Team USA added to their medal count on Tuesday with women’s gymnastics gold in the team final, silvers in the women’s 400-meter individual medley, women’s 100-meter backstroke, men’s 800-meter freestyle and the men’s 4x200-meter freestyle relay and bronze medals in the women’s rugby sevens match and women’s 100-meter backstroke.
As the Western Hemisphere began to wake up on Wednesday, the United States had 26 total medals, including four gold. It was the most total medals of any country participating in the Olympics. But the team is still lacking in gold medals.
Japan leads all countries with seven gold medals with France, China and Australia behind Japan with six. South Korea has five gold medals while the U.S. and Great Britain are tied with four.
There are several medal events still to come over the course of the day.
Over the next few weeks, the world will get to watch some of the best athletes in the world compete at their craft.
While the 2024 Paris Games have 33 different events, there are still some notable sports that have never been played in the Olympics.
American Football has never made an appearance in the Olympics. However, flag football has been approved by the IOC to be an Olympic event for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
Some of the NFL’s best yearn for the opportunity to play flag football in the 2028 Los Angeles Games to represent their country.
Cricket
Despite it being the second most-watched sport in the world, it only appeared in the 1896 Games before being withdrawn from the event due a lack of entrants.
However, cricket will be an event in the 2028 Olympic Games so the over century long wait will be over in four more years.
Darts
There was some discussion about darts potentially making it into the 2024 Paris Olympics, but to no avail.
The sport is gaining momentum around the world but not yet an Olympic sport.
Bowling
Bowling has appeared as a demonstration sport in the Games before, but never officially an Olympic sport.
Mixed Martial Arts
MMA is immensely popular across the world, but not an Olympic sport. Some believe the sport is too violent to ever be an Olympic sport.
Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
Team USA is looking to continue to build upon their Olympic dominance at the Paris 2024 Games.
Throughout the Olympic Games, the United States is the most prolific medal-winning nation in the history of the Olympics.
The United States collected a total of 2,968 medals throughout the history of the Games prior to the 2024 Summer Olympics. 1,179 gold medals, 956 silver medals, and 833 bronze medals.
Team USA has placed first in the Summer Olympic table in 18 of the 29 Games in 28 appearances. The United States boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Team USA won the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, bringing home 113 total medals, with 39 of them gold. China finished in second place with 89 total medals with 38 of them gold.
However, in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics the United States finished in 5th place with 25 total medals.
Noray had the most with 37, the Russian Olympic Committee came in second with 32, Germany in third with 27, and Canada in fourth with 26.
Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
{{#rendered}}Katie Ledecky is the overwhelming favorite to win the gold medal in the women’s 1500-meter freestyle final and she’s making sure fans tune in to Wednesday night’s race.
Ledecky took to social media to tease the final, which will take place at 3:13 p.m. ET.
She looked effortless in the pool on Tuesday after cruising to the women’s the final with a more than 17 second lead over the second place finisher in the prelim.
Ledecky is searching for her eighth Olympic gold medal . She is a four-time Olympian with 11 medals. She is the most decorated female swimmer in history, which includes 21 world championship gold medals.
Donna Kelce, the mother of Super Bowl champion brothers Travis and Jason, reposted a critical take of the controversy around the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Monday.
The opening ceremony was criticized for making a mockery of "The Last Supper" – one of the most revered moments in Christianity. Those defending the segment have claimed the ceremony was meant to resemble the feast of Dionysus.
Kelce’s repost called for better education and to limit "mindlessly sharing posts."
"This is what happens when you ban books and limit education," the Facebook post she shared read. "The Opening Ceremony of the Olympics wasn’t a mock of the Last Supper. If you have any knowledge of the Greek origin of the Olympics and the French’s rich history of theater you would have gotten this. However, because of your veiled homophobia, some of you can’t discern factual information. "This is was what went down last night, so do your own research into the Olympics."
This is an excerpt from a report by Ryan Gaydos.
There are 195 internationally recognized countries in the world, so how are 207 teams competing in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games?
That is because, technically, there are no countries participating in the Olympic Games, but rather athletes from National Olympic Committees (NOCs).
The medal tallies and success are contributed to the countries where the athletes come from.
In a statement the International Olympic Committee said, “Athletes from the territories of 206 National Olympic Committees and the IOC Refugee Olympic Team (EOR) will take part at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.”
Some of the teams competing for gold, silver and bronze medals include the United States of America, American Samoa, Egypt, Canada, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Ireland, Japan, Panama, Sweden, Virgin Island, U.S. and Virgin Islands, British, among many others.
Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
{{#rendered}}Two-time Olympian Perris Benegas has earned her first Olympic medal in the women’s BMX freestyle competition on Wednesday.
Benegas, who finished fourth in the same event in Tokyo, picked up a silver medal after scoring 90.70 on her second run at the urban sports park built at Place de La Concorde. She placed second behind China’s Deng Yawen, who won China's first gold in the event.
A big day for Benegas followed heartbreak for fellow American Hannah Roberts, a five-time world champion, who crashed out on both her runs and failed to medal.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Canada women’s soccer lost its appeal against FIFA’s penalty of a six-point docking amid the drone-spying scandal that plagued them at the start of the Paris Olympics.
Canada’s six-point penalty remains and will still have zero points in its Group A despite being the only team in the group that has two wins. The team is three points out of first place but has the largest goal differential of any team (+2).
Canada plays Colombia on Wednesday. If they win, the team could catapult into the knockout stage even with the scandal clouding up their time in Paris.
The team is the defending goal medal champions.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Olympic fencing in Paris took a controversial turn on Monday after Hong Kong’s Cheung Ka-long defeated Italy’s Filippo Macchi 15-14 in the men’s foil.
The gold medal bout needed three stoppages for video reviews to determine the deciding point. The final point was awarded to the Hong Kong fencer while Italy’s side protestedItalian Fencing Federation president Paolo Azzi said a complaint would be filed with the International Olympic Committee.
“Never seen anything like this. Filippo Macchi is the real winner and he was denied a gold he deserved,” Azzi said in a statement.
Italian supporters took to Instagram to express their displeasure with Cheung’s win, even going to the fencer’s social media account to say Macchi had been robbed. However, Hong Kong supporters responded with mockery about their love for pineapple on pizza.
Pizza Hut in Hong Kong and Macao offered free pineapple toppings on any pizzas on Tuesday and Wednesday to celebrate Cheung’s fine.Cheung is the first Hong Kong fencer to win two gold medals.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Simone Biles is running out of historic thresholds to cross off.
The 27-year-old American gymnast led the US to a team gold in the women's gymnastics final on Tuesday, clinching the medal with her floor routine. Italy took silver.
For Biles, Tuesday's gold medal marks her eighth Olympic medal overall. This makes her the most decorated Olympic gymnast in US history, as she surpassed "Magnificent Seven" star Shannon Miller for most career Olympic medals.
Biles is still 10 medals behind the all-time record set by Larisa Latynina, of the former Soviet Union. Latynina also has the record for most gold medals with nine.
Over the course of her illustrious Olympics career, Biles has won five gold medals, a silver and two bronze medals. Another medal at the 2024 Olympics would put her in a tie with Romania’s Nadia Comăneci and the former Soviet Union’s Ludmilla Tourischeva.With the way Biles has performed thus far, it doesn’t appear that she’s done yet.
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
France’s Cassandre Beaugrand was finally able to compete in the women’s triathlon after days of concerns over the water quality of the River Seine. She brought home a gold medal to her home country to kick off a Wednesday filled with medal events.
Other sports will also have medals events in and around Paris.
Triathlon will be back on the docket along with diving, rowing, cycling BMX freestyle, shooting, judo, canoe slalom, gymnastics, fencing and swimming.
There are other sports in action as well as they move closer to determining gold, silver and bronze medals. Volleyball, beach volleyball, equestrian, hockey, table tennis, basketball, boxing, handball, archery, tennis, sailing, badminton, water polo, 3x3 basketball and soccer are on the menu as well.
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