Weekend Olympics Roundup

-- The U.S. men’s basketball team lost their first game, falling to France 83-76. That ended a 25-game Olympics winning streak for the U.S. team dating back to the 2004 Athens Games.

-- The U.S. women’s gymnastics team came in second in the qualifying round to the Russian Olympic Committee team, the first time since the 2010 world championships they didn’t qualify in first place. Simone Biles had the all-around top score, with teammate Sunsia Lee second. 

-- The U.S. won two swimming golds so far, the men’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay and Chase Kalisz's gold in the men’s 400-meter individual medley. But defending Olympic champion Katie Ledecky came in second in the 400-meter women’s freestyle to Australia’s Ariarne Titmus. It was the first loss of an individual Olympic final for Ledecky, after she won one gold in 2012 London Games and three in the 2016 Rio Games.

-- U.S. golfer Bryson Dechambeau and Jon Rahm of Spain, who’s top-ranked in the world, are both out of the Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19. Rahm tested positive for the second time in two months.

-- Fresh off lighting the Olympic Flame Friday, Japan’s Noami Osaka has won her first two tennis matches, both of them in straight sets, and is now into the Round of 16. Meanwhile, Ash Barty, the world’s top-ranked women’s player, stunningly lost in the first round to Spain’s Sara Sorribes TormoS.

-- The U.S. won first-ever gold medals in three events: men’s 10-meter air rifles, won by Will Shaner; women’s individual foil (fencing), won by Lee Kiefer; and women’s taekwondo, won by Anastasija Zolotic in the under 57-kg. final.

-- Japan swept gold in men’s and women’s street skateboarding as the sport made its Olympics debut. Yuto Horigome won the men’s event, while American Nyjah Huston, who was favored to win gold, came in seventh after a series of falls. Thirteen-year-old Momiji Nishiya won the women’s event, making her one of the youngest to ever win Olympic gold.

-- Medal Count: China is in first place with 13 medals overall, followed by the U.S. with 12 and Japan with eight. In the gold medal count, China and Japan are tied for first with six, the U.S. is second with five, and South Korea and Australia have two.