Paris Olympics 2024 live updates (2024)

We're past the halfway point of the 2024 Paris Olympics but there's still plenty of gold medals up for grabs, including 20 that will be handed out today.

Today kicks off with a massive clash on the clay at Roland Garros as Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz meet in the men's singles final in tennis. And later on we've one of the Olympics' marquee events as Noah Lyles attempts to become the first American to win the men's 100-meter dash in 20 years.

Action elsewhere includes the United States and Australia battling for supremacy in the pool on the last night of swimming, and the U.S. women's basketball team closing their group play against Germany.

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It’s a double for Germany in the individual dressage event!

Jessica von Bredow-Werndl defends her Tokyo 2020 title on her horse TSF Delera BB with a huge top score of 90.093. That’s the fourth Olympic gold of Von Bredow-Werndl’s career.

Her compatriot, Isabell Werth, takes silver, with Britain’s Charlotte Fry in third.

The Spanish pair of Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Tormo were simply too good for the Czech duo comprised of Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova.

6-2 6-2 and Spain take home the bronze medal.

Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou was the top qualifier Sunday in the men’s long jump, with a jump of 8.32 meters.

Czech Republic's Radek Juska was second at 8.15, with China’s Jianan Wang third at 8.12.

None of the United States’ three long jumpers – Jeremiah Davis, Malcolm Clemons or Jarrion Lawson – made the top 12 to qualify for the finals, marking the first time since the 2008 Games in Beijing that no American men have made the finals of the event.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone just sublime with an easy 53.60 to qualify for the women’s 400m hurdles semifinals.

France’s Louise Maraval delights her fellow countrymen and women by finishing third to qualify as well, at 55.32. Morocco’s Noura Ennadi was second at 55.26.

Yikes. Not a great start for Tommy Fleetwood in the final round of the men’s golf. He drops a shot on the first hole and moves back to 12 under.

Co-leaders Jon Rahm and Xander Schauffele, on the other hand, both make par to stay on 14 under.

And don’t write off Scottie Scheffler. The world no. 1 has birdied the opening two holes and is now level with Fleetwood.

Anna co*ckrell stays ahead most of the way in her women’s 400m hurdles heat, qualifying for the semifinals at 53.91. Britain’s Lina Nielsen finishes second at 54.65, just ahead of Jamaica’s Janieve Russell, at 54.67.

They all qualify for the semifinals.

Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece is showing why he's the reigning Olympic, World and European champion and has every chance of successfully defending that Olympic crown.

He's the pick of the qualifiers with an 8.32m jump.

Femke Bol, going at about 80 percent or so, with an easy 53.38 in her 400m hurdles heat to qualify for the semfinals. U.S. superstar Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone goes in Heat 5, after Jamaica’s Janieve Russell, ranked fourth in the world in the 400m, and the U.S.' Anna co*ckrell (ranked sixth) go in Heat 4.

And earlier U.S. runner Jasmine Jones cruised into the semifinals in her 400M women’s heat, winning with a time of 53.60.

The Spanish duo of Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes are up an early break of serve against Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova, from the Czech Republic.

It’s 3-2 to the Spaniards in the opening set, who serve next.

The U.S.’ Grant Holloway, number one in the world in the men’s 110M hurdles, easily qualifies from Lane 6 for the semifinals, cranking out a 13.01 winning time.

And the host French crowd is delirious as Sasha Zhoya also makes the semis, finishing third at 13.43.

This is very interesting. Freddie Crittenden of the United States, who finished last in his 110m hurdles heat a little earlier this morning, has told NBC it was a deliberate choice of his.

He said he felt a tweak during his warm-up this morning and would instead target progressing through Tuesday’s repechage.

💬 “It was an intentional choice.

“Everyone gets through to the repechage. So I decided to just, not make an emotional choice, make a smart choice, give my body time to recover a little bit from being aggravated, lean on my medical doctors, lean on God, and just wait for the repechage round, come out here and try to kill it in the repechage round.”

Xu Zhuoyi wins the next heat of the men’s 110m hurdles qualifying, at 13.40, edging out the Bahamas’ Antoine Andrews and the United States’ Daniel Roberts, who both finished at 13.43. They all qualified for the semis.

Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment, ranked third in the world coming into the event, had the same time, at 13.43, but was judged fifth in a multi-racer photo finish.

Wow. Astonishing scenes in the hockey.

India played 42 minutes a man down after the red card. For a few minutes they were down to 9 men. Yet they hung on for a 1-1 draw and won the penalty shootout 4-2.

What a performance from the Indians. Great Britain will be gutted.

Not at all sure what just happened here with U.S. sprinter Freddie Crittenden, ranked fourth in the world in the men’s 110M hurdles, and a definite threat to medal here at the Olympics.

He pulled up just seconds after the starting gun, slowed to almost a jog after the first hurdle, and finished last in his heat. A brutal race for Crittenden, who finished fourth at the 2023 World Championships, missing the podium by 0.07 seconds.

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting won earlier today to reach the semifinals of the women’s featherweight division at the Paris Olympics, which guarantees her a medal.

Lin, who is one of two women’s boxers to find themselves at the center of a gender eligibility row at these Games, beat Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva by unanimous decision.

After the fight Staneva made a cross with her fingers and shouted “no, no” as she left the ring. Beforehand, the Bulgarian Boxing Federation said it “strongly opposed” Lin’s participation.

When interviewed after the fight Lin was asked about the support she has received, to which she replied:

💬 “A lot of people cheered me on in Paris and also in my country. I received a lot of supporting messages. I did not read them because I shut down my social media platforms. I am going to take this strength all the way to the end.”

Nigeria’s Favour Ofili wins the final heat of the women’s 200M qualifying, nosing out Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith with a winning time of 22.24.

But Asher-Smith, ranked in the top 10 in the 200 coming into the Olympics, easily qualified for the semifinals as well, at 22.28.

Lin Yu-ting is guaranteed an Olympic medal after securing a place in the women’s boxing semifinals.

The Taiwan fighter beat Bulgarian Svetlana Staneva in the opening featherweight quarterfinal this morning, winning by unanimous decision.

The two shook hands after the fight before Staneva opened the ropes for Lin's exit from the ring.

Lin follows Imane Khelif of Algeria who advanced in the welterweight division yesterday.

Both boxers have been at the center of controversy at these Games with questions over their eligibility to compete.

Lin is now guaranteed at least a bronze medal and will meet Esra Yildiz of Turkey next after she defeated Brazilian Jucielen Romeu in the second of the morning's quarterfinals.

That fight is scheduled for Wednesday night.

McKenzie Long, whose travails coming into the Games were so well documented by our Marcus Thompson, leads the way in her women’s 200M qualifying heat, advancing to the semifinals with a winning time of 22.55.

And fellow American Brittany Brown, ranked ninth in the world in the 200 entering the Olympics, wins her heat in 22.38 to qualify for the semifinals.