Paris Olympics 2024 live Day 3 updates (2024)

There has been plenty of drama on the third day of the Paris Olympics, with the United States men’s gymnastics team winning their first medal in 16 years in dramatic circ*mstances.

The team was inspired by Brody Malone, who competed in five of the six events and helped Team USA to hold off Britain and Ukraine to win bronze. Japan surged to gold in the final rotation, while China took silver.

Away from Bercy Arena, the United States women’s basketball team thrashed Japan 102-76 while Canada’s 17-year-old sensation Summer McIntosh won her first career individual Olympic gold medal, dominating the women's 400-meter individual medley.

Elsewhere in Paris on Monday, Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal in their 60th and most likely final meeting in the men’s tennis singles, while triathlon swimming training was canceled once again because of pollution in the River Seine.

Medal table | How to follow

We're three days into the Paris Games, and the medals table is (very gradually) starting to take shape. Here are the current top five:

1. Japan — Six golds (12 total: two silver, four bronze)
2. France — Five golds (16 total: eight silver, three bronze)
3. People's Republic of China — Five golds (12 total: five silver, two bronze)
4. Australia – Five golds (Nine total: four silver)
5. South Korea – Five golds (Nine total: three silver, one bronze)

The United States are in sixth place as things stand with three gold medals but they have the highest medal count of any country (20). And there's still plenty to play for...

In the table tennis singles events this evening, the audience might have witnessed a star being born.

At the South Paris Arena, spurred on by an enthusiastic crowd, 17-year-old Frenchman Felix Lebrun, men's third seed and world number five, defeated Sweden's Anton Kallberg 4-2.

On the women's side, however, there was less national pride on home soil for the French as Prithika Pavade lost to India's Manika Batra 4-0. Batra made history in doing so, as she is the first Indian to reach a round of 16 at the Olympic Games.

Shilese Jones, the American gymnast who was a frontrunner to make the U.S. women’s Olympic team before withdrawing from the Olympic trials due to an injury, provided an update and said she would be attempting a run at the 2028 Games in the caption of an Instagram post shared Monday.

Jones tore her ACL and meniscus while warming up on vault during Day 1 of the trials. She performed on uneven bars but ultimately pulled out of the rest of the two-day competition, ending her hopes for making the 2024 Olympic team. In the three years leading up to the Paris Games, Jones had emerged as a fierce, reliable all-arounder who won multiple individual medals at the 2022 and 2023 world championships. Had she been healthy at trials and performed to her usual standard, she would have been on the 2024 team. Despite the setback, the 22-year-old said she’s shifting her focus to Los Angeles 2028.

“My journey hasn’t been a simple one, and I’m still tackling obstacles as they come. This pain is temporary, but the scars will only fuel me that much more as I continue to chase my dream,” she wrote on Instagram.

After a tense men's foil final, Cheung Ka Long (Hong Kong) has retained his Olympic gold medal beating Italy's Filippo Macchi 15-14 in the final.

It was a dramatic end to the event as the referee had to review video on three separate occasions, with both Cheung and Macchi thinking they'd clinched the title.

Earlier on, Team USA's Nick Itkin took bronze, becoming the sixth Olympic medallist from the country in men's foil in 120 years.

In an interesting quirk, the medals for the event were handed out by FIFA president Gianni Infantino. In a suit and white trainers combination, no less.

France's hopes of double home glory in the rugby sevens was dashed earlier today when they were beaten 14-9 by Canada in the women's quarterfinals.

Canada will play Australia at the Stade de France tomorrow, with the United States facing defending champions New Zealand in the other semifinal.

Today’s evening session of swimming at the Paris Olympics has wrapped up, with five sets of medals handed out:

• Seventeen-year-old Canadian phenom Summer McIntosh won her first career individual Olympic gold medal, dominating the women's 400-meter individual medley, while Americans Emma Weyant and Katie Grimes took silver and bronze.
• In the women's 200-meter freestyle, Mollie O'Callaghan beat her compatriot Ariarne Titmus as the Australians went 1-2.
• American Ryan Murphy took bronze in the men's 100-meter backstroke behind gold medalist Thomas Ceccon from Italy.
• South Africa's Tatjana Smith won the women's 100-meter breaststroke while American Lilly King, who took gold and bronze in the event in Rio and Tokyo, missed the podium by just a hundredth of a second.
• A wild finish in the men's 200-meter freestyle saw Romania's David Popovici beat Britain's Matthew Richards to the gold by two hundredths of a second, with America's Luke Hobson only a further five hundredths behind in third!
• And finally, the women's 100-meter backstroke semifinals saw Americans Regan Smith and Katharine Berkoff qualify in first and third, with Australians Kaylee McKeown and Iona Anderson in second and fourth.

Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss are going well for the United States against Australia in the beach volleyball.

They took the first set against the Australian pair of Mariafe Artacho Del Solar and Taliqua Clancy and are leading the second.

In beach volleyball the first team to wins two sets wins the match.

The host nation was guaranteed another gold medal — their fifth of these Games — in the women’s sabre event after Manon Apithy-Brunet and Sara Balzer both reached the final.

In the end Apithy-Brunet came out on top, establishing an early lead over Balzer before winning 15-12.

Olga Kharlan of Ukraine takes the bronze.

Here’s a result for you: the United States have just eliminated Britain from women’s rugby sevens medal contention.

The USA won 17-7 and progress to Tuesday’s semi-finals.

It’s halftime in the match between the United States and Japan and it has been an incredibly entertaining match. The U.S. lead 50-39.

Team USA’s Chelsea Gray is on track for an Olympic record with 11 assists at halftime. The current record, 18, was set by one of her opponent’s tonight, Rui Muchida, at the Tokyo Games.

Canada’s 17-year-old swimming sensation Summer McIntosh has given her first interview since claiming gold in the women’s 400m individual medley.

💬 “I'm still in a little bit of shock. Just three years ago I was 14 making my first Olympic team, now to be here, time flies and I'm just trying to enjoy the moment and soak it all up.

“There's a huge and very strong generations of swimmers coming up in multiple events. Katie [Grimes] is an incredible swimmer, she kind of does some of the same events I do, so it's pretty cool.”

The U.S. women’s basketball team hasn’t lost in Olympic competition in 32 years and 55 games. They look poised, unsurprisingly, to make it 56 in their Olympic opener against Japan.

American Regan Smith has topped the semifinal field in the women's 100-meter backstroke, finishing in 57.97 seconds, 0.5 off an Olympic record.

That was just 0.02 ahead of Australian Kaylee McKeown, setting up a strong showdown for the final. Smith set the world record in this event last month at the U.S. Olympic trials, taking the title from McKeown.

American Katharine Berkoff took the third spot. The final — set for Tuesday night at 2:56 p.m. Eastern — will feature two swimmers each from four countries: the U.S., Australia, Canada and France.

For race-by-race coverage click here.

There’s plenty going on in Paris this evening including no fewer than four women’s rugby sevens quarter-finals at Stade de France.

The first sees New Zealand take on China before a big grudge match between the USA and Britain.

Team USA have just started their women’s basketball campaign against Japan.

You can follow minute-by-minute coverage of that one with Ali Humayun by clicking here.

Summer McIntosh has won a gold medal for Canada in the women’s 400m individual medley, ahead of Katie Grimes and Emma Weyant of the United States.

You can follow race-by-race coverage of today’s swimming finals with my colleague Michael Dominski by clicking here.

On Saturday morning, after Stephen Nedoroscik finished his pommel horse routine, Paul Juda pointed to Nedoroscik’s forearm: “You’ve got goosebumps,’’ he said. After the men’s gymnastics team’s final, Nedoroscik gave them to everyone else.

Brought to Paris to nail one routine and one routine only, the pommel horse specialist delivered in the most dramatic of Olympic fashions. The last man up for the U.S., Nedoroscik had to wait the entirety of the meet - more than two hours- before walking up to the pommel horse. As China, the leader after five rotations, fell repeatedly on the horizontal bar, Nedoroscik stepped up to give the U.S. not only a shot at a medal, but perhaps waltz into a silver.

As he finished his routine with only the slightest of form breaks, Nedoroscik pumped his arms as the crowd erupted in chants of USA, flashing flags around Bercy Arena. As he walked off, his teammates lifted him up as if he’d just won well… a team medal.

Their arms slung around each other’s shoulders, Team USA watched the scoreboard first for Nedoroscik’s score - a 14.866 - and then waited for the last competitor, China’s Zhang Boheng to finish his routine on horizontal bar.

Though Boheng did enough to move China back to silver behind Japan, the U.S. still got what it came for - its first team medal in 16 years. Their celebration was every bit as jubilant as the gold medalists, and deservedly so.

Japan has just won gold in the men’s gymnastics!

They have beaten China in a razor-sharp final, with the United States in third.

Analysis to follow…