August 9, 2024, Olympics news and results

Team USA's Rai Benjamin, bottom, leads in the men's 400-meter hurdles Friday.

Team USA’s Rai Benjamin just blew away the world record holder in this event!

Norway’s Karsten Warholm was aiming to repeat as gold medalist today, but Benjamin just absolutely flew past him in the final 150 meters of this race!

Warholm led for the majority of the opening stages and went into the fourth turn of the final looking to be in pole position for the gold. But Benjamin found another gear that the Norwegian simply couldn’t match.

In the final straightaway, Benjamin pulls away and wins by six-tenths of a second as Warholm holds off Brazil’s Alison dos Santos for the silver.

It’s an incredible moment in the final action of the evening here!

After the race, Benjamin said, “I can’t believe I actually finally did it. It just happened at the right moment. My family is here, my friends are here. To do it in front of them means so much to me. I’m just so excited.

“(I knew I had won) probably five meters before the line. I thought I’d get dipped, but no one was there so I thought, ‘Wait a minute, hold on, I’m actually doing this.’ And I did it. Just a great feeling.”

This post has been updated with quotes from Team USA’s Rai Benjamin.

We’re down to our final event of the evening: the men’s 400-meter hurdles.

Here’s what we’re watching in this one:

Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortún of Spain celebrates winning the gold medal in the men's triple jump Friday.

Well, that’s quite the way to make your debut on your sport’s biggest stage.

Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortún of Spain is the gold medal winner in the men’s triple jump, going 17.86 meters to beat out Pedro Pichardo of Portugal by two centimeters. Pichardo missed his second straight gold medal by a truly tiny distance.

Andy Díaz Hernandez of Italy will take the bronze medal after going 17.64 meters.

There was a really nice moment to cap off a difficult race for Megan Keith of Team Great Britain.

Keith lagged behind the pack the entire race, only outpacing Alessia Zarbo of France until she needed to be removed from the race. Much of the field had passed Keith by and was finished by the time she hit the final straightaway.

But the crowd at the Stade de France roared for her down the stretch and exploded when she crossed the finish line. She may have been the last over the line, but she got as big of a cheer as the winners.

Beatrice Chebet of Kenya competes in the women's 10,000m final.

The final lap of the race begins and the leaders kick it into another gear!

They’re flying around these final meters as the crowd goes nuts. Nadia Battocletti of Italy turns it up another notch in the final kick and she’s pushing Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet all the way to the line … and Chebet just stays ahead for the gold!

Chebet gets her second Olympic title in Paris — after winning the 5,000 meters earlier in the week — in a time of 30:43.25 and Battocletti will have to settle for setting the new Italian national record in this race at 30:43.35.

Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands takes the bronze.

France's Alessia Zarbo receives medical attention in the women's 10,000m final.

Scary scenes here.

Alessia Zarbo of France has just collapsed on the track during the women’s 10,000 meters. She’s being taken to the back on a stretcher now.

Zarbo had struggled throughout the race and was far behind most of the pack throughout. She eventually was lapped by most of the field before she went down.

She is a first-time Olympian and had graduated from the University of Oregon in 2023.

She’s been taken down the tunnel at the Stade de France and is receiving treatment. We’ll update as we learn more.

CNN’s David Close contributed to this post.

Spain's Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortún competes in the men's triple jump final.

Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortún is enjoying his first Olympics.

The Olympic debutant is sitting in first place in the triple jump at 17.86 meters after his first four jumps. That puts him two centimeters ahead of Portugal’s Pedro Pichardo, the reigning Olympic gold medalist.

Most of the competitors still have two jumps left in this contest. Whoever has the longest best jump of the day out of their six attempts goes home with the gold.

Tough scenes in the eastern side of the Stade de France.

Rahel Daniel, who had set out at the front of the pack in the women’s 10,000 meters, has pulled up and left the race. She seems to be walking OK, but clearly, she’s got some sort of injury issue.

Daniel, of Eritrea, will have to DNF this race.

We’ll keep an eye out for more on why she had to leave this race.

Athletes are seen competing in the women's 10,000m final.

The women’s 10,000-meter race has just begun and will be going for quite some time — the world record in this race is a touch under 29 minutes.

Here’s what we’re watching for in this one:

World record holder Beatrice Chebet of Kenya is looking to achieve a distance double gold medal on the track, having already won the 5,000-meter race earlier this week. Earlier this year, she became the first woman to break the 29-minute mark in this race to set the new world record.

Defending champion Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands, meanwhile, is aiming to retain.

There are three Americans in the race — Parker Valby, Karissa Schweizer and Weini Kelati Frezghi. There was some early concern over Valby: An awkward start to the race led NBC commentators to wonder if she’d be disqualified for the way she joined the pack off the starting line, but on review from a different angle, the analysts surmised she should be fine.

Anna Hall competes in the women's heptathlon 800m.

Anna Hall has just given everything she had in her body to get on the podium here in France.

The American just blew away the field here in the 800-meter run portion of the women’s heptathlon, looking to climb from fifth to a podium position. She breaks away from the pack in the first 200 meters and simply cannot be caught.

It’s a long wait to find out if she’s got enough points to get a medal though. She lays down on the track for a long time to catch her breath before huddling with the rest of the competitors, waiting for the official results.

Disappointment for Hall, but joy for Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam who has done enough to take home the gold over Great Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Noor Vidts completes a Belgian double on the podium by holding off Annik Kälin of Switzerland and Hall to take home the bronze.