The 2024 Paris Olympics at the moment are full with the US topping the general medal desk with 40 golds and 126 complete medals. Listed below are a few of the prime tales from week 2.
Bronze In Ladies’s Gymnastics Flooring Occasion Turns Into Appeals
Jordan Chiles was the final gymnast to compete within the ladies’s flooring occasion on Monday, August fifth. Chiles was initially given a rating of a 13.666, a rating that put her in fifth place. Ana Barbousu of Romania was third in the intervening time. Chiles’ coaches submitted an inquiry on her behalf upon receiving her rating and the judges then adjusted Chiles’ rating to have a level of problem of a 5.9 as a substitute of a 5.8. This moved Chiles up from fifth to third, incomes her a bronze medal alongside Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade who received gold, and Simone Biles of the US who received silver. The rostrum had marked the primary time in historical past with an all-black podium for ladies’s gymnastics.
Barbousu and Romania submitted an attraction to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) stating that Chiles’ inquiry was submitted too late. Chiles’ inquiry was submitted on the one minute and 4 seconds mark, 4 seconds later than the one minute deadline. CAS dominated in favor of Barbousu, stating that the inquiry was submitted after the one-minute deadline.
“The inquiry submitted on behalf of Ms Jordan Chiles within the Closing of the ladies’s Flooring train was raised after the conclusion of the one-minute deadline offered by article 8.5 of the 2024 FIG Technical Laws and is set to be with out impact,” the CAS resolution learn.
US Gymnastics has come out and mentioned in reply, “The inquiry into the Problem Worth of Jordan Chiles’ flooring train routine was filed in good religion and, we believed, in accordance with FIG guidelines to make sure correct scoring.”
The IOC has since mentioned in a press release that Chiles should return her bronze medal. “Following the CAS resolution with regard to the Ladies’s Inventive Gymnastics Flooring Train Closing and the modification of the rating by the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation, the IOC will reallocate the bronze medal to Ana Bărbosu. We’re in contact with the NOC of Romania to debate the reallocation ceremony and with USOPC relating to the return of the bronze medal.”
The US has since introduced that they are going to be interesting the choice “We firmly consider that Jordan rightfully earned the bronze medal, and there have been essential errors in each the preliminary scoring by the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the next CAS attraction course of that should be addressed.”
China Sweeps Gold In All 8 Diving Occasions
China received gold in all eight diving occasions, turning into the primary nation to brush the entire occasions since diving was expanded from 4 to eight occasions on the 2000 Olympics. China was one gold shy from the sweep on the 2020 Tokyo Video games as Nice Britain’s Tom Daley and diving associate Matty Lee captured gold, simply over 1 level forward of China’s duo of Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen.
Males’s Triple Bounce Options Three Cuban Males, All Who Have Defected
The boys’s triple leap featured three males who all are initially from Cuba. Jordan Diaz received gold whereas representing Spain, leaping to 17.86 meters. Diaz had represented Cuba at varied competitions however defected from the Cuban delegation in June 2021, lacking the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He gained Spanish citizenship in 2022, breaking the nationwide file shortly after. He was declared eligible by World Athletics in June 2024 to symbolize Spain.
Pedro Pichardo received silver within the triple leap, leaping 17.84 meters whereas representing Portugal. In April 2017, he was at a contest in Germany whereas representing Cuba however escaped from a group assembly. He appeared in Portugal just a few days later and gained citizenship in December 2017. He started to symbolize Portugal in 2019 and received gold within the triple leap in Tokyo earlier than profitable silver in Paris.
Andy Diaz received bronze as we speak whereas representing Italy, leaping 17.64 meters. He represented Cuba at quite a few worldwide competitions just a few years in the past, together with the 2019 World Championships. He defected from Cuba and gained Italian citizenship in 2023. Now representing the nation, he earned Italy its third medal ever within the males’s triple leap.
COVID-19 Strikes Athletics As Noah Lyles Checks Optimistic
Noah Lyles of the US received gold within the males’s 100 meter race on the observe profitable in a time of 9.784 seconds, simply five-thousandths forward of Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson who ran a closing time of a 9.789 within the picture end race.
Lyles’ gold medal marked the primary win for the US males within the 100 meter occasion since 2004. Lyles was seeking to win one other gold and got here into the 200 meter occasion as one of many favorites. Lyles ended up profitable bronze however revealed proper after the race that he had examined constructive for COVID-19.
Swimming noticed quite a few athletes take a look at constructive for COVID-19 akin to Adam Peaty (Nice Britain), David Johnston (USA), and Lani Pallister (Australia). Members of the Australian ladies’s water polo group additionally examined constructive earlier than the beginning of the Video games.
Saint Lucia, Botswana Seize Historic Golds
Successful the boys’s 200 meter race was Letsile Tebogo. That earned Botswana its first ever Olympic gold medal.
Tebogo was not the one runner to make historical past as Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred received gold within the ladies’s 100 meter race. Alfred ran a time of a ten.72, ending simply forward of Sha’Carri Richardson of the US who missed the 2020 Tokyo Video games after testing constructive for marijuana. Alfred captured the primary medal of any form for Saint Lucia within the 100 meter occasion and adopted that medal up with silver within the ladies’s 200 meter occasion as nicely.
Breaking Makes Olympic Debut
Breaking made its Olympic debut this week with Japan’s Ami Yuasa taking house gold within the ladies’s competitors and Canada’s Philip Kim strolling away with gold within the males’s occasion.
16 breakers from every gender started with the round-robin stage earlier than eight moved on to the knockout stage (1 vs 1). Scoring included 5 classes: approach, vocabulary, execution, musicality, and originality. Though the game made its debut, it won’t be featured on the 2028 LA Olympics.
