WATCH LIVE: Simone Biles’ comeback meet at U.S. Classic

By OlympicTalkJul 28, 2018, 1:27 PM EDT

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Simone Biles‘ first gymnastics meet since the Rio Olympics is the U.S. Classic on Saturday, live on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA at 8 p.m. ET.

The meet streams for Olympic Channel subscribers on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app and OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app. NBC will air TV coverage Sunday at 2 p.m. ET.

Biles took a planned break from the sport after earning four gold medals in Rio, taking advantage of opportunities like “Dancing with the Stars” and her own book and biopic.

She returned to training Nov. 1, under a new coach, and quickly got many of her skills back. By the spring, Biles was already proclaiming herself better than she was in Rio, a statement she repeated at training in Columbus, Ohio, this week.

Biles is competing at the U.S. Classic as a tune-up for the U.S. Championships in Boston in three weeks. Her next meet after that would be the world championships in Doha in October, should she make the U.S. team.

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Biles can make plenty of history this year and in 2020 — an unprecedented fifth U.S. all-around title in August and unprecedented fourth women’s world all-around title in Doha.

Then in Tokyo, Biles could try to become the first repeat Olympic women’s all-around champion since Czech Věra Čáslavská in 1968.

But the competitive comeback begins in her birthplace of Columbus, against a field including the 2017 U.S. and world all-around champions, Ragan Smith and Morgan Hurd.

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2023 French Open men’s singles draw, scores

By OlympicTalkJun 4, 2023, 3:10 PM EDT

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The French Open men’s singles draw is missing injured 14-time champion Rafael Nadal for the first time since 2004, leaving the Coupe des Mousquetaires ripe for the taking.

The tournament airs live on NBC Sports, Peacock and Tennis Channel through championship points in Paris.

Novak Djokovic is not only bidding for a third crown at Roland Garros, but also to lift a 23rd Grand Slam singles trophy to break his tie with Nadal for the most in men’s history.

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But the No. 1 seed is Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, who won last year’s U.S. Open to become, at 19, the youngest man to win a major since Nadal’s first French Open title in 2005.

Now Alcaraz looks to become the second-youngest man to win at Roland Garros since 1989, after Nadal of course.

Alcaraz missed the Australian Open in January due to a right leg injury, but since went 30-3 with four titles. Notably, he has not faced Djokovic this year. They could meet in the semifinals.

Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No. 2 seed, was upset in the first round by 172nd-ranked Brazilian qualifier Thiago Seyboth Wild. It marked the first time a men’s top-two seed lost in the first round of any major since 2003 Wimbledon (Ivo Karlovic d. Lleyton Hewitt).

All of the American men lost before the fourth round. The last U.S. man to make the French Open quarterfinals was Andre Agassi in 2003.

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2023 French Open women’s singles draw, scores

By OlympicTalkJun 4, 2023, 2:40 PM EDT

At the French Open, Iga Swiatek of Poland eyes a third title at Roland Garros and a fourth Grand Slam singles crown overall.

The tournament airs live on NBC Sports, Peacock and Tennis Channel through championship points in Paris.

Swiatek, the No. 1 seed from Poland, can join Serena Williams and Justine Henin as the lone women to win three or more French Opens since 2000.

Having turned 22 on Wednesday, she can become the youngest woman to win three French Opens since Monica Seles in 1992 and the youngest woman to win four Slams overall since Williams in 2002.

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But Swiatek is not as dominant as in 2022, when she went 16-0 in the spring clay season during an overall 37-match win streak.

She retired from her last pre-French Open match with a right thigh injury and said it wasn’t serious. Before that, she lost the final of another clay-court tournament to Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.

Sabalenka, the No. 2 seed, is her top remaining challenger in Paris.

No. 3 Jessica Pegula, the highest-seeded American man or woman, was eliminated in the third round. No. 4 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, who has three wins over Swiatek this year, withdrew before her third-round match due to illness.

No. 6 Coco Gauff, runner-up to Swiatek last year, is the best hope to become the first American to win a Grand Slam singles title since Sofia Kenin at the 2020 Australian Open. The 11-major drought is the longest for U.S. women since Seles won the 1996 Australian Open.

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