India ladies’s wrestler Vinesh Phogat has been disqualified from the 50-kilogram Olympic wrestling ultimate after failing to make weight Wednesday, making a ripple impact on the medal matches and leading to some pressured changes by organizers.

Phogat defeated Cuba’s Yusneylis Guzman Lopez within the semifinals Tuesday, however her disqualification pushed Guzman Lopez into the gold medal match Wednesday evening.

Phogat had gotten off to an awesome begin on the Paris Video games, gorgeous four-time world and defending Olympic champion Yui Susaki of Japan in her first match on Tuesday. She ultimately received her first three matches to earn a spot within the 50-kilogram ultimate.

However that isn’t going to occur. Workforce India introduced on social media Wednesday that Phogat is out.

“It’s with remorse that the Indian contingent shares information of the disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from the Girls’s Wrestling 50kg class. Regardless of the perfect efforts by the workforce by the evening, she weighed in a number of grams over 50kg this morning,” the announcement mentioned.

Phogat had been seemingly unbeatable on the mat. After beating top-seeded Susaki — who captured gold on the Tokyo Olympics with out conceding some extent — she then received her quarterfinal match in opposition to Ukraine’s Oksana Livach 7-5 and her semifinal in opposition to Guzman Lopez 5-0 to turn into the primary Indian girl to achieve an Olympic ultimate.

Phogat’s disqualification eliminates her from competitors and strikes Guzman Lopez into the ultimate in opposition to American Sarah Hildebrandt, who defeated Mongolia’s Otgonjargal Dolgorjav 5-0 within the different semifinal.

There are two bronze medals awarded in every wresting weight lessons. Phogat’s disqualification created a domino impact. Susaki, who misplaced to Phogat, had earned a spot within the repechage in opposition to Livach, with one needing to earn a spot in a bronze medal match. The Phogat-Livach match has been elevated to one of many two bronze medal matches. The opposite bronze match will match China’s Feng Ziqi and Dolgorjav — a pairing that was not impacted by Phogat’s disqualification.

It is unclear if Phogat has ever been disqualified for not making weight. She had by no means positioned increased than ninth on the Olympics or third at a world championship occasion earlier than this spectacular efficiency on the Paris Video games.

In 2023, Phogat and different feminine wrestlers had been detained by police in India’s capital metropolis of New Delhi after they marched on parliament following allegations of sexual misconduct by folks inside the sport, together with Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the president of the Wrestling Federation of India. Sanjay Kumar Singh later changed him within the place.

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Vinesh Phogat’s dream of successful India’s first gold medal on the Paris Olympics led to what for wrestlers is a nightmare situation: She didn’t make weight for the ladies’s 50-kilogram class ultimate. After initially successful an opportunity for a gold or silver medal, her disqualification means she’s going to go away France with out a medal of any sort.

Phogat later introduced her retirement from the game, saying, “Mother, wrestling has defeated me, I misplaced. Forgive me, your dream, my braveness is all damaged, I don’t have any extra energy now,” in accordance with a translation by The Hindu newspaper. The athlete turns 30 years previous later this month.

Phogat was discovered to be 100 grams over the restrict — about 3.5 ounces, much like a deck of playing cards — in accordance with the Indian Olympic Affiliation. After having three bouts on Tuesday, her weight was discovered to have elevated a bit greater than regular, the affiliation’s chief medical officer, Dr. Dinshaw Pardiwala, mentioned on Wednesday.

Phogat had a profitable weigh-in on Tuesday morning, Pardiwala said, and her nutritionist calculated that she may have round 1 1/2 kilograms of water and meals. She additionally drank small quantities of water after her matches.

However when employees checked her weight, it was over the restrict. The athlete’s typical methods for slicing weight weren’t profitable, Pardiwala mentioned.

“We had tried all potential drastic measures all through the night time, together with slicing off her hair, shortening her garments,” Pardiwala mentioned. However to no avail.

It was a merciless solution to finish what had gave the impression to be a charmed run to the gold medal match, as Phogat delivered a string of victories over extremely ranked opponents. After two heartbreaking Olympics — a horrible knee harm ended her Rio 2016 marketing campaign, and a stunning upset ousted her in Tokyo — she was lastly on monitor to win the medal many have seen as her future.

Her disqualification “could be very stunning,” mentioned Indian Olympic Affiliation President PT Usha, who met with Phogat within the Olympic Village on Wednesday.

“We’re offering Vinesh all medical and emotional help,” Usha mentioned, including that India’s wrestling federation has filed an enchantment asking that the disqualification be reconsidered.

An Olympic medal would have been one thing of a salve to a 12 months of turmoil in India’s wrestling neighborhood. Final summer time, Phogat took on a outstanding position in high-profile protests in opposition to sexual harassment, as she and different prime wrestlers referred to as for motion in opposition to then-Member of Parliament Brij Bhushan Singh, an influential politician who was additionally as soon as the president of the Wrestling Federation of India.

As NPR reported final 12 months, Singh was “accused by the nation’s seven most high-profile wrestlers, together with a minor, of groping them, stalking them, demanding sexual favors and threatening them in the event that they refuse to entertain his advances.”

Singh has denied the allegations. Within the New Delhi protests in opposition to him, Phogat and different elite athletes have been confronted by police who dragged them away and detained them.

After Wednesday’s abrupt elimination derailed Phogat’s likelihood for an Olympic medal, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said via X, “Vinesh, you’re a champion amongst champions! You’re India’s satisfaction and an inspiration for every Indian.”

Acknowledging a “sense of despair” over the end result, Modi added, “On the identical time, I do know that you simply epitomise resilience. It has all the time been your nature to take challenges head on.”

On the Paris Video games, Phogat defeated a roster of champions in a single day to earn a spot in opposition to Group USA’s Sarah Hildebrandt in Wednesday’s ultimate. In her first match, she upset the reigning Olympic champion, Yui Susaki of Japan. She then beat former European champion Oksana Livach of Ukraine within the quarterfinals and Pan American Video games champion Yusneylis Guzman of Cuba within the semifinals.

Due to Phogat’s disqualification, Guzman was elevated to the ultimate to face Hildebrandt. The American received the gold.

Phogat comes from a household well-known for its feminine wrestlers: her cousins’ story impressed the Bollywood movie Dangal, from Walt Disney’s India subsidiary. She has additionally spoken out in favor of empowering ladies and giving them extra help to pursue sports activities.

She advised The Hindu information outlet in 2018, “most significantly, ladies want to face up for what they need to do. It’s not nearly sports activities — even in any other case, in training or in life, ladies have to cease feeling pity for themselves or contemplating themselves weak. You must have the energy of perception in your self. Step one must be taken by a woman herself; the whole lot else follows.”

When she’s injury-free, Phogat racked up wins on the mat from an early age. She took bronze on the world championships and prime titles on the Commonwealth Video games and the Asian championships. Her outcomes, generally in weight classes a bit heavier than 50kg, have lengthy fueled hopes for Olympic greatness that, due to round 100 grams, now stay unfulfilled.

Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone might solely have simply turned 25, however standing on the beginning line on the Olympic stadium is nothing new for her.

As a 16-year-old, the New Jersey native broke the 400-meter hurdle world junior file with a time of 54.15 on the 2016 US Olympic Trials. That punched her ticket to the Rio Video games, the place she made it to the semifinals. She returned even stronger on the Tokyo Video games; she gained the 400-meter hurdles, outkicking American teammate Dalilah Muhammad by 0.12 seconds. She was additionally a member of the gold-winning 4×400-meter relay staff in Tokyo with Muhammad, Alison Felix, and Athing Mu.

And within the lead-up to the Paris Video games, McLaughlin-Levrone continued to carry it. She set the brand new world file within the 400-meter hurdles—a blistering 50.65 seconds—on the 2024 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, on June 30. And in Paris, she not solely gained gold, however shattered her personal world file within the course of. All in all, she has already lowered the world mark six occasions.

There’s extra to McLaughlin-Levrone than what we see on the observe, although. She’s outspoken about her religion, has an interesting household background, and she or he’s on a mission to push the game of sprinting additional. Listed below are 9 issues to know concerning the world’s quickest 400-meter hurdler.

1. McLaughlin-Levrone comes from a household of gifted runners.

Everybody in McLaughlin-Levrone’s fast household has competed on the observe. Her dad, Willie McLaughlin, was a three-time NCAA All-American within the 400-meter and almost made the Olympic staff himself in 1984. He was inducted into the Manhattan Faculty Athletic Corridor of Fame in 1997. Mary McLaughlin, Sydney’s mother, ran on the boys’ observe staff in highschool, as Individuals studies.

McLaughlin-Levrone and her three siblings had an energetic childhood. “Observe and subject has at all times been a part of our lives,” McLaughlin-Levrone stated in an interview with the Olympic Channel Podcast. But it surely wasn’t all operating on a regular basis. “Our dad and mom allow us to select what we needed to do,” she stated, and she or he dabbled in basketball, soccer, and dance, however, she added, “for all of us, observe sort of stood out.”

Naturally, she was fueled by some wholesome sibling competitors. Her brother Taylor ran Division I observe on the College of Michigan and gained silver on the World Junior under-20 championships within the 400-meter hurdles (apparently a well-liked occasion among the many McLaughlins).

2. She was impressed by Sanya Richard-Ross.

McLaughlin-Levrone caught the Olympic bug when she was 9 years previous. She distinctly remembers watching Sanya Richards-Ross compete on the 2008 Beijing Video games, the place the American sprinter gained bronze within the 400-meter and closed an enormous hole within the 4×400-meter relay for gold. As McLaughlin-Levrone stated on the podcast, “I keep in mind turning to my mother and being like, ‘I wish to try this.’”

3. Qualifying for her first Olympics was a shock.

By center faculty, it was clear that McLaughlin-Levrone was forward of different runners her age, however the extent of her expertise wasn’t absolutely on show till her first Olympic trials forward of the 2016 Video games in Rio. “Once we went to the trials in 2016, we had been actually simply going for the expertise,” McLaughlin-Levrone informed the Olympic Channel Podcast. Simply 16 on the time, she remembers pondering that there was “no means” she would qualify for Workforce USA within the 400-meter hurdles, which might require at the very least a third-place end on the Trials. She didn’t simply qualify for the staff—she additionally beat the fourth-place finisher by over half a second (which is important in a 54-second race!).

4. The College of Kentucky was her dwelling away from dwelling for a 12 months.

After her standout highschool profession, McLaughlin-Levrone had a selection between going straight to the professionals or operating within the NCAA. She determined to attend the College of Kentucky in 2017, the place she spent a 12 months she described as “very pivotal” for her athletic profession. She was uncovered to extra intense coaching and better expectations from coaches, which she stated, “actually gave me an inside look into what it’s prefer to be an expert,” as she informed the Olympic Channel Podcast.

5. Sweet is her race gasoline of selection.

A self-proclaimed “sweet connoisseur,” McLaughlin-Levrone credit at the very least a few of her pace to a prerace meal of gummy bears, Jolly Ranchers, and Starbursts. “If there’s sweet in my home, it’s not staying for greater than 24 hours,” she stated in an interview with GQ. If solely we may all break world data on a bag of gummy bears, McLaughlin-Levrone could be dealing with much more competitors.

6. Add “printed writer” to her accolades.

As if Olympic medals aren’t sufficient of an accomplishment, McLaughlin-Levrone additionally launched her first e book in January. The e book, Far Past Gold: Working from Worry to Religion, describes how McLaughlin-Levrone managed the worry and psychological well being struggles she faces as an expert runner. In it, she discusses how her religion helped her come to phrases along with her identification and take care of perfectionism, nervousness, and impostor syndrome.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake, centered about 18 miles southwest of Bakersfield, was felt throughout a large swath of Southern California on Tuesday evening.

Its dimension rattled nerves however brought about no main harm or accidents. Two minutes after the earthquake hit, a big boulder — the scale of an SUV — was reported blocking a number of southbound lanes of Interstate 5, a couple of mile south of Grapevine Street, the California Freeway Patrol stated. The boulder was cleared by Wednesday morning.

The earthquake, initially estimated at magnitude 5.3, struck at 9:09 p.m., in keeping with the U.S. Geological Survey. It was adopted by dozens of aftershocks of magnitude 2.5 and up, together with a magnitude 4.5 earthquake that occurred lower than a minute after the primary, and a magnitude 4.1 temblor at 9:17 p.m.

The epicenter was in sparsely populated farmland, about 14 miles northwest of the unincorporated neighborhood of Grapevine in Kern County, 60 miles northwest of Santa Clarita, and about 88 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

The world closest to the epicenter felt “very sturdy” shaking as outlined by the Modified Mercalli Depth Scale; that zone features a part of the California Aqueduct, which transports water from Northern California to Southern California.

By the point shaking was felt in additional populated areas, together with Bakersfield, Santa Clarita and Ventura, the USGS calculated that solely “weak” shaking was felt, which might rock standing vehicles and trigger vibrations in a constructing just like the passing of a truck.

Some residents affected by the quake reported an prolonged interval of shaking. One individual in Los Feliz felt 45 seconds of motion, with no less than three completely different waves — one weak, adopted by a robust one, then once more a weak one. In South Pasadena and Whittier, folks felt about 20 seconds of shaking, contained in two distinctive waves.

In Pasadena, seismologist Lucy Jones stated she felt about three seconds of shaking.

There have been no quick studies of harm. And never everybody felt the earthquake. L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Jose Gomez stated he didn’t really feel the shaking throughout his drive into work on the sheriff’s Santa Clarita station. No harm was reported there.

The Los Angeles Hearth Division stated no vital harm was reported inside metropolis limits. Preliminary inspections of the State Water Undertaking services, together with the California Aqueduct, discovered no harm.

The USGS stated the quake was felt throughout the Los Angeles Basin and inland valleys and in Santa Maria, Bakersfield and Fresno.

Many Southern California residents described getting alerts from the USGS’ earthquake early warning system, corresponding to via the MyShake app or on their Android telephones. (The earthquake early warning system is robotically put in on Android telephones, however folks with Apple iOS telephones want to put in the MyShake app to get essentially the most well timed alerts.)

One individual described getting 30 to 45 seconds of warning earlier than feeling the shaking arrive. One other individual, in east Anaheim, reported 30 seconds of warning earlier than shaking arrived.

Jones, a analysis affiliate at Caltech, stated the length of shaking can differ a lot within the L.A. space as a result of the size of time the earth strikes at any given spot can depend upon the soil and rocks beneath the placement, whether or not an individual is sitting nonetheless or transferring round, and even whether or not a person is on the bottom ground or on high of a skyscraper — these on larger flooring really feel the shaking extra strongly.

The explanation some folks could have felt a couple of wave of shaking is that the primary aftershock occurred so quickly — lower than a minute — after the primary shock, Jones stated.

Geophysics professor Allen Husker, head of the Southern California Seismic Community at Caltech, stated it wasn’t shocking that so many individuals within the L.A. space felt vital shaking from a magnitude 5.2 earthquake north of the Grapevine. The temblor occurred at evening, when persons are resting and extra more likely to really feel shaking from a distant quake than in the event that they had been out and about in the course of the day and lively.

One more reason many individuals felt substantial motion is because of the manner shaking is amplified within the Los Angeles Basin. The basin is a 6-mile-deep, bathtub-shaped gap within the underlying bedrock stuffed with weak sand and gravel eroded from the mountains and forming the flat land the place tens of millions of individuals stay. It stretches from Beverly Hills via southeast L.A. County and into northern Orange County.

“The basin impact … will increase the shaking that you’d in any other case usually have,” Husker stated.

The impact occurs when waves from the shaking arrive and hit the partitions of the basin, then bounce again on the partitions of the basin, Jones stated, leading to an “prolonged length.”

A significant earthquake on the San Andreas fault would end in maybe 50 seconds of sturdy shaking in downtown L.A. “This earthquake was a lot, a lot smaller, after all,” Jones stated, “however it was giant sufficient to arrange a few of these basin results and get issues bouncing round.”

As with all earthquakes, there was a 1 in 20 likelihood that Tuesday’s temblor was a foreshock to a bigger earthquake. The chance {that a} follow-up quake can be bigger diminishes over time.

It has been a number of years since a magnitude 5.2 or larger earthquake hit Southern California, and Tuesday’s quake was the strongest to strike the area in three years. A magnitude 5.3 quake occurred in June 2021 simply southeast of the Salton Sea in Imperial County, about 160 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. And in June 2020, a magnitude 5.5 quake struck the Mojave Desert within the northwestern nook of San Bernardino County, about 120 miles northeast of downtown L.A. and about 14 miles east of Ridgecrest in Kern County.

The earthquake occurred about 12 miles northwest of the epicenter of the magnitude 7.5 Kern County earthquake that struck on July 21, 1952. That earthquake resulted in 12 deaths, and, in keeping with the USGS, previous and poorly constructed masonry buildings suffered harm. A few of these constructions collapsed in communities together with Tehachapi, Bakersfield and Arvin; heavy harm was reported at Kern County Common Hospital.

Shaking from the 1952 earthquake was felt as far-off as San Francisco and Las Vegas, and brought about nonstructural however intensive harm to tall buildings within the Los Angeles space and harm to no less than one constructing in San Diego, in keeping with the USGS.

The 1952 earthquake occurred on the White Wolf fault. Tuesday’s earthquake wasn’t related to any beforehand mapped faults.

Occasions workers writers Jon Healey, Ian James, Jason Neubert, Sandra McDonald and Raul Roa contributed to this report.

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A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck close to Lamont, California, on Tuesday evening and rumbled via a broad stretch of Southern California, together with Los Angeles.

The US Geological Survey reported the earthquake’s epicenter hit about 15 miles southwest of Lamont – and roughly 25 miles south of Bakersfield – round 9:09 p.m. PT. The survey earlier rated the earthquake a 5.3 magnitude however later downgraded it to five.2.

Folks from Fresno to as far south as Temecula reported feeling the jolt, based on the company’s tracker.

About 100 miles to the southeast of the epicenter, no important infrastructure harm or accidents had been famous in Los Angeles, based on the town’s hearth division, which despatched individuals from its hearth stations to survey whether or not the world was impacted.

The US Geological Survey estimated a low chance of casualties or harm from the quake.

About 60 smaller quakes – ranking as excessive as 4.5 – had been recorded over the following hour, based on California Institute of Expertise seismologist Lucy Jones.

Jones described the 5.2 magnitude earthquake as “strong,” saying, “A majority of (magnitude 5 earthquakes) would have fewer aftershocks than this.”

“Lately, we’ve had a somewhat quiet couple of many years,” Jones stated, including: “In Southern California, we’ve had seven (magnitude 5 earthquakes) within the final 10 years. However on the long-term common, it’s extra like a pair a 12 months.”

Nonetheless, Jones cautioned that Tuesday’s earthquakes ought to function a reminder that individuals must be ready for bigger – and maybe extra harmful – quakes.

“One of many myths is that the small earthquakes launch power and make a giant earthquake much less possible, and that’s not true,” Jones stated. “So I feel it’s time to remind those who in the long term, California is earthquake nation. And in the long term, we (ought to anticipate) extra earthquakes than we’ve been seeing for the final 20 years.”

Jones emphasised that whereas we can not predict precisely when a big earthquake will strike, they’re inevitable.

“The possibility of a giant earthquake is 100%. Simply give us sufficient time,” she stated.

Residents in earthquake-prone areas can put together by figuring out attainable falling hazards of their house, creating an emergency plan and contemplating insurance coverage protection, amongst different actions, based on the Earthquake Nation Alliance.

This can be a creating story and will likely be up to date.

Chelsea accomplished the ultimate leg of their tour of the USA on Tuesday night in Charlotte, North Carolina.

However they fell to a 3rd defeat in 5 video games, dropping 2-1 towards European champions Actual Madrid in entrance of 62,000 individuals on the Financial institution of America Stadium. It means new coach Enzo Maresca has received solely one among his 5 matches within the U.S., with the one victory coming towards Mexican aspect Membership America.

They misplaced towards Scottish champions Celtic and Premier League winners Manchester Metropolis and drew towards League One aspect Wrexham.

Targets from Dani Ceballos and Brahim Diaz put Madrid two objectives forward earlier than Noni Madueke halved the deficit earlier than half-time.

Right here, Adam Crafton analyses the important thing Chelsea speaking factors…

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Chelsea’s excessive defence seems to be shaky

On Saturday night towards Metropolis, Chelsea went 2-0 down in 5 minutes after they self-destructed, gifting the ball repeatedly to Metropolis attackers when trying to play out from the again. On Tuesday, Chelsea went 2-0 down in 27 minutes and the trigger, as soon as once more, might be attributed to Chelsea’s decision-making.

There was no scarcity of tempo within the Chelsea again line, with Reece James, Benoit Badiashile, Levi Colwill and Malo Gusto, however their excessive line was repeatedly uncovered within the opening half hour. Chelsea additionally failed to shut down their opponents shortly sufficient, which means Madrid’s gifted gamers had the time to choose passes for runners stretching the Chelsea defence.

To compound the issue, Chelsea have been developing towards a few of the quickest forwards round. Rodrygo, Vinicius Junior and Brahim repeatedly sped past their defence. Indicators of Chelsea anxiousness first emerged when captain Reece James misjudged a backwards header to his goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen, and Vinicius Jr virtually discovered a gap to attain.

This was the route that led to Ceballos opening the scoring. Brahim then broke free for the second, latching onto a luxurious Vinicius Jr cross and rounding the goalkeeper. Early within the second half, Vinicius Jr was in behind as soon as extra, tormenting James and teeing up Brahim, just for the ahead to position his shot broad. This, we must always keep in mind, was a Madrid aspect but to introduce Kylian Mbappe, and also you dread to assume how the Frenchman could have exploited Chelsea’s errant offside lure.

Maresca criticised his gamers after their 4-1 defeat towards Celtic, saying that they have been “complicated some issues on the ball and off the ball” and failing to drop their line of defense on the proper moments.

Final night time, he was requested by The Athletic whether or not the excessive line is a tactic imposed by him or a behavior from final season when Mauricio Pochettino coached the group.

He stated: “It’s a behavior. We’re not engaged on defensive strains so excessive. It’s a behavior from final 12 months, or years in the past; I don’t know. We try to drop the line of defense a bit, often about 4 or 5 metres.

“Final 12 months, we already conceded many objectives with this downside. Hopefully, we will resolve it very quickly.”

He added: “It’s an issue we try to resolve from pre-season, since day one. One among my first conferences with the squad was concerning the variety of objectives we conceded final 12 months with the line of defense very excessive.

“Offensively, we’re there — the patterns are there. We created probabilities. The issue is defensively. Not simply the line of defense, however typically, all of the gamers.”

Goalkeeper Jorgensen stated he has his position to play. He stated: “I is also increased to make a bit much less area between me and the defenders. We’ll get to know one another.”

Talking earlier than the sport, former Chelsea coach Ancelotti had sought to reassure Chelsea followers, insisting any likelihood of system requires endurance and time. Maresca stated: “It’s not one thing magic you could attain in two days.  That’s PlayStation, not soccer. Day-by-day, you might want to work and also you want time and I do know most head coaches ask for time and it feels like an excuse however it isn’t an excuse, it’s the actuality.”

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What have been the positives and negatives of Chelsea’s U.S. tour?

Chelsea’s tour of the USA has been arguably essentially the most geographically demanding of the European golf equipment who’ve crossed the Atlantic this summer season. Chelsea started on the west coast in California earlier than enjoying in Indiana, Georgia, Ohio and, lastly, North Carolina, however with a flight to their coaching base in Atlanta sandwiched between the sport towards Manchester Metropolis on the Ohio Stadium and this match towards Actual Madrid.

The tour is financially profitable for the membership and these journeys can usher in £15million ($19m) for main Premier League golf equipment. That is essential for Chelsea when they’re always striving to stay throughout the boundaries of the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability laws. The coaching services and accommodations are additionally largely wonderful.

But the tour additionally brings challenges, notably 5 video games inside 14 days for Maresca’s group, traversing coasts and time zones. The pinnacle coach stated he thought of his “actual pre-season” to have been the fortnight he spent on the membership’s coaching floor at Cobham earlier than the tour and the brief interval they’ll have again in London earlier than the beginning of their Premier League season on August 17.

Earlier than this sport, Maresca stated: “It was second (coming to the U.S.) for various causes, to see the followers from outdoors the UK. The best scenario could be to organize for the video games however for many of the video games, we’ve been with out preparation. We didn’t put together the sport with the coaching session like we’re used to doing throughout a standard season. We simply ready with a video or the tactical board. It has been a blended feeling.”

Talking within the pre-match press convention for the Actual Madrid sport, Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo additionally referenced the pitches within the U.S. as a considerable problem for gamers throughout pre-season. Caicedo skilled the identical problem whereas representing Ecuador throughout Copa America. Maresca and Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola cited challenges with the pitch in Columbus, the place Caicedo had been culpable for conceding possession within the lead-up to a Metropolis purpose.

Caicedo stated: “It’s not the identical as enjoying in Europe as a result of the pitches there are so good there to point out your high quality. Right here it’s harder to play. The pitches are usually not so good. It’s so dry, the pitches. We all know we’re gamers with superb high quality however generally, it’s not all about you. It’s concerning the pitches.”

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Will there be extra adjustments at Chelsea?

The excellent news is that Chelsea’s fairly patterns on the ball might be augmented by the killer intuition of Cole Palmer, who will rejoin the squad after they return to Cobham this week. Nicolas Jackson, who Chelsea workers imagine has the potential to develop into a 20-goal-per-season ahead, can also be edging again from damage. Spain’s European Championship-winning defender Marc Cucurella may even return and seems a robust match for a system that requires a left-back to tuck in as a 3rd left-sided centre-back.

The broad expectation has been that Conor Gallagher will head to Atletico Madrid, but when that transfer falls by means of, Gallagher would face renewed inner stress to signal a brand new contract or discover a totally different membership to affix. The membership have made clear they won’t countenance dropping him on a free switch subsequent summer season.

Additional exits are probably. Kepa Arrizabalaga, Trevoh Chalobah, Cesare Casadei, David Datro Fofana and Romelu Lukaku require new properties. Armando Broja is surplus to necessities and was not even named on the bench for the Madrid sport. Maresca stated it was “only a resolution” to not embody him and stated there was no damage.

One other participant who seems to be in danger is Ben Chilwell, who didn’t get on the pitch towards Madrid as Maresca favoured Gusto, ordinarily a right-back, to fulfil his particular calls for within the left-back place. Chilwell doesn’t seem a stylistic match and Chelsea would probably contemplate giant provides. Chelsea have loads of choices within the broad areas however Raheem Sterling, Mykhailo Mudryk and Madueke are but to point out consistency.

Chelsea proceed to pursue strikers who will help the group to be extra medical when dealing with inflexible methods or a deep defence. This week, the Atletico Madrid ahead Samu Omorodion, who’s 6ft and 4in (193cm), has been thought of however a deal for the 20-year-old has not been agreed.

Chelsea need three forwards of their squad — they’ve Jackson as a placing choice, however view Christopher Nkunku as working most successfully in a deeper position or from the broad positions. Lukaku’s potential exit to Napoli — the Italian membership’s new coach Antonio Conte desires to be reunited with the Belgian he beforehand managed at Inter Milan — might open the door to Victor Osimhen heading the alternative manner on mortgage, as beforehand reported by The Athletic.

The 18-year-old ahead Marc Guiu began towards Madrid and Chelsea are contemplating protecting him as a backup striker to realize expertise in cup competitions this season, however a ultimate resolution continues to be to be made as Chelsea weigh up all their choices. Talking to reporters this week, Guiu stated: “We work very onerous on daily basis on and off the pitch, on the bodily facet and the sensible. I’m able to be on the pitch and assist the group.”

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What subsequent for Chelsea?

Chelsea face Inter Milan of their ultimate pre-season pleasant on Sunday afternoon at Stamford Bridge.

They then start their Premier League season by internet hosting champions Manchester Metropolis at Stamford Bridge on 18 August.

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The U.S. males’s basketball crew is 2 wins away from yet one more gold medal.

Group USA took one other step towards an Olympic five-peat with a blowout quarterfinal victory over Brazil on Tuesday on the 2024 Paris Video games.

Devin Booker (18 factors), Anthony Edwards (17) and Joel Embiid (14) led six Individuals who scored in double figures as Group USA rolled to a 122-87 win at Bercy Area.

The Individuals, who improved to an ideal 4-0 in Paris, will subsequent must undergo arguably the world’s finest basketball participant with the intention to attain the gold medal recreation.

Here is what to know for the semifinals of the Olympic males’s basketball match:

What groups are left within the Olympic males’s basketball match?

Becoming a member of Group USA within the semifinals are France, Germany and Serbia. Within the quarterfinals, France defeated Canada, Serbia beat Australia, and Germany defeated Greece.

Who does Group USA basketball play subsequent?

Group USA’s semifinal showdown will probably be a Paris rematch because the Individuals will as soon as once more face three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and Serbia.

The US kicked off Olympic play with a 110-84 rout of Serbia on July 28. However Jokic and Co. have responded with three straight wins, most just lately overcoming a 24-point deficit within the quarterfinals to beat reigning bronze medalist Australia in time beyond regulation and advance to the semis.

The opposite semifinal matchup will probably be between reigning silver medalist France and Germany. Franz Wagner and Germany are searching for the nation’s first-ever Olympic males’s basketball medal, whereas Victor Wembanyama and Co. are gunning for France’s first Olympic males’s basketball gold.

When does Group USA basketball play subsequent?

Group USA and Serbia will sq. off within the semifinals on Thursday, Aug. 8 at 3 p.m. ET. It can comply with France-Germany, which is able to tip off at 11:30 a.m. ET.

How one can watch USA males’s basketball within the Olympic semifinals

USA-Serbia will probably be proven on USA Community and Peacock. Here is the place you’ll be able to stream each semifinal showdowns:

After dominating Germany in its final ladies’s Olympic basketball group stage sport, Workforce USA strikes on to face Nigeria as we speak.  Breanna Stewart, Brittney Griner, A’ja Wilson, Sabrina Ionescu and all of the proficient athletes enjoying for Workforce USA have dominated competitors within the group stage of the 2024 Summer season Olympic Video games. 

The competitors heats up as Workforce USA faces Nigeria within the knockout stage of the Paris Summer season Video games. Hold studying to learn how and when to observe as we speak’s Nigeria vs. U.S. ladies’s Olympic basketball sport, even when you do not have cable

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How and when to observe the Nigeria vs. U.S. ladies’s Olympic basketball sport

The Nigeria vs. U.S. ladies’s Olympic basketball sport might be performed on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. ET (12:30 p.m. PT). The sport will air on USA Community, and stream on Peacock and the platforms featured beneath.

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Easy methods to watch the Nigeria vs. U.S. ladies’s Olympic basketball sport with out cable

Whereas many cable packages embrace USA Community and the opposite channels broadcasting the 2024 Summer season Olympics, it is easy 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 finest choices for watching are beneath. (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 affords its subscribers live-streaming entry to NFL video games that air on NBC and sports activities airing on USA Community. The streaming service has lots extra stay sports activities to supply, together with Large Ten basketball, Premier League soccer and WWE wrestling (together with previously PPV-only occasions resembling WrestleMania). There are 80,000 hours price of recorded content material to observe as properly, together with hit films and TV collection resembling “The Workplace” and “Parks and Recreation.”

A Peacock subscription prices $8 per thirty days. An annual plan is offered for $80 per yr (finest worth). You may cancel anytime.

Prime options of Peacock:

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

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Watch the ladies’s Olympic basketball on Sling TV for half worth

If you do not have cable TV that features USA Community, some of the cost-effective methods to observe the Olympics, and all the foremost sporting occasions occurring this summer time and fall, is thru a subscription to Sling TV. The streamer additionally affords entry to Olympic qualifiers, the 2024 Paris Video games, NFL soccer airing on NBC, Fox and ABC (the place obtainable) and NFL Community with its Orange + Blue plan.

That Orange + Blue plan usually prices $60 per thirty days, however the streamer presently affords a half-off promotion on your first month, so you will pay simply $30. For the least costly Olympic-watching choice, the Blue plan consists of the channels NBC, USA and E!, beginning at $45 per thirty days ($22.50 on your first month). A Sports activities Further add-on is offered ($15 per thirty days) with 19 sports-centric channels, together with Golf Channel, Large Ten Community, NFL RedZone, MLB Community and Tennis Channel.

The streamer has a brand new pay as you go providing for soccer season referred to as Sling TV Season Move. You will get 4 months of the Orange + Blue tier, plus the Sports activities Further add-on, for $219. That is a financial savings of $81 over the same old worth.

Prime 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 complete, 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 worth.
• All subscription tiers embrace 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage.
• You may add Golf Channel, NBA TV, NHL Community, NFL RedZone, MLB Community, Tennis Channel and extra sports-oriented channels (19 in complete) by way of Sling TV’s Sports activities Extras add-on.

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Watch the Nigeria vs. U.S. ladies’s Olympic basketball sport free with Fubo

You can too catch Workforce USA ladies’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 sport subsequent season. Packages embrace the stay 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 season Olympics- all with out a cable subscription.

To look at the 2024 Summer season Olympic Video games with out cable, begin a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You may start watching instantly in your TV, cellphone, pill or pc. Along with Olympic occasions, you will have entry to NFL soccer, Fubo affords NCAA faculty 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 contemplate including on the $7.99 per thirty days Fubo Further 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 Further channels, plus the flexibility to stream in 4K, for an additional $10 per thirty days.

Prime options of Fubo Professional Tier:

• There aren’t any contracts with Fubo — you’ll be able to cancel at any time.
• You may watch sporting occasions as much as 72 hours after they air stay with Fubo’s lookback characteristic.
• 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 faculty and professional sports activities, together with CBS (not obtainable by way of Sling TV).
• All tiers include 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
• Stream in your TV, cellphone, and different gadgets.

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Watch the Nigeria vs. U.S. ladies’s Olympic basketball sport on Hulu + Reside TV

You may watch Workforce USA ladies’s basketball and extra top-tier sports activities protection, together with NFL Community, with Hulu + Reside TV. The bundle options entry to 90 channels, together with Golf Channel. Limitless DVR storage can be included. Watch the 2024 Summer season Olympic Video games and each NFL sport on each community subsequent season with Hulu + Reside TV,  plus unique stay common season NFL video games, well-liked studio reveals (together with NFL Complete Entry and the Emmy-nominated present Good Morning Soccer) and plenty extra.

Hulu + Reside TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+ for $77 per thirty days after a three-day trial.

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Olympics 2024: When does Workforce USA play?

Under is the schedule and outcomes for Workforce USA ladies’s basketball on the 2024 Summer season Olympics in Paris. 

All instances Jap

2024 Olympics Group Stage (Lille)

2024 Olympics Knockout Stage (Paris)

• Quarterfinals, Aug. 7: Nigeria vs. Workforce USA,  3:30 p.m. (USA Community)
• Semifinals, Aug. 9: TBD vs. TBD, TBD — USA Community
• Gold medal sport, Aug. 11: TBD vs. TBD, TBD — USA Community

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Easy methods to watch Workforce USA ladies’s basketball on the 2024 Summer season Olympic Video games in Paris

Girls’s basketball on the Paris Summer season Olympics will broadcast on USA Community. NBC and Telemundo will broadcast at the very least 9 hours of protection from 9 a.m. to six p.m. ET every day. Different occasions will air on the USA Community, Golf Channel, CNBC and E!. 

Peacock will livestream each occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympics, together with the opening and shutting ceremonies and each Olympic basketball sport.

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Who’s on the Workforce USA ladies’s basketball roster in 2024?

12 WNBA gamers make up the roster for Workforce USA’s ladies’s basketball crew. 

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When is the Workforce USA ladies’s basketball gold medal sport?

The gold medal sport for girls’s basketball is scheduled to be performed on Sunday, August 11, 2024.

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Who gained the gold medal in ladies’s basketball on the final Olympics?

Workforce USA took house the gold medal on the Tokyo Summer season Video games after defeating occasion hosts Japan within the last. It was Workforce USA’s seventh consecutive ladies’s basketball gold medal.

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It was a riveting, edge-of-your seat showdown on the Stade de France, beneath good racing situations, on Tuesday night time in Paris. It was arguably the best U.S. Olympic 1500m ultimate, since American runners swept the medals manner again when on the Olympic Video games St. Louis 1904.

Nuguse – who missed competing on the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020, sidelined by damage – expressed his elation.

“It’s so wonderful – I actually wished this race to be a extremely enjoyable and thrilling expertise, so to have that and to share it with Cole is so big for American distance working,” Nuguse mentioned.

“We all know how deep the 1500 is now, however we actually believed in ourselves and to return away with it with Cole is so loopy. That end was like peak, peak enjoyable.”.

Group USA wasn’t too far off a gold, silver and bronze medals sweep as 21-year-old Hobbs Kessler surged to fifth place, in a private finest time of three:29.45, simply 1.80 seconds behind the gold medalist Hocker.

The pair of 1,500m medals by Hocker and Nuguse on the Stade de France purple observe – together with Grant Fisher’s bronze medal within the males’s 10,000m – are rapidly thrusting U.S. distance working into the worldwide highlight. Maybe they’re even giving the dominant U.S. sprinters a run for his or her cash, on an evening through which Gabby Thomas blazed to gold within the ladies’s 200m.

Nuguse was frivolously kidded, albeit complimented by Group USA, about chasing the U.S. Monitor and Subject staff’s sprinting superstars medal depend.

“I don’t suppose we’ll ever actually overtake them, however we’re holding our personal, holding our weight, “Nuguse mentioned, with fun. “I believe a gold medal within the 1500 is big and I’m loving contributing to the general medal depend.”

Suffice to say, Hocker gained’t ever be thought of a pre-race underdog once more.  

“I wished to indicate folks what I’m able to,” he mentioned. “I simply stored on hammering. I had one other gear.”

He definitely did.