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Paris Olympics 2024 — Day 15 latest
The United States women’s soccer and men’s basketball teams are both going for gold on Day 15 of the Paris Olympic Games.
LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, and teammates will be looking to continue Team USA’s golden record in hoops in a hostile atmosphere against host France, while Emma Hayes will be hoping to lead the USWNT to glory against Brazil and retiring soccer icon Marta.
On the track, more medals will be won in the men’s high jump, men’s 800m, women’s 100m hurdles and both the men’s and women’s 4x400m relays.
Canada’s Katie Vincent has won gold in the canoe sprint women’s C1 200m.
This is the second medal of the event for Vincent, after she won bronze with Sloan MacKenzie in the women’s sprint C2 500m.
Another gold medal for Canada in what’s shaping up to be a record summer Olympics!
The home-court advantage for French teams has been felt throughout the Paris Games.
And it’s been the same during the gold men’s volleyball match between France and Poland.
You can see how much the French players are feeding into the energy from the crowd — especially after going two sets clear.
France is now one set away from becoming back-to-back Olympic champions and the first host nation to win this event since the U.S. did it at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.
Brooke Raboutou has her silver medal! And no doubt it feels good.
The 23-year-old has earned the 112th medal for the United States at Paris 2024 and a 40th silver.
Coming in the women’s boulder and lead, it means two sport climbing medals for the U.S. after Sam Watson took bronze in the men’s speed.
With two birdies in four holes, Nelly Korda— the world No. 1 and defending Olympic champion — is making an early stir in the final round of the women’s golf competition at Le Golf International.
It’s been an erratic week for Korda. The gold medal winner in Tokyo shot an opening even-par 72 on Wednesday, then began Thursday with a front-nine 32 before taking a quadruple-bogey 7 on the par-3 16th and finishing with a 2-under 70.
Yesterday she sandwiched two early bogeys and a late bogey on Saturday with five birdies to shoot another 2-under 70.
Now through four holes in the final round, Korda was two shots off the lead held by Japan’s Miyu Yamashita and New Zealand’s Lydia Ko.
Ko has the rarest of feats in front of her — backing up a silver in Rio 2016 and bronze in Tokyo 2020, with a gold in Paris.
Yamashita, ranked No. 18 in the world, birdied the second hole today to move into a share of the lead.
Rose Zhang, meanwhile, playing in the final group with Ko and Switzerland’s Morgane Metraux, is still looking for some early momentum after a pair of early pars. Zhang and Metraux both remain one shot off the lead.
The atmosphere at Le Bourget has sounded superb for the Olympic climbing and it is is signing off in similar style today.
The women’s combined competition ends in rapturous applause as Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret battles through injury from the earlier boulder climb to just miss out on the top but do enough to top score.
A teary Garnbret collapses to her knees after her almighty effort, and soon on the scene is the woman she beat into second, USA’s Brooke Raboutou.
Her final climb was superb, as was the moment she realized she was guaranteed a medal.
Oh. My. Goodness. Lisa Carrington was already something of an Olympic legend — only now, the status of the New Zealand canoeist has been underscored.
Carrington has just won gold in the 500m women’s kayak singles in an Olympic-best 1:47.36.
With that, the 35-year-old has a third gold medal of Paris 2024 and the eighth of her Olympic career — tying Birgit Fischer’s Olympic canoeing record. Speaking after the race, Carrington said:
💬 “I just turn up to do my best, love the paddling, love the racing. Always wanting to perform my best and thrive for my best has also given me so much joy.”
Hungary have a third canoeing medal with Tamara Csipes taking silver, as Emma Aastrand Jorgensen becomes Denmark’s most decorated woman in Olympic history with four medals and her bronze.