Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky and Sha’Kari Richardson could all be fighting for gold in the middle of Saturday’s Olympics in Paris.
The Olympics.com schedule there are staggered gymnastic apparatus finals on their designated days and times for swimming competitions. The days and times for the athletics finals were announced in advance.
The schedule, which is still subject to change, includes several possible finals involving the Americans on Saturday, August 3:
Women’s Jump (10:19 a.m. ET). Biles is a 2016 Olympic gold medalist and two-time world champion in the discipline.
She has two jumps named after her as the first woman to do them internationally, including Yurchenko’s double peak from last year. She took silver at the worlds in October behind Brazil’s Rebecca Andrade.
The five USA women’s gymnastics team will be named at the Olympic trials in June.
Women’s 800m Freestyle (3:09 p.m. ET). Ledecky, if she makes the team at the swimming trials in June, could bid to become the first woman in any sport to win the same individual Olympic event four times. (Japanese wrestler Kaori Icho won four gold medals in wrestling, but in different weight classes.)
Ledecky won the 800 m free for the first time in 2012 at age 15 (also on August 3) as the youngest American Olympian in any sport. She then won it in Rio and Tokyo, as well as six consecutive world championships.
On February 8, Summer McIntosh, a 17-year-old Canadian, became the first swimmer to win the 800-meter freestyle over Ledecky in 13 years. But McIntosh may not swim the 800m freestyle in Paris.
McIntosh’s main events are the 200m butterfly, 400m individual medley and 400m freestyle. She is the second-fastest woman in history in the 800m free and the fourth-fastest in the 200m IM, despite never having swum either event at a world championship.
It was already known that the 200m IM and 800m freestyle finals would be in the same session on the Olympic programme. The current schedule features the 200m IM taking place 10 minutes before the 800m free, making it unrealistic to swim both.
The daily schedule for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, subject to change, based on the latest version of the competition schedule.
Women’s 100m Semifinals (1:50 p.m. ET) and Final (3:20 p.m. ET). The women’s 100m finalists may step on the starting blocks as the women’s 800m freestyle winner touches the pool wall.
In 2023, Richardson won the world 100m title on his debut at the world championships. In Paris, she could become the first U.S. woman to win the Olympic 100 meters since Gayle Devers in 1992 and 1996 if she makes the track trials team.
Due to schedule changesThe Paris Games have finals in rhythmic gymnastics, pool swimming and track and field on Saturday and Sunday in the middle of the weekend for the second time, joining 1988, according to Bill Mallon of OlyMADMen.
Other potentially noteworthy finals for the USA on August 3:
Rowing: Women’s eight (4:50 a.m. ET). The U.S. won every Olympic and World title from 2006 to 2016. They placed fourth at the Tokyo Games and took silver at the 2023 Worlds.
Tennis: Women’s Singles (6 a.m. ET). Coco Gauff won her first Grand Slam singles title at the 2023 US Open, is ranked third in the world and was the runner-up at the 2022 French Open at Roland Garros, the Olympic venue in Paris.
Shooting: Men’s Skeet (9:30 a.m. ET). Vincent Hancock can bid to become the first shooter to win the same individual event at four Olympics and the fourth American to do so in any sport after Al Oerter, Carl Lewis and Michael Phelps. Ledecky could join the roster about five hours later.
Track and Field: Men’s Shot Put (1:35 p.m. ET). Ryan Crouser is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, world record holder and arguably the most dominant athlete in the sport.
Swimming: Men’s 100m Butterfly (2:30 p.m. ET). Caeleb Dressel is the reigning Olympic gold medalist and world record holder. Dressel, who won a total of five gold medals in Tokyo, returns after taking months off from swimming at the end of 2022.
Swimming: Women’s 200m Medley (2:59 a.m. ET). Kate Douglas is a two-time reigning world champion. She could end the longest US gold medal drought in a women’s swimming event – 40 years after Tracy Caulkins won the 200m IM at the Los Angeles Games.
