Summer Olympics

After defeating Germany in Saturday's bronze-medal game, Nikola Jokić and Serbia recreated an iconic photo from Team USA.

The Serbian squad posed on the same stairs that the United States snapped a photo following its comeback win against Serbia.

Serbia appeared to be soaking in the win on the team bus as well, and Jokić was clearly enjoying himself alongside his countrymen.

Serbia's win over Germany on Saturday marked its third medal ever and its first medal since 2016. Serbia took down a tough German team that featured NBA talent 93-83 to claim the bronze.

Jokić finished with 19 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists while his fellow NBA player Bogdan Bogdanović had 16 points.

Serbia has been one of the best teams in the Olympics and gave the United States its only tough challenge through the semifinals. Team USA struggled against Serbia, trailing big at the half before finally mounting a comeback in the fourth quarter to pick up the win and advance to the gold-medal game against France.

For the first time in Olympic history, a gold-medal winner has been named in breakdancing—or breaking, as it's referred to in Paris.

Canada B-boy Phil Wizard, whose legal name is Philip Kim, won the event's first-ever gold medal after the sport was introduced at this year's Olympics. Phil Wizard took down the hometown hero, Dany Dann, in Saturday's final to earn gold.

In the bronze-medal match, the United States' B-boy Victor, or Victor Montalvo, took down Japan's B-boy Shigekix of Japan to earn his first medal in the event.

Medal Winners

Gold: Phil Wizard

Silver: Dany Dann

Bronze: Victor Montalvo

Phil Wizard was dominant in his matchup with Danny Dann, sweeping all three rounds to earn 23 votes to Danny Dann's four. Phil Wizard was just as dominant in the semifinal, coasting past Japan's Shigekix with a sweep in their three rounds.

Phil Wizard has dominated the sport of break dancing over the last few years. He won the 2022 WDSF World Breaking Championships before earning another gold in 2023 at the WDSF Pan American Breaking Championship. Later that year, he won silver at the WDSF World Breaking Championships.

Now, he has another gold medal to add to his impressive resume.

It was a similarly dominant showing for B-Boy Victor in the bronze-medal matchup. The American swept Shigekix and earned 20 of the 27 possible votes to claim the medal.

While B-Boy Victor couldn't make his way to the final at this year's Olympics, he showed out for the United States after becoming the first American ever to qualify for the event.

The addition of breaking into the Olympics introduced many around the world to a fun and creative sport, and there was no lack of excitement throughout the tournament. While it won't be returning for the 2028 Olympics, it wouldn't be a surprise if breaking eventually made its way back into the games.

Medals were issued to deserving wrestlers during Olympic competition on Saturday.

Twelve total medals were issued across three events, the men's freestyle 74kg, men's freestyle 125kg and the women's freestyle 62kg. Each event had two bronze medalists, one silver and one gold medalist.

Uzbekistan, Japan, the United States, Albania and many others saw increases to the medal count from the day's action.

Here is a look at how it played out.

Saturday Medal Winners

Men's Freestyle 74kg

Gold: Razambek Salambekovitch Jamaloc, Uzbekistan

Silver: Takatani Daichi, Japan

Bronze: Kyle Dake, USA

Bronze: Chermen Valiev, Albania

The only American to medal during Saturday's wrestling slate was Kyle Dake, who took one of the bronzes with a 10-4 victory Serbia's Hetik Cabolov.

This was his second consecutive bronze medal.

Uzbekistan's Razambek Salambekovitch Jamaloc took home the gold with a 5-0 victory over Japan's Takatani Daichi. This was Jamaloc's first Olympic medal.

Men's Freestyle 125kg

Gold: Geno Petriashvili, Georgia

Silver: Amir Hossein Zare, Iran

Bronze: Taha Akgul, Türkiye

Bronze: Giorigi Meshvildishvili, Azerbaijan

Geno Petriashvili has finally reached the mountaintop.

The Georgian wrestler won the bronze in 2016 and silver in 2020 but was finally able to get over the hump and claim the gold with a 10-9 win over Iran's Amir Hossein Zare.

This was Petriashvili's 19th overall gold medal in international competition, but the shine of it being an Olympic medal should add some extra value.

Women's Freestyle 62kg

Gold: Motoki Sakura, Japan

Silver: Iryna Koliadenko, Ukraine

Bronze: Grace Jacob Bullen, Norway

Bronze: Aisuluu Tynybekova, Kyrgyzstan

A rising Japanese star has earned her gold.

Motoki Sakura, 22, took home the gold in the 62kg division with a 12-1 victory over Ukraine's Iryna Koliadenko. This was her first Olympic medal and it comes after she took home a silver in the event at the 2023 World Championships.

She will now look to build on this hot start to her career as she looks to follow the standard set by fellow countrywoman Kaori Icho, who won four consecutive gold medals between 2004-2016.

China cruised to gold in artistic swimming (women's duet) on Saturday as Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi earned a total score of 566.4783.

The twin sisters' score of 276.7867 in the technical routine was first by over nine-and-a-half points over the rest of the field. China finished fourth in the free routine with 289.6916 points.

Great Britain (Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe) was first in the free routine with 294.5085 points and took second overall. Bregje and Noortje de Brouwer of the Netherlands took bronze, earning third in the technical routine and second in the free routine.

Results

1. China (Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi): 566.4783

2. Great Britain (Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe): 558.5367

3. Netherlands (Bregje and Noortje de Brouwer): 558.3963

4. Austria (Anna-Maria and Eirini-Marina Alexandri): 555.6678

5. Ukraine (Maryna and Vladyslava Aleksiiva): 538.6684

6. Greece (Sofia Evangelia Malkogeorgou and Evangelia Platanioti): 532.3002

7. Spain (Alisa Ozhogina Ozhogin and Iris Tio Casas): 521.4837

8. Japan (Moe Higa and Tomoka Sato): 507.0804

9. Canada (Audrey Lamothe and Jacqueline Simoneau): 492.4270

10. USA (Jaime Czarkowski and Megumi Field): 484.7488

Full results can be found on Olympics website.

Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi earned their second gold of this year's Olympic Games after previously taking gold as part of the team competition in artistic swimming with China.

Both women have also won 10 gold medals at the World Championships, including four this year in Doha, Qatar.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and the United States blew away the field in the women's 4x400-meter relay to win gold.

McLaughlin-Levrone effectively ended the race on the second leg with a split of 47.70 seconds.

After that, all Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes had to do was run a clean race with a massive lead.

The quartet of McLaughlin-Levrone, Thomas, Holmes and Shamier Little set an American record with a 3:15.27.

Results

1. United States - 3:15.27

2. Netherlands - 3:19.50

3. Great Britain - 3:19.72

4. Ireland - 3:19.90

5. France - 3:21.41

6. Canada - 3:22.01

7. Belgium - 3:22.40

8. Jamaica - DNF

McLaughlin-Levrone won the race for Team USA on the second leg.

The two-time gold medalist in the 400-meter hurdles turned a slender leg into one of the biggest advantages you will ever see on the track in the span of 47.70 seconds.

McLaughlin-Levrone's split was the best on her team by a full second. No one else in the field ran a split better than 48.60 seconds.

McLaughlin-Levrone got the baton from Shamier Little, who turned in a solid first leg of 49.48 seconds. It was good enough to put Team USA near the front and to allow McLaughlin-Levrone to explode on the second leg.

Thomas, who won the 200 meters at the Paris Games, extended the advantage with a 49.30-second split on the third leg.

Holmes brought the race home in 48.78 seconds with no challengers remotely close to the Americans.

The real race was for second place, which was won by Femke Bol for the Netherlands. Bol turned in the best non-American split of 48.62 seconds on the final leg to edge out Great Britain for silver. Team GB held onto bronze over Ireland.

The women's 4x400 relay victory produced the 14th track and field gold medal for Team USA. McLaughlin-Levrone and Thomas will both go home as dual gold-medal winners from Paris.

Team USA high jumper Shelby McEwen cleared 2.36 meters on Saturday to claim silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The achievement marks a personal-best height as well as the first Olympic medal of McEwen's career.

Hamish Kerr of New Zealand, who also cleared 2.36 meters, claimed gold after a jump-off at 2.34 meters with McEwen.

Mutaz Barshim of Qatar, who cleared 2.34 meters, took home the bronze.

The final standings for Saturday's medal event are below.

Men's high jump final results

1. Hamish Kerr, New Zealand: 2.36m (2.34m jump-off)
2. Shelby McEwen, United States of America: 2.36m
3. Mutaz Essa Barshim, Qatar: 2.34m
4. Stefano Sottile, Italy: 2.34m
5. Ryoichi Akamatsu, Japan: 2.31m
6. Oleh Doroshchuk, Ukraine: 2.31m
7. Sanghyeok Woo, Republic of Korea: 2.27m
   
8. Tihomir Ivanov, Bulgaria: 2.27m
9. Jan Stefela, Czechia: 2.22m
10. Romaine Beckford, Jamaica: 2.22m
11. Gianmarco Tamberi, Italy: 2.22m
12. Brian Raats, Republic of South Africa: 2.17m

After both McEwen and Kerr missed three jumps at 2.38 meters, the two men were left tied for first place.

The same situation took place during the competition in 2021 at the 2020 Tokyo Games. In that competition, Barshim and Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi agreed to both take home the gold.

The brief conversation between McEwen and Kerr reached a different conclusion as the two decided to jump off for gold and silver.

McEwen then missed the 2.34-meter jump, while Kerr made it over to win outright.

The Team USA high jumper will still take home the silver, marking redemption from his appearance in the finals of the event in Tokyo. There McEwen cleared 2.27 meters to place 12th.

McEwen, a former NCAA champion for Alabama, previously finished fifth in the 2022 World Championships and seventh at 2023 worlds.

Kerr, the reigning indoor champion, went from almost facing elimination during qualifiers to claiming New Zealand's first championship in the event.

His win also marked the nation's ninth gold medal of the 2024 Olympics.

Tamberi, one of the two reigning gold medalists in the event, fell short of defending his title with a 2.22-meter best jump.

Rai Benjamin won a duel of individual Summer Olympics champions to bring home the gold for the United States in the men's 4x400-meter relay.

Benjamin, the gold medalist in the 400-meter hurdles, held on against a late push from Botswana's Letsile Tebogo, the winner of the 200 meters.

Benjamin, Chris Bailey, Vernon Norwood and Bryce Deadmon combined to set the Olympic record of 2:52.43 and give Team USA its 13th gold in track and field at the Paris Games.

Results

1. United States - 2:54.43

2. Botswana - 2:54.53

3. Great Britain - 2:55.83

4. Belgium - 2:57.75

5. South Africa - 2:58.12

6. Japan - 2:58.33

7. Italy - 2:59.72

8. Zambia - 3:02.76

Benjamin used his experience from the 400-meter hurdles to hold off the surge from Tebogo at the end.

Benjamin took the baton from Deadmon in first place and remained in front of Tebogo for the entirety of the final 400 meters.

Tebogo unsurprisingly made a surge in the final 100 meters to try and take gold from the United States with his sprinting pace.

Benjamin held off Tebogo and finished one-tenth of a second in front of him to continue the successful Olympics on track for Team USA.

Chris Bailey opened the race for Team USA with a 44.50-second split. The times went significantly lower after the opening 400 meters.

Norwood, who won gold on the 4x400 mixed relay team, delivered a 43.30-second split. Deadmon used a blistering pace from the start to put up a 43.50-second split on the third leg.

Team USA now owns 13 gold medals from the track and field events in Paris. Seven of those medals have been won by male champions and six of those victories in the men's events were on the track.

Kenya's Faith Kipyegon made Summer Olympics history in two ways in the women's 1,500 meters on Saturday.

Kipyegon won her third straight gold medal in the event, a milestone that has never happened in Olympics history.

The Kenyan broke her own Olympic record in the process as she finished well ahead of Australia's Jessica Hull and Great Britain's Georgia Bell.

Results

1. Faith Kipyegon (Kenya) - 3:51.29

2. Jessica Hull (Australia) - 3:52.26

3. Georgia Bell (Great Britain) - 3:52.61

4. Diribe Wetleji (Ethiopia) - 3:52.75

5. Laura Muir (Great Britain) - 3:53.37

6. Susan Lokayo Ejore (Kenya) - 3:56.07

7. Nikki Hiltz (United States) - 3:56.38

8. Elle St. Pierre (United States) - 3:57.52

9. Agathe Guillemot (France) - 3:59.08

10. Klaudia Kazimierska (Poland) - 4:00.12

11. Agueda Marques (Spain) - 4:00.31

12. Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia) - 4:01.27

Kipyegon made her Olympic history by pulling away from the pack on the final lap.

Kipyegon crossed the finish line almost a full second ahead of Hull in second place.

The win concluded the Olympics on a high for Kipyegon, who found herself in a bit of controversy during the 5,000 meters. She was disqualified for making contact with another runner, but she was then reinstated to her silver-medal position. This is the first time Kipyegon has come away from an Olympics with multiple medals.

The real battle at the end came between Hull and Bell for the silver medal. The Australian barely remained ahead of the Team GB runner to land the first-ever women's 1,500-meter medal for the Aussies.

Hull attempted to catch Kipyegon with a surge over the final 200 meters, but no one had the same kick available to them over the final lap than the three-time Olympic champion.

Bell gave Team GB its second straight medal in the event. Laura Muir, who finished fifth on Saturday, was a silver medalist in Tokyo.

The two American runners in the event fell short of challenging for the medal podium. Nikki Hiltz took seventh and Elle St. Pierre finished in eighth.

Grant Fisher became the first American man to medal in the 5,000m and 10,000m in an Olympic Games after taking bronze in the former event on Saturday.

Fisher also took bronze in the 10,000m on Aug. 2.

It was an incredible effort from Fisher, who was eighth earlier on the final lap, per Jonathan Gault of LetsRun.com.

But Fisher stormed back to make the podium, joining gold-medal winner Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway and silver medalist Ronald Kwemoi of Kenya.

Fisher finished with a time of 13:15.13. Last week, Fisher took the bronze in the 10,000m (26:43.46) while Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei won gold and Ethiopia's Berihu Aregawi earned silver. Fisher was also the fourth American man ever to medal in the event.

This year marked Fisher's first-ever Olympic medals. He took ninth in the 5,000m and fifth in the 10,000m three years ago in Tokyo. Fisher improved to sixth in the 5000m and fourth in the 10,000m at the 2022 World Championships.

The 27-year-old Fisher grew up in Michigan and went to school at Stanford, becoming a 12-time All-American. He won the 5,000m during his sophomore year and became the first underclassman in 28 years to accomplish that feat.