Five Paris Olympics storylines to know from security to Simone Biles
The Paris Olympics are fast approaching. Here’s what you need to know about the first post-pandemic Games.
The 2024 Paris Olympics soft launch on-field action today, with eight men’s soccer matches and 12 men’s rugby sevens matches. The U.S. men’s national teams for soccer and rugby play, the USMNT facing host France and the U.S. men’s rugby sevens team lining up for two matches.
Elsewhere, the U.S. men’s gymnastics team has podium training, and the U.S. men’s basketball team practices ahead of their first game Sunday.
USA TODAY Sports will bring you live results, medal count, highlights,and more throughout the day. Follow along.
Olympic schedule today
There are eight soccer matches and 12 rugby sevens matches. The U.S. men’s national soccer team plays host France at 3 p.m. ET. The U.S. men’s rugby sevens team has two matches: against France (10:30 a.m.) and against Fiji (2:30 p.m.).
Medal count today
Our 2024 Paris Olympics medal count tracker updates after every single medal event. The first medals can be won on Saturday.
Olympics on TV today
NBC is airing and streaming the Paris Olympics from all angles: Peacock is streaming every sport and event live as it unfolds; NBC, USA Network, CNBC and E! are carrying various live events and replays throughout the day. Here are 6 tips and tricks for getting the most out of Peacock during the Olympics.
Spain struck first during its Group C opener against Uzbekistan. Marc Pubill scored off a feed from Abell Ruiz in the 29th minute. It’s the first goal of these Olympics and gets Spain on the board with a 1-0 lead.
No. The global star from Argentina is sitting out the Paris Games after just completing Copa America, during which Argentina beat Colombia in extra time and Messi was injured. Messi won a gold medal with Argentina at the 2008 Beijing Games.
The Argentina-Morocco and Uzbekistan-Spain men’s soccer games have started, and so have these 2024 Paris Olympics.
Olympic soccer games today
Here’s the schedule for Wednesday’s men’s soccer games.
9 a.m.
- Group B: Argentina vs. Morocco
- Group C: Uzbekistan vs. Spain
11 p.m.
- Group A: Guinea vs. New Zealand
- Group C: Egypt vs. Dominican Republic
1 p.m.
- Group B: Iraq vs. Ukraine
- Group D: Japan vs. Paraguay
3 p.m.
- Group A: France vs. United States
- Group D: Mali vs. Israel
Olympic Rugby schedule today
- 9:30 a.m.: Australia vs. Samoa (Pool B)
- 10 a.m.: Argentina vs. Kenya (Pool B)
- 10:30 a.m.: France vs. United States (Pool C)
- 11 a.m.: Fiji vs. Uruguay (Pool C)
- 11:30 a.m.: Ireland vs. South Africa (Pool A)
- Noon: New Zealand vs. Japan (Pool A)
- 1 p.m.: Australia vs. Kenya (Pool B)
- 1:30 p.m.: Argentina vs. Samoa (Pool B)
- 2 p.m.: France vs. Uruguay (Pool C)
- 2:30 p.m.: Fiji vs. United States (Pool C)
- 3 p.m.: Ireland vs. Japan (Pool A)
- 3:30 p.m.: New Zealand vs. South Africa (Pool A)
The U.S. men’s national soccer team plays France at 3 p.m. ET.
NBC will air the match live, along with Peacock.
Though some of the best USMNT players are still age-eligible for the Olympics, it’s hard to get clubs to let their stars go to a tournament where they might get hurt and almost certainly would miss some of the preseason.
But the Olympics could provide some invaluable experience for some of the USMNT’s stars-in-the-making. Gianluca Busio and Tanner Tessmann, who led Venezia to promotion to Serie A in Italy, are on the roster. So is Kevin Paredes, U.S. Soccer’s Young Male Player of the Year last year, and goalkeeper-of-the-future, Gaga Slonina. — Nancy Armour