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2024 Paris Olympics: Arizona athletes to watch on Day 4 of competition on July 30

Tuesday in Paris will see Jade Carey back in action, the start of 3x3 basketball and a lot of action in the pool. Here are the Arizona Olympians to watch for.

PARIS, France — We've already seen a lot of exciting action from Arizona's athletes in the Olympics, including Mesa skateboarder Jagger Eaton winning a silver medal in men's street on Monday. 

Tuesday has seen even more Arizona Olympians chasing medals as they will be handed out in women's gymnastics and swimming. 

Here's a look at all of the Arizona athletes to watch in the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday, July 30. 

Jade Carey, Women's Artistic Gymnastics 

Carey was back in the gym on Tuesday looking to help Team USA improve on their silver medal from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the team final. 

She only competed in the vault, which is Team USA's even in the first of four rotations on Tuesday.  

At the end of the day, Carey and the rest of Team USA found themselves on top with the gold medal. 

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Carey did not compete in the team final in Tokyo. Team USA lost that competition to the Russian Olympic Committee by just 3.432 points.  

The US won gold in both the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the 2012 Olympics in London, England. Prior to that, they had not won gold since the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.  

Carey will also compete in the women's individual vault final, which will be held at 7:20 p.m. Arizona time on Aug. 3.  

Chase Budinger, Men's Beach Volleyball 

One day after winning his first Olympic match, former University of Arizona basketball player Chase Budinger and his partner, Miles Evans will be back on the court at 11 a.m. on Tuesday when they take on the Netherlands' Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot. 

Budinger and Evans swept France's Youssef Krou and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat, two sets to none, on Monday.  

Boermans and de Groot also won on Monday, beating Spain's Pablo Herrera Allepuz and Adrian Gavira Collado two sets to none. 

After Tuesday, Budinger and Evans will get two days off before wrapping up pool play with a match against Allepuz and Collado on Aug. 2 at 6 a.m.  

Jimmer Fredette, Men's 3x3 Basketball 

Jimmer Fredette is best remembered for his time at Brigham Young University, but he also spent a short time with the Phoenix Suns toward the end of his professional basketball career in 2019.  

Fredette has been keeping his career alive since 2022 by playing 3x3 basketball and is now an Olympian in the event. 

This will be the first time that the US has fielded a men's 3x3 team in the Olympics. 

Team USA will open pool play on Tuesday at 1:35 p.m. against Serbia. 

They will play a total of seven pool play games between July 30 and Aug. 4. The top two teams in pool play will advance directly to the semifinals while the next four teams will play in the knockout round.  

Cierra Burdick, Women's 3x3 Basketball 

Former Phoenix Mercury forward Cierra Burdick has been playing 3x3 basketball for a decade, ever since she was in college. 

However, she did not make the Tokyo Olympic team that went on to win gold in the sport's Olympic debut. 

But now, she is an Olympian and will look to help Team USA defend its gold medal. 

The US opened play in Paris on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. against Germany and ended up on the losing end of a 17-13 game. Burdick finished with two points.

They will also play seven pool play games but will wrap up pool play a day earlier than the men on Aug. 3. Yhe rules for advancing to the knockout stage are the same for men and women.  

Burdick played four games for the Mercury in her final WNBA season in 2021 and averaged 4.7 points per game.  

Regan Smith, Women's Swimming 

Former Sun Devil Regan Smith will swim for gold in the final of the women's 100-meter backstroke on Tuesday at 11:56 a.m. 

Smith swam in the qualifying heats and semifinals of the event on Monday, finishing as the top qualifier for the final with a time of 57.97 seconds topping Australia's Kaylee McKeown by just two-hundredths of a second for the right to swim in lane four on Tuesday.  

Fellow American Katharine Berkoff finished with the third-best time on Monday (58.27 seconds) and will swim next to Smith in lane three. McKeown will be in lane five.  

Smith holds the world record in the women's 100-meter backstroke with a time of 57.13 seconds, which she set at the US Olympic Team Trial in June.  

Léon Marchand, Men's Swimming  

"The French Michael Phelps" will be back in the pool on Tuesday, but won't have a chance at a medal. 

Marchand, a former ASU swimmer, will swim in the preliminary heats and semifinals for the men's 200-meter butterfly and the men's 200-meter breaststroke. 

The heats for the 200-meter butterfly were held at 2 a.m. Arizona time and Marchand finished second in the fourth heat. The semifinals for the event will be held at 11:42 a.m. 

The heats for the 200-meter breaststroke started at 4:01 a.m. and Marchand was in the fourth heat and finished second. The semifinals for that event will be held at 12:47 p.m.  

The finals for both events will be held on Wednesday. 

Marchand has already won a gold medal, as he won the men's 400-meter individual medley by nearly six seconds on Sunday. 

Ilya Kharun, Men's Swimming 

ASU sophomore and Canadian swimmer Ilya Kharun swam in the men's 200-meter butterfly, as well. 

He participated in heat two and placed first.  

This is Kharun's first Olympics. The Montreal, Quebec, native is the son of two Cirque du Soleil acrobats. The family moved to Las Vegas when he was very young. 

Kharun originally intended to swim for the U.S., but switched to Canada in 2022 when he was removed from the U.S. team for the 2022 Pan Pacific Junior Championships as he only had a Canadian passport.  

He holds the Canadian record in the 200-meter butterfly.  

Tiago Behar, Men's Swimming 

ASU swimmer Tiago Behar swam for Switzerland in the men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay. He was brought to Paris by the Swiss as a relay-only swimmer.  

This is Behar's first Olympics. 

The heats for the relay were at 4:20 a.m. Switzerland came in eighth in Heat 1. The final will be held at 1:01 p.m. 

Desirae Krawczyk, Women's Tennis 

Former Sun Devil Desirae Krawczyk made her Olympic debut when she took the court on Tuesday in the first round of the women's doubles at the home of the French Open, Roland-Garros. 

Krawczyk and partner Danielle Collins played Greece's Desponia Papamichail and Maria Sakkari. Krawczyk and Collins won 2-0.

Luguentz Dort, Men's Basketball  

Former Sun Devil Luguentz "Lu" Dort will be back on the court for Canada's second game of the Paris Olympics on Tuesday. 

The Canadians took on Australia at 4:30 a.m. Arizona time and came away with a 93-83 win. Dort contributed 11 points.

Canada defeated Greece, 86-79, in their first Olympic game on Saturday. Dort started for Canada and scored eight points.  

Dort played just one season in Tempe before turning pro. He now plays for the Oklahoma City Thunder.  

Josh Green, Men's Basketball 

There will be two players with ties to Arizona playing for the Land Down Under against Canada. 

One of them is former Arizona Wildcat Josh Green. Australia lost the game 83-93, Green did not score in 17 minutes.

In Australia's first game of the 2024 Olympics, a 92-80 win over Spain, Green came off the bench and played 22 minutes and 13 seconds, but did not score. He did grab two rebounds and had four assists. 

Green played at Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale and Hillcrest Prep in Phoenix before heading to Tucson. 

He was drafted in the first round of the 2020 NBA Draft by the Dallas Mavericks and played for Dallas for four seasons, but was traded to the Charlotte Hornets as part of a sign-and-trade that involved six teams and centered around Klay Thompson moving from the Golden State Warriors to Dallas.  

Jock Landale, Men's Basketball 

The other player with ties to Arizona playing for Australia is former Phoenix Sun Jock Landale. He had 16 points and 12 rebounds in the loss against Canada.

The center started for Australia against Spain and led the team with 20 points. He also grabbed nine rebounds and had five assists.  

Landale played one season for the Suns in 2022-23 after being traded by the Atlanta Hawks and averaged 6.6 points per game. He now plays for the Houston Rockets.  

Yuta Watanabe, Men's Basketball  

The final player with ties to Arizona competing in the Olympics on Tuesday is former Sun Yuta Watanabe, who played for Japan when they took on France Tuesday morning.

Watanabe scored five points and added eight rebounds in Japan's 94-90 loss against France.

The Japanese opened Olympic play on Saturday and lost to Germany, 97-77. Watanabe started for Japan and scored 16 points in the loss. 

Watanabe played 29 games for the Suns this past season before he was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies as part of a three-team trade that centered around the Suns acquiring Royce O'Neale from the Brooklyn Nets.  

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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