Team USA earned a bronze medal the men's skiff medal race on Friday after the initial final was delayed due to weather.
The medal race was supposed to take place on Thursday. It got off to a strong start but as the boats were reaching the end of the first lap the wind completely died.
Officials started waving the blue and white checkered flag and the race was abandoned. The Uruguayan boat of Hernan Umpierre and Fernando Diz was leading when the race was stopped.
The medal race is worth double points, and teams carry their existing points into the medal race. Those scores combined produce their overall score and the team lowest number of points win. But it was a clean slate on Friday for all the boats. Wherever the boats were positioned when the race was called off does not matter.
Spain won gold, New Zealand brought home silver, while Ian Barrows and Hans Henken lead Team USA to a bronze medal.
Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.
The U.S. men's national soccer team currently trails Morocco 3-0 in the quarterfinal match of the Olympic men's soccer tournament.
After coming out of halftime down 1-0, the U.S. gave up goals to Morocco's Abdessamad Ezzalzouli and then Paris Saint-Germain star Achraf Hakimi, who scored in his own home stadium in Paris.
Sha’Carri Richardson was ready on Friday, easily winning her heat in the women’s 100-meter sprint with a time of 10.94 seconds.
Richardson, 24, is making her Olympic debut at the Paris Games. She won the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in July 2023, with a 100m sprint time of 10.82 seconds.
In the 2023 World Athletics Championships Richardson won her first gold in the 100m sprint with a time of 10.65 seconds and secured a bronze medal in the 200m sprint with a time of 21.92 seconds.
She rose to fame during her freshman year at LSU when she clocked 10.75 seconds in the 100m sprint at the 2019 NCAA Division I Championships. In 2021, the Dallas native recorded a 10.72 second time in the 100m, making her the sixth-fastest woman of all time and the fourth-fastest in American history.
She recorded a personal best of 10.57 seconds in the 100m preparing for the Paris Olympic Games in April 2023.
Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.
{{#rendered}}Soufiane Rahimi’s fifth goal of the 2024 Paris Olympics gave Morocco a 1-0 lead over the U.S. men’s national team at halftime in their quarterfinal match on Friday.
A foul was called on U.S. defender Nathan Harriel more than halfway through the first half, giving way to Rahimi’s goal off the penalty in the 29th minute. Team USA goalkeeper Patrick Schulte dove in the right direction, but wasn’t quick enough to stop Morocco’s top goal scorer in these Games.
Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting defeated Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan in the preliminary round of the women’s 57-kilogram division on Friday amid the controversy involving Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif.
Lin, 28, advanced to the quarterfinal round after defeating Turdibekova by unanimous decision.
The top seed in the division, Lin has been caught in the center of a gender eligibility controversy. The Taiwanese boxer was disqualified from the 2023 Women’s Boxing World Championships, an International Boxing Association-sanctioned event, for failing to meet gender criteria and had a bronze medal stripped away.
At the time of Lin’s disqualification, IBA President Umar Kremlev said, "Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women.”
The IBA has since maintained that Lin’s disqualification was "justified" and stood by its decision, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) defended its position in allowing Lin and Khelif to compete in the Games.
Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
Katie Ledecky cemented her legacy as the greatest female swimmer in Olympic history on Thursday.
She helped Team USA earn a silver medal in the women’s 4x200-meter freestyle relay, and in the process winning her 13th Olympic medal.
The 27-year-old is now the only woman ever reach that mark, as the record was previously held jointly by Jenny Thompson, Emma McKeon, and Dana Torres. On Thursday the swimming legend took to X to post about her appreciation.
“A special silver with the relay squad! Proud of this team!”
No other American women have more Olympic medals than Ledecky. Only four athletes rank higher on the overall list, led by fellow American swimmer Michael Phelps, whom has a whopping 28 medals.
Ledecky has one more event left in the Paris Games, the 800m free. If she earns gold in the 800m free she will be the first woman to win gold in the same individual event at four different Olympics. Phelps was the first swimmer to achieve such a feat in the 200 IM.
Ryan Canfield contributed to this report.
{{#rendered}}Two-time Olympian Sagen Maddalena has earned her first Olympic medal at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris in what was also the first shooting medal for the Americans.
Maddalena, 30, earned a silver medal in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions final, missing the top of the podium by just 1.4 points. She previously qualified for the final by breaking the Olympic record during prelims.
Friday’s silver medal also marks the first medal for Team USA in that event since 2012.
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is in the middle of a gender eligibility controversy, and the temperature on the drama only turned up after a win over a female Italian fighter at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 1.
Khelif is in the Olympics for the second time. The boxer fought for Algeria in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics when it was held in 2021. But since that time, Khelif has been in the midst of drama.
Here’s what to know about Khelif and the issue.
Vitals
Khelif is a 25-year-old boxer from Tiaret, Algeria. Khelif, who is currently a UNICEF ambassador, grew up in a rural village in the province and has been open about growing into the sport. Khelif’s father didn’t "approve of boxing for girls," according to UNICEF.
Khelif was able to start training for boxing sessions by selling scrap metal for recycling.
Boxing career
Khelif debuted on the world amateur stage at 19 years old and came in 17th at the 2018 World Championships, sanctioned by the International Boxing Association (IBA) – then known as AIBA.
Khelif finished 19th in the 2019 Women’s World Boxing Championships. The Algerian fighter was in the 2020 Olympics and made it to the quarterfinals before losing to Ireland’s Kellie Harrington.
But in 2022, Khelif finished second in the Women’s World Boxing Championships after being defeated by Amy Broadhurst. Khelif won gold medals in the 2022 African Championships, Mediterranean Games and 2023 Arab Games.
The 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships is the root of the controversy for Khelif.
This is from an excerpt by Ryan Gaydos.
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