Simone Biles made history at the 2024 Paris Olympics yesterday, winning gold in the women's gymnastics all-around final. The win marks the 27-year-old athlete’s sixth Olympic gold medal and ninth overall. She also becomes the third woman ever to win the all-around gold twice, with a record eight-year gap between wins, and the oldest all-around Olympic champion since 1952. Teammate Suni Lee claimed bronze, becoming the first gymnast since 1980 to follow an all-around gold with a medal in the same event at the following Olympics.
In the pool, the US women's 4x200-meter freestyle relay team won gold, with Katie Ledecky breaking the record for most medals for an American woman in any sport with 13. Kate Douglass won her first Olympic gold in the 200-meter breaststroke, upsetting South Africa's Tatjana Smith.
Other highlights include the US women's basketball team beating Belgium 87-74 and Americans Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul defeating Britain's Andy Murray—who announced he will retire after the Olympics—and Dan Evans, 6-2, 6-4. See medal count here.
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