Caroline Marks wins surfing gold, Gabby Thomas wins effortlessly in the 200-meter final
A great day for the Americans in Paris brought gold medals for Caroline Marks in surfing, Gabby Thomas in the 200 m and 20-year-old Amit Elor in wrestling.
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games continue on Wednesday with a full athletics program, as well as the men’s skateboarding park final, the first round of women’s golf, the quarterfinals of women’s basketball and the medal competition in team acrobatic swimming.
The Olympic athletics programme includes four finals, including the women’s pole vault and the men’s 400 m, as well as Noah Lyles’ semi-final in the men’s 200 m.
Twenty sports in total are in action, and USA TODAY Sports will bring you live scores, medal counts, highlights and more throughout the day. Stay tuned.
Olympic schedule today
Here are some highlights from the Olympics program. Peacock will broadcast all the sports and events live as they take place in Paris.
(All times Eastern Time)
- athletics Heats and qualifying rounds begin at 4:05 a.m. The evening session begins with the women’s pole vault final and ends with the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase. The marathon walker relay also begins at 1:30 a.m. NBC will broadcast the evening session. USA Network will broadcast the morning session.
- Women’s basketball holds four quarterfinal matches today: Australia vs. Serbia at 5 a.m. (E!), Belgium vs. Spain at 8:30 a.m. (USA Network), France vs. Germany at noon and the USA vs. Nigeria at 3:30 p.m. (USA Network).
- volleyball is in the semifinals, where the US men will play against Poland at 10 a.m.
- Skateboarding holds heats (6:30 a.m., USA Network) and finals at Herrenpark (11:30 a.m., USA Network).
- Beach volleyball concludes the quarterfinals today. The US men’s team with Andrew Benesh and Miles Partain plays against Qatar at 4 p.m.
- Water polo for men reaches the quarterfinals today. The US men’s team plays against Australia at 1 p.m.
- Other sports in use: Taekwondo, golf, canoe racing, handball, diving, sport climbing, table tennis, wrestling, sailing, track cycling, field hockey, synchronized swimming, weightlifting and boxing.
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Our medal tracker for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games will be updated after each individual medal event.
- The US women’s golf team opens play with Round 1, which begins at 3 a.m. Tee times for Team USA: Rose Zhang, 3:44 a.m.; Nelly Korda, 3:55 a.m.; Lilia Vu, 5:55 a.m.
- The US men’s volleyball team plays at 10 am in the semi-final against Poland
- The US national water polo team plays against Australia in the quarterfinals at 1pm
- The US women’s basketball team plays at 15:30 in the quarter-final against Nigeria
- The US beach volleyball team by Andrew Benesh and Miles Partain plays in the quarterfinals against Qatar at 4 p.m.
- Athletics: Women’s pole vault (1:00 p.m.), men’s discus (2:25 p.m.), men’s 400 m (3:20 p.m.), men’s 3,000 m steeplechase (3:40 p.m.). NBC will broadcast the finals.
- Skateboarding: Men’s Park Final (11:30 a.m., USA Network)
- Boxes: Four semi-finals (3:30 p.m., 3:46 p.m., 4:02 p.m., 4:18 p.m.), two finals (4:34 p.m., 4:51 p.m.)
- Marathon: Mixed relay walker (1:30 a.m., USA Network)
- Synchronized swimming: Team Acrobatics Routine (1:30 p.m., E!)
- Taekwondo: Four fights for the bronze medal (start 14:19), two fights for the gold medal (15:23 and 15:39)
- Bike path: Bronze in the men’s team pursuit (12:25), gold in the men’s team pursuit (12:33), gold in the women’s team pursuit (12:57, E!)
- Sport climbing: Women’s Speed Final (6:55 a.m., E!)
- Wrestling: six medal competitions (starting at 1:30 p.m. and lasting until about 4:00 p.m.)
- Weightlifting: Men 61kg (9:00 am), women 49kg (1:30 pm)
- Qualifications: Men’s high jump (04:05), women’s javelin group A (04:25), women’s javelin group B (05:50), men’s triple jump (13:15)
- Hope rounds: 1,500 m women (6:45 a.m.)
- Round 1: 100 m hurdles women (04:15), 5,000 m men (05:10), 800 m men (05:55)
- Semifinals: 110 m hurdles men (01:05), 400 m hurdles men (13:35), 200 m men (14:02), 400 m women (14:45)
- Final: Marathon walking mixed relay (01:30), women’s pole vault final (13:00), men’s discus final (14:25), men’s 400 m (15:20), men’s 3,000 m steeplechase (15:40)
Quincy Hall could be a favorite in the men’s 400 meters. Hall ran hurdles at the University of South Carolina but had a standout performance at last year’s world championships. Last August in Budapest, Hall ran a personal best of 44.37 in the men’s 400 meter final to take the bronze medal. He then ran the first leg of the men’s 4×400 relay that won gold.
Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat was disqualified on Wednesday before the women’s 50kg freestyle final at the Paris Olympics for failing to make the weight, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) said.
Phogat was supposed to compete for the gold medal with Sarah Hildebrandt from the USA.
“It is with regret that the Indian delegation announces the news of the disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from the women’s 50 kg category in wrestling,” the IOA said in a statement.
“Despite the team’s efforts during the night, this morning she weighed a few grams over 50 kilos.”
The disqualification means that Phogat will not receive a medal.
United World Wrestling, the sport’s international governing body, has not yet issued a statement. — Reuters
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