The 2024 Paris Olympics spotlight on Thursday is on two major U.S. track and field stars in Noah Lyles and world-record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who are competing in the finals in the men’s 200 meters and the women’s 400-meter hurdles, respectively. 
The U.S. men’s basketball team is in action against Serbia in a semifinal matchup. Elsewhere, the men’s soccer bronze medal match pits Egypt against Morocco, and beach volleyball is into the semifinals. The Seine River and marathon swimming are in the spotlight with the women’s 10km, in which Team USA’s Katie Grimes is competing. 
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Just three years after Team USA won its first gold medal in the event, the Americans will defend their gold on  Sunday after stunning 5-set thriller against Brazil Thursday. The US will meet the winner of Italy-Turkey in the final.
After a tight back and forth battle in the fifth set with teams trading points, the US slowly started to pull away when they went up 12-8 on a kill from Annie Drews. Brazil reeled off two quick points but after that the U.S. looked completely in control, winning 15-11.
Drews finished with 18 points, while Kathryn Plummer led the Americans with 26. Avery Skinner recorded 19. – Lindsay Schnell
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Morocco shot out the gate with goals by Abde Ezzalzouli (23’) and Soufaine Rahimi (26’) to take a 2-0 lead against Egypt for the bronze medal in men’s soccer. 
Rahimi, the favorite to win the Golden Boot for goals scored, scored in his sixth straight match at the Paris Games with his seventh goal. 
Both Morocco and Egypt are vying for their first men’s soccer Olympic medal in the all-African matchup.  — Safid Deen
One African nation will win its first Olympic medal in men’s soccer Thursday afternoon.
Egypt and Morocco will play in the Paris Olympics men’s soccer bronze medal match today at La Beaujoire-Louis-Fonteneau, beginning at 11 a.m. ET.
Host nation France and Spain will meet in the gold medal match on Friday at noon. Follow along live.
Noah Lyle, hours after he lunged past Jamaican sprinter Kishane Thompson to win gold in the 100-meter dash by five one thousandths of a second, saved the day for his girlfriend, Jamaican track and field star Junelle Bromfield.
According to ESPN, Lyles said that Bromfield told him at around 2 a.m. local time in Paris that she had accidentally left her running spikes at her massage therapist’s Airbnb, which was close to the Olympic Village. Bromfield, as it turns out, would be running her first heats of the 2024 Paris Olympics later Monday morning, in the 400-meter race, so securing her spikes became imperative.
Enter Lyles, who made the journey to retrieve the shoes and return them to Bromfield. — Lorenzo Reyes
The 2024 Paris Olympics men’s basketball tournament semifinals feature two rematches from group play, starting with the first game of the day: France vs. Germany. Team USA is set for the second semifinal match. They’re set to take on Serbia starting at 3 p.m. ET at Accor Arena. Follow along live.
PARIS — LeBron James, 39, and Diana Taurasi, 42, know that by basketball standards, they’re old. They’re aware because, well, people won’t stop telling them. 
But that won’t stop them from chasing gold.
“I’m around a lot of young people all the time,” Taurasi joke, “and one thing I tell them, if there’s one thing you can’t escape in this country and this world, it’s agism.” 
Team USA is into the men’s and women’s semifinals, with the men meeting Serbia Thursday at 3 p.m. ET (9 p.m. local time) and the women scheduled to play Australia on Friday, also at 3 p.m. ET. — Lindsay Schnell
Team USA diver Carson Tyler finished fourth in the men’s 3-meter springboard final Thursday at Olympic Aquatics Center. China’s Xie Siyi won gold (543.60) and Wang Zongyuan won silver (530.20), while Mexico’s Osmar Olvera Ibarra won bronze (500.40). 
Xie and Wang also were the defending gold and silver medalists, respectively, from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
Tyler, a 20-year-old first-time Olympian, finished with a score of 429.25 in the six-round final, which was just shy of his 438.00 semifinals score Wednesday and not quite strong enough to earn a medal. His top-scored dive was his last one — a reverse 1 1/2 somersaults with 3 1/2 twists in the free position with a 3.5 degree of difficulty, earning him 78.75 points. — Michelle Martinelli 
Breaking is part of the new wave of sports that the International Olympic Committee has ushered in as part of a broader effort to appeal to younger fans and add an urban flair to the Summer Games. It follows the addition of sports such as skateboarding and surfing, which debuted at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The competitions begin at 10:30 a.m. ET on Friday and conclude with the finals, which start at 2 p.m. ET. The men’s competition will take place at the same times Saturday. — Tom Schad
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SAINT-DENIS, France — Quincy Wilson, 16, is set to make his Paris Olympics debut.
Wilson received word that he will take part in Team USA’s 4×400 relay team, a person familiar with the situation told USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to discuss the relay team.
The men’s 4×400 relay begins Friday at 5:05 a.m. ET.
Team USA will be in the first-round heat of the 4×400 relay. Wilson is expected to run in the opening round. Wilson will become the youngest American male to have ever participated in an Olympic track and field event.
Wilson was originally selected on Team USA’s 4×400-relay pool after he finished sixth in the open 400 at the U.S. Olympic track and field trial.
The 16-year-old wonderkid broke the under-18 world record in the opening round of the 400, blazing one lap around the track in 44.66 seconds at the trials. Then Wilson bested the time in the semifinals, running a 44.59 to qualify for the finals. The high school record had stood for 42 years before Wilson shattered it twice within a matter of days. — Tyler Dragon 
Nelly Korda continues her pursuit of a second gold medal in Olympic golf. After an even-par finish in Wednesday’s opening round at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, France, the No. 1 golfer in the world entered Thursday’s round in a 13-way tie for 13th place on the leaderboard. She’s moved up the leaderboard and is now in a tie for third place (-4), four strokes off the lead. Swiss golfer Morgane Metraux has the lead (-8) after shooting a 66 in round 2. France’s Celine Boutier, round 1 leader, has struggled today shooting a +4 through 17 holes.
Team USA’s Anna Hall sits in third place after the first two events of the women’s heptathlon, the 100m hurdles and high jump. Hall’s time of 13.36 seconds ranked seventh in the hurdles, while her high jump effort of 1.89m was third in the field.
Kyrgyzstan’s Bekzat Almaz Uulu got a fast takedown to lead 2-0, but that’s about all he would get.
Spencer Lee flashed a variety of offense to lock up a 12-2 technical fall, first with a double-leg takedown and leg lace, then a single-leg takedown and leg lace, followed by a go-around takedown and gut wrench. His par terre offense was really on display here after he was unable to have many opportunities in his first match. That, and a determined, fierce look following being taken down that even was noticeable for a guy like Lee that normally has that demeanor on the mat.
Lee advances to the semifinals. He’ll face Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullaev, a former Tokyo Olympian who finished seventh that cycle. Abdullaev’s only world or Olympic medal comes at the junior level in 2016 with a bronze. — Eli McKown
Swimmer Katie Ledecky, a four-time Olympian and 14-time medalist, and rower Nick Mead, who earned his first medal as part of Team USA’s gold medal-winning men’s four, will lead Team USA as flag bearers at the Closing Ceremony on Aug. 11.
American climber Sam Watson set a world record of 4.74 seconds in the small final of speed climbing to earn a bronze medal.Watson lost his head-to-head heat in the semifinals when a slight slip against China’s Peng Wu cost him a spot in the finals.However, Watson earned a spot in the small final against Iranian speed climber Reza Alipour Shenazandifard and bested his own world record by 1/100th of a second. — Sandy Hooper
SAINT-DENIS, France — U.S. middle-distance runner Brandon Miller qualified to the semifinals in the men’s 800, via the repechage round.
Miller ran a 1:44.21 to win the fourth and final heat of the 800. He had the best time of all runners in the repechage round.
The semifinals in the 800 are on Friday.  — Tyler Dragon 
LE BOURGET, France — American sport climber Brooke Raboutou advanced to the boulder and lead finals set for Saturday, Aug. 10. Raboutou, a two-time Olympian, finished semifinals in third.”I’m really happy I was able to stay calm and I just wanted to climb with my normal pace and rhythm,” said Raboutou. “Sometimes, in these rounds, it can be stressful to feel like you’re climbing not to fall. I didn’t want to do that. I wanted to feel good on the wall.”American teammate Natalia Grossman, a first-time Olympian, came into the lead portion of qualification needing a strong performance, but she fell early on the route to put her in seventh with four climbers to go.Only the top eight climbers qualified for finals, and Grossman ended the competition in 11th out of 20 climbers, missing finals. — Sandy Hooper
SAINT-DENIS, France — The U.S. men’s 4×100-relay team made a statement in the opening round of the relay.
A team of Christian Coleman, Fred Kerley, Kyree King and Courtney Lindsey got the baton around clean and it was over from there.
The men led from start to finish as they crossed the line in 37.47 for the easy victory.
Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek will likely run in the final for Team USA.  — Tyler Dragon
SAINT-DENIS, France — American Chase Jackson failed to get out of the opening round of the women’s shot put.
Jackson scratched on her first two attempts and needed a third and final throw to advance to the final. Unfortunately for Jackson, her third throw didn’t come off her hand clean and landed at 57 feet, 9 inches – just short of a qualifying spot.
Jackson was visibly upset after her disappointing opening round. She came into Paris as a gold-medal contender in the shot put. She’s won two straight world championships in the event.
Americans Jaida Ross and Raven Saunders both advanced.  — Tyler Dragon
SAINT-DENIS, France — The U.S. 4×100-relay team had a shaky exchange on the second and third leg between Twanisha Terry and Gabby Thomas that slowed them down a little. However, Sha’Carri Richardson received the baton on the anchor leg and sprinted past Germany to secure the first-round victory for Team USA in 41.94.
Germany took second, running a 42.15 and Switzerland got the last qualifying spot with a time of 42.38. 
The U.S. women will have to clean up their handoffs, but they are the gold-medal favorite in the relay, especially with Jamaica’s stars not competing in the event.  — Tyler Dragon
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CHECK SCHEDULE FOR ANY U.S. TEAMS PLAYING IN KNOCKOUT ROUNDS
Canoe sprint: men’s canoe double 500m final A (7:30 a.m.), women’s kayak four 500m final A (7:40 a.m.), men’s kayak four 500m final A (7:50 a.m.) E! is airing.
Finals: women’s long jump (2 p.m.), men’s javelin throw (2:25 p.m.), men’s 200m (2:30 p.m.), women’s 400m hurdles (3:25 p.m.), men’s 100m hurdles (3:45 p.m.)