered on the Peacock app, obtainable on most streaming gadgets and within the Apple and Google Play shops. 

Paris Olympics Ladies’s Heptathlon Schedule

All occasions are native to Wichita Falls.

FRIDAY, AUG. 9

1:15 p.m. – 800 meters

Taliyah Brooks’ lengthy leap outcomes

Brooks’ saved her greatest leap for final Friday, coming via with a mark of 6.15 meters on her ultimate try. 

It was the ninth-best leap of the competitors, netting 979 factors. The outcome dropped Brooks one spot within the general rankings to eighth with 4,706 factors. 

Nice Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson stays in first place after 5 occasions with 5,030 factors. Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam (4,985) and Noor Vidts (4,926) respectively sit second and third.

Taliyah Brooks’ javelin outcomes

A tough displaying within the javelin throw has despatched Brooks tumbling down the general standings. 

She completed twentieth within the area of 21 opponents with a throw of 38.76 meters. That effort was value 644 factors, giving Brooks 5,350 factors after six occasions. 

She drops two spots to tenth general heading into the ultimate occasion, the 800-meter run. 

Thiam had the most effective javelin efficiency as anticipated, topping out at 54.04 meters. The Belgian moved again into first place general with 5,924 factors. 

Nice Britain’s Johnson-Thompson (5,803) and Switzerland’s Annik Kaelin (5,694) respectively sit in second and third.

Thursday’s performances

Taliyah Brooks begins sturdy in heptathlon 100-meter hurdles

Taliyah Brooks acquired out to a quick begin in her Olympic debut Thursday. 

Brooks had the second greatest time within the girls’s heptathlon 100-meter hurdles race, clocking in at 13 seconds flat. That efficiency was value 1,124 factors. 

Brooks, a 2014 Rider graduate, had the most effective begin of any of the eight opponents within the third warmth of the occasion however clipped the sixth hurdle, permitting Switzerland’s Annik Kaelin to overhaul her. Kaelin had the most effective hurdles time with a 12.87. 

The 100-meter hurdles was the primary occasion of the heptathlon competitors.  

Taliyah Brooks’ excessive leap outcomes

Brooks completed with a peak of 1.77 meters within the excessive leap, including 941 factors to her complete of two,065 after two occasions within the girls’s heptathlon. She was tied for the eighth greatest mark out of 23 opponents. 

A number of athletes have been nonetheless competing within the occasion on the time of this writing. 

Brooks at present sits sixth within the general standings, which can be up to date on this web page as soon as the excessive leap has been accomplished.

Taliyah Brooks’ shot put outcomes

Brooks struggled in what has been one in all her weakest occasions within the girls’s heptathlon, ending 18th within the shot put with a throw of 13.58 meters. 

The efficiency netted Brooks 766 factors for a three-event complete of two,831. She dropped a spot within the general standings to seventh. 

Brooks’ greatest try got here from her first throw of the shot put. She didn’t high 13 meters with both of her ultimate two makes an attempt. 

Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam had the most effective efficiency within the shot with a personal-best mark of 15.54 meters. Anouk Vetter of the Netherlands was second at 15.07 and Noor Vidts of Belgium third at 14.57. 

That’s the second consecutive occasion Thiam has completed with the most effective mark and jumped Nice Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson for the general lead with 3,070 factors. Johnson-Thompson is simply 50 factors behind her in second place. USA’s Anna Corridor is third with 2,965 factors after an eight-place end within the shot put.

Taliyah Brooks’ ends in the 200 meters

Brooks raced to the ninth-best time within the heptathlon’s 200-meter sprint, clocking in at 24.02 seconds. The 979 factors she garnered from that efficiency retains Brooks in seventh place after the primary day of competitors. 

The heptathlon resumes at 3:05 a.m. native time Friday with the lengthy leap – one in all Brooks’ specialties. 

Nice Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson had the most effective mark within the 200 meters with a 23.44, shifting her again into first place of the general standings with 4,055 factors. Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam (4,007) is second and USA’s Anna Corridor (3,956) is third.

2024 Paris Olympics Ladies’s Heptathlon Outcomes

Present standings (via 6 occasions) – 1. Nafissatou Thiam, Belgium, 5,924; 2. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Nice Britain, 5,803; 3. Annik Kaelin, Switzerland, 5,694; 4. Noor Vidts, Belgium, 5,689; 5. Anna Corridor, USA, 5,567; 6. Sofie Dokter, Netherlands, 5,538; 7. Martha Araujo, Colombia, 5,529; 8. Emma Oosterwegel, Netherlands, 5,402; 9. Xenia Krizsan, Hungary, 5,366; 10. Taliyah Brooks, USA, 5,350.

100 hurdles – 1. Annika Kaelin, Switzerland, 12.87; 2. Taliyah Brooks, USA, 13.0; 3. Noor Vidts, Belgium, 13.1; 4. Martha Araujo, Colombia, 13.15; 5. Chari Hawkins, USA, 13.16; 6. Adrianna Sulek-Schubert, Poland, 13.32; 7. Anna Corridor, USA, 13.36; 8. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Nice Britain, 13.4; 9. Sveva Gerevini, Italy, 13.4; 10. Emma Oosterwegel, Netherlands, 13.41. 

Excessive leap – 1. Nafissatou Thiam, Belgium, 1.92; 2. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Nice Britain, 1.92; 3. Anna Corridor, USA, 1.89; 4. Sofie Dokter, Netherlands, 1.86; 5. Noor Vidts, Belgium, 1.83; 6. Jade O’Dowda, Nice Britain, 1.80; 7. Camryn Newton-Smith, Australia, 1.80; 8. Taliyah Brooks, USA, 1.77; 8. Adrianna Sulek-Schubert, Poland, 1.77; 10. Kate O’Connor, Eire, 1.77.

Shot put – 1. Nafissatou Thiam, Belgium, 15.54; 2. Anouk Vetter, The Netherlands, 15.07; 3. Noor Vidts, Belgium, 14.57; 4. Emma Oosterwegel, The Netherlands, 14.54; 5. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Nice Britain, 14.44; 6. Saga Vanninen, Finland, 14.19; 7. Martha Araujo, Colombia, 14.15; 8. Anna Corridor, USA, 14.11; 9. Carolin Schaefer, Germany, 14.02; 10. Annik Kaelin, Switzerland, 14.02. Additionally: 18. Taliyah Brooks, USA, 13.58.

200 meters – 1. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Nice Britain, 23.44; 2. Sveva Gerevini, Italy, 23.58; 3. Sofie Dokter, Netherlands, 23.73; 4. Carolin Schaefer, Germany, 23.85; 5. Noor Vidts, Belgium, 23.86; 6. Auriana Lazraq-Khlass, France, 232.87; 7. Annik Kaelin, Switzerland, 23.88; 8. Anna Corridor, USA, 23.89; 9. Taliyah Brooks, USA, 24.02; 10. Adrianna Sulek-Schubert, Poland, 24.2. 

Lengthy leap – 1. Martha Araujo, Colombia, 6.61; 2. Annik Kaelin, Switzerland, 6.59; 3. Nafissatou Thiam, Belgium, 6.41; 4. Noor Vidts, Belgium, 6.4; 5. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Nice Britain, 6.4; 6. Jade O’Dowda, Nice Britain, 6.33; 7. Sofie Dokter, Netherlands, 6.26; 8. Adrianna Sulek-Schubert, Poland, 6.22; 9. Taliyah Brooks, USA, 6.15; 10. Anouk Vetter, Netherlands, 6.12. 

Javelin – 1. Nafissatou Thiam, Belgium, 54.04; 2. Emma Oosterwegel, Netherlands, 52.39; 3. Kate O’Connor, Eire, 50.36; 4. Xenia Krizsan, Hungary, 49.52; 5. Tori West, Australia, 48.79; 6. Annik Kaelin, Switzerland, 48.14; 7. Saga Vanninen, Finland, 47.0; 8. Carolin Schaefer, Germany, 46.45; 9. Anna Corridor, USA, 45.99; 10. Martha Araujo, Colombia, 45.67. Additionally: 20. Taliyah Brooks, USA, 38.76.

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