Complete Coverage of Gators at the Olympics on July 30

PARIS, France –  Tuesday’s Olympics action included 10 Gator connections throughout five different sports.

Men’s Basketball:

Former Gator Nick Calathes [Greece} faces Spain, while Andrew Nembhard [Canada] goes against Australia in the Preliminary play. 

Swimming:

Josh Liendo [CAN], Alberto Mestre [VEN], Aleksas Savickas [LTU], Amro Al-Wir [JOR] and Bobby Finke [USA] represented Florida swimming in three swimming events. 

Finals:

Bobby Finke looks to defend his 800m freestyle Olympic title this afternoon at 3:02 PM. 

Prelims:

After competing in the men’s 4x100m free relay on Saturday, Josh Liendo made his first individual appearance in the men’s 100m freestyle. The current Gator raced in the final heat of the event and finished third after touching in 48.34. He will compete in today’s afternoon session ranked tenth at 2:30 PM for a chance to make his first Olympic 100m free final. 

Alberto Mestre made his first Paris Olympic Games event, swimming in the sixth heat of the men’s 100m free. Representing Venezuela, Mestre clocked a 49.51 to finish 37th overall. The former Gator competes in the men’s 50m freestyle on Thursday. 

Aleksas Savickas made his Olympic Games debut representing Lithuania in the men’s 200m breaststroke. He was second off the blocks and remained in the top three heading into the final stretch, but finished sixth in his heat and 19th overall after touching the wall in 2:11.53. Swimming a couple of lanes over, Amro Al-Wir went 2:15.78 to finish eighth in the heat. The former Gator placed 23rd overall, which is improvement from his 26th place finish at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. 

Women’s Tennis:

It’s on to the singles quarterfinals for the U.S.’s Danielle Collins after her 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 win Tuesday over Camila Osorio of Colombia.  She’ll play the winner of the Iga Swiatek [POL] vs Xiyu Wang [CHN] match in quarterfinal action at Roland Garros. Collins is the No. 8 seed for the Olympics.

She also plays doubles this afternoon with Desirae Krawczyk, facing Greece’s Despina Papamichail and Maria Sakkari. 

 

Olympic women’s tennis results

Women’s 3v3 Basketball:

Florida women’s basketball assistant coach Rhyne Howard makes her Olympic Games debut against Germany at 11:30 AM. 

Men’s 3v3 Basketball:

Representing USA, Canyon Barry will go against Serbia at 4:35…