The 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday features more than 40 medal events, including the men’s soccer gold medal match between France and Spain, the women’s beach volleyball gold medal match between Brazil and Canada, gold medal battles in women’s breaking, and the women’s soccer bronze medal match between Germany and Spain.
The Olympic track and field schedule is packed with eight medal events, including the men’s and women’s 4×100-meter relays and the women’s shot put. The U.S. men’s 4x100m relay team will attempt to win gold without Noah Lyles, while Chase Jackson (nee Ealy) is the favorite in the women’s shot put.
Elsewhere, the U.S. women’s basketball team is in action against Australia in a semifinal matchup.
Twenty-one different 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.
Olympics schedule today
Here are some Olympic schedule highlights for Friday. Peacock is streaming every sport and event live as it unfolds in Paris.
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Track and field prelims and semifinal rounds start at 4:05 a.m. The evening session is nothing but finals, eight medal events in all. It opens with the women’s 4x100m relay at 1:30 p.m. NBC is airing the evening session. USA Network is airing the morning session.
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The men’s soccer gold medal match is between France and Spain at noon (USA Network).
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Women’s soccer features the bronze medal match between Spain and Germany at 9 a.m. (USA Network).
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Women’s basketball holds two semifinal games today, the U.S. against Australia at 11:30 a.m. (NBC) and Belgium vs. France at 3 p.m. USA Network is airing both games.
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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-girls. E! is airing all the rounds.
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Women’s beach volleyball holds the bronze (Australia vs. Switzerland) and gold medal (Brazil vs. Canada) matches at 3 p.m. (USA Network) and 4:30 p.m. (NBC), respectively.
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Men’s water polo gets into the semifinal round today, the first between the U.S. and Serbia at 8:35 a.m. (USA Network) and the second between Croatia and Hungary at 1:35 p.m. (USA Network).
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Men’s volleyball holds the bronze medal match between the U.S. and Italy at 10 a.m. (NBC).
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Women’s field hockey has the bronze medal match today between Argentina and Belgium at 8 a.m.
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Other sports in action: Marathon swimming, Taekwondo, golf, diving, rhythmic gymnastics, table tennis, sport climbing, canoe sprint, wrestling, modern pentathlon, track cycling, table tennis, weightlifting, handball and 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 6 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.
Which U.S. teams are playing at the Olympics today?
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The U.S. women’s golf team opens play with Round 3, which starts at 3 a.m. Tee times for U.S. golfers: Lilia Vu, 5:44 a.m., Nelly Korda, 5:55 a.m., Rose Zhang, 6:06 a.m.. Golf Channel is airing.
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The U.S. men’s water polo team plays Serbia in the semifinals at 8:35 a.m. USA Network is airing.
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The U.S. men’s volleyball team plays Italy in the bronze medal match at 10 a.m. NBA is airing.
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The U.S. women’s basketball team plays Australia in the semifinals at 11:30 a.m. USA Network is airing.
What Olympic medals can be won today?
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Track & field: women’s 4x100m relay (1:30 p.m.) women’s shot put (1:40 p.m.), men’s 4×100 relay (1:45 p.m.) women’s 400m (2 p.m.), men’s triple jump (2:10 p.m.), women’s heptathlon 800m (2:15 p.m.), women’s 10,000m (2:55 p.m.), men’s 400m hurdles (3:45 p.m.) NBC is airing the finals.
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Men’s soccer: Gold match (noon, USA Network)
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Women’s soccer: Bronze match (9 a.m., USA Network)
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Breaking: women’s bronze (3:14 p.m. E!), women’s gold (3:23 p.m., E!)
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Beach volleyball: Women’s bronze (3 p.m., USA Network), women’s gold (4:30 p.m., NBC)
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Boxing: Four medal matches (3:30 p.m. start)
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Table tennis: men’s team bronze (4 a.m.), men’s team gold (9 a.m.)
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Diving: women’s 3m springboard (9 a.m., NBC)
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Sport climbing: men’s boulder & lead (6:28 a.m., E!)
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Rhythmic gymnastics: individual all-around (8:30 a.m.)
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Marathon swimming: men’s 10km (1:30 a.m., USA Network)
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Field hockey: women’s bronze (8 a.m.), women’s gold (2 p.m.)
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Wrestling: Six medal matches (1:30 p.m. start)
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Taekwondo: Six medal matches (2:19 p.m. start time)
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Weightlifting: men’s 89kg (9 a.m.), women’s 71kg (1:30 p.m.)
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Volleyball: men’s bronze (10 a.m.)
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Cycling track: women’s madison (12:09 p.m.), men’s sprint (1:38 p.m.). E! is airing.
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Canoe sprint: women’s canoe double 500m final A (6:50 a.m.), women’s kayak double 500m final A (7:10 a.m.), men’s kayak double 500m final A (7:30 a.m.), men’s canoe single 1,000m final A (7:50 a.m.) All finals on E!
Olympic track and field schedule today
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Women’s heptathlon events: long jump (4:05 a.m.), javelin throw group a (5:20 a.m.), javelin throw group b (6:30 a.m.), 800m (2:15 p.m.)
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Round 1s: women’s 4x400m relay (4:40 a.m.), men’s 4×400 relay (5:05 a.m.)
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Semifinals: men’s 800m (5:30 a.m.), women’s 100m hurdles
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Finals: women’s 4x100m relay (1:30 p.m.), women’s shot put (1:40 p.m.), men’s 4x100m relay (1:45 p.m.), women’s 400m final (2 p.m.), men’s triple jump (2:10 p.m.), women’s 10,000m (2:55 p.m.), men’s 400m hurdles (3:45 pm.)
Olympic track and field today: What to watch
Chase Jackson (nee Ealey) is ranked No. 1 in the world in women’s shot put and a favorite to win her first Olympic medal. She is the first American woman in history to win gold in the event at the world championships. Jackson, from Springfield, Missouri, told Olympics.com she considered retiring after failing to make the Olympic team for Tokyo.
On the track, both the men’s and women’s 4×100 relay finals will be contested.
SAINT-DENIS, France — Quincy Wilson is set to make his Paris Olympics debut.
Wilson received word that he will take part in Team USA’s 4×400 relay team, a person familiar with the situation told USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to discuss the relay team.
The men’s 4×400 relay begins Friday at 5:05 a.m. ET (11:05 local time).
Team USA will be in the first-round heat of the 4×400 relay. Wilson is expected to run in the opening round. Wilson will become the youngest American male to have ever participated in an Olympic track and field event. — Tyler Dragon
The end of Noah Lyles’ 2024 Paris Olympics campaign means there’s an open spot in one track and field event for Team USA.
After taking the bronze medal in the men’s 200-meter final, Lyles received medical attention and collapsed into a wheelchair. The runner has a history of asthma, but it was revealed after the race that he tested positive for COVID-19 and ran the 200m sick. In an Instagram post following the race, Lyles said he believes “this will be the end of my 2024 Olympics.”
With Lyles done competing in Paris, there are some questions as to what will happen for Team USA in a race he was expected to compete in: the 4×100-meter relay. — Jordan Mendoza
Olympic beach volleyball today: What to watch
Medals for the women are up for grabs at one of the iconic venues of the Paris Games. Beach volleyball will be held at Eiffel Tower Stadium, a temporary structure built at the Champ de Mers. The women’s gold medal match will be held Friday and the men’s medals decided the following day.
Olympic breaking today: What to watch
The women take the stage for breaking’s debut at the Olympics. Sixteen B-girls will face off, going head-to-head. Grace “Sunny” Choi was the first American woman to earn her spot in the Olympics.
PARIS — Sport as an expression of art seems like an abstract concept. But take a well-designed goal in soccer or hockey, for example – the angles involved, the creativity required. Suddenly, the two opposites are bridged.
After all, sport, like art, is entertainment. And the newest Olympic sport, breaking, is an ideal example of how two forms of expression, dancing and athletics, are not as dichotomous as people may think.
USA TODAY Sports asked the U.S. Olympic breakers, along with those who have been involved around breaking for decades, whether they saw themselves more as athletes or artists. The easy answer is “both.” The truth lies somewhere along that bridge. — Chris Bumbaca
PARIS — The U.S. women’s soccer team is in the Olympic final for the first time since 2012, and have a chance to win their first major international tournament since the 2019 World Cup, in large part because of Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Mallory Swanson.
A team that couldn’t buy a goal at the 2023 World Cup leads the Olympic tournament with 11, with Rodman, Smith and Swanson each scoring three.
Brazil, which the USWNT faces in Saturday’s final, has only one player with multiple goals, Gabi Portilho, who has scored twice over five games. — Nancy Armour
Olympic wrestling today: What to watch
Kyle Dake qualified for the Olympics after an emotional Trials. Dake learned his father, Doug, had died just a few days before Trials were held in State College, Pennsylvania. Dake, the 2021 Olympic bronze medalist who wrestled collegiately at Cornell, competes at 74 kilograms.
Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary wins men’s marathon swimming gold
Hungary’s Kristof Rasovszky won the men’s 10km marathon swimming gold at the Olympics on Friday, holding off German silver medallist Oliver Klemet in a gruelling slog along the final length of the Seine River.
There was more medal joy for Hungary, with David Betlehem claiming bronze for the nation.
Four swimmers failed to finish the race, while Sweden’s Victor Johansson elected not to start citing health concerns about the water quality.
Rasovszky, however, was not to be denied, three years after being beaten for the gold at Tokyo by another German in Florian Wellbrock. The 27-year-old crossed the finish in one hour, 50 minutes and 52.7 seconds, 2.1 seconds ahead of Klemet.
The event went ahead as scheduled with water quality deemed compliant from testing. — Reuters
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