Yuto Horigome wins second men’s street final, Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston take silver and bronze

Less that 24 hours before the triathlon is set to begin and its still not clear whether high bacteria levels in the River Seine will force a delay. Officials say the water quality will be measured again overnight and a decision made in the early hours of Tuesday.

But it is still possible to swim in the city if you go to places like Bassin de la Villete, an artificial lake that runs into the main waterway. Today NBC News found families swimming to escape the hot weather. 

Nine-year-old Ivy Sous said the water was “cold but nice and refreshing,” while Lyra Moggach, 12, said she “exhilarated when I got in,” and she felt fine when she got out.

To test that theory, NBC News’ took a dip and, while the water was cold, it seemed clean enough and clear enough to see your feet below.

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They did it!

Team USA men’s gymnastics made it on the podium in the team final for the first time since 2008, a goal they have been loudly chasing throughout these Paris Games.

The men’s team earned bronze, behind Japan then China. Great Britain and Ukraine took fourth and fifth, respectively.

Today’s showing was a welcome improvement from Saturday’s qualifying round, with the mostly green Olympic team hitting all of their routines.

Next up: Frederick Richard and Paul Juda will compete in the all-around final and Stephen Nedoroscik will try his hand in the pommel horse final.

Americans Katie Grimes, Emma Weyant, Ryan Murphy, Lilly King, Luke Hobson and Claire Weinstein have reached the finals of races set for Monday night just outside of Paris.

Grimes is considered a medal contender in the 400-meter individual medley in a race that also includes Weyant and Canadian Summer McIntosh who is listed as the favorite for the event at 8:30 p.m. local time (6:19 p.m. EDT).

Murphy is slated for the 100-meter backstroke at 9:19 p.m./3:19 p.m. while King swims in the 100 breaststroke at 9:25 p.m./3:25 p.m.

Luke Hobson and Claire Weinstein are racing in each of their 200 freestyle races at 8:40 p.m./2:40 p.m. and 9:41 p.m./3:41 p.m., respectively.

After a heart-pounding lead-up, Nedoroscik delivered a historic routine for the U.S. on his one and only event, the pommel horse.

He anchored a near-perfect competition for the U.S. team with a 14.866.

In the last rotation of the day, China suffered a fall on high bar. The team is a solid favorite to medal, but there’s no telling what this mistake will do to their overall standing.

Stephen Nedoroscik, Team USA’s secret weapon today, is being called the “Clark Kent” of the pommel horse as viewers watch the unassuming, bespectacled athlete wait to take the stage.

“OK, Stephen Nedoroscik, the US men’s gymnastics pommel horse specialist, has these thick-rimmed glasses. He takes them off when he does pommel,” one X user wrote. “Is anyone else thinking Clark Kent/Superman vibes?”

The men’s gymnastics team is 2/3 on pommel horse with just one more routine of the day from Stephen Nedoroscik.

Brody Malone stuck his landing and earned a score of 13.700.

Malone, who was plagued by falls and mistakes in the qualifiers, had a much stronger showing in the team event today.

All smiles — and what looked like some teary eyes — after Paul Juda completed his routine on pommel horse, his last event of the day before the all-around final later this week.

He scored 13.900 — starting Team USA off very strong on their trickiest event. The men’s team is just two routines away from potentially getting on the podium for the first time since 2008.

If you haven’t yet watched the world’s best surfers take on Teahupo’o, you’re in for a treat. After making its debut in Tokyo, surfing is back with some of the world’s most formidable waves – and they’re massive.

Watch Team USA’s Carissa Moore and John John Florence explain to Colin Jost why the Tahitian surf zone presents such a daunting challenge. Both Moore and Florence won their opening heats on Saturday and face their next ones later today.

After a nearly three-hour wait, the biggest moment of Stephen Nedoroscik’s career is upon him.

He’s struggled in international team final competitions, but he’s one of the best in the world on pommel horse. He’s more than capable of clinching a historic medal for his team if all goes well.

With one rotation left to go, Team USA sits in third place behind China and Japan.

Only pommel horse stands between this team and a medal, and all-star Stephen Nedoroscik will anchor the team with what is expected to be a stand-out performance.

As the U.S. anchor on floor, Richard delivered a clutch routine to wrap up the penultimate rotation. One of his skills on floor stems from breakdancing, a sport that is making its Olympic debut in Paris.

A podium finish is in their grasp as he earns a 14.466, but they’ll have to get through the pommel horse first, which is never an easy task.

Asher Hong did what he needed to on the floor, save for a few small hops and a minor step out of bounds.

He exited the mat screaming “come on, USA!” before receiving his score of 14.133.

It’s Hong’s last event of the Olympics. He won’t compete for his team in the final rotation, pommel horse, and he didn’t make any individual event finals.

As the U.S. men kicked off their fifth rotation of six, Paul Juda was a steady lead off on floor.

His secure tumbling landings earned him a healthy 14.200.

China’s women’s volleyball team defeated the defending champion United States in the preliminary round match.

The match was played over a full and nail-biting five sets.

The top three teams from each pool advance to the next round, so a lot will be riding on Team USA’s next match two days from now.

China is set to play France next on Aug. 1.

While female gymnasts dance and flip to music on floor exercise, the men tumble a capella.

The focus remains on the acrobatics, with little artistic flair.

He sticks the landing!

It was a simplified bars routine for Malone, but still earned him a score of 14.166.

Malone told NBC News he was gunning for a medal on the high bar — his specialty — but he did not qualify for the individual event final after a few falls in qualifiers. His performance today could earn him a team medal instead.

He appears in better shape today so far, performing on every event except for floor.

The stellar high bar routine comes off a fourth-place finish in Tokyo and a nearly career-ending knee injury on the event last year.

So far, Frederick Richard has been a rock for Team USA. He performed a monstrously difficult routine on high bar, sticking his dismount and posting a 14.833.

That score would have won a silver medal at world championships last year.

Paul Juda kicked off the fourth rotation of the men’s gymnastics final for the U.S. with what appeared to be a nearly perfect high bar routine.

He scored 13.366 — perhaps lower than he was hoping for — and will perform again on the apparatus in the individual all-around later this week.

After three excellent rotations, the U.S. men are in second behind China. They’ve exceeded expectations so far, but they’re headed to high bar.

It’s one of the riskiest events in men’s gymnastics and American fans in Bercy Arena and at home will likely be holding their breath.

We all know Snoop as a smooth talker, but how does he sound as a sports commentator? Watch the rapper find an impressive flow as he narrates some of week one’s highlights — it’s profoundly satisfying.

Chants of “USA” erupted in Bercy Arena after Asher Hong became the third American to sail through parallel bars. He earned a 14.400, putting the U.S. in the second spot for now.

Up next on the parallel bars was Frederick Richard, a first-time Olympian who is hungry to get on the podium.

Richard earned a 14.566 on the event, which he’ll repeat in the all-around final later this week.

The third rotation of six is underway for Team USA. Sometimes topping the leaderboard can lead to jitters, but not for Brody Malone.

He hit a clean set on parallel bars, earning a 14.433.

A strong start for the men’s gymnastics team has the U.S. in first heading into the third rotation with a total score of 86.764.

They’re followed closely by China in second and Japan in third. Other teams to look out for are Great Britain and Ukraine.

It’s still a bit early to tell if the U.S. is going to make the podium for the first time since 2008, but their current standing puts them in a good position for now.

The U.S. men will compete on parallel bars next.

In a thrilling finale, USA’s Jagger Eaton got the silver medal for men’s street skateboarding, missing gold by 0.1 points. Nyjah Huston takes the bronze. Huston had the lead for the majority of the event, but was overtaken after missing his final three tricks.

When it counted the most, defending gold medalist Yuto Horigome from Japan landed a perfect trick that no other skater attempted, to score the highest trick of the final at 97.08. Sora Shirai missed his trick by a hair to miss the podium.

Christa Deguchi from Canada took home gold for women’s lightweight judo. This is Canada’s first-ever judo gold, and Canada’s first Olympic gold these Games.

Deguchi fought against Korea’s Huh Mi-Mi, who will walk away with silver. Both finalists are first-time Olympians.

Japan’s Haruka Funakubo and France’s Sarah-Léonie Cysique tied for bronze. This is Cysique’s third career Olympic medal after earning two in Tokyo — a silver for this same event and a gold in mixed team.

Japan and France have now each won a medal in 4 out of 5 judo events in Paris. Another medal event will happen later today.

Pommel horse is often called the balance beam of men’s gymnastics, which means that even the best in the world can face heartbreak on the apparatus.

Reigning all-around world champion Daiki Hashimoto slipped on pommel horse, earning a 13.100 for the Japanese team, who are the favorites for team gold.

The Belarus sprinter who defected three years ago during the Tokyo Olympics is competing at the Paris Games for Poland.

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is scheduled to run in the women’s 200-meter dash and the women’s 4X100-meter relay, according to her official Paris Olympics bio page.

“I am an Olympian,” the 27-year-old athlete declared on her Facebook page.

Tsimanouskaya made a desperate dash for freedom on Aug. 1, 2021, as she was about to board a flight to Minsk at a Tokyo-area airport.

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The U.S. women’s field hockey team fought hard for a 1-1 tie against Spain today, managing to get fourth place in their group.

It’s a much-needed rebound for the U.S. team after their loss 4-1 to Argentina just two days ago.

Asher Hong just performed the hardest vault in the world — and he knew he did it well.

High fives and “yeahs!” preceded Hong’s score of 14.833, sliding U.S. into the first place spot for now.

Jagger Eaton throws his hands up, in disbelief that he just landed his fourth trick. His 95.25 has him overtaking Nyjah Huston. Huston missed his fourth trick and remains in second place.

Meanwhile, Japan’s Sora Shirai perfectly executed and scored a 94.21, sliding back into third. Defending gold medalist Yuto Horigome will have one more attempt after missing his third trick in a row.

Canada’s Cordano Russell is also making a big comeback after landing a fourth difficult trick scoring him a 94.93. His failed two runs, however, will keep him off the podium.

“I dare Brody to stick,” one NBC commentator said, and he did.

The U.S. national all-around champion nailed his vault, building more momentum for Team USA.

First seed Novak Djokovic bested 14-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal, 6-1, 6-4 at the Paris Olympics on Monday to punch his ticket to Round 3.

And see this amazing slide shot that won the match for him.

Both Nyjah Huston and Jagger Eaton sit on their first two tricks, as Huston has his first miss of day and Eaton misses as well. The standings remain with the Americans in the lead.

Brazil’s Kelvin Hoefler slid into third after a third trick scoring 92.88.

A perfectly stuck landing for Juda, who kicked off the second rotation of the men’s gymnastics final. He was visibly excited about his performance as he whooped and punched the air on his way off the mat.

A score of 14.666 is a high start for the men. Brody Malone will compete next.

Americans Nyjah Huston and Jagger Eaton remain in the top two spots after strong second tricks.

Huston lands with a smile after a big second trick scoring him 93.22, keeping him in first place. Jagger Eaton continues to match his fellow American, scoring 93.87 and staying in second.

Fatigue began to show in the skaters’ second tricks, with Yuto Horigome and Sora Shirai each bailing on theirs.

Stephen Nedoroscik is performing on just one gymnastics apparatus in Paris — the pommel horse. It’s a difficult event and a typical weak spot for the U.S. men’s gymnastics team that they are hoping to overcome in their quest to medal for the first time since 2008.

The Peacock broadcast displayed a countdown until Nedoroscik can compete: two hours and 30 minutes remain.

He’ll work to stay focused and warm until the time comes.

After the Olympic trials in June, Nedoroscik knew he nailed his single event, and told reporters “I had a good feeling I made this team.” This year is Nedoroscik’s Olympic debut.

It’s a risk to put someone on the team who can only perform one of six events, but Nedoroscik is a world champion on pommel horse, and he could be the missing piece to the men’s team’s long-awaited team medal.

Thanks to Frederick Richard’s improvements, the U.S. have already increased their rings score from qualification by four tenths. The team had posted underwhelming results from the qualifying sessions.

Fortunately, scores refresh after the first round, and it’s a clean slate for the team final.

Nyjah Huston remains in first place in the men’s street final, with his first trick scoring 92.79. Eaton followed with a 92.80 and remains in second.

The field of skaters runs deep, with defending gold medalist from Japan Yuto Horigome in third.

For the first time, Simone Biles landed the “Biles II” vault at the Olympics, securing first place in qualifying with a score of 15.800 on Sunday.

The vault is a Yurchenko double pike, and it bears her name because she was the first woman to successfully perform it at an international meet.

The final score is composed of a combination of a difficulty rating and an execution rating. The vault has an epically high difficulty of 6.4

Asher Hong closed out the U.S. men’s first rotation with a stunning performance on rings, scoring 14.533.

The U.S. sits in second, behind only Canada, with five more rotations to go.

Up next for the U.S.: Vault.

Coco Yoshizawa says she was a “nobody” before the Paris Olympics. Now, she sets her sights on fame after becoming an Olympic champion at 14.

Yoshizawa scored a 96.49 on her final and fourth trick to secure a gold medal on Sunday. In second place: fellow Japanese athlete Liz Akama, 15.

After a devastating qualifying round that took him out of all individual finals, Brody Malone appears to be in better form today, scoring a 14.166 on rings.

The U.S. men are off to a stellar start with Frederick Richard on still rings. A clean exercise and a stuck landing earned him a 14.033.

Paris isn’t just the U.S. women’s gymnastics team’s redemption tour. It’s gymnast Brody Malone’s redemption tour, too.

After a disappointing finish on the high bar at the Tokyo Olympics and a devastating knee injury last March that could have ended his gymnastics career, Malone is looking to bring home the gold on his best event.

A minor mistake in Tokyo led to Malone finishing fourth on the high bar, which “leaves a really bad taste in your mouth,” he said.

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Frederick “Flips” Richard is already making a name for himself in men’s gymnastics and has big plans for the sport’s future.

Richard, 20, first hit the gym at 2 years old. After his parents saw him on their bed throwing flips he’d seen in his older sister’s gymnastics classes, they decided to put him in class, too. But he wouldn’t listen to the instructors at that age, he said, so his parents took him back when he was 4. Competitions started when he was 6, and he “never did another sport.”

Now a rising junior at the University of Michigan, where he trains and competes, he’s on the precipice of fulfilling a dream shared by many young athletes.

“I want to enter the Olympics with the whole country knowing, like, that’s Frederick Richard, like this man is going to do it,” he said.

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Nyjah Huston leaves a commentator speechless as he scores a big 93.37 with his second run, before Jagger Eaton also skates an impressive 91.92. Both make the skating look way too effortless.

In third is Japan’s Sora Shirai, who sits on his first 90.11 run after stumbling twice on his second.

USA Gymnastics has released the lineup for today’s men’s team final. The U.S. will start on still rings and end on the pommel horse. Despite a rocky qualification round where he fell multiple times, U.S. national all-around champion Brody Malone is scheduled to compete in all events, save floor.

It will be a dramatic set-up for Stephen Nedoroscik, who anchors the U.S. on the pommel horse tonight. It’s his only routine of the night.

After the first round of runs in the men’s street final, Japan’s Sora Shirai leads with the highest score of 90.11.

Defending gold medalist Yuto Horigome from Japan is right behind with 89.90. American Nyjah Huston scored an 87.06 run, placing him at fifth, while fellow American Jagger Eaton had an uncharacteristic fall, putting him at seventh with a 61.77 run. He’ll have to turn around his second run if he hopes for a medal.

Snoop Dogg is also seen entering the arena to cheer the skaters on.

For the first time since 2008, a member of the U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team will not compete in the team final.

Hezly Rivera, 16, is not in the lineup for tomorrow’s final. She did not qualify for any individual finals, so as it stands now, her Olympics are over. In the qualifying round, she was the lowest scorer on the two events she competed, bars and beam.

Should the team win, Rivera will still receive a gold medal.

Slovakia’s Richard Tury started things off with a smooth, authoritative first run before another from Brazil’s Kelvin Hoefler, Tokyo silver medalist. Japan’s Yuto Horigome then took the lead with a run riddled with difficult tricks. Horigome’s run scored 89.90, Tury got 87.85 and Hoefler earned 87.25.

Each skater will get two 45-second runs and five tricks, the final score combining points from the best run and best two tricks. USA’s Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston have yet to show off their first runs.

Britain’s Adam Peaty tested positive for Covid today, a blow for the Englishman who was set to compete in the relay events later in the Paris Games.

“He is hopeful to be back in competition for the relay events later in the swimming programme,” the team said in a statement. “As in any case of illness, the situation is being managed appropriately, with all usual precautions being taken to keep the wider delegation healthy.”

According to the statement, Peaty began to feel unwell yesterday just before his 100m breaststroke event and his symptoms persisted following his silver-medal win at the race. He was only 0.02 seconds behind Italian Nicolò Martinenghi, tying with American Nic Fink.

Peaty had been seeking his third-consecutive gold medal in the 100m breaststroke this year.

In today’s men’s gymnastics team final, the U.S. could medal for the first time since 2008.

“We’re in a much different position now,” high performance director Brett McClure said of the Paris Olympic team. “We’re gonna be able to control our own destiny. We’re gonna get back on that podium. That’s the expectation and that’s our goal.”

McClure estimated the U.S. men’s scoring potential to be third in the world, behind China and Japan. In the qualifying round, they struggled with consistency and placed fifth.

In today’s final, three gymnasts from each team will perform in six events — floor, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar. Unlike the qualifying round, all scores count.

The team final kicks off at 11:30 a.m. ET.

The USA’s water polo team, the two-time reigning gold medalists, have lost to Spain, the reigning silver medalists, in the women’s preliminary rounds.

While Spain’s win avenges the country after it didn’t walk away with gold in Tokyo, it’s not over for Team USA yet, which is going for a historic fourth consecutive gold medal.

A final point tally determines which four teams from each preliminary pool will move on to the quarterfinals. The Americans have lost one match and won one match so far. Their next match will be against Italy on Wednesday.

Three years after winning all-around gold in Tokyo, Suni Lee finds herself among the best gymnasts in the world once again. She will defend her Olympic all-around title and her uneven bars bronze after narrowly defeating her teammate and roommate, Jordan Chiles, in Sunday’s qualifying.

She’ll also vie for gold with the team on Tuesday as well as a balance beam medal after missing out on both in Tokyo. Regardless of where she places in Thursday’s all-around final, she and Simone Biles will make history as the first Olympic all-around champions to go head-to-head in an all-around final.

Former NBA journeyman Chase Budinger and beach volleyball partner Miles Evans made quick work of a French duo, winning their opening match in two sets, 21-14 and 21-11.

The Americans were too tall, powerful and fast for the French duo of Youssef Krou and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat, who benefitted from a spirited home crowd at the makeshift volleyball stadium in the shadows of the Eiffel Tower.

After the first set, fans spontaneously broke out into “La Marseillaise,” briefly energizing Krou and Gauthier-Rat.

After a rainy start to the Paris Games, temperatures are expected to climb this week, with the host city expected to hit a high of 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday.

The onslaught of heat prompted France’s meteorological agency to issue a “yellow alert” for the coming days. Yellow is the second of four alert levels and indicates that vulnerable populations and people working outdoors or engaging in outdoor activities may be at heightened risk.

Olympics volunteers passed out these pass-shift fans to spectators at metro stations near venues.

Some areas of Southern France are under an orange alert, with triple-digit temperatures expected in some places.

The heat wave will likely make for grueling conditions in some Olympic events this week. Ahead of the summer games, several athletes spoke out about their concerns of soaring temperatures in Paris, and how heat waves intensified by climate change are threatening the future of certain sports.

USA’s Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston just delivered the highest qualifying scores in the men’s street skateboarding preliminaries. The final is set to begin at 11 a.m. ET.

Both Eaton, 23, and Huston, 29, will seek redemption after Tokyo, where Eaton won bronze on a broken ankle and Huston placed a disappointing seventh.

Following closely with strong preliminary scores were Japan’s Sora Shirai and defending Olympic champion Yuto Horigome. Japan, a skateboarding powerhouse, took gold and silver in women’s street on Sunday.

Rafael Nadal has been knocked out of the men’s singles competition, beaten by Novak Djokovic, 6-1, 6-4, in a hard fought match in the Paris heat.

Djokovic was nearly flawless, only losing the upper hand toward the middle of the second set before coming back and serving out the match with an ace.

Djokovic is through to the third round of the men’s singles, aiming for a first Olympic gold medal, while Nadal will compete in the doubles.

That could be the last time we see these two greats play each other in a major tournament.

Germany’s Michael Jung took the gold for individual eventing jumping this morning, making history as the only rider to do so three times.

Jung and his horse Chipmunk finished the course in 21.80 seconds including penalties at Chateau Versailles today, looking back after he finished his round to assure himself of the record run. He took the gold with his former horse, Sam, at the London and Rio Games.

The 41-year-old was previously tied with Mark Todd of New Zealand, who won two golds and a bronze in the same event.

Long before Jagger Eaton jumps on his skateboard in Paris, he faced a true high-pressure opponent: that of nonrefundable travel.

Eaton’s family, looking for the best deal possible, made those cost-effective, use-it-or-lose-it reservations for Paris during the Olympics well ahead of him officially qualifying.

With or without him, “they’re already going to be there,” a chuckling Eaton told NBC’s podcast “The Podium.” “That’s not pressure-filled at all.”

Eaton did qualify for Paris, and the Tokyo bronze medalist is looking to earn an award of another color.

“I’m really stoked, the faith they have in me and my ability to perform,” Eaton said.

The U.S. women’s rugby team lost its final pool play match against host France. After closing out the half leading 10-7, France went aggressive on the attack, scoring back-to-back tries. America’s Naya Tapper was able to turn it around with a try, but another try from the French secured the 31-14 win.

Both the U.S. and France secured spots in the quarterfinals yesterday by winning their first two pool play matches. France’s win over the U.S. secured first place in Pool C as teams head to the quarterfinals beginning at 3 p.m. ET today.

For the third consecutive Olympics, Simone Biles qualified in first place in the all-around yesterday. She will advance to five finals and is favored to medal in all of them: team, all-around, vault, beam and floor later in the Games.

Biles next competes in the team final on Tuesday, where the U.S. women will be in the hunt for a gold medal.

Nadal’s comeback proved to be short-lived.

The Spaniard won a spectacular rally to win his second break and take the score to four games each in the second set.

He then saved three break points, only for Djokovic to win the game with a sublime drop shot.

The Serb served out the final game to win this somewhat one-sided but still compelling match between two of the greatest tennis players of all time.

Team Britain earned its first gold of the 2024 games today as it defended its title in the equestrian team event.

It’s Team Britain ‘s second-straight gold in the event after placing first in Tokyo four years ago.

The squad — Ros Canter, Tom McEwen and Laura Collett — also set an Olympics record for best team dressage score during the first day of that event. And Collett, who nearly died in 2013 after a dramatic fall in competition, set an individual eventing dressage record astride horse London 52.

Britain’s equestrian team drew headlines in the run-up to the games after three-time gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin withdrew following video emerging of her repeatedly whipping a horse.

Is this the start of a fightback from Rafael Nadal?

At the start of the second set Novak Djokovic was still in cruise control against fellow legend and longtime rival Nadal.

Then the 38-year-old Spaniard has made a valiant fightback, winning three games in a row and going from 4 -0 down to bring the score to 4 -3.

The U.S. women’s gymnastics team overcame some nerves, pain and an apparent stomach bug to post the best score of any country Sunday as it made its highly touted debut at the Paris Games.

The squad was led by Simone Biles, who, fighting a tweaked calf, still finished as the top scorer among all-around qualifiers.

Biles’ performance came in the aftermath of an uncharacteristically flat one by Jade Carey during her floor routine, something the Arizona native later attributed to illness.  

“I just have not been feeling well the past few days and haven’t been able to eat or anything,” Carey told Olympics.com.

Later Sunday, Carey’s mother, Danielle Greenberg, told Today that Carey’s condition had improved.

“Trying to hydrate, get some food in, ready to go,” she said of her daughter.

Carey’s father and coach had missed training Thursday due to an illness, USA Gymnastics announced last week.

Carey still finished third in her vault routine and will fight for a medal in the apparatus final.

The youngest member of the squad, Hezly Rivera, looked shaky at times on beam and uneven bars in her Olympic debut. While she did not qualify for any individual finals, her scores later this week will still count toward the team’s overall effort.

With Sunday’s qualifier conclude, here are the athletes set for finals appearances:

All around: Simone Biles and Suni Lee

Vault: Jade Carey, Biles

Floor: Jordan Chiles, Biles

Beam: Biles, Lee

Bars: Lee

The Chinese duo of Lian Junjie and Yang Hao bested Great Britain’s Tom Daley and Noah Williams to win gold in the men’s diving synchro platform.

Team USA swimmer Nic Fink was within a sliver of glory or disaster when he ended up winning a silver medal in the men’s 100-meter breastsroke in an incredible photo finish in Paris.

The New Jersey native reflected on the heart-pounding finish on “TODAY” on Monday after winning his first Olympic medal.

“It was pretty surreal,” Fink said alongside Olympic legend Michael Phelps. “A lot of times it’s almost cliché to say it’s a fingernail touch, but it actually was last night.

“I was a fingernail away from first, but also a fingernail away from being off the podium, so it almost seems like it was meant to be second. And sharing the podium with Nico and Adam was really cool, too.”

Fink, 31, tied Britain’s Adam Peaty for silver at 59.05 seconds, while Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi edged them by two-hundredths of a second to win gold.

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This may be one of the great rivalries in tennis, but so far it’s Novak Djokovic who has made it count when in matters, breaking Nadal’s first two service games. 

The world number two is in complete control. 

Can Nadal, the King of Clay, dig himself out of this hole?

Some heroes wear capes. One wears a scant pair of floral swim trunks. 

Team USA swimmer Emma Weber lost her cap at the bottom of the Olympic pool. That’s when a man wearing a floral Speedo dubbed “Bob the Cap Catcher” dove in to scoop it up — and became an internet sensation. 

Growing up in Miami, Ashleigh Johnson and her four siblings took swimming lessons as kids, primarily to ease the mind of their mother, who feared they could drown in the family pool while she was at work.

Those lessons led to falling in love with swimming, which led to joining the local Riptides swim team at nearby Cutler Ridge, which eventually led them to a unique sport for Black youths: water polo.

Johnson’s sister and three brothers all took lessons from Carroll Vaughan and thrived in the sport. But Ashleigh Johnson soared as a goalkeeper, using her spindly body, quickness and understanding of angles to become an All-American at Princeton University, where she compiled 100 victories and was the school’s all-time saves leader.

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China’s Sheng Lihao claimed his second gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics after winning the men’s 10-meter air rifle event.

Snoop Dogg is watching Nadal vs. Djokovic while sitting next to Billie Jean King — it’s the combo we never knew we needed.

Novak Djokovic has been ruthlessly dominant in the first set, despite some typically pugnacious resistance from 14-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal.

The Spaniard was only able to hold one of his service games, making several unforced errors and mishits.

By contrast, Djokovic had an answer for nearly everything Nadal has thrown at him.

Still, this is a highly entertaining heavyweight clash.

The crowd, which is firmly behind Nadal, has gone a little quiet out on court Philippe-Chatrier.

Organizers canceled triathlon training for the second day in a row today due to concerns over the Seine’s water quality, but said they were “optimistic” that the actual event will go as planned tomorrow.

“There’s been quite a lot of rain in the last couple of days, but we are monitoring very closely,” Paris 2024 chief executive Étienne Thobois said this morning at a news conference.

Since 2015, organizers have invested more than $1.5 billion to clean up the Seine and earlier this month, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the river to show it was finally clean enough.

The first triathlon event, men’s individual, kicks off tomorrow morning.

“We are still optimistic that we can hold the competition within the Seine river,” Thobois said. “We hope that tomorrow morning when they’ll wake up they will be able to participate.”

Djokovic has a solid start against Nadal, with the Serbian holding his serve in a nervy opening game, and breaking Nadal’s serve in the second game. 

We’re already seeing some great rallies between these two icons of the game.

Play is underway on court Philippe-Chatrier at Roland-Garros in the second round of the men’s singles tennis. It’s a veritable clash of the titans: Novak Djokovic vs. Rafael Nadal, playing against each other for the 60th time in their careers.

Authorities in France are investigating whether far-left militants were behind the sabotage of parts of the country’s rail network, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told French television this morning.

Several train lines across the country were sabotaged ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony.

Darmanin said that far-left militants had used similar methods in the past, and that investigators will seek to establish if those responsible for Friday’s attacks had acted on their own accord, or had been “manipulated” by others.

Several telecommunications networks in France were damaged last night, according to Digital Affairs Minister Marina Ferrari. 

Internet and phone services have been affected in local areas, according to Ferrari, who said on X: “I condemn these cowardly and irresponsible acts in the strongest possible terms.”

Services in Paris do not appear to be affected.

Telecoms network SFR says that its long-distance fiber optic network was “vandalised” in six regions across France last night.

The regions affected are Bouches-du-Rhône, Aude, Oise, Hérault, Meuse and Drôme. 

Teenager Sheng Lihao already won one gold at the air rifle mixed team event on Saturday. The Chinese shooter just added another one, this time solo, at the men’s 10-meter air rifle with a record-Olympic score.

Behind him by just 0.8 points was Victor Lindgren, who made his Olympic debut for Sweden.

Miran Maricic, from Croatia, won the bronze.

Although Team USA did not qualify for the finals this Games, the Olympic record broken by Sheng was previously held by USA’s William Shaner at the Tokyo Olympics.

The Tokyo Olympics did not go as planned for track and field sprinter Noah Lyles, who had cited his mental health as a roadblock to success during the last Games. But the current fastest sprinter on the planet says he’s more prepared this time around to step into the blocks and bring home some medals for Team USA. 

In 2021, the racial strife in the U.S. and the Covid pandemic upended life for plenty of people, including the athletes, but Lyles said part of what threw him off during the last Games was what wasn’t there: “If there is no crowd, that is most likely when you will see me lose,” he said, referring to the Tokyo Olympic Games that had extremely limited audiences. 

“Even this one has had its own fair share of trials and tribulations, but gosh, I can finally say I’m showing up to an Olympic Games not depressed, and it feels amazing,” Lyles, 27, said at a press conference this morning. 

Lyles, who is hoping to win gold in the men’s 100-meter and 200-meter, told reporters that he was thriving with the help of three therapists: everyday therapist, sports therapist and a grief therapist. 

“As I go into this championship, this biggest stage of the world, I’ve been through the hardest parts. I’ve been at the bottom. I’ve fought my way back up. I’ve fixed the weaknesses. Now here I am stronger than before. If I lose this time, it’s not going to be because I beat myself. It’s just going to be, they had to be that much better.”

Read more about Noah Lyles here. 

The gold medal for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics team figure-skating event will be reallocated in a ceremony at the Champions Park in Paris at 5:00 p.m. local time (11:00 a.m. ET) on Aug. 7, the IOC said this morning.

The International Skating Union retroactively dropped the Russian team from gold to bronze after Kamila Valieva, one of the team’s skaters, was given a four-year ban for doping. Russian athletes are competing in Paris as individual neutral athletes due to the war in Ukraine.

The move will see Team USA upgraded to gold and Japan boosted to silver.

Other reallocations will take place on Aug. 9 at 1:45 p.m. local time (7:45 a.m. ET).

Reigning 10-meter synchronized platform world champion divers from China got to hear their anthem again in Paris, with divers Lian Junjie and Yang Hao clinching their first Olympic medals, and gold ones at that.

British superstar Tom Daley and his young partner Noah Williams bagged silver, with Daley adding a fifth medal to his haul of one gold and three bronze medals that he’d won in previous games.

Canadian divers Nathan Zsombor-Murray and Rylan Wiens walked away with a bronze — their country’s first medal this Games, while Team USA did not qualify for the event.

Brazilian surfer Filipe Toledo delivered a stellar performance in Round 2 of the men’s shortboard competition today, with a score of 9.67. The surfing events of the Paris Olympics are taking place almost 10,000 miles from France, off Tahiti in French Polynesia.

Basketball veteran Chase Budinger steps on to Olympic sands for the first time this afternoon in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.

The former Pacers, Suns, Timberwolves, and Rockets forward will team up with beach volleyball partner Miles Evans to take on the French duo of Youssef Krou and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat at 10 a.m. ET.

Budinger and Evans enter this tournament as the world’s number 13 duo and the Americans need a win over the number 34 Frenchmen because competition in Pool F will get more difficult. Their next two matches are against No. 5 Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands and the No. 17 Spanish team of Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira.

The top two teams of each pool are guaranteed spots in the knockout round of 16.

Two of the greatest tennis players of all time, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, will walk onto the court at Roland-Garros today. The legends meet in the second round of the Paris Games men’s singles tournament in the second match of the day, after women’s No. 1 Iga Swiatek beat France’s Diane Parry.

It’s not the first time the Serbian and the Spaniard have met. In fact, it’ll be the 60th and the two could not be more evenly balanced. Djokovic has won 30 of those meetings to Nadal’s 29 since they first faced off on the very same Roland-Garros courts at the 2006 French Open.

While Djokovic’s career is still going strong — he recently made the final at Wimbledon before losing to Nadal’s Olympic men’s doubles partner Carlos Alcaraz — Nadal has suffered with injuries in what will likely be the last years of his career. The 38-year-old Spanish great will be looking to roll back the years to his success at the 2008 Beijing Games, when he beat Djokovic in the men’s singles semifinals on his way to the gold medal.

“It’s going to be possibly the last time we’re going to face each other on a big stage,” Djokovic said of Nadal. “Playing him is like finals, in any tournament. Particularly here, knowing what he has achieved and what he’s done for our sport.”

South Korea’s Ban Hyo-jin won gold in the women’s 10-meter air rifle event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. China’s Huang Yuting and Switzerland’s Audrey Gogniat claimed silver and medal, respectively.

A scintillating men’s 100m breaststroke final yesterday came down to a photo finish between Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi, Great Britain’s Adam Peaty and Team USA’s Nic Fink. Martinenghi edged past the joint-silver winners by just 0.02 seconds.

Before the race, 2023 world champion Qin Haiyang of China had been joint favorite for the gold along with Peaty.

Canada’s women’s soccer coach issued an apology yesterday, after she received a one-year ban from the game for her part in a spying scandal at the Paris Olympics. Bev Priestman said she would “take accountability” and cooperate with ongoing investigations.

“I am absolutely heartbroken for the players, and I would like to apologise from the bottom of my heart for the impact this situation has had on all of them,” she said in a letter issued by her lawyers. 

Team USA’s women surfers put on a show during Round 1 of Olympic surfing in Teahupo’o Tahiti.

All of the American surfers won their heats to automatically advance to Round 3 of the competition.

Check out the best of the action below and on Peacock.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach apologized to South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in a phone call yesterday, after organizers wrongly introduced the South Korean team as North Korean during the opening ceremony.

As the athletes made their way down the Seine on Friday, announcers identified them as “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” the official name of North Korea.

South Korea’s official name is “People’s Republic of Korea.”

“The problem was identified as a human error, for which the IOC is deeply sorry,” the statement by the IOC read.

Good morning! It’s Day 3 of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Here are some of the medal events to watch out for as you wake up and beyond.

Shooting — 10-meter air rifle women’s and men’s final — 9:30 a.m. Paris/3:30 a.m. ET and 12 p.m. Paris/6 a.m. ET, respectively.

Diving — Men’s synchronized 10-meter platform final — 11 a.m. Paris/5 a.m. ET.

Equestrian — Eventing team jumping final and eventing individual jumping final — 11 a.m. Paris/5 a.m. ET and 3 p.m. Paris/9 a.m. ET, respectively.

Cycling — Men’s cross-country mountain biking — 2 p.m. Paris/ 8:10 a.m. ET.

Archery — Men’s team bronze medal and gold medal matches — 4:48 p.m. Paris/10:48 a.m. ET and 5:11 p.m. Paris/11:11 a.m. ET, respectively

Skateboarding — Men’s street final — 5 p.m. Paris/11 a.m. ET.

Canoe slalom — Men’s canoe single final — 5:20 p.m. Paris/11:20 a.m. ET.

Artistic gymnastics — Men’s team final — 5:30 p.m. Paris/11:30 a.m. ET.

Swimming — Women’s 400-meter individual medley final — 8:30 p.m. Paris/2:30 p.m. ET.

Swimming — Men’s 200-meter freestyle final — 8:40 p.m. Paris/2:40 p.m. ET.

Swimming — Men’s 100-meter backstroke final — 9:19 p.m. Paris/3:19 p.m. ET.

Swimming — Women’s 100-meter breaststroke final — 9:25 p.m. Paris/3:25 p.m. ET.

Swimming — Women’s 200-meter freestyle final — 9:41 p.m. Paris/3:41 p.m. ET.

Fencing — Women’s saber individual bronze and gold medal bouts — 8:50 p.m. Paris/2:50 p.m. ET and 9:45 p.m. Paris/3:45 p.m. ET, respectively.

Fencing — Men’s foil individual bronze and gold medal bouts — 9:15 p.m. Paris/3:15 p.m. ET and 10:10 p.m. Paris/4:10 p.m. ET, respectively.

Follow all the action and track upcoming calendar events before they happen so you’ll never miss a beat.

On July 20, Team USA lost 117-109 to a team of WNBA standouts in the league’s All-Star game. 

What could have been a win for Team USA ahead of their departure for the Paris Games — and an opportunity to garner some hype as the women’s basketball team prepares to face off on the biggest international court — turned out to be a disappointing loss for some of the league’s biggest and most decorated stars, including Brittney Griner, Diana Taurasi and Sabrina Ionescu. 

But that shouldn’t be a discouragement for Team USA — in 2021, ahead of the Tokyo Games, it also lost to team WNBA in the All-Star game, but went on to win gold at the Olympics anyway.

Neftalie Williams has parlayed his passion for skateboarding into directing San Diego State University’s new Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports and Social Change.

“We’re looking at how skateboarding helps young people build communities, and particularly at a time when people who have dis-similar backgrounds and at a time when in the US right now we need more reasons to see each other or see the other is the self,” Williams said.

Williams isn’t just a sociologist and assistant professor at SDSU, he’s also the first “Ambassador of Skateboarding” and envoy for the U.S. Department of State.

Read the full story here.

The 2024 Paris Olympics will take on a particularly special meaning for Brittney Griner.

The WNBA star will be competing for her country for the third time in Paris — and the first time since she was detained in Russia on drug charges for nearly 10 months in 2022.

“BG is locked in and ready to go,” Griner told NBC News. “I’m happy, I’m in a great place. I’m representing my country, the country that fought for me to come back. I’m gonna represent it well.”

Read the full story here