women’s basketball team rolled on to the gold-medal game, the American women’s beach volleyball duo of April Ross and Alix Klineman won the gold medal, American Gable Steveson scored an incredible gold-medal win in wrestling, and Canada defeated Sweden in a penalty shootout to win its first-ever women’s soccer gold medal.
Another hot and humid day in Japan took a toll on the runners, with the race moved to an earlier start to help beat the heat, but Seidel thrived and became the first U.S.
We’ve also got canoe/kayak, men’s diving and rhythmic gymnastics in prime time tonight.
men’s basketball gets a rematch against France with the gold medal at stake, the baseball team faces the same situation against Japan, and we get possibly one last look at Allyson Felix in an Olympic track race in a day full of medal events in Tokyo.
The 35-year-old is expected to compete in the women’s 4X400-meter final after winning bronze Friday in the individual event.
A bad-weather weekend is forecast in Tokyo, so the women’s golf final round is getting started an hour earlier than originally scheduled, with players teeing off on both the first and 10th holes.
Along the way, she became the world’s all-time leading international goal scorer and earned a reputation as a selfless, ego-free superstar.
After 53 wins in a row, the Serbians were not about to stop the streak, and a 79-59 decision in an Olympic semifinal Friday in Team USA’s favor bore that out.
“It’s a little bothersome, but it’s fine,” Taurasi said.
is now at 98 medals, 19 better than second-place China, with several teams and individuals guaranteed either gold or silver this weekend.
With a chance to secure the gold on the fifth penalty kick, Sweden’s Caroline Seger missed over the crossbar.
In the men’s 4X100-meter relay, Italy — helmed by individual 100-meter champion Lamont Jacobs — edged out Great Britain for gold for the country’s first medal in the event since 1948.
In other track events Friday, American Paul Chelimo won bronze in the men’s 5000-meter final behind Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei and Canada’s Mohammed Ahmed.
Greece beat Hungary, 9-6, in the wee hours of the morning Eastern time Friday, and Serbia edged Spain, 10-9 later to set up the clash.
Steveson has been a collegiate star at Minnesota, undefeated in his last two seasons, and has already caught the eyes of the WWE.
In other wrestling events Friday, the ROC’s Zaurbek Sidakov won gold in the men’s freestyle 74 kg division.
Keyshawn Davis of Norfolk, Va., flashed his stuff Friday in Tokyo, defeating Armenia’s Hovhannes Bachkov on all five scorecards to advance to the lightweight gold-medal round Sunday.
A hammering left hand and rapid right hand to the body by Davis led to a scoring combination and another flurry to close the round.
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Korda saved par with a five-foot putt on the 17th hole and got up and down on 18 to finish the round with 10 consecutive pars.
came in the third quarter when Diana Taurasi appeared to be wincing and favoring her left hip as she was taken off with the Americans ahead by 23.
In the last three matches, Drews scored 22 points in a five-set win against Italy in pool play, then added 21 against the Dominican Republic in the quarterfinals and 17 in the semifinals.
in the women’s event for the first time since Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won three straight golds from 2004 to 2012.
Tomala won in 3:50:08, 36 seconds clear of silver medalist Jonathan Hilbert of Germany and 51 seconds ahead of Canada’s Evan Dunfee, who took bronze.
women’s basketball team goes for the gold-medal game, and the beach volleyball duo of April Ross and Alix Klineman tries for gold to highlight the day’s action.
wait for a gold medal in men’s boxing continued in Tokyo on Thursday when Russia’s Albert Batyrgaziev captured featherweight gold in a split-decision triumph over Cincinnati’s Duke Ragan, who departs with the silver medal.
Ragan, a 4-0 pro belonging to the Top Rank stable, was seeking to become the first American man to win gold in boxing since now-retired two-division champion Andre Ward in 2004 in Athens.
Ragan’s setback leaves the task of gold to lightweight Keyshawn Davis, who fights in a Friday semifinal, and Central California heavyweight Ricardo Torrez, who will meet favored Uzbekistan fighter Bakhodir Jalolov in Sunday’s gold-medal bout.
The United States pretty well locked up first place in the overall medal count with a 12-medal day, extending their lead over second-place China to 91-74.
Katie Nageotte cleared 4.90 meters on her second attempt to clinch another American gold in the field events, winning the women’s pole vault over the ROC’s Anzhelika Sidorova and Great Britain’s Holly Bradshaw.
men were shut out of the medal stand as the Bahamas’ Steven Gardiner won gold, with Colombia’s Anthony Jose Zambrano and Grenada’s Kirani James behind him.
In the men’s decathlon, Canada got its first-ever champion as Damian Warner won gold with an Olympic-record 9,018 points.
Megan Rapinoe opened the scoring in the eighth minute on Thursday and added a second goal in the 21st minute.
“Once we went down three going into halftime, I felt like we had the game in hand,” Durant said.
American Ryan Crouser won the gold medal in the men’s shot put with ease Wednesday, breaking his own Olympic record and repeating as champion.
Crouser set new Olympic records on his first two attempts, throws of 22.83 and 22.93 meters, respectively, before his final throw of 23.30 solidified his victory.
Fred Kerley and Ronnie Baker struggled with the pass between the second and third leg, then Cravon Gillespie — after an initial burst to get into the top four — fell off the pace over the final half of his anchor leg as the U.S.
Trayvon Bromell, who ran the first leg, was considered a favorite in that event going into the race but missed the final.
Tunisia’s Ous Mellouli — who finished 20th in this race — was the first to win medals in both disciplines, taking gold in the marathon swim and bronze in the 1500-meter freestyle in London in 2012.
Ross was part of the bronze-medal team with Walsh Jennings in Rio in 2016 and was a silver medalist with Jennifer Kessy in 2012.
Ross and Klineman have dropped just one set in six matches in Tokyo — a 2-1 win against the Netherlands in pool play on July 30.
Then at 8 p.m., some of the showcase events start up along with the NBC broadcast window.
Kevin Durant raced down the floor with the ball, pulled up in front of LeBron James and buried a 3 right in LeBron’s face to turn a two-point deficit into a one-point lead.
A similar thing happened again in the same series, the following year, with the Warriors up 2-0 in the Finals and by three points on Cleveland in Game 3 with nearly 50 seconds to go.
men’s basketball team try to snap their losing streak against Australia at the best possible time as they eye a spot in the gold-medal game.
You might think you could find the semifinals of the men’s basketball tournament on regular TV, but no, you cannot.
Plenty of Americans to watch in this batch of track and field events, and most medal events feature at least one good shot at gold for the U.S.
The baseball team’s win over the Dominican Republic on Wednesday kept alive its hopes of winning the top prize.
It’s not where the women wanted to be, but as Megan Rapinoe said, there’s still a medal to play for.
Nelly Korda shot a 4-under 67 in her first round, tied for second just one shot behind Sweden’s Madelene Sagstrom.
A nice day for Great Britain has them within shouting distance of the ROC for third place overall.
Fellow American Danielle Kang was tied for seventh at 2-under with Imbee Park, the South Korean gold medalist from Rio, and a host of others.
The Americans were tied after two and down just 7-6 after three, but Spain pulled away with a 5-2 final frame.
Brown, who turned 13 last month, won gold at the 2021 X Games in July.
Muhammad, who won gold in Rio in 2016, was attempting to become the first woman to repeat as Olympic champion in the 400 hurdles.
Holloway, 23, an NCAA champion at Florida, is competing in his first Games.
The Netherlands’ Sharon van Rouwendaal, the gold medalist from Rio in 2016, took silver here, just nine-tenths of a second behind Cunha.
The women’s 400-meter hurdles final falls in the NBC prime-time window, with American Sydney McLaughlin as the big favorite, but all of Tuesday night’s action will be on USA as well.
women went 33-0 in Olympic group play with an average margin of victory over 35 points per game.
A win here would put the United States into the semifinals of this unorthodox tournament while a second straight loss would end their gold-medal hopes and send them to the bronze-medal game.
Brighton Zeuner immediately rips off which musical artists are helping her navigate the anxieties, the uncertainties, the sheer excitement of an impending Olympic debut at age 17 on Wednesday in the women’s park event.
She is out to dispel the notion that she is the face of a sport that, to be fair, she kind of is at the moment.
The Americans’ path to a fourth consecutive gold was going to be arduous at best and, more likely, treacherous, which bore out in an Olympics-opening loss to France.
pushed its medal lead to four over China in what’s now clearly a two-way race for the top overall medal count.
After a scoreless 120 minutes in a matchup of the past two Olympic champions, Brazil beat Mexico, 4-1, on penalties to advance to the final in the men’s soccer tournament.
Dani Alves and Gabriel Martinelli scored Brazil’s first two penalty attempts while Eduardo Aguirre and Johan Vasquez missed Mexico’s first two, putting the 2012 Olympic champions in a huge hole they couldn’t dig out of.
Elsewhere, Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk took gold in the women’s hammer throw for the third consecutive Games, an Olympic record for any woman in any track and field event.
Biles, who went into the Games as a heavy favorite in multiple events, has been battling what gymnasts call “the twisties,” which causes disorientation in the air.
Kevin Durant led Team USA with 29 points, leading five players in double figures as the Americans overcame a brilliant performance by Ricky Rubio, who scored 38 points.
Rubio scored 13 points in the first quarter and Spain methodically built a lead as large as 11, 40-29, in the second, dominating the glass along the way.
But Team USA closed the first half on a 14-3 run, punctuated by a Zach LaVine dunk to tie the game at 43.
Reese’s third jump of 6.97 meters was the one to beat until Germany’s Malaika Mihombo jumped 7 meters on her sixth and final attempt.
Ross is attempting to medal in her third consecutive Games, after winning silver with Jennifer Kessy in 2012 and bronze with Kerri Walsh Jennings in 2016.
You can watch all of it live on USA, and select races will be shown during the NBC prime-time window.
While she was busy chasing her second gold medal at the London Olympics, Jrue tagged along to play the role of tourist and superfan, which he says he did with aplomb.
When he was asked what it was like to be there when Team USA won gold, he said, “Oh, it was insane.
LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON, UTAH — On what will eventually become an illogically hot afternoon in mid-June, a 24-year-old wiggles his way into a choppy piece of granite beneath a canopy, kicks his feet up on another, interlocks his fingers, leans back and looks up toward the sun and the south-facing slab of granite beneath him.
“I heard of photos around the time when the settlers first came, of just like, these massive boulder fields spewing out of this canyon.
You might know him by the end of these Olympics, this climber with the power, speed, brain and zeroed-in approach to make history.
Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee compete in the women’s balance beam final, plus Sam Mikulak and Brody Malone go in men’s events on the final day of gymnastics.
It’s the final three events of the gymnastics program in Tokyo, and Simone Biles is scheduled to be out there for the balance beam final.
The women’s long jump and men’s 400-meter hurdles, as well as heats in the men’s 200-meter , all happen during NBC’s live broadcast window Monday night.
The ROC has a firm grasp on third place before a host of countries battling for a spot at the bottom end of the top five.
The Aussies needed to win their group-stage finale Monday against Puerto Rico by at least 24 to have a shot to advance.
Americans Jake Gibb and Tri Bourne won the first set of their Round of 16 match against Germany’s Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler on Monday before falling in three sets and bowing out of the medal running in men’s beach volleyball.
In other medal events Monday, the Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan won gold in the women’s 5000-meter, with Kenya’s Hellen Obiri and Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay behind her.
will have three finalists in the women’s 400-meter hurdles final, as Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad and Anna Cockrell all went through.
The Americans held a 6-3 lead after Triston Casas’ three-run home run in the top of the fifth, but Japan got two back in the fifth, then tied it in the bottom off the ninth with a run off pitcher Scott McGough.
If they win there, they’ll play the loser of Japan-South Korea with a chance to advance to the gold-medal game against the winner of Japan-South Korea.
American Adeline Gray, who suffered a disappointing early exit in Rio and waited five years for another shot at a medal, took silver in the women’s 76 kg freestyle Monday, losing in the final to Germany’s Aline Rotter Focken.
men’s water polo team on Monday, this one to Greece, lost its third straight game to finish group play 2-0-3 and take the fourth and final quarterfinal spot out of Group A.
The Canadians, who won bronze five years ago in Rio, will face Sweden, which beat Australia in the other semifinal, in the gold medal game.
Biles withdrew from the vault, uneven bars and Monday’s floor competition.
Some of the early track events tonight include the men’s hammer throw qualification, heats for the women’s 1500-meter and the men’s long jump final.
squads face must-win games for their gold-medal hopes as we take a look at some of the top U.S.-centric events to watch Sunday night and into Monday morning Eastern time.
Sunday night’s action includes the men’s long jump and women’s 100-meter hurdles finals, as well as heats for the women’s 200-meter.
After falling back into a tie for first place in the overall medal count on Saturday, the U.S.
American 27-year-old Xander Schauffele crouched behind the marker, like a golfer does when he’s reading the green for an important putt — and this was the most important putt of his life.
While one of Schauffele’s playing partners, Paul Casey of Great Britain, was measuring his own important roll, a dizzying array of thoughts and emotions were flooding Schauffele’s brain.
The United States men’s volleyball team is done at the Olympics after a 3-0 loss to Argentina in a game that leaked into Monday morning Tokyo time.
2 seed, and with Team USA already secure as the top second seed , Spain fell into a draw where facing the Americans in a quarterfinal was possible.
After discussing with a rules official, Barshim agreed to the split, and a jubilant Tamberi jumped into his arms as the two celebrated an accomplishment with a lot of meaning behind it for both.
Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs won the men’s 100-meter Sunday, beating out American Fred Kerley for silver and Canadian Andre de Grasse for gold.
It’s one of the biggest tournament wins for the 24-year-old Zverev, who was also the ATP Tour Finals champion in 2018 and has four Masters 1000 titles.
Also Sunday, women’s doubles gold went to the Czech team of Katerina Siniakova and Barbora Krejcikova.
American star Hannah Roberts, just 19 years old, finished second Sunday in women’s park in the Olympic debut of BMX freestyle, in which competitors get 60 seconds to throw down tricks on obstacles like walls and box jumps.