The 2024 Paris Olympics keep barreling on Wednesday with a full track and field slate as well as the men’s skateboarding park final, Round 1 of women’s golf, women’s basketball quarterfinals and artistic swimming’s team acrobatic medal event.
The Olympic track and field schedule features four finals, including the women’s pole vault and men’s 400m, and Noah Lyles running in the men’s 200m semifinal. 
Twenty sports in total are in action, and USA TODAY Sports will bring you live results, medal count, highlights, and more throughout the day. Follow along.
PARIS — A female wrestler from India was disqualified from her gold-medal bout at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday morning after weighing in about 100 grams above the maximum limit for her weight class.
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For context: That’s about 0.22 pounds or 3.5 ounces − roughly the weight of a bar of soap.
The shocking news not only knocked Vinesh Phogat out of the 50-kilogram Olympic final against American Sarah Hildebrandt, where she would’ve been guaranteed to win no worse than a silver medal. Under international wrestling rules, Phogat’s failure to make weight resulted in a full disqualification. She will technically finish dead last. – Tom Schad
PARIS — For the first time in 40 years, an American man has won an Olympic medal in weightlifting.
Hampton Morris, a 20-year-old who trains primarily out of the garage at his family’s Georgia home, ended the decadeslong drought by winning bronze at the 2024 Paris Games on Wednesday.
Morris was sitting in fifth place after his snatch but he leapfrogged into medal position thanks to the second lift of competition, clean and jerk, where he is the reigning world-record holder in his weight class. Between the two lifts, the 135-pound Morris hoisted a combined weight of 298 kilograms, which is about 657 pounds. – Tom Schad
Nelly Korda is looking to defend her 2021 Olympic gold medal in the women’s golf tournament this week. USA TODAY Sports will provide live updates and more for Korda’s defense.
Both Team USA divers Sarah Bacon and Alison Gibson failed to qualify for the women’s 3-meter springboard top-18 semifinals after finishing 19th and 28th, respectively, in Wednesday’s prelims. 
Gibson had a scary start to her prelims and struggled to recover from a rough zero-score first-round dive, finishing with a total score of 198.30. 
A two-time Olympian, Gibson’s first dive was an inward 2 1/2 somersaults in the pike position. But mid-air at the end of her final rotation, the 25-year-old diver smacked her feet on the board and fell into the water. Thankfully for her, she only hit her feet, and she was able to continue competing. But it was a frightening moment that left at least her right foot a little cut up and bloody. 
Gibson received zeros across the board for the dive, essentially leaving her to try to qualify for the semifinals in her only Olympic event on four dives when everyone else had scores for five.
Meanwhile, Bacon’s best of her five rounds was her first dive, earning a score of 64.50 off an inward 2 1/2 somersaults in the pike position with a 3.0 degree of difficulty. But a low-scoring third round ensured it would be difficult for her to qualify for the semifinals, finishing with a score of 264.40.
Bacon, a 27-year-old first-time Olympian, previously won silver at the Paris Olympics in the women’s synchronized 3-meter springboard with partner Kassidy Cook. 
China’s Chen Yiwen qualified first with a score of 356.40, while Australia’s Maddison Keeney was second (337.35) and Mexico’s Aranza Vazquez Montano was third (321.75). – Michelle R. Martinelli
If you grew up on the X-Games, “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” or maybe even picked up a board yourself, Andy Macdonald is a name that conjures up some nostalgia.
The very same and now 51-year-old skateboarder qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics and participated in the men’s park preliminaries on Wednesday. Fellow skateboarding legend Tony Hawk was in attendance, and clapped his hands and pumped his fists in approval of Macdonald’s run.
Macdonald will finish out his run with a 77.66 for 18th place in the heat. He wouldn’t make the final, but he would make plenty of skateboarding fans smile.
What were you doing during the summer when you were 11 years old?
Chances are you were not competing on the world’s biggest stage at the Olympics trying to win a medal, but that’s exactly what 11-year-old skateboarder Zheng Haohao is doing. And to think, she only took up the sport five years ago, soaring through the rankings to earn her spot at the Olympics.
Zheng is representing China during the 2024 Paris Games and was the youngest athlete competing, in becoming her country’s youngest Olympian. She doesn’t turn 12 until Sunday and is currently 26th in the World Skateboarding Ranking. − Scooby Axon
PARIS — The track and field bromance that took center stage at the Tokyo Olympics is once again in the spotlight three years later.
Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy and Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim shared the gold medal in the high jump at the last Summer Games. The pair, whom are adversaries on paper but also friends thanks to nearly 15 years of competing against one another in the same meets, decided to share the gold rather than do a jump-off to decide a winner – taking advantage of a loophole in the World Athletics rulebook.
The reaction was priceless, with Tamberi leaping onto Barshim and wrapping himself around the Qatari. 
On Wednesday, during high jump qualifying, the duo was back at it in the heartwarming sense. Barshim began his run for liftoff over the bar but pulled up lame and immediately grabbed for his left calf. Tamberi was the first person to Barshim’s side on the ground and helped him stretch the calf.
The extent of Barshim’s injury is unknown, but he did qualify for the final by clearing 2.27 meters. − Chris Bumbaca
PARIS – Some skateboarding experts thought the Americans had a chance to sweep the podium in the men’s park skateboarding event, but only two of the three Team USA members advanced to the finals that will be held later Wednesday.
Tate Carew, a 19-year old from San Diego, came into the Paris Games ranked No. 1 in the world in park and didn’t have to sweat too much as his best score of 90.42 was enough for fourth in qualifying, comfortably within the top-eight needed to make the finals.
Tom Schaar, a 24-year old from Malibu, Calif., who made his X Games debut when he was just 12, posted the second-highest qualifying score at 92.05. This is his first Olympics.
The big upset was Gavin Bottger, ranked No. 3 in the world, failing to reach the finals. Bottger, 17, only finished one error-free run in his three attempts. His score of 86.95 looked like it might be enough to hold up for the eighth spot, but he got passed by skaters in the third head and dropped below the qualifying line to 10th place.
The Americans will have to deal with No.2-ranked Keegan Palmer from Australia, who posted the top qualifying score, and three strong Brazilian skaters if they want to make the podium.
Alex Sorgente, who was born in Florida but has dual citizenship through his father, is competing for Italy and also made the finals. − Dan Wolken
SAINT-DENIS, France — Some athletes adopt the mindset that they don’t lose, they learn. Jamaican sprinter Kishane Thompson is one of those athletes.
Thompson, who still owns the best 100 time in the world this year, came into the Paris Olympics as a gold-medal favorite. But he came in second behind Noah Lyles by five-thousandths of a second in the most competitive men’s 100 final in Olympics history during which all eight runners finished under 10 seconds for the first time ever, according to World Athletics.
The race was so close that Lyles thought Thompson had won.
“I did think Thompson had it at the end,” Lyles said. “I went up to him when we were waiting and I said, ‘I think you got that one big dog.'”
Thompson told USA TODAY Sports, that he wasn’t sure who had won immediately after the race.
“Honestly, I wasn’t sure if I won. I knew it was close between first and second,” Thompson said. “I know I cleared the person on my exact right, and I saw I was in front of the person on my left. But I wasn’t too sure if I got it. It was that close.”
Nobody inside Stade de France knew who won until the photo view results were displayed on the video board seconds after the race. − Tyler Dragon
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The U.S. is guaranteed to keep its medal streak alive in women’s team pursuit.
The U.S. team of Kristen Faulkner, Chloe Dygert, Lily Williams and Jennifer Valente beat Great Britain in the third heat of the first round at the National Velodrome on Wednesday to advance to the gold medal match later today.
The U.S finished the 4,000-meter race in 4:04.629 and will meet New Zealand in the finals. The time was just short of Germany’s world record (4:04.242) set at the Tokyo Olympics.
Great Britain will race against Italy for the bronze after finishing in 4:04.908.
New Zealand finished its heat Wednesday in 4:04.818.
Both the U.S. and Great Britain have won medals in women’s team pursuit every year since it started as an Olympic sport in 2012. The U.S. won silver in 2012 and 2016, and bronze in 2020.
Dygert and Valente were on the 2016-20 teams and can tie Great Britain’s Laura Trott-Kenny as the only three-time medalists in the sport. − David Birkett
Nelly Korda, the women’s world No.1 player and defending gold medallist, headlines a strong field in Paris. But it’s Lilia Vu of the US who has stormed atop the leaderboard (-3) through nine holes at Le Golf National. She is tied with Celine Boutier of France for the lead. Korda is even par thru 17 holes.
PARIS — An Australian athlete has been taken into custody by French authorities for attempting to buy cocaine, according to reports.
The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office told 9News Australia an unidentified member of the men’s field hockey team was involved in an alleged “cocaine transaction at the foot of a building in the city’s 9th arrondissement” Tuesday. Police officers witnessed the incident, according to the 9News report.
The Australian Olympic Committee confirmed an arrest to Reuters but did not confirm the player’s identity. − Chris Bumbaca
SAINT-DENIS, France – With a time of 1:46.15, Hobbs Kessler of Team USA finished third in his heat to advance to the semifinals of the men’s 800-meter event at the Paris Olympics’ track and field venue at Stade de France. In a preliminary that required a top-three finish to automatically qualify, Kessler found himself in fourth place and trailing Italy’s Simone Barontini halfway through the race, but overtook Barontini to earn the qualification.
Also qualifying was American Bryce Hoppel, who opened an early lead in the event’s final heat and finished second with a time of 1:45.24. Kessler and Hoppel will compete in semifinals Friday morning, and if they advance, in medal finals Saturday night.
Americans who qualified in other events at the morning session included Shelby McEwen (men’s high jump), Alaysha Johnson, Masai Russell and Grace Stark (women’s 100m hurdles), and Graham Blanks and Grant Fisher (men’s 5,000m). − Charles Goodbread
PARIS — The term GOAT is so often tossed around in sports. Not always carelessly, but frequently enough that it’s diminished the original meaning behind the greatest of all time acronym. 
But in some instances, GOAT truly applies, and few would disagree that Michael Phelps deserves the label. GOAT swimmer. GOAT Olympian.
There will never be another — at least not in this lifetime. 
Over the years, especially since Phelps retired following the 2016 Rio Games, many have been deemed “the next Michael Phelps.” At one point, it was American Caeleb Dressel. At the Paris Olympics, it’s France’s Léon Marchand. 
However, there’s a huge difference between a superstar and “the next Michael Phelps,” and Dressel agreed, calling Phelps “not even a once-in-a-lifetime” swimmer but “maybe once in a, I don’t know, end-of-the-world type guy.” − Michelle Martinelli
American sport climber Colin Duffy has advanced to the men’s boulder-and-lead finals set for Friday at the Paris Olympics.
Duffy, a 20-year-old from Colorado, entered the competition Wednesday in 11th place after the boulder semifinals on Monday. His strong performance in lead lifted him into seventh place overall, and the top eight climbers qualified for the finals.
“Just very proud,’’ said Duffy, who finished seventh at the Tokyo Games in 2021 in sport climbing’s Olympic debut. “I wanted to go out and give a climb that I could be proud of and I was able to do that.’’
Fellow American Jesse Grupper, a 27-year-older from New York making his first appearance at the Olympics, finished 18th among the 20 climbers in the boulder-and-lead semifinals.
Also, Poland’s Aleksandra Miroslaw won the gold medal in the women’s speed climb while China’s Lijuan  Deng took silver and Poland’s Aleksandra Kaluka took bronze Wednesday. American Emma Hunt reached the quarterfinals but slipped during her heat and failed to advance to the semifinals. – Josh Peter
Greek pole vaulter Eleni-Klaoudia Polak has been provisionally suspended after testing positive at the Paris Olympics, according to the IOC.
Polak, 27, competed in qualifying, clearing a jump of 13 feet, 9 ¼ inches but didn’t advance to the final. Paris was her second Olympics as she didn’t make it out of qualifying at the Tokyo Games.
At the world championships, Polak’s best result was 22nd at the 2022 worlds held in Eugene, Oregon. According to her bio on the IOC web site, she took up the sport at age 14 after a coach saw her training in gymnastics and encouraged her to try pole vault.
Team USA diver Carson Tyler improved significantly from his prelims performance and finished seventh in Wednesday’s men’s 3-meter springboard semifinals, advancing to the final among the top-12 divers. 
Tyler, a 20-year-old first-time Olympian, finished with a score of 438.00 – his prelims score was 389.80 – and will try to make the podium in the final set for Thursday. His highest-scoring dive came in the fifth and sixth rounds, the final two – first a reverse 3 ½ somersaults in the tuck position with a 3.5 degree of difficulty, followed by a reverse 1 ½ somersaults with 3 ½ twists in the free position with a 3.5 degree of difficulty – earning him scores of 78.75. 
Two-time Olympic diver Andrew Capobianco, 24, placed 15th with a final score of 407.65, missing the cut for the final. The 24-year-old American struggled through the semifinals, but he earned his best score of 83.60 on his sixth-round dive: a forward 4 ½ somersaults in the tuck position with a degree of difficulty of 3.8.
At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Capobianco finished 10th in the men’s 3-meter springboard, but he earned a silver medal in the men’s synchronized 3-meter springboard competition. 
The divers to beat in the men’s 3-meter springboard are the three defending Olympic medalists from the 2021 Tokyo Games: Xie Siyi, who won gold, Wang Zongyuan with silver and Jack Laugher with bronze. 
Wang and Xie, representing China, enter finals ranked first (537.85) and second (505.85), respectively, while Great Britain’s Laugher is ranked third (467.05). 
The men’s 3-meter springboard final is set for Thursday at 9 a.m. ET. — Michelle Martinelli
SAINT-DENIS, France — Americans Graham Blanks and Grant Fisher advanced to the medal finals of the men’s 5,000-meter race at the Stade de France track and field venue of the Paris Games on Wednesday. Blanks made up some critical ground over the last 1,000 meters to finish sixth in a time of 14:09.06 in Heat 1. He made his move just early enough to avoid a calamitous tumble that occurred right behind him, as one racer tripped, fell, and triggered falls for three others.
The top eight in each of two heats qualified for the finals, and Blanks was running 10th after 4,000 meters. In Heat 2, Fisher finished fourth with a time of 13:52.44 to give Team USA two runners in a medal-finals field of 16. American Abdihamid Nur was in fourth place after 4,000 meters, but a late fall cost him a last-place finish of 14:15.00. — Chase Goodbread
There will be a heavy Team USA presence Friday in the semifinals of the women’s 100 hurdles event at the Paris Games’ Stade de France venue for track and field. Three of four Americans competing earned automatic qualifications in the preliminaries on Wednesday, including Alaysha Johnson, Masai Russell and Grace Stark.
Johnson placed second in Heat 1 with a 12.61 clocking, while Russell tied for the win in Heat 3 (12.53, same as the Netherlands’ Nadine Visser). Stark ran in the final heat and posted a 12.72 time to finish third.
Team USA’s Ebony Morrison ran a 12.93 to finish sixth in Heat 2.
Medal finals in the event are scheduled for Saturday. — Chase Goodbread
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Quincy Hall could be one to watch in the men’s 400. Hall ran hurdles at the University of South Carolina but had a breakout performance at last year’s world championships. In Budapest last August, Hall ran a personal-best 44.37 in the men’s 400 final, taking the bronze. He went on to run the opening leg of the men’s 4×400 relay that won gold.
The women’s tournament gets under way with Nelly Korda, the Tokyo Olympic champion, expected to play in Paris. Korda recovered from a double bogey in the final round in Tokyo, finishing two-under 69 and one shot ahead of Japan’s Mone Inami and New Zealand’s Lydia Ko.
Jagger Eaton is ranked No. 2 in men’s park leading up to the Paris Olympics. The skater from Mesa, Arizona, is expected to compete in both street and park events. The park competition, with the prelims and final on Aug. 7, is held on a course of ramps, bumps and jumps designed to what athletes would see at a skatepark.
Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat was disqualified before the women’s 50kg freestyle final at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday after failing to make weight, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) said.
Phogat had been set to lock horns with Sarah Hildebrandt of the United States for the gold medal.
“It is with regret that the Indian contingent shares news of the disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from the women’s wrestling 50kg class,” the IOA said in a statement.
“Despite the best efforts by the team through the night, she weighed in a few grams over 50kg this morning.”
The disqualification means Phogat will not receive a medal.
United World Wrestling, the international governing body of the sport, has yet to issue a statement. — Reuters
PARIS — If the United States is about to relinquish its stranglehold on Olympic men’s basketball this week, they’ve nicely hidden the plot twist.
Watching this U.S. team at full force inspires nostalgia for simpler NBA times, back in the days you knew before the season started that Golden State and Cleveland were going to be in the Finals. It also keeps a thought in the back of your mind: This is an end more than a beginning. — Gentry Estes
LYON, France — Exactly one year ago, the U.S. women’s national team was at the lowest point in its illustrious history, knocked out of the World Cup in the quarterfinals in what was the team’s earliest exit ever at a major international tournament.
On Tuesday, they reached the gold medal match at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where they will face Brazil, which beat Spain 4-2 to advance.
In exactly 366 days — 2024 is a leap year, you know — the Americans have gone from the despair of that shocking exit to playing for another major title. What a difference a year makes. — Nancy Armour
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