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Paris Olympics: Team USA's Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone wins gold, Noah Lyles takes bronze

It was a wild day at Stade de France on Thursday, with Americans Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Tara Davis-Woodhall and Grant Holloway picking up gold medals. Most surprisingly, Noah Lyles took bronze in the men's 200 after testing positive for COVID. His Olympics are now over.

Elsewhere in Paris, the United States competed in a couple of semifinal matches. The women's water polo team fell to Australia, and will play for a bronze medal on Saturday, while the women's volleyball team beat Brazil to reach the gold medal game on Sunday.

You can check out the day's full Olympic schedule here. After Thursday's action, Team USA holds the overall medal count lead, tops in gold, silver and bronze. You can check out the full medal table here.

Check out the day's action below.

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  • USA's Grant Holloway wins gold in 100-meter hurdles

    Another gold for the United States in track and field. Grant Holloway wins the men's 100 meters hurdles with a time of 12.99.

    Teammate Daniel Roberts finishes with silver at 13.09 and Jamaica's Rasheed Broadbell earns bronze, behind Roberts by .003.

    Read more from Yahoo Sports here.

  • U.S. women get gold and bronze in 400-meter hurdles

    Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone wins gold in the women's 400 meters and sets a world record in the process. McLaughlin-Levrone finishes with a time of 50.37, beating her own record of 50.65 set in June.

    This is her second consecutive gold medal in the event. No one else has ever won two golds in the 400 meters.

    Anna Cockrell wins silver with a time of 51.87, followed by Femke Bol of the Netherlands earning bronze at 52.15.

    Read more from Yahoo Sports here.

  • Women's water polo: Australia beats USA, 14–13, in semifinal

    Maddie Musselman misses another penalty shot, stopped by Gabrielle Palm. Australia outscores Team USA, 6-5, in overtime and gets the win, 14–13. The U.S. will not play for a fourth consecutive gold medal.

    Australia advances to face Spain for the gold medal on Saturday at 9:35 a.m. ET.

    USA will play for the bronze against the Netherlands on Saturday. Their match begins at 4:35 a.m. ET.

  • Nobody's missing a penalty shot in overtime

    Ryann Neushul and Jordan Raney each score for the U.S., while Bronte Halligan and Zoe Arancini answer for Australia.

  • USA, Australia trading penalty shot scores

    Each team is 2-for-2 on their penalty shots.

    Maddie Musselman scores for Team USA, but Abby Andrews answers with another goal.

    Jenna Flynn and Tilly Kearns next trade goals.

    Maggie Steffens and Elle Armit each score next.

  • Track and field: Letsile Tebogo upsets Noah Lyles in 200

    Noah Lyles’ historic pursuit of an Olympic sprint double ended with a humbling defeat.

    The world’s most unbeatable 200 meters runner, the man who just four days ago insisted he’d leave his rivals “depressed” when he came off the turn, lost his signature race.

    Lyles didn’t appear to have his usual burst right from the start of Thursday night’s Olympic men’s 200 meters final. The American fell behind early and struggled to make up ground rounding the turn, leaving himself too far behind Letsile Tebogo of Botswana to overtake him before they reached the finish line.

    Read the full story here.

  • Australia's Zoe Arancini scores first penalty shot

    Zoe Arancini gets the first shot for Australia and scores. Australia takes a 9–8 lead with the USA's Maddie Musselman up next.

  • Women's water polo: USA and Australia go to overtime

    Bronte Halligan can't get a clear look for Australia and throws a pass wide left of the net. Time runs out with USA and Australia tied 8–8.

    This match will now be decided by penalty kicks in overtime.

  • Australia calls timeout with 22 seconds remaining and an 8–8 tie. Jordan Raney missed a shot that could've taken the lead for the U.S.

  • USA, Australia going back and forth

    Following a shot by USA's Jordan Raney that hit the post, Bronte Halligan gets the rebound and passes out to Keesja Gofers. Gofers cannot score, however.

  • Ashleigh Johnson blocks a shot by Abby Andrews with help on a deflection. A turnover by Team USA almost cost them the lead.

  • USA, Australia tied 8–8

    Bronte Halligan scores for Australia to tie the game at 8–8 with 2:54 remaining in the match. Australia has made its shots count, rarely missing their scoring attempts.

  • Ashleigh Johnson gets the save on a shot by Sienna Green to keep the U.S. in front. Zoe Arancini got the turnover to give Australia a scoring chance.

  • Australia scores to make it an 8–7 game

    Australia refuses to yield, however. Charlize Andrews scores her second goal of the game, her seventh of the Paris Games, to cut USA's lead to 8–7.

  • USA takes 8–6 lead over Australia

    Shortly after NBC shows former NFL quarterback Andrew Luck in attendance to support his fellow Stanford Cardinal, the U.S. takes the lead on a power play goal by Rachel Nattal. Team USA now has an 8–6 lead early in the fourth quarter.

  • USA 7, Australia 6

    After a timeout to set up a scoring play, Team USA regains the lead. Maggie Stephens takes a short pass and throws a shot past Gabrielle Palm to take a 7–6 lead with seconds remaining in the third quarter.

  • USA, Australia tied again at 6–6

    Abby Andrews cannot be stopped for Australia. She scores yet again, rocketing a power play goal past Ashleigh Johnson to tie the game at 6–6.

  • USA takes back the lead, 6–5

    USA quickly responds to Australia tying the game. Jenna Flynn scores to put the U.S. back on top, 6–5.

  • Abby Andrews with three goals, Australia ties the game 5–5

    Gabrielle Palm with another great save on a power play shot by USA's Rachel Fattal.

    After thwarting the USA power play, Abby Andrews scores yet again for Australia to tie the game, 5–5. She has three goals.

  • Australia's defense turning up effort

    Australia playing strong defense in front of its goal, closing in quickly on USA players and restricting them from getting a clean look or shot. Yet USA is keeping the action on the Australia side of the pool.

  • Another goal for Australia's Abby Andrews

    Gabriella Palm slaps away an attempt by Jewel Roemer and Australia turns that back up the court for another goal by Abby Andrews. That is Andrews' 10th goal of the Paris Olympics and USA only leads 5–4.

  • Australia scores to open the third quarter

    Australia kills the USA's power play opportunity to begin the third quarter and turns that into a score by Abby Andrews. Australia cuts the deficit to 5–3 early on.

  • Halftime: USA 5, Australia 2

    Emily Mary Ausmus extends Team USA's lead to 5–2, taking an outlet pass down the right wing and swooping for a score on the left side of the net.

    Australia controlled play in the second quarter, but couldn't get clean looks at the net. Meanwhile, USA made their shots count the most, scoring three goals in the frame.

  • USA extends lead over Australia, 4–2

    After Australia's Zoe Arancini hit the left post on a scoring attempt, Jovana Sekulic rebounds her miss with a goal to give Team USA a 4–2 lead.

  • Women's water polo: USA 3, Australia 2

    Zoe Arancini follows up for Australian with a quick goal to cut USA's lead to 3–2.

    Australia turning up the pressure in this second quarter, keeping play on the U.S. side and getting more shots on goal.

  • Women's water polo: USA 3, Australia 1

    Gabriella Palm with a great save on USA's Tara Prentice at point blank range.

    But the U.S, quickly follows up with the second goal from Maddie Musselman.

  • 1st quarter: USA 2, Australia 1

    Team USA controlled play in the first quarter over Australia, 12 possessions to 9. Both sides had six shots.

  • Australia scores first goal

    Charlize Andrews gives Australia its first goal to cut Team USA's lead to 2–1 in the first quarter's final seconds.

  • Women's water polo: USA 2, Australia 0

    Jenna Flynn gives the U.S. a 2–0 lead on a power play goal after Australia's Abby Andrews commits an exclusion foul.

  • France will play for gold after surviving scare from Germany

    On paper, the United States has a better Olympic basketball team than France.

    So did Canada and Germany. It didn’t matter.

    If the Americans reach Saturday’s gold medal game, they better come ready for a ferocious, physical and at times dysfunctional French team that will be waiting for them, spurred on by a raucous crowd here at Bercy Arena.

    The French defeated Germany Thursday, 73-69, to advance to the Olympic finals. They did it in much the same manner as they beat a more talented Canadian team on Tuesday, by overwhelming their opponent and getting various players to step up in critical times.

    Read the full story here.

  • Women's water polo: USA 1, Australia 0

    Maddie Musselman puts the U.S. on the board first. Team USA is controlling play thus far with 8 possessions and four shots.

  • USA-Australia women's water polo semifinal is underway

    The winner will face Spain for the gold medal. Spain defeated the Netherlands, 19–18, earlier on Thursday.

  • Switzerland's Morgane Metraux takes lead after two rounds, thanks to Olympic record on front nine

    Switzerland’s Morgane Metraux leads the women's golf tournament through two rounds after she recorded a 66 on Friday, which included an Olympic-record 8-under 28 — featuring a pair of eagles — on the front nine at Le Golf National.

    Metraux cooled off on the final nine holes with five pars, two bogeys and a birdie to finish at 8-under heading into Friday's third round.

    Yin Ruoning of China is right behind Metraux in second place at 7-under after firing the best round of the day with a 65.

    France's Céline Boutier, who led after the first round, shot a 76 Thursday and dropped to 3-under and tied for sixth.

    American Nelly Korda, the defending gold medalist, was making a charge up the leaderboard Thursday with six birdies through the 15th hole, but had a finish to forget. After hitting the water on her tee shot on the 136-yard 16th, her drop shot found the greenside bunker. She would make a quadruple bogey, then bogey 17 before ending her round with a birdie to get to 2-under and a tie with Rose Zhang.

    Read the full story here.

  • Team USA gets it done!

    They take the fifth set over Brazil to make it back to the gold-medal game.

  • Team USA is fired up! They take a 12-8 lead in the fifth set.

  • The fifth said has been pretty even so far — tied at 7.

  • Brazil takes the fourth set, and we're headed to a decisive fifth. Team USA needs to win to have a shot to defend its Tokyo gold medal.

  • Team USA isn't going away...it's 23-21 Brazil, which just called a timeout.

  • Brazil is up 22-19, and they're inching toward forcing a tiebreaking set.

  • Brazil takes a 19-16 lead and and they are feeling it. USA has kept it close but hasn't been able to even things up.

  • Kathryn Plummer is fired up as Team USA tries to even up the set. It's 15-13 Brazil in the fourth.

  • Brazil takes 13-11 lead in the fourth set against USA women's volleyball as they try to even up the match.

  • Team USA is up 2-1 over Brazil in their semifinal volleyball match

    The fourth set is currently tied at 9.

  • Team USA continues to set world records in Paris

  • Out of coffee? Watch Sha'Carri Richardson instead

    If you're out of caffeine and need a morning pick-me-up, try watching Sha'Carri Richardson run the anchor leg in the qualifier for the women's 4x100m relay because she. Is. Phenomenal.

    After missing out on gold in the women's 100m, Richardson looks beyond determined to get herself and her teammates a gold medal, and they'll get that chance in the final on Friday.

  • While you were sleeping...

    Welcome to another day of Olympics coverage at Yahoo Sports! It's going to be a busy day, so let's start with what you may have missed while you were sleeping.

    Swimmer Katie Ledecky and rower Nick Mead were chosen as the Team USA flag bearers for the Closing Ceremony on Sunday. Read more here.