The United States is running away from the competition in the overall medal count, but Team USA is in a closely contested battle with China to top the Olympic gold medal count at the 2024 Paris Games.

Dozens of medals across 17 different sports are up for grabs on Friday, including the highly coveted 4×100-meter relay races, where both the U.S. men’s and women’s teams are top contenders for gold. The women’s team is expected to include 100m silver medalist Sha’Carri Richardson, 200m gold medalist Gabrielle Thomas, Melissa Jefferson and Twanisha Terry.

The U.S. men’s 4×100-meter relay team will be without Noah Lyles, who said Thursday would ‘be the end of my 2024 Olympics’ after he revealed he was battling COVID-19 during his bronze medal finish in the 200-meter dash.

Here’s a look at all the Olympic medals up for grabs on Friday:

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What is the medal count at the 2024 Paris Olympics?

The U.S. leads the overall medal count by a wide margin with 103 — 30 gold, 38 silver and 35 bronze. However, U.S. has a narrow lead over China (29) in the gold medal count. Here is the top 10 by total:

1. USA — 103 (30 gold, 38 silver, 35 bronze)
2. China — 74 (30 gold, 25 silver, 19 bronze)
3. France — 55 (14 gold, 19 silver, 22 bronze)
4. Great Britain — 52 (14 gold, 17 silver, 21 bronze)
5. Australia — 45 (18 gold, 14 silver, 13 bronze)
6. Japan — 34 (13 gold, 8 silver, 13 bronze)
7. Italy — 30 (10 gold, 11 silver, 9 bronze)
8. South Korea — 28 (13 gold, 8 silver, 7 bronze)
9. Netherlands — 25 (11 gold, 6 silver, 8 bronze)
10. Germany — 24 (9 gold, 9 silver, 6 bronze)

What Olympic medals are up for grabs Friday?

Here are all the Olympic medal events scheduled for Friday, in addition to what time the action starts. All times are Eastern:

Table Tennis

4 a.m.: men’s team bronze medal match
9 a.m.: men’s team gold medal match

Sailing

6:13 a.m.: men’s kite final – race 2
After Race 2: men’s kite final – Race 3
After Race 3: men’s kite final – Race 4
After Race 4: men’s kite final – Race 5
After Race 5: men’s kite final – Race 6

Sport Climbing

6:35 a.m.: men’s boulder & lead, final lead

Canoe Sprint

6:50 a.m.: women’s canoes double 500m Final A
7:10 a.m.: women’s kayak double 500m Final A
7:30 a.m.: men’s kayak double 500m Final A
7:50 a.m.: men’s canoe single 1000m Final A

Hockey

8 a.m.: women’s bronze medals match
2 p.m.: women’s gold medal match

Rhythmic gymnastics

8:30 a.m.: individual all-around final

Diving

9 a.m.: women’s 3m springboard final

Soccer

9 a.m.: women’s bronze medal match
Noon: men’s gold medal match

Weightlifting

9 a.m.: men’s 89kg
1:30 p.m.: women’s 71kg

Volleyball

10 a.m.: men’s bronze medal match

Cycling Track

12:09 p.m.: women’s madison, final
1:02 p.m.: men’s sprint, finals – race 2
1:38 p.m.: men’s sprint, finals – decider

Wrestling

1:15 p.m.: men’s freestyle 57kg bronze medal match
1:25 p.m.: men’s freestyle 57kg bronze medal match
1:35 p.m.: men’s freestyle 57k final
1:45 p.m.: men’s freestyle 86kg bronze medal match
1:55 p.m.: men’s freestyle 86kg bronze medal match
2:05 p.m.: men’s freestyle 86kg final
2:15 p.m.: women’s freestyle 57kg bronze medal match
1:25 p.m.: women’s freestyle 57kg bronze medal match
1:35 p.m.: women’s freestyle 57kg final

Athletics

1:30 p.m.: women’s 4x100m relay final
1:37 p.m.: women’s shot put final
1:47 p.m.: men’s 4x100m relay final
2 p.m.: women’s 400m final
2:13 p.m.: men’s triple jump final
2:25 p.m.: women’s heptathlon 800m
2:57 p.m.: women’s 10,000m final
3:45 p.m.: men’s 400m hurdles final
1:30 a.m.: men’s marathon

Taekwondo

2:19 p.m.: women’s 67kg bronze medal contest
2:49 p.m.: women’s 67kg bronze medal contests
2:34 p.m.: men’s 80kg bronze medal contests
3:04 p.m.: men’s 80kg bronze medal contests
3:19 p.m.: women’s 67kg gold medal contest
3:37 p.m.: men’s 80kg gold medal contest

Beach Volleyball

3 p.m.: women’s bronze medal match
4:30 p.m.: women’s gold medal match

Breaking

3:19 p.m.: B-girls bronze medal battles
3:29 p.m.: B-girls gold medal battle

Boxing

3:30 p.m.: men’s 71kg – final
3:47 p.m.: women’s 50kg – final
4:34 p.m.: men’s 92kg – final
4:51 p.m.: women’s 66kg – final

PARIS — Sue Doherty never misses an opportunity to tell her husband, a football coach at Georgetown University, that she needs to go running because she’s training for the Olympics.

That much is true.

The 50-year-old media booker has been pounding the streets near her home in Springfield, Virginia, with Olympic intensity of late. She is going to the Paris Games. And there will be medals. But Doherty, a veteran of 28 marathons, is not one of the six U.S. marathoners who will compete for Team USA at the Paris Olympics this weekend.

At least not in the sense that the Greeks first conceived it.

The Paris Games have been an Olympics of many firsts. The first opening ceremony to be held out in the open, on the Seine River. The first Olympics to have just about the same number of men and women competing.

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On Saturday, 20,000 amateur athletes like Doherty will, also for the first time at an Olympics, be able to follow in the footsteps of their elite running cousins by taking the same route − at night, and at a different time − as those hoping to return home with LVMH’s Chaumet-designed Olympic medal.

‘I love running marathons. Ever since I was a little kid it’s been a dream of mine to go to the Olympics,’ Doherty said Wednesday when reached by phone as she was packing to fly to Paris with her daughter, who will cheer her on.

‘I kind of found out late they were doing this. I was sitting with my daughter watching the Tour de France, going, ‘Oh, wow, next year the Olympics are in Paris,” Doherty said of the annual multiple-stage bicycle race that’s held primarily in France. ‘I did some googling and found it and was like, ‘What!? How did I not know about this?’ ‘

Organizers of what is being called the ‘Marathon Pour Tous’ − Marathon for Everyone − say that it, like the official Olympic marathon race, which is scheduled Saturday for the men and Sunday for the women, will follow a ‘unique route paying tribute to the rich history of France and Paris.’

The course follows a loop dense with history. It links Paris’ Hôtel de Ville − city hall − to Versailles, known for, among other things, its château as well as its gardens; for being the seat of French political power in the 17th and 18th centuries; and as a place where two war-ending treaties were signed – the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolutionary War, and the Treaty of Versailles, signed at the end of World War I.

For some, the marathon is viewed as the culmination of the Olympics. In another first, the women’s race is happening after the men’s, which organizers say is intended to reflect its efforts to ensure gender parity in ways big and small. The Olympic marathon course is a nod to the Women’s March on Versailles, when a crowd of more than 6,000 people, led by a procession of women who worked in a market, marched from Paris to Versailles to protest the cost of bread and demand political reform. It was a pivotal moment in the 1789 French Revolution.

There is also a shorter format version of the amateur race, a 10K, whose route has as its backdrop many of the iconic places and monuments at the heart of Paris, from the Eiffel Tower to the Esplanade des Invalides, a former barracks for veterans, that make the city such a big draw for visitors. That, too, takes place at night.

Marathon for amateur athletes will include party atmosphere

Neither race required a qualifying time to be eligible, part of an attempt to be as inclusive as possible, organizers said. Instead, would-be participants were asked to take part in a series of ‘challenges’ that tested their commitment and stamina. Doherty said these challenges were unveiled each week via a digital app that connected to a Garmin-type sports watch. Runners could do as many of these challenges as they wanted but successfully completing a challenge yielded a certain number of ‘points.’ Once 100,000 points were earned, potential participants were entered into a lottery. Doherty gained entry after doing a challenge that asked her to run for two hours straight.

‘For the first time in history we’re trying to let (Olympic) spectators become actors,’ said Aurélie Merle, the director of sports competition for Paris 2024, told reporters. Merle also described it as something of a party, with the route enlivened by light shows and DJ performances. The Paris 2024 mascot, a little red hat known as a Phrygian cap (pronounced ‘FREE-jes) − a French symbol of liberty − will hand out popcorn to those watching.

Romain Lachens, the director of engagement for Paris 2024, said that organizers hoped that in enabling the public to participate in the Olympic-course runs it would help break ‘sedentary lifestyles.’ He said that 400,000 people from all over the world sought to take part in the marathon. The 10K, like the marathon, will see 20,000 runners.

Both races will feature former Olympians from various sports disciplines running alongside the amateur athletes. Aurélien Hochart, who works for Paris 2024 as a manager for large-scale events, said this would have the same security footprint − lengthy closed-off perimeters, massive police presence − as the Olympic marathons.

Luan is from a village in the Jilin province in northeastern China. He’s been working as a delivery rider in Beijing for nine years. According to Chinese media, he trained in his spare time by attaching sandbags to his legs while working.

‘Delivering goods and running are two indispensable things in my life,’ he said.

‘My little bubble of Olympics’

Doherty said she is thrilled that as a ‘normal person’ she’s getting an opportunity to compete in an Olympic setting.

She found an Arlington, Virginia-based training partner through a Facebook page for participating runners from the U.S.

‘We happened to be the same pace and did all our long runs together, so that worked out really well,’ she said.

As far as Doherty knows, she is one of three amateur runners from the Washington, D.C., area competing in Paris.

Yet she also said she has some anxieties.

Doherty’s never been to Paris. She’s heard it could be hot and crowded.

What is running in the dark going to be like? Everyone’s been talking about how hilly the course is.

Doherty said her football coach husband Kevin, Georgetown’s defensive coordinator, can’t come to Paris because he’s ‘just starting camp,’ a busy time of acclimation, evaluation and training before the season starts.

‘He will be glad when this is over,’ she said.

Still, there’s no doubt that Doherty is an Olympian.

‘I call it the ‘Olympic Marathon’ on there,’ she said of the Facebook page. ‘When I get on there I’m like, ‘Hey, Team USA, we’re team members.’ I’m treating it just like it’s my little bubble of Olympics.’

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PARIS – The U.S. wrestling team will have a chance to add a third gold medal to its haul from the Paris Olympics, and the Americans might get some help from the locals.

Spencer Lee, who has advanced to the gold-medal match in the men’s 57kg freestyle against Japan’s Rei Higuchi set for Friday, has been playing the French card.

“I’m talking in French to some people,’’ Lee said Thursday after he demolished Uzbekistan’s Gulomjon Abdullaev in the semifinals, 14-4. “Like in the line right before I go out (to matches), because they find out that I’m half French.’’

Lee, who was born in Denver, said his mother is from France and his parents, both black-belts in judo, met in Paris. They married a year later, according to Lee, and in 1998 welcomed future U.S. Olympian Spencer Richard Lee.

Twenty-five years later, Lee may draw some extra fan support when he faces Higuchi thanks in part to his Francophile ways.

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“It is in my mother’s home country, which is really cool,’’ he said. “I love France. Been here a lot. And I’m really excited to tomorrow do my best.”

Already, he has rock-solid support from one local – his grandmother. The Olympics have given her a chance to watch him compete in person for the first time ever, Lee said.

So far, he has treated her to three victories in as many matches. “She’s just very proud,’’ Lee said. “She’s excited.”

PARIS — We need to get used to this.

As a nation that comes into every Olympics thinking it’s more of a coronation than competition, we need to feel the tension, the stakes and the possession-by-possession intensity that is only possible when you respect what it takes to win and have a healthy fear that a loss could be around the corner.

We need to understand that what we saw at Bercy Arena on Thursday in an epic semifinal against Serbia is the new normal. We need to admit that, little by little, the world is coming for Team USA.

They’re almost there.

Just not yet.

Somehow, at the very moment it looked like this team of at least six future Hall of Famers was ready to be buried, they resurrected. Somehow, when one of the most disheartening defeats in the history of American basketball was looming over their heads, they held off the guillotine.

After storming back for a 95-91 victory over Serbia that almost seemed out of reach, Team USA will play France for the gold medal on Saturday. Better not take anything for granted. Not now, and probably not for the rest of our lives.

“Serbia was brilliant today, and I am really humbled to have been a part of this game,” Team USA coach Steve Kerr said. “It’s one of the greatest basketball games I’ve ever been a part of.”

It was great because Serbia was great. It was great because Team USA’s forever superstars were great exactly when they needed to be. But it was also great because it wasn’t really a fluke: This is what the Olympic tournament is going to be now. The day they’ve been warning us about for more than 20 years is finally here.

America’s advantage in international basketball is now skinnier than Kevin Durant and less durable than Joel Embiid. Team USA will always have the deepest pool of talent, the biggest diversity of skills, the heartiest cornucopia of athletic skills from which to construct a roster every four years.

But the gap at the top, playing out in a condensed game under FIBA rules? It’s almost gone. And we all better get comfortable with that idea.

“The other countries, they all have great players now,” Kerr said. “But we have the most great players and we feel confident that over 40 minutes, that will play itself out. But yeah, it was dicey for most of that.”

Really dicey.

For more than three quarters, Serbia was the better team. Let’s make no mistake about that. And when you think about what it took to stave off humiliation this time, you have to wonder how long it can be sustained.

In the end, it was up to the aging generation of America’s all-time greats, all on the wrong side of 30: Durant, Steph Curry, Embiid and most of all LeBron James. Everyone else in this game was more or less irrelevant when it was necessary to make Nikola Jokic work a little harder, when they had to rush a shot from Bogdan Bogdanovic, when the margins were so small that an instinct beyond basketball had to kick in.

Through sheer will and focus, they saved USA Basketball from four years of questions and recriminations. They probably are going to win another gold medal. They won’t be around forever.

“I mean, it’s up there,” James said. “I’m 39 years old going into my 22nd season. I don’t know how many opportunities and moments I’m going to get like this to be able to compete for something, compete for something big and playing big games. Tonight was a big game.”

It was only that big because the competition was that worthy. Of course there was always a chance the U.S. could come back from a deficit that got as big as 17 points in the first half and was 13 entering the fourth quarter. But it took Kerr putting the game in the hands of just a few guys. Every decision mattered, and every possession was on the knife’s edge.

Now the trends are clear. This isn’t 2004, when the U.S. sent a dysfunctional team that was bad the entire tournament and had to settle for bronze. This isn’t 2008, 2012 or 2016 when Spain was the only country in the world that could play on America’s level in the Olympics, and even then the U.S. never felt real danger of actually losing.

In 2021, though, the U.S. trailed Australia at halftime in the semifinals and needed Durant to be brilliant in the gold-medal game against France – a team it lost to in the preliminary round.

That was a paradigm shift.

Now, three of the five best players in the NBA play for Serbia (Jokic), Greece (Giannis Antetokounmpo) and Slovenia (Luka Doncic). The U.S. will face France again Saturday and Victor Wembanyama is going to join that group soon. Four years from now, the French team will also have this year’s No. 1 overall pick Zaccharie Risacher, the No. 2 pick Alex Sarr and a likely top-five pick next year in point guard Nolan Traore. They’re coming. So is Canada, and potentially Germany. Serbia’s not going anywhere. Australia is only a piece or two away.

Right now, the Americans are relying heavily – too heavily, really – on an old lineup because those are the only players Kerr can trust to get the job done.

The dirty little secret about USA Basketball is that it has not been very successful at integrating young stars into its program and preparing them for this level of international competition. Anthony Edwards hurt more than he helped against Serbia. Jayson Tatum just won an NBA championship but didn’t take off his warmups against Serbia – a second DNP of this tournament.

A year ago, when the US sent a team to the FIBA World Cup led by young guys like Edwards, Jaren Jackson, Tyrese Haliburton and Paolo Banchero, it was a disaster. They lost three of their eight games.

They’ll improve, of course. More young stars will come into the mix. But Team USA has been relying on Durant and James to carry them out of the fire for a long time. Pretty soon, they’ll have to pass the torch to a generation that didn’t have to face so much responsibility or pressure, and they’ll do it against the backdrop of a world that is clearly closing the gap.

Even in a road game, the U.S. should beat France and take home its fifth straight gold medal. But after watching Serbia come oh-so-close to ending our country’s reign, that confidence is a luxury we won’t have much longer.

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The end of Noah Lyles’ 2024 Paris Olympics campaign means there’s an open spot in one track and field event for Team USA.

After taking the bronze medal in the men’s 200-meter final, Lyles received medical attention and collapsed into a wheelchair. The runner has a history of asthma, but it was revealed after the race that he tested positive for COVID-19 and ran the 200m sick. In an Instagram post following the race, Lyles said he believes ‘this will be the end of my 2024 Olympics.’

With Lyles done competing in Paris, there are some questions as to what will happen for Team USA in a race he was expected to compete in: the 4×100-meter relay.

Is Noah Lyles running in the 4x100m relay?

It hasn’t officially been said, but all signs point to Lyles not competing in the 4×100-meter relay. The final will take place on Friday, Aug. 9 at 1:47 p.m. ET.

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Who will run for Team USA in 4x100m relay?

Lyles didn’t run in the heats for the event as he prepared for the 200m. The quartet that ran the heat was Christian Coleman, Fred Kerley, Kyree King and Courtney Lindsey, and they had the best time of any heat at 37.47. In second was South Africa with 37.94.

The same runners could run in the final, but Team USA does have another option other than Lyles; in addition to the four runners, Kenneth Bednarek could possibly run in place of someone else.

What did Noah Lyles say about the 4x100m relay?

Before his Instagram post, Lyles told NBC he would let Team USA ‘do their thing’ in the 4×100-meter relay, further indicating he will not run in the event. Even without him, the 100-meter gold medalist believes the U.S. can be successful.

‘They’ve proven with great certainty that they can handle it without me. If that’s the case, coming off today, then I’m perfectly fine with saying, ‘Hey, you guys go do your thing. You guys have more than enough speed to go get the gold medal,” Lyles said.