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Saturday, August 10, 2024

Day 16 - August 10, 2024











The USA women's soccer team wins gold by beating Brazil 1-0. Only goal scored was by Mallory Swanson in the 57th minute. Brazil wins silver. Germany beat Spain 1-0 for bronze.

American Kyle Dake wins bronze by beating Hetik Cabolov of Serbia 10-4 in men's freestyle wrestling 74kg bronze medal match. 

American Shelby McEwen (2.36) wins silver in the men's high jump. Hamish Kerr of New Zealand (2.36) wins gold in a jump off vs Shelby McEwen as they both jumped the same height. The jump off was won by Hamish Kerr. Mutaz Essa Barshim  (2.34) of Qatar wins bronze. 

American Bryce Hoppel finishes 4th in the men's 800 in an American record 1:41.67. 

American Masai Russell (12.33) wins gold in the women's 100 hurdles by .001 of a second over Cyrena Samba-Mayela (12.34) of France who wins silver. Jasmine Camacho Quinn (12.36) of Puerto Rico wins bronze. 

American Grant Fisher (13:15.13) wins bronze in the men's 5000. Jakob Ingebrigtsen (13:13.66) wins gold and Ronald Kwemoi (13:15.04) of Kenya wins silver.

The USA men's 4 by 400 relay team (Olympic record 2:54.43) of Chris Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benjamin wins gold. Botswana (2:54.53) wins silver and Great Britain (2:55.83) wins bronze. Great finish to this relay.

The USA women's 4 by 400 relay team (American record 3:15.27) of Shamier Little, Sydney McLaughlin Levrone, Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes win gold. The Netherlands (3:19/50) win silver and Great Britain (3:19.72) win bronze. Big lead for USA in the final handoff. 

Victor Montalvo of the USA wins bronze by beating Shigekix of Japan 3-0 in men's Breaking B Boys bronze medal battle 31. Phil Wizard of Canada wins gold by beating Dany Dann of France 3-0, France wins silver.

The USA men's basketball team wins gold by beating France 98-87. The USA led at halftime 49-41. The game was close in the second half and was as close as 3 point lead for team USA but Stephen Curry's flurry of 3's sealed the win for the USA. The USA was led in scoring by Stephen Curry with 24 points. Devin Booker and Kevin Durant each had 15 points for team USA and Lebron James added 14 points. The USA shot 54 percent for the game.  France wins silver. Serbia beat Germany 93-83 to win bronze. 


Medal Count as of 9:45pm Eastern time

USA                  38 gold, 42 silver, 42 bronze - 122 total
China                39 gold, 27 silver, 24 bronze - 90 total
Great Britain     14 gold, 22 silver, 27 bronze - 63 total
France               16 gold, 24 silver, 22 bronze - 62 total
Australia           18 gold, 18 silver, 14 bronze - 50 total

Friday, August 2, 2024

Day 8 - August 2, 2024







American Sagen Maddalena wins silver in the women's 50m rifle 3 positions final. Ciara Leone of Switzerland wins gold and Qiongyue Zhang of China wins bronze.

Harrison Williams (10.62), Heath Baldwin(10.91) and Zach Ziemek, (10.60) all of the USA, scored 947, 881 and 952 points respectively in the men's decathlon 100.

Vashti Cunningham of the USA jumped 1.92 to advance the women's high jump finals.

Harrison Williams (7.42),  Zach Ziemek (6.86)Heath Baldwin (7.38) , all of the USA, scored 915, 781 and 905 points respectively in the men's decathlon long jump.

In men's swimming, American Caeleb Dressel (50.83) advanced to the 100 butterfly semifinals.

In women's swimming, Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh, both of the USA, advanced to the 200IM semifinals.

Katie Ledecky and Paige Madden, both of the USA, advanced to the women's 800 freestyle final.

The USA 4 by 100 mixed relay team (swimming) of Regan Smith, Charlie Swanson, Caeleb Dressel and Abbey Weitzeil advanced to the final.

Katie Ledecky and Paige Madden, both of the USA, advanced to the women's 800 freestyle final.

The USA women's 4 by 100 medley relay team of Regan Smith, Charlie Swanson, Caeleb Dressel and Abbey Wetzeil advanced to the final.

Yared Nuguse, Cole Hocker and Hobbs Kessler, all of the USA, advanced to the men's 1500 semifinals.

American Rudy Winkler advanced to the men's hammer throw finals. 

Sha'carri Richardson, Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry, all of the USA advanced to the women's 100 semifinals.

Americans Harrison Williams  scored 830 points, Zach Ziemek scored 792 points and Heath Baldwin scored 758 points in the men's decathlon shot put.

The USA women's 3 on 3 basketball team beat France 14-13. Dearica Hamby, Cierra Burdick and Hailey van Lith each scored 4 points to lead team USA.

The USA men's beach volleyball team of Miles Evans/Chase Budinger lost to Palblo Herrera Allepuz/Adrian Gavira Collado of Spain, 2-0, 18-21, 11-21.

The USA men's soccer team lost to Morocco 4-0 in the quarterfinals. The USA is eliminated.

The USA mixed archery team wins bronze by beating India 6-2.

The USA (Ian Barrows- Hans Henken) win bronze in men's sailing skiff medal race. Botin/Trittel of Spain wins gold and McKenzie/McHardie of New Zealand wins silver.

The USA women's 3 on 3 basketball team beat Canada 18-17. Rhyne Howard scored 7 points to lead Team USA. 

The USA equestrian team wins silver in 229.90 with 4 penalties. Great Britain wins gold in 237.47 with 2 penalties and France wins bronze in 238.12 with 7 penalties. 

Americans Heath Baldwin scored 963 points, Zach Ziemek and Harrison Williams each scored 767 points in the men's decathlon long jump.

Elise Cranny, Karissa Schweizer and Whittni Morgan, all of the USA, advanced to the women's 5000 finals.

Jasmine Moore, and Keturah Orji, both of the USA, advanced to the women's triple jump final.

The USA women's water polo team beat France 17-5. Maddie Musselman scored 4 goals to lead team USA.

The USA men's 3 on 3 basketball team beat France 21-19. Canyon Barry had 16 points top lead team USA.

American Valarie Allman advanced to the women's discus throw final.

The USA mixed relay team of Vernon Norwood, Shamier Little, Bryce Deadmon and Kaylyn Brown set a new world record (3:07.41) in advancing to the final. 

Juliette Whittaker and Nia Akins, both of the USA, advanced to the women's 800 semifinals. American Allie Wilson will compete in the repechage round.

Ryan Crouser, Payton Otterdahl and Joe Kovacs, all of the USA, advanced to the men's shot put final.

American Regan Smith wins silver (2:04.26) in the women's 200 backstroke. Kaylee McKeown of Australia wins gold in an Olympic record 2:03.73 and Kylie Masse of Canada wins bronze in 2:05.57.

Americans Harrison Williams scored 973 points, Heath Baldwin scored 859 points and Zach Ziemek scored 779 points in the men's decathlon 400.

The USA men's volleyball team beat Japan 3-1, 25-16, 25-18, 18-25, 25-19.

American Grant Fisher wins bronze (26:43.46) in the men's 10000. Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda wins gold in 26:43.14 and Berihu Aregawi of Ethiopia wins silver in 26:43.44.

Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass, both of the USA, advance to the women's 200 IM final.

The USA women's beach volleyball team of Sara Hughes/Kelly Cheng beat Svenja Mueller/Cinja Tillmann of Germany 2-0, 21-18, 21-18.

The USA men's 3 on 3 basketball team beat China 21-17. Canyon Barry had 14 points to lead team USA.


Medal Count as of 8:30pm Eastern time

USA                 9 gold, 18 silver, 16 bronze - 43 total
France            11 gold, 12 silver, 13 bronze - 36 total
China             13 gold,   9 silver,   9 bronze - 31 total
Great Britain   9 gold,  10 silver,  8 bronze - 27 total
Australia        11 gold,   6 silver,  5 bronze - 22 total