Key occasions
We transfer now to the reside motion within the males’s 10km marathon swim within the Seine. The rivals have been patiently necking hydration gels and bacteria-beating components on the blocks. We’ve 31 athletes taking up the river’s merciless currents within the quest for gold. They’re shifting to the sting of the barge in readiness… they’re OFF and RACING!
A queen of the Paris observe was topped final night time when Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone clinched Crew USA’s one centesimal medal of those Olympics – a gold within the 400m hurdles with a world file thrown in for good measure. Bryan Armen Graham penned this excellent piece in a single day:
McLaughlin-Levrone, who turned 25 on Wednesday, first broke the 400m hurdles world file on the 2021 US Olympic trials, shattered it on the Tokyo Video games and has lowered it 4 extra instances since, together with by almost three-tenths of a second on Thursday night time. In doing so, she grew to become the primary American to retain an Olympic title in a person observe race since Michael Johnson’s back-to-back 400m golds in 1996 and 2000. Her successful time of fifty.37sec would have been good for third within the second 400m flat semi-final on Wednesday. The proprietor of seven of the 400m hurdles’ 13 quickest instances ever, it’s been greater than 5 years since she misplaced within the occasion. So clean, so environment friendly, not a wasted motion.
When these Paris Olympics finish on Sunday I’m going to overlook picture galleries like this…
Raven Saunders made a splash in the course of the girls’s shot put qualification by showing in a full-face black masks and sun shades, together with dyed inexperienced and purple hair. “I’m in full type,” the American stated of the outfit. “I needed to remind the individuals, I’m who I’m.”
Talking of US dominance of basketball, Serbia nearly pulled off one of many all-time Olympics upsets after they had the lads’s “Dream Crew” on the rack and 76-62 down in the beginning of the ultimate quarter of final night time’s semi-final. Coming into the Paris Video games, the US had gained gold in eight of the final 10 Olympics, with their final stumble coming in 2004 after they gained bronze. Fortunately, Steph Curry got here to the rescue….
{Photograph}: Mark J Terrill/AP
Heard concerning the Opal who wished Gold? Australian basketball GOAT Lauren Jackson is at her fifth Olympics and is but to win the shiniest medal of all. As an alternative, at each flip, Jackson and her Opals teammates have been foiled by Crew USA whom they meet tonight within the semi-final at Bercy Enviornment. Can they snap the hoodoo and ship Lauren out a winner? Kieran Pender asks: why not?
The torrent of gold Australia has skilled at these Paris Olympics has lastly slowed to a trickle. Not that the inexperienced and gold military might be resting on the laurels of their 18 gold thus far. They’ve just a few ironmen and ironwomen within the fireplace on Day 14…
The primary occasion of Day 14 would be the males’s 10km marathon swim within the Seine. If yesterday’s girls’s occasion was something to go by, the blokes are in for a troublesome day. Highly effective currents performed havoc with the sphere and their efforts to negate them noticed many rivals hugging the rutted and ivy-covered partitions of the river. That tactic was efficient in avoiding the worst of the swirls and eddies but additionally resulted in loads of skinned knuckles and skinned toes. When you like blood within the water along with your sweat and tears that is the occasion for you.
Ultimately, Australia’s Moesha Johnson was overwhelmed within the house stretch by Netherlands iron-woman Sharon van Rouwendaal. Silver-medallist Johnson was gracious in defeat and saluted her coaching companion:
I knew coming underneath that bridge as properly, irrespective of which manner I took, Sharon might need taken the opposite possibility,’ Johnson says. ‘I feel we’ve simply been collectively in coaching by means of some robust instances, and to be there collectively on the rostrum simply means a lot.
When you’re a sports activities fan for whom an excessive amount of sport is rarely sufficient and but the athletic endeavour concerned in clicking by means of this hyperlink is an exertion too far, right here’s your Day 14 buffet of blood, sweat and tears in a useful procuring record lower, pasted and bolded. Higher put one other pot of espresso on the hob…
15:30: Open Water Swimming Males’s 10km
17:00: Golf Ladies’s Stroke Play Spherical 3
17:00: Taekwondo Males’s Welterweight 68-80kg Final 32
17:09: Taekwondo Ladies’s Welterweight 57-67kg Final 16
17:21: Taekwondo Males’s Welterweight 68-80kg Final 16
18:00: Diving Males’s 10m Platform Preliminary Spherical
18:00: Gymnastics – Rhythmic Ladies’s Group All-Round Qualification
18:00: Desk Tennis Males’s Crew Bronze Medal Match (France v Japan)
18:05: Athletics Ladies’s Heptathlon Lengthy Bounce
18:15: Sport Climbing Males’s Bouldering & Lead Mixed Ultimate – Bouldering
18:30: Canoe Dash Ladies’s C2 500m Semifinal
18:40: Athletics Ladies’s 4 x 400m Relay Spherical 1
18:50: Canoe Dash Ladies’s K2 500m Semifinal
19:00: Wrestling – Freestyle Males’s 57kg Repechage Spherical
19:00: Wrestling – Freestyle Males’s 86kg Repechage Spherical
19:00: Wrestling – Freestyle Ladies’s 57kg Repechage Spherical
19:05: Athletics Males’s 4 x 400m Relay Spherical 1
19:07: Wrestling – Freestyle Males’s 74kg Qualification
19:10: Canoe Dash Males’s K2 500m Semifinal
19:14: Wrestling – Freestyle Males’s 125kg 1/8 Ultimate
19:14: Wrestling – Freestyle Ladies’s 62kg 1/8 Ultimate
19:21: Wrestling – Freestyle Males’s 74kg 1/8 Ultimate
19:23: Athletics Ladies’s Heptathlon Javelin Throw – Group A
19:30: Athletics Males’s 800m Semifinal
19:30: Canoe Dash Males’s C1 1000m Semifinal
20:05: Athletics Ladies’s 100m Hurdles Semifinal
20:10: Wrestling – Freestyle Males’s 125kg Quarterfinal
20:10: Wrestling – Freestyle Ladies’s 62kg Quarterfinal
20:13: Crusing Males’s Components Kite Ultimate – Race 2 (rescheduled)
20:17: Wrestling – Freestyle Males’s 74kg Quarterfinal
20:22: Crusing Males’s Components Kite Ultimate – Race 3 (rescheduled)
20:31: Crusing Males’s Components Kite Ultimate – Race 4
20:32: Athletics Ladies’s Heptathlon Javelin Throw – Group B
20:35: Sport Climbing Males’s Bouldering & Lead Mixed Ultimate – Lead
20:40: Canoe Dash Ladies’s C2 500m Ultimate B
20:40: Crusing Males’s Components Kite Ultimate – Race 5
20:49: Crusing Males’s Components Kite Ultimate – Race 6
20:50: Canoe Dash Ladies’s C2 500m Ultimate A
21:00: Canoe Dash Ladies’s K2 500m Ultimate B
21:00: Trendy Pentathlon Males’s Particular person Semifinal A – Driving
21:00: Water Polo Males Classification Spherical 5-8 (Italy v Spain)
21:10: Canoe Dash Ladies’s K2 500m Ultimate A
21:20: Canoe Dash Males’s K2 500m Ultimate B
21:30: Canoe Dash Males’s K2 500m Ultimate A
21:40: Canoe Dash Males’s C1 1000m Ultimate B
21:40: Trendy Pentathlon Males’s Particular person Semifinal A – Fencing Bonus Spherical
21:50: Canoe Dash Males’s C1 1000m Ultimate A
22:00: Cycling – Monitor Ladies’s Dash Qualification
22:00: Hockey Ladies Bronze Medal Match (Argentina v Belgium)
22:20: Trendy Pentathlon Males’s Particular person Semifinal A – Swimming
22:30: Gymnastics – Rhythmic Ladies’s Particular person All-Round Ultimate
22:30: Taekwondo Ladies’s Welterweight 57-67kg Quarterfinal
22:35: Water Polo Males Semifinal (Serbia v USA)
22:40: Trendy Pentathlon Males’s Particular person Semifinal A – Laser-Run
22:40: Taekwondo Males’s Welterweight 68-80kg Quarterfinal
22:41: Biking – Monitor Males’s Dash Semifinal
22:48: Biking – Monitor Ladies’s Dash 1/32 Ultimate
23:00: Diving Ladies’s 3m Springboard Ultimate
23:00: Soccer Ladies Bronze Medal Match (Spain v Germany)
23:00: Desk Tennis Males’s Crew Gold Medal Match (China v Sweden)
23:00: Weightlifting Males’s 89kg
23:38: Biking – Monitor Ladies’s Dash Repechage Spherical 1
Listed below are Simon Burnton’s Day 14 highlights…
Friday 9 August Day 14
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Ladies’s breaking
The breaking competitors, incongruously held on the historic Place de la Concorde, lasts solely two days with the ladies’s (AKA b-girls) occasion at the moment and the lads (or b-boys) tomorrow. Nicka – the Lithuanian Dominika Banevic, who has been breaking for the reason that age of eight – gained the world and European championships final yr aged 16 however the two Asian Video games finalists, 671 (China’s Liu Qingyi) and Ami (Japan’s Ami Yuasa) are seen because the breakers probably to make tonight’s closing throw down.
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Wrestling: males’s 86kg closing
There have been rivalries, after which there was David Taylor v Hassan Yazdani. For years it appeared nothing may hold these representatives of clashing cultures of the USA and Iran aside: in Tokyo each breezed by means of the competitors earlier than Taylor’s last-second takedown noticed him edge an exhilarating closing 4-3, they usually’ve gone on to fulfill within the closing of each main championship since. However in a shocking upset Taylor, by then unbeaten in two and a half years, misplaced to Aaron Brooks within the US trials and promptly retired to enter teaching, and that is the beginning of a brand new period.
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Hockey: girls’s closing
The Netherlands have dominated girls’s subject hockey for years: of the 15 World Cups they’ve reached 13 finals and gained 9, together with the final three in a row; of 16 European championships they’ve reached 14 finals and gained 12, together with the final 4; they usually have reached the final 5 Olympic finals, successful three. They high each the lads’s and girls’s world rankings, the latter by an enormous margin. It might be a serious shock if they aren’t concerned in at the moment’s two medal video games, however can anybody cease them?
One other Day 13 gold value its weight in platinum was that gained by Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo. The unfancied 21-year-old beat none apart from the USA’s 100m winner Noah Lyles to the tape and even sacrificed just a few break up seconds off his time to thump his chest moments earlier than the road.
Seems that was an act of triumph but additionally a tribute to his mom, who died in Might. Tebogo later revealed he had taken three to 4 weeks off as a result of he was struggling to course of her dying. However with the Paris Video games looming and the race of a lifetime nigh, he set his jaw and took to the observe carrying spikes that carried his mom’s date of delivery.
It wasn’t actually clicking for me that she’s actually gone. For me, I’ve to search out the rationale why I began my athletics journey and why I ought to proceed happening. It was actually a ravishing race for me. She’s watching up there, and she or he’s actually, actually completely happy.
Of all these tons of of medals, one was maybe slightly extra treasured. Arshad Nadeem wrote his title into historical past by successful the lads’s javelin closing yesterday and changing into the primary observe and subject athlete from Pakistan to win gold at an Olympics. Nadeem entered this competitors an underdog however the javelin thrower overcame the percentages to change into his nation’s first medallist since 1992 (when it gained a bronze medal in males’s hockey in Barcelona). Nadeem’s record-breaking throw additionally made him solely the fourth athlete to cross the 90m mark within the males’s javelin at an Olympics.
The medal tally of those Paris Olympics continues to develop however the high three stay intact. The USA nonetheless prepared the ground with 30 gold and China sit shut behind with 29. There’s daylight between these two superpowers and Australia who sit third with 18 gold.
Preamble
Hey everyone and welcome to reside protection of the 14th official day of competitors on the Paris 2024 Summer season Olympics.
Day 13 was a veritable bourguignon of drama, glory and controversy. The US grew to become the primary nation to hit 30 gold medals thanks largely to the brilliance of their observe athletes. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone led the way in which by beating her personal world file within the girls’s 400m hurdles earlier than the Individuals clinched extra gold by means of Tara Davis-Woodhall within the girls’s lengthy bounce. Then Grant Holloway, three-time world champion and silver medallist in Tokyo, cruised to victory within the 110m hurdles.
The one bittersweet second for the US group got here when Noah Lyles was disadvantaged for gold within the 200m closing. He had an inexpensive excuse, however certainly not even the gloriously conceited Lyles couldn’t deny Botswana its first medal of those Video games – a gold, no much less – when Letsile Tebogo ran the quickest race of his life to disclaim Lyles the 100-200m double.
There have been no medals available for Nice Britain in observe and subject on Day 13 however Katarina Johnson-Thompson leads the heptathlon after 4 occasions within the seven-event self-discipline and there was a ray of gold for Crew GB within the type of Ellie Aldridge changing into the primary Olympic gold medallist in kitesurfing. Equally, Australia’s river of gold dried up on a day which delivered “solely” two silver and two bronze medals, whereas the Stingers earned a shot at gold with a dramatic comeback win over Crew USA within the girls’s water polo.
We’ve a protracted good Friday earlier than the ultimate weekend of this XXXIII Olympiad. Will Day 14 sign a golden age in your group?