2024 Olympics: Here's how Arizona's Olympians fared on Day 9 in Paris on August 4

PARIS, France — We are now heading into the second half of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and already we have seen some amazing performances from Arizona's Olympians, including gymnast Jade Carey winning two medals (gold and bronze), skateboarder Jagger Eaton winning his second Olympic medal (silver) and swimmer Léon Marchand dominate in his home country by winning four gold medals! 

On Sunday, we saw even more Arizona Olympians win medals. Here's a list of all of the Arizona Olympians who competed on Sunday and how they fared:

3x3 Basketball  

• USA men vs. The Netherlands 
  • USA: Jimmer Fredette, former member of the Phoenix Suns 
    • Team USA (2-5) lost to the Netherlands 21-6 in their final pool play game on Sunday. Fredette did not play in he game. With the loss, Team USA fell to seventh place in pool play and was eliminated. In the play-in round, Lithuania beat Poland, 21-15, and France beat Serbia, 22-19, to advance to the semifinals. France will play Latvia on Aug. 5 at 10 a.m. and Lithuania will play the Netherlands on Aug. 5 at 9 a.m. The winners will advance to the gold medal game, which will be on Aug. 5 at 1:30 p.m. The losers will play in the bronze medal game on Aug. 5 at 12:30 p.m.  
    • Fredette said he was unable to play after tearing two ligaments in his adductor in Team USA's game against Poland.  

Archery 

• Men's Individual 
  • USA: Brady Ellison from Globe 
    • Ellison defeated Turkey's Berkim Tumer, 6-2, in the 1/8 elimination round to advance to the quarterfinal, where he defeated South Korea's Je Deok Kim, 6-0. 
    • In the semifinal, Ellison defeated Germany's Florian Unruh to advance to the gold medal match.  
    • In the gold medal match, Ellison took on South Korea's Woojin Kim, but lost in a shoot-out, 6-5. Kim won the gold medal, Ellison got the silver, and South Korea's Wooseok Lee won bronze.  

5x5 Basketball  

• Women's group phase
  • Nigeria vs. Canada 
    • Nigeria: Promise Amukamara, Apollo High School/Arizona State University  
      • Nigeria defeated Canada, 79-70, with Amukamara scoring 12 points, dishing out six assists and grabbing five steals for D'Tigress. With the win, Nigeria finished group play 2-1 and in third place in Group B, behind France and Australia. However, D'Tigress advanced to the quarterfinals as the No. 8 seed and will take on No. 1 seed USA on Aug. 7 at 12:30 p.m.  
      • This is the first time the Nigerian women's basketball team has ever advanced to the quarterfinals at an Olympics.  

• USA vs. Germany 
  • USA: Diana Taurasi, Phoenix Mercury 
  • USA: Brittney Griner, Phoenix Mercury 
  • USA: Kahleah Copper, Phoenix Mercury  
    • The US women rolled to an 87-68 victory over Germany to claim the top spot in Group C and the No. 1 seed in the quarterfinals. This was the US Women's basketball team's 58th straight win in the Olympics. Taurasi started for the US, but played only 6 minutes and 9 seconds and did not score. Copper played 13 minutes and 15 seconds and scored nine points off the bench. Griner also came off the bench and added six points and four rebounds for Team USA.   

• As mentioned above, the US will play Nigeria in the quarterfinals on Aug. 7 at 12:30 p.m. 
• The semifinals will be on Aug. 9 at 8:30 a.m. and noon. 
• The bronze medal game will be played at 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 11 
• The gold medal game will be played at 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 11  

Track and Field  

• Women's 3,000-meter steeplechase
  • Round 1 
    • Canada: Regan Yee, ASU 
      • Yee finished last in Heat 1 with a time of 9 minutes, 27.81 seconds. She was eliminated. 
• Women's Hammer Throw 
  • Qualification Round  
    • Norway: Beatrice Nedberge Llano, ASU 
    • Llano finished in 15th place in Group A of qualification with a top throw of 66.92 meters. She was eliminated. 
• Men's 110-meter hurdles 
  • Round 1 
    • USA: Freddie Crittenden, Phoenix Track Club
      • Crittenden finished in last place in his heat with a time of 18.27 seconds but will race in the Repechage, or second-chance, round, which will be raced on Aug. 6 at 1:50 a.m.  
      • Crittenden purposefully chose to race this way after tweaking his right abductor muscle on Saturday, telling NBC Sports' Lewis Johnson, "So, it was an intentional choice. It was either get top three or everyone gets through to repechage. Every athlete has a chance to race in the repechage. So, I decided to just not make an emotional choice, make a smart choice, give my body time to recover a little bit from being aggravated, lean on my medical doctors, lean on God and just wait for repechage round, come out and try to kill it at the repechage round." Crittenden added that he will be able to go "all out" on Tuesday. 
      • Crittenden ran the second-fastest time in the 110 meters in 2024 when he ran the race in 12.93 seconds at the US Track and Field Olympic Team Trials in Oregon on June 28.  

• Men's 1,500-meters
  • Semifinals 
    • USA: Hobbs Kessler, trains in Flagstaff
    • Great Britain: Neil Gourley, trains in Flagstaff 
      • Both Kessler and Gourley raced in the second semifinal for the 1,500 meters and advanced to Tuesday's final. Kessler (3 minutes, 31.97 seconds) finished second and Gourley (3 minutes, 32.11 seconds) finished third. 
      • The final for the men's 1,500 meters will be raced on Aug. 6 at 11:50 a.m.

Water Polo 

• Women's preliminary round 
  • Canada vs. The Netherlands, 9:30 a.m. 
    • Canada: Blaire McDowell, ASU 
    • Netherlands: Bente Rogge, ASU 
    • Netherlands: Lieke Rogge, ASU 
      • In their final preliminary round match, the Netherlands beat Canada, 20-11. McDowell was unable to play in the game for Canada. Bente Rogge scored one goal for the Netherlands, while her sister, Lieke, scored five.  
      • The Netherlands finished in second place in Group A and Canada finished in fourth. Both teams advanced to the quarterfinals. 
      • The Netherlands will play Italy in the quarterfinals on Aug. 6 at 6:35 a.m. 
      • Canada will play Spain in the quarterfinals on Aug. 6 at 5 a.m. 
      • The semifinals will be on Aug. 8 
      • The bronze medal and gold medal matches will be on Aug. 10. 
  • France vs. Greece 
    • France: Mia Rycraw, ASU
      • Rycraw started in goal once again for France, but allowed Greece to score on 11 of their 22 shots as the Greeks won 11-4. 
      • With the loss, France finished in fifth place in Group B and was eliminated. 

Golf

• Men's stroke play final round
  • Spain 
    • Jon Rahm, ASU
      • Rahm came into the final round tied for first place but finished tied for fifth after shooting one-under par to end with a score of -15. Rahm opened the day shooting five-under par on the front nine but collapsed on the back shooting four-over par, including a double bogey on the 14th hole. 
    • David Puig, ASU
      • Puig came into Sunday tied for 23rd place with a score of five under par but shot four over to finish tied for 40th with a score of one under par. 
  • USA
    • Wyndham Clark, Scottsdale 
      • Clark started the Olympic tournament with an awful round on Thursday, as he shot a four-over-par 75. However, he rebounded with a round of 68 (three-under-par) on Friday and back-to-back rounds of 65 (six-under-par) on Saturday and Sunday to finish with a score of -11 and in a tie for 14th place. 
  • Canada
    • Nick Taylor, Scottsdale
      • Taylor finished the Olympic tournament with a solid round on Sunday, shooting two-under-par to end tied for 30th place with a score of -4. 
  • Medalists 
    • American Scottie Scheffler took the gold after shooting nine-under-par on Sunday and ending with a score of -19. Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood (-18) took the silver and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama (-17) won the bronze. 

Swimming

• Men's 4x100-meter medley relay 
  • France: Léon Marchand, ASU (breaststroke)
    • Marchand won his fifth medal of the 2024 Games, taking the bronze in the 4x100m medley relay. Marchand swam the second leg of the relay, finishing in 58.52 seconds. The French team finished .37 seconds behind the United States, who took silver, and .92 seconds behind China, which won gold.   

• Women's 4x100-meter medley relay 
  • USA: Regan Smith, ASU (backstroke)
    • Smith swam the opening leg of the relay for a stacked US team that included Lilly King (breaststroke), Gretchen Walsh (butterfly) and Torri Huske (freestyle). Smith swam her 100-meter backstroke leg in 57.28 seconds, giving the US a lead they would not give up, as they won the gold medal and set a world record with a time of 3 minutes, 49.63 seconds. The US finished 3.48 seconds ahead of silver medalist Australia and 3.60 seconds ahead of bronze medalist China.  

Arizona sports 

The city of Phoenix is home to four major professional sports league teams; The NFL's Arizona Cardinals, NBA's Phoenix Suns, WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks.

The Cardinals have made State Farm Stadium in Glendale their home turf and the Footprint Center in downtown Phoenix is home to both the Suns and the Mercury. The Indoor Football League’s Arizona Rattlers play at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale.

Phoenix also has a soccer team with the USL's Phoenix Rising FC, who play at Phoenix Rising FC Stadium in Phoenix.

The Valley hosts multiple major sporting events every year, including college football's Fiesta Bowl and Guaranteed Rate Bowl; the PGA Tour’s highest-attended event, the WM Phoenix Open; NASCAR events each spring and fall, including Championship Weekend in November; and Cactus League Spring Training for 15 Major League Baseball franchises.

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