USA men’s basketball and women’s soccer eye Olympic gold in Paris
The USWNT is looking to complete their comeback with a gold medal in Paris on Saturday, while the U.S. men's basketball team is hoping to retain their Olympic title in a final against France.
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Two-time Olympian Brooke Raboutou is going home with an Olympic medal after she won silver in the women’s sport climbing boulder and lead final on Saturday. She improved on her fifth place finish in Tokyo to finish second in Paris with 156.0 points.
Raboutou, 23, became the first American woman to medal in the event, which debuted at the Olympics in 2021.
Janja Garnbert of Slovenia successfully defended her Olympic gold medal, scoring 168.5 points.
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Nelly Korda was within striking distance of a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics for the first three days of competition, but she is sitting +3 on the day and 1-under par for the tournament after 17 holes on Saturday.
After putting a ball in the water at the 15th hole and triple bogeying the hole, Korda's medal hopes are on life support.
The world no.1 ranked golfer struggled with the last four holes of the course all week. At one point during the second round, she held sole possession of second place before a quad bogey on the 16th hole followed by a bogey on the 17th hole.
Barring something extraordinary, it seems unlikely Korda will medal in the women’s Olympic Golf tournament.
Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.
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Nevin Harrison, the reigning gold medalist in the women’s 200-meter canoe sprint, is going home with a silver medal after she just narrowly missed the top of the podium to Katie Vincent of Canada on Saturday.
Harrison, 22, finished one hundredths of a second behind Vincent, who set the world record with her time of 44.12 seconds.
In Tokyo, 19-year-old Harrison became the first American to win gold in sprint canoe and was just the second-youngest woman in Olympics history to win a title in the sport.
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The U.S. women’s soccer team is back in the gold medal match for the first time since 2012 after going undefeated in the group stages and winning a pair of extra-time victories over both Japan and Germany in the knockout.
They will face off against Brazil on Saturday in a rematch of the 2008 and 2004 Summer Olympics where Brazil settled for a silver medal in both finals against the U.S.
Brazil has never won a gold medal, but is hoping to do so with star striker Marta in what will be her international send-off.
Action is slated to begin at 11 a.m. ET.
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