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Gold medal winner Alice D'Amato of Italy cries with happiness after the balance beam finale in Paris, on August 5.

It was another dramatic day at the Olympic Games that saw world records, legends slip, others soar and a relatively new sport to these Games have its breakout moment.

The day started with a dramatic triathlon. Germany took home the Olympic gold medal in the mixed relay triathlon after a late comeback by Laura Lindemann helped overcome a 12-second deficit to help the Germans get the win. The USA defending its silver medal from Tokyo and Great Britain picked up the bronze in a photo finish in front of the packed Paris streets.

The build up of the race was dominated by ongoing discussions around the safety of the River Seine.

The action then moved to the gym, where Simone Biles was aiming to go for her fourth and fifth gold medals in Paris. Instead,in thewomen’s floor exercise,Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade won the gold, with Biles winning her 11th medal with a silver and Jordan Chiles taking home the bronze medal.

Biles had fallen off the beam earlier in the day and then struggled withanother fall during her warm up. She took to the floor with her left calf strapped with tape.

In themen’s horizontal bar, thevast majority of competitors struggledwith either staying on the bars or with their landings.

Alice D’Amato’s sterling routine won her the gold medal in thewomen’s balance beamcompetition, a final that was also marked by disappointing performances from some of the sport’s top stars, who struggled to stay on the beam.

On the track, there was an early huge upset when Molly Caudery from Team Great Britain failed to clear 4.55 meters in the women’s pole vault qualification round. She will not be in Wednesday’s final.

The winners of the men’s and women’s 100-meter sprints – Noah Lyles and Julien Alfred cruised into the finals of the 200-meter sprint.

A frantic finish in the women’s 5,000-meter final saw Kenyan Beatrice Chebet streak away from her compatriot and two-time Olympic medalist Faith Kipyegon in the closing stages. Kipyegon endured some drama after the race. She was initially disqualified and then appealed the decision. Two hours after the race was over, she was reinstated, taking the silver.

Great Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson led from the front to win the women’s 800-meter final, upgrading the silver medal she won at the Tokyo Olympics.

American discus thrower Valarie Allman struck gold for the second consecutive Olympic Games. Her best throw of the day went 69.50 meters, more than half a meter better than her gold medal throw in Tokyo in 2021.

And Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis won the gold again in the men’s pole vault. Not satisfied with just taking the gold, Duplantis then beat his own world record, raising the bar to 6.25 meters.

And in the nightcap, the 3x3 basketball tournament had a breakout moment with thrilling finals in both the men’s and women’s gold matches. Both matches went down to the last shot, with Germany winning the women’s gold and The Netherlands edging out host nation France to take the gold in the men’s game.

In other events:

Two hours after being disqualified from the 5000m, Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon has been reinstated as the runner-up in the race.

Kenya officially goes 1-2 in the race with Beatrice Chebet’s gold and the Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan was bumped back down to bronze.

Kipyegon’s original disqualification appeared to be for shoving Gudaf Tsegay, and at the time commentators argued Tsegay should have been disqualified instead.

The final whistle blows and it’s France which comes out on top, 3-1 against Egypt!

With the result, Les Espoirs seize their spot in the gold medal game against Spain, the runner-up in Tokyo three years ago.

The hosts finished the game with all the momentum and hope to carry that into the final against a nation which has been tasting soccer success on both club and international levels, including the senior squad winning Euro 2024.

Egypt will play Morocco in the bronze medal match on Thursday, marking the first time two African nations play in an Olympic soccer medal match.

France and La Roja will follow them in Friday’s final at 12 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. local time.

It’s probably all over now.

Désiré Doué somewhat accidentally sets up Michael Olise in the 108th minute and Olise just put his entire body into it.

Doué hits the ball with his shoulder, then an Egyptian player kicked it off his back and Olise grabs the rebound to make it 3-1 for Thierry Henry’s young squad.

It’s looking like it will be France and Spain in the final.

France's forward Jean-Philippe Mateta heads the ball and scores his team's second goal during the men's semi-final football match between France and Egypt.

France leads Egypt 2-1 thanks to Jean-Philippe Mateta’s second goal of the night.

Mateta’s 99th-minute header put Les Espoirs up on 10-man Egypt.

Egypt had what may be their best chance at a goal with a free kick taken by Zizo, but he went wide.

Looks like the match is running away from The Young Pharaohs.

Micah Christenson, Maxwell Holt, and Aaron Russell, of the United States, block a ball during a men's quarter final volleyball match between the United States and Brazil.

After finishing 10th in Tokyo, the US men’s volleyball team is into the semifinals in Paris.

The Americans won a strong first set, dropped the second and then won two more straight to knock out Brazil.

Regardless of how they fare in the next game, they are guaranteed a chance at a medal.

Seven members of this team, and their coach, played together in Rio, where they won bronze. They’ll now meet Poland in the first semifinal 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday.

WorthydeJongof Netherlands in action against Franck Seguela of France.

And it’s heartbreak for this French crowd!

Worthy de Jong starts off overtime with a two-point shot for the win. He bricks it and the French get the rebound.

Timothe Vergiat drives into the lane and lays it in to make it 17-16 and putting the French on the verge of the gold medal.

But then de Jong takes the ball past the arc and heaves up another two-point shot to try and win it here, and he buries it.

The Dutch fans lose their minds as the French crowd falls silent in shock. An unreal contest to end this tournament and a moment that future Olympic 3x3 basketball tournaments will be chasing for years.

France's Jean-Philippe Mateta, right, scores his side's first goal past Egypt's goalkeeper Hamza Alaa

Jean-Philippe Mateta scored a late equalizer for France against Egypt in the men’s football semifinals to make it 1-1 and take the match to extra time.

Mahmoud Saber gave Egypt the lead on 62 minutes and looked to have earned his team a shock victory, but great work by new Bayern Munich signing Michael Olise set up former Crystal Palace teammate Mateta for the leveler in the 83rd minute.

There was then controversy as France thought it should have been awarded a penalty, but after a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) review that lasted more than five minutes, the referee ruled that France’s Loic Bade had committed a foul.

That decision did not go down well with the home fans inside Lyon’s stadium!

We now have 30 minutes of extra time, with penalties deciding the winner if the scores remain level.

Unbelievable scenes are unfolding here in the center of Paris.

It’s 16-16 after regulation —and now we head to overtime. The first team to score two points wins. It’s unreal between the Dutch and the French.

The crowd is exploding here in Paris!

France has just taken the lead in this gold medal match after a layup, and then a Dutch turnover, gets the ball back.

This tournament is very young, this is only its second edition, but this is quickly becoming an iconic Olympic moment as the home team is locked in this tight contest.

It’s 12-11 to the French — first to 21 wins, or whoever is up when the clock expires; and there’s two minutes to play.

Netherlands' Worthy de Jong knocks over France's Jules Rambaut during the men's 3x3 basketball gold medal game.

It’s an intensely physical start to the game as both teams are refusing to give an inch.

It’s still only 2-2 here, but the drama has been intense with the heavily partisan French crowd living and dying on every bounce of the ball.

The Netherlands just sank two free throws to take a 4-2 lead and the French will have to fight from behind.

The chant won’t stop: “Allez les bleus! Allez les bleus!”

It’s the gold medal match of the men’s 3x3 basketball championship and the French team is looking to beat the Netherlands and delight this massive crowd — inside and outside the basketball area at La Concorde — that is all on their feet.

And here we go!

Spain'sGraciaAlonso shoots the ball against Germany player Svenja Brunckhorst.

Gracia Alonso’s desperation shot at the buzzer hits the rim and it’s Germany who will take the gold medal in women’s 3x3 basketball. Germany wins 17-16 as time expires.

Sonja Greinacher of Germany had hit a two-point shot to give the Germans a 17-15 lead with 30 seconds to play. It was Greinacher’s second massive shot of the day; she had sank a buzzer beater in the semifinal to send the Germans through to the final.

Juana Camilion of Spain scored an easy lay-up to cut the deficit to one and then Marie Reichert of Germany traveled on the ensuing possession, giving the Spanish one last shot.

The play broke down and Alonso heaved a shot as the buzzer sounded. It bounced off the rim and the second-ever gold medal in this sport goes to Germany.

Spain's Sandra Ygueravide drives past Germany's Marie Reichert during the Women's 3x3 basketball Gold medal game.

It’s a drama worthy of any French theater.

Spain and Germany are tied at 15 with 55 seconds to go in this gold medal match up.

Here we go!

Sweden's Armand Duplantis passes 6.25m and sets the new world record in the men's pole vault final.

It’s a world record for Mondo Duplantis!!

The pole vault star clears 6.25 meters on his third attempt with the final act of the evening, springing to his feet and sprinting away from the mat in delight.

That’s the ninth time in his career that Duplantis has broken the world record, and now he’s done it on the biggest stage of them all.

ArmandDuplantisof Sweden in action.

Kenya's Beatrice Chebet crosses the finish line ahead of Kenya's Faith Kipyegon in the women's 5000m final.

Faith Kipyegon initially crossed the line in second in the final of the women’s 5,000m but she’s since been disqualified from the race for obstruction.

Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet still takes the gold, but Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan is provisionally upgraded to silver and Italy’s Nadia Battocletti gets bronze on top of her national record.

Kipyegon, a two-time Olympic champion and one of the world’s most decorated runners, will still be able to appeal the decision.

Spain's Vega Gimeno and Germany'sElisa Mevius compete in the women's 3x3 basketball gold medal game.

And we are onto the gold medal matches.

The German and Spanish teams are warming up here at La Concord in a winner-take-gold, first-to-21 match up.

The Germans get the first bucket and we are off!

Valarie Allman competes during the women's discus throw final.

American discus thrower Valarie Allman struck gold for the second consecutive Olympic Games Monday in the Stade De France outside Paris.

The 29-year-old was expected to top the podium after dominating her competitors in the event all year. Entering the Olympics, Allman’s longest throw of the year was three full meters further than any other athlete in the field.

Allman’s best throw of the day went 69.50 meters, more than half a meter better than her gold medal throw in Tokyo in 2021.

The silver medal went to Feng Bin of China, and Croatia’s Sandra Elkasević took the bronze medal.

He may already have the gold medal wrapped up, but Mondo Duplantis isn’t done yet.

The Swedish star clears 6.10 meters to break Thiago Braz’s Olympic record, and now he has his sights set on his own world record.

The bar goes up to 6.25m and chants of “Mondo! Mondo!” ring around the Stade de France. This could be huge…