Key occasions
On the high of the web page you will discover hyperlinks to the day-by-day information, the medal desk, outcomes, and the stay schedule. These might be our north stars for the following fortnight, ensuring we’re at all times on high of the motion.
And from that day-by-day information, right here’s what Simon Burnton thinks you ought to be watching at present.
Saturday 27 July Day 1
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Taking pictures
With a scheduled finish of 11.50am native time the 10m blended group air rifle is predicted to pip the ladies’s synchronised 3m springboard diving by a matter of minutes to be the primary gold medal determined in Paris. Whichever wins the race there’s a superb probability the anthem performed on the finish would be the similar: the most recent world championships in each occasions have been gained by Chinese language athletes (although they are going to be hotly contested, and Britain’s Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen claimed world championship silver within the diving final 12 months). -
Males’s rugby
Antoine Dupont, France’s captain, missed the Six Nations to throw himself into Olympic preparations, declaring a gold medal “the holy grail of the game, so simple as that”, and organisers have scheduled the boys’s last within the hope that he’ll assist them get their Video games off to the very best begin. It’s removed from a performed deal, although: France failed to succeed in the ultimate 4 within the sport’s two earlier Olympic outings, whereas Fiji have gained each golds. -
Males’s handball
Up to now two Olympic finals Denmark beat France (in Rio) and France beat Denmark (in Tokyo). Of the 5 world championships previously decade France have gained two and Denmark the latest three, extending their unbeaten run within the occasion to twenty-eight video games by beating France in final 12 months’s last. This 12 months they play on the primary day of the boys’s event, although it will be no shock in the event that they meet once more when the medals are selected 11 August.
Preamble
Jonathan Howcroft
Hey everyone and welcome to stay protection of the primary official day of competitors of the Paris 2024 Summer time Olympics.
Following a spectacular opening ceremony on the river Seine it’s time to get all the way down to enterprise. Over the course of the day rivals in 24 sports activities will showcase their abilities, with badminton getting the present on the street at 8:30am native time.
At 9am handball, rowing, taking pictures and volleyball be part of the social gathering, with equestrian below manner half-an-hour later.
The primary medals of the Video games might be gained round 11:30am native time with the shooters within the 10m Air Rifle Blended Workforce occasion not hanging round.
The gold rush continues with China anticipated to proceed its domination of the diving competitors, starting with the girls’s synchronised 3m springboard.
The ultimate medal occasion of the day is the girls’s particular person time trial (biking), and that begins at 2:30pm native time.
Different occasions to not miss embrace:
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Australia’s Boomers tackle Spain at 11am native time (7pm AEST).
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Swimming heats start on the similar time, that includes the primary instalment of the Katie Ledecky v Ariarne Titmus duel within the pool after the 2 superstars have been drawn alongside one another in warmth three of the 400m freestyle.
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Antoine Dupont will gentle up the Stade de France at 3:30pm native time when France’s rugby sevens outfit proceed their marketing campaign with a semi-final towards South Africa.
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But when water polo is extra your jam, you might as an alternative tune in to the USA starting their quest for a fourth consecutive gold medal within the girls’s event after they face Greece in Group B.
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And eventually, essentially the most spectacular backdrop of the Video games will reveal itself from 7pm Paris time when (circumstances allowing) the browsing competitors begins in Teahupo’o.
I’m certain I’ve failed to incorporate one thing notable to you on this brief rundown, so be happy to let me know what’s in your agenda by emailing: jonathan.howcroft.informal@theguardian.com or, when you’re nonetheless rummaging round within the post-Twitter dumpster hearth, discover me on X @jphowcroft.
I’ll be round for the primary couple of hours of the weblog, after which it’s over to Martin Belam, Adam Collins, and Will Unwin.
In your mark. Get set. Go!
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