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The 2024 Paris Olympics features a packed track and field schedule on Tuesday, as well as a few team tournaments entering the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds.
The Olympic track & field schedule features five finals, including Gabby Thomas and McKenzie Long in the women’s 200m final. Skateboarding holds prelims and finals for women’s park. Men’s basketball enters the quarterfinal stage, including the U.S. men playing Brazil. Women’s soccer enters the semifinals, playing Germany.
In all, there are 20 sports in action, and USA TODAY Sports will bring you live results, medal count, highlights, and more throughout the day. Follow along.
LYON, France — The United States women’s national soccer team defeated Germany, 1-0, in the semifinals on Tuesday to advance to the gold medal match at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Sophia Smith scored a goal in overtime, assisted by Mallory Swanson, to keep the Americans’ chances of winning their first gold since 2012 alive. Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher made an incredible save with her foot deep into extra time to keep Germany off the board.
The USWNT will face the winner of Spain vs. Brazil, which kicks off at 3 p.m. ET, on Saturday in Paris. — Nancy Armour
PARIS – French coach Vincent Collet made a massive lineup change ahead of France’s quarterfinal game against Canada, a game in which the loser was knocked out without a chance to medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Collet benched Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier, who each started the three games in group play, and the jolt worked.
France advanced to the semifinals with an 82-73 victory against Canada Tuesday at Bercy Arena. It will play Germany Thursday for a spot in the gold-medal game.
Frank Ntilikina, Nic Batum, Isaia Cordinier, Victor Wembanyama and Guerschon Yabusele started for France, which took an early 19-5 lead. The defense forced Canada to miss 10 of its first 12 shots and commit five turnovers.
Yabusele scored 22 points, Cordinier scored 20 and Fournier added 15, and Gobert logged just four minutes.
France phenom Victor Wembanyama did not have a great offensive game (just seven points on 2-for-10 shooting), but he had 12 rebounds, five assists, three steals and one block and kept Canada’s guards from scoring at will in the paint.
Canada shot 38% from the field, 24% on 3-pointers and put France on the line 42 times. France outscored Canada 33-18 from the free throw line. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led Canada with 27 points, and RJ Barrett had 16 points. — Jeff Zillgitt
The United States women’s volleyball team made short work of Tuesday’s quarterfinal, sweeping Poland 25-22, 25-14, 25-20 to move into Thursday’s semifinal against powerhouse Brazil.
The Brazilians haven’t dropped a set in four matches in these Olympics. They swept the Dominican Republic in a quarterfinal earlier Tuesday.
Against Poland, the U.S. rolled through the first two sets in a total of only 45 minutes of playing time. The Americans then overcame a 7-1 deficit to start the third set, rallying to take the lead at 15-14 and eventually close out the match to advance within one victory of another Olympic medal.
The U.S. has earned a medal in women’s volleyball in each of the past four Olympics, including a gold in Tokyo. Brazil beat Team USA for gold medals in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, while the Americans won the final match against Brazil in 2021.
In pool play in 2024, the Americans lost their first match of the Olympics against China but rebounded to edge Serbia 3-2 in a critical second match. From there, the U.S. hasn’t lost a set, sweeping host France and Poland. — Gentry Estes
It took extra time, but Sophia Smith netted the first goal in the USA vs. Germany women’s soccer tilt on Tuesday, giving the USWNT the 1-0 lead in the 95th minute.
SAINT-DENIS, France — Quincy Hall looks ready for the 400 final.
Hall raced around the track and had a clear lead ahead of all the other sprinters at the 300-meter mark. Down the homestretch, Hall maintained a five-meter lead over his competitors and cruised to the finish line in 43.95 to win his semifinal heat.
Hall won the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in the event. His season-best of 43.80 is the second fastest time in the world this year.
Grenada’s Kirani James ran a season-best 43.78 to win the second heat. While U.S. sprinter Christopher Bailey finished third, running a 44.31. Bailey’s time was good enough to advance to Wednesday’s final.
In the third and final semifinal heat, Great Britian’s Matthew Hudson-Smith took his foot off the gas with 20 meters remaining and coasted to a 44.07 to win. Hudson-Smith has the fastest time in the world this year (43.74).
Michael Norman finished second in the heat (44.26) to secure the other automatic qualifying spot.
The top two in each heat, plus the next two fastest times advanced to the 400 final.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Sarah Hildebrandt tasted Olympic glory. Now, she has an opportunity to make it sweeter.
Hildebrandt, the reigning Olympic 50kg bronze medalist in women’s wrestling, will grapple in the final on Wednesday. The 2021 Games medalist defeated Mongolia’s Otgonjargal Dolgorjay to advance to the final.
Hildebrandt will face India’s Vinesh Vinesh.
The U.S. recorded six shots (five on target) the first half, but weren’t able to get one in the back of the net. Meanwhile, the Germans recorded zero shots on goal.
PARIS — Bryce Wettstein nearly made history Tuesday in the women’s park final by becoming the first American woman to medal in skateboarding at an Olympic Games. Instead, the American women will have to wait until the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
Wettstein ended up sixth in the eight-person final after finishing the preliminaries second overall. Her score of 88.12, which came on her first run, wasn’t enough in a finals in which the women threw down. Wettstein fell in the second and third rounds.
Australia’s Arisa Trew, 14, took gold; she entered Paris as the No. 2 park rider in the world. No. 1-ranked and defending silver medalist Hiraki Cocona, who will turn 16 later this month, of Japan repeated with silver.
Great Britain’s Sky Brown, who at 13 years old won bronze in Tokyo three years prior, took bronze again.
Trew took the lead in the final round with a splendid 45 seconds of skating. The judges rewarded her with a 93.18 to move into first. Hiraki’s final run bumped her ahead of Brown but she could not leapfrog Trew. – Chris Bumbaca
USA Network is airing the game, Peacock is live streaming it.
- Goalkeeper: Alyssa Naeher
- Defenders: Crystal Dunn, Tierna Davidson, Naomi Girma, Emily Fox
- Midfielders: Rose Lavelle, Lindsey Horan, Sam Coffey
- Forwards: Trinity Rodman, Mallory Swanson, Sophia Smith
2024 Olympic medals: Who is leading the medal count? Follow along as we track the medals for every sport.
The USWNT is back to full strength. Tierna Davidson, who missed the last two matches with a leg contusion, is in the starting lineup for Tuesday’s Olympic semifinal against Germany. So, too, midfielder Sam Coffey, who missed the quarterfinal win over Japan because of yellow-card accumulation. The rest of the lineup remains unchanged. – Nancy Armour
The U.S. women’s soccer team is looking to win its first Olympic gold medal since 2012, and that quest continues in a semifinal matchup vs. Germany on Monday. USA TODAY Sports will provide live updates, highlights and more from the tilt.
Jonathan Owens seems to have gotten the full taste and experience of the 2024 Paris Olympics — including some inside pin trading.
Thanks to the Chicago Bears granting him some time away from training camp, Owens was able to watch his wife, decorated women’s gymnast Simone Biles, win several Olympic medals, including helping the USA women’s gymnastics team return to gold in the team-all-around event.
And while the first-year Bears safety was able to take in the excitement and history of Biles becoming of the most decorated U.S. Olympic gymnast (both men or women), Biles told TODAY’s Hoda Kotb Tuesday morning that he was just as excited to pin trade at the Paris Games.
“He was so excited. He was more excited to pin trade,” Biles said. “He was loving to pin trade. I didn’t think he would but I did warn him that pin trading was really huge. So he absolutely loved that.” – John Leuzzi
PARIS – Trailing by 24 points in the second quarter against Australia, Serbia chipped away at the deficit until it took a fourth-quarter lead – only to watch Patty Mills force overtime on a jump shot with two seconds left in the fourth quarter.
However, Serbia has three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic. The Serbian star scored consecutive buckets in the final 67 seconds of overtime, lifting Serbia to a 95-90 victory over Australia in a their men’x 5×5 basketball quarterfinals game Tuesday.
Jokic (Denver Nuggets) had 21 points, 14 rebounds, eight assists and four steals, and Bogdan Bogdanovic (Atlanta Hawks) had 17 points, six assists and five rebounds for Serbia. Mills (free agent) scored 20 of his 26 points in the first half, and teammate Josh Giddey (Chicago Bulls) scored 25 points for Australia.
Australia led 44-20, bit Serbia cut that to 54-42 at halftime and took a lead in the third quarter.
Serbia will play the USA-Brazil winner in the semifinals Thursday. – Jeff Zillgitt
PARIS — Before her third and final run of the women’s park skateboarding preliminaries, Bryce Wettstein wished she could slow down time.
“I think when you work that hard to get here, and you’re like, ‘I’m here, I need to enjoy it,’” Wettstein said. “So I’m feeling out of this world … that was my dream run.”
Wettstein laid down a run oozing with confidence, difficulty and skill that resulted in a 85.65 from the judges. But before the score even showed up on the video board at Place de Concorde on Wednesday, the 20-year-old pumped both of her arms through the air.
The score placed her in second place entering finals, which took place later in the day.
Wettstein fell early in her first run and posted a 75.22 in the second, which would have left her on the cusp of making finals. She told herself to remove the doubts and go full swing. − Chris Bumbaca
SAINT-DENIS, France — The Canadian Olympic Committee has revoked the accreditation of Rana Reider, the personal coach for track and field athlete Andre de Grasse, on its Olympic team, amid recent allegations of sexual and emotional abuse. Reider also coaches Italian Olympian Marcell Jacobs and American Trayvon Bromell.
Three lawsuits have been filed in Broward County, Florida against Reider and the track club he runs, among a list of other defendants.
The first complaint, which was filed in December 2023, lists the plaintiff as Jane Doe and includes an allegation of rape. The other two cases were filed in June by a 35-year-old retired long jumper from Great Britain and a 28-year-old American sprinter, who allege that Reider sexually harassed them by grabbing their buttocks or making suggestive comments about their appearances, among other claims.
USA TODAY does not identify individuals who allege sexual abuse without their permission. Attorneys for Reider did not immediately reply to messages seeking comment Tuesday. − Chase Goodbread
Stars, they’re just like us: They post negative reviews of restaurants online too. Even during the Paris Olympics.
Just look at Serena Williams’ tweet from earlier this week: “Yikes @peninsulaparis I’ve been denied access to rooftop to eat in a empty restaurant of nicer places but never with my kids,” the tennis champion posted on X. “Always a first.”
The restaurant, for its part, offered statements to media outlets apologizing to Williams while claiming it was fully booked. It replied to her tweet: “Please accept our deepest apologies for the disappointment you encountered tonight. Unfortunately, our rooftop bar was indeed fully booked and the only unoccupied tables you saw belonged to our gourmet restaurant, L’Oiseau Blanc, which was fully reserved.”
It’s unclear exactly what happened, though as is usually the case in incidents of this nature, people on both sides have weighed in. − David Oliver
LE BOURGET, France — Due to their time seeding, two American speed climbers had to go head-to-head in the first elimination run of speed qualifications at sport climbing.
American Sam Watson set a new world record time 4.75 seconds, a record he held and lost a few runs earlier in seeing to Indonesia’s Veddriq Leonardo. “Taking (the world record) back after I lost it by a couple thousandth of a second definitely means a lot,” said Watson after the competition.
American teammate Zach Hammer was eliminated.
Only seven climbers who won their elimination heats and one lucky loser with the fastest time advanced to the quarterfinals on Thursday, Aug. 8. − Sandy Hooper
Day two of six has begun for wrestling at the Olympics early Tuesday.
Team USA has already at least secured a silver medal from Amit Elor at 68 kilograms, after she outscored her opponents 28-2 to reach the gold medal match against Meerim Zhumanazarova (Kyrgyzstan), a bronze medalist at Tokyo.
Alongside her on day two for Team USA is Sarah Hildebrandt (women’s freestyle, 50 kilograms), Josef Rau (men’s Greco-Roman, 97 kilograms) and Kamal Bey (men’s Greco-Roman, 77 kilograms). Hildebrandt secured a spot in the semifinals, pushing Team USA to a strong start in women’s freestyle. However, Bey has been eliminated while Rau needs a win from his opponent in the round of 16 to stay alive. − Eli McKown
LE BOURGET, France − In the boulder round of the women’s sport climbing semifinal, the tops were plentiful, unlike the men’s qualification round the day before.
Reigning gold medalist Janja Garnbrett finished the four boulder problems with an almost perfect score of 99.6 points out of 100 for first place. “It should be (one) hundred,” Garnbrett said jokingly after the competition.
Americans Brooke Raboutou finished qualification in third with 83.7 points and Natalia Grossman finished fifth with 69.2. Grossman had one of two flashes (no falls) on boulder number 2.
France’s two athletes Oriane Bertone and Zelia Avezou got the loudest cheers from the majority French crowd, which appeared to distract the rest of the climbers. “It was distracting to hear all that cheer, but it was also motivating,” said Raboutou.
The women’s semifinal will continue on Thursday with the lead event. The climber’s scores for both boulder and lead will be combined, and the top eight finishers will move on to finals. − Sandy Hooper
PARIS — Germany overcame a slow start and double-digit deficit to beat Greece 76-63 in a men’s 5×5 basketball quarterfinals game Tuesday at Bercy Arena. Germany will play the winner of France-Canada in the semifinals Thursday.
Franz Wagner (Orlando Magic) led Germany with 18 points, and Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks) had 22 points for Greece. Greece led for much of the first quarter, but Germany, headed by several NBA players, including Dennis Schroder (Brooklyn Nets), pulled away in the second half. Schroder, who has been sensational in the Olympics, had 13 points and eight assists. − Jeff Zillgitt
Team USA divers Carson Tyler and Andrew Capobianco both finished among the top-18 divers in Tuesday’s men’s 3-meter springboard prelims to advance to the semifinals on Wednesday.
In the six-round prelims, Tyler, 20, finished with a score of 389.80 to qualify in 10th place, while Capobianco, 24, was 15th with a score of 382.05.
A first-time Olympian, Tyler finished strong with his fifth- and sixth-round dives: first a reverse 3 1/2 somersaults in the tuck position with a 3.5 degree of difficulty, followed by a reverse 1 1/2 somersaults with 3 1/2 twists in the free position, also with a 3.5 degree of difficulty. Each dive earned Tyler a score of 73.50, his highest of prelims.
Two-time Olympian Capobianco also had his prelims high score on his final dive, a forward 4 1/2 somersaults in the tuck position with a degree of difficulty of 3.8, which got him a score of 79.80. That was strong enough to move him inside the top 18 ahead of Wednesday’s semis.
At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Capobianco finished 10th in the men’s 3-meter springboard, but he earned a silver medal in the men’s synchronized 3-meter springboard competition.
Men’s 3-meter springboard semifinals are set for Wednesday at 4 a.m. ET. − Michelle Martinelli
SAINT-DENIS, France — American Tara Davis-Woodhall is going into the long jump final as a confident jumper. Her jump of 22 feet, 7¾ inches leads all jumpers into the final.
Jasmine Moore is sixth going into the final with a leap of 21 feet, 10¼ inches and Monae’ Nichols has the eighth best mark at 21 feet, 9½ inches.
The opening round did have a little bit of drama. Defending Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo scratched her first two attempts and needed her third jump to qualify into the final.
On Mihambo’s third attempt, she took off over 30 centimeters behind the board and still qualified for the final with a mark of 22 feet, 6¼ inches. − Tyler Dragon
SAINT-DENIS, France — Trevor Bassitt shook off a bad round Monday and advanced in the men’s 400 hurdles via the repechage round.
Bassitt led for almost the entire race and crossed the finish line in 48.64 to win his heat. Bassitt will now have a chance to run in Wednesday’s semifinal.
U.S. hurdler Rai Benjamin has the top time in the world this year in the event at 46.46. − Tyler Dragon
SAINT-DENIS, France — Kendall Ellis rebounded following a tough time around the track on Monday.
Ellis easily won her 400 heat in the repechage round to advance to Wednesday’s semifinal.
The U.S. Olympic track and field trials champion finished fifth in the first round and didn’t initially advance to the semifinal. — Tyler Dragon
SAINT-DENIS, France — U.S. hurdler Freddie Crittenden took full advantage of his second chance.
Crittenden got first place in his repechage heat of the men’s 110 hurdles. His first-place finish gives him a chance to race in the semifinals of the 110 hurdles.
The Paris Olympics introduced the repechage round. It allows runners who don’t initially qualify from the first round to the semifinals to have a chance to rescue their Olympic dreams via the repechage rounds.
The semifinals for the 110 hurdles are set for Wednesday. USA track and field team co-captain Grant Holloway is the gold-medal favorite in the event. — Tyler Dragon
SAINT-DENIS, France — A day after being re-issued her silver medal in the 5,000, Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon was back on the track to defend her Olympic title in the women’s 1,500. The world-record holder and two-time Olympic champion in the 1,500 got through safely in the event, taking fourth place in the second heat with a time of 4:00.74.
Three American middle-distance runners will join Kipyegon in the 1,500 semis.
Emily Mackay grabbed the sixth and final qualifying spot in the first heat, running a 3:59.63. Nikki Hiltz ran a solid race and finished third in the second heat at 4:00.42. While Elle Purrier St. Pierre crossed the finish line at 4:03.22 to take third in the final heat.
The women will take to the track again on Thursday for the 1,500 semifinals. — Tyler Dragon
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Here are some Olympic schedule highlights. Peacock is streaming every sport and event live as it unfolds in Paris.
(All times Eastern)
- Track and field prelims and qualifying rounds start at 4:05 a.m. The evening session opens with the men’s 400m semis and closes with the women’s 200m final. NBC is airing the evening session. USA Network is airing the morning session.
- Women’s soccer holds the semifinals today. The USWNT will play Germany at noon (USA Network), followed by Brazil vs. Spain at 3 p.m. (E!).
- Men’s basketball holds four quarterfinal games today, Germany vs. Greece at 5 a.m. (E!), Australia vs. Serbia at 8:30 a.m. (USA Network), Canada vs. France at noon and Brazil vs. the U.S. at 3:30 p.m. (USA Network).
- Volleyball features a women’s quarterfinal between the U.S. and Poland (11 a.m.).
- Skateboarding holds prelims (6:30 a.m., E!) and finals for women’s park (11:30 a.m., E!).
- Beach volleyball and women’s water polo are into the quarterfinals. The U.S. plays Hungary in the women’s water polo quarterfinals at 2:35 p.m.
- Other sports in action: Volleyball, canoe sprint, handball, diving, equestrian, sport climbing, table tennis, wrestling, sailing, field hockey, water polo, beach volleyball, track cycling, artistic swimming, boxing.
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Our 2024 Paris Olympics medal count tracker updates after every single medal event.
(All times Eastern)
- The U.S. women’s volleyball team plays Poland in the quarterfinals at 11 a.m.
- The U.S. women’s soccer team will play for a place in Saturday’s gold medal match when it faces Germany in the semifinals at noon.
- The U.S. women’s water polo team plays Hungary in the quarterfinals at 2:35 p.m.
- The U.S. men’s basketball team is playing a quarterfinal game against Brazil at 3:30 p.m.
(All times Eastern)
- Track & field: women’s hammer throw final (1:55 p.m.), men’s long jump final (2:15 p.m.), men’s 1,500m final (2:50 p.m.), women’s 3,000m steeplechase (3:10 p.m.), women’s 200m final (3:40 p.m.) NBC is airing the finals.
- Skateboarding: women’s park final (11:30 a.m., E!)
- Boxing: Six semifinal bouts (3:30 p.m. start), women’s 60kg final (5:06 p.m.)
- Weightlifting: Six medal events (1:30 p.m. start)
- Sailing: men’s and women’s dinghy medal races (times TBD)
- Equestrian: jumping individual final (4 a.m.)
- Diving: women’s 10m platform (9 a.m., NBC)
- Cycling track: men’s team sprint bronze (2:02 p.m.), men’s team sprint gold (2:07 p.m.)
(All times Eastern)
- Qualifications: men’s javelin throw group a (4:20 a.m.), women’s long jump (5:15 a.m.), men’s javelin throw group b (5:50 a.m.)
- Repechage rounds: men’s 110m hurdles (4:50 a.m.), women’s 400m (5:20 a.m.), men’s 400m hurdles (6 a.m.), men’s 200m (6:30 a.m.)
- Round 1s: women’s 1,500m (4:05 a.m.)
- Semifinals: men’s 400m (1:35 p.m.)
- Finals: women’s hammer throw (1:55 p.m.), men’s long jump (2:15 p.m.), men’s 1,500m (2:50 p.m.), women’s 3,000m steeplechase (3:10 p.m.), women’s 200m final (3:40 p.m.)
The final event of the night will be the women’s 200 meters. American Gabby Thomas won silver at the 2023 world championships, followed by Sha’Carri Richardson, who took the bronze. Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, the reigning world champion, is ranked No. 1 in the world as of late May.
U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles rang it after winning a gold medal in the men’s 100-meter final. So did the United States women’s rugby sevens team after winning an unprecedented bronze medal.
The large bell stationed at Stade de France, which hosts track and field events and rugby sevens, has become an instant hit at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with athletes hoping to have their chance to ring in the new Paris tradition after earning a gold medal.
The bell is engraved with “2024 Paris,” and will continue to be a part of the city’s history in the time following the 2024 Games.
Fans have wondered what the bell’s importance is, and why so many Olympic athletes have gravitated toward it after finishing their respective events. — Austin Curtright
We invented basketball. Name the form of it: 5×5, 3×3, Streetball, Slamball, HORSE. Doesn’t matter. We have the deepest pool of talent in the world to draw from. We’re supposed to win. We don’t celebrate bronze medals around here, and if this were a sport USA Basketball were actually serious about, everyone involved in the men’s 2-5 showing in Paris (after not even qualifying for Tokyo) would be fired.
But I’m here to tell you something after watching it up close in Paris: The effort isn’t worth it. — Dan Wolken
In the women’s park event, expect to see a battle of teenage stars. At the Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021 due to COVID, Kokona Hiraki made history at age 12 as Japan’s youngest Summer Olympian. She won silver in women’s park behind her teammate Sakura Yosozumi. Hiraki is back, ranked No. 1 in the world leading up to the Paris Olympics, with 14-year-old Arisa Trew of Australia ranked No. 2.
In women’s freestyle wrestling, American Amit Elor is a medal contender at 68 kilograms despite this being her first Olympics. The 20-year-old has taken the international wrestling scene by storm, winning eight world titles over various age divisions in the last three years.
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is headed back into the ring Tuesday at the Paris Olympics.
She’ll be fighting for a chance to win a silver or gold medal despite an ongoing ordeal during the Games, and she’ll be facing a familiar opponent. — Josh Peter
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