2024 Paris Olympics live updates: Team USA hopes for more gold in men's 400m, women's pole vault (2024)

Masai Russell wins 100-metre hurdles heat as she hopes to keep Team USA streak alive

Masai Russell is safely through to the semifinals of the women's 100-metre hurdles after winning her heat at the Stade de France this morning.

Russell, who ran the fastest time in the world this year at the U.S. Olympic trials, posted a time of 12.53 seconds, qualifying third fastest overall.

Teammates Alaysha Johnson, 12.61 seconds, and Grace Stark, 12.72 seconds, also did enough to qualify for Friday's semifinals.

This is an event that Team USA has a strong pedigree in, winning at least one medal in each of the last six Olympic Games in the women's 100m hurdles, even sweeping all three podium positions in Rio. It's the longest active medal streak for Team USA in track and field events.

Romania's Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu, has said he will boycott Sunday's closing ceremony after a "scandalous situation" saw a Romanian gymnast lose out on a bronze medal to Team USA's Jordan Chiles.

Ana Barbosu had started celebrating a bronze medal as she sat in third place with all of the routines completed in Monday's floor final. However, her celebrations proved to be short-lived after an inquiry into Team USA gymnast Chiles' score was granted by judges.

That meant Chiles' score was upgraded by 0.1 points, enough to leapfrog Barbosu into the bronze medal position, leaving the Romanian in tears.

"I decided not to attend the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, following the scandalous situation in the gymnastics, where our athletes were treated in an absolutely dishonorable manner," Ciolacu said in a Facebook post. "To withdraw a medal earned for honest work on the basis of an appeal ... is totally unacceptable!"

Spanish duo Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez have taken gold in the race walking mixed relay event this morning, comfortably seeing off pairs from Ecuador and Australia to top the podium.

Martin, who also won gold in the men's 20km race walk earlier in the Games, and Perez took the victory in two hours and 51 minutes, finishing 51 seconds ahead of Ecuador's Brian Daniel Pintado and Glenda Morejon. Australia claimed bronze.

Gabby Thomas was golden in the women’s 200m final on Tuesday, winning her first Olympic title as Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia finished second and America's Brittany Brown took third. The men's 200m final takes place tomorrow, with heats happening today.

The first medals of Day 12 will be awarded in a brand new event for these Games, the marathon race walk mixed relay.

Replacing the men's-only 50km race walk, the mixed relay event sees teams of one male and one female complete a relay over a marathon distance (around 42 kilometers or 26 miles). In the race, each participant completes two alternating legs of just over 10km with the male athlete starting the race and the female athlete finishing.

The race is now in its final stages, with Spain's pair looking likely to win as long as the Ecuadorians and Australians, currently in second and third, don't stage a late surge.

Team USA did not qualify for this event, nor did they qualify for the individual 20km race walk events held earlier in the Games.

After Scottie Scheffler produced an incredible final round to take gold in the men’s golf event Sunday, Team USA are hoping to sweep the golf golds for a second straight Games. Now it's the women's turn. Their event got underway this morning and takes place through Saturday.

Team USA's Nelly Korda is hoping to defend her title from Tokyo. She has had a historic year on the LPGA tour becoming the first player since 2013 to win six LPGA titles since January. It was the perfect start to the year, but the Floridian's form has tailed off in recent months and she missed the cut at both the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship. Still, if Korda is on it at Le Golf National, she will be hard to stop.

Team USA's Lilia Vu is also worth looking out for. The world number two was the breakout star of 2023, taking two of the five majors on her way to being named LPGA Player of the Year. A back injury has hindered her this year, but she returned in June coming second at the PGA Championship. "To me, an Olympic Gold would rank a little higher than a Major," Vu said. "It’s more than just golf. It’s the Olympics which is the best athletes all over the world."

South Korean duo Amy Yang and Jun Young Ko pose a threat to America's golfers, while New Zealand's Lydia Ko (a silver medalist in Rio and a bronze medalist in Tokyo) will hope to complete the set in Paris.

Good morning! It’s Day 12 of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Here’s what you should be looking out for today.

There are 23 medals on offer today, including five in track and field, and weightlifting and skateboarding finals also take place.

There's a handful of track and field finals today. In women's pole vault, Katie Moon will be hoping to bring home the gold for Team USA, and that final happens at 12:15 p.m. ET and 6:15 p.m. local time. Separately, men's discus is at 2:25 p.m. ET and 8:25 p.m. local time; America's Quincy Hall will be racing in the men's 400m final at 3:20 p.m. ET and 9:20 p.m. local time; and the men's 3,000m steeplechase is at 3:43 p.m. ET and 9:43 p.m. local time. Mixed relay marathon racewalking starts off the day and is already underway.

In non-medal events, the U.S. women's basketball team will be looking to extend its run to eight consecutive golds, having won the event at every Games since Atlanta 1996. The American team faces Nigeria in its quarterfinal game at 3:30 p.m. ET and 9:30 p.m. local time. The winner will play either Serbia or Australia, who play earlier in the day.

Cuban wrestler Mijain López Núñez retired after the 130-kilogram Greco-Roman wrestling final at the Paris Olympics — going out as a wrestling legend and his competitor’s hero.

López Núñez, 41,defeated Chilean Yasmani Acosta Fernández6-0. The win earned López Núñez hisfifth consecutive gold medal, as he made history as the first Olympic athlete to win gold in any event at five consecutive games and the first wrestler to win five gold medals.

Acosta Fernández said being the last person to fight López Núñez was an honor, calling him “a legend in the sport.”

After the fight, López Núñez unlaced his shoes and placed them in the center of the mat, symbolically indicating his retirement from wrestling.

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