Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime displayed a large smile after successful his third-round males’s singles match on the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.

The 23-year-old Auger-Aliassime, the thirteenth seed, not solely secured his spot within the quarterfinals but in addition defeated the formidable No. 4 Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-6 (5).

It was the Canadian’s first win over Medvedev in eight encounters.

“Clearly, at the beginning, generally, you aren’t positive what to anticipate. It was a difficult first sport, 30-30, you’re a bit tense, however I used to be capable of get by that with good serving and that stored going,” stated Auger-Aliassime, who fired 9 aces to Medvedev’s 5.

The 23-year-old from Montreal gained in a single hour 38 minutes for his first victory in opposition to the Russian, who was competing as an Particular person Impartial Athlete in Paris.

“It felt prefer it was a terrific match, nice stage from either side. Sadly, it was a day when Felix performed very nicely and I nonetheless had possibilities within the second set, however I didn’t use them,” stated Medvedev. “Sadly, that is how tennis is typically.”

Within the subsequent spherical, Auger-Aliassime will play No. 6 Casper Ruud of Norway, who defeated Argentine Francisco Cerundolo 6-3, 6-4.

Auger-Aliassime misplaced within the first spherical on the Tokyo Olympics three years in the past.

On Wednesday, Auger-Aliassime was helped by a robust return sport. He additionally continued to excel on his serve, not giving up any break factors to his opponent for the third consecutive match.

“General, I believe with the situations being scorching, clearly he would make me work. He was serving nicely as nicely, I used to be considering ‘Look, simply take each serve, don’t get too annoyed if you’re not getting your possibilities on the return. In case you are lacking just a few photographs, don’t get annoyed. Simply deal with what’s good, deal with holding your serve’ which I used to be doing nicely,” he stated.

“I believe that was the mentality.”

Medvedev, the 2021 U.S. Open champion, took the loss in stride.

“Nevertheless it’s OK, it’s tennis. While you lose you might be annoyed, however I didn’t damage anybody, so it’s OK,” he stated.

Auger-Aliassime was additionally in motion later Wednesday within the combined doubles quarterfinals with Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski. They took on American third seeds Taylor Fritz and Coco Gauff.

In ladies’s doubles, No. 5 seeds Leylah Annie Fernandez of Laval, Que., and Dabrowski had been eradicated within the second spherical, shedding 6-4, 6-0 to the impartial duo of Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider, 

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed on July 31, 2024. 

The Olympic Video games are in full swing from Paris!

For a full rundown of all of the occasions every day, we have now a full breakdown of the whole lot airing, together with the place and methods to watch. Each Olympic occasion might be streaming dwell on Peacock.

Relating to the medal depend, the United States is the favourite to win probably the most medals. China is unlikely to overhaul the U.S. within the general medal haul, however has an opportunity to win extra gold medals than the People.

So which nation is main in medals as of the fourth day of competitors? Here’s a have a look at the Olympic medal depend (and maintain studying for some Workforce USA highlights from Day 4).

Final up to date: July 30 at 5 p.m.

Right here is the total leaderboard, final up to date July 28 at 5 p.m.

The U.S. will enter Day 5 of the Paris Video games with probably the most swimming medals at 15, main second-place Australia by seven. The Aussies, nevertheless, personal probably the most golds with 4, whereas the U.S. and Italy have two apiece.

This is a breakdown of what occasions Workforce USA has gained medals in and the athletes concerned:

The final Summer time Olympics by which the US didn’t prime the gold medal desk was in 2008 in Beijing. Nations all the time get a medal bump being the host nation, and France is predicted to virtually triple the variety of gold medals it gained in Tokyo.

Workforce USA Highlights: Day 4

GOLDEN RETURN FOR BILES

Watch highlights of Simone Biles’ ground routine throughout the ladies’s staff competitors on the Paris Olympics.

Workforce USA is again on prime.

After claiming silver in Tokyo three years in the past, the U.S. ladies’s gymnastics staff recaptured the gold medal in Tuesday’s staff closing for the 2024 Olympics.

Simone Biles clinched the gold with a blinding efficiency within the closing ground train, which put the U.S. (171.296) effectively forward of silver-medalist Italy (165.494) and bronze-medalist Brazil (164.497).

Together with Jordan Chiles, Biles competed in all 4 occasions within the closing. Suni Lee participated in three occasions (ground train, steadiness beam, uneven bars) and Jade Carey did the vault. Now, they’re all gold medalists.

Simone Biles helped Workforce USA seize gold within the ladies’s staff gymnastic competitors.

USA RUGBY STUNNER

Alex Sedrick ran her method into U.S. rugby historical past.

The Salt Lake Metropolis native scored a attempt to hit the game-winning conversion on the ultimate play to offer Workforce USA a 14-12 victory over Australia within the bronze medal match, giving the U.S. its first ever Olympic rugby sevens medal.

Ilona Maher, Kristi Kirshe, and Sarah Levy helped Workforce USA make historical past Tuesday, capturing the nation’s first medal in ladies’s rugby with a win over Australia within the bronze medal match on the Paris Olympics.

Australia obtained its first attempt simply over a minute into the bronze-medal contest because of Maddison Levi. The U.S. then equaled the rating on an Alev Kelter attempt to her ensuing conversion.

Workforce USA’s protection held sturdy early within the second half, holding the rating to 7-7 till there was 1:25 remaining. That is when Maddison Levi and her sister, Teagan, mixed for a second attempt.

U.S. ladies’s rugby celebrated moments after profitable the bronze medal in rugby sevens on the Paris Olympics.

SILVER(S) AND BRONZE IN POOL

The U.S. quartet of Luke Hobson, Carson Foster, Drew Kibler and Kieran Smith gained silver within the males’s 4x200m freestyle relay. Workforce USA made the rostrum within the occasion after ending fourth on the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Video games. That ended a streak of 4 straight Olympic titles for the People.

Workforce USA’s Bobby Finke took silver within the males’s 800m freestyle, with Eire’s Daniel Wiffen incomes gold with an Olympic file.

On the ladies’s aspect, Regan Smith and Katharine Berkoff completed second and third, respectively, within the ladies’s 100m backstroke closing.

Australia’s Kaylee McKeown repeated as champion with an Olympic file time of 57.33 seconds.

Smith completed in 57.66 seconds to seize her second particular person silver medal and her fourth medal general. Berkoff, who completed in 57.98 seconds, made the rostrum for the primary time.

Stephen Wade of the Related Press contributed to this report.

C’est un grand soulagement de trouver le chemin de la victoire contre lui aujourd’hui, a-t-il confié avec un massive sourire.

Le 13e favori, 19e à l’ATP, a battu l’athlète qui compétitionne sous bannière neutre en deux manches de 6-3 et 7-6 (7/5) et 1 h 38.

La présence du Québécois en quarts de finale s’avère être le meilleur résultat canadien en easy depuis que le tennis a fait son retour aux JO en 1988.

Wow, je ne savais même pas, s’est-il exclamé en toute franchise. Il n’a pas caché qu’il begin à rêvasser à un podium, mais il se fait un devoir de ne pas faire l’erreur de se projeter trop loin.

Cette victoire, ici à Roland-Garros, contre Medvedev en plus, signifie beaucoup pour moi. Ce n’est pas seulement une easy victoire. C’est aussi très bon pour le tennis canadien et pour nos possibilities de médaille. Je suis très content material. L’aventure proceed.

Une première manche interrompue

Il a dû faire preuve de focus en première manche. Avec un retard de 0-2, le Montréalais, qui a passé une partie de son enfance dans la région de Québec, a orchestré une remontée avant que Dame Nature joue les trouble-fête. Une forte pluie a interrompu les hostilités pendant une trentaine de minutes. À son retour sur le terrain, il a repris là où il avait laissé pour s’emparer de la manche face à la 4e tête de série et 5e au classement mondial.

Daniil Medvedev et Félix Auger-Aliassime ne s’étaient jamais affrontés sur la terre battue en huit affrontements.Photograph : Getty Photos / AFP/MARTIN BERNETTI

La deuxième manche a été très serrée. Les adversaires ont chacun remporté leur service à six reprises avant de devoir départager le tout au bris d’égalité.

Auger-Aliassime affrontera maintenant le Norvégien Casper Ruud, 6e tête de série.

Le Canadien s’était incliné d’entrée de jeu au premier tour des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo, en 2021.

Une autre victoire en double mixte

Mercredi a été une journée faste dans l’aventure olympique d’Auger-Aliassime. Après sa victoire en easy, il a réussi à passer en demi-finales du double mixte avec sa compatriote Gabriela Dabrowski.

Les Canadiens ont remporté leur duel contre les Américains Coco Gauff et Taylor Fritz, 3es têtes de série, par la marque de 7-6 (7/2), 3-6 et 10-8.

Félix Auger-Aliassime et Gabriela DabrowskiPhotograph : The Canadian Press / Christinne Muschi

Au bout d’un match de presque deux heures, Auger-Aliassime et Dabrowski ont décroché la victoire au tremendous bris d’égalité.

Ils menaient 4-1, mais les Américains ont comblé le retard, prenant même les commandes 8-6. Auger-Aliassime et Dabrowski ont toutefois gardé leur sang-froid et ont clos le débat quelques minutes plus tard.

Dans le carré d’as, jeudi, les raquettes canadiennes ont rendez-vous avec les Tchèques Katerina Siniakova et Tomas Machac.

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Gabriela Dabrowski est l’une des meilleures joueuses du monde en double.Photograph : Related Press / Manu Fernandez

BEIRUT, Lebanon, and TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel says its forces killed a high Hezbollah commander in a focused strike within the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, in retaliation for a lethal weekend rocket assault within the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

In a press release late Tuesday, Israel’s army mentioned “Israeli Air Power fighter jets eradicated the Hezbollah terrorist group’s most senior army commander and the top of its Strategic Unit, Fuad Shukr ‘Sayyid Muhsan,’ within the space of Beirut.”

Calling him a “right-hand man” to Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, the assertion mentioned Fuad Shukr was chargeable for operations together with the assault that killed 12 youngsters and youngsters and wounded a number of individuals on Saturday in Majdal Shams, within the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia and political motion supported by Iran, has denied involvement in Saturday’s Majdal Shams assault.

In a press release launched on Wednesday, Hezbollah mentioned Shukr was current within the constructing through the time of the assault, however didn’t verify his dying. Israel didn’t say the way it decided the Hezbollah commander was killed or present proof of his dying. Hezbollah has not commented on Tuesday’s strike in Beirut or whether or not Shukr died.

Hours after the assault in Beirut, Hamas mentioned its high political chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a focused raid in Iran. Haniyeh was in Tehran for the inauguration ceremony of latest Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

Hamas accused Israel of killing Haniyeh whereas Israeli officers mentioned they’d “no remark” when requested in regards to the Tehran assault.

In Beirut, the Israeli assault prompted a big explosion, leaving an residence constructing partially collapsed. Police closed off the roads and an ambulance wailed its strategy to the realm. Individuals had been shouting, “My household was inside, my household is inside!” as they ran towards the explosion.

Israel had made it clear that it will retaliate for Saturday’s rocket assault it blamed on Hezbollah. “Hezbollah crossed the crimson line,” Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant wrote on X Tuesday.

The strike got here because the worldwide group has been urging restraint from either side, fearing that an escalation on the Israel-Lebanon border might spark an all-out conflict.

Israeli army spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari mentioned: “Our goal will not be for conflict, however we’re well-prepared for it.”

He added that Israel is “in steady dialogue” with the USA and its army, “particularly tonight.”

America says Israel has a proper to defend itself in opposition to threats from Hezbollah, whereas diplomacy can be wanted to resolve conflicts within the area.

“Israel has a proper to defend itself and I unequivocally assist Israel’s proper to stay safe and to defend the safety of Israel,” Vice President Harris mentioned after touchdown in Atlanta for an election marketing campaign journey.

“What we all know specifically is it has a proper to defend itself in opposition to a terrorist group, which is precisely what Hezbollah is. However all of that being mentioned, we nonetheless should work on a diplomatic resolution to finish these assaults and we are going to proceed to do this work,” she mentioned.

On Monday, White Home nationwide safety spokesperson John Kirby instructed reporters, “We do not wish to see the conflict escalate” and “to see a second entrance” open up between Israeli forces and Hezbollah. “What we wish to do and what we’re nonetheless centered on is discovering a diplomatic resolution right here to scale back the tensions,” he mentioned.

U.S. diplomats consider the easiest way to defuse the Israeli-Hezbollah battle is to succeed in a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.

Israel and Hezbollah have been buying and selling hearth because the conflict in Gaza started on Oct. 7 of final 12 months, after the Hamas-led assault on Israel. The Israel-Hezbollah combating has largely remained confined to targets close to the border.

In January, Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri was killed in a strike in Beirut that was extensively blamed on Israel, however that the Israeli army didn’t verify or deny.

Kat Lonsdorf and Hadeel Al-Shalchi reported from Tel Aviv, Israel; Jane Arraf and Jawad Rizkallah reported from Beirut.

Workforce USA swimmer Katie Ledecky received one other medal on Thursday making her the most-decorated U.S. lady in Olympic historical past and additional solidifying her place in swimming historical past as one of many Biggest Of All Time.

The Bethesda native reached that milestone as a part of the 4x200m relay the place the foursome took residence silver. A day earlier, Ledecky earned gold within the 1500m freestyle — crushing her opponents.

If you happen to missed that race, Ledecky left everybody else within the pool meters behind, you may catch the highlights right here. (Sadly, the highlights do not embody the truth that the cameraman actually needed to zoom out to get the opposite swimmers within the shot by the top of the race.)

Her 2024 Paris Olympics efficiency broke the Olympic file for quickest race within the ladies’s 1500m freestyle occasion. It might be bittersweet for the earlier holder of that file, besides… properly, that was additionally Ledecky.

That bought us questioning… what number of different data does Katie Ledecky maintain?

Here is an inventory of Katie Ledecky’s medals, data, superlatives and different spectacular swimming accomplishments.

What number of Olympic medals does Katie Ledecky have?

Ledecky made her Olympic debut in 2012 on the London Olympics, then went on to swim within the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Paris is her fourth Olympic look.

In that point, Ledecky has received a whopping 13 Olympic medals, together with Wednesday’s 1500m victory and Thursday’s relay. Wednesday’s race was her eighth gold medal. Here is the breakdown:

• 2012 London: Gold medal, 800m freestyle (her solely occasion that Olympics)
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 200m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 400m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 800m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 4x200m freestyle relay
• 2016 Rio: Silver medal, 4x100m freestyle relay
• 2020 Tokyo: Gold medal, 800m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Gold medal, 1500m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Silver medal, 400m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Silver medal, 4x200m freestyle relay
• 2024 Paris: Bronze medal, 400m freestyle
• 2024 Paris: Gold medal, 1500m freestyle
• 2024 Paris: Silver medal, 4x200m freestyle relay

The one different feminine swimmer to match Ledecky in gold medals is Jenny Thompson, the U.S. swimmer who competed in 1992, 1996 and 2000.

Thompson and Ledecky are neck-and-neck for many gold medals from a feminine Olympic swimmer from any nation.

When Ledecky medaled within the 4x200m freestyle relay on Thursday, her 13 medals put her in that prime tier alongside Thompson, Dana Torres and Natalie Coughlin.

Michael Phelps nonetheless holds the file for many Olympic medals of all time, with a whopping 23 Olympic golds, in keeping with NBC Olympics.

Report instances

Ledecky holds world data in two occasions, and has damaged world data over a dozen instances, in keeping with NBC Olympics.

And bear in mind how her 1500m freestyle race broke her personal Olympic file? That is occurred a majority of the time Ledecky has damaged a swimming file.

In whole, Ledecky owns the 20 quickest instances within the ladies’s 1500m freestyle occasion’s historical past. And it is no marvel, since she does issues like profitable her preliminary warmth by 17.83 seconds.

Ledecky additionally holds the world file within the 800m freestyle occasion.

Has anybody ever crushed Katie Ledecky?

With regards to world championships and the Olympics, Katie Ledecky is, so far, unbeaten within the the 800m freestyle and within the 1500m freestyle.

In Tokyo, Australian Ariarne Titmus beat Ledecky within the 400m freestyle by about half a second. Titmus additionally beat Ledecky, and Canada’s Summer time McIntosh, within the 400m freestyle in Paris on Saturday.

In keeping with NBC Olympics, Katie Ledecky “is comfortably the best distance swimmer of all time, no matter gender.” No swimmer comes near her file in occasions above 400m.

Not a superlative, however nonetheless cool

For her, frankly, astonishing swimming accomplishments, President Joe Biden awarded Katie Ledecky the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this yr.

It is the best civilian honor in the USA, and Ledecky joined the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Yeoh and Al Gore when she obtained the award in Might.

And in different cool Ledecky info, NBC Sports activities did the mathematics and discovered that she’s swum over 37 million meters in her lifetime — round 23,000 miles.

Meaning in the event you add up Ledecky’s time swimming — as an age group swimmer as a toddler, throughout her observe time occasions, in her world championship races, her time within the Olympics and her coaching — she has swum about so far as the circumference of the Earth.

Put one other means, Katie Ledecky may have swum one-tenth of the way in which to the moon by now.

U.S. swimming star Katie Ledecky shares what goes into a mean day.

On the 2024 Paris Video games there may not have been an occasion with a extra apparent favourite than Katie Ledecky and the ladies’s 1500m freestyle. The long-distance specialist owns the 19 quickest occasions within the occasion’s historical past and gained the 1500m in its debut in Tokyo. In a race that usually goes viral for photographs of Ledecky being to date in entrance of her opponents that they’re out of body, it wasn’t a query of if she’d win the race however by how a lot.

Ledecky completed with a time of 15:30.02, an Olympic file and ten seconds higher than the subsequent finisher, for her eighth profession Olympic gold medal to tie swimming nice Jenny Thompson for essentially the most Olympic gold medals by an American ladies. She additionally tied Thompson, Natalie Coughlin, and Dara Torres for essentially the most medals all time (12) by any U.S. girl in historical past.

The gap swimmer mirrored on the accomplishment after the race. “I attempt not to consider historical past very a lot,” she stated, “I do know these names, these folks I am up with. They’re folks I appeared as much as after I first began swimming. So it is an honor to be named amongst them. I am grateful for them inspiring me. There are such a lot of nice swimmers which have helped me get to this second.”

FULL RESULTS

In a shock and signal of what was to return, Coughlin was available to formally open the swim session with “les trois coups” (a ritual going down earlier than occasions at Paris 2024).

The race began as deliberate — on the 500m mark Ledecky was .11 seconds forward of her personal world file. She took over the world file in 2013 and has reset it one other 5 occasions.

On the 500m level, the race for second was thrilling although. France’s Anastasia Kirpichnikova, Italy’s Simona Quadarella and Germany’s Isabel Gose had been in a digital three-way tie.

With 400m remaining, Ledecky had fallen behind her world-record tempo by six seconds however was nonetheless forward of the Olympic-record tempo. In a present of true dominance, she persistently averaged lap occasions within the 31-second vary. In the meantime, Kirpichnikova held a snug second place whereas Quadarella and Gose battled for bronze.

Because the bell for the ultimate lap rang, Ledecky was properly out in entrance, the one query was may she earn a brand new Olympic file. The gang was roaring for the space nice as she touched the wall. The 15:30.02 time was her eighth-fastest time in her profession on the distance.

In the long run, France’s Kirpichnikova held on for silver whereas Germany’s Gose claimed bronze with a time of 15:41.16.

Ledecky already gained bronze within the ladies’s 400m freestyle. Her subsequent alternative to earn a medal will likely be within the ladies’s 4x200m freestyle relay on Thursday. If she accomplishes that, it might be her thirteenth profession Olympic medal, which might make her essentially the most adorned feminine U.S. Olympian in historical past. She would solely be behind Michael Phelps (28) general.

Ledecky’s subsequent alternative for a person medal would be the ladies’s 800m freestyle. The preliminary heats happen on Friday, August 2nd, with the ultimate set for Saturday, August third.

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Snoop Dogg examined out his tremendous “lung energy” as he hit the pool for a particular lesson with swimming legend and Olympian Michael Phelps.

The hip-hop icon placed on a swimming cap and goggles for a one-on-one grasp class from Phelps, a 23-time gold Olympic medal winner, in a particular video in celebration of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

“In terms of one in every of my lifetime objectives, there’s just one man I can consider — Mr. 23-time, OG, the GOAT,” Snoop stated.

“You see me and MP, we return just like the backstroke. Now MP, how does one get quick within the pool?” he requested.

Phelps stated two issues are key: wingspan and lung energy.

“You simply described me! You stated wingspan, lung energy — I positively have nice lung energy,” Snoop, recognized for his songs about smoking marijuana, stated with amusing.

“And I do have a swimmer’s physique. Look, our our bodies are comparable, man,” he stated standing facet by facet with Phelps. “We may very well be twins!”

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The 2 legends acquired into the water with Phelps displaying Snoop the correct freestyle arm actions.

Snoop then confirmed off his freestyle — the swimming stroke, that’s.

When it was Phelps’ flip, Snoop watched with admiration, yelling, “OK flipper!”

The 2 then tried to freestyle in sync.

“Mike, you make this look too straightforward. You see I’m in gold medal situation,” Snoop stated, visibly panting. “And he’s nonetheless in gold medal situation as we communicate!”

“Shout out to the Phelps household and to the group that’s going to offer me some oxygen proper now,” he joked on the finish of the clip.

The boys’s 200-meter breaststroke, 100-meter freestyle, 200-meter butterfly and 800-meter freestyle will all happen Tuesday on the Olympics. 

Snoop has been lively on the Olympics. He carried the Olympic flame by means of the streets of Saint-Denis, a suburb north of Paris, this month, and he’s additionally a particular NBC Olympics correspondent for the Video games.