Canada’s Skylar Park has advanced to a bronze-medal match in women’s taekwondo at the Olympic Games in Paris. Click on the video player above to watch live coverage of her match, set for 2:34 p.m. ET.
The 25-year-old from Winnipeg beat Turkey’s Hatice Kubra Ilgan 2-0 in a repechage to advance. Park outscored Ilgan 6-4 in the first round and 3-2 in the second.
The Canadian lost her quarterfinal match to Kim Yujin of South Korea, but Kim reaching the final gave Park another chance at a medal via a repechage.
Park will fight in one of two bronze-medal matches in Olympic taekwondo against Lebanon’s Laetitia Aoun.
Park beat Dominika Hronova of Czechia 2-0 in her opening match at the Grand Palais.
U.S. beats Brazil in women’s volleyball semifinal thriller
Karch Kiraly’s reigning Olympic champion U.S. women’s volleyball team will get its shot at a repeat gold medal. And it took every extra hustle play by every American on the floor against the mighty Brazilians.
As Brazil’s fans waved flags, chanted and sang from every corner of South Paris Arena, the U.S. women edged their fellow world powerhouse in a five-set thriller on Thursday, a compelling rematch of their Tokyo final won in straight sets by the U.S.
That was the Americans’ first Olympic title, and now they can make it two in a row.
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Brazil got within 12-10 in the fifth before the U.S. held on for the victory, 25-23, 18-25, 25-15, 23-25, 15-11.
When Kathryn Plummer’s winning spike closed it out, the Americans huddled together in a huge group hug and bounced on the court in celebration.
The Brazilians haven’t won gold since the London Games 12 years ago.
Brazil led 5-3 and was 10 points from taking the first-to-15 fifth set when the Americans rallied to tie it at 6-all and momentarily went ahead on Jordan Thompson’s spike.
Both teams pulled off incredible saves close to the floor or even well out of bounds near their own benches to keep long points alive — and one fifth-set rally lasted more than 30 seconds.
Morocco beats Egypt for men’s soccer bronze
Soufiane Rahimi scored two goals and Morocco won the bronze medal with a 6-0 rout of Egypt on Thursday for the team’s first-ever podium finish at the Olympics.
Abde Ezzalzouli, Bilal El Khannouss, Akram Nakach and Achraf Hakimi also scored for Morocco, which went into halftime with a 2-0 lead to the delight of Moroccan fans at La Beaujoire Stadium.
It was Egypt’s third fourth-place finish at the Olympics — after Amsterdam in 1928 and Tokyo in 1964.
Morocco has been inspired throughout the tournament by its senior men’s team, which was a surprise semifinalist at the World Cup in 2022. The players have also been boosted by the faithful fans who have followed the team on its journey in France.
“We wanted to win the gold medal, that’s for sure, but to win a game like this, to get our country’s first-ever medal here and in front of so many of our fans, it feels incredible,” said forward Ilias Akhomach.