Day 4 of the Olympics brought us an improbable finish and medal in women’s rugby sevens, a return to form for the U.S. in women’s gymnastics and a controversial finish in basketball.

Here’s what you may have missed.

Women’s gymnastics

Simone Biles and the rest of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team put on a dominant performance to win gold in the team artistic all-around final. The U.S. won by more than five points, scoring a 171.296. Italy took home silver, and Brazil won bronze.

The U.S. had the highest score on every apparatus and was leading by more than 3.5 points headed into the final rotation.

The win gave Biles the most Olympic medals ever by a U.S. gymnast (eight), passing Shannon Miller’s seven. It was a redemptive moment for Biles, who dealt with the “twisties” in Tokyo and withdrew from the same event. She’s now the oldest woman to have won an Olympic medal in gymnastics since 1964. Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles are also now gold medal team winners after they earned a silver in 2021.

Biles and Lee will compete in the individual all-around final Thursday, and Biles will compete in three more individual events later in the Games, giving her a chance to build on her record medal count.

Women’s rugby sevens

In one of the most stunning finishes of the Olympics, the U.S. women’s rugby sevens team won its first medal ever, pulling off an improbable comeback to win bronze.

Trailing by five with only a few precious seconds remaining, Alex Sedrick completed a coast-to-coast dash to the goal that resulted in the game-tying score before time expired. Breaking two tackles, she sprinted into open grass and couldn’t be caught. Sedrick then converted the go-ahead kick to give the Americans a 14-12 win over Australia.

“I mean, I’ll give my first-born child to ‘Spiff’ [Sedrick],” Ilona Maher said afterward. “It was crazy, because I was like, ‘No way this is happening.’ And then for her to have to make the kick, as well — and she’s not our kicker.”

New Zealand won gold, beating Canada in the final.

Women’s tennis

It was a tough day for Coco Gauff.

Gauff, 20, the U.S. Open champ and No. 2 seed in the women’s singles bracket, lost in the third round, falling to Croatia’s Donna Vekić 7-6, 6-2.

Gauff was trailing in the third set when she got into a heated conversation with the umpire, reminiscent of a dispute she had during the French Open this year.

After a Gauff serve, Vekić’s return landed by the baseline. The shot was initially called out, and Gauff didn’t return it. Chair umpire Jaume Campistol ruled the shot in, however, costing Gauff the point and giving Vekić a 4-2 lead after the break.

“These points are big deals,” Gauff said afterward. “Usually afterward, they apologize. So it’s kind of frustrating. The ‘sorry’ doesn’t help you once the match is over. I can’t say I would have won the match if I would have won that point.”

Vekić said: “It’s a very tricky situation. I personally thought the umpire made a good decision, because the call came quite late. But I’ll have to rewatch it. It’s tough to know exactly in the moment.”

Gauff did earn some measure of redemption later in the day, advancing to the quarterfinals in mixed doubles with Taylor Fritz.

Men’s soccer

The U.S. men’s soccer team is headed to the quarterfinals for the first time since the Sydney Games in 2000.

The U.S. walloped Guinea on Tuesday 3-0.

Djordje Mihailovic scored his second goal in as many games, and then Kevin Paredes added two more to give the States a comfortable win.

“We knew that if we came out from minute one, foot on the gas, and get the first goal that we’d be in a really good position,” defender Walker Zimmerman said, “and that’s what happened with a great free kick from Djordje to set the tone again.”

The men have rebounded well after having opened group play with a 3-0 loss to France. The win over Guinea comes on the heels of a 4-1 win vs. New Zealand. The U.S. will face Morocco on Friday morning.

The U.S. men have only one Olympic medal in their history — a silver in 1904.

Basketball

Group play continued in men’s basketball, while 3×3 tipped off Tuesday, as well.

The wildest finish of the day belonged to France and Japan. The hosts were given all they could handle by an upstart (and underdog) Japanese team. Japan led 84-80 with seconds to go, but France tied the game on a four-point play. Matthew Strazel hit a 3-pointer from the left wing and was sent to the line after a controversial call; he tied the game. France was dominant in overtime, with NBA star Victor Wembanyama going on a personal 8-0 run to finally put away Japan.

“They were playing like underdogs, and we were waiting for them to punch a little bit too much,” Wembanyama said afterward. “I wanted to make a point and punch first in overtime. And it worked.”

In 3×3 hoops, the U.S. women lost to Germany. After the States raced out to a 5-0 lead, Germany stormed back, draining 2-pointer after 2-pointer and eventually winning 17-13.

“At the end of the game, honestly, we were winded,” U.S. guard Hailey Van Lith said. “We started playing soft. And they played much harder than us.”

Van Lith is joined on the team by Cierra Burdick, Dearica Hamby and Rhyne Howard. The U.S. is the defending gold medalist.

Meanwhile, the men’s 3×3 team was handled physically and swiftly by Serbia, which won 22-14.

“They shot the ball great tonight,” U.S. guard Jimmer Fredette said in a postgame interview with NBC’s Mike Tirico. “It’s a long tournament for us, and we’re excited to get back at it tomorrow.”

The men didn’t qualify for the 3×3 event in Tokyo. The Paris group is headlined by Fredette, a collegiate star at Brigham Young a decade ago, and he’s joined by Dylan Travis, Kareem Maddox and Canyon Berry. The foursome have played together since 2022, when they won the FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup.

What’s on deck for Wednesday

The biggest events on Day 5 include five swimming finals.

Katie Ledecky will defend her 1500-meter gold, while both the men and the women will compete in their 100-meter freestyle finals. The men’s 200-meter butterfly and breaststroke finals will also take place Wednesday.

Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek are among those who will take the court in singles tennis. And the U.S. men’s basketball team will play South Sudan in its second group game.