Important events
If you’re a sports fanatic for whom too much exercise is never enough and for whom clicking this link is too much of a physical effort, here is your blood, sweat and tears buffet for day 14 in a handy shopping list, cut, pasted and printed in bold. Better put another pot of coffee on the stove…
3:30 p.m.: Open water swimming men 10km
5:00 p.m.: Golf Ladies Stroke Play, Round 3
5:00 p.m.: Taekwondo Men Welterweight 68-80kg Last 32
17:09: Taekwondo Women Welterweight 57-67kg Last 16
17:21: Taekwondo Men Welterweight 68-80kg Last 16
18:00: Diving, Men, 10 m Platform, Preliminary Round
18:00: Gymnastics – Rhythmic women’s group, all-around qualification
18:00: Table Tennis, Men’s Team, Bronze Medal Match (France vs Japan)
18:05: Athletics Heptathlon Women Long Jump
18:15: Men’s Sport Climbing, Bouldering and Lead Combination Finals – Bouldering
18:30: Canoe Sprint Women C2 500m Semifinal
18:40: Athletics, Women’s 4 x 400 m Relay, Round 1
18:50: Canoe racing women K2 500m semi-final
19:00: Wrestling – Freestyle, Men, 57 kg, Repechage
19:00: Wrestling – Freestyle, Men, 86 kg, Repechage
19:00: Wrestling – Freestyle Women 57kg Repechage
19:05: Athletics, Men, 4 x 400 m Relay, Round 1
19:07: Wrestling – Freestyle Men 74kg Qualification
19:10: Canoe racing, men, K2, 500 m, semi-final
19:14: Wrestling – Freestyle Men 125 kg 1/8 Final
19:14: Wrestling – Freestyle Women 62kg 1/8 Final
19:21: Wrestling – Freestyle, Men 74 kg, Round of 16
19:23: Athletics, Heptathlon, Javelin, Women – Group A
19:30: Athletics, Men, 800 m, Semifinal
19:30: Canoe sprint, men C1, 1000 m, semi-final
20:05: Athletics, 100 m hurdles, women, semi-final
20:10: Wrestling – Freestyle, Men, 125 kg, Quarterfinals
20:10: Wrestling – Freestyle Women 62kg, Quarterfinals
20:13: Sailing, Men’s Formula Kite Final – Race 2 (postponed)
20:17: Wrestling – Freestyle, Men 74 kg, Quarterfinals
20:22: Sailing, Men’s Formula Kite Final – Race 3 (postponed)
20:31: Sailing, Men’s Formula Kite Final – Race 4
20:32: Athletics, Heptathlon, Javelin, Women – Group B
20:35: Sport Climbing, Bouldering and Lead Combination, Final, Men – Lead
20:40: Canoe sprint women C2 500m final B
20:40: Sailing, Men’s Formula Kite Final – Race 5
20:49: Sailing, Men’s Formula Kite Final – Race 6
20:50: Canoe sprint women C2 500m final A
21:00: Canoe sprint women’s K2 500m final B
21:00: Modern Pentathlon Men Individual Semifinal A – Riding
21:00: Water Polo Men Ranking Round 5-8 (Italy – Spain)
21:10: Canoe sprint women’s K2 500m final A
21:20: Canoe sprint, men, K2, 500 m, final B
21:30: Canoe Sprint Men K2 500m Final A
21:40: Canoe sprint men C1 1000m final B
21:40: Modern Pentathlon Men’s Individual Semifinal A – Fencing Bonus Round
21:50: Canoe sprint men C1 1000m final A
22:00: CCycling – Qualification for the women’s track cycling sprint
10:00 p.m.: Hockey Women Bronze Medal Game (Argentina vs Belgium)
10:20 p.m.: Modern Pentathlon Men’s Individual Semifinal A – Swimming
10:30 p.m.: Gymnastics – Women’s Rhythmic All-Around Individual Final
10:30 p.m.: Taekwondo Women Welterweight 57-67kg Quarterfinals
10:35 p.m.: Water Polo Men Semifinals (Serbia vs USA)
10:40 p.m.: Modern Pentathlon Men’s Individual Semifinal A – Laser Run
10:40 p.m.: Taekwondo Men Welterweight 68-80kg Quarterfinals
22:41: Cycling – Track Cycling, Men, Sprint, Semi-Final
10:48 p.m.: Cycling – Track Cycling Women’s Sprint 1/32 Final
11:00 p.m.: Diving, Women’s 3m Springboard, Final
11:00 p.m.: Soccer Women Bronze Medal Game (Spain vs Germany)
11:00 p.m.: Table Tennis, Men’s Team, Gold Medal Match (China vs Sweden)
11:00 p.m.: Weightlifting Men 89kg
11:38 p.m.: Cycling – Track Cycling Women’s Sprint Repechage Round 1
Here are the highlights from Simon Burnton’s Day 14…
Friday, August 9 Day 14
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Women break
The breakdancing competition, which takes place inappropriately at the historic Place de la Concorde, lasts only two days. Today is the women’s competition (also called B-Girls) and tomorrow the men’s competition (or B-Boys). Nicka – the The Lithuanian Dominika Banevicwho has been breakdancing since he was eight years old, won the World and European Championships last year at the age of 16, but the two finalists of the Asian Games, 671 (The Chinese Liu Qingyi) and American (The Japanese Ami Yuasa) are considered the breakers most likely to make the final throw tonight.
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Wrestling: Men 86kg Final
There were rivalries, and then there were David Taylor vs Hassan Yazdani. For years, it seemed that nothing could separate these representatives of the clashing cultures of the United States and Iran: In Tokyo, both easily won the competition before Taylor won a thrilling 4-3 final with a last-second takedown. Since then, they have faced each other in the final of every major championship. But in a surprise upset, Taylor, who had been undefeated for two and a half years at the time, lost to Aaron Brooks at the US Trials and promptly retired to become a coach. This is the beginning of a new era.
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Hockey: Women’s final
TThe Netherlands have dominated women’s field hockey for years: in the 15 World Championships they have reached 13 finals and won nine, including the last three in a row; in the 16 European Championships they have reached 14 finals and won 12, including the last four; and they have reached the last five Olympic finals and won three. They lead both the men’s and women’s world rankings, the latter by a wide margin. It would be a huge surprise if they weren’t in today’s two medal games, but can anyone stop them?
Another gold win from Day 13 that was worth platinum was that of Letsile Tebogo from BotswanaThe 21-year-old, who was considered an outsider, finished ahead of none other than the 100 m winner from the USA, Noah Lyles, and even sacrificed a few fractions of a second of his time to beat his chest shortly before the finish line.
It turned out to be a triumph, but also a tribute to his mother, who died in May. Tebogo later revealed he had taken three to four weeks off because he was struggling to come to terms with her death. But with the Paris Games just around the corner and the race of his life looming, he gritted his teeth and took to the track wearing spikes bearing his mother’s birth date.
It hasn’t really clicked with me that she’s really gone. I need to find the reason why I started my career as an athlete and why I should continue. For me it was a really beautiful race. She’s up there watching and she’s really, really happy.
Among all those hundreds of medals, one was perhaps a little more valuable. Arshad Nadeem wrote his name in history by winning the men’s javelin throw final yesterday, becoming the first track and field athlete from Pakistan to win gold at an Olympic Games. Nadeem entered the competition as an underdog, but the javelin thrower defied all expectations to become his country’s first medalist since 1992 (when it won a bronze medal in men’s hockey in Barcelona). Nadeem’s record-breaking throw also made him only the fourth athlete to cross the 90-meter mark in the men’s javelin throw at an Olympic Games.
The medal haul at these Paris Olympics continues to grow, but the top three places remain the same. The USA continues to lead with 30 gold medals, with China close behind with 29. There is a world of difference between these two superpowers and Australia, which is in third place with 18 gold medals.
preamble
Hello everyone and welcome to live coverage of the 14th official day of competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Day 13 was a spectacle of drama, glory and controversy. The USA became the first nation to win 30 gold medals, thanks largely to the brilliance of its track and field athletes. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was the first to beat her own world record in the women’s 400-meter hurdles before the Americans secured another gold. Tara Davis Woodhall in the women’s long jump. Then Grant Hollowaythree-time world champion and silver medalist in Tokyo, won the 110 m hurdles with ease.
The only bittersweet moment for the US team came when Noah Lyles was robbed of gold in the 200m final. He had a reasonable excuse, but surely not even the wonderfully immodest Lyles could deny Botswana its first medal of these Games – a gold medal, no less – when Letsile Tebogo ran the fastest race of his life and prevented Lyles from winning the double over 100-200 m.
On day 13, there were no medals to be won for Great Britain in athletics, but Katarina Johnson-Thompson leads the heptathlon after four events in the heptathlon discipline and there was a gold ray for Team GB in the form of Ellie AldridgeShe became the first Olympic gold medalist in kitesurfing. Australia’s gold flow also dried up on a day that saw “only” two silver and two bronze medals won, while the Stingers earned a chance at gold with a dramatic comeback victory over Team USA in women’s water polo.
There is a long Good Friday ahead of the final weekend of the XXXIII Olympiad. Will Day 14 usher in a golden age for your team?