After a pair days of rain, sunny skies needs to be out for the second full day of motion on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Sunday’s competitors options extra pleasure in gymnastics, basketball and swimming. Listed here are the largest storylines to observe:
Gymnastics icon Simone Biles returns to Olympic stage
Simone Biles and the U.S. ladies’s gymnastics workforce take heart stage with qualifying at Bercy Area. Biles is trying to earn her fifth Olympic gold medal and seventh total. She received two medals in Tokyo regardless of withdrawing from the all-around to give attention to her psychological well being.
Competitors begins at 9:30 a.m. CEST (3:30 a.m. EST) with Subdivision 1. Biles and Co. are in Subdivision 2, starting at 11:40 a.m. in Paris. They’ll begin on the steadiness beam.
Biles will anchor three of 4 occasions for the People on Sunday: steadiness beam, flooring train and vault. She is going to go next-to-last on uneven bars. Reigning all-around champion Sunisa Lee and Tokyo silver medalist Jordan Chiles additionally will compete in all 4 occasions in qualifying. The highest eight groups from qualifying advance to the workforce last on Tuesday.
The highest 24 particular person qualifiers within the all-around will make the finals on Thursday. There’s a restrict of two gymnasts per nation.
LeBron James, Crew USA basketball start gold medal protection
LeBron James, Stephen Curry and their squad of U.S. stars start their medal protection in opposition to Nikola Jokic and Serbia. The sport begins at 5:15 p.m. CEST (11:15 a.m. EST) at Pierre Mauroy Stadium.
The U.S. workforce is searching for a fifth straight gold medal. It beat Serbia 105-79 in an exhibition sport earlier this month. Kevin Durant is coping with a calf pressure, however the workforce is hopeful he’ll play.
Additionally in basketball, South Sudan males face Puerto Rico at 11 a.m. CEST (5 a.m. EST), and Serbia ladies tackle Puerto Rico at 9 p.m. CEST (3 p.m. EST). Serbia’s ladies’s workforce completed fourth in 2020 and took bronze in 2016.
Medal occasions proceed in swimming
The lads’s 400-meter particular person medley last will begin at 8:30 p.m. CEST (2:30 p.m. EST), adopted by ladies’s 100 butterfly at 8:40 p.m. CEST (2:40 p.m. EST). One other gold medal will probably be awarded within the males’s 100 breaststroke, set to begin at 9:44 p.m. CEST (3:44 p.m. EST).
