Key occasions
Tennis: Donna Vekic (Croatia) has taken the primary set off Coco Gauff (USA) of their third spherical match within the girls’s singles, whereas Jack Draper (Nice Britain) is a set to the nice in his second spherical encounter towards Taylor Fritz (USA). Sadly for Jack, it seems like he’ll should win it the onerous manner; his opponent is 5-2 up within the second and about to revive parity.
Swimming: Having already gained gold within the 400m particular person medley, French famous person Leon Marchant certified for the 200m butterfly semi-finals earlier this morning and has simply booked his place within the breastroke equal.
In different swimming information, Nice Britain’s males have simply swam out snug winners of their warmth within the 4x200m freestyle relay forward of tonight’s closing at 9.15pm. “I can’t think about us not successful that closing tonight,” says BBC swimming pundit Adrian Moorhouse.
Males’s hockey: Elsewhere on the Yves du Manoir Stadium, Nice Britain’s males are taking over the Netherlands in Pool A and the match, being performed in excessive warmth, stays scoreless.
Males’s hockey: Having misplaced their first two video games in Pool B towards Belgium and Australia, Eire presently discover themselves a purpose down towards India inat the top of the primary quarter of their newest encounter. India gained their opener towards New Zealand earlier than drawing with Argentina of their second match.
Crusing: Nice Britain’s Sam Sills completed sixth in race two of the lads’s iQFOiL to tug himself as much as seventeenth total within the 24-man area.
Swimming: It’s job completed for Nice Britain’s Anna Hopkin, who has certified for the semi-finals of the ladies’s 100m freestyle with the tenth quickest time within the heats. She goes via in 53.67 seconds.
Hockey: Nice Britain’s recreation towards the Netherlands within the males’s competitors is underway on the Yves du Manoir Stadium and it’s presently scoreless. The Dutch gained their opening two video games towards South Africa and France, whereas Staff GB began with a win towards Spain however have been held 2-2 by South Africa.
Tennis: Nice Britain’s Jack Draper is within the second spherical of the lads’s singles on Courtroom Suzanne-Lenglen at Roland Garros. He’s taking part in Taylor Fritz from the USA and leads 6-5 within the first set. Elsewhere at Roland Garros, Fritz’s compatriot Coco Gauff leads Croatia’s Donna Vekic by the very same rating within the third spherical of the ladies’s singles.
Desk tennis: China’s reigning girls’s desk tennis singles gold medallist Chen Meng has gained her manner into final 16 by beating Sweden’s Linda Bergstrom 4-1.
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Crusing: After a really lengthy delay, the second spherical of the Males’s iQFOiL, with all 24 rivals browsing throughout the water in Marseille. Staff GB’s Sam Sills is presently in seventh place.
Judo: Nice Britain’s Lucy Renshaw has been knocked out of the ladies’s -63kg competitors by Austria’s Lubjana Piovesana, who used to characterize Staff GB till nailing her colors to the Austrian mast in 2023. Renshaw exits within the second spherical of the competitors, having gone out within the first spherical in Tokyo.
“Judo’s such a merciless sport,” a tearful Renshaw tells the BBC. “The final 12 weeks have in all probability been the most effective 12 weeks of coaching I’ve ever completed earlier than. I felt like I had extra to offer. It wasn’t that exhausting as a result of I felt good.”
On combating any individual she is aware of effectively and used to coach with: “I feel that’s what occurs while you combat any individual so commonly and you already know them so effectively. It’s fairly a garbage combat as a result of you already know one another so effectively. She was the higher participant on the day.”
Crusing: Race two of the Males’s iQFOiL (a windsurfing class) in Marseille has been delayed however seems like it’s going to begin within the subsequent jiffy. Organisers in race administration boat are simply ready for the wind to settle and making some last-minute changes to the course: transferring the beginning line, amongst different issues … as you do.
There are 24 totally different nations represented within the males’s competitors and Sam Sills goes for Nice Britain. After the completion of 1 race, he sits in twenty first place total.
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Good day, everybody. Barry Glendenning right here to take you thru the following couple of hours, with valuable little in the best way of glamour medal occasions looming.
We do have a Pool A males’s hockey recreation between Nice Britain and the Netherlands looming within the subsequent hour, whereas Eire tackle India in Pool B. Throw some tennis, archery, boxing, swimming and volleytball into the combo, and it’s fairly the eclectic jamboree.
Think about that little bit of Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me the place George Michael says “Women and gents, Mr Elton John!”, besides it’s me saying “Women and gents, Mr Barry Glendenning!”. I’ll see you again right here in a few hours.
Staff GB have introduced a squad change within the males’s hockey, with Tom Sorsby coming in for the injured David Goodfield.
Tom Sorsby has been added to our males’s hockey squad after David Goodfield sustained an harm.
Sorsby has been introduced into the workforce below the late athlete alternative coverage and shall be out there to play towards the Netherlands later as we speak.#Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/r8YCd5qemj
— Staff GB (@TeamGB) July 30, 2024
Nice Britain, after a win over Spain and a draw with South Africa, face the Netherlands in Pool A at 12.45 native time. The Dutch have gained their two video games thus far.
Earlier in Pool A France and Spain drew, and Germany are presently effectively in management towards South Africa with a 4-1 lead firstly of the fourth quarter.
Kieran Pender
Extra right here from my colleague Kieran Pender in Paris on that newest information of Covid within the swimming camps:
Australia’s Lani Pallister has withdrawn from the ladies’s 1500m freestyle after testing optimistic for Covid, the Australian Olympic Committee introduced an hour earlier than her anticipated warmth swim on Tuesday.
Pallister gained bronze within the lengthy distance occasion on the 2022 world championships, however opted to withdraw from the Paris 2024 race within the hope of recovering in time for Australia’s 4x200m freestyle relay on Thursday.
The 22-year-old’s withdrawal leaves Moesha Johnson as the one Australian within the 1500m race; Johnson may also swim within the 10 kilometre open water marathon swimming later within the Video games.
The AOC’s announcement has sparked fears of a rising Covid danger on the pool deck, after British swim star Adam Peaty examined optimistic on Monday lower than 24 hours after successful silver within the 100m breaststroke.
Pallister is just not the one Australian Olympian to go down with Covid in Paris – a number of members of the ladies’s water polo workforce, the Stingers, examined optimistic on the eve of the Video games.
Chef de mission insisted that the Australian workforce was taking a distinct method to Covid than three years in the past, when the Tokyo Olympics have been held amid the peak of the pandemic.
“It is a high-performance setting, so we’re being diligent,” Meares mentioned at a press convention final week. “However I want to emphasize we’re treating Covid no in a different way to different bugs just like the flu – this isn’t Tokyo.”
Learn extra right here: Australian swimming camp hit by Covid as medal hope Lani Pallister checks optimistic
Males’s water polo: a reasonably routine victory for Australia over Serbia in Group B the water polo. It completed 8-3 with Luke Pavillard scoring 4 of these.
Males’s hockey: it completed France 3-3 Spain, a end result that isn’t actually a lot use to the hosts, who’ve now didn’t win of their first three matches.
Equestrian dressage: British Dressage, who run occasions within the UK, say that the idea of dressage dates again so far as 350BC and Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon. I don’t suppose he had an advanced system the place sixty riders have been divided into six teams of ten, with the highest two qualifying for the Grand Prix closing plus the six different best-scoring riders, however there you go. That’s what is going on with the horses proper now. Simply have a look at that setting …
There’s additionally a workforce competitors qualification occurring on the identical time, with the highest ten groups progressing to the ultimate.
Males’s hockey: I’d be tearing my hair out if I used to be the French coach. They acquired again into the lead 3-2 however have let it slip once more. France 3-3 Spain with six minutes to go.
Beau Dure has a function as we speak wanting Taylor Knibb, who will – air pollution allowing – comply with up her look within the biking time trial with the triathlon, becoming a member of a choose group of athletes to carry out in two totally different sports activities on the identical Video games.
The c-word has cropped up once more. Reuters stories Australia’s Lani Pallister, a medal hope within the girls’s 1,500 metres freestyle, has withdrawn from the occasion after testing optimistic for Covid. A workforce spokesperson mentioned the choice had been made to save lots of her vitality for the 4×200 freestyle relay.
Girls’s double sculls rowing: Staff GB’s Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne and Rebecca Wilde have secured a spot in Thursday’s closing after ending second of their semi-final behind Romania’s Ancuța Bodnar and Simona Radiș. Norway got here third however Australian pair Amanda Bateman and Harriet Hudson missed out in fourth place. Within the different semi-final it was New Zealand, the Netherlands and France who progressed.
Males’s hockey: the hosts have been with no win thus far within the Olympics, and France at one level had a 2-0 lead as we speak, however they’ve let Spain proper again into this. It’s 2-2 with 5 minutes of the third quarter remaining.
Listed below are your medal winners from the 10m air pistol combined workforce occasion. Gold for Serbia, silver for Turkey and bronze for India.
Reuters is carrying a quote from French triathlon federation technical director Benjamin Maze, who with some understatement has advised FranceInfo radio “in fact there’s a little little bit of anger and plenty of disappointment” among the many athletes concerning the cancellation of as we speak’s males’s triathlon.
Girls’s handball: a convincing win for Germany over Slovenia ultimately, to offer the Germans their first win on the thrid try. The match completed 41-22 in Group A, with seven objectives apiece for Xenia Smits and Annika Lott. All of the groups on this group are taking part in as we speak on the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, with the following two fixtures being Norway v South Korea this morning, and Sweden v Denmark tonight.
Kieran Pender
Australia has introduced in Ben O’Connor for the lads’s street race after Luke Plapp withdrew after his crash in slippery circumstances within the particular person time trial on Saturday.
Plapp was admitted to hospital and required stomach surgical procedure after the incident, which dominated him out of the street race this weekend.
“Luke is receiving the most effective of care in hospital and is being effectively supported by our medical workforce,” mentioned Australian Chef de Mission Anna Meares. “We anticipate he’ll be out of hospital this week and want him a speedy restoration.”
O’Connor is one in every of Australia’s main basic classification riders; he positioned fourth within the Giro d’Italia in Could and is predicted to trip the Vuelta a España subsequent month. He’ll trip in help of Australian chief Michael Matthews, alongside Simon Clarke. “Ben has carried out strongly this season and is presently in prime type,” mentioned Meares.
Gold for Serbia within the 10m air pistol combined workforce taking pictures 🥇🥇🥇
Taking pictures 10m air pistol combined workforce: after a tense end Damir Mikec and Zorana Arunović have gained Serbia’s first medal of those Video games, and it’s gold.
Regardless of at one level trailing Turkey 8-2, a mixed rating of 20.1 within the fifteenth spherical of taking pictures gave them a 16-14 triumph. The Serbian pair had completed fourth on this occasion in Tokyo.
Şevval İlayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikeç took silver, with Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh successful bronze for India within the earlier bronze medal match towards South Korea.
Taking pictures 10m air pistol combined workforce: Turkey are Serbia are tied 10-10 on this closing 👀
Males’s volleyball: Italy have crushed Egypt 25-15 25-16 25-20 in Pool B. The US face Germany in Pool C at 13.00 native time.
Rowing males’s single sculls: it’s the quarter-finals on this as we speak. New Zealand’s Thomas Waterproof coat is holding the lead within the first one in the meanwhile.
Males’s hockey: hosts France have copped a few thumpings thus far on this match, shedding 8-2 to Germany and 4-0 to the Netherlands of their first two video games. Nevertheless they’ve taken an early lead towards Spain this morning in a match that began at 10am native time.