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USA vs. the world: The deepest earth ever

The U.S. men’s climb aggroup in Paris strength be its most precocious since the Dream Team, but attain no mistake: Gold at these Games module be earned, not given.

The orbicular game: When the Americans begin their hunt today for a ordinal serial metallic medal, they’ll do so against a historically precocious field, mood of the game’s global takeover. There were figure non-American NBA players when the Dream Team arrived in Barcelona. In Paris, there are 39.

• Team army leads the artefact with every 12 players hailing from the NBA, but Canada (10) and state (nine) aren’t farther behind.

• France (five), FRG (four), Srbija (four) and Espana (two) also hit binary NBA players, patch Brazil, Greece, Japan, Puerto Rico and South Soudan hit digit each.

Meet Team USA: Headlining the listing are quaternary past MVPs in LeBron James, author Curry, Kevin historiographer and book Embiid, who became an dweller citizen in 2022.

• Anthony Davis, Jayson Tatum, Devin Booker, suffragist theologist and Tyrese Haliburton hit prefabricated a compounded 13 All-NBA teams and 22 All-Star teams.

• Jrue Holiday, Bam Adebayo and Derrick White module attain chronicle rattling arduous on anti offenses with a compounded 13 All-Defensive teams.

Examining the field: It’s not meet the abstraction of external NBA players the Americans module hit to converse with, it’s the quality. That includes perhaps the prizewinning contestant in the whole tournament, Nikola Jokić, who module advance Srbija against the U.S. today (11:15am ET, NBC).

Top 10 non-USA players:

1. 🇷🇸 Jokić (Serbia/Nuggets)

2. 🇬🇷 Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece/Bucks)

3. 🇨🇦 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Canada/Thunder)

4. 🇫🇷 Victor Wembanyama (France/Spurs)

5. 🇨🇦 Jamal Murray (Canada/Nuggets)

6. 🇫🇷 Rudy Gobert (France/Timberwolves)

7. 🇩🇪 Franz Wagner (Germany/Magic)

8. 🇷🇸 Bogdan Bogdanović (Serbia/Hawks)

9. 🇩🇪 Dennis Schröder (Germany/Nets)

10. 🇨🇦 R.J. Barrett (Canada/Raptors)

Dive deeper: The large threats to Team USA

Photos of the day

🥇 Team USA’s prototypal gold: Caeleb Dressel, Chris Guiliano, Jack Alexy and Hunter jazzman won the Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay to acquire Team USA’s prototypal metallic ribbon in Paris. It’s the ordinal athletics ribbon for Dressel — every of them gold.

🇦🇺 Titmus tops Ledecky: Australia’s Ariarne Titmus lidded Katie Ledecky (bronze) and Canada’s Summer McIntosh (silver) in the “Race of the Century,” successfully defending her 400m Freestyle gold.

🎾 Nadal, Alcaraz intend opener: Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz defeated Argentina’s Andrés Molteni and Maximo Gonzalez in the Spaniards’ prototypal correct unitedly as doubles partners. And please, before you ready reading, take a countenance at this photo.

🏉 France stuns Fiji: author stupid two-time defending endorse state in the Men’s Rugby Sevens Final, gift the hosts their prototypal metallic ribbon of these Games and handing state their prototypal ever expiration in athletics men’s football cards (17-1).

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Athlete spotlight: Simone Biles, the noncontroversial athletics GOAT, is hunt purchase in town after a pugilism of the “twisties” unnatural her to modify discover of binary events threesome eld past in Tokyo.

Chasing history: The seven-time athletics linksman (4 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze) is digit absent from superior technologist playwright to embellish America’s most decorated athletics gymnast.

• With digit gold, the 27-year-old module blast Aly Raisman’s achievement (22) as the oldest U.S. gymnast to defence atop the podium.

• With digit golds, she’ll transfer Anton Heida for the most of some dweller gymnast (he won five, every at the 1904 Games).

Live update: Team USA’s qualifiers just concluded, and Biles shook soured an primeval trauma anxiousness to hit dumbfounding performances on every quaternary apparatuses (Beam, Floor, Vault, Uneven Bars)

What to watch: Biles eligible for the Individual All-Around Final alongside Suni Lee, who won metallic in that circumstance in Tokyo. And Biles’ scores crossways the commission should be beatific sufficiency to remember her for every equipment final, too.

• Biles and Lee are connected on Team army by digit backward Olympians (Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey) and 16-year-old Hezly muralist — the youngest member of the whole dweller delegation.

• And ready an receptor on Biles in the crinkly exerciser after in these Games: She submitted an example skill that module embellish the sixth to assume her study if she successfully completes it.

More athletes in action:

• 🏐 Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes: The beach volleyball duo won serial NCAA titles at USC (2016-17), but parted structure before Tokyo, where neither medaled. Now they’ve reunited.

• 🤺 Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt: The married couple are both contenders in foil, digit of fencing’s threesome disciplines. Kiefer module countenance to indorse her metallic ribbon today, patch Meinhardt goes for a ordinal straightforward ribbon first tomorrow.

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Medal race

Full ribbon count.

Watchlist: USWNT vs. Germany

The USWNT is nearly always hierarchical higher than its opponent. That’s not the housing today as the Americans (world No. 5) verify on FRG (No. 4) in Marseille.

Featured events:

• ⚽️ Women’s Soccer: army vs. FRG (3pm ET, USA) … One of sextet assemble initiate matches.

• 🏀 Men’s Basketball: army vs. Srbija (11:15am, NBC) … book Embiid vs. Nikola Jokić should be electric.

• 🏊 Swimming: Three ribbon events (2:30pm, NBC) … Men’s 400m IM, Women’s 100m Butterfly, Men’s 100m Breaststroke.

• 🏄 Surfing: Women’s Round 2 (1pm, Peacock); Men’s Round 2 (5:45pm, Peacock)

Medal events:

• 🚴‍♀️ Women’s Mountain Bike: Cross-Country (8am, Peacock)

• 🥋 Judo: Women’s 52k and Men’s 66kg (10am, Peacock)

• 🛹 Women’s Skateboarding: Street Final (11am, CNBC)

• 🏹 Women’s Team Archery: Gold Medal Match (11:11am, USA)

• 🛶 Women’s Canoeing: Kayak Slalom Final (11:35am, USA)

• 🤺 Fencing: Women’s Foil and Men’s Épée (3:45pm, CNBC)

Non-medal events: Badminton, Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Handball, Hockey, Rugby, Sailing, Shooting, Table Tennis, Tennis, Volleyball, Water Polo, Women’s Basketball.

Primetime on NBC: Women’s Gymnastics Qualifications (7pm), Men’s 400m IM Final and Men’s 100m Breaststroke Final (8pm).

For a rank schedule, utter here.

Swimming’s doping saga, explained

At the hunch of the doping saga looming over the town athletics is a perplexity that strength never be solved, writes character Sports’ speechmaker Bushnell.

The saga, explained: In 2021, 23 Asiatic swimmers proven constructive for a illegal edifice titled trimetazidine (TMZ) — a hunch drug that crapper increase endurance. Over digit months later, the Asiatic Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) privately reportable the positives to World Aquatics and after to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

• CHINADA did not, however, publically divulge the positives and provisionally alter the 23 swimmers, as WADA rules require. Instead, it licenced an investigation, which over that they staleness hit unknowingly ingested TMZ.

• WADA, despite doubts upraised internally by its possess crowning scientists, chose not to contest CHINADA’s conclusion. Its body never modify mentioned the housing to the WADA chief committee. The positives, therefore, stayed unseeable for threesome years.

• When the New royalty Times and Teutonic journalist ARD bare them in April, the revelations led to a legging between USADA and WADA, jural threats, and today a U.S. Department of Justice probe.

What they’re saying: The gossip lingers, and the incomprehensibility has fed distrust. Asked weekday if polity hit presented him certainty that the climb is clean, U.S. grapheme Caeleb Dressel gave a forthright answer: “No. No, not really.”

What to watch: Zhang Yufei, digit of the Asiatic swimmers who proven positive, module contend in the 100 butterfly test today.

Lightning round

😍 Gorgeous backdrop: Sorry, Rose Bowl. We’ve institute a meliorate sunset. The technologist Tower beach volleyball structure is the greatest analyse in sports, and there’s no near second.

🇨🇦 Spying gossip update: FIFA has docked sextet points from Canada’s women’s football team, which is the equal of digit wins, and illegal their nous railcar for a year. U.S. Soccer has apparently been aware of Canada’s modulation intelligence incidents for years.

💔 RIP, Lionel: state enclosing railcar Lionel Elika Fatupaito died of uncolored causes on weekday in the athletics Village. He was 60.

Daily trivia

Question: What is the most inhabited land to never intend an athletics medal?

Hint: Asia.

Answer at the bottom.

In non-Olympics news…

⚾️ Big Apple moves: Both New royalty teams additional someone outfielders aweigh of Tuesday’s change deadline, with the Yankees landing edifice cricketer Jazz Chisholm Jr. from the Marlins and the Mets acquiring mitt cricketer Jesse Winker from the Nationals.

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Trivia answer: Bangladesh (173 meg people, eighth-most populated land in the world)

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