Paris Olympics 2024 live updates: Day 6 latest as Iga …

Things are going from bad to worse for the United States’ 3×3 men’s squad, who are now 0-3 after falling to Lithuania 20-18.

The U.S. was shorthanded as Jimmer Fredette did not play due to injury, but came out with a sense of urgency and had a 4-point lead at one point.

But playing with three players isn’t ideal in a game that is so fast-paced, and it was obvious late in this game that they were exhausted. They were out-rebounded 21-14 and only made one two-pointer.

Team USA plays again today at 5:05 p.m. ET against Latvia.

Germany’s 3×3 team beats Azerbaijan 12-8 to stay in second place in the women’s tournament.

Azerbaijan’s Tiffany Hayes had been on a tear, scoring 10-plus points in each game she’s played, until today. Germany did an excellent job of contesting each of her shots and being physical with her when she attacked the basket.

Germany is third in scoring in pool play at 16.8 points per game but has found a way to win games in multiple ways.

Here is a live look at the standings:

1. Australia: 3-1
2. Germany: 3-1
3. Canada: 2-1
4. Spain: 2-1
5. China: 2-2
6. France: 1-2
7. Azerbaijan: 1-3
8. USA: 0-3

Paris is a unique Olympics presentation because there will be a significant audience watching in the daytime on NBC and Peacock for major events, such as today’s women’s gymnastics all-around final. But the primetime presentation on over-the-air NBC remains the larger audience. NBC has a staff of 40 senior production staffers specifically assigned to take the live broadcast and add graphics, re-voicing, teases, and other storytelling elements for the primetime re-air which features a curated approach to the day’s events.

That’s what makes what is currently happening with the women’s gymnastics final so interesting. Simone Biles is not running away with things after two rotations and NBC’s primetime coverage is shaping up to have a monster night given they will be able to package this with a significant dramatic element.

Following the men’s 100kg event, the women’s 78kg final has just finished.

Alice Bellandi (pictured above) of Italy has taken an ippon win against Israel’s Inbar Lanir after Lanir picked up three shido warnings.

Bellandi was in tears after her win. Lanir takes silver while bronze medals go to Ma Zhenzhao (China) and Patrícia Sampaio (Portugal).

The day’s first set of medals have been given out at the Champ-de-Mars Arena.

In the men’s -100kg category, Zelym Kotsoiev of Azerbaijan (pictured above) won gold by ippon by default after his opponent, Georgia’s Ilia Sulamanidze, was given three shido warnings.

Bronze medals went to Peter Paltchik of Israel and Muzaffarbek Turoboyev of Uzbekistan.

China have beaten Spain 14-11 in women’s 3×3 basketball, meaning that every team in the women’s tournament now has at least one loss.

China didn’t play perfect basketball but used its size as an advantage to steal a win. They were able to hold Spain to 17 percent on two-point shots and did not allow a single free throw attempt.

Here is a live look at the standings:

1. Australia: 3-1
2. Germany: 2-1
3. Canada: 2-1
4. Spain: 2-1
5. China: 2-2
6. France: 1-2
7. Azerbaijan: 1-2
8. USA: 0-3

Surf conditions are good in Tahiti so that means the competition is ON.

The event will start with the women’s Round 3 heats, which were postponed from Monday, in 30 minutes.

The French, German and Zambian national women’s football teams have denied using drones to spy on opposition training sessions.

In an internal email, Canada head coach Bev Priestman, who has been suspended by FIFA for a year after admitting to using drone surveillance at the 2024 Paris Olympics, accused the top 10 teams of deploying the same covert methods.

“…for scouting it can be the difference between winning and losing and all top 10 teams do it,” Priestman wrote in an internal email dated March 20, 2024.

However, after the highest-ranked federations — Spain, France, Germany, USWNT, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Colombia, New Zealand, Nigeria, and Zambia — at the Paris Olympics were contacted by The Athletic, several denied this was the case and rebuked Priestman’s claims.

Follow the link below for the full story.

Speaking at a press conference today, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe discussed the impact that climate change is having on sport.

“Through research and discussions we’ve had with them, 70% of our athletes will tell you that climate change has not only impacted their competition program but is impacting their training program.

“Sport is going to have to take some of these issues into their own hands. I can’t see us not having a root-and-branch review of the global calendar to deal with some of these issues.

“We’re talking about the welfare of the athletes. Maybe we’re going to have to move some of our endurance events out of times of the year where we don’t want an international federation to turn up with a field hospital.

“If we are true to our word about athletes being the first thought and not the last consideration, then there are lots of things we’re going to have to address in years to come, and probably sooner rather than later.”

Hello from Bercy Arena and Simone Biles Night, er, the all-around competition. Same thing. Biles tonight will try to become only the third woman in history – and first since 1968 – to win two Olympic all-around gold medals.

You gotta like her chances, considering she hasn’t lost an all-around title she’s entered since 2013. Yes, you read that right. Undefeated for 11 years.

She will be pushed, albeit gently. Biles finished nearly two points atop the all-around qualifying, and that’s with a downgraded vault.

Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade has been a legit foil (athletically, that is. Personally they’re quite friendly). She won the 2021 World Championship when Biles took a year off, and finished second to Biles this year. Sunisa Lee, her teammate, also is a worthy foe. Lee, of course, is the reigning all-around gold medalist.

But Biles also could add another signature move to her repertoire tonight. She petitioned for consideration a move on the uneven bars, and if she executes it, it will be the sixth named skill for Biles, not to mention give her one on each apparatus.

You can follow The Athletic‘s dedicated coverage of the women’s all-around competition here.

Big news in track and field as France’s Kevin Mayer, the decathlon’s world-record holder, has pulled out of the event due to injury. The 32-year-old, who won silver in the event at each of the past two Olympics, suffered a thigh injury earlier this month and has been unable to recover in time.

The decathlon takes place over tomorrow and Saturday.

After American fencers Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs took gold and silver in the women’s individual foil on Sunday, they teamed up with compatriot Jacqueline Dubrovich in the foil team event and have beaten Canada to reach the gold-medal final.

They will take on Italy at 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT today to determine who takes home the ultimate prize.

If a federation’s competence was solely determined by the performance of its senior national teams, few would question the trajectory of Canada Soccer.

The women’s national team, ranked eighth in the world, is trying to defend its Olympic gold medal and has registered three wins from three group games in Paris.

In 2022, the men’s team qualified for their first World Cup since 1986, then followed that up with an inspired run to the Copa America semifinals this summer.

Unfortunately, the same can’t be said about Canada Soccer as an organization. Here is why.

It’s certainly a striking look. Looking like something between an expert diamond dealer and a crack sniper for some renegade sci-fi army, the internet’s new favourite Olympian, South Korean pistol shooter Kim Yeji, is one of the Paris Games’ most notable stars so far.

This is the great thing about the Olympics. Before the games you’re looking forward to all the stuff you knew about before: maybe Sha’Carri Richardson in the athletics, Andy Murray’s farewell in the tennis or Simone Biles in the gymnastics.

But then there’s the stuff that you didn’t know you cared about, until you see it. And an incredibly cool-looking pistol shooter most certainly falls into that category. Kim crashed into the online consciousness after she competed in the first of her two events in Paris, the 10m air pistol on Sunday.

The X account ‘Women Posting Ws’, which seems to be the root source of her viral status, wrote alongside a picture of Kim shooting at the target, back slightly arched, her shoulder high with her chin resting on it and her non-shooting hand in her pocket, that it was “the most aura I have ever seen in an image”.

In the women’s hockey, United States are facing Britain right now after they started moments ago.

It’s both teams’ penultimate pool-stage match. Britain could use a win as they aim to qualify for the quarters, while the U.S. know a loss will see their tournament finish prematurely.

This is wild.

In Marseille, off the south coast of France, the men’s skiff medal race has been called off again.

First, the winds were too much, so authorities suspended the race, and everyone had to start again, which they did.

Now, it’s been abandoned for a second time after the winds died down so dramatically that lots of boats stopped moving.

Third time lucky?

As it usually goes for Team USA’s Tommy Paul against Carlos Alcaraz these days, he got the Spaniard into trouble. At 4-1 and 5-3 up in the second, he looked poised to extend their match the distance.

But just as Alcaraz did at Wimbledon a few weeks ago, he found his extra spurt of quality at the opportune times, first breaking back, then pulling out a tiebreak 9-7.

Paul will be back on court with Taylor Fritz to face down Olympic comeback kings Andy Murray and Dan Evans of Great Britain.

Alcaraz, who has guaranteed himself a shot at a medal at his first Olympics, will reflect on another display of clinical tennis. Right shots, right time.

Update from Le Golf National — the first round of men’s golf will resume at 5:05 p.m. local time, 11:05 ET, 4.05pm BST in the UK.

That’s in between five-10 minutes.