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Cook-n-Bacon servin’ up silver 👩‍🍳🥓

Rachel G Bowers   Paste BN

Your Olympics essentials.

  • What happened yesterday: Team USA won medals! Diving duo Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon — oh, you better believe their nickname is Cook-n-Bacon — won silver. The U.S. men’s 4x100m freestyle relay won gold, the Americans’ first of these Games. Katie Ledecky won bronze in the 400m. Catch up on all the highlights from the day.
  • What’s happening today: More swimming finals! Simone Biles and her teammates have qualifying! The U.S. men’s basketball team plays Serbia! The USWNT plays Germany! Follow all the day’s action.
  • The latest medal count: Entering Sunday, the U.S. and Australia are tied in the overall medal count with five, although Australia (hi, Matt! hi, Nastassia!) has three golds to the Americans’ one.

Order’s up! And it’s an Olympic medal.

Cook-n-Bacon, the diving duo who won Team USA’s first medal of these Games in women's synchronized springboard, were in high spirits when I met them at Team USA House for a quick one-on-one interview yesterday afternoon. I hit them with rapid fire questions, like who did they FaceTime first after winning (Cook said her mom, Bacon said her boyfriend) and how many texts were waiting for them on their phone (293 for Cook, 150 for Bacon). 

I had a good laugh when I asked them what their celebratory drink of choice was and they both said espresso martini, but Bacon said: “Right now, it’d probably be an espresso martini because I’m tired, but a margarita.” Their silver medals hung around their necks as they took portraits — yes, of course, they bit the medals in those portraits, as medalists are wont to do  — before they headed out to spend the evening with the families, who were out in full force (both come from big families) to support their athletes.

An American in Paris.

I snuck in a solo dinner last night, a bit of recharge time for my lil introverted heart. On my long walk back to my hotel, I saw restaurants and bars buzzing and every screen I passed had on the Olympics. Sports bars showing handball and rugby. Diners watching fencing and swimming on their phones.

This is exactly what Sara Menai, a French journalist with BBC World Service, said during a one-hour segment I did with her and presenter Lee James earlier in the day at Le Suffren Brasserie near the Eiffel Tower. Sara talked about how there was such a build up to the opening ceremony for Parisians that they can take a breath now and enjoy the sport and spectacle, like watching beloved sportsman Antoine Dupont leading the French rugby sevens team to gold.

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