Good morning! It’s Day 12 of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Here’s what you should be looking out for today.
There are 23 medals on offer today, including five in track and field, and weightlifting and skateboarding finals also take place.
There’s a handful of track and field finals today. In women’s pole vault, Katie Moon will be hoping to bring home the gold for Team USA, and that final happens at 12:15 p.m. ET and 6:15 p.m. local time. Separately, men’s discus is at 2:25 p.m. ET and 8:25 p.m. local time; America’s Quincy Hall will be racing in the men’s 400m final at 3:20 p.m. ET and 9:20 p.m. local time; and the men’s 3,000m steeplechase is at 3:43 p.m. ET and 9:43 p.m. local time. Mixed relay marathon racewalking starts off the day and is already underway.
In non-medal events, the U.S. women’s basketball team will be looking to extend its run to eight consecutive golds, having won the event at every Games since Atlanta 1996. The American team faces Nigeria in its quarterfinal game at 3:30 p.m. ET and 9:30 p.m. local time. The winner will play either Serbia or Australia, who play earlier in the day.
In beach volleyball, America’s last pair standing of Miles Partain and Andy Benesh face Qatar’s Ahmed Tijan and Cherif Younousse in the quarterfinals at 4:00 p.m. ET and 10:00 p.m. local time. The U.S. men’s (non-beach) volleyball team takes on Poland in semifinals at 10:00 a.m. ET and 4:00 p.m. local time. And women’s golf is already underway, with Nelly Korda hoping to defend her gold medal.
Back to the medals, men’s park skateboarding final begins at 11:30 a.m. ET and 5:30 p.m. local time. Last time around the top finishers were from Australia and Brazil, but Team USA’s three Californians, Tate Carew, Gavin Bottger and Tom Schaar will be looking to change that. Carew and Bottger are 19 and 17, respectively, while 51-year-old Andy Macdonald will be making his Olympic debut for Great Britain.
Here are the remaining medal events:
Sailing — Women’s dinghy is at 6:13 a.m. ET and 12:13 p.m. local time; men’s dinghy is at 7:13 a.m. ET and 1:13 p.m. local time; mixed multihull at 8:43 a.m. ET and 2:43 p.m. local time; and mixed dinghy is at 9:43 a.m. ET and 3:43 p.m. local time.
Sport Climbing — Women’s Speed final is at 6:54 a.m. ET and 12:54 p.m. local time.
Weightlifting — Men’s (61 kg/134 lbs.) is at 9:00 a.m. ET and 3:00 p.m. local time; women’s (49 kg/108 lbs.) is at 1:30 p.m. ET and 7:30 p.m. local time.
Cycling — Men’s team pursuit is at 12:23 p.m. ET and 6:23 p.m. local time; women’s team pursuit is at 1:17 p.m. ET and 7:17 p.m. local time.
Artistic Swimming — Team competition is at 1:30 p.m. ET and 7:30 p.m. local time.
Wrestling — Greco-Roman (77 kg/169 lbs) is at 1:30 p.m. ET and 7:30 p.m. local time; Greco-Roman (97 kg/213 lbs) is at 2:05 p.m. ET and 8:05 p.m. local time; women’s freestyle (50 kg/110 lbs) 2:50 p.m. ET and 8:50 p.m. local time.
Taekwondo — Women’s Olympic flyweight (49 kg/108 lbs) is at 2:19 p.m. ET and 8:19 p.m. local time; men’s Olympic flyweight (58 kg/128 lbs) is at 2:34 p.m. ET and 8:34 p.m. local time.
Boxing — Men’s lightweight (63.5 kg/139 lbs) is at 4:34 p.m. ET and 10:34 p.m. local time; men’s middleweight (80 kg/176 lbs) is at 4:51 p.m. ET and 10:51 p.m. local time.