2024 Olympics in Paris medal count updates: Tally by country August 9

Brazil bag gold in beach volleyball

Brazil's Ana Patricia Silva Ramos/Eduarda Santos Lisboa win women's gold after three-set drama as they were forced to dig deep to beat Canada's Melissa Humaña-Paredes/Brandie Wilkerson 26-24, 12-21, 15-10 for gold.

France beat Belgium in overtime thriller

The men's and women's basketball gold medal games will feature the same two teams: favourites USA and hosts France.

On Friday evening, France had to hold strong for a big 81-75 overtime win against Belgium, who had tied the game at 66-66 with a three-pointer made with eight seconds left in regulation.

The French fans at Bercy Arena went wild with the win sending them through to face the seven-time repeat defending champions USA. 

Algeria's Imane Khelif wins boxing gold

Algeria's Imane Khelif beat China's Yang Liu to claim the gold medal in the women's welterweight boxing at the Olympics on Friday.

Khelif, a silver medallist at the 2022 world championships, and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting have been in the spotlight at the Paris Games amid a gender dispute that has dominated headlines.

Janjaem Suwannapheng of Thailand and Taiwan's Chen Nien-chin were awarded bronze.

Here's how the action played out in the boxing final via our live feed 

One for the history books...

Japan's Ami Yuasa wins first-ever breaking gold at Paris Games after a battle with Lithuania's Dominika Banevic to dance her way to the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded for breaking on Friday.

Yuasa, known as B-Girl Ami, immediately broke out an impressive air flair to start the final and laid down a series of halos to seal the 3-0 win over B-Girl Nicka and bring the crowd at La Concorde to their feet.

Benjamin takes 400m hurdles gold

Rai Benjamin finally got the better of great rival Karsten Warholm to win the Olympic 400 metres hurdles title on Friday, continuing the United States’ athletics gold rush and foiling the Norwegian’s bid to be the second man to retain the title.

Benjamin, second behind Warholm in the Tokyo final and with two silvers and a bronze in world championships, always looked in control and ran an equal season’s best 46.46 seconds

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Three in a row for Nafi Thiam

History made in the women's heptathlon. Belgium's Nafi Thiam picks up her third  straight gold medal after winning the event in Rio, Tokyo and now Paris.No other athlete, male or female has won a combined event in three consecutive Games.

Nafi totalled 6880 points, ahead of world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson on 6844 and compatriot Noor Vidts who took bronze on 6707.

Spain edge hosts in eight-goal thriller taken to extra time

Spain and France played out a tense and exciting final in the men's football final which was taken to extra-time. Santi Denia's team were 1-3 up at half-time but Les Bleus fought back and were level on 90 minutes.

Two strikes from Sergio Camello in extra-time made it 3-5 on the whistle.

Here's Paul Reidy's blow-by-blow account of how it all unfolded

La Roja win their first men's football gold medal in 32 years, having won when they staged the Games at Barcelona 92.

Marileidy Paulino sets new Olympic record in the women's 400m final

Marileidy Paulinoset a new Olympic record, 48.17 seconds, in this evening's 400m final - beating the mark of 48.25 set by France's Marie-Jose Perec at Atlanta 1996.

She also becomes the first woman from the Dominican Republic to win an Olympic gold medal. 

Paulino finished ahead of 2019 world champion Salwa Eid Naser (48.53) and European champion Natalie Kaczmarek (48.98).

She also

Canada storm home in men's 4x100m relay

Team Canada finished first in the men's 4x100m relay final, finishing on 37.50 seconds. 

South Africa set a new continental record of 37.57 to take silver while Team GB came in third on 37.61.

Team USA win sprint relay final

The United States team of Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Gabby Thomas and Sha'Carri Richardson - the favorites to win the women's 4x100m relay, raced away with the gold medal, crossing the line on a season best time of 41.78 seconds.

Team Great Britain collect silver, finishing on 41.85 and Germany take bronze on 41.97

Italy cruise to women's Madison gold

Italy took their Paris 2024 gold medal tally to 11 after winning the women's Madison final with a total of 37 points (17 sprint points and 20 lap points).

The Italians finish ahead of Team GB (31) and the Netherlands (28).

Varfolomeev feels the rhythm

Darja Varfolomeev took gold in the individual all-around final with a huge score of 142.850 points.

Bulgaria's Boryana Kaleyn claimed silver with 140.600 points and Italy's Sofia Raffaeli, bronze on 136.300 while Varfolomeev's team mate and close friend Margarita Kolosov just missed out on the podium. Distraught, she was consoled by the new Olympic champion.

China breeze past Sweden in men's team table tennis final

China's Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, and Ma Long beat Sweden 3-0 in today's men's team table tennis final. 

It brought up a sixth Olympic gold for Ma Long - the most successful table tennis player in Olympic Games history

Germany beat Spain to claim bronze

Germany beat the reigning world champions Spain in this afternoon's bronze medal match in Lyon.

Giulia Gwinn fired in the only goal of the game from the penalty spot on 65 minutes, while Alexia Putellas had the chance to level the score nine minutes into stoppage-time but saw her spot-kick saved.

Diving gold for China's Chen

In diving, China's Chen Yiwen has on gold in the women's 3m springboard final, with Australia's Maddison Keeney in second. Another Chinese diver, Chang Yani, has won bronze.

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Czechia's Martin Fuksa celebrates with his gold medal after winning the men's canoe single 1000m final.

Argentina take hockey bronze

Argentina have won the bronze medal in the women's hockey tournament, beating Belgium on penalties after a 2-2 draw.

Bontus wins men's kite gold

In sailing, Valentin Bontus has won gold for Austria in the men’s kite final, with Slovenia’s Toni Vodisek taking silver. Singapore’s Max Maeder completes the podium.

Martin Fuksa takes gold!

The 1000m canoe sprint was whizzed through by the Czech, who finished over an entire second ahead of his closest rival.

🥇Martin Fuksa (CZE): 3:43.16 OB
🥈Isaquias Queiroz (BRA): 3:44.33
🥉Serghei Tarnovschi (MDA): 3:44.68

Canoe sprint gold!

Germany take the men's gold while New Zealand win the women's gold!

Gold for GB!

Toby Roberts, at just 19, takes gold in climbing!

Bronze up for grabs!

We've got France vs Japan in the bronze medal team match. At the moment, the Europeans are ahead in the game, 2-0.

Gold for China!

And the Asian nations draws level at the top with the US.

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What is hyperandrogenism and why is it related to the intersexuality of boxer Imane Khelif?

The Algerian returns to compete tonight at the Games. The boxer, with hyperandrogenism, has been falsely accused of being transgender.

The race is on for Team GB!

Both teams are into the final!

Sensational from Sulek-Schubert

The Polish athlete gave birth to her child in February... this year!

A great message from Irish athlete

Kate O'Connor gave out a fantastic message after her heptathlon action. Take a look.

KJT looking for gold!

Team GB's Katarina Johnson-Thompson is on the hunt for gold in the women's heptathlon.

Women's athletics are underway!

We've just seen the 400m relay, as well as the long jump section of the women's heptathlon. It's some serious business. 

Breaking is here!

We've got plenty of breaking in today's schedule. 

Have a flick through the full list of sporty offerings for Friday.

Say cheese!

Or whatever they say in Hungary when it's time to take a photo.

Congratulations!

Kristof Rasovszky (HUN) upgrades his Tokyo silver and wins gold!

He comes in ahead of Germany's Oliver Klemet, who takes silver. David Betlehem gets bronze.

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Lap 4 of 6...

The swimming marathon is underway right now, and the athletes have just crossed the one-hour-mark.

At the moment, Hungary's Rosovszky is leading the way.

Jamaica's Stona wins men's discus gold

Congratulations to Rojé Stona, who won gold yesterday in the men's discus.

Khleif to go for gold

The Algerian boxer has managed to put aside all of the noise and focus on her fighting, beating Thai Janjaem Suwannapheng in the semifinals of the welterweight category and she'll go up against Liu Yang of China for the gold medal.

She could become Algeria's first female boxing gold medallist! Congratulations!

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2024 Olympics in Paris schedule today, August 9: events, sports, times, TV, stream and how to watch

Here's what's going on at the Paris Olympic Games today, Friday August 9.

Team USA 95 - 91 Serbia summary, scores, stats and highlights | Olympic Mens’ basketball semifinals

Steph Curry caught fire in the semifinal against a Serbia team that led for most of the game, and secured Team USA's place in the gold medal match.

It was a tight affair that saw the US prevail, with the NBA's All-time leading scorer leading the line and turning the tide in the final minutes.

Olympic Games gold medal events August 9 (all times are ET):

Athletics

🥇 Women’s 4x100m relay: final [1:30pm]

🥇 Women’s shot put: final [1:40pm]

🥇 Men’s 4x100m relay: final [1:45pm]

🥇 Women’s 400m: final [2:00pm]

🥇 Men’s triple jump: final [2:10pm]

🥇 Women’s heptathlon: 800m final [2:15pm]

🥇 Women’s 10,000m: final [2:55pm]

🥇 Men’s 400m hurdles: final [3:45pm]

Beach volleyball

🥇 Men’s or women’s medal finals (2 matches) [3:00pm-6:00pm]

Boxing

🥇 Women’s 50kg, women’s 66kg, men’s 71kg, men’s 92kg: finals [3:30pm-5:30pm]

Breaking

🥇 Women’s individual: final [2:00pm-4:00pm]

Canoe Sprint

🥇 Men’s K2 500m, women’s C1 200m, women’s K2 500m: semi-finals and finals [4:30am-8:40am]

Cycling (Track)

🥇 Men’s sprint: medal finals; women’s madison: final; women’s sprint: early rounds and repechage [12:00pm-1:55pm]

Diving

🥇 Women’s 3m springboard: final [9:00am-11:00am]

Rhythmic Gymnastics

🥇 Individual all-around: final [8:30am-11:00am]

Sport Climbing

🥇 Men’s boulder/lead: medal final [4:00am-7:20am]

Swimming

🥇 Men’s 10km marathon: final [1:30am-4:30am]

Table Tennis

🥇 Men’s team: bronze medal final [4:00am-7:00am]

🥇 Men’s team: gold medal final [9:00am-12:30pm]

Taekwondo

🥇 Men’s 80kg, women’s 67kg: repechage, medal finals [1:30pm-5:00pm]

Weightlifting

🥇 Men’s 89kg: final [9:00am-11:30am]

🥇Women’s 71kg: final [1:30pm-4:00pm]

Wrestling

🥇 Men’s freestyle 57kg, men’s freestyle 86kg, women’s freestyle 57kg: repechage; men’s freestyle 74kg, men’s freestyle 125kg, women’s freestyle 62kg: round of 16 and quarter-finals [5:00am-7:30am]

🥇 Men’s freestyle 74kg, men’s freestyle 125kg, women’s freestyle 62kg: semi-finals; men’s freestyle 57kg, men’s freestyle 86kg, women’s freestyle 57kg: medal finals [12:15pm-4:00pm]

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to the AS USA live medal tracker for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. 

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