What to watch: US women’s basketball looks to continue win streak
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PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles, fresh off leading the U.S. women’s gymnastics team back to the gold medal in team competition, returns to the mat in Thursday action at the Paris Olympics.
Here is a guide of what to look out for:
US women’s basketball
The U.S. women’s basketball team looks to extend its Olympic winning streak to 57 games when the Americans play Belgium. The team has not lost in the Olympics since the 1992 Barcelona Games.
A’ja Wilson scored 24 points and Breanna Stewart added 22 to help the U.S. beat Japan 102-76 in Monday night’s opening game.
The U.S. has won seven consecutive gold medals.
Brittney Griner is playing her first international games since she spent time in a Russian prison in 2022 after she was sentenced to nine years in jail for drug possession and smuggling.
The game is at 9 p.m. CEST (3 p.m. EDT) at Pierre Mauroy Stadium.
Golf begins
The men’s golf tournament begins at Le Golf National with Xander Schauffele seeking a second straight gold medal after winning at the Tokyo Games.
Schauffele is the only player in the field to have won both an Olympic gold and a major — he’s coming off wins at the PGA Championship in May and the British Open title two weeks ago.
The tournament will be played at the site of the French Open, and, more famously, the 2018 Ryder Cup. It’s the third Olympic golf competition since the sport was put back on the program in 2016.
The top seven players in the world, starting with Scottie Scheffler and Schauffele at Nos. 1 and 2, are part of the 60-man field. It’s the best field since the sport returned to Olympics, but not necessarily the strongest.
U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau is not at the Olympics because he plays with LIV Golf, and LIV doesn’t award world ranking points. The Olympics use the world ranking to determine the roster.
Play begins at 9 a.m. CEST (3 a.m. EDT).
Tennis heats up
The stakes are high at Roland Garros when the semifinals are played in women’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.
Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia will play the quarterfinal winner of the match between Donna Vekic of Croatia or Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine. Zheng Qinwen of China will play the quarterfinal winner of the match between No. 1 Iga Swiatek of Poland or Danielle Collins of the U.S.
Play begins at 12 p.m. CEST (6 a.m. EDT).
