The back-and-forth battle between China and the United States for the most gold medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics continued on Thursday morning.
China landed three gold medals, two of which came in sports it has dominated, to move back ahead of Team USA with 28 gold medals. The United States enters the afternoon medal events with 27 golds.
Team USA picked up one medal in the morning events from sport climbing, where bronze-medalist Sam Watson set a world record in his third-place match.
The United States needs five medals to be the only nation with 100 medals at the Paris Games.