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Here's what you need to know following Day 9 of competition:

  • Noah Lyles won the men's 100m dash in an epic photo finish.
  • Bobby Finke won gold with a world-record time in the 1500m free.
  • Team USA's streak of 10 straight wins in the men's 4x100 medley came to an end, but the women won gold in the same event.
  • Suni Lee earned bronze on the uneven bars, matching her result from the Tokyo Games.
  • Novak Djokovic defeated Carlos Alcaraz to complete the "Golden Slam."
  • Scottie Scheffler continued his dominance by winning gold in the men's golf tournament.
  • Kristen Faulkner stunned the field by taking gold in the women's road race.

Read on for all the details...

Track & Field: Noah Lyles captures Olympic gold in 100m photo finish

In an epic photo finish, Noah Lyles retained the title of world's fastest man on Sunday evening at the Paris Olympic Games. 

Lyles edged past Jamaican Kishane Thompson by the narrowest of margins to win his first Olympic gold medal in a personal best 9.784 seconds in the men's 100m dash. The American crossed the finish line just five thousandths of a second ahead of Thompson, who took silver. American Fred Kerley claimed the bronze medal, his second career Olympic medal in the 100m.

Lyles is the first American man to win 100m gold since Justin Gatlin at the 2004 Athens Games.

Results: Men's 100m

🥇 Noah Lyles (USA) 
🥈 Kishane Thompson (JAM)
🥉 Fred Kerley (USA)

Swimming: Team USA finishes swimming competition strong

Sunday marked the final day of swimming races from Paris La Defense Arena.

American Bobby Finke delivered an electric gold medal swim in the 1500m freestyle. Finke broke the world record in the men's 1500m freestyle, which was set by Sun Yang in 2012, with a time of 14:30.67. Finke successfully defended his gold medal in this event from Tokyo to reach his fourth career Olympic podium.

With the victory, Finke became the lone individual swimming gold medalist for the American men in Paris.

The U.S. swept the 1500m freestyle as Katie Ledecky, Finke's training partner, won gold in the women's 1500m earlier in the Games.

RESULTS

Results: Men's 1500m freestyle

🥇 Bobby Finke (USA)
🥈 Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA)
🥉 Daniel Wiffen (IRL)

The U.S. claimed silver in the men's 4x100 medley relay on Sunday. The streak of 10 straight gold medals in the event came to an end. It tied for the longest gold medal streak for one nation in any team event in Olympic history.

Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Caeleb Dressel and Hunter Armstrong represented the U.S. in the relay final.

Dressel earned his first career silver medal after nine golds. Murphy became a nine-time Olympic medalist, while Fink and Armstrong scored their third Olympic medals.

RESULTS

Results: Men's  4x100m medley relay

🥇 China
🥈 United States
🥉 France

The final swimming event of the Games was the women's 4x100 medley relay. 

The U.S. team of Regan Smith, Lilly King, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske broke the world record en route to winning the women's 4x100m medley relay with a time of 3:49.63. This is the 11th gold medal for the U.S. in this event.

With the victory — in the final event — the United States won the gold medal race in the pool, tallying eight golds to Australia's seven.

With the win, Smith and Huske won their fifth medals of the Paris Games. 

RESULTS

Results: Women's 4x100m medley relay

🥇 United States
🥈 Australia
🥉 China

Gymnastics: Suni Lee earns bronze on uneven bars

Suni Lee won bronze in the uneven bars on Sunday, the same event in which she took bronze in Tokyo.

Algeria's Kaylia Nemour won gold and China's Qiu Qiyuan earned silver. Nemour, who was born in France, won Algeria's first gold in gymnastics and became the first gymnast representing an African country to win an Olympic medal.

Lee's bronze in the uneven bars is her third medal in Paris (she won gold in the women's team event and bronze in the women's all-around). 

This is Lee's sixth career Olympic medal, tying her for the third-most Olympic medals by a female American gymnast. She's tied with Aly Raisman and behind only Simone Biles (10) and Shannon Miller (7).

Lee will also compete in the balance beam final on Monday alongside Biles.

RESULTS

Results: Women's uneven bars

🥇 Kaylia Nemour (ALG)
🥈 Qiu Qiyuan (CHN)
🥉 Suni Lee (USA)

Tennis: Novak Djokovic is golden after beating Carlos Alcaraz

World No. 2 Novak Djokovic defeated world No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz in men's singles to complete the elusive "Golden Slam" — winning all four Grand Slam titles and Olympic gold in a career.

Djokovic has won 24 Grand Slam titles in his career, the most of any man in history. At 37 years old, he becomes the oldest player to win the Olympics singles tournament since 1908. This is the first tournament Djokovic has won in 2024.

Djokovic and Alcaraz have split their previous six meetings. A few weeks ago when they met at Wimbledon, Alcaraz won his second straight title.

At 21 years old, Alcaraz is the youngest man to win a medal in the Olympic singles tournament since Djokovic won bronze in 2008. Alcaraz became the youngest to win silver in the event since 1904.

MATCH STATS l MEN'S SINGLES BRACKET

Results: Men's singles

🥇 Novak Djokovic (SRB)   
🥈 Carlos Alcaraz (ESP)
🥉 Lorenzo Musetti (ITA)

Golf: Scottie Scheffler on top of the world

Two-time Masters champion and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler continued his historic season with a come-from-behind gold medal victory in the men's golf tournament. 

Scheffler shot an incredible final round 62 (9-under) to win gold. His final-round performance matched the lowest round of the tournament as well as the course record at Le Golf National.

Here is Scheffler's 2024 resume:

  • Six overall PGA Tour wins (first since Tiger Woods in 2009 to win six times in one season)
  • Masters Tournament title
  • Players Championship title
  • Four signature-event trophies
  • Olympic gold medal

Tommy Fleetwood of Great Britain claimed silver, while Hideki Matsuyama of Japan earned bronze.

Americans Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark and Colin Morikawa finished T-9th, T-14th and T-24th, respectively.

RESULTS

Results: Men's golf

🥇 Scottie Scheffler (USA) 
🥈 Tommy Fleetwood (GBR)
🥉 Hideki Matsuyama (JPN)

Cycling: Kristen Faulkner claims incredible victory

American Kristen Faulkner won the women's cycling road race on Sunday in dramatic fashion with a time of 3:49.23. 

Entering the Olympics, Faulkner was not focused on the road race as she was initially added to the Olympics as a member of the track cycling team. Faulkner was added to the road race less than a month before the Games began after her teammate, Taylor Knibb, dropped out to focus on the triathlon.

Faulkner won the United States' first medal in this event since 1984, when Connie Carpenter-Phinney won gold.

Faulkner competed on the rowing team while in college at Harvard. She did not begin seriously cycling until 2017 when she needed an outdoor hobby shortly after moving to New York City for a venture capital job. Faulkner quit her job in 2020 to pursue a career in cycling.

She joins a stellar group of Alaskan Sumer Olympian medalists, including rugby star Alev Kelter, swimmer Lydia Jacoby, and basketball player Carlos Boozer.

Faulkner will also compete in track cycling at these Olympics.

FULL RESULTS

Results: Women's road race

🥇 Kristen Faulkner (USA) 
🥈 Marianne Vos (NED)
🥉 Lotte Kopecky (BEL)

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Team USA catches China for most gold medals

COMPLETE MEDAL TABLE

On Day 9 of competition, Team USA won 10 medals — five gold, two silver and three bronze — which brings the Americans' total to a whopping 71 medals. The U.S. has now pulled into a tie with China for most gold medals at the 2024 Games (19), and China surpassed host country France for the No. 2 slot on the overall standings.

Medal standings as of Aug. 4
Place Country Total
1 United States 71
2 China 45
3 France 44
4 Great Britain 37
5 Australia 31
6 South Korea 24
7 Japan 24
8 Italy 22
9 Canada 17
10 Netherlands 15