Simone Biles continues to shine for Team USA, winning gold medal in women's vault final
American gymnast Simone Biles earned her 10th Olympic medal after winning gold in the women's vault final on Saturday, August 3.
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In her Olympic debut, Sha'Carri Richardson settled for the silver medal in the women's 100 meters.
Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred earned gold at 10.72 seconds. USA's Melissa Jefferson received the bronze.
It's the first time since 1996 two Americans medaled in the event.
The 24-year-old was going to compete in Tokyo three years ago, but she tested positive for cannabis. She accepted a one-month suspension by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, making her ineligible for the 100 meters. She was also not selected for the 4x100 relay team, delaying her Olympic debut until this year.
Richardson won the event at the world championships in Budapest last year with a career-best 10.65, automatically putting herself in the gold medal discussion in Paris. But she fell 15 hundredths of a second short.
The Olympics website says Richardson's reaction time was 0.221 seconds, the slowest of the eight runners in the final, while Alfred's was 0.144. Ultimately, simple math says it didn't quite matter, but it does show a key reason why Richardson had to fight from behind early on.
Australian boxer and featherweight champion Skye Nicolson has come to the defense of two boxers at the center of a gender eligibility controversy at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Nicolson, who competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, took to social media to address the situation involving Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting after it surfaced during the 2024 Paris Olympics that both athletes were previously disqualified from the 2023 International Boxing Association (IBA) Women’s World Championships over what president Umar Kremlev said was a positive test for "XY chromosomes."
"I’ve actually fought and sparred both of the girls. They were born female. They were born with an XY chromosome, which is the male chromosome, but they were born with female bodies. They have the physical attributes of a female," she said.
"They have grown up as girls, as females, as women. They have competed as women the whole time. These are not naturally born men who have decided to call themselves women or identify as women to fight women in the Olympics. So, at the random World Championships, when IBA decided to do chromosome testing, that is when these two athletes were discovered to have XY chromosomes. It wasn’t a testosterone test. It wasn’t that they failed anything like that. It wasn’t a physical test. They do not have the physical attributes of a male.
"And while it is a bit of a gray area, I think the abuse and the power of the media, and people just jumping on the bandwagon without knowing all the details, is honestly horrible."
Anthony Ammirati may not be headed home from the Olympics with a medal, but he may just be a winner after all.
The 21-year-old French pole vaulter was vying for a spot in the men's pole vault final but didn't qualify.
During his third attempt Saturday, Ammirati was trying to clear a height of 5.70 meters, and he had a bizarre failed attempt.
Unfortunately for Ammirati, his male region clipped the bar twice while he went over it, resulting in a failed vault.
"oh he brought that baguette to the games," one user wrote in one of the more printable responses.
"Well, you win some you lose some," added another.
An X user even tallied Ammirati's Instagram follower count, which increased from around 8,400 to just over 9,000 in under a minute. By 9 p.m. ET, it had reached nearly 43,000.
Ryan Crouser remains the best shot put thrower in the world.
For the third consecutive Olympic Games, the American will take home the shot put gold medal, with a best throw of 22.90 meters that won by 0.75 meters.
He's the first shot put thrower to win three consecutive gold medals.
Fellow American Joe Kovacs took home the silver for the second Olympics in a row.
Crouser holds the world record with a throw of 23.56 meters, which he accomplished May 27, 2023, in Los Angeles at the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix.
Ever since Usain Bolt hung up the spikes, track and field has been searching for the new face of the sport and might find it this weekend.
Noah Lyles is on a quest to win four gold medals. The American sprinter will run in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay, while his status for the 4x400m relay is up in the air (although he is prepping for it).
One may think that it gets boring after a while to see the same person win all the time. Bolt threepeated in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m from 2008 to 2016.
However, nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis, arguably the last American face of track and field, says there is "no question" that it would be "best for the sport" if Lyles were to take home at least a couple of gold medals from Paris.
"I think the sport needs someone like him that’s a champion. He’s the defending champion, the fastest man in the world right now, and we need someone to grab onto. I think he’s the perfect guy to do that, and I’m excited about that," Lewis told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.
"I think track does better when we do have a superstar. That’s why I think if Noah were to win, he would elevate the sport as well. As opposed to saying ‘I wonder who’s going to win,’ people want to say ‘I want him’ or ‘I don’t want him.’ They want to root for someone, or root against someone. I think it creates more intensity when you have someone that dominates, and that’s been throughout history. . . . People have really gravitated to the sport when people really dominated more."
This is an excerpt from a report by Ryan Morik
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Team USA’s Vincent Hancock won gold in the men’s skeet shooting final on Saturday for his fourth gold medal in five Olympic Games.
Hancock is one of six American athletes to ever win four Olympic gold medals in the same event. The 35-year-old just missed two of 60 targets, and was in first for the entire competition, although in a draw at points.
“That’ll never get tiring. For me it’s something that I work for for four years,” Hancock said. “At this point, it just seems to be the luck of the draw for me. I do the best that I can and just hope and pray for the best.”
Fellow American Conner Prince won the silver medal.
Ryan Canfield and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Jasmine Moore became the first American woman to medal in triple jump on Saturday, winning a bronze medal for Team USA.
Moore, 23, is also first U.S. woman to make the Olympic Games in both the triple jump and the long jump. She not only made history by qualifying for both, but is halfway to winning a medal in both events.
In the 2020 Tokyo Games, she finished in 12th in the qualifying round of the triple jump. Moore is aiming for similar results in the long jump final on August 8.
Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.
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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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Team USA's mixed 4x400-meter relay team took home the silver medal on Saturday, just one day after setting a new world record in the semifinals.
Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Bryce Deadmon and Kaylyn Brown improved on the American performance in Tokyo where they took home the bronze medal, finishing on Saturday with an official time of 3:07.74.
In the final exchange, Team USA looked prime for the gold medal 19-year-old Brown was passed just before the finish line by Femke Bol of Team Netherlands.
Ryan Morik 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.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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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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The golden girls are at it again.
Simone Biles became just the second woman in Olympic history to win the gold medal in vault twice, after scoring a 15.300 in the final on Saturday. Team USA teammate Jade Carey earned her spot on the podium with a 14.466 for the bronze.
Biles is already off to a memorable start in the Paris Games.
She won gold in the women’s gymnastics all-around team final earlier this week, to move past Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals than any other American gymnast with eight total. But on Thursday, Biles went for more hardware in the women’s individual all-around clinching her sixth gold medal with a dazzling floor exercise routine.
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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.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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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.
Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.
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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.
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