The first week of the Paris 2024 Games comes to a close with Sha'Carri Richardson taking to the track and two of Team USA's top swimmers returning to the pool.
Richardson's highly anticipated Olympic debut will come during the preliminary round of the women's 100 metres. Richardson won the event at the 2023 World Championships.
After becoming the most decorated woman in U.S. Olympic history on Thursday, Katie Ledecky returns to the pool on Friday for the women's 800m freestyle heat. It's Ledecky's final event in Paris and her last chance to win her ninth Olympic gold medal, which would tie her with Larisa Latynina, a gymnast from the Soviet Union, as the Olympian with the most golds ever.
Caeleb Dressel has already won a gold medal in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay. He can add another on Friday when he competes in the 50m freestyle final, which he won in Tokyo. Dressel will also compete in the men's 100m butterfly heat.
The U.S. men's Olympic soccer team faces Morocco in its first quarterfinal match since the 2000 Sydney Games. The U.S. team finished fourth that year, its best result at the Olympics.
There are also key duels in tennis. Novak Djokovic continues his quest for his first gold medal with a semi-final encounter in the men's singles against Lorenzo Musetti, while Carlos Alcaraz will face Felix Auger-Aliassime on the other side. The women's bronze medal match will also be played alongside the bronze and gold medal matches in mixed doubles.
Here's what to look out for on Friday.
The best events to see
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3 am Eastern Time:Golf – Men's Singles Tournament Round 2
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4:35 am ET: Athletics — Women's 100 m preliminary round
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5 am Eastern Time: Swimming series: Men's 100m butterfly, Women's 200m individual medley, Women's 800m freestyle, Mixed medley relay 4x100m
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5:50 am Eastern Time: Athletics — Women's 100 m round 1
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6 am Eastern Time: Tennis — Men's and women's doubles semi-finals
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7:30 am Eastern Time: Tennis — Men's Singles Semifinals
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9 am Eastern TimeMen's soccer quarterfinals: United States vs Morocco
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10 am Eastern Time: Tennis – Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Match, Women's Singles Bronze Medal Match
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1:00 p.m. Eastern Time: Tennis – Men's singles semi-finals, mixed doubles gold medal match
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2:30 pm Eastern Time: Swimming – Men's 50m freestyle final, Women's 200m backstroke final, Men's 200m individual medley final
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3 pm Eastern Time: Swimming – Men's 100m butterfly semi-finals, women's 200m individual medley semi-finals
A full list of Friday's program can be found here.
