What time does Simone Biles compete?
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC Information Digital.
Qualification for the U.S. ladies’s gymnastics group takes place at the moment. The U.S., as favorites for the group gold medal, will hope to qualify in first place as a group and have two all-around finalists, in addition to a slew of particular person occasion finalists.
The U.S. group, helmed by Simone Biles, competes in Subdivision 2, which happens vibrant and early for U.S. viewers at 5:40 a.m. ET.
China takes first gold medal of Day 2
China’s Yu Xie wins gold within the males’s 10m air rifle.Charles McQuillan / Getty Pictures
Very like yesterday, the primary gold medal of the day has been received in capturing by China.
Xie Yu took gold within the 10m males’s air pistol occasion this morning, with Italy taking each silver and bronze.
Triathlon observe swim cancelled attributable to Seine water high quality
A lot has been made from the water high quality of the River Seine within the build-up to the Video games, with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo taking a dip herself to show the water is protected.
Nevertheless, after two days of heavy rain within the French capital, the Seine failed water high quality checks, and organizers have been pressured to name off the familiarization swim for the triathletes.
A tough rain fell on Paris throughout Friday’s opening ceremony and into Saturday, cancelling competitions and making its iconic river too polluted to swim in.Alex Pantling / Getty Pictures file
“Paris 2024 and World Triathlon reiterates that the precedence is the well being of the athletes,” organizers mentioned in a press release, however went on to specific optimism. “Given the climate forecast for the subsequent 48 hours, Paris 2024 and World Triathlon are assured that water high quality will return to under limits earlier than the beginning for of the triathlon competitions.”
Nevertheless, if the Seine fails to fulfill requirements, then the triathlon will possible be delayed by a number of days to see if circumstances enhance. If the Seine nonetheless doesn’t meet World Triathlon requirements, then the occasion would grow to be a duathlon, scrapping the swim.
The boys’s triathlon is because of occur on Tuesday with the ladies’s following a day later.
Day 2 is underway, and there are blue skies in Paris!
After two days of fixed rain, we lastly have blue skies in Paris as Day 2 of the Video games will get underway with 13 units of medals set to be awarded Sunday.
A common view of the seashore volleyball occasion on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games.Cameron Spencer / Getty Pictures
Already this morning we have seen the seashore volleyball prelims, now basking within the sunshine, proceed underneath the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, whereas the ladies’s gymnastics qualifiers are additionally underway — Simone Biles and Crew USA are due up within the second grouping of the day at 5:40 a.m. ET (11:40 a.m. native time).
Sports activities seeing their first motion of the Video games Sunday embrace crusing and skateboarding, and tonight’s swimming finals are set to be headlined by France’s poster boy Leon Marchand, who will probably be seeking to finish the host’s 12-year gold medal drought within the pool, and Crew USA Gretchen Walsh, who has certified quickest within the ladies’s 100m butterfly.
Have you ever observed the French custom delivered to the Video games?
You might have noticed earlier than the beginning of a session on the Olympics an uncommon ritual of somebody banging a stick on the bottom. Why is that?
It is a custom that originates in classical French theatre known as “les trois coups,” or the three blows in English.
Billie Jean King, the American tennis icon, at Roland-Garros area on the primary day of the Paris Olympic Video games.Martin Rickett / AP
A carved picket baton, known as a brigadier, is tapped on the bottom thrice to seize the viewers’s consideration for the rising of the curtain and permits the gang to organize for the present that’s about to come back.
The customized has translated over to the Video games with distinguished former athletes, officers and volunteers given the glory of giving the three blows earlier than the beginning of a session. At Roland Garros final evening, American tennis icon Billie Jean King acquired the night tennis session underway with les trois coups.
What’s the two-per-country rule?
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC Information Digital.
In gymnastics, solely the highest two finishers from every nation can qualify to particular person finals such because the all-around and equipment finals.
Longtime Olympic followers could recall the dramatic qualification spherical from the London 2012 Olympics, when reigning world all-around champion Jordyn Wieber was eradicated from the Olympic all-around remaining as a result of she was outscored by her teammates, Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman.
Wieber technically certified in fourth, however the two-per-country rule took her out of rivalry. Biles, Lee or Chiles might face related heartbreak at the moment.
Stakes are excessive in ladies’s gymnastics {qualifications}
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC Information Digital.
Though no medals will probably be awarded within the qualification spherical, errors made in at the moment’s competitors have the facility to devastate Olympic goals.
Simone Biles practices on the stability beam throughout forward of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.Ezra Shaw / Getty Pictures
The highest eight groups will transfer onto Tuesday’s ladies’s group remaining and the highest eight particular person finishers on every occasion advance to the equipment finals. Within the particular person all-around, the highest 24 finishers qualify to the finals.
As a result of one unhealthy qualification routine might take a gymnast out of the all-around, equipment and even group finals, an ill-timed error on this spherical of competitors tends to provide a ripple impact of heartbreak.
Gymnastics scoring 101
Kaetlyn LiddyKaetlyn Liddy is a newsroom coordinator for NBC Information Digital.
Scoring in gymnastics has modified considerably for the reason that days of Nadia Comăneci and her illustrious “Excellent 10.” The present scoring system can appear much less intuitive than the earlier one to audiences who don’t comply with the game between the Olympic Video games.
The Excellent 10 nonetheless exists in gymnastics, however it’s now not the one metric used to calculate a rating. At the moment’s gymnasts obtain scores in two separate classes for every routine: problem and execution. The issue rating is open-ended, whereas execution is scored out of a ten.00.
The issue and execution scores are mixed to provide the ultimate quantity. To optimize their scores, gymnasts carry out essentially the most tough routines they’ll whereas minimizing execution deductions.
Here is an in-depth information to gymnastics scoring and what makes Simone Biles so good.
USA Fencing phenom makes Olympic debut in particular person foil
Lauren Scruggs is up for the USA within the ladies’s particular person foil desk of 32. She will probably be competing towards Singapore’s Amita Berthier.
Scruggs is certainly one of two Black U.S. fencers — male or feminine — to win a person title.
That is Scruggs’ Olympic debut. She received bronze on the 2024 Washington, D.C., Grand Prix, qualifying her for the Olympics. A rising senior at Harvard, she is the 2023 NCAA foil champion and the 2024 foil runner-up, shedding to her Harvard teammate, Canada’s Jessica Guo.
Guo is up towards Chile’s Arantza Inostroza on this spherical.
Additionally competing within the particular person foil desk of 32 are the USA’s Lee Kiefer and Jacqueline Dubrovich.
