The marquee event of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games is finally here. The track and field competition began Aug. 1 with the 20-kilometer racewalks, but the in-stadia action starts on Aug. 2 and FloTrack will be covering all the action live.

The daily track and field events are split into morning and evening sessions, with about a 6-7 hour break between the AM and PM schedule. Friday's AM session is highlighted by the first 3 events of the men's decathlon, the first two rounds of the women's 100 meters, the men's 1500m first round, and qualification stages of the men's hammer throw and women's high jump.

• Follow the Afternoon Session live on FloTrack!
• Subscribe To FloTrack To Watch Track And Field And Cross Country All Season
• USA Track And Field Olympic Roster
• 2024 Olympic Track And Field Schedule For Aug. 2: Pace Picking Up In Paris

The first Friday session on Aug. 2 runs from 10:05 AM Paris time up to the conclusion of the men's decathlon shot put, which starts at 12:15 PM local time. On the U.S. East Coast, that's from 4:05 AM to after 6:15 AM.

Follow The 2024 Olympic Track And Field Day 2 Afternoon Session Live

Get the latest news and updates on FloTrack for the afternoon session here.

2024 Olympic Track And Field Live Updates, Friday, Aug. 2 AM Session

10:05am Paris: Men's Decathlon 100m

• The track events begin with the decathlon, and the event is more open than ever now that world record holder Kevin Mayer, who had fitness questions going into the Games, scratched yesterday.
• The crowd looks nearly full (66,000 per the BBC), which is a great sign for a morning session with no finals.
• It's a Norwegian sweep in the first heat with a 10.71 winning time for Markus Rooth, but the second heat has some more familiar names for Americans: German Leo Neugebauer, the NCAA champion and record-holder, will make his first Paris mark along with the first American athletics Olympians in Harrison Williams and Heath Baldwin.
• The first American to start an Olympic track race in Paris is also the first across the line -- Harrison Williams defeats Neugebauer in a photo finish.
• Defending gold medallist Damian Wariner of Canada starts in the third heat, as does the final American Zach Ziemek. He has the DWB of 10.12 in the 100m. Lindon Victor moved early, but the starting gun didn't yet fire so we'll see if we get a green card.
• It's a yellow card -- rare but possible in track and field -- for Lindon Victor, which essentially means he's safe as long as he doesn't do it again. Warner takes it in 10.25, solid for him. For the record, we're seeing light positive tailwinds (+0.9 m/s for the first heat), which is a good sign for the women's 100m coming up. Puerto Rican Ayden Owens-Delerme surprises with 10.35 for 2nd, while Ziemek finishes last in 10.60.

10:10am Paris: Men's Hammer Throw Qualification Group A

• Unlike with the women's high jump, the two qualification groups for the men's hammer throw start separately. Five of the first eight athletes in Group A have fouled on their first attempt, and none have yet hit the 77.00 m standard for auto-qualification.
• Ukraine's Mykhaylo Kokhan makes the first statement of the meet with a 77.42m throw on his second attempt, becoming the first to auto-advance. The only American in this group, Daniel Haugh, failed on his first two attempts, so he'll have one more chance.
• On Haugh's final attempt, he's just left of the sector -- another foul, and the first American track athlete to be eliminated from the Paris Olympics.
• Canada's Rowan Hamilton, who had a foot foul on his first attempt, has the best mark of Group A with 77.78 m. We'll have to wait for Group B to see the other American Rudy Winkler.

10:15am Paris: Women's High Jump Qualification

• There are two qualification groups that will be jumping at the same time. The star is world record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine.
• Last year's Diamond League finals third-placer Angelina Topic of Serbia looked like she could have been injured on a warmup jump, and is being tended to by medical staff.
• Mahuchikh's compatriot Yuliia Levchenko, 2017 World Championships silver medalist, has no-heighted. Angelina Topic hesitates on her third attempt post-warmup injury, but after the reset she clears the bar to move on!
• Rachel Glenn, the Arkansas high jumper who can also run a mean 400  hurdles, is tied for 8th in Group A, and she fouls three time sat 1.92m. She'll have to wait and see if it's enough to move on to the finals.
• Angelina Topic clears 1.92, which seals the deal for Glenn as she will not be advancing.
• Mahuchikh skips the early heights, but when she finally does jump she looks fine, clearing on her first attempt to qualify. Australia's Nicola Olyslagers also clears cleanly.
• In Group B, the American Vashti Cunningham fails three times at 1.92. But she's tied with Topic for 12th, meaning they should both advance and we'll have 13 in the final.

10:35am Paris: Women's 100m Preliminary Round

• Top three plus next five fastest overall advance to the quarter-finals later this session. All of the medal contenders (including Sha'Carri Richardson) have a bye to the quarter-finals, so they won't be running this round -- it'll be a great chance to see "universality place" athletes from smaller countries around the world compete for Olympic glory.
• After a green-card false start in the first heat, Natacha Ngoye, Alessandra Gasparelli, and Xenia Hiebert auto-qualify for the quarter-finals, with Ngoye running 11.34. There's a delay on the track as Lucia Moris of South Sudan falls up injured in lane 1 -- the first DNF on the track.
• In the second of four heats, Thi Nhi Yen Tran (11.81) of Vietnam, Halle Hazzard of Grenada, and Bo-Ya Zhang of Chinese Taipei have auto-advanced.
• Gorete Semedo of Sao Tome and Principe wins heat 3 in 11.44, ahead of Guadalupe Torrez and Leonie Beu. National records galore in these heats, for American Samoa, Nicaragua, and British Guiana.
• Heat 4 is won by Zahria Allers-Liburd in 11.73, who will advance alongside Asimenye Simwaka and Mariandree Chacon. The time qualifiers are also now set, so the next fastest five will advance as well.
• Sharon Firsua, former marathoner from the Solomon Islands who was forced in to the 100m as there were no universality spots in the marathon, finishes 9th in 14.30.
• For those on wind watch, we're seeing 0.0, 0.0, +1.1, +0.2 for the four heats. Not bad at all heading in to the quarter-finals.
• The small "q"s are: Carmona (Nicaragua) 11.88, Acquaviva (Guinea) 11.97, Sesay (Sierra Leone) 11.99, Meredova (Turkmenistan) 12.01, Tugade (Guam) 12.02.

10:55am Paris: Men's Decathlon Long Jump

• Two groups will be competing simultaneously. Leo Nueugebauer leads Group B in 7.76m, a great result as he left a lot on the board. while Harrison Williams leads the A group in 7.42m. Heath Baldwin fouls his first attempt.
• Norway's Sander Skotheim breaks 8 meters with an 8.03, but Neugebauer comes close with 7.98 to place 2nd in this event.
• It's Warner, then Neugebauer in the standings after 2 events.

11:10am Paris: Men's 1500m Quarter-Finals

• One of the most anticipated events of the Paris games begins now. The first heat will answer a lot of questions, with Doha DL winner Brian Komen yet to prove his tactical finesse. The top six per heat will auto-advance, and there are no time qualifiers but there is a "repechage" round as a second-chance.
• Komen leads at 400m in 1:00.5, setting up for a very tactical race. Nuguse and Kerr are solidly mid-pack.
• Narve Nordas tries to take this, coming through 800m in 2:01.1. The whole field's still within a second of each other.
• Robert Farken of Germany comes through 1200m in 2:55.9,  but it's Josh Kerr who takes it at the end in 3:35.83, a comfortable debut for him. Yared Nuguse scares the American audience as he has to fight for a qualifying spot, but he makes it in the end, finishing 5th in 3:36.56. The other qualifiers are Brian Komen, Narve Nordas, Anass Essayi, and Farken who was rewarded for leading at 1200m. Had Nuguse finished more than one tenth slower, he would have been outside the top 6 and have had to fight in the repechage round. It was an impressive run for Komen, who burst onto the scene this year.
• The second heat features American medal hope Cole Hocker, who beat Nuguse at the Olympic trials, and 2019 champ Timmy Cheruiyot.
• Australia's Stewart McSweyn leads 400m at 1:00.5 with Hocker hot on his heels, not a surprise for the frontrunner McSweyn. Chreruiyot in 4th.
• McSweyn still leads at 800m, Hocker looks a little boxed in now on the rail with 400 to go. Lots of competitors running around him, Hocker almost seems to be going backwards.
• Hocker moves wide with 150 to go, and he times it perfectly to finish 2nd and Q. The five qualifiers are Ermias Girma 3:35.21, Hocker, Pietro Arese, Niels Laros, Cheruiyot, and Isaac Nader.
• Heat 3 of the 1500 features the man to beat Jakob Ingebigtsen, but also Hobbs Kessler, who impressed with a 1:43 at the Trials 800 showing he can depend on a kick should it get tactical.
• Jakob expectedly lets the field gap him in the first 100 meters in a show of confidence, running easily from the back. This is the slowest heat of the three.
• It's 2:01.36 at the 800, Jakob moves up on the inside. Kessler is positioned quite well on the shoulder of World Indoor Champ Samuel Tefera at the bell, 2:56.
• Ingebrigtsen goes from 11th to a great qualifying position. Azeddine Habz, who won a Diamond League earlier this year, ties up and will have to rely on the repechage, as will Aussie Trials champ Adam Spencer.
• The third heat Qs are Stefan Nillessen 3:36.77, Kessler, Ingebrigtsen, Reynold Cheruiyot, Neil Gourley, and Tefera.

11:35am Paris: Men's Hammer Throw Qualification Group B

• Group B includes ex-Cornell star and the lone American hope Rudy Winkler now that Haugh was eliminated in Group A.
• After a late start, Rudy Winkler auto-Qs with a 77.29m first-round throw.
• Canada's Ethan Katzberg leads the field with a 79.93m toss, and Norway's Eivind Henriksen also makes it through automatically with 77.14m.

11:50am Paris: Women's 100m Quarter-Finals

• These heats were drawn just minutes ago after the conclusion of the preliminary round, and the result is that Sha'Carri Richardson will be running first. Top 3 in each of 8 heats plus the next 3 fastest will advance to the semifinals, and there are no second chances as the repechage doesn't apply to the 100m races. The first heat lacks any other medal contenders, so we'll be looking for a comfortable win from Richardson.
• The crowd roars for Richardson at the starting line -- sounds like the loudest yet. She storms to win in 10.94, +0.1 wind. Her start looked sluggish, just behind the other runners, but that may have been part of a deliberate strategy in these early rounds as she was still able to pull away easily. She was trailed by Patrizia Van Der Weken 11.14, and Bree Masters 11.26 in a photo finish for 3rd.
• It's worth noting that Richardson's reaction time of 0.200 was the slowest in her heat by a full 0.03 seconds. She wasn't taking any chances for a false start, and the gamble paid off in this round.
• The second heat features World Indoor 60m champion Julien Alfred, who is a serious gold medal threat ever since Shericka Jackson withdrew from the 100m to focus on the 200m. Also look out for New Zealand record-holder Zoe Hobbs to qualify.
• Alfred wins it in 10.95 -0.8 m/s headwind, shutting it down at the end. Hobbs 2nd 11.08, Zaynab Dosso 11.30 for 3rd. Triniddad & Tobago sprinter and 2018 Commonwealth Games champ Michelle-Lee Ahye is out of the auto-Qs in 4th, 11.33.
• Heat 3 features the Brit Daryll Neita and Richardson's training partner Melissa Jefferson, who we should expect to go 1-2 in some order.
• Neita wins it in 10.92, the fastest time of the day so far, with Jefferson 2nd in 10.96 despite running from lane 9. Wind is picking up, +1.5 m/s this time. Bolglarka Takacs of Hungary rounds out the Qs in 11.10 with a national record.
• The fourth heat features Jamaican Trials 2nd-placer Tia Clayton, as well as Great Britain's Imani Lansiquot and Canada's Audrey Leduc who should be favored to take the three auto-spots. Clayton will have a big weight on her shoulder carrying the Jamaican hopes for the world's fastest woman title now that Shericka Jackson is out.
• LeDuc takes the win in 10.95, surprising with a new PB as she upsets Clayton, who was 2nd in 11.00 with Lansiquot rounding out the Qs. The 10.95 is a new Canadian record, and the wind of +1.2 is legal. Hidden among the non-qualifiers is a San Marino record in 7th for Alessandra Gasparelli, 11.54.
• Heat 5/8 features 2019 World Silver and 2022 World Bronze medalist Dina Asher-Smith, as well as Polish 60m rocket and 2023 Worlds 100m finalist Ewa Swoboda. There's a blatant false start from lane 6's Ana Carolina Azevedo of Brazil, but it's a green card -- no red cards yet shows at these Games.
  
• Swoboda takes the W in 10.99 with +1.0 wind, finishing even with Asher-Smith 11.01. Rosemary Chukwuma of Nigeria also makes it through automatically with 11.26.
• The American and another Dennis Mitchell-coached athlete TeeTee Terry is the feature of heat 6, though the Jamaican reserve Shashalee Forbes might make the win a little difficult for her.
• Terry and Forbes go 1-2, 11.15 to 11.19. The wind explains the times -- it's a -0.4 headwind. Leah Bertrand of T&T takes the 3rd spot in 11.27. This means all three women's Americans can call themselves semifinalists, though there are still two heats to go.
• Olympic finalist Mujinga Kambundji, Gambian superstar Gina Bass and LSU athlete Tima Godbless will make the 7th heat a treat.
• Bass takes it in 11.01, followed by Kambundji in 11.05 and Delphine Nkansa of Belgium taking that crucial 3rd spot in 11.20. Wind is still negative but manageable, -0.2 m/s.
• With one heat to go, the "bubble time" is 11.17, with Gémima Joseph (11.13), Karolína Manasova (11.15), and Maboundou Kone (11.17) all in the hot seat.
• The Pocket Rocket herself, Olympic legend and all-time women's sprinting GOAT Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price will make her Paris debut in the final heat. She'll be faced by Marie Josee Ta Lou-Smith to make the semis.
• Fraser-Pryce gets the job done, finishing 2nd in 10.92 (+0.8) behind Ta Lou-Smith's 10.87 who leads the qualifiers. Germany's Gina Luckenkemper finishes 3rd, and two of the time qualifiers come from this tailwind-aided heat as Rani Rosius (11.10) and Gladymar Torres (11.12) will bump the slowest two small "q"s. Torres' time is a Puerto Rican national record.

12:15pm Paris: Men's Decathlon Shot Put

• Again, two groups will be competing simultaneously. Harrison Williams in Group A, Leo Neugebauer, Ziemek, Baldwin, and Warner all in Group B.
• Makenson Gletty leads the decathletes one round in with 16.37m -- Ziemek is the top American so far with 15.03m.
• On his second attempt, "Leo the Lion" Neugebauer gets a good one in with 16.55m, leading the competition. Harrison Williams leads group A with 15.26m.
• Leo's last throw looked great, but it's a foul. The French hope Makenson Gletty throws 16.64m to lead Group B, cheered along by the roars of the hometown crowd along the way.