The first week of the 2024 Paris Games closes out with Sha’Carri Richardson taking the track and two of Team USA’s top swimmers returning to the pool.
Richardson’s long-awaited Olympic debut will come during the women’s 100m preliminary round. Richardson won the event at the 2023 world championships.
After becoming the most decorated woman in U.S. Olympic history on Thursday, Katie Ledecky is back in the pool on Friday for the women’s 800m freestyle heat. It’s the final event for Ledecky in Paris and last chance to earn her ninth Olympic gold medal, which would tie her with Larisa Latynina, a gymnast from the Soviet Union, for the most golds ever by a female Olympian.
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