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WTOP goes for gold: The latest from the Paris Olympics 2024 – WTOP News

As the 2024 Olympics in Paris wrap up next week, WTOP is watching which members of Team USA take home medals.

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Sha’Carri Richardson overcomes sluggish start to make 100-meter final at Paris Olympics

Sha’Carri Richardson overcame a slow start Saturday to qualify for the Olympic 100-meter final later that night despite finishing second to Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia. In a race featuring the two fastest Olympians in the field this year, Alfred finished in 10.84 seconds, a full body length and .05 seconds ahead of the reigning world champion.

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US rolls into Olympic quarterfinals as No. 1 seed, top Puerto Rico 104-83 in group finale

United States' guard Anthony Edwards
File photo of United States’ guard Anthony Edwards from July 22, 2024. (AP/Alastair Grant)

Halfway to its goal of gold, the U.S. has the No. 1 seed going into the medal round at the Paris Olympics. And now the real games start. Anthony Edwards scored 26 points, six players reached double figures for the U.S. and the Americans wrapped up the top spot coming out of group play by rolling past Puerto Rico 104-83 on Saturday.

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Washington Spirit’s Trinity Rodman scores as US women’s soccer team beats Japan 1-0 after extra time to reach Olympic SF

Trinity Rodman
File photo of United States’ Trinity Rodman controling the ball before scoring a goal during a women’s group B match between the United States and Zambia at Nice Stadium at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Nice, France. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Washington Spirit’s Trinity Rodman scored in extra time and the United States advanced to the women’s soccer semifinals at the Olympics with a 1-0 victory over Japan. The U.S. will face the winner of the later match between Germany and Canada in Marseille. The U.S. beat Germany 4-1 in the group stage. Rodman’s goal to the top of the far post came as time in stoppage time in the first extra period. She fell to the field as she was embraced by her teammates in celebration.

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Simone Biles captures her seventh Olympic gold medal by winning women’s vault for a second time

Simone Biles
Simone Biles, of the United States, competes during the women’s artistic gymnastics individual vault finals at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

 

Simone Biles earned her seventh Olympic gold medal, soaring to victory in the women’s vault final. The 27-year-old Biles averaged 15.300 for her signature Yurchenko double pike and Cheng vaults to claim a second gold on the event eight years after she triumphed in Rio de Janeiro. Biles now has 10 Olympic medals in her career, seven of them gold.

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American women rowers, including McLean, Virginia’s Claire Collins, end Summer Games without medal

Claire Collins, teammates, rowing
File photo of Claire Collins, second from right, rowing in the Women’s Eight. (Courtesy US Rowing)

American women rowers, including McLean, Virginia’s Claire Collins, finished fifth in the final of the women’s eight on Saturday.

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Alexandria, Virginia’s Noah Lyles closes strong to advance in 1st round of 100 at Olympics

Paris Olympics Athletics

Noah Lyles, of Alexandria, Virginia, finished second in his opening heat of the Olympic 100 meters but still advanced and kept alive his hopes for the sprint double.

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5-time BMX world champ Hannah Roberts of US crashes out as Perris Benegas takes home silver

Perris Benegas, of the United States, celebrates after finishing her second run during the cycling BMX freestyle women’s park final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Five-time BMX world champion Hannah Roberts wound up crashing on a front flip late in her first run Wednesday, and was only seconds into her second when she put her foot down on the landing. That left the heavy favorite out of the medals entirely, and left China’s Deng Yawen on the top step of the podium along with silver medalist Perris Benegas of the U.S. and bronze medalist Natalya Diehm of Australia.

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Lee Kiefer gets her 3rd Olympic gold as the US wins a team fencing event for the first time

United States’ Lauren Scruggs celebrates after winning the women’s team foil final match against Italy during the 2024 Summer Olympics at the Grand Palais, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The fencing team of two-time individual gold medalist Lee Kiefer, silver medalist Lauren Scruggs, Jacqueline Dubrovich and Maia Weintraub held on for a 45-39 win over Italy in the final.

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Britain wins equestrian team jumping at the Paris Olympics ahead of the US and France

USA’s Laura Kraut riding Baloutinue clears a hurdle during the Equestrian Jumping Team final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Versailles, France. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)

The U.S. took home the silver medal in equestrian team jumping with host France finishing with the bronze. The American team featured Laura Kraut riding “Baloutinue,” Karl Cook aboard “Caracole de La Roque” and veteran McLain Ward on “Ilex” had four penalty points.

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American archers Casey Kaufhold, Brady Ellison earn bronze in mixed team category

Casey Kaufhold, of the United States, right, competes along with Brady Ellison during the Archery mixed team semifinal against Germany’s Michelle Kroppen and Florian Unruh at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

American archers Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold have been winning medals together for five years in the roles of mentor and student.

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Simone Biles makes history with second all-around Olympic gymnastics title

 

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Simone Biles, of the United States, performs on the balance beam during the women’s artistic gymnastics all-around finals in Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Simone Biles now has nine Olympic medals, six of them gold. And while she says she doesn’t keep track of these things, she sort of does. The GOAT necklace she rocked in the aftermath isn’t a coincidence, even if she maintains she’s just “Simone Biles from Spring, Texas, that loves to flip.”

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US women win a first Olympic medal in rugby sevens with a comeback victory over Australia

 

Paris Olympics Rugby
United States’ Ilona Maher, right grapples with Australia’s Faith Nathan during the women’s bronze medal Rugby Sevens match between the United States and Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics, in the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, France, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Alex Sedrick ran the length of the field, dived in under the posts and then calmly took the conversion, securing a first Olympic rugby sevens medal for the United States with a 14-12, last-minute upset over Australia.

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Maryland-native Katie Ledecky wins record 13th medal with a silver to become the most decorated woman in swimming history

Paris Olympics Swimming
United States’ women’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay team pose with their silver medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

On a night when Canadian phenom Summer McIntosh romped to another victory and Kate Douglass claimed a gold for the Americans, Katie Ledecky collected the 13th medal of her stellar career to become the most decorated woman in swimming history Thursday.

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American men’s gymnastics end Olympic drought with bronze

 

APTOPIX Paris Olympics Artistic Gymnastics
Stephen Nedoroscik, of United States, performs on the pommel during the men’s artistic gymnastics team finals round at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 29, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Behind the two powerhouses of men’s gymnastics and in the absence of Russia, the Americans earned bronze for their first medal since 2008.

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