Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky led a powerful displaying for the USA on the Paris Olympics on Saturday, as each Individuals added to their gold-medal assortment on Day 8 of the 2024 Video games.
Biles nailed her eponymous Yurchenko double pike vault to win the gold medal, the seventh of her Olympic profession. She has 10 complete medals to date, and has gained gold in Paris within the group remaining, the all-around and the vault.
Following one other successful efficiency, the 27-year-old Biles wouldn’t rule out a return to the Video games when they’re in Los Angeles in 2028.
Ledecky joined Michael Phelps as the one swimmers to win an occasion at 4 straight Summer time Video games.
Taking the 800-meter freestyle for the fourth time, Ledecky gained her ninth Olympic race to match 4 others for second in any Video games. Summer time or Winter. Phelps holds the file with 23 gold medals.
The U.S. swim group additionally set a world file within the 4×100 blended medley relay. Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske held off China for a successful time of three:37.43, breaking the mark of three:37.58 set by Britain when it gained gold within the occasion’s Olympic debut three years in the past.
It wasn’t such a golden night time at rain-soaked Stade de France, the place American sprinter Sha’carri Richardson gained silver within the girls’s 100-meter sprint.
Richardson was defeated by Julien Alfred, who gave Saint Lucia its first Olympic medal together with her victory. Alfred bought off to a implausible begin, then powered by means of the rain and beat Richardson by .15 seconds — about three physique lengths. It was the most important margin within the girls’s Olympic 100 since 2008.
The Individuals settled for silver and bronze for Richardson and Melissa Jefferson, respectively.
Earlier within the day, Noah Lyles completed second in a sluggish first-round qualifying warmth to make the semifinals within the males’s 100. The semifinals and finals for that race are set for Sunday.
In one other defeat, the Individuals’ 4×400 blended relay was defeated by the Netherlands a day after it set a world file in qualifying. Kaylyn Brown was chased down over the ultimate 10 meters of the anchor leg by Dutch runner Femke Bol within the delicate upset.
Elsewhere, Ryan Crouser gained his third straight gold in shot put by as soon as once more holding off countrymate Joe Kovacs, who took silver.
A take a look at different occasions that occurred on Day 8 of the Paris Video games:
Imane Khelif clinches medal at Paris Olympics
Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria clinched a medal following days of sharp scrutiny and on-line abuse as misconceptions about her gender have exploded into a bigger conflict about identification in sports activities.
Khelif defeated Anna Luca Hamori of Hungary 5:0 within the quarterfinals of the ladies’s 66-kilogram bout.
Khelif will win at the very least a bronze medal after defeating Hamori for the second victory of her tumultuous second journey to the Olympics.
U.S. males’s basketball rolls
The U.S. has the No. 1 seed going into the boys’s basketball medal spherical.
Anthony Edwards scored 26 factors, and the Individuals wrapped up the highest spot popping out of group play with a 104-83 win over Puerto Rico.
The Individuals are 3-0 in these Olympics and 8-0 to date this summer season. They face Brazil within the win-or-go-home quarterfinals in Paris on Tuesday.
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It was the primary Olympic matchup between the U.S. and Puerto Rico because the Athens Video games in 2004, when Puerto Rico ran away within the second quarter and went on to embarrass the Individuals 92-73.
Zheng wins girls’s singles gold
Zheng Qinwen gained China’s first Olympic tennis singles gold medal with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Donna Vekic of Croatia at Roland Garros.
It is the most important win of the 21-year-old’s profession. Zheng is ranked No. 7 on this planet and was the runner-up to Aryna Sabalenka on the hard-court Australian Open in January.
Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame member Li Na is the one Chinese language participant to win a Grand Slam singles title — on the 2011 French Open and 2014 Australian Open — and served as inspiration for Zheng when she was a toddler studying the game.
Xander Schauffele and Jon Rahm share males’s golf lead
A rowdy crowd at Le Golf Nationwide watched double main winner Schauffele and Rahm transfer right into a tie on the high of the 54-hold leaderboard in Olympic males’s golf.
Schauffele had a 68 and Rahm a 66 to share the lead. They’re one shot forward of Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood. Nicolai Hojgaard of Denmark tied the course file with a 62 and is three behind. So is Hideki Matsuyama.
To not be missed have been Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy. They have been solely 4 again going into the medal spherical Sunday.
USWNT beats Japan in girls’s soccer to advance to the semifinals
The usadvanced to the semifinals of the ladies’s soccer event after beating Japan, 1-0, on Trinity Rodman’s objective in further time.
The Individuals will subsequent face Germany on Tuesday with a spot within the remaining on the road.
American shooter wins fourth gold medal
U.S. shooter Vincent Hancock beat Conner Prince, his pupil, to seize his fourth Olympic gold medal in males’s skeet.
Hancock coaches Prince, a first-time Olympian, and circled to share a hug along with his silver medal-winning pupil after making his final two photographs to make sure the gold. He hit 58 out of 60 photographs to Prince’s 57.
Hancock gained skeet gold on the Olympics in 2008, 2012 and 2021 and is the one skeet shooter to take Olympic gold greater than as soon as.
10-time Olympian retires
Pistol shooter Nino Salukvadze has competed on the Olympics a file 10 occasions over 36 years and stated Saturday she’s retiring.
The 55-year-old from Georgia participated within the Paris Olympics to honor her late father, who was additionally her coach, and died on the age of 93 this yr after seeing his daughter qualify for her tenth Olympics.
Salukvadze has three Olympic medals: one gold, one silver and one bronze. In Paris, she positioned thirty eighth within the 10-meter air pistol occasion and fortieth within the 25-meter pistol.
Salukvadze’s final Olympic medal — and her first for an unbiased Georgia — was in Beijing in 2008.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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