Key occasions
Athletics: And there’s the affirmation: the ParalympicsGB group is thru to the ultimate of the 4x100m common relay, having put collectively the third finest time of the heats. USA win the second warmth, having put collectively a time of 46.39.
Athletics: The GB 4x100m common relay group communicate to Channel 4, and Jonnie Peacock is quizzed about his future … he’s adamant he’ll be racing at LA 2028. They’re all fairly happy with their time of 46.61, an space file. Now to the opposite warmth, with Japan, USA and Brazil competing in that. Let’s see if GB’s time will likely be sufficient to ensure a spot within the remaining …
Howdy, all! Only a reminder what’s up shortly from a ParalympicsGB persepctive: Robert Davies is in motion from 1pm BST within the MS1 males’s singles desk tennis remaining towards Cuba’s Yunier Fernández.
And with that, I shall hand over to Taha Hashim for the afternoon stint. All yours, Taha.
Athletics: It’s simply GB and China going within the first 4x100m common relay, which mixes 4 specs and is all the time good enjoyable. It’s all concerning the occasions, so it doesn’t matter that there’s solely two groups going – or that GB got here second. Jonny Peacock stormed down the again straight for GB to arrange a end for Sally Kinghorn. China win the warmth with a world file, with GB not far behind.
Athletics: And it’s hotting up within the T64 males’s excessive soar remaining, with Derek Loccident taking the lead with a 2.06m soar underneath extreme strain. He was out if he didn’t clear that. India’s Praveen Kumar simply cleared the identical distance to take care of his good file to this point.
Nice Britain is at present second to China within the medal desk.
Athletics: Isaac Towers of Nice Britain has certified for the T34 800m remaining, robust work, regardless of lacking out on automated qualification.
Jonathan Broom-Edwards continues to be in excessive soar motion.
What a show this was. Keep in mind the earlier world file holder was within the subject that Ben Sandilands tore asunder. And in his first ever Paralympics. Take a bow, younger man.
Desk tennis: GB’s Will Bayley is assured a silver on the very least after breezing by way of his semi-final. The 36-year-old has three Paralympic silvers to his title and one gold, which he received in Rio.
The lads’s T34 800m is the subsequent athletics occasion up on the observe. It’s solely the heats at this stage, however GB’s Isaac Towers is in motion. That is the very best functioning wheelchair race classification.
A few of the headlines you might need missed this morning:
Jonathan Broom-Edwards’ T64 excessive soar remaining is underneath approach. It’s secure to say he’s bang up for it, judging from his social media posts.
Some good feedback on Storey BTL:
Heading off a young person aged 46! Amazingly effectively accomplished Sarah Storey. 19 golds!
Seeing Sarah Storey’s interview simply now, she was clearly rather a lot calmer in that final kilometre than anyone watching may have been. Phenomenal.
I had the privilege of being on the identical begin line as her in an area fish ‘n’ chipper CX race years in the past….I received’t try to say I raced her. To see a rider of that high quality is one thing else. They don’t sit on the bike and the bike is on the bottom; the rider is floating half an inch above the bike and the bike is all the time half an inch off the bottom. Grace.
Sarah Storey is interviewed about her nineteenth Paralympic gold on Channel4:
“I’m glad somebody is maintaining rely [of the medals] cos I wasn’t maintaining whole rely. I used to be simply occupied with profitable this bike race. I knew Heidi [Gaugain] would wish to assault however I used to be glad to take it to the road because the quickest sprinter of these 4. She’s 19 on the finish of the day so I needed to reel her in – luckily I perceive French so I knew when she was going to assault! I knew I might nonetheless have a kick to go for the end.”
She’s coy on the ultimate query … which is whether or not she is going to compete at LA in 2028. She could be 50 then.
Athletics: The lads’s T52 100m remaining is subsequent. Maxime Carabin of Belgium was the most important favorite for this beforehand and he does certainly storm house to take the gold by a distance. Marcus Perrineau-Daley picks up a high-quality silver medal for GB.
Again to athletics subsequent and the large one will likely be GB’s Jonathan Broom-Edwards within the T64 excessive soar as he tries to retain his title from Tokyo. He additionally received a silver within the T44 excessive soar in Rio de Janeiro.
Channel4 are simply replaying Sandilands’ run within the 1500n, which he received by an absolute mile – obliterating the competitors on the house straight and claiming a surprising world file.
It’s laborious to imagine that Dame Sarah Storey received a gold medal in swimming on the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona. Her longevity, adaptability and pure bloody-mindedness to win and hold profitable is just exceptional. This gorgeous a lot sums her up:
Wow wow simply watching Sarah Storey in Paralympics in C4.5 street race….what an incredible Paralympian bicycle owner, mom and girl empowering. Go Dame Sarah loving you kicking butt. ALL the extra gold medals to you. Cling tuff 💪👏👏
— Tessa Sanderson CBE (@tessasanderson) September 6, 2024
Sarah Storey wins gold in ladies’s C4-5 street race
It’s gold for Sarah Storey – a nineteenth Paralympics gold medal for her, as she holds off the problem of Gaugain on the demise. She raises her first to the group and takes the deserved adulation. What an athlete she is.
Gaugain is edged out into silver, whereas Colombia’s Paula Andrea Ossa Veloza will get the bronze.
Gaugain powers away on the entrance and Storey is combating like hell to try to stick together with her. That is brutal stuff within the remaining kilometre. However Storey has closed the hole!
All eyes now are on the ladies’s C4-5 street race. Sarah Storey is in a bunch of three on the entrance, as we method the ultimate couple of kilometres. There’s some tight corners so the riders are taking it simple, earlier than the inevitable dash end. French para-cycling favorite Heidi Gaugain is true there together with her.
Gold for Ben Ben Sandilands of GB! What a show within the males’s 1500m T20.
Preamble
We’re approaching the ultimate couple of days of what’s been an outstanding Paralympics. The crowds in Paris have been wonderful and the motion has been completely gratifying. Right this moment ought to be no completely different: proper now ParalympicsGB celebrity Sarah Storey goes for street race gold; then we’ve bought athletics, canoeing and many extra beside; a number of judo, desk tennis, swimming – it doesn’t cease.
This weblog will carry on rolling all through the day, so don’t go anyplace else! I’ll be maintaining the chair heat till Taha Hashim is available in round noon. Be happy to drop me an electronic mail and flick on the kettle.
