WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is planning to attend the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists’ annual conference in Chicago on Wednesday.

In a press release launched Monday night time, the Trump marketing campaign mentioned the Republican presidential nominee would take part in a query and reply session “that may consider essentially the most urgent points dealing with the Black group.”

Trump’s marketing campaign has spent months scheduling appearances in areas outdoors his conventional strongholds of help, together with when he attended — and was roundly booed at — the Libertarian Occasion conference in Washington earlier this yr.

In its announcement, the marketing campaign trumpeted Trump insurance policies that it argued benefited Black Individuals throughout his first time period.

President Joe Biden has seen his favorability price amongst Black voters fall dramatically since he took workplace in 2021. However the race towards Trump has been shaken up for the reason that president stepped apart and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris — who can be the primary Black lady and the primary South Asian American to be elected president if she wins in November.

NEW YORK — Donald Trump on Monday appeared to again away from his earlier dedication to debate Vice President Kamala Harris, questioning the worth of a meetup and saying he “most likely” will debate however he “may make a case for not doing it.”

Trump, in an interview with Fox Information Channel that aired Monday evening, was pressed a number of occasions about committing to debating Harris earlier than giving a squishier reply than he had in latest days.

The Republican former president had been desirous to debate President Joe Biden when he was the Democratic nominee after months of suggesting that Biden was not mentally up for the matchup — or the presidency. However after Biden dropped out of the race and Harris turned poised to be the Democratic presidential candidate, Trump has been questioning the phrases of the unique debate he agreed to with Biden. He has steered the Sept. 10 debate on ABC Information needs to be moved to a unique community, calling ABC “pretend information.”

Final week, in a cellphone name with reporters, Trump was requested if he’d decide to debating Harris at the least as soon as. He responded: “Oh sure, completely. I would need to,” and stated there was an obligation to debate.

Within the interview Monday, host Laura Ingraham repeatedly pressed Trump on whether or not he would decide to a debate.

“I need to do a debate. However I can also say this. All people is aware of who I’m. And now folks know who she is,” Trump stated.

Trump finally stated, “The reply is sure, I will most likely find yourself debating.”

He went on for a minute, saying any debates have to be held earlier than early voting begins in states, after which added, “The reply is sure, however I may make a case for not doing it.”

Trump has skipped debates earlier than, together with all of the 2024 Republican presidential major debates. He initially did not take part after suggesting the timing was too early after which questioning the venue of one other earlier than finally making it clear he wouldn’t take part in any of these debates.

The Republican candidate additionally sought within the interview Monday to make clear feedback he made final week at a conservative occasion wherein he informed an viewers of Christians that they “gained’t must vote anymore” after he is elected.

He urged Christians, who he claims don’t vote in excessive numbers, to vote “simply this time,” and stated, “You gained’t must do it anymore.”

In 4 years, he stated: “It’ll be fastened, it’ll be nice. You gained’t must vote anymore, my lovely Christians,” he stated.

He added moments later: “In 4 years, you don’t must vote once more. We’ll have it fastened so good, you’re not gonna must vote.”

The feedback drew alarm from Democrats and others who famous Trump’s sample of utilizing authoritarian language, his earlier feedback that he would solely be a dictator on “day one” and his habits after dropping the 2020 presidential election, wherein he refused to just accept the outcomes and sought to overturn them.

His marketing campaign and supporters supplied numerous explanations for Trump’s feedback, and Ingraham prodded him to clarify what he meant.

“They do not vote and I’m explaining that to ’em. ‘You by no means vote.’ This time, vote. I’ll straighten out the nation. You gained’t must vote anymore. I will not want your vote,” Trump stated.

Ingraham requested if he meant Christians will not have to vote for him as a result of he’ll solely have 4 years in workplace.

Trump began his reply by talking about voting charges of Christians and gun homeowners, and Ingraham interrupted to ask him once more.

“Don’t fear concerning the future. Vote, on, you must vote on November fifth. After that, you don’t have to fret about voting anymore. I don’t care as a result of we will repair up, the nation will likely be fastened and we gained’t even want your vote anymore as a result of frankly, we may have such love. Should you don’t need to vote anymore, that’s okay,” Trump stated.

Trump made comparable feedback final month at one other Christian-focused occasion, wherein he lamented the voting charges of Christians and implored them to take part within the election.

“In 4 years, you don’t must vote, OK? In 4 years, don’t vote. I don’t care,” he stated.

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Related Press author Adriana Gomez Licón in West Palm Seashore, Florida, contributed to this report.

Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz — Spain’s old-and-new pairing of tennis superstars — received the primary match they’ve ever performed collectively as a doubles crew, eliminating Argentina’s Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni 7-6 (4), 6-4 on the Paris Olympics on Saturday evening.

The 38-year-old Nadal has not made clear whether or not the Summer season Video games would be the final occasion of his storied profession, though there’s been loads of hypothesis it is going to be, given all of his latest damage points — he wore white tape wrapped round his proper thigh Saturday — and his connection to Roland Garros. That’s the clay-court facility getting used for these Olympics and the positioning of the annual French Open, the place he claimed a file 14 of his 22 Grand Slam titles.

Nadal’s participation within the 2024 Olympics really started an evening earlier, when he was a shock torch bearer through the opening ceremony.

Nadal, who received Olympic golds in singles in 2008 and in doubles in 2016, is scheduled to play within the first spherical of singles on Sunday in opposition to Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics. If Nadal wins that, he would face longtime rival Novak Djokovic within the second spherical.

“Enjoying him is sort of a ultimate, actually, for me in any match, significantly right here, figuring out what he has achieved, what he’s finished, for our sport, significantly right here in Roland Garros. His file speaks for itself,” Djokovic stated after successful his first-rounder earlier Saturday. “I sit up for it. If we get to face one another, it’s going to be presumably the final time we get to face one another on an enormous stage. I’m certain that individuals will take pleasure in it. I’m trying ahead to it.”

Neither Nadal nor Alcaraz, a 21-year-old coming off singles championships on the French Open in June and at Wimbledon two weeks in the past, performs a lot doubles. There have been hiccups Saturday in opposition to their sixth-seeded opponents, to make certain, together with a 3-0 deficit within the second set, however the Spanish duo’s expertise prevailed.

If this outing in entrance of a packed and raucous crowd at Courtroom Philippe Chatrier was any indication, the cheers for Nadal will probably be as loud as could be for so long as he stays within the Olympics brackets.

Whereas he has performed solely sparingly over the previous two seasons due to hip surgical procedure and an belly muscle downside, and misplaced within the first spherical of this 12 months’s French Open to eventual runner-up Alexander Zverev, Nadal seemed simply nice Saturday. Then once more, doubles requires far much less motion and stamina than singles, in fact.

Nonetheless, Nadal’s motion appeared OK, and he confirmed off his super volleying capability, together with one back-to-the-net, over-the-shoulder, no-look winner within the first set. After the purpose, he wheeled and punched the air. Followers celebrated wildly.

Nadal ceaselessly slapped palms with Alcaraz between factors — whether or not received or misplaced — and sometimes patted his much-younger accomplice on the shoulder throughout pauses within the motion.

When the match ended with a volley off Alcaraz’s racket, Nadal raised each fists. Alcaraz turned to his new accomplice and yelled, “Vamos!”

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SAINT-DENIS, France — Kassidy Cook dinner and Sarah Bacon received silver within the girls’s 3-meter synchronized springboard occasion on Saturday, securing America’s first medal of the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games.

Their five-dive rating of 314.64 put People on the rostrum on this occasion for the primary time since 2012, as Bacon and Cook dinner sandwiched between the gold medal-winning duo of Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen (337.68) from China and bronze-winning Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen (302.28) of Nice Britain.

For the duo, dubbed Cook dinner N’ Bacon, familiarity and friendship have been key elements for his or her profitable recipe, in response to the divers, who’ve been mates since they have been youngsters and diving as a pair since 2019.

“I imply, I am ecstatic. I am overcome with so many feelings proper now,” Cook dinner informed reporters. “, to have the ability to go up there and carry out [and] put collectively a stable listing and find yourself on that medal stand with one in all my finest mates feels wonderful.”

The reigning world champs, Chang and Chen, led wire-to-wire however Bacon and Cook dinner mentioned combating to maintain up with the highly effective Chinese language duo helped them safe silver.

“Clearly, we have been diving behind the good group of China, in order that they have been placing quite a lot of strain on us,” Cook dinner mentioned. “However seeing them hit their dives made us desirous to hit our dives. I feel that they made us higher and I’m actually glad to remove that silver.”

The 29-year-old Cook dinner, who lives simply exterior Houston, competed in Rio in 2016, making her the primary U.S. diver to compete in nonconsecutive video games.

“After which we discovered after that we’re the primary medal for Workforce USA, which is an much more superior feeling,” Cook dinner mentioned.

This occasion has been held seven instances in Olympics historical past and a duo from China has received six of these competitions, solely failing to take the highest podium spot in 2000.

Bacon, who narrowly missed making the U.S. diving group for Tokyo, mentioned that disappointment changed into a blessing.

“Yeah, I imply, we ended up not making the Olympic group in 2020 and my plan was to retire after that Olympic Video games,” mentioned Bacon, a 27-year-old Indianapolis native.

“I used to be burned out and able to be executed. So not making the Olympic group saved me round diving and introduced me to this Olympic Video games with Kassidy. To be on the award stand with the silver medal is simply unbelievable. I’ve no phrases to explain it proper now.”

Each opponents mentioned, in hindsight, lacking out on Tokyo led to a greater end result.

Saturday’s motion unfolded to loud, raucous cheers for all opponents, however notably for the Chinese language, the People, the hometown French and the Ukrainians.

“Every part occurs for a cause,” Cook dinner informed NBC Information later Saturday. “These video games [in Tokyo], though they have been nonetheless the Olympic Video games, they weren’t the true expertise. And had we gone to that, we most likely would have retired as a result of we [would have] achieved that purpose.”

She added: “I’m actually glad that we held on and made it right here.”

Cook dinner now has the remainder of the Olympics to unwind and cheer for her teammates. Bacon continues to be competing, within the particular person 3-meter springboard, which begins on Aug. 7.

As soon as the Olympics are executed, each girls can have robust selections to make — about the place to place the medals of their properties.

“I need to put it on show,” Cook dinner mentioned. “Perhaps I am going to need to make a trophy room centered across the silver steel.”

“I will have to filter a spot in my home earlier than I can work out precisely the place I will put it,” Bacon mentioned. “Perhaps on a body on a wall someplace? It’s going to be the middle level of one thing.”

Can you’re taking me via your morning at the moment, the way you slept final evening, the whole lot you probably did to organize for this morning? 

Bacon: So surprisingly we, Kassidy and I, each slept extraordinarily nicely final evening. Even with the Opening Ceremony happening final evening that we did not get to attend as a result of we knew that relaxation at this level was going to be extra essential for us main into our competitors at the moment. So we acquired dressed up, took some Opening Ceremony footage across the Village with the athletes, however did not really attend the ceremony. We have been in our dorms round 8 o’clock resting our legs after which went to mattress, lights out round 9. Our roommates have been wonderful and got here residence very quiet, didn’t wake both of us up, so we acquired an excellent evening of sleep. Awoke round 6:30ish, 6ish, did some restoration stuff for the primary half-hour once we acquired up after which ate a superb breakfast, then headed to the pool, warmed up, heated.

They saved exhibiting your households and cheering part on the TV broadcast. Had been you guys capable of hear them in any respect while you have been on the market? 

Cook dinner: Oh yeah, we heard these USA chants and the “Go Kass,” “Go Sarah,” “Cook dinner’N Bacon.” I feel that simply brings a smile to my face on the board and helps me really feel somewhat bit, like, OK, it doesn’t matter what occurs my household’s nonetheless going to like me, after which that makes me really feel extra snug. 

Bacon: Yeah, it is like somewhat piece of residence. We’re standing up there on that board. The one title that I might hear cheering for us was Kassidy’s dad. I do not know why he caught out, however her dad I might hear, for certain. 

Having that household help, not simply at the moment however throughout coaching main as much as the Olympics, what does that imply to you all? 

Cook dinner: They all the time say it takes a village and it is a cliché, however it’s very true. I’ve made loads of private sacrifices, however my household has as nicely, so this medal is each little bit of theirs as it’s mine. I grew up with 5 brothers and sisters, and so they’re all simply so supportive of me irrespective of the place they’re at in life. They made the journey out right here. Most of my sisters are married and have youngsters beneath three years outdated and so they nonetheless made this journey out right here, so their help actually means the whole lot. Like I mentioned, it takes a village and that is their celebration as nicely.   

Bacon: I additionally grew up with three brothers, so that they have been all capable of come out right here. My little nephew was capable of come, all my brother’s wives, my mother, my dad, my boyfriend. So simply having them right here with the ability to share this second with me, I couldn’t be happier that they have been capable of make the journey out right here, come out right here and cheer for me.

Let the Summer time Olympic Video games start. One of many highlights of the Paris Summer time Olympics is Staff USA’s males’s basketball roster, a star-studded record of the NBA’s greatest, together with LeBron James, Steph Curry, Jayson Tatum and extra.

Learn under to learn the way and when to observe the Serbia vs. USA Olympic males’s basketball recreation right now.

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How and when to observe the Serbia vs. USA Olympic males’s basketball recreation

The Serbia vs. Staff USA recreation might be performed on Sunday, July 28, 2024 at 11:15 a.m. ET (8:15 a.m. PT). The sport wlil air on NBC and stream on Peacock.

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Find out how to watch Serbia vs. USA Olympic males’s basketball recreation with out cable

Whereas many cable packages embody NBC and the opposite channels broadcasting the 2024 Summer time Olympics, it is simple to observe the Olympic basketball if these channels aren’t included in your cable TV subscription, or if you do not have cable in any respect. Your greatest choices for watching are under. (Streaming choices would require an web supplier.)

Watch each occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Peacock

Along with main sporting occasions just like the 2024 Paris Olympics, Peacock presents its subscribers live-streaming entry to NFL video games that air on NBC and sports activities airing on USA Community. The streaming service has a lot extra reside sports activities to supply, together with Large Ten basketball, Premier League soccer and WWE wrestling (together with previously PPV-only occasions equivalent to WrestleMania). There are 80,000 hours price of recorded content material to observe as effectively, together with hit motion pictures and TV collection equivalent to “The Workplace” and “Parks and Recreation.”

A Peacock subscription prices $8 per thirty days. An annual plan is offered for $80 per 12 months (greatest worth). You possibly can cancel anytime.

High options of Peacock:

• Peacock’s Olympic protection will embody “multi-view” choices through which followers can curate their viewing journey, selecting the Olympic occasions they’re most eager about watching.
• Peacock will air unique protection of PGA Tour occasions, Olympic trials and Paris Olympics 2024 occasions.
• Peacock options loads of present and basic NBC and Bravo TV reveals, plus unique programming such because the award-winning actuality present “The Traitors.”

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Stream Staff USA males’s basketball on Sling TV 

For streaming the Paris Olympics — and for streaming all of the must-watch school soccer and NFL video games to comply with this fall — we like Sling TV. The cable TV substitute choice presents packages that embody your native NBC station beginning at $45 per thirty days, or $70 for 2 months (particular prepay supply). You additionally get entry to E! and USA Community (together with 400 hours of Olympics programming on USA in 4K decision). We like that there is a $11 per thirty days sports activities add-on plan known as Sports activities Additional and the choice so as to add on Paramount+ if you wish to catch much more sporting occasions this fall.

Faucet the button under to enroll in Sling TV.

High options of Sling TV Orange + Blue plan:

• Sling TV is our best choice for streaming main sporting occasions like NASCAR.
• There are 46 channels to observe in whole, together with native NBC, Fox and ABC associates (the place obtainable).
• You get entry to most native NFL video games and nationally broadcast video games on the lowest value.
• All subscription tiers embody 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage.
• You possibly can add Golf Channel, NBA TV, NHL Community, NFL RedZone, MLB Community, Tennis Channel and extra sports-oriented channels (19 in whole) by way of Sling TV’s Sports activities Extras add-on.

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Watch Staff USA males’s basketball airing on community TV with Fubo

You may as well catch Staff USA Males’s basketball airing on community TV on Fubo. Fubo is a sports-centric streaming service that provides entry to network-aired sports activities just like the Tour de France, and virtually each NFL recreation subsequent season. Packages embody the reside feed of sports activities and programming airing on CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN, NFL Community and extra, so you’ll watch extra than simply the Summer time Olympics- all and not using a cable subscription.

To look at the 2024 Summer time Olympic Video games with out cable, begin a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You possibly can start watching instantly in your TV, telephone, pill or laptop. Along with Olympic occasions, you will have entry to NFL soccer, Fubo presents NCAA school sports activities, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and worldwide soccer video games. Fubo’s Professional Tier is priced at $80 per thirty days after your free seven-day trial.

Sports activities followers will need to take into account including on the $7.99 per thirty days Fubo Additional bundle, which incorporates MLB Community, NBA TV, NHL Community, Tennis Channel, SEC Community and extra channels. Or improve to the Fubo Elite tier and get all of the Fubo Additional channels, plus the flexibility to stream in 4K, for an additional $10 per thirty days.

High options of Fubo Professional Tier:

• There are not any contracts with Fubo — you possibly can cancel at any time.
• You possibly can watch sporting occasions as much as 72 hours after they air reside with Fubo’s lookback function.
• The Professional tier consists of over 180 channels, together with NFL Community and Golf Channel.
• Fubo consists of all of the channels you will want to observe school and professional sports activities, together with CBS (not obtainable via Sling TV).
• All tiers include 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
• Stream in your TV, telephone, and different gadgets.

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Watch Staff USA males’s basketball on Hulu + Stay TV

You possibly can watch Staff USA males’s basketball and extra top-tier sports activities protection, together with NFL Community, with Hulu + Stay TV. The bundle options entry to 90 channels, together with Golf Channel. Limitless DVR storage can also be included. Watch the 2024 Summer time Olympic Video games and each NFL recreation on each community subsequent season with Hulu + Stay TV,  plus unique reside common season NFL video games, fashionable studio reveals (together with NFL Whole Entry and the Emmy-nominated present Good Morning Soccer) and plenty extra.

Hulu + Stay TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+ for $77 per thirty days.

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Watch Staff USA males’s basketball reside with a digital HDTV antenna

You may as well watch Staff USA Males’s basketball airing on community TV with an inexpensive indoor antenna, which pulls in native over-the-air HDTV channels equivalent to CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, PBS, Univision and extra. Here is the kicker: There is not any month-to-month cost.

For anybody residing in {a partially} blocked-off space (these close to mountains or first-floor residences), a digital TV antenna could not decide up a very good sign — or any sign in any respect. However for a lot of properties, a digital TV antenna offers a severely cheap strategy to watch sports activities with out paying a cable firm. Indoor TV antennas can even present some much-needed TV backup if a storm knocks out your cable.

This ultra-thin, multi-directional Mohu Leaf Supreme Professional digital antenna with a 65-mile vary can obtain tons of of HD TV channels, together with ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Fox and Univision, and may filter out mobile and FM indicators. It delivers a high-quality image in 1080p HDTV, top-tier sound and comes with a 12-foot digital coax cable.

This antenna is at present $56 at Amazon, lowered from $70 with coupon.

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Fanatics: Get the most recent Staff USA gear and merch

Whereas most of us could not make it to the 2024 Summer time Olympics in individual, rooting from house is extra enjoyable with the newest workforce merch — on this case the workforce is the house workforce. Fanatics is our first cease for the newest drop of Staff USA gear, that includes participant jerseys, Staff USA shirts and jackets, plus iconic items just like the Polo Ralph Lauren Villagewear pullover sweatshirt. Faucet the button under to get your Staff USA gear simply in time to cheer on the house workforce.

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Olympics 2024: Staff USA males’s basketball full schedule

Males’s basketball ideas off on July 27, in the future after the opening ceremony in Paris. 12 international locations will compete within the preliminary group stage.

Staff USA will play in Group C, which incorporates Serbia, South Sudan and the winner of the Puerto Rico Qualifying Match.  The ultimate stage, which is single-elimination, will function eight groups to find out the gold, silver and bronze medals. The ultimate stage will encompass the highest two finishers in every group, and the 2 greatest third-place groups.

Beneath is the schedule for the Staff USA males’s basketball Group Stage on the Paris Summer time Video games. 

All instances Japanese

Group Stage (Group C)

• July 28: Staff USA vs. Serbia, 11:15 a.m. (NBC)
• July 31: Staff USA vs. South Sudan, 9 p.m. (USA Community)
• August 3: Staff USA vs.W OQT PUR, 11: 15 a.m. (NBC)

August 6

• Males’s quarterfinals (4 video games), 5 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (E! and USA Community)

August 8

• Males’s semifinals (2 video games), 11:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. (USA Community)

August 10

• Bronze medal recreation, 5 a.m.- 7 a.m.  (USA Community, replay at 1 p.m. ET on USA Community)
• Gold medal recreation, 3:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. (USA Community, replay at midnight on USA Community)

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Who’s on the Staff USA Basketball roster on the 2024 Paris Olympics?

12 NBA gamers are on the USA males’s basketball roster with a mixed 10 Olympic gold medals between them. Kevin Durant has received three gold medals, whereas LeBron James is Staff USA’s all-time main scorer (to not point out his two gold medals).  Bam Adebayo (2020), Devin Booker (2020), Anthony Davis (2012), Jrue Vacation (2020) and Jayson Tatum (2020) are every gold medal winners as effectively.

Staff USA males’s basketball roster:

• Bam Adebayo (Miami Warmth)
• Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns)
• Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors)
• Anthony Davis (Los Angeles Lakers)
• Kevin Durant (Phoenix Suns)
• Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves)
• Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers)
• Tyrese Haliburton (Indiana Pacers)
• Jrue Vacation (Boston Celtics)
• LeBron James (Los Angeles Lakers)
• Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics)
• Derrick White (Boston Celtics)

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When was the final time the US males’s basketball workforce received gold?

Staff USA took house the gold medal on the Tokyo Summer time Video games after defeating France within the remaining. It was Staff USA’s fourth consecutive males’s basketball gold medal.

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If these solutions do not come again within the affirmative, the trail to a gold medal could possibly be fraught. That is the deepest pool of expertise the lads’s competitors has ever seen, and when you do not assume Workforce USA has realized the extent to which the hole has narrowed, simply take heed to what Kerr needed to say earlier this week.

“It’s time, you realize?” Kerr stated throughout a bunch interview session with reporters at Thursday’s apply. “We’re not touring round anymore. We’re right here. We’ve obtained six video games. We’ve obtained to get into the pool play, advance, after which it’s [like the] NCAA Event. So we’d like 40 minutes of pressure, consideration, and focus, and we are able to’t let groups outplay us with effort and power like we did the opposite night time towards Germany, like we did towards South Sudan.”

Historical past is there for the taking, and for a lot of of this group’s greatest names, Paris represents their final shot at Olympic glory. It is time.

LeBron James vs. Nikola Jokic head-to-head

Arguably the best participant of all-time towards arguably the best participant proper now. LeBron and Jokic may not wind up matched up with one another fairly often, however they’re going to each have an outsized impact on Sunday’s sport. Which celebrity has the sting? Let’s break issues down with a fast story of the tape.

Over their first 9 NBA seasons:

• Each had three NBA MVP Awards, incomes them in the identical relative seasons (six, seven and 9)
• Each averaged 6.9 assists; LeBron had 27.6 factors and 6.9 rebounds, whereas Jokic tallied 20.9 and 10.7
• LeBron had eight NBA All-Star Recreation alternatives, whereas Jokic had six
• Each received NBA Rookie of the 12 months

Be aware: LeBron entered the league at age 19, whereas Jokic began at 20

What do their matchups within the NBA inform us about how this one may go? LeBron and Jokic have met 35 instances over the course of their careers, 21 within the common season and 14 within the playoffs. Jokic holds the 19-16 edge in these video games, averaging a really Jokic-ian 22.5 factors, 11.2 rebounds and seven.6 assists in these video games. LeBron, in the meantime, has averaged 26.9, 8.2 and eight.6, respectively. In fact, Jokic has had the final giggle of late, bouncing James’ Lakers from the playoffs in every of the final two seasons.

The ladies’s match will get underway 

The U.S. ladies’s group has to attend till Monday for his or her Paris debut, however Group A will get underway on Sunday with a pair of intriguing matchups. 2016 silver medalists Spain face off towards China, whereas upstart Puerto Rico meets 2016 bronze medalists Serbia in simply its second-ever Olympics look.  

NANTERRE, France —In a battle of the quickest girls’s butterfly swimmers in historical past, Individuals Torri Huske gained the Olympic gold medal in 55.59 seconds and American Gretchen Walsh gained the silver in 55.63 towards an unimaginable area Sunday evening within the pool.

Huske and Walsh each gained silver medals Saturday evening as a part of the U.S. girls’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay crew.

Zhang Yufei took the bronze with a time of 56.21. Yufei, 26, the 2021 Olympic silver medalist within the 100 butterfly, is among the 11 swimmers from China whose constructive drug exams in 2021 have been by no means revealed by the World Anti-Doping Company or Chinese language officers.

Canadian Maggie MacNeil, 24, the 2021 Olympic gold medalist on this occasion, completed fifth behind Germany’s Angelina Koehler.

For Huske, a 21-year-old former U.S. document holder taking a niche 12 months from Stanford, this was an opportunity to good her efficiency in a race she practically gained three years in the past. She ended up ending fourth within the 100 butterfly in Tokyo after showing to take the lead 10 meters from the end. Huske did win a silver medal within the girls’s 4×100 medley relay in 2021.

2024 Olympic medals: Who’s main the medal rely? Comply with alongside as we observe the medals for each sport.

For Walsh, a 21-year-old College of Virginia standout who broke the world document within the 100 butterfly ultimately month’s U.S. trials, her efficiency is a narrative of redemption after she did not make the U.S. Olympic crew three years in the past.

Carson Foster took bronze within the males’s 400 particular person medley simply moments earlier than the buttefly, giving Group USA its fourth, fifth and sixth swimming medals at these Video games, following the gold within the males’s 4×100 freestyle relay, the ladies’s relay silver, and Katie Ledecky’s bronze within the girls’s 400 freestyle on Saturday.