Olympics 2021 - Kevin Durant and Team USA lose to France, Simone Biles is on to the finals, plus other Olympic updates - ESPN

Tim Legler says Team USA men's basketball got a "big wake-up call" after losing to France in its Olympic opener.

Early Sunday at the Olympic Games, Simone Biles and the U.S.

gymnastics team competed for the first time in a long evening of gymnastics qualifications, while swimmer Katie Ledecky got closer to defending her gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle event by finishing in the top spot following her heat.

Then, Kevin Durant & Co.'s quest for a fourth consecutive gold medal started with a hearty dose of adversity.

Also, the first Olympic gold medal in skateboarding was awarded, two-time Olympic medalist April Ross and her new partner Alix Klineman won their first match in beach volleyball, and the United States broke its one-day medal drought with six medals in the pool.

lost to Nigeria and Australia, marking the first time it has lost back-to-back exhibition games since professionals began playing in 1992 -- which revealed this team is not infallible.

Team USA now must win their final two pool-play games against Iran and the Czech Republic to advance to the medal round.

women's gymnastics team's hold on the gold in the team event might be in trouble.

THE FIRST GOLD MEDAL FOR @TeamUSA.

Capturing the first medals for @TeamUSA by winning gold AND silver.

Chase Kalisz took one step up the podium from his silver-medal Olympic finish in 2016, winning gold in the 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4:09.42.

His dominating performance was the first overall medal for the United States in these Olympic Games, but only by fractions of a second.

Kalisz became the only swimmer (male or female) to win both gold and silver medals in the 400-meter individual medley.

The United States has won nine of the 15 gold medals in the men's 400-meter individual medley.

Later in the pool, Kieran Smith earned a bronze medal for Team USA in the 400-meter freestyle.

The host nation's Yui Ohashi wins Olympic gold for Japan in the women's 400m IM.@TeamUSA's Emma Weyant and Hali Flickinger win the silver and bronze!

Team USA got another 400-meter individual medley double when Emma Weyant and Hali Flickinger took the silver and bronze medal.

Australia shatters the world record in the women's 4x100m relay to claim Olympic gold!@swimone anchors @TeamUSA and leads to them to the bronze.

Australia set the world record in the women's 4x100 meters (3:29.69), but the Americans added another medal with a bronze medal in the event to give them six on the night.

An OLYMPIC RECORD for 🇦🇺 Kaylee McKeown in the women's 100m backstroke‼️ 🤯 #TokyoOlympics pic.twitter.com/5cY1dY6yHQ.

Australian Kaylee McKeown, who set the world record last month in 57.45, lowered the Olympic record once more to 57.88 in the 6th and final heat.

In one of the biggest surprises of the Games so far, six-time world champion street skateboarder Nyjah Huston of Team USA, the hands-down favorite to win his sport's Olympic debut, finished off the medal podium in seventh place.

skateboarder to earn an Olympic medal.

Eaton has been a contest staple since making his X Games debut in 2013 as the youngest competitor in the history of the event (his record was beaten last week), but he skated in Huston's shadow in the lead-up to the Olympics!

13-year-old skateboarder Rayssa Leal will make her Olympic debut tomorrow.

Third Olympic Games.

First Olympic medal.

AND IT'S A HISTORIC FIRST #TEAMUSA GOLD.

woman to win Olympic gold in individual foil.

Lee Kiefer earned the third gold medal for the United States at the Tokyo Olympics by beating defending champion Inna Deriglazova of Russia 15-13 in the women's foil final.

Just two weeks after winning Wimbledon, top-seeded Australian Ashleigh Barty was knocked out of the Olympic singles tournament in her first-round match

Ross is in her third Olympics after pairing with Jennifer Kessy in 2012 and winning silver, before winning bronze with Kerri Walsh Jennings in 2016

After narrowly missing out on making Great Britain's Olympic team in 2012 and Jamaica's in 2016, Francis stepped away from the elite scene to compete for UCLA but never gave up on her lifelong ambition