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Now that Simone Biles has qualified for gymnastics finals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, anticipation is building to watch the great one win some gold in this year’s Summer Games.

However, that excitement will have to wait just one more day.

Biles isn’t scheduled to compete on Monday as the women’s gymnastics portion of the Olympics has the day off. Monday will be the men’s team final as the U.S. attempts to win gold for the first time since 1984. That event will take place at 11:30 a.m. ET.

The four-time Olympic gold medalist will be back in action on Tuesday for the women’s team final, where she’ll be joined by Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and 16-year-old Hezly Rivera.

Simone Biles 2024 Olympic schedule

  • Women’s team final: Tuesday, July 30 at 2:15 p.m. ET.
  • Women’s all-around final: Thursday, Aug. 1 at 12:15 p.m. ET
  • Women’s vault final: Saturday, Aug. 3 at 10:20 a.m. ET.
  • Women’s uneven bars final: Sunday, Aug. 4 at 9:40 a.m. ET.
  • Women’s balance beam final: Monday, Aug. 5 at 6:36 a.m. ET.
  • Women’s floor exercise final: Monday, Aug. 5 at 8:20 a.m. ET.

2024 Olympic medals: Who is leading the medal count? Follow along as we track the medals for every sport.

All-Star Barbie might be taking a rest from basketball, but her fashion game knows no limits.

Angel Reese continues to live it up in Paris. While she may not be competing in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, she’ll certainly return home with a gold medal in slaying — in addition to handbags and new clothes. Today, tAll-Star Barbie lived up to her nickname as she took to Instagram to share some new selfies.

In a mirror, Reese is seen rocking a Barbie pink bikini, holding up a phone with a case decked out in pink flowers.. It’s unclear where in Paris she’s staying but in a photo on her story, she hangs out by a pool, surrounded with lush green trees.

Reese might be taking a well-deserved rest from basketball, but as for fashion, she knows no limits. Even overseas, she’s living La Vie en rose.

Just last week, Caitlin Clark went viral (again) after her vacation photos made their rounds on social media. The fans loved photos of Clark in a swimsuit along with her Indiana Fever teammates while they were enjoying the WNBA’s Olympic break.

This time around, it’s Angel Reese’s turn.

WNBA star Angel Reese linked up with Grammy winner Tyla at the Louis Vuitton pre-Olympics party after the two exchanged love on Instagram.

The stars aligned in Paris.

After WNBA star Angel Reese and Grammy-winning R&B artist Tyla exchanged some love on Instagram during the Prelude to the Olympics event by Louis Vuitton and hosted by Comcast NBCUniversal Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts, the two were able to link up.

During the event, Reese posted a video of Tyla performing, “such a beauty!” Tyla reposted the video after her performance with a shoutout of her own.

Then, when the time came, the two women were able to share an adorable moment.

As has been reported, Reese is in Paris to support Team USA during their run in the Olympics.

With her rising star power and success on the basketball court, it’s only a matter of time until she gets to make the trip to the Olympics as a participant. In her rookie campaign, Reese is averaging 13.5 points and 12 rebounds per game.

On Friday, January 26, the Paris Olympics officially kickoff with the Opening Ceremony. NBA star LeBron James and tennis sensation Coco Gauff will be the flagbearers. The Olympics will run through Sunday, August 11.

Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese is no stranger to rubbing elbows with A-list celebrities.

The “Chi Barbie” made waves back in May when she attended the 2024 Met Gala in New York instead of the latter half of her Sky practice.

The 22-year-old WNBA rookie sensation was seen hanging out at the event with Usher, Cardi B, and a plethora of other top-tier musicians.

Now Reese is in Paris, taking in the Olympics in person and showcasing some of her iconic fashion sense at Vogue’s “Prelude to the Olympics” party at the Louis Vuitton Foundation Thursday.

While there, Reese linked up with global music sensation Tyla.

Tyla is a South African singer and songwriter who burst onto the global with her hit song “Water” in 2023. 

Like Reese, Tyla is also 22 years old. 

The two icons posed for a photo and video in Paris.

While it’s unknown whether Tyla knew who Reese was before they met in Paris, she certainly knows who the “Chi Barbie” is now.

The four-time Roland Garros winner hasn’t lost a match on these courts since June 9th, 2021—or 1,143 days ago.

We’re just a day away from the kick-off of the Paris Olympic Tennis Event, and if the numbers are anything to go by, Iga Swiatek has to be a big favorite for the women’s gold medal.

First of all, the event is being held at Stade Roland Garros, the home of the Roland Garros tournament—which she’s completely dominated this decade, going 32-1 in her last five appearances and winning the title four times in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

She’s on a 21-match winning streak on these courts, the fourth-longest winning streak for a woman in the Open Era.

LONGEST ROLAND GARROS WIN STREAKS (women, Open Era):
29: Chris Evert [1974-1981]
25: Monica Seles [1990-1996]
24: Justine Henin [2005-2010]
21: Iga Swiatek [2022-2024]
20: Steffi Graf [1987-1989]

The world No. 1’s last loss on the terre battue was a quarterfinal defeat to Maria Sakkari on June 9th, 2021—all of 1,143 days ago.

Additionally, she’s on a 19-match winning streak on clay, period, having won the last three tournaments she’s played on the surface at Madrid (6-0), Rome (6-0) and Roland Garros (7-0).

And she’s a tour-leading 21-1 on clay this year, her only loss coming to Elena Rybakina in the semifinals of Stuttgart in April.

WTA CLAY-COURT WIN LEADERS FOR 2024 (tour-level):
21: Iga Swiatek [21-1]
16: Danielle Collins [16-4]
15: Aryna Sabalenka [15-4]
15: Mirra Andreeva [15-4] (playing Iasi final on Friday)
14: Magda Linette [14-6] (playing Prague final on Friday)

Iga Swiatek

Swiatek has won a tour-leading five titles this year—one Grand Slam title at Roland Garros and four WTA 1000s at Doha, Indian Wells, Madrid and Rome.

While Swiatek is the only player on the women’s side with 20 or more wins on clay this year, there are four on the men’s side with that many—Sebastian Baez, Casper Ruud, Alexander Zverev and Luciano Darderi, all of whom will be competing at the Olympics.

But unlike Swiatek, this year’s men’s champion at Roland Garros, Carlos Alcaraz, isn’t in that group—he’s not even in the Top 10 clay-court win leaders for the year. But that’s largely due to injuries, not only an arm injury that kept him out of most of the spring lead-up season to Roland Garros, but also an ankle injury that hampered him during the February clay-court season.

The 21-year-old Spaniard has a 12-3 record on clay this year.

ATP CLAY-COURT WIN LEADERS FOR 2024 (tour-level):
24: Sebastian Baez [24-10]
21: Casper Ruud [21-6]
20: Alexander Zverev [20-5]
20: Luciano Darderi [20-10]
19: Stefanos Tsitsipas [19-5]

The tennis event at the 2024 Paris Olympics is being held on the clay courts of Roland Garros, which is bad news for anyone not named Iga Swiatek. At just 23 years old, Swiatek is already a four-time French Open champion. She most recently triumphed on the terre battue only two months ago, blitzing everyone in her path aside from a second-round thriller against Naomi Osaka.

That’s not to say that Swiatek is an absolute lock to capture gold. A formidable list of challengers includes Osaka, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina, Jasmine Paolini, and reigning Wimbledon champ Barbora Krejcikova.

Here are my best bets for the women’s side in Paris.

Iga Swiatek (-175)

The men’s side is somewhat up for grabs (even though Carlos Alcaraz has won two consecutive Grand Slams), at least relative to the women’s. Olympic gold on the WTA side would be close to toss-up on any other surface, but on the red clay of Roland Garros it’s a borderline slam dunk for Swiatek. The top-ranked Pole does have a difficult draw at the Paris Games, but you still cannot pick against her at this particular setting.

Jasmine Paolini (+2400)

Paolini has been sensational from start to finish in 2024, and what is especially notable is that she has been getting it done on every surface. The fifth-ranked Italian won the WTA 1000 event in Dubai on hard courts and has finished runner-up at each of the last two majors–on the clay of Roland Garros and the grass of Wimbledon. Clay has generally been her favorite surface over the years, so she should be especially confident in returning to Paris. It’s also worth noting that Paolini has pretty much an ideal draw in the much weaker bottom half, so the door at least to the final is wide open and perhaps she could get lucky with someone like Rybakina or Jelena Ostapenko upsetting Swiatek in the top half.

Naomi Osaka (+2200)

One woman and one woman alone came close to taking down Swiatek at this year’s French Open. In fact, mathematically Osaka could not have come any closer to getting the job done. The Japanese star had a match point to upset the world No. 1 only to succumb 7-6(1), 1-6, 7-5. Even though Osaka has not done much in between these two stops at Roland Garros, she can never be discounted on the big stage. After all, she is a four-time major champion–having won both the Australian Open and U.S. Open twice each.

On July 17, Netflix released the two-part docuseries Simone Biles Rising. The docuseries chronicles iconic gymnast Simone Biles’ path to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which were pushed back to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Simone Biles Rising also follows Biles as she tries to find a balance between her personal and professional life after she bowed out of the Tokyo Olympics to concentrate on her mental health—and her triumphant path back to the 2024 Paris Games.

Biles enters the 2024 Paris Olympics already a champion, having won seven medals—four of them gold—at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016.

Both episodes of Simone Biles Rising are streaming exclusively on Netflix.

The Netflix original Simone Biles Rising is among the new documentary series you can stream as the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics get underway.

The opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics is set for Friday at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Pop music icons Celine Dion and Lady Gaga are rumored to perform a duet at the event, which will be broadcast on NBC and stream on Peacock—which is NBC Universal’s streaming service.

Dion’s participation in the event will mark the next big step in her comeback in the music world after revealing that she was suffering from the rare muscular disorder Stiff Person Syndrome in May of 2023.

Here’s How To Watch The 2024 Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony

Reports have surfaced that Dion and Lady Gaga have rehearsed iconic singer Edith Piaf’s classic song “La Vie en Rose.”

The opening ceremony on Friday is shaping up to be a historical event as it marks the first floating ceremony in the history of the games. The ceremony will feature 1o,000 athletes in boats—among other luminaries—during the Parade of Nations on the Seine River.

Several documentary series or features are available on streaming to help tell the compelling backstories of some of the athletes participating in the 2024 games, as well as other greats from Olympics past. Here’s a look at some of them.

When Simone Biles landed a spectacular vault in Paris on Thursday, she made a huge statement in what is supposed to be a low-pressure return to the Olympic stage.

The American, the most decorated gymnast in history with 37 world and Olympic medals, is back after pulling out of several events at the Tokyo Games three years ago with the ‘twisties’ – a disorientating mental block.

Many wondered if they would ever see her at a Games again, but now the 27-year-old is giving herself the chance to add to her seven Olympic medals.

She has returned with a new skill – the Yurchenko double pike vault, which was last year named the Biles II after she became the first woman to land it in competition, and which is one of five gymnastic elements named after her.

It was this move that she executed perfectly at the Bercy Arena in podium training – the only chance gymnasts get to practise on the equipment in the venue before they compete there.

Nailed, stuck, not a hint of a shuffle.

“She looked good,” coach Cecile Landi said when asked how Biles had appeared mentally and physically in the training session.

For those who witnessed that vault, though, that assessment may have sounded like an understatement. But everything about the USA team’s build-up to the Games has been about keeping the pressure off Biles.

Simone Biles

She and her team-mates were ushered quickly out of the arena after training, with the team deciding to put the coaches forward to speak to the waiting pack of reporters instead.

Biles has also been told she does not have to compete in all events if she does not want to.

“I think it’s going to be day by day, we’re going to decide after qualification,” Landi said. “I think for her just knowing that she has the option to say ‘Hey, I maybe want to take one event off out of the whole two weeks,’ is mentally helping.”

Biles’ return to the Olympics may be low pressure, but it will not be low key.

It was easy to see where the American was in the arena during this training session – just look for the photographers. And it was impossible to miss the quality of a skill only she can perform.

When the arena fills up on Sunday for the women’s qualification round, there will be one gymnast everyone is watching.

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