Team USA swimmer Katie Ledecky obliterated the competition in her signature race at the Paris Games, breaking her own Olympic record. TODAY's Craig Melvin looks at medal-winning moments in key events including men's basketball, women's soccer, men's tennis and more.
Simone Biles and Suni Lee will go head-to-head in the women's all-around gymnastics final, which begins at 12:15 p.m. ET.
That makes quite a difference since the last time the French city hosted the Games, in 1924, when the International Olympic Committee more or less excluded women from competing. As recently as the 1984 Los Angeles Games, when swimming and rhythmic gymnastics made their debuts and the women’s marathon was first held, less than a quarter of the competitors were women.
Team USA medalists Perris Benegas and Evy Leibfarth celebrated their medals with “TODAY” live in Paris.They were joined by Public Enemy co-founder Flavor Flav, “official hype man” of the U.S. women’s water polo team.Team USA is guaranteed at least a silver medal in the women's team foil event after beating Canada in the semifinals.
In the 20 years since the U.S. women’s gold-medal streak in the Olympic all-around began, the sport and the lives of those who reach its loftiest heights have evolved significantly.That's actually good news for the U.S. team of Ian Barrows and Hans Henken, who were slow at the start and struggled to get into the race.Straight off their gold-medal win in the women’s gymnastics team final, Simone Biles and Suni Lee will compete against each other in the all-around final.
After Zheng, who reached the Australian Open final earlier this year, took the opening set 6-2, gold medal favorite Swiatek looked to be back on track after racing into a 4-0 lead in the second. But the momentum quickly swung away from her and Zheng's rattled off four straight games, breaking Swiatek's serve twice and leveling things up.
The Frenchman will be hoping to go 4 for 4 with gold in the 200 IM, with further medal opportunities potentially to follow in two medley relays. Israel’s secret intelligence service Mossad said in May that Iran had stepped up efforts ahead of the Games to target Israelis overseas. Israel has its own security teams in Paris, and NBC News has reported that officers from the Shin Bet, the country’s internal security service, are protecting the Olympic delegation.
Both the U.S. men's and women's 3x3 basketball teams have gotten off to nightmare starts in their respective Olympic tournaments and might be running out of time to turn it around. It appears to be the largest live audience for an archery competition and quite a contrast from Tokyo, when Ellison came in as the top seed but failed to win a medal when he lost to the eventual gold medalist Mete Gazoz in the quarterfinals.“I mean Tokyo was kind of like an Olympic jail, right? We weren’t allowed to do anything.”
South Korea's Kim Yeji also went viral earlier in the Olympics with her shooting style as she took silver in the women's individual 10-meter air pistol event.American Lauren Scruggs made history at the Paris Olympics on Sunday when she took the silver medal in women’s foil fencing. The American quad consisted of Michael Grady, who was the lone returnee from the boat that finished fifth in this event in Tokyo, alongside Liam Corrigan, Justin Best and Nick Mead — all of whom competed in the eight boat in Tokyo. The group had won silver at last year's World Championships, and it has now added Olympic gold.
The American is due to perform double duty today — he is also due to team up with Taylor Fritz in the men's doubles as they take on Great Britain's Andy Murray and Dan Evans tonight. Other notable matches include Novak Djokovic taking on Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas tonight and women's world No. 1 Iga Swiatek taking on China's Qinwen Zheng.China has extended its lead at the top of the gold medal table after taking its 11th gold of the Games in the women's 20k race walk.
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