You weren’t the only one thrilled by Simone Biles and Aly Raisman on Thursday.
The Team USA superstars, winners of gold and silver in Rio, got love from all over social media after their showstopping performance in the women’s individual all-around.
From fellow American athletes to singers and media types, the praise was effusive and deserved.
Here’s a sampling.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the Tokyo Olympics’ effect on the league’s schedule planning for 2021 is unclear, but that it’s possible that Olympic participation may be limited.
“There are a lot of great U.S. players, and we may be up against a scenario where the top 15 NBA players aren’t competing in the Olympics, but other great American players are competing,” Silver told Bob Costas on CNN on Tuesday. “Obviously, there are many NBA players who participate in the Olympics from other countries. That’s something we’re going to have to work through. I just say, lastly, these are highly unique and unusual circumstances. I think, just as it is for the Olympic movement, it is for us as well. We’re just going to have to sort of find a way to meld and mesh those two competing considerations.”
Silver said his best guess is that the next NBA season starts in January with a goal of a standard 82-game schedule and playoffs. A schedule has not been released.
In normal NBA seasons that start in late October, the regular season runs to mid-April and the NBA Finals into mid-June.
The Tokyo Olympic Opening Ceremony is July 23. If an NBA season is pushed back two or three months to a January start, and the schedule is not condensed, the Olympics would start while the NBA playoffs are happening.
The current NBA season is in the conference finals phase in an Orlando-area bubble after a four-month stoppage due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“It is a factor in our planning,” Silver said of the Olympics. “It would be tough for us to make a decision in January based on the Olympics happening on schedule when that’s so unclear.”
The NBA has participated in every Olympics since the 1992 Barcelona Games. Monday was the 29th anniversary of the announcement of the first 10 members of the original Dream Team on an NBC selection show (hosted by Costas).
Before the NBA era, U.S. Olympic men’s basketball teams consisted of college players.
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Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams can each tie Grand Slam singles titles records at the French Open, with daily live coverage among NBC Sports, Peacock and Tennis Channel.
NBC coverage starts Sunday with first-round action at Roland Garros, its 38th straight year covering the event. Tennis Channel airs the majority of weekday coverage. Peacock, NBC Universal’s new streaming service, has middle weekend broadcasts.
All NBC TV coverage alo streams on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app.
Nadal is the primary men’s storyline, favored to tie Roger Federer‘s male record of 20 major titles and extend his own record of 12 French Open crowns. Federer is absent after knee operations earlier this year.
The Spaniard’s primary competition is top-ranked Novak Djokovic, the 2016 French Open champion whose only defeat in 2020 was a U.S. Open default for hitting a ball that struck a linesperson in the throat.
Williams bids again to match the overall Grand Slam singles mark of 24 held by Australian Margaret Court. Williams, a three-time French Open champion, lost in the third and fourth round the last two years and is coming off a U.S. Open semifinal exit.
The women’s field is led by 2018 champion Simona Halep but lacks defending champion Ash Barty of Australia, not traveling due to the coronavirus pandemic. Also out: U.S. Open winner Naomi Osaka, citing a sore hamstring and tight turnaround from prevailing in New York two weeks ago.
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Follow @nbcolympictalkFrench Open TV Schedule
| Date | Time (ET) | Network | Round |
| Sunday, Sept. 27 | 5 a.m.-3 p.m. | Tennis Channel | First Round |
| 12-3 p.m. | NBC | ||
| Monday, Sept. 28 | 5 a.m.-3 p.m. | Tennis Channel | First Round |
| Tuesday, Sept. 29 | 5 a.m.-3 p.m. | Tennis Channel | First Round |
| Wednesday, Sept. 30 | 5 a.m.-3 p.m. | Tennis Channel | Second Round |
| Thursday, Oct. 1 | 5 a.m.-3 p.m. | Tennis Channel | Second Round |
| Friday, Oct. 2 | 5 a.m.-3 p.m. | Tennis Channel | Third Round |
| Saturday, Oct. 3 | 5 a.m.-12 p.m. | Tennis Channel | Third Round |
| 11 a.m. | Peacock | ||
| Sunday, Oct. 4 | 5 a.m.-12 p.m. | Tennis Channel | Fourth Round |
| 11 a.m. | Peacock | ||
| Monday, Oct. 5 | 5 a.m.-3 p.m. | Tennis Channel | Fourth Round |
| 11 a.m. | Peacock | ||
| Tuesday, Oct. 6 | 6 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | Tennis Channel | Quarterfinals |
| Wednesday, Oct. 7 | 6 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | Tennis Channel | Quarterfinals |
| Thursday, Oct. 8 | 5 a.m.-2 p.m. | Tennis Channel | Women’s Semis |
| 11 a.m. | NBC, NBCSN | ||
| Friday, Oct. 9 | 5 a.m.-4 p.m. | Tennis Channel | Men’s Semis |
| 11 a.m. | NBC, NBCSN | ||
| Saturday, Oct. 10 | 9 a.m. | NBC | Women’s Final |
| Sunday, Oct. 11 | 9 a.m. | NBC | Men’s Final |
