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Paris Olympics live updates: Sha’Carri Richardson wins silver in the 100m final, Katie Ledecky wins 9th gold medal – MASHAHER

ISLAM GAMAL3 August 2024Last Update :
Paris Olympics live updates: Sha’Carri Richardson wins silver in the 100m final, Katie Ledecky wins 9th gold medal – MASHAHER


Team USA has no shortage of stars at any Summer Olympics and two of the brightest in Paris take center stage on Saturday. Sha’Carri Richardson and Katie Ledecky have been household names for years, and they can both make some history with gold medals.

Richardson, who missed the women’s 100m in Tokyo after testing positive for marijuana, is trying to break Jamaica’s streak of consecutive gold medals in the event. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (2008, 2012) and Elaine Thompson-Herah (2016, 2021) have won the last four gold medals in the race. The last American woman to win gold in the event was Gail Devers back in 1996.

Ledecky, meanwhile, will compete in the 800-meter freestyle, one of her signature events. She’s the two-time defending Olympic champion in the event and holds a world-record time of 8:04.79, which she set in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, and has taken gold in the last six World Championships. She is already the most decorated female American Olympian, in any sport, with 13 total medals. A win here would give her 14.

  • Start time: 1:30 p.m. ET/ 10:30 a.m. ET

    • Women’s 100m semifinals — 1:59 p.m. ET: (Melissa Jefferson, Sha’Carri Richardson, Twanisha Terry)

    • Women’s 100m finals — 3:20 p.m. ET

    • Women’s swimming 800m freestyle — 3:28 p,m. ET: (Katie Ledecky, Paige Madden)

  • Location: Stade de France, París La Défense Arena | Paris, France

  • TV channel: NBC

  • Streaming: Fubo, Peacock, NBCOlympics.com

Live18 updates

  • U.S. wins gold in mixed 4x100m IM

    The American team of Ryan Murphy (backstroke), Nic Fink (breaststroke), Gretchen Walsh (butterfly) and Torri Huske (freestyle) set a world record with a winning time of 3:37.43.

    China finished .12 behind the U.S. with a time of 3:37.55. Australia took bronze finishing 3:38.76.

  • Markus Rooth of Norway wins decathlon

    Norway’s Markus Rooth wins gold in the men’s decathlon after his finish in the 1500m gave him enough combined points to win. His total of 8,796 sets a Norwegian record.

    Leo Neugebauer of Germany (8,748) wins silver and Grenada’s Lindon Victor (8,711) gets bronze.

    For those unfamiliar or who need a reminder, the 10 events of the decathlon include a 100m run, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400m run, 110m hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw and 1500m run.

  • Katie Ledecky claims 9th career Olympic gold medal with win in women’s 800m freestyle

    The GOAT claimed another Olympic gold medal as Katie Ledecky cruised to victory in the women’s 800m freestyle — the fourth time in a row that she’s won the event.

    She now has nine career golds and 14 total Olympic medals.

    As per Yahoo Sports’ Henry Bushnell, Ledecky is now tied with Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina for most golds won by a female Olympian.

    She also equaled Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis, Al Oerter and a few foreigners as the only Olympians to win the same event four consecutive times.

  • Sha’Carri Richardson wins silver in women’s 100m

    Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia wins gold in the women’s 100m. She quickly took the lead out of the block and did not give it up, even pulling away from the pack. Her Olympic gold medal is the first for Saint Lucia.

    USA’s Sha’Carri Richardson finishes second for a silver medal, followed by teammate Melissa Jefferson getting bronze.

    Read more on the race from Yahoo Sports, on site in Paris, here.

  • Canada’s Summer McIntosh takes gold in women’s 200m IM; Walsh DQ’d

    Summer McIntosh won her fourth medal and third gold of the 2024 Olympics with a victory in the women’s 200m IM. Her time of 2:06.56 is an Olympic record.

    According to Team Canada PR, McIntosh is the first Canadian to win three golds in one Olympic Games.

    American Alex Walsh finished second but was disqualified after a review showed she made an illegal turn going from backstroke to breaststroke. The 200m IM was Walsh’s only event of the Paris Olympics.

    Katie Douglass of the U.S. (2:06.92) was bumped up to silver and Australia’s Kaylee McKeown (2:08.08) takes bronze.

  • Netherlands wins gold in mixed 4 x 400m relay

    The U.S. had the gold medal in the mixed 4 x 400m relay with Kaylyn Brown in the lead on the anchor leg. But Femke Bol of the Netherlands surged from third to take the lead with a final kick to cross the finish line first.

    Read more on the stunning finish from Yahoo Sports here.

  • USA’s Ryan Crowser wins gold in men’s shot put

    The United States earns the first two spots on the medal podium in men’s shot put. Ryan Crowser wins gold at 22.90m, his third consecutive Olympic gold.

    Fellow American Joe Kovacs gets silver with 22.15, while Jamaica’s Rajindraw Campbell earns bronze at 22.15.

    Read more from Yahoo Sports in Paris here.

  • American Gretchen Walsh advances to women’s 50m free style final

    Walsh (24.17) finished second in the second 50m semifinal behind Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström.

    Sjöström was .05 behind her own world record, finishing with an Olympic record time of 23.66. Great Britain’s Meg Harris was in third (24.33).

    Walsh had the second-fastest time of the two semifinals and qualifies for Sunday’s final.

  • Katarzyna Wasick (24.23), China’s Zhang Yufei (24.24) and Australia’s Shayna Jack (24.29) were the top finishers in the first semifinal of the women’s 50m freestyle.

    Gretchen Walsh of the U.S. will be in the second semifinal. She is the lone American left in the event Simone Manuel failed to qualify out of one of the early heats.

  • Hungary’s Kristóf Milák takes men’s 100m butterfly final

    Kristóf Milák won Hungary’s first-ever gold in the men’s 100m butterfly by beating out Canada’s Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun.

    Milák earned his fourth Olympic medal with a time of 49.90. Liendo was right behind him at 49.99 and Kharun took bronze with a time of 50.45.

  • Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce reportedly injures hamstring

    Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce reportedly suffered a hamstring injury during her warm-up, which forced her to withdraw from her qualifying run.

    Fraser-Pryce was seen having difficulty gaining entry into the venue earlier in the day. But that is not why she did not run in the women’s 100m qualifier. Did the delay affect her warm-up, as some are speculating? That has not been reported.

    Fraser-Pryce has previously won two gold medals in the 100m (at the Beijing and London Games, in addition to a silver (Tokyo) and bronze (Rio).

  • USA’s Twanisha Terry qualifies in third women’s 100m semifinal

    Jamaica’s Tia Clayton finishes first in the third women’s 100m semifinal with a time of 10.89, followed by Daryll Neita of Great Britain at 10.97.

    But USA’s Twanisha Terry qualifies by .01 second in her third-place finish at 11.07.

  • Sha’Carri Richardson finishes No. 2 in second women’s 100m semifinal

    Sha’Carri Richardson finished second to Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred, who ran a 10.84.

    But Richardson qualifies for the final at 10.89 and has a chance for gold.

  • Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce scratched from women’s 100m semifinal

    Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was pursuing her fifth Olympic medal in the 100 meters, but has withdrawn from the semifinal. No word yet on why she withdrew.

  • USA’s Melissa Jefferson wins first women’s 100m semifinal

    Melissa Jefferson took the lead right out of the blocks and never gave it up. She runs a 10.99 and goes into the final.

    Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith of the Ivory Coast finishes second at 11.01 to also qualify for the final.

  • Team USA currently holds first three spots in men’s shot put final

    Could the U.S. sweep the medal podium in shot put?

    Ryan Crouser leads with 22.64, followed by Joe Kovacs at 21.69 and Payton Otterdahl with 21.39

  • Sha’Carri is ready to go for gold




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