Tennis: Gauff, down 2-4 in second set, starts arguing with umpire
American tennis star Coco Gauff couldn’t catch a break as she trails Croatian Donna Vekic 2 games to 4 in the second set.
Gauff, the No. 2 player in the world, already lost the first set in a fiercely fought round of games that saw her give up a breakpoint.
She now risks crashing out in the third round.
As she fell behind, she delayed the match for nearly 10 minutes as she went to argue a close call.
“I feel like I’m getting cheated on constantly in this game,” she said.
Rugby: America has chance for medal for first time in century
When the U.S. women beat Great Britain on Monday it guaranteed the Americans a chance to play for a medal on Tuesday.
The last time the United States won a medal in rugby was when the men’s team won gold at the 1924 Paris Games. Women’s rugby made its Olympic debut at the 2016 Rio Games.
The U.S. is set for semifinal showdown today vs. New Zealand at 9:30 a.m. ET.
Coco Gauff loses first set
The American has lost the first set 7-6 to Croatia’s Donna Vekic in the third round of the women’s singles.
Egyptian fencer reveals she competed at Olympics while seven months pregnant
Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez has revealed that she competed at the Paris Olympics while she was seven months pregnant.
“What appears to you as two players on the podium, they were actually three! It was me, my competitor, & my yet-to-come to our world, little baby!” The 26-year-old fencer said in an Instagram post yesterday, calling the Olympics different as “carrying a little Olympian one.”
The three-time Olympian lost 15-7 to South Korea’s Jeon Hayoung in the Round of 16 at the Grand Palais yesterday, on the same day she beat Elizabeth Tartakovsky of the U.S., 15-13.
“The rollercoaster of pregnancy is tough on its own, but having to fight to keep the balance of life & sports was nothing short of strenuous, however worth it,” she said. “I’m writing this post to say that pride fills my being for securing my place in the round of 16!”
France super star Léon Marchand back in the pool
How many medals can the Frenchman win at these games? That’s the question the host country is asking.
Marchand faces a huge challenge on Tuesday, swimming in the prelims of TWO separate individual races on the same day: the 200m butterfly and the 200m breaststroke.
The heats in those two events have wrapped, and the 22-year-old has qualified for both semi-finals later today. They will be held just 75 minutes apart.
The finals for both events are on Wednesday.
On Sunday Marchand broke the Olympic record to take gold in his favorite event, the 400-meter individual medley.
U.S. women’s basketball shines over Japan
The U.S. women’s team opened play with a 26-point win over Japan on Monday (102-76) with Las Vegas Aces’ star A’ja Wilson leading the team with 24 points and the New York Liberty’s Breanna Stewart adding 22 points.
The U.S. women have now won 56 straight Olympic Games since their last Olympic loss at the 1992 Barcelona Games. In Paris they’re looking to become the first team in any sport to win eight straight Olympic golds.
The U.S. is currently tied with the U.S. men’s basketball team, which won seven straight gold medals from 1936-1968.
The U.S. women’s next game is on Thursday against Belgium at 3 p.m. ET.
Regan Smith and Kaylee McKeown back at it again
America’s Regan Smith and Australia’s Kaylee McKeown will renew one of the biggest rivalries in swimming when they meet in the 100-meter backstroke the pool at the Olympics Aquatics Centre near Paris on Tuesday night.
The race between world record holder Smith, a native of Lakeville, Minnesota and Olympic record holder McKeown slated for 3:00 p.m. ET (9:00 p.m. local time).
Three more sets of Olympic medals will also be awarded at Paris La Défense Arena with Bobby Finke, from Clearwater, Florida swimming in the 800 freestyle at 3:07 p.m ET.
And at 4:15 p.m. ET, Team USA’s men hope to bounce back from a fourth-place finish in the 4×200 freestyle relay in Tokyo.
Ryan Murphy medals, then finds out he’ll be a ‘girl dad’
For American swimmer Ryan Murphy it was a life-affirming two-in-one: he had just won bronze in the men’s 100-meter backstroke when he found out his pregnant wife was having a girl.
While walking to the podium Monday, Murphy’s wife, Bridget, held up a sign saying, “Ryan it’s a girl!”
“That’s a great way to find out,” he said. “That really lit me up and brought this night to a whole other level. It’s really exciting to learn that I’m going to be a girl dad.”
Team USA triathlete ‘definitely not afraid’ to swim in the Seine
Cancellations because of poor water conditions are not unusual, Team USA triathlete Kristin Kasper told NBC News after the men’s competition was postponed because of concerns about pollution in the river Seine.
“I’m just trying to focus on what I can control,” the 32-year-old from Boulder, Colorado said, before the women’s triathlon which starts tomorrow. “And I think me and my teammates are just trying to hope for the best and line up on race day and hopefully we have a swim.”
Kasper added that she was “definitely not afraid to swim in the river.”
“We swim in a lot of city locations, and it’s common for water quality to be a question. But I just have to trust that the race organizers are doing the testing and what they need to do to make sure it’s safe,” she said. “It’s the Olympics, so I’m going all in.”
Chinese diver says drug testing ‘seven times a day’ is hurting swimmers’ performance
Relentless drug testing “seven times a day” is hurting the performance of Chinese swimmers in Paris, one of the country’s top divers said.
“There must be something wrong with the pre-competition training of the athletes,” Gao Min, a gold medalist in the springboard event at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, wrote yesterday on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform. “I personally think that the doping test seven times a day has successfully interfered with our Chinese swimming team.”
A day earlier, Zhang Yufei, a silver medalist in the women’s 100m butterfly in Tokyo in 2021, won bronze in the same event in Paris. Another Chinese swimmer seen as a top contender for gold, Qin Haiyang, came seventh in the men’s 100m breaststroke, an event he won at the world championships last year.
Both are among 11 Chinese swimmers competing in Paris who tested positive for a banned heart drug before the Tokyo Games in 2021. Though they were not sanctioned at the time, the revelation of the positive tests earlier this year has cast suspicion on Chinese swimmers, who have been subject to more frequent drug tests.
According to World Aquatics, swimming’s international governing body, Chinese swimmers have on average been tested 21 times since the start of this year, compared with six times for American swimmers.
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