It was one other action-packed day at the Paris Olympics.
LeBron James and Kevin Durant led the U.S. males’s basketball crew to an opening victory towards Nikola Jokic and Serbia. Simone Biles dominated gymnastics qualifying, and Rafael Nadal arrange a second-round tennis match towards Novak Djokovic.
The competitors continues on Monday and runs till Aug. 11.
From medal triumphs to record-setting performances and extra, this is a full look again at Sunday’s high moments:
Simone Biles and USA gymnastics shine in Paris debut
Biles made her Olympic return three years after pulling out of a number of finals on the Tokyo Olympics by powering by discomfort she felt in her calf Sunday to guide the U.S. ladies’s gymnastics crew into the finals.
Biles, Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles went 1-2-3 within the all-around throughout early qualifying, although Chiles will miss the all-around closing resulting from guidelines that restrict nations to coming into two athletes per competitors.
There’s an opportunity Chiles will make the ground train closing ought to she end within the high eight. Lee is virtually a lock for the beam and bars finals, with 2020 flooring train champion Jade Carey in good place to hitch Biles within the vault closing.
However all eyes have been on Biles, who briefly scared a whole nation when she left the after her flooring train and acquired medical consideration. She had tweaked her calf in warm-up, however U.S. coach Cecile Landi mentioned it was a minor damage.
She carried out in entrance of a star-studded crowd that included Tom Cruise, Jessica Chastain, Snoop Dogg, Anna Wintour and Girl Gaga, who wrote on social media of Biles: “She nailed it, what an honor to be so shut!”
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Chiles shines on uneven bars throughout Olympic qualification
Jordan Chiles had a stellar competitors in the course of the qualification spherical on the 2024 Paris Olympics, capped off by a 14.266 on uneven bars.
USA wins first medal in mountain biking
Staff USA bicycle owner Haley Batten collected a silver medal in Sunday’s ladies’s mountain biking occasion, giving the nation its finest ever end within the sport because it was added to the Olympic program in 1996.
Batten and Swedish bicycle owner Jenny Rissveds have been neck and neck by the ultimate stretch, however Batten (1:28:59) pulled in entrance and completed 5 seconds forward.
Pauline Ferrand Prevot (1:26:02) gained France its second gold medal of the Paris Olympics on Sunday with a dominant efficiency, crossing the end line two minutes and 57 seconds earlier than Batten.
Prevot is the primary French bicycle owner to medal in mountain biking since 2012, when Julie Bresset gained gold on the London Olympics.
US males’s basketball opens its Paris Olympic run with win over Serbia
LeBron James and Kevin Durant led the U.S. males’s basketball crew to a gap victory towards Nikola Jokic and Serbia.
Every had good begins from the sphere whereas main the U.S. crew to a 110-84 win over Serbia because the U.S. appears to defend its gold medal.
James, who made eight of his first 9 pictures, completed with 21 factors, 9 assists and eight rebounds. Durant scored 21 of his 23 factors within the first half whereas making his first eight field-goal makes an attempt, together with all 5 pictures from deep. He tried only one shot within the second half, lacking a jumper early within the fourth quarter.
Staff USA will face South Sudan subsequent in pool play.
US ladies’s soccer in good place after win over Germany
Sophia Smith scored a pair of objectives to guide the U.S. previous Germany 4-1 and put the crew in good place to advance out of its group on the Olympics.
Mallory Swanson and Lynn Williams additionally scored for the People, who defeated Zambia 3-0 within the opener however gained’t know their destiny within the knockout spherical for positive till after the ultimate Group B matches on Wednesday.
The People play Australia in Marseille to conclude group play.
Torri Huske takes gold in ladies’s 100m butterfly, favourite Gretchen Walsh takes silver
Staff USA’s Torri Huske and Gretchen Walsh got here within the high two in Sunday’s ladies’s 100m butterfly in Paris, with Huske coming in forward of the world file holder and extra favored Walsh.
The 2 remained neck-and-neck all through the occasion, with Huske inching forward of Walsh within the closing stretch of the race.
Huske would end with a time of 55.59 seconds, simply .04 seconds forward of Walsh, who set the world file for the 100m butterfly earlier this 12 months on the U.S. Olympic trials, when she completed with a time of 55.18 seconds.
In third place was China’s Zhang Yufei, who got here in at 56.21 seconds.
USA’s Nic Fink ties Peaty for silver in males’s 100m breaststroke thriller
American Nic Fink tied with Adam Peaty of Nice Britain with a 59.05 time to take silver within the males’s 100m breaststroke on Sunday.
Nicolò Martinenghi of Italy took house the gold with a time of 59.03.
Fink is a six-time World Championship gold medalist who additionally works full time as an engineer.
Lee Kiefer tops Lauren Scruggs in all-US fencing particular person foil bout
It was American vs. American within the ladies’s particular person foil fencing bout.
Lee Kiefer topped Lauren Scruggs 15-6 to win gold, whereas Scruggs claimed silver within the first time ever the U.S. had two ladies within the closing bout.
Kiefer additionally gained gold in Tokyo, finishing a back-to-back triumph.
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Olympic tennis dream come true: Djokovic, Nadal will face off on Monday
Rafael Nadal was not sure he may even play males’s singles Sunday the day earlier than his match, however turned up at Roland Garros and beat Marton Fucsovics of Hungary 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 within the first spherical.
The victory arrange a blockbuster showdown towards rival Novak Djokovic.
Will probably be the sixtieth assembly between this pair of greats, greater than every other two males have performed towards one another within the sport’s Open period, which started in 1968. Djokovic, a 37-year-old from Serbia, leads the head-to-head collection 30-29, and his 24 Grand Slam titles make him the one man in tennis historical past with greater than Nadal’s 22.
