Paris Olympics Day 2: US Wins Gold, Silver in Women's 100-Meter Butterfly, Foil Fencing; Simone Biles Dominates Qualifying

After a couple days of rain, sunny skies are out for the second full day of action at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Sunday's competition features more excitement in gymnastics, basketball, and swimming, with 13 sets of medals up for grabs.

Drag performers evoked a scene of the Last Supper, and the Catholic Church in France criticized “scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity” in the opening display.

A spokesperson on Sunday told media that this was not the intention.

The 2022 world champion touched out in 55.59 seconds to secure the first individual gold of the 2024 Games for a U.S. female swimmer, with Walsh taking silver in 55.63.

China's Zhang Yufei took the bronze.

Huske's win continued a sequence of the event never having had a repeat winner since it was first held in 1956. Canada's reigning champion Maggie Mac Neil finished fifth.

Michael Phelps previously held the record of 4:03:84, recorded in the 2008 Olympics.

Tomoyuki Matsushita of Japan won silver and Team USA’s Carson Foster took bronze.

And the two most-experienced Olympians on this U.S. team opened the Paris Games—not to mention a bid for a fifth consecutive gold medal for the Americans—with a near-perfect show.

Durant made his first eight shots on the way to 23 points in less than 17 minutes, James added 21 points, nine rebounds and seven assists and the U.S. rolled to a 110-84 win over Serbia in the Olympic opener for both teams on Saturday.

They were a combined 18 for 22 from the field—8 of 9 for Durant, 9 of 13 for James—as the United States had no trouble with the reigning World Cup silver medalists from last summer in the Philippines. Jrue Holiday scored 15, Devin Booker had 12, and Anthony Edwards and Stephen Curry each added 11 for the United States.

Three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic scored 20 points for Serbia, while Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 14.

Jeon Hunyoung, Lim Sihyeon, and Nam Suhyeon are representing South Korea, and secured the country's 10th consecutive gold medal in women's team archery. This makes South Korea undefeated in the event since it began in Seoul in 1988.

Lim is a new world record holder, last week scoring 694 and setting a world record in women's individual archery.

Not only did the 38-year-old Spaniard play, but for stretches, particularly in the early going and in crunch time down the stretch, he played very much like a version of himself everyone is used to seeing: the sprinting, sliding, grunting star who owns 22 Grand Slam trophies in all and won Olympic gold medals for Spain in singles in 2008 and doubles in 2016.

And the crowd loved it, regaling him with clap-accompanied chants of his nickname, “Ra-fa! Ra-fa!”

"The ultimate goal and dream is to do history for the USA and get a medal in the Olympics," said Jha.

After defeating Cho Daesong of Korea, he has advanced to the Round of 32 which will take place Wednesday.

French cyclist Pauline Ferrand-Prévot took home gold after building a long lead ahead of the pack, winning by 2 minutes and 57 seconds.

It’s the same stadium where Nadal has won a record 14 French Open titles — and there is a statue of the Spaniard outside the arena, where fans gathered to snap photos of themselves with the steel rendering of the player. He gave a quick wave as he walked in during prematch introductions.

When Nadal and Fucsovics began warming up, there were shouts of “Ole!” and then “Ra-fa! Ra-fa!”

Spectators rose from their seats again when Nadal jumped out to a 3-0 lead after just 13 minutes en route to taking the first set by a 6-1 score.

Kiefer, a third year student at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, initially thought Tokyo would be her last Olympic Game.

A fencer since age 5, the Tokyo win gave her the confidence to continue on the path of fencing, and she was granted a continued leave of absence to compete in the Paris 2024 games.

The cyclists are climbing up the man-made Elancourt Hill north of the city center, which at an altitude of 231 meters at its peak is the highest point in the Paris region.

About 45 minutes from the surfing venue, the Aranui 5 ship is able to accommodate about 230 passengers in over 100 cabins, with eight guest decks, a spa and gym, according to its website. It's anchored just off shore and the surfers, coaches and others take small boats to get back and forth.

Olympic officials say it is the first-ever floating athlete village.

The triathlon competition starts on Tuesday.

U.S. coach Cecile Landi said only that Biles' injury was minor, has been bothering her for a couple of weeks.

Biles' calf issue did not impact her qualifying score by much. She completed qualifying and leads the all-around standings so far with a total of 59.566.

Biles dazzled a star-studded crowd on balance beam to open qualifying, then appeared to tweak the leg while warming up on floor exercise. She left the floor with Team USA doctor Marcia Faustin.

With her ankle taped, Biles posted the highest score on floor and vault through two subdivisions. She did limit the difficulty of her uneven bars routine, skipping a unique skill she submitted to the International Gymnastics Federation on Friday. She did her usual set to score a 14.333, then tried to keep from putting too much weight on her leg following her dismount.

Landi said there's been no discussion of pulling Biles from the Paris Olympics.

Biles' next event would be the team final Tuesday.