The Olympic Video games are underway from Paris!
For a full rundown of all of the occasions every day, we’ve got a full breakdown of every part airing, together with the place and the best way to watch. Each Olympic occasion will likely be streaming reside on Peacock.
In relation to the medal rely, the United States is the favourite to win essentially 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 after the primary day of competitors? Here’s a have a look at the Olympic medal rely (and preserve studying for some Crew USA highlights from Day 2).
Right here is the total leaderboard, final up to date July 28 at 5 p.m.
The final Summer time Olympics wherein america didn’t high the gold medal desk was in 2008 in Beijing. International locations at all times get a medal bump being the host nation, and France is predicted to virtually triple the variety of gold medals it gained in Tokyo.
Crew USA gained seven medals on Sunday, bringing their whole to 12 for the primary two days. Of these 12, 9 have been gained by feminine athletes, and U.S. girls completed first and second in two occasions for the day: the 100m butterfly in swimming, and the fencing particular person foil.
Crew USA Highlights: Day 2
SIMONE BILES SHINES, DESPITE INJURY
Simone Biles is already making historical past in Paris.
The 27-year-old grew to become the primary girls’s gymnast to land a Yurchenko double pike vault on the Olympics, taking maintain of the excessive rating within the occasion with a 15.800. It is a transfer that already had been re-named after her — now generally referred to as the “Biles II.”
The squad of Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera completed in first on the subdivision 2 qualifying on Sunday.
Biles holds the excessive rating within the all-around after finishing her 4 occasions at qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics on Sunday. She closed the day with a 14.433 in uneven bars, which presently stands because the eighth-highest rating within the occasion.
Biles holds the excessive rating in vault (15.300), flooring (14.600) and the second-highest in beam (14.733) for an all-around whole of 59.566.
Her U.S. teammates are proper behind her, with Suni Lee scoring a 56.132 for the second highest all-around rating and Jordan Chiles sitting third with a 56.065.
The 16-year-old New Jersey native made her Olympic debut on stability beam and uneven bars, serving to Crew USA safe a spot within the crew finals.
The U.S. girls’s gymnastics star is in place to advance to the finals in every occasion, assuming she is not restricted by damage. Biles was heard on digicam saying she felt one thing in her calf however stepped onto the competitors flooring with the leg taped.
She appeared simply tremendous when Taylor Swift’s “Prepared for It” started taking part in and her routine — the toughest on this planet — was stable. She walked gingerly off the ground and sat off to the facet for a second earlier than receiving a hug from longtime coach Laurent Landi.
Regardless of dominating in qualifying, Biles appeared to irritate her leg throughout warmups for the ground train. She left the ground with Crew USA physician Marcia Faustin and later returned along with her ankle taped.
FIRST ALL-U.S. FINAL IN FENCING SINCE 2008
It was American vs. American within the girls’s particular person foil fencing bout.
Lee Kiefer topped Lauren Scruggs 15-6 to win gold, whereas Scruggs claimed silver within the first time ever the U.S. had two girls within the remaining bout.
Kiefer additionally gained gold in Tokyo, finishing a back-to-back triumph.
ALL THOSE SWIMMERS ARE GOLD (OR SILVER, OR BRONZE)
American swimmers Torri Huske wins gold whereas teammate Gretchen Walsh wins silver within the girls’s 100m Butterfly remaining.
It was 1-2 Crew USA to high the rostrum within the girls’s 100m butterfly Sunday in Paris.
American Torri Huske upset teammate and world file holder Gretchen Walsh, who was favored within the race, to take gold with a 55.59 time.
Individually, Carson Foster took bronze within the males’s 400m particular person medley. And within the males’s 100m breaststroke, New Jersey’s Nic Fink tied with Adam Peaty of Nice Britain with a 59.05 time to take silver in what was a nail-biting race wherein the highest three finishers have been separated by simply 0.02 seconds.
Crew USA swimmer Nic Fink tied for silver within the males’s 100m breaststroke remaining, lacking the gold by two hundredths of a second.
MEN’S BASKETBALL, USWNT START STRONG
This is a scary thought for the remainder of the basketball world: LeBron James thinks Crew USA can get even higher.
The U.S. males’s basketball crew opened the 2024 Paris Olympics with a 110-84 win over Serbia. James and Kevin Durant hit each shot they took within the first half because the crew shot over 62.3% from the sphere and linked on 18 3-pointers. They slightly simply disposed of one in all their high threats, which is led by three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic.
However the U.S. dedicated 17 turnovers.
“We’re gonna get higher with our turnovers,” James informed NBC after the sport. “Clearly we’re making an attempt to make the correct play so you possibly can by no means exclude that, however a few of the careless turnovers that we had, that we can provide ourselves much more possessions offensively. We’ll be higher popping out on Wednesday.”
The U.S. placed on an announcement towards Germany Sunday.
After a 3-0 win versus Zambia within the opener, the USWNT routed Germany 4-1 to additional put a stamp on Group B. The U.S. can safe first place in its group with a minimum of a draw on Wednesday versus Australia.
Sophia Smith scored a brace, whereas Mallory Swanson and Lynn Williams additionally received on the scoresheet towards a often elite German facet that simply could not include the USWNT’s attacking efficiency.
Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher solely permits a purpose as U.S. girls’s soccer defeats Germany 4-1 in pool play on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Stephen Wade of the Related Press contributed to this report.