Paris Olympics live updates, results: Swimming schedule, medal count

On Jul 30, 2024

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Today is a marquee day at the 2024 Paris Olympics with Simone Biles and the U.S. women’s gymnastics team competing in the team final, which starts at 12:15 p.m. ET. The Olympic swimming schedule today features three finals, Katie Ledecky’s 1,500m heat, and semifinals for men’s 100m free and 200m fly.

At least six U.S. squads are competing across five team sports, 26 sports in total are in action, and USA TODAY Sports will bring you live results, medal count, highlights, and more throughout the day. Follow along.

PARIS – Tennis star Coco Gauff, who was chosen as the Olympic opening ceremony flag bearer for Team USA, is out of the women’s singles competition after losing 7-6, 6-2 to Donna Vekic of Croatia.

It was a loss that was mired in some controversy. Down 7-6, 3-2 in a match that was tightly contested all the way through, Gauff faced a massive break point at 30-40. As she retreated to hit a backhand, the linesperson made an out call before Gauff swung her racket and she immediately decelerated, causing a miss.

But the chair umpire saw it differently, overruling the out call and awarding the point to Vekic.

A five-minute argument ensued in which Gauff called the tournament supervisor and appeared to be crying, while saying “I feel like I’m getting cheated constantly in this game.”

Gauff still has a chance to take home medals in doubles and mixed doubles, but her performance Tuesday was surprising and disappointing given how solid she looked in the first two rounds of the tournament and her strong track record on the clay of Roland Garros during the French Open. – Dan Wolken

How about these Olympic men’s golf pairings for the first two rounds?

The star-studded group of Scottie Scheffler (USA), Rory McIlroy (Ireland) and Ludvig Aberg (SWE) will tee off together at 4:11 a.m. Eastern time (10:11 a.m. locally) on Thursday and 12:06 p.m. locally on Friday.

In other featured groups: Xander Schauffele (USA) will play alongside Viktor Hovland (Norway) and Jon Rahm (Spain) at 11:55 a.m. locally Thursday.

Collin Morikawa (USA) is in the Thursday 12:06 p.m. pairing with local French favorite Matthieu Pavon (France) and Matt Fitzpatrick (Great Britain) in a group that should enjoy a raucous following at Le Golf National.

And Wyndham Clark (USA) will play at 9:44 a.m. locally Thursday alongside Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) and Tommy Fleetwood (Great Britain). – Gentry Estes

Kara Kohler advanced to the semifinals with a second-place finish during the first women’s single sculls quarterfinal. She maintained second place throughout the race and finished in 7:34.96, 4.39 seconds behind Australia’s Tara Rigney. New Zealand’s Emma Twigg had the fastest time in the quarterfinal at 7:26.89. The semifinals will be Thursday.

Katie Ledecky’s dominance in the 1500-meter freestyle was on full display during Tuesday’s preliminary heats.

Along with fellow American Katie Grimes, Ledecky competed in the third and final heat and easily qualified for Wednesday’s finals by…