On Tuesday, some of the top names on the US team will return to active sport at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
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Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey will continue their “rehabilitation tour” in the gymnasts' team final. Coco Gauff will face Donna Vekic in the third round of the women's singles and then compete against Taylor Fritz in the first round of the mixed doubles. Katie Ledecky will swim in the women's 1500 m freestyle heats. The men's Olympic soccer team will also play another group match.
In addition to Gauff and Fritz, Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz will play their second men's doubles match at Roland Garros, while Andy Murray has another chance to delay his retirement through his doubles match.
Here's what to look out for on Tuesday.
A special moment for the US gymnastics team and their families
After months of sacrifice and training for the Paris Games, the U.S. gymnastics team secured bronze on Monday with a score of 257.793, winning its first medal since the 2008 Beijing Games. After receiving their medals, Asher Hong, Paul Juda, Brody Malone, Stephen Nedoroscik and Frederick Richard shared the special moment with their families and significant others.
We're not crying, you are. 😭 #ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/gSJLvZwPMH
— NBC Sports (@NBCSports) July 30, 2024
China wins gold in table tennis mixed doubles
In the second Olympic year of table tennis mixed doubles, there is a second champion in this discipline.
Three years after China won a silver medal at the postponed 2020 Games, Chinese duo Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha took gold on Tuesday. Wang and Sun defeated North Korean tandem Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, who took home silver, 4-2. South Koreans Lim Jonghoon and Shin Yubin took the bronze medal.
It's getting hot in Paris
PARIS – Things are heating up at the Olympics. Temperatures at Roland Garros just exceeded 30.1 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), prompting organizers to activate their extreme weather policy.
Players in singles matches have a 10-minute break after the second set. During the break, players may go to the toilet, take a shower, change clothes, or eat and drink.
Jasmine Paolini and Anna Karolina Schmiedlova are tied after two sets, so they just had their 10-minute break. As usual, the volunteers came with a hose to spray the sand and then aimed it at the front rows of spectators. The fans loved it! – Connor O'Halloran
Coco Gauff cried after defeat
American Coco Gauff was knocked out by Donna Vekic in the third round of the women's singles competition on Tuesday morning in one of the biggest upsets of the tournament so far. Vekic, representing Croatia, entered the match ranked No. 21 in the world and the 13th seed in the Olympic tournament. Gauff is ranked second in the WTA world rankings and was also the second seed in the Olympic tournament.
Vekic will face the winner of the ongoing third-round match between Maria Sakkari, representing Greece, and Marta Kostyuk, representing Ukraine.
Oleksandr Usyk tears apart Olympic boxing
The International Olympic Committee has said that the sport could be removed from the 2028 Olympic Games if there are no changes in the leadership of amateur boxing. Boxing was almost removed from the program of the Paris Olympic Games after a dispute between the governing body of amateur boxing and the IOC. Oleksandr Usyk called the sport “tainted.”
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Usyk: Boxing is not making progress at the Olympics
Heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk discusses the future of Olympic boxing and calls for change.
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Surfing heats postponed due to weather
The Olympic surfing competitions are being held on the other side of the world in Tahiti – 9,800 miles from Paris – to “engage the French overseas territories and their communities in the Olympic Games.” However, Tuesday's surfing heats have been postponed due to weather conditions. Surfline, a surf forecasting website, is predicting strong waves for Tuesday and Wednesday, but the wind could bring “disorganized and potentially out of control” conditions.
Katie Ledecky dominates (again) on her way to the 1,500m freestyle final
The reigning gold medalist in the women's 1500m freestyle is back to defend her title and is already on a roll.
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Katie Ledecky has long dominated the discipline – all 15 of the best times in the 1500m freestyle were achieved by her – and her skill was evident during her qualifying heat in Paris. Ledecky touched the wall to finish the race with no competitor in sight – there was no other swimmer in the broadcast camera frame as she turned onto the home stretch.
That's what she does. 🤷♀️
Katie Ledecky dominates and secures her ticket for the final of the 1500 m freestyle. #ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/bf9Rsy14V8
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 30, 2024
Spain shows its muscles in men's basketball
Spain, the reigning FIBA Eurobasket champion, defeated Greece and NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo 84-77. But it was not a pretty win. Spain built a 16-point lead in the first half, led by Santi Aldama's 19 points, 12 rebounds and 3 blocks and Sergio Llull, who scored 11 points in the first half.
Antetokounmpo and the Greeks fought back and tied the game in the second half, which he finished with 27 points, but much of their energy went into the comeback rather than the finish.
European thriller 🔥
Spain 🇪🇸 escapes with the win and keeps its hopes alive ✅#Paris2024 x #Basketball pic.twitter.com/NGOOqlnQRd
– FIBA (@FIBA) July 30, 2024
The “pommel horse type” is in trend
While the US men's gymnastics team won the bronze medal on Monday, the wider sports audience was introduced to the bespectacled American pommel horse specialist Stephen Nedoroscik, whom the US team had brought to Paris for a task that he also fulfilled: He perfected the pommel horse exercises.
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The only American gymnast to ever win a world title in the event, the 25-year-old former Penn State gymnast who spends his free time in Paris solving Rubik's Cube made big headlines after the competition. He was the last athlete to compete and performed a spectacular pommel horse move (without glasses) that secured a medal for Team USA.
America instantly fell in love with “the Clark Kent of pommel horse” and we are here for it. – Alyssa Roenigk
Stephen Nedoroscik, the Clark Kent of pommel horse! 🫡🇺🇸 #ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/1HfYFSbJvH
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 30, 2024
