Greg Hyatt

Sarah Adam will represent the United States in wheelchair basketball later this month.

The U.S. had a breakthrough in the second half when forward Mallory Swanson, 16 months removed from a torn patella tendon, made a perfectly timed run into the box and beat Brazil’s keeper for a 1-0 lead in the 57th minute.

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are officially underway with early competition beginning on the soccer pitch as the city puts finishing touches ahead of the opening ceremony. NBC’s Tom Llamas reports for TODAY. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and streaming on Peacock, starting with the Opening Ceremony July 26 at 12 p.m. ET.

There will be 206 countries represented at the 2024 Paris Olympics. But two nations are expected to take center stage in the track and field competitions: the U.S. and Jamaica. Starting at the Berlin Games in 1936, when U.S. Olympian Jesse Owens won four gold medals, American athletes, including Carl Lewis, Florence Griffith Joyner and Allyson Felix, dominated for years in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter events. But the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics put Jamaica on the…

U.S. boxer Jennifer Lozano started thinking about how far the sport could take her at nine years old in Laredo, Texas. When she secured her spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics during last October’s Pan American Games, she finally realized a dream years in the making. “That was surreal. I just couldn’t believe what was right in my hand,” she told NBC News. “Something I was working so hard for. Something I had dreamt of for so long for years since I was a kid and everything I had to go through just to…

U.S. climber Jesse Grupper remembers when he was 16 and experienced pain in his abdomen for the first time. “I thought it was either food poisoning or just a reaction to stress from finals period,” he said on NBC’s “My New Favorite Olympian” podcast. “When the first one ended, I was like, ‘OK, that’s it. I’m not going to have these symptoms again.’ But then when it came back, I realized that there was something more fundamentally wrong.” Grupper was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a chronic…

Kristen Faulkner, who began riding as a side hobby from her finance job, is a medal contender at the 2024 Paris Games.

Sprinters Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles are among the athletes who have already punched their tickets to Paris at Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore. And a 16-year-old high school student is surprisingly in the running for the Paris games. NBC News’ Tom Llamas reports.

Sport climber Brooke Raboutou talks with NBC News’ Savannah Sellers about qualifying for the Paris Games, which will be her second Olympics appearance. Sport climbing made its Olympic event debut in 2020 and Raboutou describes how the sport has seen more support and funding in the last four years.

Cordell Tinch is hoping to secure a spot on Team USA to compete in the 110-meter hurdles at the Paris games. But his road there was winding. During the pandemic, he left his college program and moved home to Green Bay, working for a moving company, and selling cell phones. He returned to the track in 2023, and five months later, ran the fastest time in the world that year. NBC News’ Sam Brock reports.