(7 Aug 2024)
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1. Animation of Paris 2024 AP Photos of the Day
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Saint-Denis, France – 7 August 2024
2. STILL of Quincy Hall, of the United States, celebrates after winning the men’s 200-meter semifinal
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Paris – 7 August 2024
3. STILL of Korea’s Taejoon Park celebrates after winning a men’s 58kg Taekwondo final match
4. STILL of Mexico’s Alegna Gonzales competes during the marathon race walk relay
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Saint-Denis, France – 7 August 2024
5. STILL of Nina Kennedy, of Australia, competes during the women’s pole vault final
6. STILL of Team Mexico competes in the team acrobatic routine of artistic swimming
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Paris – 7 August 2024
7. STILL of the Spain’s Ayoub Ghadfa prepares to fight France’s Djamili-Dini Aboudou in their men’s +92 kg semifinal boxing match
8. STILL of China’s Qianyu Pang and Sweden’s Emma Jonna Malmgren compete in their women’s freestyle 53kg quarterfinal wrestling match
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Marseille, France – 7 August 2024
9. STILL of Matthew Wearn of Australia celebrates after winning the gold medal at the end of the ILCA 7 men’s dinghy class final race
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Paris – 7 August 2024
10. STILL of Brazil’s Luigi Cini competes loses control of his board during the men’s skateboarding park finals
11. STILL of Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto plays against Sweden’s Truls Moregard during the men’s teams semifinal table tennis match
STORYLINE:
Quincy Hall became the latest American to electrify Olympic track and field with an out-of-nowhere comeback Wednesday night at the Paris Olympics.
Hall sprinted from far behind in the 400 meters to reel in three runners and capture the gold medal. Hall, buried in fourth place as the runners rounded the last bend, outran the runner on his outside, then two more to the inside to cross the line in 43.40 seconds, the fourth-fastest time ever.
Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco defended his title in the men’s steeplechase with a .36-second win over American rival Kenneth Rooks.
Nina Kennedy’s gold medal in the pole vault was Australia’s 18th at the Paris Games, an Olympic record for the country.
Kennedy cleared 4.95 meters to beat defending champion Katie Moon of the U.S.
Boxer Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan advanced to the gold-medal bout in the women’s featherweight division. She won her third consecutive bout while dealing with widespread scrutiny regarding misconceptions about her gender.
One day after welterweight Imane Khelif of Algeria reached her weight division’s final with a third straight victory in Paris, Lin defeated Esra Yildiz Kahraman of Turkey 5:0.
A’ja Wilson scored 20 points and Jackie Young added 15 to help the United States beat Nigeria 88-74 in the women’s basketball quarterfinals. The victory extended the Americans’ record Olympic winning streak to 59.
Breanna Stewart also had 13 points for the Americans, who haven’t lost since the 1992 Barcelona Games and are now two victories away from an unprecedented eighth consecutive gold medal. They will face a familiar foe in Australia in the semifinals on Friday night.
The American women’s pursuit team had twice before raced for the Olympic gold medal, and it had been on the podium all three times the cycling event had been on the program for the Summer Games.
A touch of winter came to the Summer Games when the United States figure skating team finally got their gold medals as 2022 Olympic champions.
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