Team USA has a possible show-stopping Saturday in front of it on the Paris Olympics, one which may very well be stuffed with gold medals.
And it can be led by a trio of ladies: Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky and Sha’Carri Richardson.
Biles will start the day in the ladies’s gymnastics vault final at 10:20 a.m.
She will likely be chasing her third gold medal in Paris, having won the team final Tuesday and all-around final Thursday, earning redemption after she withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
The vault is top-of-the-line events for the nine-time Olympic medalist and he or she holds two medals within the competition.
Biles’ margin of victory within the vault was larger than it was in floor exercise in 2016, per Sporting News.
Her margin also was larger within the vault than the ground in the person all-around finals in Paris.
She scored the best rating in three out of the 4 events within the group all-around finals competition, falling short only on the uneven bars.
Following Biles, Ledecky will look to make more history within the 800m freestyle final, one among the events by which she holds the world record, at 3:08 p.m.
On Thursday, the 27-year-old Bethesda, Md., native won silver within the 4x200m relay, her thirteenth Olympic medal that made her probably the most decorated American female athlete in history.
Ledecky has won a medal in each of her three Paris Olympics events to date.
She won her seventh gold medal in a dominant 1500m freestyle finish Tuesday and likewise earned a bronze medal within the 400m freestyle final.
A gold from Ledecky would help the U.S. move ahead of Australia in that category.
The Americans hold 21 medals within the pool while the Aussies trail with 13, but hold more gold medals (7-4).
In her Olympic debut, Richardson, 24, is hungry for gold and is favored to win the 100m sprint.
She’s going to compete in Saturday’s semifinals at 1:50 p.m., likely followed by the ultimate, set for 3:20 p.m.
It’s a race Richardson had qualified to compete in three years ago in Tokyo before she was suspended for testing positive for THC (cannabis), which is a banned substance under World Anti-Doping Agency Rules.
The Dallas native, who’s the reigning world champion within the event after a ten.71-second sprint on the U.S. trials last month (the fastest time by any woman on the earth this yr), stifled the competition within the opening-round heat Friday with a time of 10.94 seconds.
A gold medal from each of those three women would help the U.S. cut into China’s lead in the general gold-medal count of the Paris Olympics.
China leads with 13 while France and Australia are tied for second with 11, and the U.S. and Great Britain are tied for fourth with nine.
