Share
‘Bob the Cap Catcher’ dives to the rescue in swimming pool
Image the scene, you have misplaced your swimming cap within the Olympic pool. Who’s going to come back to your rescue? There’s just one man for the job – meet Bob the Cap Catcher!
Share
Jordan Chiles shines in her Olympic return
Like Gabby Douglas and Jordyn Wieber earlier than her, Crew USA’s Jordan Chiles discovered herself within the bittersweet place of being the third-best gymnast from essentially the most dominant girls’s gymnastics group on the planet.
Regardless of ending third within the all-around standings after the second subdivision, Chiles is not going to advance to the all-around finals as a result of two-gymnast-per-country rule.
She didn’t exit with out a battle, although. Chiles scored a vastly spectacular 14.266 on bars, excelling in her return to the Olympics. She can be poised to contend for a medal within the flooring ultimate.
Share
Crew USA impress in browsing qualifiers in beautiful Tahiti
The browsing occasions received underway yesterday within the beautiful environment of Teahupo’o in Tahiti, one of many world’s most well-known browsing spots, and the Crew USA surfers definitely impressed.
All three of Crew USA’s feminine surfers superior on to spherical 3 with Caroline Marks getting the most important rating of the day. She will likely be joined by defending gold medalist Carissa Moore and Caitlin Summers.
The U.S. males had been equally as spectacular with John John Florence and Griffin Colapinto getting the day’s two largest scores.
Share
Biking followers get pleasure from some sunshine forward of the ladies’s cross-country occasion
ÉLANCOURT, France — A fantastic day within the countryside simply outdoors Paris sees hundreds of individuals descend on a hill overlooking the town for the ladies’s cross-country biking.
Spectators collect to observe the cross nation biking.Alex Glacken-Smith / NBC Information
American followers will likely be hoping Haley Batten and Savilia Blunk can place among the many medals.
With the climate switching from pouring rain to baking solar, it’s like a mini-festival on the 15,000 capability Éleancourt Hill. Your reporter has climbed the 231-metre summit, the very best level within the Ile-de-France, for a view of the motion which is about to start out.
The 2024 Paris Olympic Video games cross nation biking end line.Alex Glacken-Smith / NBC NewsShare
U.S. gymnastics technical lead: Simone Biles’ perseverance is ‘outstanding’
Beijing 2008 silver medalist and U.S. girls’s technical lead, Chellsie Memmel, mentioned that she is glad with Crew USA’s efficiency, however hopes for some enhancements forward of Tuesday’s group ultimate.
Their struggles got here totally on flooring, the place reigning Olympic champion Jade Carey had an uncharacteristic stumble.
“I believe they rallied collectively,” Memmel mentioned. “I believe that claims the energy of their group bond, simply that they got here collectively, they turned the web page after flooring and rallied round one another.” She added, “when you would have requested me like 20 minutes in the past, I may need felt like I used to be going to puke, however general they did a superb job.”
Memmel had but to talk with Simone Biles and the group’s medical employees, however mentioned that “What [Biles] was in a position to do, with wanting like she had some soreness or one thing in her decrease leg, is outstanding.”
Share
Biles’ coach: ‘She felt slightly ache in her calf’
Cecile Landi, Simone Biles’ private coach and the Olympic group coach, mentioned after the qualification spherical that Biles “felt slightly ache in her calf” throughout her flooring train warmup.
She mentioned that, regardless of experiencing ache, Biles “by no means in her thoughts” thought-about pulling out of the competitors. The obvious harm was additionally bothering Biles in coaching a few weeks in the past, in line with Landi, however had improved till in the present day’s flare-up.
By the point Biles competed on bars, her ultimate occasion, Landi mentioned Biles felt higher. When requested if Biles’ capacity to compete this week was in query, Landi mentioned, “No, not in the intervening time.”
Share
Leon Marchand sends crowd wild, eases via 400m Particular person Medley heats
French poster boy Leon Marchand thrilled the crowds on the La Protection Enviornment as he convincingly certified for the ultimate of the boys’s 400m Particular person Medley this morning.
France’s Leon Marchand.Sarah Stier / Getty Pictures
Marchand wasn’t close to his world-record tempo, however with the group at fever pitch, the 22-year-old — he is coached by Michael Phelps’s long-time coach Bob Bowman at Arizona State — nonetheless comfortably certified quickest for tonight’s ultimate.
France hasn’t gained gold within the pool since 2012, however the dominant Marchand, one of many largest French stars at these Video games, appears set to finish that drought in Paris. The swimmer has been tearing up the report books over the previous couple of years and is a gold medal favourite in 4 occasions.
The 400m medley sees swimmers swim 100m in every of the 4 acknowledged Olympic swimming strokes: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. Crew USA’s Chase Kalisz, the defending gold medalist on this occasion, missed out on making the ultimate, although America will likely be represented by Carson Foster, who certified fourth quickest.
Share
Eight years in the past Kristen Faulkner didn’t know the way to clip into a motorcycle — now she’s an Olympic bicycle owner
Kristen Faulkner crosses the end line in the course of the 1st Tour de France Femmes 2022, in Epernay. Tim de Waele / Getty Pictures file
U.S. Olympian Kristen Faulkner didn’t critically begin driving a motorcycle till 2017 when she wanted an outside interest. Shortly after she moved to New York Metropolis for a enterprise capital job, she developed a ardour for biking in her spare time.
“It was type of my outlet day-after-day to get into Central Park and journey for 2 hours away from the bustle of the town,” Faulkner instructed NBC Information.
However it didn’t come with out some preliminary rising pains.
“I couldn’t clip in” to the bike, she mentioned. “And I used to be like, ‘Why is that this not working?’ I used to be beginning to get actually embarrassed. Lastly, we realized I simply had incompatible cleats and pedals.”
Learn the total story right here.
Share
Nadal, Wozniacki, Wawrinka and Monfils all on courtroom in the present day
Among the largest, veteran names of tennis will likely be on the Roland-Garros clay in the present day in hopes of rekindling previous magic.
Rafael Nadal on the French Open at Roland Garros again in Could. Clive Mason / Getty Pictures
Paris 2024 has attracted among the sport’s largest modern names, reminiscent of Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff. However this event isn’t a high precedence for a lot of gamers as a result of it’s not a Grand Slam. That opens the door to some high-profile gamers within the twilight of their profession.
Motion started at midday native time 7:00 a.m. ET with 22-time main winner Rafael Nadal, 38, taking part in the second match at heart courtroom towards Hungarian Márton Fucsovics.
Stan Wawrinka, 39, and Caroline Wozniacki, 34, are slated to play within the fourth and fifth matches slated for Courtroom Simonne-Mathieu, whereas French favourite Gaël Monfils, 37, is about for the day’s fourth match on Courtroom Suzanne-Lenglen.
Share
USA Gymnastics coach involved about Biles’ ankle
Chellsie Memmel, the technincal lead coach on the gymnastics squad, spoke after Crew USA raced to the highest of rankings. However the joyous temper was tempered by apprehension over Simone Biles’ taped left ankle.
“I have not even received to talk to Simone. I would like to talk with our group, our medical group, however I haven’t got a solution about that. I simply at the beginning, I simply need to make certain she’s bodily okay,” Memmel mentioned, saying she was involved.
Share
That is it for U.S. girls’s gymnastics
On the Bercy Enviornment, Crew USA’s day is finished. Simone Biles’ largest rival within the all-around, Rebeca Andrade, will compete later in the present day.
Share
Crew USA’s anticipated finalists
There are nonetheless three extra subdivisions on this qualification spherical, however the U.S. girls are on observe to have representatives in every occasion ultimate.
Suni Lee of Crew United States throughout a observe session in Paris.NBC Information
Simone Biles is at present in eighth on bars, so her place there is not assured, nevertheless it’s unlikely that anybody bumps Suni Lee out of the ultimate. The all-around, vault, beam and flooring finalists are in safe positions.
All-Round: Simone Biles and Suni Lee
Vault: Simone Biles and Jade Carey
Bars: Suni Lee and Simone Biles
Beam: Simone Biles and Suni Lee
Ground: Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles
Share
Crew USA cruises to first
As anticipated, the U.S. girls dominated the qualification spherical. After the second of 5 subdivisions, they scored a 172.296, which is greater than 5 factors over Italy, China and Nice Britain.
No different groups have the problem required to match that, so Crew USA is predicted to enter Tuesday’s group ultimate in first.
Share
Two all-around champs to face off
For the primary time, two Olympic all-around champions will go head-to-head within the all-around ultimate – and so they’re each from the identical nation.
Simone Biles (2016) and Sunisa Lee (2020) will make historical past no matter the place they end in Thursday’s ultimate.
