Paris Olympics live updates: Sha'Carri Richardson wins gold, Team USA 4x100 relay gaffe, breaking makes Olympics debut

Algeria’s Imane Khelif won the gold medal in 66kg women’s boxing finals, capping a whirlwind Olympics that found her in the middle of global controversy over her gender. She defeated China’s Liu Yang in a unanimous decision.

A sizable Algerian crowd roared their approval, chanting “I-MANE, I-MANE” and nearly blowing the roof off Roland-Garros, the tennis facility being used for the medal rounds of the boxing tournament.

The fans had been vocal throughout, offering encouragement and waving Algerian flags in support of the 25-year-old. They celebrated each combination before cheering the end-of-round results.

Khelif was dominant against Liu, who was a game fighter who often took the attack to Khelif. The two boxers repeatedly tapped gloves and offered mutual respect to each other, even hugging at the end.

Khelif won all five scorecards in the first two rounds to all but guarantee victory.

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As breaking made its Olympic debut, B-girl Ami of Japan won the sport's first-ever Olympic gold medal — an upset in a head-to-head with B-girl Nicka of Lithuania, who was the gold-medal favorite going into these games.

Ami won all three rounds, beating Nicka by a score of 16 to 11. Nicka took silver as a result, while China's B-girl 671 took bronze after winning 19-8 over the Netherlands' B-girl India.

Another medal for Team USA, as Helen Maroulis earned her third Olympic gold medal with a bronze in women's freestyle 57kg wrestling. Maroulis finished her matchup in less than a minute, pinning Canada's Hannah Taylor and taking the win. Maroulis, who is 32, earned gold in Rio in 2016, and took bronze in Tokyo.

Three years after falling short and earning silver in the 400m hurdles, Rai Benjamin earned gold in the event, outrunning his competitors by a wide margin to take the win.

The Summer of Spain continues as Spain claims the gold medal in men's soccer, just weeks after the senior Spanish team won the UEFA European Championship.

In a wild final match, Spain earned gold despite a French comeback that forced extra time. Although France — and the raucous French home crowd — threatened to spoil Spain's win, the Spanish were able to add two more in extra time to win 5-3.

France took the early lead, but Spain scored three goals in ten minutes to take the 3-1 lead in the first half. But France didn't stop fighting, and scored in the 79th minute to get within one.

Les Bleus had a stroke of luck in the third minute of stoppage time, as a foul in the box led to a penalty kick. French captain Jean-Philippe Mateta took the kick and buried it to tie things up at 3-all and force extra time.

During the first period of extra time, Spain's Sergio Camello scored in the 100th minute to take the lead again. France was searching for the equalizer up to the last moments, but a Camello goal in extra time's stoppage time sealed the deal for Spain, and silenced the home crowd.

The men's 4x100m relay team of Christian Coleman, Kenny Bednarek, Kyree King and Fred Kerley crossed the line seventh on Friday night but were ultimately disqualified, extending the U.S.’s 20-year medal drought in the 4x100 relay.

This race went wrong for the U.S. with the baton pass between the first and second leg. As Coleman approached with the baton, Bednarek left too early and then had to slow to a halt to avoid a disqualification for the pass occurring outside the zone.

Canada won gold in 37.50. South Africa took silver (37.57), while Great Britain took bronze (37.61).

On a very rainy day in Stade de France, Team USA outran Great Britain to win a gold medal in the 4x100m relay. The team of Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Gabby Thomas and Sha-Carri Richardson ran a time of 41.78, with Richardson pushing in the anchor spot and fending off Great Britain for the win. Richardson, who won silver in the 100m, wins her first gold medal as a result, while 200m winner Gabby Thomas wins her second.

USA women's basketball rolled to a 85-64 win over Australia, playing dominantly on both sides of the court to earn the easy semifinal win. They will now play for gold on Sunday, with the potential of earning an eighth straight Olympic gold.

The U.S. men's volleyball team won the bronze medal on Friday, defeating Italy 3-0. It is the sixth-ever medal for the American men and their third bronze. They won gold in 1984, 1988 and 2008.

The Americans swept the Italians by taking the three sets 25-23, 30-28 and 26-24.

Aaron Russell (15 points), Torey DeFalco (12) and Max Holt (11) were the standout performers on offense for the Americans. Russell was on the United States' bronze medal-winning team in Rio in 2016.

Alessandro Michieletto and Yuri Romano led the Italians with 17 points apiece.

This was the fifth time since the 1988 Olympics that the American men were playing for a medal. They previously won bronze in 1992 and 2016 and came short for third place in 2004. They have only reached the gold-medal match once — 2008 — since their victory at Seoul 1988.

The American men took the second set against Italy in the bronze medal volleyball match, 30-28. It would be their first medal since they won bronze at Rio 2016.

Breaking debuted at the Olympics on Friday with the start of the women's competition, with American Logistx taking an early lead with a unanimous win to start the Round Robin. Sunny Choi, the other American, will compete shortly.

It's a packed audience at the arena, with Snoop Dogg in attention for the much-anticipated debut of the event.

The U.S. took the opening set of the men's bronze medal volleyball match 25-23 over Italy. Matthew Anderson, Aaron Russell and Max Holt each contributed four points.

The Americans are seeking their first men's volleyball medal since earning bronze at Rio 2016.

The Olympics does a fine job of identifying the finest athletes in individual sports. But there’s only one event — a strange little outlier of an event — that identifies the best athletes in multiple sports. Where else can you see the world’s best try their hands at swordplay, horse jumping, shooting, running and swimming, all in 90 minutes’ time?

There’s a purity to the modern pentathlon. Like the heptathlon and the decathlon, it uses a combo platter of skills to assess the greatest athletes. But it’s also a determinedly out-of-step competition, designed to crown the 19th century’s definition of a well-rounded athlete. The five disciplines that comprise the modern pentathlon carry a certain elegance to them; a truly modern pentathlon would probably include competitive eating, Wordle and Power Slap.

Because of its archaic nature — and because the use of horses in athletic competition has gone very much out of style — the Paris Olympics mark the last time that the modern pentathlon will exist in its current format. The horse element of the pentathlon will be removed, to be replaced with an “American Ninja Warrior”-style obstacle course. And even that might not be enough to save the sport’s Olympic fortunes; modern pentathlon is not yet guaranteed a spot on the 2032 Brisbane slate.

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The U.S. last medaled in men's volleyball in 2016 when they won bronze. Italy also last medaled at Rio 2016 when they took the silver.

Serbia's power play was too much for the U.S. men's water polo team on Friday. They were 7-for-10 with the extra man during their 10-6 win.

Serbia will now play for gold against Croatia or Hungary for a third-straight gold medal. The U.S. will play the loser of the other semifinal for a chance at bronze on Sunday.

The power play is hurting the U.S. men's water polo team against Serbia with a 5-for-13 conversion rate through three quarters. Serbia, meanwhile, is 5-for-7 with the extra man.

Serbia, the defending back-to-back gold medalists, holds an 8-6 lead as the Americans are running out of time to advance to the final.

Serbia is up 6-4 at the half. Nikola Dedović and Nikola Jakšić each have two goals for Serbia.

Serbia is 4-for-4 on the power play, while the U.S. is 3-for-9.

Former Colts QB Andrew Luck and his wife, Nicole Pechanec, have long been supporters of Stanford athletics. The Cardinal alums traveled to Paris, along with The Tree, to root on the 59 current, former and future athletes to the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

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A victory would ensure a medal. The teams are tied 2-2 after the first quarter. The winner will play Croatia or Hungary for gold.

Vinesh Phogat, the Indian Olympic wrestler who was disqualified from the women's 50kg gold medal match after failing the weigh-in, has filed an appeal for a shared silver medal.

Phogat retired on Thursday and a decision from a Paris Judge is expected to be announced before Sunday's Closing Ceremony.

Phogat's appeal was filed on Wednesday seeking a new weigh-in and to allow her to compete in the final, but there was not enough time to hold a hearing ahead of the gold medal match.

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He's really doing everything and going everywhere in Paris.

Defending women's gold medalist Nelly Korda trying to make a move up the leaderboard during Friday's third round of competition.

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