Two of Group USA’s largest names compete once more in Paris on Saturday — Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky — whereas the U.S. girls’s soccer crew has a key quarterfinal match.
Biles will already go away Paris with gold medals within the particular person all-around and crew all-around finals. However she might earn one other within the girls’s vault Saturday, the occasion the place she will be able to pull off the Yurchenko Double Pike, making her the favourite to win.
Ledecky swims within the girls’s 800m freestyle with an opportunity so as to add to her file 13 Olympic medals. She’s received the 800m freestyle in three straight Olympics — making her the fourth swimmer to win the identical occasion at three straight Olympics. However a gold on Saturday would make Ledecky solely the second swimmer man or lady to win the identical occasion at 4 straight Video games, Michael Phelps being the opposite within the 200m medley, based on ESPN Stats & Data.
The U.S. girls’s soccer crew faces Japan within the quarterfinals, trying to keep alive for his or her first gold medal since 2012. The final time the U.S. confronted Japan in girls’s soccer on the Olympics was within the gold medal match in London.
On the monitor, Sha’Carri Richardson has an opportunity at incomes her first Olympic medal if she advances previous the ladies’s 100m semifinal. The finals will likely be held later within the day. Noah Lyles makes his Paris debut within the males’s 100m preliminary spherical.
The U.S. males’s basketball crew additionally returns to motion with a matchup in opposition to Puerto Rico. Although they’ve already clinched a spot within the quarterfinals, Group USA is adamant on clinching the highest seed.
Right here’s what to search for on Saturday.
Prime occasions to observe
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3 a.m. ET: Golf — Males’s particular person stroke play spherical 3
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4:35 a.m. ET: Athletics — Males’s 100m preliminary spherical
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5 a.m. ET: Swimming heats — Ladies’s 50m freestyle, males’s 1500m freestyle, males’s/girls’s 4×100 medley
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6 a.m. ET: Tennis — Males’s doubles gold medal match, males’s doubles bronze medal match
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8:30 a.m. ET: Tennis — Ladies’s singles gold medal match, males’s singles bronze medal match
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9 a.m. ET: Ladies’s soccer — Quarterfinal (U.S. vs. Japan)
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9:30 a.m. ET: Gymnastics — Males’s flooring train ultimate, girls’s vault ultimate, males’s pommel horse ultimate
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11:15 a.m. ET: Males’s basketball — U.S. vs. Puerto Rico
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1:50 p.m. ET: Athletics — Ladies’s 100m semifinal
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2:30 p.m. ET: Swimming — Males’s 100m butterfly ultimate, girls’s 50m freestyle semifinals
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3:08 p.m. ET: Swimming — Ladies’s 200m particular person medley ultimate, girls’s 800m freestyle ultimate, combined 4x100m medley relay ultimate
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3:20 p.m. ET: Athletics — Ladies’s 100m ultimate
A full listing of Saturday’s schedule will be discovered right here.
