The U.S. males’s gymnastics group took America for a journey Monday, capturing their first group medal in 16 years with an exhilarating end on the pommel horse.
Frederick Richard and Paul Juda return to Bercy Enviornment on Wednesday for the lads’s particular person all-around closing, one of many headlining occasions of Day 5 in Paris.
Elsewhere, Canada girls’s soccer will attempt to overcome the six-point deduction levied by FIFA for flying a drone over New Zealand’s coaching classes. A win over Colombia would advance the Canadians out of the group stage. The U.S. girls, taking up Australia, eyes the highest spot of its group after securing a spot within the quarterfinals.
There are additionally a handful of swim medals to be bestowed, and the U.S. males’s basketball group takes on South Sudan in its second group stage recreation — the place NBA champion Jayson Tatum is predicted to make his Paris Video games debut.
Strap in, sports activities followers.
Occasions to observe
Males’s gymnastics all-around closing
Time: 11:30 a.m. ET, 5:30 p.m. in ParisTV: NBC and Peacock
What to observe: Richard and Juda, alongside immediate nationwide icon Stephen Nedoroscik, helped snap the U.S. medal drought within the males’s group finals, ending third behind gold medal taker Japan and silver medalist China.
“It feels superb as a result of we had some highs and lows,” Richard stated after incomes bronze. “{Qualifications} (weren’t) good, however I had little doubt on this group. All of us got here collectively when it mattered and did one thing nice for our nation.”
Now, Richard and Juda go for private medals. (Nedoroscik will go for the person accolade on pommel horse Saturday, and Brody Malone, who competed within the particular person all-around occasion as one of many prime two U.S. male gymnasts in Tokyo, didn’t qualify for this males’s particular person all-around.)
Within the group all-around, Richard commanded a standing ovation along with his high-flying bar routine that noticed him stick the touchdown — the identical approach he ended his flooring routine. The 20-year-old is likely one of the rising stars of the Video games.
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Jayson Tatum’s (possible) Paris debut
Time: 3 p.m. ET, 9 p.m. in ParisTV: USA Community and Peacock
What to observe: Steve Kerr heard the questions.
Tatum, the Boston Celtics star, was a wholesome scratch within the Individuals’ Olympic opening win over Serbia. However Kerr, the Workforce USA coach, stated Tatum will play towards South Sudan.
Tatum, a three-time first-team All-NBA star and second-leading scorer on the Tokyo Olympic group that received gold, was the odd participant out with Kevin Durant’s return from a calf pressure. Durant’s addition meant one actually, actually good participant was going to drop out of the lineup.
“The toughest a part of this job is you’re sitting a minimum of a few guys who’re world-class, a number of the perfect gamers on Earth, and on the one hand it is mindless in any respect,” Kerr stated. “On the opposite, I’m asking these guys to only decide to successful one recreation after which transfer on to the following one.”
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South Sudan practically upset the U.S. in an exhibition earlier than the Olympics. In its first Olympic recreation, it defeated Puerto Rico on Sunday.
A hefty slate of swimming
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Time: Beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET, 8:30 p.m. in ParisTV: NBC and Peacock
What to observe: 5 finals — the ladies’s 100-meter freestyle, males’s 200-meter butterfly, girls’s 1,500-meter free, males’s 200-meter breaststroke and males’s 100-meter free — will all happen over a roughly two-hour span.
As traditional with the 1,500 free, Katie Ledecky will work to remain a number of physique lengths forward of her opponents. In Tokyo in 2021, she received the 1,500 free by greater than 4 seconds.
Ledecky received her eleventh Olympic medal with a third-place end within the girls’s 400-meter freestyle Saturday, the place Australian rival Ariarne Titmus received gold and Canadian teenage phenom Summer time McIntosh took silver. Ledecky may even compete within the 4×200 free relay on Thursday and 800 free on Saturday.
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Ladies’s soccer group stage drama
Time: U.S.-Australia at 1 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. in Paris; Canada-Colombia at 3 p.m. ET, 9 p.m. in ParisTV: Watch the U.S. on E! Community, Universo and Peacock; Canada on Peacock
What to observe: From the pool to the pitch, the U.S.-Australia conflict continues because the Individuals look to bounce the Aussies from Group B after Australia saved its Olympic hopes alive with an exhilarating 6-5 win over Zambia on Sunday. In the meantime, the U.S. has already clinched a spot within the quarterfinals with two group-stage victories towards Germany and Zambia.
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Canada, with no scarcity of drama this Olympic cycle, appealed the six-point deduction penalty FIFA handed down after an analyst was caught flying a drone over New Zealand’s coaching. A call is predicted by Wednesday afternoon, creating some pre-match drama for a Canadian group trying to defend its gold medal from Tokyo. The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canada Soccer argued the six-point deduction “unfairly punishes the athletes for actions that they had no half in and goes far past restoring equity to the match towards New Zealand.”
Nonetheless — and amazingly — Canada can advance to the quarterfinals with a win towards Colombia. Canada defeated New Zealand and France in its first two video games, however presently sits third in Group A with zero factors due to the deduction. With a restoration of the six factors, Canada would have an opportunity to prime Group A.
All 4 quarterfinal matches kick off Saturday.
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Medal day for BMX
Time: 7:10 a.m. ET, 1:10 p.m. in Paris (girls), 8:44 a.m. ET, 2:44 p.m. in Paris (males)TV: USA Community and Peacock
What to observe: The ladies’s and males’s biking BMX freestyle finals happen at La Concorde City Park.
On the ladies’s aspect, reigning gold medalist Charlotte Worthington of Nice Britain completed eleventh in Tuesday’s qualification spherical, failing to qualify for the ultimate.
That opens the door for American Hannah Roberts, the Tokyo silver medalist, who completed first in qualifying.
On the lads’s aspect, Individuals Marcus Christopher and Justin Dowell hope to win the primary U.S. medal within the occasion (which was added in 2021). However they face stiff competitors from Tokyo gold medalist Logan Martin (Australia) and Nice Britain’s Kieran Reilly, who led in qualifying.
Tuesday’s spotlight
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Redemption was the spotlight of Tuesday, as U.S. girls’s gymnastics received gold within the group closing, bouncing again from a second-place end on the Tokyo Video games, after Simone Biles nailed her flooring routine. The Athletic’s Dana O’Neil went deep on what led to their success.
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