Olympics Day 7 briefing: Simone Biles wins gold in all-around, boxing controversy and… chocolate muffins?

A complete week of competitors on the Paris Video games is now over. This is the most recent from Thursday’s Olympic motion.

Testy discourse erupted on-line over an issue within the girls’s boxing occasion. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif superior after Italian opponent, Angela Carini, quit after 46 seconds. Khelif, who has not recognized as transgender, was barred from earlier girls’s occasions over elevated testosterone ranges. One other boxer who beforehand failed gender testing will probably be combating within the girls’s competitors on Friday after being cleared to compete previous to the Paris Video games.

Within the pool, 17-year-old Summer time McIntosh received gold for Canada within the girls’s 200 butterfly, ending forward of American Regan Smith, who earned silver. Legendary coach Bob Bowman’s swimmers continued to dominate with 4 extra incomes medals together with Smith and Hungary’s Hubert Kos, who received his nation’s first gold on the Paris Video games within the males’s 200 backstroke. Staff USA’s Kate Douglass received her first-ever gold within the girls’s 200 breaststroke and Katie Ledecky turned the most decorated female Olympian along with her silver medal within the girls’s 4×200 freestyle relay, her thirteenth medal general.

Each of Staff USA’s 3×3 basketball teams collectively have only one win on the Paris Video games and are in peril of crashing out of the competitors altogether. Both men and women sit backside of their eight-team swimming pools and should discover extra victories of their ultimate video games in the event that they need to end high two to qualify for the quarterfinals.

Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama leads the boys’s golf standings after round one, however Staff USA’s Xander Schauffle and Scottie Scheffler are nonetheless inside hanging distance. 

And the American women’s basketball team efficiently fended off an upset bid in its 87-74 win over Belgium, shifting to 2-0 in group play.

Medal depend

Three huge issues about Staff USA

1. Rowing foursome wins first gold since 1960 Video games

Staff USA’s four-man rowing staff received a historic gold medal on Thursday: the primary American rowing gold medal in 64 years. The U.S. boat was hardly the favourite, pulling the upset over New Zealand by almost half a ship size.

2. Simone Biles reclaims all-around crown, Tokyo champ Suni Lee earns bronze

Two days after main U.S. girls’s gymnastics to a gold medal within the staff all-around occasion, Simone Biles and Suni Lee competed within the individual all-round final Thursday. Biles reclaimed gold whereas Lee wanted a near-perfect flooring routine within the ultimate rotation to make the rostrum with bronze. It marked the primary time ever that two Olympic particular person all-around champions competed within the occasion on the identical Video games. Biles has now received essentially the most Olympic gymnastics golds in American historical past with six and likewise turned the primary American to repeat as particular person all-around champ.

3. Girls’s fencing upsets favourite Italy in staff foil

Staff USA received one other surprising gold medal in Paris, this time in women’s team fencing. Lauren Scruggs, who received silver within the particular person occasion, acquired the profitable jab over the favored Italians within the ultimate. It is America’s first-ever gold medal within the occasion and the primary medal for the ladies’s staff since 2008.

You will not imagine this

Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen has gone viral not for a incredible swim and even for a thirst lure pic. No, Christiansen has gained over 25 million views on TikTok for his movies about… chocolate muffins. That is proper, Christiansen apparently loves the chocolate muffins on the Olympic Village a lot that he is devoted his social media presence on the Video games to content material solely about them.