The 2024 Paris Olympics features more than 40 medal events Saturday, including the U.S. men’s basketball team vs. France in the gold medal game, the women’s soccer gold medal match between the United States and Brazil, the men’s beach volleyball gold medal match between Sweden and Germany, and gold medal battles in men’s breaking.
The Olympic track and field schedule today is packed with eight medal events, including the men’s and women’s 4×400-meter relays and the women’s 100-meter hurdles. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is expected to run for Team USA in the 4×400-meter relay.
Twenty-two sports in total are in action, and USA TODAY Sports will bring you live results, the medal count, highlights and more throughout the day. Follow along.
Nevin Harrison nearly notches gold in canoe sprint
VAIRES-SUR-MARNE, France — Nevin Harrison came 1/100th of a second away from winning her second gold medal.
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Harrison took the silver medal in the women’s 200-meter canoe sprint Saturday, losing to Canada’s Katie Vincent in a photo finish.
Vincent finished the course in a world-record tie of 44.12 seconds, a hair ahead of Harrison (44.13). Cuba’s Yarisleidis Cirilo Duboys (44.36) took bronze.
Harrison set an Olympic record on her way to winning gold at the Tokyo Olympics as an 18-year-old. She finished second in her semifinal heat, 29/100ths of a second behind Vincent.
Vincent won a bronze earlier in the games as part of Canada’s 500-meter canoe doubles team. — Dave Birkett
American climber wins first Olympic medal
LE BOURGET, France — American sport climber Brooke Raboutou claimed her first Olympic medal Saturday, winning silver in the women’s boulder and lead combined final, finishing behind Slovenian favorite and gold medalist Janja Garnbret. Garnbret led the way with 168.5 total points, followed by Raboutou with 156.0 and Austria’s Jessica Pilz with 147.4 points for bronze.Raboutou – a 23-year-old two-time Olympian – built off a strong performance in the boulder final, finishing that portion with 84 points, just .4 points behind Garnbret, 25. Raboutou and Garnbret were the only climbers to top three of the four boulder problems, finishing the round second and first, respectively. In the lead portion, Raboutou had another standout performance, collecting 72 points, moving to the top of the leaderboard and guaranteeing herself a medal. Garnbret previously won Olympic gold at the 2021 Tokyo Games in the women’s combined – a different format compared with the Paris Olympics when the combined event featured boulder, lead and speed. Raboutou finished fifth in the event in Tokyo. ― Michelle Martinelli
Serbia wins bronze in men’s basketball
Serbia men’s 5×5 basketball team captured the bronze medal with a 93-83 victory over Germany on Saturday. Serbia rebounded from a heartbreaking 95-91 loss to the U.S. in the semifinals and prevented Germany from earning its first Olympic medal in men’s 5×5.
Serbia’s three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic had 19 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists, and teammate Vasilije Micic scored 19 points. Bogdan Bogdanovic added 16 points for Serbia, which earned silver medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2023 FIBA World Cup.
It was a disappointing finish for Germany, the 2023 FIBA World Cup champion, which went 3-0 in group play but lost to France in the semifinals and Serbia in the third-place game.
Franz Wagner led Germany with 18 points and nine rebounds. — Jeff Zillgitt
Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola wins gold in men’s marathon
Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia took the gold medal in the men’s marathon Saturday morning, setting a new Olympic record with a time of 2:06.26, and blowing away the chase group by more than 20 seconds to earn his second Olympic medal. Bashir Abdi won the silver medal (2:06.47) and Kenya’s Benson Kipruto (2:07.00) took bronze.
The previous Olympic record had been 2:06.32 by Kenya’s Samuel Kamau Wanjiru in 2008.
Two Americans, Conner Mantz (2:08.12) and Clayton Young (2:08.44), turned in season-bests to finish eighth and ninth, respectively.
Tola won bronze at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games in the men’s 10,000-meter event. — Chase Goodbread
Olympics schedule today
Here are some Olympic schedule highlights. Peacock is streaming every sport and event live as it unfolds in Paris.
All times Eastern
- Track and field is all finals, eight total: men’s high jump (1:10 p.m.), men’s 800m (1:25 p.m.), women’s javelin (1:40 p.m.), women’s 100m hurdles (1:45 p.m.), men’s 5,000m (2 p.m.), women’s 1,500m (2:25 p.m.), men’s 4x400m relay (3:12 p.m.), women’s 4x400m relay (3:22 p.m.). NBC is airing the finals.
- Women’s soccer features the gold medal match between the United States and Brazil at 11 a.m (USA Network).
- Men’s basketball wraps up with the USA vs. France gold medal game (3:30 p.m., NBC) and the Germany vs. Serbia bronze medal game (5 a.m., USA Network).
- Breaking makes its Olympic debut with qualifying (10 a.m., quarterfinals (2 p.m.), semifinals (2:45 p.m.) and finals (3:15 p.m.) for the B-boys. E! is airing all the rounds.
- Men’s beach volleyball holds the bronze and gold medal matches at 3 p.m. (USA Network) and 4:30 p.m. (NBC), respectively.
- Women’s water polo has the bronze medal match between the United States and the Netherlands at 4:35 a.m. with the gold medal match between Australia and Spain at 9:35 a.m. (NBC).
- Men’s volleyball holds the gold medal match between France and Poland at 7 a.m. (NBC).
- Women’s volleyball puts on the bronze medal match between Brazil and Turkey at 11:15 a.m.
- Women’s golf wraps up play with Round 4, which begins at 3 a.m.
- The men’s marathon opens the day with a 2 a.m. start. USA Network is airing.
- Other sports in action: Taekwondo, modern pentathlon, diving, handball, table tennis, sport climbing, canoe sprint, wrestling, weightlifting, rhythmic gymnastics, cycling, artistic swimming.
How to watch Olympics today
NBC is airing and streaming the Paris Olympics from all angles: Peacock is streaming every sport and event live as it unfolds; NBC, USA Network, CNBC and E! are carrying various live events and replays throughout the day. Here are six tips and tricks for getting the most out of Peacock during the Olympics.
Medal count today
Our 2024 Paris Olympics medal count tracker updates after every single medal event.
What Olympic medals can be won today?
- Women’s soccer: gold medal match (11 a.m., USA Network)
- Men’s hoops: Bronze medal game (5 a.m., USA Network), gold medal game (3:30 p.m., NBC)
- Boxing: Four finals matches (3:30 p.m. start, CNBC)
- Track & field: men’s high jump (1:10 p.m.), men’s 800m (1:25 p.m.), women’s javelin (140 p.m.), men’s 5,000m (2 p.m.), women’s 1,500m (2:25 p.m.), men’s 4x400m relay (3:12 p.m.), women’s 4x400m relay (3:22 p.m.)
- Beach volleyball: men’s bronze (3 p.m., USA Network), men’s gold (4:30 p.m., USA Network)
- Breaking: men’s bronze (3:14 p.m.), men’s gold (3:23 p.m., E!)
- Artistic swimming: duet free routine (1:30 p.m.)
- Marathon: men (2 a.m.)
- Golf: women’s round 4 wraps (3 a.m. start, GOLF Channel)
- Table tennis: women’s team bronze (4 a.m.), women’s team gold (9 a.m.)
- Sport climbing: women’s boulder & lead final (6:28 a.m.)
- Rhythmic gymnastics: group all-around final (8 a.m., CNBC)
- modern pentathlon: men’s final laser run (1:10 p.m.)
- Wrestling: Six medal matches (1:30 p.m. start)
- Weightlifting: men’s 102kg (5:30 a.m.), women’s 81kg (10 a.m.), men’s +102kg (2:30 p.m.)
- Water polo: women’s bronze match (4:35 a.m.), women’s gold match (9:35 a.m., NBC)
- Volleyball: men’s gold match (7 a.m.), women’s bronze match (11:15 a.m., CNBC)
- Taekwondo: Six medal contests (2:19 p.m. start times)
- Handball: women’s bronze (4 a.m., CNBC), women’s gold (9 a.m., USA Network)
- Diving: men’s 10m platform (9 a.m., E!)
- Cycling track: men’s madison final (11:59 a.m.)
- Canoe sprint: women’s kayak single 500m final A (7 a.m.), men’s kayak single 1,000m final A (7:20 a.m.), women’s canoe single 200m final A (7:50 a.m.) CNBC is airing.
Olympic track and field schedule today
Finals: men’s high jump (1:10 p.m.), men’s 800m (1:25 p.m.), women’s javelin (1:40 p.m.), women’s 100m hurdles (1:45 p.m.), men’s 5,000m (2 p.m.), women’s 1,500m (2:25 p.m.), men’s 4x400m relay (3:12 p.m.), women’s 4x400m relay (3:22 p.m.)
What U.S. teams are playing at the Olympics today?
- The U.S. women’s golf team opens play with Round 4, which starts at 3 a.m.
- Tee times for American players:
- 4:44 a.m.: Lilia Vu (USA), Klara Davidson Spilkova (Czech Republic), Albane Valenzuela (Switzerland).
- 6:17 a.m.: Nelly Korda (USA), Xiyu Janet Lin (China, Celine Boutier (France).
- 6:39 a.m.: Morgane Metraux (Switzerland), Lydia Ko (New Zealand), Rose Zhang (USA).
- Golf Channel is airing.
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