Team USA Highlights: Day 1
FIRST
U.S. MEDAL
A total of 13 gold medal measures
took place on Sunday. Primarily, there were theoretical to be 14, but Men's
Street Skateboarding was suspended to Monday due to rain. Team USA's first
medal of the 2024 Games arose from Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon in the women's coordinated
3m springboard final. The longtime friends got a silver medal, marking a tough
start for the U.S. team.
China's first gold medal of
the games was in the shooting mixed team air rifle incident
USA-AUSTRALIA
CONTINUE RIVALRY IN THE POOL
Americans Jack Alexy, Hunter
Armstrong, Caeleb Dressel, and Chris Guiliano held Team USA's first gold medal
in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay, finishing with a time of 3:09.28. This
victory marked their third successive Olympic title in the event. Australia done
second with a time of 3:10.35, and Italy took bronze with a time of 3:10.70.
In the women's 4x100m
freestyle take, Australia took the gold, scenery an Olympic record with a time
of 3:28.92. Team USA got silver with an American record time of 3:30.20, while
China protected bronze. The U.S team comprised Gretchen Walsh,Torri Huske, Kate
Douglass & Simone Manuel
KATIE
LEDECKY & GRETCHEN WALSH SHINE
In distinct finals U.S swimming star Katie Ledecky gained her 11th Olympic medal, winning bronze in the 400m
freestyle with a time of 4:00.86 Australia's Ariarne Titmus gained gold with a time of 3:57.49
Connecticut's Gretchen Walsh
set an Olympic top score in the women's 100m butterfly rounds with a time of 55.38 seconds, barely misplaced her particular world record of
55.18. Fellow American Torri Huske dispatched the second greatest semifinal
time of 56.0. The 100m butterfly final will take
place on Sunday at 2:40 p.m ET.
