Key occasions
Staying with the medal desk, Nielsen’s Gracenote has up to date its prediction for who will come out on prime by the top of the Video games.
Earlier than the Olympics the USA had been anticipated to assert essentially the most medals however face a stiff take a look at from China for essentially the most golds. Behind these titans, Nice Britain, France, and Australia rounded out the highest 5.
🧮 – How are the highest #Olympics nations monitoring in opposition to our #VirtualMedalTable forecast after 7 days (113 occasions)?
🇫🇷France, 🇺🇸USA, 🇰🇷Korea, 🇨🇦Canada up on medals
🇦🇺Australia, 🇯🇵Japan, 🇮🇹Italy, 🇳🇱Netherlands beneath medal expectations
🇫🇷France behind gold forecast,🇯🇵Japan forward pic.twitter.com/sphIxKw12L
— Gracenote Olympic (@GracenoteGold) August 2, 2024
China nonetheless prime the medal desk due to their dominance in taking pictures and diving, however France and Australia have once more climbed above the USA after impressing on day seven. It’s turning right into a Video games to recollect for the Dolphins who lead the US swim group 7-4 in gold medals.
53 NOCs have now gained medals at these Olympics, with 34 nations listening to their nationwide anthem. That features Uganda after Joshua Cheptegei grew to become his nation’s first a number of gold medallist when he added 10,000m gold yesterday to his 5,000m success in Tokyo.
Preamble – Day Eight Schedule
Whats up everyone and welcome to reside protection of the eighth official day of competitors of the Paris 2024 Summer season Olympics.
Day six was one other beautiful day for the hosts with French superstars Teddy Riner and Leon Marchand persevering with the unimaginable environment round these Video games. Australia loved one other gold rush with Kaylee McKeown turning into the primary Australian to win 4 particular person golds. And there have been thrilling indicators from the opening day of athletics motion with the Stade de France monitor praised for its velocity. However regardless of all this extraordinary motion it was a day overshadowed by “essentially the most wildly politicised, poisonous and largely misunderstood occasion of those Olympics.”
So what can we sit up for immediately?
Medal Occasions
🥇 Capturing – ladies’s 25m pistol (from 09:30)
🥇 Rowing – males’s & ladies’s single sculls / males’s & ladies’s eights (from 09:30)
🥇 Equestrian – dressage group grand prix particular (from 10:00)
🥇 Biking – males’s highway race (from 11:00)
🥇 Tennis – males’s doubles / ladies’s singles (from 12:00)
🥇 Crusing – ladies’s & males’s windsurfing (from 12:13)
🥇 Desk Tennis – ladies’s singles (from 14:30)
🥇 Archery – ladies’s particular person (from 14:46)
🥇 Gymnastics – males’s ground & pommel horse / ladies’s vault (from 15:30)
🥇 Capturing – males’s skeet (from 15:30)
🥇 Judo – combined group (from 16:00)
🥇 Badminton – ladies’s doubles (from 16:10)
🥇 Athletics – males’s shot put & decathlon / ladies’s triple bounce & 100m / 4 x 400m combined relay (from 16:10)
🥇 Fencing – ladies’s sabre group (from 20:00)
🥇 Swimming – males’s 100m butterfly / ladies’s 200m IM & 800m freestyle / 4 x 100m medley combined relay (from 20:30)
🥇 Browsing – males’s & ladies’s (from 22:00)
*(All occasions listed are Paris native)
Simon Burnton’s day-by-day information:
Gymnastics: males’s pommel last
In his final ever occasion Max Whitlock is making an attempt to change into the primary gymnast ever to win 4 Olympic medals on the identical equipment. Since he gained gold in Tokyo Whitlock has retired, unretired (“I felt like an entire waste of house”), and had a usually optimistic return, with occasional hiccups and some minor accidents. “There are nonetheless areas I can enhance however I’m undoubtedly heading in the right direction,” he stated in March of his preparations. Additionally being determined immediately: the boys’s ground and girls’s vault.
Athletics: ladies’s 100m last
The second evening of athletics on the Stade de France and issues are hotting up, with 5 titles to be determined together with the ladies’s 100m, through which the USA’s Sha’Carri Richardson will intention to cease Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. For Fraser-Value this shall be a last meet, 16 years after she gained gold in Beijing. “I need to end alone phrases,” she says.
Swimming: ladies’s 800m freestyle
At a meet in Orlando in February Canada’s 17-year-old tyro Summer season McIntosh beat Katie Ledecky within the 800m freestyle, the American’s first defeat over the space in any type of last for 13 years. However McIntosh, who trains on the College of Florida alongside Ledecky, has determined to focus on different occasions in Paris leaving Ledecky sturdy favorite to cement her all-time-great standing with a fourth successive Olympic gold over the space.
Different unmissable moments embrace… nicely, virtually all the things. We’re into the closing periods for sports activities which have dominated the opening week, and into the thick of issues within the Stade de France, so in all places you look there’s going to be a cause to remain tuned. If pressed, I might recommend you shouldn’t flip down one last glimpse of the surf of Teahupo’o. The males’s highway race (biking) guarantees to be brutal. And the crowning of the decathlon gold medallist is akin to crowning the king of the Video games.
I’m certain I’ve failed to incorporate one thing notable to you on this quick rundown, so be at liberty to let me know what’s in your agenda by emailing: jonathan.howcroft.informal@theguardian.com or, for those who’re nonetheless rummaging round within the post-Twitter dumpster hearth, discover me on X @jphowcroft.
I’ll be round for the primary few hours of the weblog right here in Australia, after which I’m handing over to Martin Belam within the UK.
