The American girls regarded to play spoilers in opposition to Australia and its fast-paced offense within the bronze medal match. The U.S. girls entered the match assured to have their finest end at an Olympic rugby match, after ending sixth in Tokyo and fifth in Rio. They punctuated the chance with a last-second upset and a 14-12 win over Australia to assert the bronze medal.

The Individuals gained the match on the final play when Alex Sedrick stiffed arm her well past Australia’s protection and sprinted her approach down nearly all of the sector and positioned the ball down within the middle of the strive for the game-tying rating. Below the best stress, she transformed her personal kick for the Individuals to seal the win for the Individuals.

After the match, Ilona Maher was nonetheless attempting to course of what simply occurred. “I hasn’t sunk in but. I’m so drained however I’m so excited. I don’t assume it can sink in till we stand up with these medals. We labored actually exhausting. We wished this medal, not for ourselves however for our households. It was such a tough few years, however we did it.”

FULL RESULTS

Early within the first, Maddison Levi continued her match tear and scored her thirteenth strive of the Paris Video games to present Australia the 7-0 lead. The 13 tries are probably the most scored in a single Olympic Video games. Ilona Maher led the Individuals on a pleasant run halfway via the primary, however the U.S. squad was slowed as they neared the strive. The Individuals have been within the midst of executing a textbook part play when Teagan Levi was carded for a excessive sort out. 

On the person benefit, the Individuals had a number of scoring probabilities. One of the best probability got here from a close to strive by Kayla Canett, however Religion Nathan tackled her into contact to save lots of the strive. On the restart, Canett made up for the missed strive with a strong sort out within the strive zone to win the ball again for america. On the following scrum, three-time Olympian Alev Kelter powered her approach via Australia to the strive zone. She transformed her personal attempt to even the rating at 7 and that’s how the 2 groups went into the half. 

Australia threated to start with of the second half with a harmful run by Maddison Levi, however Sariah Paki knocked the ball on receiving a cross within the strive. 

The Individuals protection slowed the potent Australia offense many of the second half. Regardless of the defensive masterclass, a scrum penalty turned the ball over to Australia with lower than 90 seconds to play and the Levi sisters capitalized to present Australia the lead when Maddison crossed the strive line for her 14th strive of the match. 

On the following kickoff, the Australians made a gutsy name to kick the ball deep off the kickoff. Ariana Ramsey set Sedrick as much as obtain the ball deep within the American territory and the Olympic newcomer did the remainder, she stiff armed Teagan Levi to the bottom and ran your entire size of the sector to tie the match.  She transformed her personal strive from beneath the submit to present the Individuals the 14-12 win within the bronze medal match. 

The Individuals pulled off the unbelievable comeback for the primary medal of any form in males’s or girls’s rugby sevens. Additionally it is the primary medal in rugby (15s or 7s) for the U.S. since 1924 when the boys gained gold. With the win, head coach Emilie Bydwell grew to become the primary feminine rugby head coach to steer a workforce to a medal of any form.

As Olympic rugby turns to the 2028 Video games in Los Angeles Maher hopes the win will assist propel American rugby ahead. “I hope it means we get extra video games in stadiums like this, that we get more cash and funding for the ladies’s sport. We deserve it. We want extra ladies within the US attempting rugby and seeing what it might do for them.”

PARIS (AP) — The scene felt all too acquainted to Coco Gauff. An officiating determination she was positive was fallacious. A chair umpire who wouldn’t hear. Tears streaming down her cheeks. And, most disappointing of all, a loss, this time on the Paris Olympics.

Even the positioning was the identical: Court docket Philippe Chatrier was the place the reigning U.S. Open champion was eradicated within the third spherical on the Summer time Video games by Donna Vekic of Croatia 7-6 (7), 6-2 on Tuesday. That’s additionally the primary stadium used yearly for the French Open, the place Gauff discovered herself in a virtually similar dispute over a name whereas being defeated by eventual champion Iga Swiatek within the semifinals final month.

“There’s been a number of occasions this 12 months the place that’s occurred to me — the place I felt like I all the time should be an advocate for myself on the court docket,” Gauff stated afterward, renewing a name for video evaluation for use in tennis, as it’s in lots of different skilled sports activities.

“I felt that he known as it earlier than I hit, and I don’t assume the ref disagreed,” she stated. “I believe he simply thought it didn’t have an effect on my swing, which I felt prefer it did.”

Gauff is among the largest stars on the 2024 Paris Video games, a 20-year-old from Florida who was seeded No. 2 on the Olympics in singles and was the feminine flag bearer for the USA through the opening ceremony on Friday.

Later Tuesday, Gauff returned to the court docket with U.S. teammate Taylor Fritz and received a first-round blended doubles match, 6-1, 6-7 (6), 10-5 towards Nadia Podoroska and Maximo Gonzalez of Argentina to get to the quarterfinals. Gauff is also competing in girls’s doubles on the Paris Olympics with Jessica Pegula.

“On the finish of the day, if something, doubles make you need to go on the market extra. You don’t need to smash another person’s possibilities primarily based off your mentality,” Gauff stated. “Taylor and I have been speaking about it earlier: A medal is a medal. I’ve two different occasions I can probably try this in, so I’m simply centered on that.”

In singles, it was Vekic who was receiving a lot of the assist from the stands early within the match, with chants of “Don-na! Don-na!” ringing out. When Vekic started her comeback after trailing 4-1, she responded to some applause by waving her arms overhead for extra — and the gang responded. Within the subsequent sport, Gauff delivered a backhand winner and raised a hand, wagging her fingers to ask the parents within the seats to again her — and so they responded, drawing a wry smile from Vekic.

By the point the disputed name occurred two video games from the tip of the match, Gauff was means behind.

She hit a serve and Vekic’s return landed close to the baseline. A line decide initially known as Vekic’s shot out; Gauff didn’t hold the ball in play. Chair umpire Jaume Campistol thought Vekic’s shot landed in and awarded her the purpose, giving her a service break and a 4-2 lead.

Gauff walked over to speak to the official and play was delayed for a number of minutes.

“I by no means argue these calls. However he known as it out earlier than I hit the ball,” Gauff stated to Campistol. “It’s not even a notion; it’s the foundations.”

She simply received her first two singles matches, dropping a complete of simply 5 video games. However her first Olympic singles match ended with a efficiency that was hardly her greatest on the most well liked day of the Summer time Video games to this point, with the warmth rising above 90 levels Fahrenheit (32 Celsius).

“These factors are huge offers. Normally afterward, they apologize. So it’s form of irritating. The ‘Sorry’ doesn’t enable you to as soon as the match is over,” Gauff stated. “I can’t say I might have received the match if I might have received that time.”

Even earlier than the difficulty over the umpiring determination, Gauff couldn’t maintain begin towards Vekic, who was a semifinalist at Wimbledon this month.

The American led 4-1 and was some extent from shifting forward 5-1 and serving for the opening set. However she didn’t shut the deal, then wasted a few set factors at 6-4 within the ensuing tiebreaker. Vekic surged to the tip of that set, then maintained her degree within the second.

One measure of Vekic’s superiority on this afternoon: She completed with 33 winners to simply 9 for Gauff.

“I’m not going to take a seat right here and say one level affected the consequence in the present day,” Gauff acknowledged, “as a result of I used to be already on the shedding aspect of issues.”

Nonetheless, probably the most memorable second within the match was that second-set argument. Gauff even alluded to that Swiatek loss whereas speaking to Campistol and a supervisor who joined the dialog on the court docket Tuesday.

“It all the time occurs right here on the French Open to me. Each time,” Gauff stated, holding a tennis ball in a single hand and her racket within the different whereas pleading her case. “That is just like the fourth, fifth time it’s occurred this 12 months.”

Vekic, who superior to the quarterfinals, didn’t get entangled, staying at her finish of the court docket and fiddling along with her strings.

“It’s a really tough scenario. I personally thought the umpire made determination, as a result of the decision got here fairly late,” Vekic stated when requested afterward about what occurred. “However I’ll should rewatch it. It’s powerful to know precisely within the second.”

When Gauff gave up and headed again on court docket to renew play, followers booed loudly — anger directed on the official.

The primary level of the subsequent sport went Gauff’s means, and spectators cheered wildly for her.

However about 10 minutes later, the match was over.

Over the weekend, Gauff spoke about aiming to depart with three medals — one from every of her occasions in Paris. That received’t occur now.

“I would like,” Gauff stated Tuesday, “to come back dwelling with one thing.”

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The favored deli meat firm Boar’s Head is recalling a further 7 million kilos of ready-to-eat merchandise made at a Virginia plant as an investigation right into a lethal outbreak of listeria meals poisoning continues, U.S. Agriculture Division officers mentioned Tuesday.

The new recall contains 71 merchandise made between Might 10 and July 29 below the Boar’s Head and Previous Nation model names. It follows an earlier recall of greater than 200,000 kilos of sliced deli poultry and meat. The brand new objects embrace meat meant to be sliced at delis in addition to some packaged meat and poultry merchandise bought in shops.

They embrace liverwurst, ham, beef salami, bologna and different merchandise made on the agency’s Jarratt, Virginia, plant.

The recollects are tied to an ongoing outbreak of listeria poisoning that has killed two individuals and sickened almost three dozen in 13 states, in accordance with the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Practically all of those that fell sick have been hospitalized. Diseases had been reported between late Might and mid-July.

The issue was found when a liverwurst pattern collected by well being officers in Maryland examined optimistic for listeria. Additional testing confirmed that the kind of micro organism was the identical pressure inflicting diseases in individuals.

“Out of an abundance of warning, we determined to instantly and voluntarily broaden our recall to incorporate all objects produced on the Jarratt facility,” the corporate mentioned on its web site. It has additionally halted manufacturing of ready-to-eat meals on the plant.

The meat was distributed to shops nationwide, in addition to to the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Panama, Agriculture Division officers mentioned.

Customers who’ve the recalled merchandise of their properties shouldn’t eat them and may discard them or return them to shops for a refund, firm officers mentioned. Well being officers mentioned fridges must be completely cleaned and sanitized to forestall contamination of different meals.

An estimated 1,600 individuals get listeria meals poisoning every year and about 260 die, in accordance with the CDC.

Listeria infections usually trigger fever, muscle aches and tiredness and will trigger stiff neck, confusion, lack of stability and convulsions. Signs can happen rapidly or to as much as 10 weeks after consuming contaminated meals. The infections are particularly harmful for individuals older than 65, these with weakened immune methods and through pregnacy.

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