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Olympics 2024, July 28: Live updates, highlights and results


After a day full of competitions, the big names close the first weekend of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera will make their U.S. gymnastics debut in Paris. Biles, Lee and Chiles will compete in all four qualifying events on Sunday.

The U.S. men's basketball team will face three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and Serbia to begin the group stage. It will be LeBron James' first Olympic Games since 2012 and Stephen Curry's first.

Women's soccer continues its quest for a record-extending fifth gold medal with a showdown against Germany. The United States comfortably defeated Zambia 3-0 on Thursday and faces a German team that is also coming off a win.

The best events to see

  • 3:30 am ET: Gymnastics: Women's qualifying begins; Team USA competes at 5:40 a.m.

  • 5 am Eastern Time: Swimming: Men's/Women's 200m Freestyle Heats, Men's 100m Backstroke Heats, Women's 100m Breaststroke Heats, Men's 400m Individual Medley Heats

  • 11:15 am ET: Basketball: Men's Olympic team against Serbia

  • 2:30 pm ET: Swimming: Medal rounds for men's 400m individual medley, men's 100m backstroke, women's 100m butterfly; semi-finals for men's/women's 200m freestyle, men's 100m backstroke, women's 100m breaststroke

  • 3 pm Eastern Time:Football – Women's Olympic team vs Germany

A complete list of the July 28 schedule can be found here.

This is what awaits us on Sunday:

Heroism of the cap recipient

The athletes are the stars of the show in Paris, but support staff are also essential to the Games running smoothly. On Sunday morning it was revealed that swimmer Emma Weber had lost her swimming cap in the pool, forcing a man in a swimsuit to retrieve the lost item from the pool.

The 'cap catcher', as he was nicknamed by the broadcast team, quickly proved to be a favourite among viewers, as the crowd roared in approval.

Simone, Suni and the American team start strong

PARIS — With the stands packed with American fans and A-list celebrities (we're looking at you, Tom Cruise, Anna Wintour and Jessica Chastain!), the U.S. women's gymnastics team began competition Sunday afternoon at Bercy Arena and after one rotation is more than a point ahead of Italy and China in its subdivision.

Tokyo Olympian Jordan Chiles started the competition for Team USA and set the tone with a solid beam series that had the crowd going wild. Rookie Hezly Rivera struggled a bit but held on and set the stage for reigning Olympic all-around champion Suni Lee, who changed her mount after training for the podium and performed well enough to likely earn a spot in the beam final later in the week. And then there was Simone Biles, who nailed one of her best beam routines in recent memory. When she landed, she grabbed her heart and ran to her coach, Cecile Landi. The U.S. leads its subdivision by more than a point over Italy and China. — Alyssa Roenigk

Women's gymnastics preview

Simone Biles and the U.S. women's gymnastics team begin their quest for “redemption” on Sunday. Not surprisingly, the seven-time Olympic medalist is the headliner of three of the four lineups during qualifying, which uses a four-up, three-down format in which teams drop their lowest score in each event.

Reigning Olympic all-around champion Sunisa Lee will lead the U.S. on the uneven bars, and Biles, Lee and two-time Olympian Jordan Chiles will compete in the all-around — a necessary condition if a gymnast wants a chance to qualify for Thursday’s final. The top 24 gymnasts will make the final, but only two per country are eligible.

Although qualifying qualifies teams for team finals and individuals for event finals, the gymnasts on Team USA (four of whom competed in Tokyo) say they won't think about individual finals until they complete the job of winning team gold.

“I think when we get out on the track for the first time, we're going to be really excited, really thrilled and grateful to be back there because we've all wanted it so badly for the last three years,” said reigning Olympic track champion Jade Carey, who competed in Tokyo as an individual. “We're really motivated by that redemption and we want to have a different experience this time.”

The tone for Sunday's competition will be set by Chiles, who at 5:40 a.m. ET (11:40 a.m. Paris time) will lead the team's first rotation on the balance beam. Carey and 16-year-old rookie Hezly Rivera will each compete in two events during qualifying. Lee will perform the afternoon's final routine for the U.S. women on the uneven bars, her specialty.

The lineups:

Balance beam: Chiles, Rivera, Lee, Biles

Floor: Lee, Chiles, Carey, Biles

Jump: Lee, Chiles, Carey, Biles

Uneven bars: Rivera, Chiles, Biles, Lee

— Alyssa Roenigk



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