Simone Biles continues to shine for Team USA, winning gold medal in women's vault final

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Americans Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh initially finished second and third in the women’s 200-meter individual medley final on Saturday, but Walsh was disqualified after it was determined that she did not complete the backstroke section of the race fully on her back.

Australia’s Kaylee McKeown was awarded the bronze medal instead, and Canada’s Summer McIntosh set an Olympic record notching her third individual gold medal of the 2024 Games with a time of 2:06.56.

This was Walsh’s lone event in the Paris Games - she won silver in the same event at the 2020 Tokyo Games. Douglass took home the silver, her third medal of the Olympic Games. She won gold in the women’s 200m breaststroke, and silver in the women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay.

Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.

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Ryan Crouser’s Olympic dream of pulling off a three-peat in the men’s shot put final is off to a great start. 

The defending two-time gold medalist was animated after his first attempt where he threw for 22.64 meters. He currently leads after the first attempt. 

Crouser, 31, is a three-time world champion and has four NCAA shot put titles from his time with the Longhorns. He holds the world record in both the indoor and outdoor shot put. He won his first gold in Rio in 2016 and again in Tokyo in 2021. 

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Simone Biles is one of the greatest gymnasts in Olympics history.

Biles burst onto the scene when she won four gold medals and another bronze in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She won gold in the all-around, vault, and floor exercise disciplines and was part of the team that took home the gold as well. She won bronze in the balance beam.

In the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Biles won a silver medal in the team competition and bronze in the balance beam. A bout with the twisties took her out of most of the events.

There were questions about whether she would return for the 2024 Olympics almost immediately after leaving Tokyo. After a couple of years off, Biles returned to competition in August 2023. She got back to her form and was set for competition this summer.

Biles was looking like a sure thing heading into the Olympics with stunning performances at the U.S. Classic and Olympic trials. She didn't disappoint in Paris, already earning three gold medals in the team all-around, the individual all-around, and the vault.

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Stephen Nedoroscik, who has gone viral for his routine on the pommel horse, has completed what he set out to do in the 2024 Paris Olympics. 

The first-time Olympian earned a bronze medal in the pommel horse final on Saturday, scoring 15.300 points to put Team USA into medal contention. This is Nedoroscik’s second medal of the Summer Games. 

He helped Team USA to a bronze medal in the team final earlier this week, sealing the program’s first Olympic medal in 16 years. 

Imane Khelif

Imane Khelif of Algeria will earn a medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics after defeating Hungarian Anna Luca Hamori in the women's quarterfinal of the 66-kilogram division on Saturday.

Khelif moves on to the semifinal and will at least take home a bronze medal after winning the fight by unanimous decision. The boxer's victory comes amid a wave of scrutiny by the International Boxing Association after the sports governing body claimed Khelif failed an unspecified gender eligibility test for women’s competition last year.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stood by Khelif's participation in these Games.

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Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer at the center of a gender eligibility controversy, has entered the ring on Saturday for a quarterfinal fight against Anna Luca Hamori of Hungry.

Khelif advanced on Thursday after defeating Italy’s Angela Carini, who threw in the towel after just 46 seconds.

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Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul of Team USA defeated Tomas Machac and Adam Pavlasek of the Czech Republic in men’s tennis doubles to win a bronze medal on Saturday.

Fritz and Paul won 6-3, 6-4 in just a little over an hour. This is the second medal Team USA won in men’s tennis doubles on Saturday.

Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram lost to team Australia’s Matthew Ebden and John Peers in the gold medal match in a tie breaker and were awarded with a silver medal. The Australians won the gold medal match 6-7,7-6,10-8.

Team USA now has 46 medals overall thus far in the Olympics.

The American duo of Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram have earned silver medals in the men’s doubles final at Roland Garros on Saturday after losing the gold medal match to Matt Ebden and John Peers of Australia in a tiebreaker. 

Ebden and Peers won the match 6-7 (6), 7-6 (1), 10-8, earning Australia just its second tennis gold medal in Olympic history. 

Ram, 40, was attempting to make history by becoming the oldest player to win an Olympics tennis gold — for men or women, in singles or doubles — since the sport returned to the Summer Games in 1988.

Team USA has a chance to medal again in the bronze medal match on Saturday with Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul.

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American track superstar Noah Lyles finished second in the opening heat of the Olympics 100-meter sprint on Saturday.

Lyles, 27, started slow and had to turn it on to finish in 10.04 seconds, six hundredths of a second behind British sprinter Louie Hinchliffe for first. With the result, he will not have the premier lane choice when he races in the semifinal on Sunday.

“I downplayed my competitors for sure," Lyles said. “I was like, ‘There’s no reason to really put any emphasis on it.' But these guys proved to me that they're ready to compete. I said, ‘All right, I can't do that anymore.' I promise that will not happen again.”

Lyles is the reigning world champion in the 100 and 200m sprints.

Ryan Canfield and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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The Olympics only come around once every two years, and the summer Games once every four.

There are so many acronyms you see on during the games, but what do they all mean?

Here is a list of some of the common acronyms you might see over the course of the 2024 Paris Games:

EOR: Olympic Refugee Team

NOC: National Organizing Committee

IOC: International Olympic Committee

WR: World record, which can be set at any international event outside of the Olympics

OR: Olympic record

PB: Personal best

SB: Season best

CE: Combined events

DNS: Did not start the event

DQ: Athlete has been disqualified

Q: Participant has qualified

q: the participant has temporarily qualified, waiting on other results to see if their efforts will beat other efforts who haven’t competed yet

X: a foul or miss in jump events

r: athlete had to retire from the event

The Olympic Games will run through August 11.

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Simone Biles already has two gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, winning the all-around team final and clinching the top of the podium in the women’s individual all-around with a stunning floor exercise routine. 

But on Saturday, she’ll look to expand her medal count in the individual vault final.

While Biles is the favorite heading into the event, she’ll face fierce competition from defending gold medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil. 

Competition is expected to begin on NBC and its streaming platform at 10:20 a.m. ET. Simone Biles will be competing against fellow Team USA teammate Jade Carey, who also won gold in the women’s all-around team final.

The U.S. men’s eight rowing team took home the American’s first medal of the day on Saturday after earning a bronze medal in the final, finishing behind Great Britain and the Netherlands. 

The group, consisting of Henry Hollingsworth, Nick Rusher, Christian Tabash, Clark Dean, Chris Carlson, Peter Chatain, Evan Olson, Pieter Quinton, and Rielly Milne, earned Team USA’s first medal in the event since the 2008 Olympic Games.

It follows a history day for U.S. rowing – on Friday the men’s four took home gold for the first time since 1960.