NANTERRE, France — The U.S.’s Bobby Finke established a razor-thin lead early within the Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle ultimate, an endurance contest that forces swimmers to battle for practically a mile.

Finke was challenged till the ultimate stretch by Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri, however within the ultimate hundred meters he pulled away.

The American gained gold by practically 4 seconds, with a time of 14:30:67, shattering the world report set by Chinese language swimmer Solar Yang on the 2012 Summer time Video games in London.

“I may see I used to be half a physique size to a physique size in entrance of [the record] at occasions,” Finke stated after the race. “I knew I used to be on that tempo. That wasn’t actually my focus, however I did hit the world report, so I’m actually happy with that.”

He described the ultimate third of the endurance race as grueling: “Towards the tip it was beginning to damage rather a lot, particularly that final 400 meters. However I knew it was going to harm.”

Finke is the primary member of the American males’s swimming crew to win gold in Paris in a person occasion. His win and a later victory within the girls’s 4×100 meter medley relay brings the tally for U.S. swimmers to eight gold medals in Paris.

Palterinieri took silver, with Daniel Wiffen of Eire ending in third to say bronze.

Three years in the past, Finke established himself by successful the 1,500 meter race in Tokyo. In line with Olympics.com, he was the primary American to win at that distance within the Summer time Video games since 1984.

Finke additionally gained a silver medal on the Paris Video games the 800-meter freestyle.

Whereas Sunday’s races wrap up Olympic pool swimming at La Protection area in Paris, there are nonetheless males’s and girls’s outside 10,000-meter marathon swimming competitions scheduled for Thursday and Friday. These races are set to be held within the Seine River.

Liv Morgan defeated Rhea Ripley with an Oblivion on a metal chair. The Oblivion got here when Dominik distracted the referee, and after the Liv Morgan win, he appeared happy with himself, signaling he had a change of coronary heart.

Rhea walked to the ring accompanied by Dominik Mysterio, however Mysterio kissed Morgan after the win and so they left collectively.

“Domink, you sorry two-timing son of a b—h!” stated Michael Cole of Dom.

The story of the match was Rhea Ripley re-injuring her shoulder and valiantly battling by way of after she lastly acquired her arms on Morgan. Ripley popped her shoulder again into place a number of occasions all through the match.

Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan has been a bedrock feud for WWE SummerSlam 2024, even with Rhea Ripley injured for many of it (shoulder). The feud served as Liv Morgan’s popping out occasion. In 2022, Liv had a feel-good Cash within the Financial institution win that she parlayed right into a cash-in that very same night time, the place she received the WWE SmackDown Ladies’s Championship from Ronda Rousey. However the second proved to be too massive for Morgan, or no less than WWE didn’t give her a correct probability to show she was worthy of it.

Quick ahead to the Liv Morgan Revenge Tour of 2024, and Morgan has completed one of the best work of her profession, and arguably one of the best work of anyone on the roster. Cinematic Liv vowed to take the whole lot from Rhea Ripley, and she or he did simply that by successful the Ladies’s World Championship. Liv then engaged in a sizzling pursuit of Ripley’s boyfriend Dominik Mysterio, who nearly folded earlier than Rhea Ripley returned.

“I’ve emotions for Dominik, and Dominik has emotions for me, too,” stated Morgan throughout a heated trade on the July 22 broadcast of WWE Uncooked. “Do you need to know why you’ll be able to’t deny that, Rhea? It’s as a result of attractive males like Dominik, he doesn’t go for ladies who seem like you. Attractive males like Dominik go for ladies that seem like me.”

Along with WWE’s storyline between Liv Morgan, Rhea Ripley and Dom, WWE has woven in all of the items of the Judgment Day as this storyline forces the viewer to query the place their loyalties lie. All members of the Judgment Day vowed to compete solo, however the storytelling means that Rhea Ripley and Damian Priest are weak babyfaces. And among the many many eventualities that may come about when the mud clears, the most certainly could possibly be Liv Morgan and Dominik Mysterio atop the Judgment Day after Priest and Ripley are screwed out of it.

Cody Rhodes is ready to defend the Undisputed WWE Championship at WWE’s hottest occasion of the summer time.

He’ll headline SummerSlam on Aug. 3 in a match towards Solo Sikoa. Sikoa is the cousin of Roman Reigns, the previous chief of the villainous “Bloodline” faction whom Rhodes defeated at WrestleMania 40 in April to seize his championship. Reigns has been absent from WWE TV since, so Sikoa has anointed himself the brand new “Tribal Chief” and has rebooted “The Bloodline” with three new members.

Sikoa established himself as a contender for the title after pinning Rhodes in a six-man tag crew match on the Cash within the Financial institution occasion July 6.

There are a number of different championship matches on the cardboard for SummerSlam, together with Girls’s World Champion Liv Morgan dealing with Rhea Ripley amid a tense love triangle with Dominik Mysterio at its heart.

There may also be a deeply private match between Drew McIntyre and CM Punk that may function Seth Rollins because the visitor referee.

Learn on for extra about this 12 months’s SummerSlam.

When is SummerSlam 2024?

SummerSlam will happen Saturday, Aug. 3, at 7 p.m. ET.

The place is the placement for SummerSlam 2024?

SummerSlam can be held at Cleveland Browns Stadium, residence of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns. Cleveland beforehand hosted SummerSlam in 1996.

How can I watch SummerSlam 2024?

SummerSlam will stream reside on Peacock, starting at 7 p.m. ET. Be taught concerning the subscription plans for Peacock right here. (Peacock is owned by TODAY.com’s dad or mum firm, NBCUniversal.)

A 3-hour SummerSlam “Countdown” preview present will stream on Peacock, WWE.com and WWE social media platforms starting at 4 p.m. ET.

What are the SummerSlam 2024 matches?

Listed here are the introduced matches for SummerSlam:

Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes vs. Solo Sikoa

World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest vs. Gunther

CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre (with particular visitor referee Seth Rollins)

Girls’s World Champion Liv Morgan vs. Rhea Ripley

WWE Girls’s Champion Bayley vs. Nia Jax

United States Champion Logan Paul vs. LA Knight

Intercontinental Champion Sami Zayn vs. Bron Breakker

Katie Ledecky has received her ninth Olympic gold medal to equal the all-time ladies’s report and defend her 800m freestyle title forward of Ariarne Titmus.

The 27-year-old American swimmer received the occasion for the fourth consecutive time on the Olympics to earn a share of the report held for 60 years by gymnast Larisa Latynina of the previous Soviet Union.

Ledecky turns into simply the second swimmer after Michael Phelps to win the identical race occasion 4 instances in a row on the Olympics, and is simply the sixth Olympian general to win a 4 consecutive golds in a person occasion.

“I feel on condition that Michael is the one one which’s ever performed that I feel that simply exhibits how tough that’s,” she mentioned.

“I feel particularly within the 800, it’s simply a whole lot of miles. Simply 12 months after 12 months making an attempt to place within the work to make it occur. I undoubtedly wouldn’t have pictured this in 2012.”

Ledecky received gold within the 800m freestyle for the primary time at London 2012 when she was aged 15. She retained her title in at Rio 2016 after which once more in Tokyo 5 years later.

In Paris, Ledecky grew to become probably the most profitable American girl in Olympics historical past and took residence her fourth medal of the Video games following gold within the 1500m free, silver within the ladies’s 4x200m relay and bronze within the 400m freestyle.

Ledecky prolonged her dominance within the 800m freestyle because the world report holder edged forward of Australian rival Titmus, who beat Ledecky within the 400m freestyle ultimate referred to as the “race of the century” final week,

Titmus held up Ledecky’s arm within the pool in recognition of her historic achievement whereas Staff USA Paige Madden joined her on the rostrum after successful bronze.

Ledecky may take the report outright on residence soil in 2028, when the Olympics shall be held in LA. Ledecky shall be 31 and will function at a fifth Video games.

Latynina, who represented the Soviet Union, holds the ladies’s report for probably the most Olympic medals and received a complete of 18 between 1956 and 1964.

Simone Biles received her third gold medal of Paris 2024 earlier on Saturday and seventh Olympic gold general. The American celebrity has two extra occasions and will be a part of Ledecky and Latynina on 9 gold medals by the top of the Video games.

NANTERRE, France — A dozen years in the past to the day, Katie Ledecky received her first Olympic gold medal. She was 15 years previous, not but a sophomore in highschool, and was thus far off the radar that night time that reporters weren’t even listening to the ladies’s 800, as an alternative interviewing Michael Phelps after what he known as on the time his last Olympic race.

After her win that night time, Ledecky was wide-eyed and dripping with pool water as she met with the press.

A lot has modified since then.

On the Olympic Video games Paris 2024, Ledecky received her ninth gold medal — additionally within the 800 freestyle — and extra deeply etched her identify into the Olympic annals. She is now essentially the most embellished feminine Olympian from america.

9 Olympic gold medals additionally ties her with Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina for many Olympic gold medals received by a girls. Latynina received 9 golds between 1956-1964.

In successful the 800 on the 2024 Video games, Ledecky additionally turned the seventh Olympian to win 4 consecutive gold medals in the identical occasion — and second swimmer after Phelps (who received the 200 IM in 4 consecutive Olympiads).

Not one to chase historical past, Ledecky admitted that one report will stick along with her.

“4 instances is the one which means essentially the most to me,” she admitted, explaining why she confirmed 4 fingers on the end.

“I knew that August 3 is the day I received in 2012, and I did not need August 3 to be a day that I did not like shifting ahead,” she added. “I felt like I put loads of strain on myself, however I am simply actually completely satisfied that I may get the job accomplished.”

“I understand how arduous it’s to defend an Olympic title, and to go 4 in a row is unreal,” stated Ariarne Titmus from Australia, who completed second to Ledecky within the 800. Earlier this week, Titmus defended her Olympic title within the 400-meter freestyle.

Ledecky needed to battle for this 800 win, although. Titmus hung robust, not giving Ledecky her regular comfy lead, pushing the American the entire race. Ledecky touched the wall in 8:11.04, effectively off her Olympic and world report set on the 2016 Rio Olympic Video games (8:04.79), however 1.24 seconds forward of Titmus.

“I knew that it was going to be a troublesome race, all the best way right down to the end,” stated Ledecky. “I felt assured coming into it. I simply needed to stick within the race and belief myself, belief my coaching, belief that I understand how to race that occasion. I used to be simply relieved that I obtained my hand on the wall.”

Scottie Scheffler added a gold medal to a tremendous 2024 season that has already included a second inexperienced jacket with a win on the Masters. Scheffler received the boys’s particular person stroke play golf event on the Paris Olympics’ Le Golf Nationwide course with a wild closing spherical on Sunday.

Scheffler, 28, wins his first Olympic medal in his Olympics debut and brings the gold again to the US.

Scheffler scored a -9 beneath closing spherical of 62 on Sunday to catapult himself onto the highest of the rostrum. He completed -19 beneath par. Scheffler would birdie holes 1, 2, 3, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 for an thrilling closing spherical.

He set an Olympic report for 72 holes at 19-under 265. Nice Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood, who fell out of the lead with a bogey from the tough on the seventeenth, bought up-and-down for par on the ultimate gap for a 66 to win the silver medal.

Scheffler was visibly emotional in the course of the medal ceremony because the nationwide anthem performed, showing to wipe away tears in his eyes.

“I am not large on comparisons or something like that,” Scheffler mentioned when requested by NBC Olympics the place this ranks amongst his accomplishments. “I am simply going to take pleasure in this second. Like I mentioned, I take super pleasure in representing my nation and I am very proud to be going house, to be going again to the USA with a medal.”

Hideki Matsuyama (-17) received the bronze. France’s Victor Perez (-16) completed fourth, simply off the rostrum. Eire’s Rory McIlroy (-15) and Spain’s John Rahm (-15) completed tied for fifth.

USA’s Xander Schauffele, who received the gold within the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, completed tied for ninth at -12. Wyndham Clark (-11) tied for 14th and Colin Morikawa (-5) completed tied at twenty fourth.

Schauffele was tied for the 54-hole lead with Rahm till he had a collapse of his personal. So did Rory McIlroy, one off the lead till hitting wedge into the water on the fifteenth gap.

Scheffler is presently ranked primary on the planet and is nicely positioned to win participant of the 12 months. He has six PGA wins in 2024, together with successful the Masters (his second win in Augusta), the Memorial, the RBC Heritage, the Gamers Championship, and the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Scheffler is the primary golfer to win six occasions on the PGA tour in a single season since Tiger Woods in 2009.

All 4 golf majors additionally went to a participant from the US.

“It was a reasonably cool expertise, it was very particular,” Scheffler mentioned. “Like I mentioned, representing your nation is superb. Placing on the flag each morning is a reasonably humbling expertise. Going out right here and doing our greatest. It was positively a enjoyable expertise, it was actually cool to go see the opposite occasions. I am proud to be going house with a medal.”

The place is Scottie Scheffler from?

Scottie Scheffler was born in Dallas, Texas, however when he was six, his household moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey, the place he spend most of his childhood, in accordance with NBC Olympics. Scheffler went to the College of Texas.

Leeds United can affirm Crysencio Summerville has as we speak joined West Ham United in a everlasting deal for an undisclosed charge, after an exit clause inside his contract was triggered.

The 22-year-old joined the Whites in 2020 and went on to impress within the youth setup at Thorp Arch, earlier than breaking into the primary staff in September 2021.

He scored his first Premier League objective for the membership 13 months later in October 2022 towards Fulham, earlier than following it up with strikes in wins towards Liverpool and AFC Bournemouth.

Final season, the Dutchman performed 49 matches throughout all competitions, netting 21 instances in these video games and in addition offering double figures in assists for his teammates.

His type all through the marketing campaign noticed Summerville named the Sky Wager Championship Participant of the Season on the EFL awards in London.

Crysencio now departs Elland Street to affix Premier League outfit West Ham and we want him properly for the longer term.

Whitlock bowed out from his glittering profession with out the medal and report he had been chasing since returning to the game.

The 31-year-old had thought-about retiring after efficiently defending his title at Tokyo, taking an 18-month break from the game to cope with psychological well being struggles.

However he returned, motivated largely by the will to win in entrance of his younger daughter Willow. The five-year-old has been considered one of her father’s most vocal supporters within the stands on the Bercy Area.

“It is very uncooked in the mean time and I might have beloved for it to finish in a greater method right here in Paris,” Whitlock, who was combating again tears, advised BBC Sport.

“However I are not looking for anybody to take a look at the best way I’m feeling now and suppose that it’s a reflection of my profession. I’m so proud standing right here at the moment.

“It was a problem getting right here. I may have stop after Tokyo and I made a decision to come back again.

“I gave it each shot I probably can, I am right here at the moment and I am grateful for the journey I’ve had.”

His Olympic journey began at London 2012 with a bronze on pommel horse, in addition to a historic first – and nonetheless solely – bronze within the males’s group occasion.

4 years later in Rio, Whitlock grew to become Britain’s first all-around medallist for 108 years when he took bronze after which grew to become GB’s first particular person Olympic gold medallist by successful the ground and pommel horse titles.

However he missed out on a medal in Paris, having certified for the ultimate in third place.

He had carried out an upgraded routine within the group occasion, elevating the prospect he may win a 3rd successive gold – however his rivals additionally elevated their issue ranges and he may solely clap their efforts.

Whitlock retires with a group that includes six Olympic medals, three World Championship golds, 4 European titles and 4 Commonwealth Video games golds.

In successful at the moment’s match, Djokovic has received the second medal of Paris 2024 for Serbia, each of them gold after Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec received as a pair within the taking pictures.

“Most of all, it is my nation. The pleasure to play for Serbia,” he informed Eurosport. “I do know Carlos and Rafa (Nadal) like to play for Spain, Andy (Murray) likes to play for Britain, Roger (Federer) for Switzerland, you noticed the response of all these guys after they win. It is one thing particular.

“That is my fifth Olympic Video games. Three out of 4 Olympic Video games I performed semifinals and by no means managed to beat that hurdle for some cause. Once I entered the courtroom for the semifinal in opposition to (Lorenzo) Musetti, I used to be desirous about it.

“That is why at the moment, earlier than the match, I didn’t really feel as nervous as I might usually really feel as a result of I secured a medal. However, after all, I used to be going to go for gold.”