Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding continued Britain’s good begin within the diving pool, with 4 occasions entered and 4 medals now gained. The primary gold stays elusive however that is already Crew GB’s report Olympics haul after Laugher and Harding scooped a well-earned bronze within the 3m synchro ultimate with a string of constant high-quality dives, topped off by a mesmerising sixth to seal a top-three spot.

It’s Harding’s first style of Olympic success and the 24-year-old stood as much as the strain, guided by his extra skilled accomplice. For Laugher, this was his fourth Olympic medal throughout three Video games, just one wanting Tom Daley’s haul of 5 from up on the 10m board. At 29, the Yorkshireman has time to usurp his teammate as Britain’s most profitable Olympic diver.

“4 medals from 4 is unreal,” mentioned Laugher. “What we’ve achieved as a group is great. There was a lot strain on us coming in with three from three and we all know we may make it 4 from 4. It’s an exquisite day and one to cherish perpetually.”

When you settle for that China are gonna China in a diving ultimate, then the occasion distils down right into a easy equation: seven groups going for the 2 remaining medals. In the long run, the Chinese language pair Wang Zongyuan – who gained gold with a special accomplice in Tokyo – and Lengthy Daoyi have been pushed shut as each Britain and silver medallists Mexico delivered.

It was tight after two rounds however within the third, the competitors sparked to life. First the American pair suffered a disjointed dive when Greg Duncan stepped partially off the board on raise off, dropping all spring and taking fully totally different trajectories to the water thereafter. A rating of 37.74 was terminal.

Against this, Laugher and Harding delivered an immaculate ahead two-and-a-half somersault with two twists, mirror pictures sliding into the water with barely a ripple. They have been rewarded with a rating of 82.62, one of many highest scores of the day, and led the standings on the midway level.

Harding missed his entry barely on fourth dive, however the British duo responded in spherical 5 with a clear ahead two-and-a-half somersaults with three twists. Harding splashed the water as Laugher gave him a backslap, and a rating of 85.41 propelled them into gold-medal rivalry with one to go.

As the ultimate spherical started, Laugher paced behind the decide’s seats whereas Harding stretched his legs and shook his arms to maintain heat. They watched as China’s Lengthy Daoyi and Wang Zongyuan produced the best rating of the night time, 95.76, to lock gold.

Britain’s pair nailed the ultimate dive too, saving the most effective till final with an immaculate ahead four-and-a-half somersaults rewarded with 94.62 factors. They hugged, realizing they’d given this all the things. It got here right down to Mexico’s ultimate dive, and Laugher and Harding watched on as Juan Manuel Celaya Hernandez and Osmar Olvera Ibarra held their nerve, scoring 94.77 to pip the British pair to silver.

Subsequent on Crew GB’s hit checklist are the person occasions. China will dominate these too, after all, however on this proof Laugher will put up a severe struggle. It’s a history-making Olympics already, and the British group should not achieved but.

From Charleston Chew to Swedish Fish, the 2024 Summer time Olympics have worldwide taste, because of Ellis Dawson. You possibly can even say he’s a Life Saver for Workforce USA. 

It’s possible you’ll not know Dawson’s identify, however he has gained notoriety amongst Olympic viewers for his position because the “sweet man.” Sure, Dawson has been noticed hauling sweet to provide out to members of america males’s basketball workforce. He’s additionally accountable for uniforms and different issues, however he says sweet is the massive job.

“That is crucial factor for our guys,” he stated on TODAY on Aug. 1. “Certainly one of my roles is simply to guarantee that we now have every part prepared.”

Dawson stated Daybreak Staley, who coached the ladies’s workforce to gold on the postponed 2020 Summer time Olympics in Tokyo, loves Werther’s Unique, however he didn’t single out which sweet is LeBron James’ favourite.

“He sort of varies,” he stated. “He sort of goes together with his mode and his temper.”

Dawson went viral July 31 after he was featured in a quick video on NBC Sports activities’ TikTok carrying Tupperware containers stuffed with sweet, together with a Ziploc crammed with sweets throughout the U.S. males’s basketball workforce’s victory over South Sudan.

“USA basketball’s sweet man is the hero we didn’t know we wanted,” the clip was captioned.

“The place was this place on profession day?” somebody joked within the feedback, whereas a number of different folks famous his resemblance to “Bob the Cap Catcher,” a person who went viral for retrieving a swim cap throughout the ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke preliminary race July 28.

A New Mexico native who has labored with the NBA’s Orlando Magic, Dawson is a stalwart of USA Basketball, having labored for the group since 2005 when he was introduced on as a supervisor of aggressive applications. In 2009, he was promoted to assistant director, nationwide workforce operations and is at present listed as director, nationwide groups operations.

“As assistant director, nationwide workforce operations, Dawson assists in all sides of the boys’s and girls’s aggressive applications, together with participant personnel and basketball operations throughout trials, coaching camps and competitions,” his biography on the USA Basketball web site reads.

“Moreover, he assists with the workforce outfitting; coordinates attire stock and video gear; maintains the USA Basketball video library; in addition to assists in coordinating the USA Basketball Officers Program.”

Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade have been in a decent battle for gold, however earlier than even discovering out which considered one of them gained the ladies’s gymnastics all-around particular person ultimate, Andrade walked over to Biles on the sidelines.

In a strong show of sportsmanship, the 2 rivals hugged one another, each congratulating the opposite on a well-fought battle.

Ultimately, it was Biles who took house the gold medal and Andrade nabbed silver.

“Simone is the perfect, and he or she brings out the perfect of me,” Andrade stated after the competitors.

Listed below are 5 issues it is best to find out about Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade.

Biles and Andrade traded leads over the course of the competitors.

The 25-year-old Brazilian surged previous Biles halfway by the all-around finals at raucous Bercy Enviornment and had the chance to provide the most important upset of the Video games to this point after Biles botched a transition on uneven bars.

However Biles fought again. She turned in an incredible beam routine and was superb on the ground train to show issues round as she claimed a second gold within the competitors, eight years after her triumph in Rio de Janeiro.

Biles shocked along with her distinctive exhibiting and narrowly edged out Andrade, who ended with a ultimate rating of 57.932. Biles completed with 59.131 after a whopping 15.066 rating on ground. (Watch it under)

The group exploded after watching Simone Biles’ electrical ground routine in her ultimate rotation to safe the all-around gold medal.

Biles’ teammate, Sunisa Lee, the gold medal defending champion from final yr, additionally made the rostrum within the third spot with a rating of 56.465.

Lee’s look within the occasion already secured her spot in historical past because it marked the primary time two all-around gold medalists competed in opposition to one another within the all-around ultimate.

Was that the final particular person all-around gymnastics meet we’ll see from now two-time Olympic runner-up Rebeca Andrade?

It simply could be.

“I imagine so,” Andrade informed the Brazilian press after securing a second, consecutive silver medal, this time ending runner-up to Simone Biles at Paris 2024, three years after she was second to Suni Lee.

“Doing the all-around, to me, it calls for loads from my physique, my decrease limbs, legs, knees,” she continued. “However I mentioned that the long run belongs to God: What if I one thing comes up in my head [or] my physique will get higher? I don’t know.

“However I’ve labored this in my head and I needed tonight to be a really particular competitors as a result of, to me, that was my final all-around.”

Andrade had hinted as a lot after the workforce ultimate on Tuesday (30 July), when she led the Brazilian squad to a first-ever Olympic medal in ladies’s gymnastics.

Andrade was out entrance of eventual champion Biles after two equipment, with the American struggling on uneven bars because the leaders headed to beam and flooring. However Biles held agency on beam, then soared excessive to safe her gold on her signature occasion.

Andrade completed together with her personal exclamation level, celebrating in full as the ultimate scores have been introduced and it was clear she had wrapped up the silver.

She took satisfaction in pushing the athlete many name the GOAT not simply of ladies’s gymnastics however in all of sport.

“Understanding that I gave Simone a bit of labor is cool, proper?” she mentioned, laughing. “She’s the very best on the earth, Simone is a phenomenon. We didn’t see it simply right here, but additionally in lots of competitions that she has executed. I’m so happy with having the ability to compete by her aspect.”

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carrie Underwood would be the subsequent singer to take a seat behind the judges’ desk on “American Idol,” filling Katy Perry’s spot after her departure from the present in Might.

Underwood, who rose to fame after she gained the singing competitors present in 2005, will return 20 years later as a choose for the upcoming season, set to premiere in spring 2025. She’s the primary “American Idol” alum to develop into a choose.

In an emotional video asserting Underwood’s new internet hosting gig, she mentioned “I am pleased with all the pieces that I used to be in a position to accomplish on the present, and I am so pleased with all the pieces that I’ve completed since.”

The nation singer, who’s probably the most adorned artist in CMT Music Awards’ historical past with 25 wins, made waves together with her rendition of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” at her audition, and he or she shortly turned a fan-favorite.

Underwood has additionally gained eight Grammy Awards and persistently tops the charts together with her albums and singles. She shall be becoming a member of Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, who every have seven seasons of judging expertise beneath their belts, for the franchise’s twenty third season.

“This upcoming season marks 20 years since Carrie gained America’s hearts on ‘Idol’ and launched her profitable multi-Grammy Award-winning profession. As a former Idol and dynamic musical pressure, she brings a remarkably distinctive perspective to one of the crucial standard exhibits on tv,” mentioned Craig Erwich, president of Disney Tv Group, in a launch from ABC. “It is a full-circle second each for the present and audiences at residence who’ve been tuning in for over twenty years. Welcome residence, Carrie.”

Longtime host Ryan Seacrest, who has been with the present because it premiered, will even return. Seacrest can be taking up Pat Sajak’s position because the host of “Wheel of Fortune” this fall.

Auditions for the brand new season will kick off Aug. 12 with the “Idol Throughout America” nationwide seek for expertise and can finish in September. The season is ready to premiere within the spring and shall be accessible to look at on ABC and Hulu.

“American Idol” premiered in 2002 on Fox and was a success for the community, nevertheless it was canceled in 2016. After two years off the air, the present was revived by ABC and has aired there for seven seasons. Perry was the primary of the revival judges to go away the judges’ put up.

A consultant for Underwood didn’t instantly return requests for remark.

PARIS (AP) — Ivan Litvinovich and Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya of Belarus received the primary medals by impartial athletes on the Paris Olympics on Friday, every doing so on trampoline.

The 23-year-old Litvinovich defended the gold he received in Tokyo three years in the past with a reasonably snug victory within the males’s ultimate, hours after Bardzilouskaya earned silver within the ladies’s competitors.

Litvinovich’s final-round rating of 63.090 was over a degree forward of silver medalist Wang Zisai and bronze medalist Yan Langyu, who’re from China.

Bardzilouskaya and Litvinovich are two of 17 Belarusians competing as a impartial athlete. Russia and Belarus are barred from staff sports activities on the Paris Video games due to the struggle in Ukraine.

Litvinovich was embraced by the gang as he accepted his gold medal on the rostrum. At one level, he lifted it off of his teal sweat go well with to point out it to varied corners of a packed Bercy Area.

He stood dutifully, if somewhat bored, whereas the IOC-commissioned anthem for AIN athletes performed. A number of occasions, he peeked round the remainder of the world after the green-and-white flag with AIN was raised slightly than the red-and-green banner of his native nation.

“On the subsequent Video games, I wish to compete with my flag and with my nationwide anthem and I’d prefer to signify my nation in the absolute best method,” Litvinovich mentioned.

Neither Litvinovich nor Bardzilouskaya needed to speak concerning the struggle. Litvinovich referred to as a query referring to the struggle a “provocation” and declined to reply.

Whereas Bardzilouskaya’s triumph was considerably sudden, Litvinovich, is a two-time world champion and has been among the many greatest on this planet.

Three years after successful in a near-silent area in Tokyo as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic closed the Video games to spectators, Litvinovich acknowledged he was somewhat nervous in a decidedly completely different — to not point out louder — setting, notably following France’s Pierre Gouzou.

Finally it didn’t matter. He was simply the perfect within the finals, maintaining his jumps close to the middle of the trampoline whereas placing collectively an intricate collection of flips and twists that despatched him hovering two tales within the air.

Bardzilouskaya’s rating of 56.060 was simply behind Britain gold medalist Bryony Web page’s tally of 56.480 within the eight-woman ultimate. Sophiane Methot of Canada earned bronze at 55.650.

The 19-year-old Bardzilouskaya, like Litvinovich, didn’t pay a lot consideration to any of the colours being waved within the stands amongst a crowd of over 10,000 followers that at one level did “The Wave” whereas she and others competed.

“I attempted to concentrate on what I’m doing, and I attempted to appropriate my errors and due to this fact it was so-so total I believe,” Bardzilouskaya mentioned.

Particular person athletes with Russian or Belarusian passports had been allowed to compete as neutrals in the event that they certified after which had been accepted for entry to the Olympics.

Bardzilouskaya didn’t compete internationally for 2 years following sanctions by the Worldwide Gymnastics Federation after the struggle with Ukraine started in February 2022. She participated in home meets making an attempt to remain sharp however admitted it was tough at occasions.

“(There was) a number of uncertainty; it was laborious to foretell,” Bardzilouskaya mentioned in Russian.

She was cleared this 12 months to compete in World Cup occasions in hopes of acquiring sufficient factors to qualify for the Video games and was accepted as a member of the AIN staff in June.

Although she is staying within the Olympic Village, Bardzilouskaya was upset she and the remainder of the impartial athletes had been unable to take part within the parade of athletes that’s the centerpiece of the opening ceremony.

Her household watched from again house in Belarus after they had been unable to safe visas. Whereas the AIN staff is small in measurement in comparison with what Belarus may doubtlessly have introduced underneath completely different circumstances, she mentioned she doesn’t really feel lonely or excluded whereas within the Olympic Village and praised her coach for serving to her attain the medal stand.

“He has put so much into me, into my bounces, my method,” she mentioned. “It’s sufficient. I’ve all I want, so I’m not nervous about that.”

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AP Western Europe Information Director Angela Charlton contributed to this report.

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The typically ignored challenge of variations in intercourse improvement has come to the fore within the wake of a deluge of headlines across the truth two girls Olympic boxers had beforehand failed a gender eligibility take a look at.

Final yr, Algeria’s Imane Khelif was disqualified simply hours earlier than her gold-medal bout on the girls’s World Championships in New Delhi after not assembly the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation’s (IBA) eligibility standards, which blocks athletes with male XY chromosomes competing in girls’s occasions. 

In the meantime, Taiwan’s double-world champion Lin Yu-ting misplaced her bronze medal on the similar competitors after she additionally failed to fulfill the standards.

However the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) has defended its determination to permit the 2 boxers to compete within the Paris 2024 Olympics. It comes after the IBA was stripped of its recognition by the IOC final yr over governance and finance points, with the Olympic physique working the boxing competitors in Paris itself, and allowing each girls to take part.

The committee stated: “The present aggression towards these two athletes relies fully on this arbitrary determination, which was taken with none correct process, particularly contemplating that these athletes had been competing in top-level competitors for a few years.

“The IOC is saddened by the abuse that the 2 athletes are at the moment receiving. Each particular person has the appropriate to observe sport with out discrimination.”

This raises the query of what variations in intercourse improvement are – with The Impartial talking to an instructional who specialises on this space to seek out out extra.

What are the variations in intercourse improvement?

The time period “variations in intercourse improvement”, or DSD, is used to seek advice from a variety of various eventualities, with the NHS describing it as a “group of uncommon circumstances involving genes, hormones and reproductive organs, together with genitals” which “means an individual’s intercourse improvement is completely different to most different folks’s”.

People can both have intercourse chromosomes typically linked with being feminine (XX chromosomes) or often related to being a person (XY chromosomes), but have reproductive organs and genitals that will look completely different.

The NHS states that “an individual might have a womb and can also have testicles inside their physique. Typically the testicles may not work correctly”.

It provides: “Some folks with a really uncommon kind of DSD have each ovarian and testicular tissue (typically one ovary and one testis). Their genitals might seem feminine or male or might look completely different from both.”

Claus Højbjerg Gravholt, a professor of genetic endocrinology, stated it’s not possible to state everybody with a Y chromosome is a male and everybody with an X chromosome is a feminine.

Professor Højbjerg Gravholt, who relies at Aarhus College in Denmark and works with sufferers who’ve variations in intercourse improvement, added: “If I confirmed you photos of my sufferers with none garments on, you’ll say, properly, these are females that I am .

“However, in actual fact, they really have a Y chromosome. And so it’s actually coming again to, what’s intercourse? Is intercourse one thing you may see out of the chromosomes? No, it’s not. Is intercourse one thing you could see relying on which hormone, estrogen, or testosterone you preferentially produce? No, it’s not. Intercourse is far more difficult.”

When do variations in intercourse improvement emerge?

Folks typically discover out they’ve a distinction in intercourse improvement round when they’re born or as soon as they change into an adolescent.

However Professor Højbjerg Gravholt defined the final affected person he had identified was a lady in her early thirties who had sought assist as she couldn’t get pregnant.

“She had a standard vagina, a standard exterior feminine look, however didn’t have a uterus, and she or he additionally produced lots of testosterone from her two testes, which had been positioned on the similar place because the ovaries,” he added.

Her expertise demonstrates how difficult variations in intercourse improvement are, he stated, explaining the affected person was “devastated” when he advised her that she couldn’t get pregnant as a result of not having a uterus.

Does a lady with an XY chromosome have intervals and may she have kids?

Professor Højbjerg Gravholt explains round half of the sufferers he sees should not have a uterus to allow them to’t carry a baby via a being pregnant – whereas the opposite half have a uterus, however don’t produce eggs.

These girls wouldn’t have intervals except they’re given intercourse hormones, he defined, including that he has by no means encountered or heard of a lady with an XY chromosome who can have kids.

Carrie Underwood is your latest “American Idol” decide.

The eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer — who received season 4 of the singing competitors present in 2005 — was introduced Thursday as Katy Perry’s substitute on “Idol.”

Underwood will be a part of returning judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie alongside host Ryan Seacrest when “Idol” returns to ABC and Hulu in spring 2025.

“I keep in mind being at dwelling in our little home in Checotah and seeing on TV that there have been auditions in St. Louis,” the Oklahoma native says in a video revealing the massive information. “My mother stated, ‘When you wanna go, I will drive you.'”

“I went from no one understanding my title to tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals watching the present,” she stated of how she skyrocketed to fame. “I am pleased with every part that I used to be in a position to accomplish on the present and I am so pleased with every part that I’ve achieved since.”

A few of Underwood’s accomplishments embody promoting 85 million data, amassing 28 No. 1 singles and snagging quite a few awards.

“This season, Carrie Underwood comes dwelling,” a message within the video reads.

Underwood replaces Perry, who served as a decide alongside Bryan and Richie for seven seasons after the “Idol” revival kicked off on ABC in 2018.

The “Firework” singer introduced her departure on “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” in February and later advised “Good Morning America” in April that her time on “Idol” had “healed my coronary heart.”

Auditions for the upcoming season of “Idol” kick off Monday, Aug. 12.

For extra info on auditions, go to the “American Idol” web site right here.

Cardi B is searching for major custody of her youngsters with rapper Offset, together with a child on the way in which, courtroom data within the couple’s divorce present.

The Grammy-winning hip-hop celebrity can be searching for little one assist from Offset, recognized for his profitable solo profession and function within the entice group Migos.

Particulars of Cardi B’s requests had been included in divorce paperwork obtained Friday, a day afetr they had been filed Thursday in New Jersey Superior Courtroom in Bergen County.

Cardi B, 31, and Offset, 32, have two youngsters collectively: 6-year-old daughter Kulture and 2-year-old son Wave. She is pregnant with their third little one, which she introduced in an Instagram submit Thursday. The filings state Offset is the daddy.

The submitting says that for the previous six months, Cardi B and Offset, whose beginning names are Belcalis Almanzar and Kiari Cephus respectively, “have skilled irreconcilable variations … There isn’t any affordable prospect of reconciliation between the events.”

A consultant for Cardi B instructed The Related Press on Thursday: “This isn’t primarily based on anybody explicit incident, it has been a very long time coming and is amicable.”

The hip-hop energy couple — Offset is thought for his function within the rap group Migos and his profitable solo profession — had been secretly wed on Sept. 20, 2017, in Atlanta. They solely introduced their engagement a month later.

The main points in courtroom data had been first reported Friday by movie star web site TMZ.

In 2020, Cardi B beforehand filed for divorce from Offset within the state of Georgia, claiming her marriage was “irretrievably damaged.” She later withdrew the submitting.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cardi B has filed for divorce from her husband, rapper Offset.

A consultant for Cardi B confirmed the information to The Related Press, writing, “This isn’t based mostly on anyone explicit incident, it has been a very long time coming and is amicable.”

On Instagram, Cardi B didn’t instantly touch upon the information of her divorce, however posted a photograph of her on a rooftop, holding her abdomen to disclose a child bump.

“With each ending comes a brand new starting! I’m so grateful to have shared this season with you, you’ve introduced me extra love, extra life and most of all renewed my energy,” she wrote within the caption. “It’s a lot simpler taking life’s twists, turns and check laying down, however you, your brother and your sister have proven me why it’s price it to push via!”

Cardi B and Offset, whose beginning names are Belcalis Almanzar and Kiari Cephus respectively, have two youngsters collectively: 6-year-old daughter Kulture and 2-year-old son Wave.

The hip-hop energy couple — Offset is understood for his function within the rap group Migos and his profitable solo profession — had been secretly wed on Sept. 20, 2017, in Atlanta. They solely introduced their engagement a month later.

In 2020, Cardi B beforehand filed for divorce from Offset, claiming her marriage was “irretrievably damaged.”

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