Key occasions
Hockey: Belgium rating! Additionally from a penalty nook I feel. A few minutes left, and a Belgian cross is sort of turned in! It’s 3-2 and pulsating. There’s a evaluate to see who the ball went out off.
Archery: No third qualifier for Korea, with Kim Je Deok knocked out by USA’s Brady Ellison, who shoots an ideal three 10s within the third and ultimate set to win it. He’s into the semis.
Hockey: Spain rating late! Identical to within the soccer final evening. Effectively, not that late, however there are 4 minutes left within the final quarter and so they’re 2-1 up. And as I sort, they make it 3-1 with a penalty nook! Spain’s males will undergo to the semis except one thing loopy occurs.
Archery! One among my favourites on the Olympics. The lads’s particular person quarter-finals, 4 of them. Winners go right into a semi, which implies they’re assured a bronze. Two Korean archers via, with Lee Wooseok beating the Italian Mauro Nespoli, and Kim Woojin beating the Turk Mete Gazoz. Then Florian Unruh of Germany got here all the way down to a shoot-off with hometown child Baptiste Addis – they each shot 10s with their first arrow however Unruh was a few millimetre nearer.
Basketball: Canada and Nigeria have began their ladies’s group match. Early doorways, 15 performs 16. Canada can’t progress, Nigeria can in the event that they win, although Australia may nonetheless qualify by beating France.
Hockey: Belgium and Spain could be going to penalties at 1-1 within the ultimate quarter of the lads’s quarter-final.
Boxing: Nurbek Oralbay will combat for Kazakhstan gold within the males’s 80kg class, after beating Cristian Javier Pinales of the Dominican Republic narrowly 3-2 on votes. And within the battle of the large lads, Loren Berto Alfonso Dominguez who’s boxing for Azerbaijan has received a 4-1 factors resolution over the Spanish fighter Emmanuel Reyes Pla. That’s the 92 kilo division.
Athletics: The qualifiers for the lads’s 110m and the ladies’s 400m hurdles occurred earlier. Too many names to recount, however Guardian US readers could also be to know that certified quickest, one tenth away from the Olympic report, whereas Daniel Roberts can also be via, and Workforce GB fans will wish to comply with Tade Ojora. The semis aren’t till Wednesday and the finals Thursday.
For the ladies, Femke Bol certified quickest after her wild relay run final evening, forward of three United Statesians in Jasmine Jones, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, and Anna Cockrell, who was presumably up at daybreak. The British rep in there’s Lina Nielsen.
Tennis: The Spanish ladies’s doubles pair have knocked off the Czechs in straight units, 6-2, 6-2 to win bronze.
I can’t glean when Djokovic and Alcaraz will begin the lads’s singles ultimate, however someday at this time.
Particular person dressage gold on the horse occasion
Equestrian: Look, I’m not certified to judge horse dancing, and never satisfied by a sport the place it is advisable personal a rustic property to take part. However Laudruf-Dufour appears rather less fluid than Bredow-Werndl in her routine carried out to a schmaltz medley of Celine Dion, Adele, and another bits and items. And so it proves, she is available in fifth regardless of scoring excessive yesterday.
Which implies Bredow-Werndl takes gold and Werth silver in a German eins-zwei, and Charlotte Fry holds onto bronze for Nice Britain.
Equestrian: Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, which should be enjoyable to jot down on immigration kinds, reads her viewers effectively. She finishes with a collection of piaffes whereas enjoying Edith Piaf! In all probability not the primary to think about it, nevertheless it’s going to play effectively en France. And she or he cracks a 90! The primary to do it at this time, the defending champ, and now it’s nearly whether or not Cathrine Laudruf-Dufour can channel her hyphen right into a podium efficiency.
Equestrian: Carl Hester is out of the medals, with the Dutch rider Dinja van Liere scoring 88.432 on Hermes, the winged messenger or the purse, for third spot. Two riders to come back.
“Technically I feel it’s God Save the King now?” advises Mark Hooper. “Tbf she did embrace the French nationwide anthem too.”
Years of conditioning, Mark. No contest on the higher anthem, both, even when the French one is a bit… murdery.
Fencing: France beat China in the long run, 45-35.
Boxing: Billal Bennema has taken France into the gold bout within the males’s 51kg. Yunior Alcantara Reyes will get a bronze for the Dominican Republic. Sofiane Oumiha has received for France within the 63.5kg semi, with Wyatt Sanford bronze for Canada.
Fencing: So, USA have overwhelmed Egypt, Italy beat Poland, and the France-China match is lastly again underway within the males’s staff foil desk of eight.
“Thanks for the 105,000 phrases up to now,” writes in David Hahn. “I’m undecided who was answerable for coining my favorite ones at 0934 – ‘season’s beast’. Can now we have a report of a private beast afterward?”
All of us have our private beasts, David. On the Grauniad, it’s the standard typo.
(And I’m blaming Martin for that one, which he now can’t right as a result of we’ve stitched him up.)
Fencing: There’s some large kerfuffle within the France-China match. The scores are 40-32 to France, however fight has been suspended for a minimum of ten minutes now. The entire French staff have been out on the… mat? course? stage? for some time there. Now there are officers in every single place. Plenty of arms folded and glum faces. Should be some form of protest, among the Chinese language officers have been debating with judges earlier. I’ve no commentary of this match, so if anyone is aware of what’s occurring, do electronic mail me.
Equestrian: Fabulous trip from Charlotte Fry on Glamourdale, though doing it to a membership remix of God Save the Queen is indescribably naff. Tempting destiny by combining a impartial jury and a nationwide anthem. However she has supreme management. Doesn’t fairly get to the highest, however goes to the silver slot. Hester to bronze. Three riders left.
Hockey: Belgium and Spain are scoreless of their males’s quarter-final.
Basketball: Belgium have thrashed Japan 85-58 within the ladies’s basketball pool match. They’re each caught behind USA and Germany although in Group C, in order that’s the top of the Video games for each groups. USA and Germany play in just a few hours to find out who finishes prime.
Equestrian: Isabell Werth goes to the gold medal spot! Sorry, Carl, you’re bumped. 4 riders to come back, so she doesn’t have it within the bag, nevertheless it was an amazingly effectively managed trip from the German veteran of seven Olympics.
Equestrian: “It’s an enormous week for a ten-year-old mayor,” says the commentator, which sure, is frankly astonishing for somebody so younger to ascend to such an workplace. Wait, let me examine that.
Tennis: Within the ladies’s doubles bronze match, Spain’s Busca and Sorribes Torno have taken the primary set from Czechia’s Muchova and Noskova. I assume the Czechs couldn’t get muchova the online.
Equestrian: Talking of the equestrian, we’re close to the enterprise finish of the person dressage. German champion Isabell Werth is the fifth-last rider. Carl Hester is presently main for GB with Becky Moody in third. Daniel Bachmann Andersen of Denmark is within the silver spot.
Snoop Dogg Watch: He’s on the fencing at this time. Did the horsies yesterday.
Fencing: Within the males’s foil staff occasion, a number of matches ongoing and one has completed. Japan thrashed Canada by 19 factors. At present, France is bossing China, Egypt and the US are tightly positioned, and Italy is main Poland 30-27. Groups have to achieve 45 to win.
Boxing: Chang Yuan of China has superior to the gold medal match within the ladies’s 54kg division, beating Pang Cholmi of North Korea.
Lengthy bounce: We’ve our qualifiers for the lads’s ultimate.
Greece: Miltiadis Tentoglou
Czechia: Radek Juska
China: Wang Jianan
Suisse: Simon Ehammer
Croatia: Filip Pravdika
Italy: Mattia Furlani
Jamaica: Wayne Pinnock
Nice Britain: Jacob Fincham-Dukes
China: Mingkun Zhang
Colombia: Arnovis Dalmero
Jamaica: Carey McLeod
Germany: Simon Batz
The most effective was 8.32, which is about 60cm off the world report.
Crusing: There’s been a delay within the crusing, which has occurred in a whole lot of the open water occasions as a result of climate or air pollution or different issues. Homicidal birds? Undecided. Anyway, the lads’s kite occasion was alleged to have began a second in the past nevertheless it has been postponed till 1pm on the earliest, which is 100 minutes from now.
Australian boxer Caitlin Parker assured a medal
She has simply received a factors resolution towards Khadija Mardi of Morocco, with 4 out of 5 judges going her means. The Estonian decide had a dissenting rating on two of the three rounds, which is attention-grabbing. Mardi actually didn’t get in there to assault, even close to the top when she most likely wanted a KO to advance. Parker was capable of dance round to run the clock, then threw in some punches close to the top. She’s within the semi-finals which implies a bronze for the loser, and a gold-silver punch-off for the winner. That semi is on Thursday towards China’s Li Qian.
That’s within the ladies’s 75kg class, the best weight.
Geoff Lemon
Good morning, European time! Good night to anybody in that a part of the world, or maybe you’re having fun with a day someplace. Both means, it’s heading up in the direction of the lunchtime hour, which is sacred on the continent the place the Olympics happen, and now we have a cavalcade of sport persevering with within the subsequent couple of hours. Archery, boxing, crusing, athletics, basketball, a lot extra.
I counted up final evening from our stats platform, and since I fired up the dwell weblog for the opening ceremony that Friday evening, between us all we’ve written over 105,000 phrases of dwell blogs on these Olympics. A few of them even had the letters in the fitting order. I’m off for a break now, so the following few hundred are coming from Geoff Lemon. See you in a bit …
Simone Biles has joined the voices arguing that media questioning of athletes immediately after occasions isn’t precisely delicate. She has posted to social media to say:
You guys actually gotta cease asking athletes what’s subsequent after they win a medal on the Olympics. Allow us to take in the second we’ve labored our entire lives for.
Athletics: blink and also you miss it, the heats for the males’s 110m hurdles have began in Stade de France. Rachid Muratake (JPN), Enrique Llopis (ESP) and Eduardo Rodrigues (BRA) are the primary three to qualify.
Absolute jubilation on the finish for India there within the males’s hockey, and you’ll’t say they didn’t deserve it. The way in which they celebrated on the finish of regulation time having held the match to 1-1 whereas being a person down for therefore lengthy, you felt that mentally they have been in a stronger place to win the shootout.
Males’s hockey: India beat Workforce GB within the shootout 4-2!
Males’s hockey: India win the shootout 4-2! Workforce GB are heading residence. India performed 42 minutes a person down, and have been below the cosh for lots of that point. They’d nerves of metal within the shootout.
Males’s hockey: Nice Britain blink first within the shootout. India lead 3-2. Conor Williamson skied his try, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay made no mistake. Workforce GB miss their fourth!
Males’s lengthy bounce: qualifying is happening for this occasion too at this time. Radek Juška of the Czech Republic with 8.15m and Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece with 8.32m are the primary two to achieve the qualifying customary.
Males’s hockey: the stats have all been in Workforce GB’s favour, with 11 pictures and ten penalty corners, however the one which counts is the rating. It has completed 1-1. Will probably be a shootout to determine who goes to the semi-finals between India and Nice Britain.
Males’s hockey: I’m starting to chunk my nails because it stays India 1-1 Nice Britain with two minutes left of this quarter-final. India have needed to play two-thirds of the match with a person down.
Daryll Neita of Workforce GB was again in 200m motion this morning, after ending fourth within the ladies’s 100m final evening. She mentioned when she’d bought again to her lodging final evening her coach had instructed it her she was allowed one Instagram publish after which needed to sleep.
Requested on Eurosport if ending fourth within the 100m gave her much more motivation for the 200m, she instructed viewers:
One factor about me is that I don’t surrender. I’ve been referred to as ‘Miss Momentum’ which I like, as a result of I’ve simply bought to hold on the momentum, believing in myself. Belief me, the motivation is greater than ever.
Ladies’s hammer throw: group A of the qualification contest has completed in Stade de France. Camryn Rogers of Canada and Annette Nneka Echikunwoke of the USA have been the one two athletes to achieve the 73m qualification customary, so they’re assured of locations within the ultimate.
All athletes assembly the qualification customary or a minimum of 12 greatest performers advance.
One other little bit of withdrawal information – Workforce GB having to regulate the marathon lineup with Clara Evans coming in to interchange the injured Charlotte Purdue.
Charlotte Purdue has withdrawn from the ladies’s marathon on the 11 August as a result of an ankle damage.
Clara Evans has been referred to as up as a late athlete substitute for Workforce GB within the marathon. Will probably be her debut look on the Olympic Video games.#Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/kWFTHA1vrN
— Workforce GB (@TeamGB) August 4, 2024
Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson has pulled out of the 200m. The 2-time world champion had already withdrawn from the 100m. It’s one other blow to Jamaica’s operating staff, after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce additionally withdrew from the 100m.
Athletics: newly topped ladies’s 100m Olympic champion Julien Alfred has safely progressed via spherical one of many 200m within the first warmth simply hours after her triumph. She received it in 22.41 seconds.
“I’m actually drained” she mentioned afterwards, in possibly understatement of the Olympics up to now. She instructed viewers on Eurosport that her plan had been to assault the primary bend to “get it accomplished.”
Hosts France are in a males’s soccer Olympics semi-final tomorrow towards Egypt. Philippe Auclair is in Paris, and has this on how Thierry Henry has harnessed the Olympic flame to stake a declare for the France job …
Males’s hockey: it’s 1-1 between Nice Britain and India at half-time. The Indian aim got here from Harmanpreet Singh through a penalty nook, simply minutes after India have been on the receiving finish of a crimson card. Lee Morton equalised from shut vary within the twenty seventh minute.
Dressage particular person Grand Prix freestyle: you may’t actually clarify the Olympic schedule to a horse so I think about there have been some very shocked wanting equine faces within the stables this morning going “What, once more?”
It’s the particular person competitors at this time. Glamourdale, Hermes, TSF Dalera BB and Freestyle would be the 4 to look at after their spectacular scores within the staff occasion yesterday.
Oh, and their riders – Charlotte Fry (GBr), Dinja van Liere (Ned), Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (Ger) and Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour (Den). I’ll be shocked if the medals go wherever else.
Males’s hockey: that crimson card appears to have irked India into a distinct gear – they’ve simply taken a 1-0 lead towards Nice Britain.
Ladies’s 3000m steeplechase: Workforce GB’s Lizzie Chook has simply made a surprising late transfer within the second warmth, and with a dip on the line she moved from seventh place to fourth place within the ultimate 30 metres, simply squeezing via on inside the observe. She qualifies for the ultimate.
No such luck for teammate Aimee Pratt within the first warmth, who regardless of posting a season’s beast was effectively off the qualifying tempo.
Males’s handball: a cushty 40-27 win for Sweden over Japan means the Swedes undergo. The final remaining quarter-final spot from Group A will likely be determined tonight when Spain face Croatia. A draw will likely be sufficient for Spain to progress in that, Croatia want the win.
Males’s hockey: it’s nonetheless 0-0 between Nice Britain and India within the quarter-final right here however an argument as a crimson card is proven to Amit Rohidas for a excessive stick within the face. It regarded unintended and the India staff are very sad with the choice.