It’s the final night for swimming and the men’s golf tournament, as Caeleb Dressel and Xander Schauffele try to add to the U.S.
The team of Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, Caeleb Dressel and Zach Apple outpaced Adam Peaty and Great Britain, who came home in 3:27.51, to finish off the Olympics with one last gold for the Americans.
In the women’s race, Cate Campbell passed Abbey Weitzeil on the final leg to win gold for the Australians in an Olympic record 3:51.60, just over one-tenth of a second ahead of the U.S.
Claes and Sponcil won a tight first set, 24-22, before dropping the second, 15-13.
Nine players are within four shots of the lead, including Ireland’s Rory McIlroy, who starts the day three shots back.
Here’s a look at the top U.S.-centric events of Saturday night and into Sunday morning Eastern time.
Simone Biles won’t compete in either of the women’s events as she continues to deal with the “twisties.” Suni Lee gets another shot at gold in the uneven bars.
A host of heats and finals in both sessions, highlighted by the men’s 100-meter final in the last race of the Sunday morning session.
And if this were a group stage of some tournament, you’d have to say China wins the tiebreaker with those 21 golds.
SAITAMA, Japan — Team USA has a new all-time leading scorer and its shooters are coming alive.
There is growing evidence that Team USA just might be OK as it heads from pool play to the Olympic knockout round, following its second consecutive blowout win, this time over the Czech Republic by a count of 119-84 Saturday.
Alyssa Naeher came up big in the USWNT’s Olympic quarterfinal win over the Netherlands on Friday, saving a penalty in regular time and two during the decisive shootout.
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The U.S., which finished in second place in their group at 2-1, won’t know who they’re facing in the quarterfinals until group play finishes Sunday.
Argentina and Japan, both 0-2 and both with better point differentials, play Sunday with the winner improving their point differential even more and joining Germany as the two third-place teams to get through.
beating South Korea, 4-2, on Saturday to finish 2-0 and secure the top seed out of Group B.
But even with a loss to Japan or in the following round, they could still get to the gold-medal game.
Spain, which features Euro 2020 players Dani Olmo and Unai Simon, is in.
In other track and field medal news: Do not mess with the Swedes in the men’s discus throw.
In the women’s 100-meter, it’s setting up to be a Jamaican showdown for gold between the last two Olympic champions.
He leads Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama by one shot after the host nation’s top player shot a 4-under 67 to move into second place.
Djokovic goes home empty-handed after also pulling out of the mixed doubles medal match with Serbian partner Nina Stojanovic, citing a shoulder injury.
is in fourth place in the group, ahead of winless Japan and South Africa, with just one game to go in group play and the top four in standings advancing to the knockout stage.
women’s volleyball team suffered its first defeat of the tournament Saturday in Tokyo, falling 3-0 to the ROC.
Claes and Sponcil ended up on the opposite side of the bracket from fellow Americans April Ross and Alix Klineman, making an all-American final possible.
In typical Katie Ledecky fashion, the American led wire-to-wire to win gold in the women’s 800-meter freestyle in 8:12.57, her third straight Olympic gold in the event.
Simone Biles withdrew from the event finals for vault and uneven bars at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday, USA Gymnastics announced.
in first place after one leg, but strong middle legs from Jonathan Brownlee and individual silver medalist Georgia Taylor-Brown helped Great Britain hold off a last-leg charge from the Americans and win gold in the first-ever Olympic mixed relay triathlon.
Both no doubt have plenty more to show in later rounds, but neither had any trouble on a steamy day in Tokyo.
ET, which consists of teams of four where each athlete does one-fifth the normal distances in swimming, cycling and running.
with the conclusion of the second round that was suspended due to weather on Friday.
For Colangelo, 81, the program’s managing director who rebuilt USA Basketball into a three-time gold medalist and two-time FIBA World Cup champ beginning in 2005, one more gold here in Tokyo would be the fitting capper to a brilliant run that came with a bit of a bumpy landing.
While the Americans don’t have to beat the Czech Republic on Saturday to advance to knockout play, a loss would only further sink a team and program that is trying to shake off an unprecedented six defeats in two years.
Caeleb Dressel is back in the pool going for gold, Katie Ledecky swims her final event of the Tokyo Olympics, track and field continues with the women’s 100-meter final and more, and the U.S.
The morning sessions, though, are only going to be on streaming, with some of the major races shown on the following night’s prime-time broadcast.
The men are playing at a reasonable hour on the East Coast, but you’ll still have to go to Peacock or streaming to watch them live.
The United States is 1-0 after beating Israel, 8-1, on Friday.
for first place overall in the medal race and seized the lead in total golds thanks to a nine-medal day.
The other American team, Nick Lucena and Phil Dalhausser, is also now guaranteed a spot in the round of 16.
Down 2-1 early in the second half, the Netherlands got the equalizer and nearly won it on a penalty attempt in the final 10 minutes.
Ethiopia’s Selemon Barega won the first track and field medal event of the Games on Friday, taking the men’s 10,000-meter by less than a second over Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo.
Also in the Friday morning Eastern time session, the United States failed to qualify for the 4X400-meter mixed relay after being disqualified due to handing the baton over outside the allowed zone.
Caeleb Dressel posted the top time in the men’s field, and the difference from him to second place was the same as the distance from second to 16th.
A round of semis and finals is set for Friday night Eastern time, and the last night of finals is Saturday.
The Americans fell behind 14-0 in the first half Friday and couldn’t mount a rally in their women’s rugby quarterfinal against Great Britain.
Novak Djokovic isn’t invincible after all.
Djokovic raced out to a 6-1 first-set win against Germany’s Alexander Zverev, but Zverev turned the match around to win the last two 6-3, 6-1.
women’s water polo team got back on track after its first Olympic loss in 13 years, beating the ROC 18-5 on Friday.
women’s basketball team cannot come out and say, without question, it is going to win another gold.
American Xander Schauffele rose to the top of the leaderboard in the men’s golf tournament with an 8-under 63, including three straight birdies to close the round, to get to 11 under on the tournament.
American Connor Fields, a medal favorite in the men’s BMX racing event, crashed in his semifinal race and left the course in an ambulance.
The men’s and women’s finals continued after the crash, with the Netherlands’ Niek Kimmann winning gold in the men’s race.
men’s volleyball team lost for the second time in three games to fall to 2-2 in group play and keep their quarterfinal hopes in question for now.
men’s 400-meter hurdles hope Rai Benjamin started off strong, winning his qualifying heat Thursday night in 48.60 seconds in the opening session of track, easing off the gas at the end as the top four from each heat are guaranteed a spot in the semis.
Jamaicans Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce have combined to win the last three 100-meter Olympic golds, and they look formidable again, with both easily topping their heats while still appearing to leave plenty in the tank.
Ryan Murphy and Lilly King won silvers and Annie Lazor took bronze as the Americans picked up a few more medals Thursday night despite being shut out of gold.
Caeleb Dressel continued to look strong in his signature event Thursday night, setting another Olympic record in the 100-meter butterfly semis in 49.71 seconds to take the top seed into Friday night’s final.
beach volleyball duo of April Ross and Alix Klineman dominated the decisive third set against the Netherlands to finish group play 3-0 and turn the page to the round of 16.
The second round of the men’s golf tournament has teed off, the first action of Friday in Japan.
At 8 p.m., track and field gets going with preliminary heats in the women’s 100-meter and beach volleyball continues with another match for April Ross and Alix Klineman, with swimming to follow at 8:30 p.m.
As recent dialogue on social media has made clear, “hooper” is a special title in basketball circles, different from a basketball player and endowed with its own cache.
Plum, the Las Vegas Aces guard, was the Olympics’ leading scorer with 55 total points, tying China’s Lili Wang but doing so in one fewer game.
It’s a busy day in Tokyo as track and field joins the fray, more swimming medal races go down in prime time, and the USWNT enters the knockout stage.
Sha’Carri Richardson would’ve been one of the first athletes to take center stage in track and field if not for her suspension.
Americans Lilly King, Annie Lazor, Ryan Murphy, Bryce Mefford, Abbey Weitzeil and Michael Andrew go for medals in the evening session.
Other notable tee times: Collin Morikawa and Rory McIlroy, 7:25 p.m.; Reed, 7:41 p.m.; Schauffele, 9:14 p.m.; Justin Thomas, 9:25 p.m.
The United States extended its overall lead to seven medals and inched closer to the overall lead in golds as well.
women won the first two sets before holding on for a five-set win over Turkey on Thursday in women’s volleyball, moving them to 3-0 and clinching a spot in the quarterfinals.
With Simone Biles out of the event, the women’s all-around gold was their for the taking.
Sepp Straka, a 28-year-old Austrian with no PGA Tour wins, jumped out to the lead after the first day of the men’s golf tournament with an 8-under 63.
Open title to complete the rare “Golden Slam” — winning all four majors and the Olympics in the same year.
held a slim lead at the end of each of the first three quarters Thursday before Italy rallied in the fourth to win their men’s water polo group play game.
Katie Ledecky entered the pool in third place, then stormed back to pass the Australians and nearly catch China for gold as the U.S.
American pole vaulter Sam Kendricks, one of the top contenders for the men’s gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics, tested positive for COVID-19 and will not compete in the Games, the U.S.
Caeleb Dressel held off a hard-charging field for gold in the men’s 100-meter freestyle on Wednesday, finishing in an Olympic record 47:02.
Earlier in the night, Bobby Finke was a surprise gold-medal winner for the U.S.
is in a group with those teams and Australia, trying to improve on their fifth-place finish in the Olympic debut of the sport in 2016 in Rio.
Beiwen Zhang was a few wins from changing that in the women’s singles competition before an apparent leg injury during her round of 16 match Wednesday forced her out of the tournament.
team of Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcil rolled to another win in pool play, beating Kenya, 21-8, 21-6.
Italy added a pair of medals in rowing, taking gold in the women’s and bronze in the men’s lightweight double sculls.
Women’s 100m free semis : The two Americans in the field, Abbey Weitzeil and Erika Brown, are in the first race.
Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas, Patrick Reed, Xander Schauffele and more are set to tee off in prime time this evening.
beach volleyball team of Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcil plays its second group game of the tournament, against Kenya.
The men’s golf tournament kicks off the live action Thursday in Tokyo, with many of the biggest names set to tee off in prime time.
It’s the final group game for Lucena and Dalhausser, who would likely put themselves into the knockout stage with a win.
Two of the biggest stars in the tournament, Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm, were forced to withdraw due to COVID-19, but there are still some notable names set to tee off in prime time.
The United States still has a four-medal overall lead on China after Wednesday’s action in Tokyo.
The Americans did as they were supposed to and dismantled the Islamic Republic of Iran, 120-66, for their first win of the Tokyo Olympics.
The team full of WNBA players entered as the favorites and didn’t disappoint, winning every game except a meaningless group-stage finale against Japan as they shook off the pre-tournament loss of Katie Lou Samuelson due to COVID-19 protocols.
Japan’s Daiki Hashimoto won gold in the men’s individual all-around on Wednesday, putting the host nation back atop the leaderboard in gold medals.
Top seed Novak Djokovic moved onto the quarterfinals of the men’s tennis tournament with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain.
Hungary roared back in the fourth quarter to erase a two-goal deficit and send a little message to the American women’s water polo team with a 10-9 win.
The Americans, whose only loss was to Japan in a meaningless group-stage finale, will face the ROC in the final at 8:55 a.m.
hit 19 3-pointers, including a 13-of-21 start in the first half, displaying ball movement not seen in the exhibitions and first group game leading up to Wednesday.
Devin Booker had 16 points, Jayson Tatum added 14, and Zach LaVine had 13 points, eight assists and four rebounds for the U.S.
If you took a day off from the Olympics yesterday, you missed Simone Biles pulling out of the women’s gymnastics team final in a stunner, then talking candidly about the reasons why.
The Americans improved to 2-1 in their group with two games left to play — against Brazil and Argentina.
After losing her bids for gold in the 200- and 400-meter freestyle earlier in these Olympics, Katie Ledecky bounced back Tuesday in her signature event, the 1500-meter freestyle, winning easily to get her first gold of these Games and fifth individual gold in her career.
Their 21-19, 23-21 win over Switzerland has them at 2-0 with a match against Qatar still to go in pool play.
The American star started off behind and never caught up to the leaders in Tuesday’s women’s 200-meter freestyle final, finishing out of the medal picture in fifth.
Hali Flickinger and Regan Smith finished second and fourth, respectively, behind China’s Zhang Yufei in the women’s 200-meter butterfly semis.
Romania won gold on the women’s side, France on the men’s and the Netherlands won hardware in both as the first medals of the day in Tokyo were handed out in double sculls rowing.
In quadruple sculls, the Netherlands took gold in the men’s event, with Great Britain in silver and Australia in bronze.
NBC’s prime-time coverage tonight will show you what happened with Simone Biles and the women’s gymnastics team earlier today, as well as another night of swimming finals — including two Katie Ledecky medal races.
finished second in Group G with one win, one draw and one loss, putting them ahead of Australia on goal differential.
And in his first Olympic game on Monday, Slovenia’s Luka Doncic scored 48 of his country’s 118 points.
There are a number of other statistics we could pull to belabor the point, but the bottom line is, Team USA’s offense under Gregg Popovich is not what it should be.
It’s a make-or-miss game that dictates a lot of what you do on the floor.
The United States surged into the overall medal lead with a silver-laden day in Tokyo, nearly doubling their total with 11 more medals added Tuesday.
The United States continued a run of silver medals Tuesday in the dressage grand prix special — or “horse dancing,” as the great Mary Carillo might call it — beating out Great Britain and finishing behind a dominating performance from Germany.
Brilliant pitching all tournament long from Cat Osterman and Monica Abbott saw the Americans allow only four total runs in six games, but they only scored nine themselves.
With their star out due to a “medical issue,” per USA Gymnastics, the American team came up short of the lofty standard of the ROC, which won gold.
Biles left with what USA Gymnastics is calling “a medical condition” after just one rotation in Tuesday’s final, a shocking blow to a team that had gold-medal aspirations.
In his first individual race of the Games, Caeleb Dressel cruised into the men’s 100-meter freestyle semis in the highlight of the swimming morning session.
Three quick tries and conversions gave the Americans a 21-0 lead, but Great Britain got seven back before the half and then kept the comeback rolling into the second half as the U.S.
Biles had left the arena with a trainer after her vault, but returned with her grips on for the Americans’ uneven bars rotation.