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With the 2024 Olympics six hours ahead, here are the Round 2 tee times for the men’s competition and where Team USA is.
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The 2024 Olympics are here! Day 1 of the men’s competition saw low scores and some high ones too. Le Golf National had perfect conditions and many of the players took advantage of it.

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Jason Day is a 13-time winner on the PGA Tour, the winner of the 2015 PGA Championship, has finished runner-up in each of the other three major championships, been a member of four Presidents Cup teams. To say he’s been in his fair share of pressure-packed situations on the golf course would be an understatement, but what he felt during the first round of the 2024 Olympics golf tournament was unlike anything he’d ever experienced.

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Elite badminton trickery on display from India’s Lakshya Sen. #NBCSports #Olympics #Paris2024 » Subscribe to NBC Sports: https://www.youtube.com/nbcsports?sub_confirmation=1 » Live Olympic coverage on NBCOlympics.com: https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule Watch the Paris Olympics on Peacock: https://smart.link/fs2ge7i8m3qlv Visit NBCOlympics.com,: https://www.nbcolympics.com Download the NBC Olympics App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nbc-sports/id542511686 Find NBC Olympics on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nbcolympics Follow NBC Olympics on X: https://www.x.com/NBCOlympics Follow NBC Olympics on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nbcolympics Find NBC Olympics on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nbcolympics

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Jack Gruber-USA TODAY Sports
More people watched gymnastics on a Tuesday afternoon than some of the biggest primetime events in sports.
The Olympic games are doing just fine. An absolutely staggering number of people tuned in to watch Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera win gold for Team USA.

Live coverage of women’s gymnastics final at Paris Olympics on Tuesday afternoon (12:15-2:30pm ET) averaged 12.7 million viewers on NBC/Peacock
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Scottie Scheffler waves to the crowd during Day One of the Olympics Men’s Golf Competition. | Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images
Plenty of big names, including Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, are off to good starts at the Olympic Golf Competition in Paris.
Two of the world’s most popular players turned in solid opening rounds at the Men’s Olympic Golf Competition in Paris on Thursday.
Scottie Scheffler shot a 4-under 67, a score that featured four birdies and no bogies. The top-ranked player in the world is tied for sixth, four strokes behind leader Hideki Matsuyama.

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Algeria’s Imane Khelif, the Olympic boxer who was caught last year “pretending to be” a woman after a series of DNA tests, posted to social media this morning for the first time after her controversial opening-round win in the Olympics. 
For those who missed it, Khelif – who was accused last year by the International Boxing Association president Umar Kremlev of tricking her colleagues and posing as a woman – entered the ring for the first time Thursday in Paris.

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