The U.S. men’s basketball team will play in the gold medal game after beating Australia 97-78. They’ll be trying for a fourth consecutive Olympics gold against the winner of the second semifinal between France and Slovenia.
Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse won gold in the men’s 200 meters, the first Canadian to win the race in the Olympics since 1928. Americans Kenny Bednarek and reigning world champion Noah Lyles won silver and bronze, respectively.
Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment won gold in the 110-meter men’s hurdles, upsetting favorite and world champion Grant Holloway of the U.S., who took silver. Jamaican Ronald Levy won bronze.
American Ryan Crouser won the gold medal in the men’s shot put, breaking his own Olympic record on his last attempt at 23.30 meters, repeating as Olympic champion after he also won gold in 2016 in Rio. This is the first men’s track and field goal for the U.S. in Tokyo. American teammate Joe Kovacs won silver and New Zealand’s Tom Walsh earned bronze.
The U.S. women’s team of Alix Klineman and April Ross will play for the beach volleyball gold after beating Joana Heidrich and Anouk Verge-Depre of Switzerland 21-12, 21-11 to advance. They will play Australia’s Mariafe Artacho and Taliqua Clancy in the gold medal match.
American Nevin Harrison won gold in the women’s canoe 200 sprint in the event’s Olympic debut. Canada’s Laurence Vincent Lapointe won silver and Liudmyla Luzan of Ukraine took bronze.
The U.S. team failed to advance to the men’s 4×100-Meter relay final in their qualifying race. Their chances were dashed by a botched baton hand-off between Fred Kerley and Ronnie Baker and they finished in sixth place.
American BMX rider Connor Fields was released from a Tokyo hospital Thursday, five days after a crash in his semifinal race. Among his injuries were a brain bleed, broken ribs and a collapsed lung. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s chief medical officer said Fields will be able to return home in the coming days to begin rehab.
MEDAL COUNT: (As of 3:30 a.m. ET) – The U.S. is in first place with 84 medals, followed by China with 71 and the Russian Olympic Committee with 53. In the gold medal count, China leads with 32, the U.S. is second with 27, and Japan is third with 21.
