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Everything goes up by six
Gold medal events:
Athletics (women's hammer throw, men's long jump, men's 1500m, women's 3000m steeplechase, women's 200m), boxing (women's 60kg), diving (women's 10m platform), equestrian (jumping individual), sailing (men's and women's dinghy), skateboard (women's park), track cycling (men's team sprint), wrestling (men's Greco-Roman 60kg, men's Greco-Roman 130kg, women's freestyle 68kg).
Highlights
The women’s 200m final (20:40) will be stacked with US talent. The three Americans named for this event are the three fastest women in the world over this distance in 2024: Gabby Thomas, McKenzie Long and Brittany Brown. They will be up against St Lucia’s new 100m champion Julien Alfred, who will be aiming to double her country’s all-time Olympic medal tally.
GB’s Dina Asher-Smith was the world champion in 2019 and a world bronze medallist in 2022. Daryll Neita was a runner-up in her semi-final and both have a shot at becoming the first British Olympic medallists in this event since Audrey Williamson’s 1948 silver. Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah, the Tokyo champion, has withdrawn from Paris 2024 through injury.
The men’s 1500m will star Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who broke the European record earlier this month. His main obstacle? GB’s Josh Kerr. We have not seen Kerr over 1500m this season but he is the world champion and declared himself on Instagram to be “working in the shadows, getting ready for the spotlights”. The final takes place at 19:50.
In skateboarding, it is the women’s park final at 16:30. Sky Brown was 13 when she won Olympic bronze for GB in Tokyo and now, aged 16, she is back on the team. Not only that, she enters the Games having won last year’s world title. She is joined by fellow 16-year-old compatriot Lola Tambling.
Ben Maher and Explosion W won a six-way jump-off to take Tokyo individual jumping gold, completing back-to-back GB victories after Nick Skelton won the same event (also in a six-way jump-off) in 2016. This time, Maher is back for GB on Point Break and is joined by Scott Brash. Watch out for Swedish duo Henrik von Eckermann and Peder Fredricson. Fredricson has had the heartbreak of being second to the Brits in the jump-off in both Rio and Tokyo. The final starts at 09:00.
Brit watch
Women’s team pursuit qualifying begins in the velodrome at 16:30. Germany set a world record to defeat GB in Tokyo’s final. Since then, GB have gone through a rebuild and made their way back up the world podium to become world champions last year. However, Katie Archibald is out of the Games after breaking her leg in a freak garden accident, so it remains to be seen how her team-mates regroup.
Sailing has scrapped its Finn class, which is unfortunate from a British perspective given GB had won it the past six times. That means attention turns to Micky Beckett in the single-handed dinghy (the ILCA 7, which you might also know as the Laser), which has its medal races on Tuesday. Beckett was a world silver medallist last year and has since racked up major wins like the Princess Sofia Regatta.
Lewis Richardson will take on Mexico’s Marco Verde Alvarez in the semi-final light middleweight category and is guaranteed at least bronze. Richardson is the last Team GB boxer left standing after all five of his team-mates lost their opening bouts.
World watch
Ireland’s Kellie Harrington will hope to successfully defend her Tokyo 2020 lightweight boxing title (final at 22:06). Harrington went years without defeat before losing at the European Championships in April.
Amy Broadhurst, who switched to Britain after missing out on selection for Ireland, narrowly failed to make the GB team. But Harrington will have to contend with China's Asian Games champion Yang Wenlu.
And in the women’s welterweight semi-final, Algeria’s Imane Khelif will take on Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng. Khelif was in tears after guaranteeing herself a medal by beating Hungarian Luca Anna Hamori in the quarter-finals.
China have won every women’s 10m platform diving event at the Olympics since 2008. The past two times, they took the silver medal as well. Gold and silver have gone to China at each of the past four world championships, too. That means GB’s Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, who took world bronze this year, has a job on to get any further up the podium – but it’s not impossible. The final is from 14:00.
Women’s football semi-finals take place at 17:00 and 20:00 with USA taking on Germany in the earlier match followed by Brazil against Spain
In hockey, the men’s semis are at 13:00 and 18:00. The Netherlands take on Spain followed by Germany against India.
Wrestling’s first Paris 2024 medals are awarded, bringing with them a chance to watch some history. In the men’s Greco-Roman 130kg final (19:30), Cuba’s Mijain Lopez – if he gets there – could become the first person to win the same individual Olympic event five times in a row, two weeks before his 42nd birthday.
Athletics (women's hammer throw, men's long jump, men's 1500m, women's 3000m steeplechase, women's 200m), boxing (women's 60kg), diving (women's 10m platform), equestrian (jumping individual), sailing (men's and women's dinghy), skateboard (women's park), track cycling (men's team sprint), wrestling (men's Greco-Roman 60kg, men's Greco-Roman 130kg, women's freestyle 68kg).
Highlights
The women’s 200m final (20:40) will be stacked with US talent. The three Americans named for this event are the three fastest women in the world over this distance in 2024: Gabby Thomas, McKenzie Long and Brittany Brown. They will be up against St Lucia’s new 100m champion Julien Alfred, who will be aiming to double her country’s all-time Olympic medal tally.
GB’s Dina Asher-Smith was the world champion in 2019 and a world bronze medallist in 2022. Daryll Neita was a runner-up in her semi-final and both have a shot at becoming the first British Olympic medallists in this event since Audrey Williamson’s 1948 silver. Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah, the Tokyo champion, has withdrawn from Paris 2024 through injury.
The men’s 1500m will star Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who broke the European record earlier this month. His main obstacle? GB’s Josh Kerr. We have not seen Kerr over 1500m this season but he is the world champion and declared himself on Instagram to be “working in the shadows, getting ready for the spotlights”. The final takes place at 19:50.
In skateboarding, it is the women’s park final at 16:30. Sky Brown was 13 when she won Olympic bronze for GB in Tokyo and now, aged 16, she is back on the team. Not only that, she enters the Games having won last year’s world title. She is joined by fellow 16-year-old compatriot Lola Tambling.
Ben Maher and Explosion W won a six-way jump-off to take Tokyo individual jumping gold, completing back-to-back GB victories after Nick Skelton won the same event (also in a six-way jump-off) in 2016. This time, Maher is back for GB on Point Break and is joined by Scott Brash. Watch out for Swedish duo Henrik von Eckermann and Peder Fredricson. Fredricson has had the heartbreak of being second to the Brits in the jump-off in both Rio and Tokyo. The final starts at 09:00.
Brit watch
Women’s team pursuit qualifying begins in the velodrome at 16:30. Germany set a world record to defeat GB in Tokyo’s final. Since then, GB have gone through a rebuild and made their way back up the world podium to become world champions last year. However, Katie Archibald is out of the Games after breaking her leg in a freak garden accident, so it remains to be seen how her team-mates regroup.
Sailing has scrapped its Finn class, which is unfortunate from a British perspective given GB had won it the past six times. That means attention turns to Micky Beckett in the single-handed dinghy (the ILCA 7, which you might also know as the Laser), which has its medal races on Tuesday. Beckett was a world silver medallist last year and has since racked up major wins like the Princess Sofia Regatta.
Lewis Richardson will take on Mexico’s Marco Verde Alvarez in the semi-final light middleweight category and is guaranteed at least bronze. Richardson is the last Team GB boxer left standing after all five of his team-mates lost their opening bouts.
World watch
Ireland’s Kellie Harrington will hope to successfully defend her Tokyo 2020 lightweight boxing title (final at 22:06). Harrington went years without defeat before losing at the European Championships in April.
Amy Broadhurst, who switched to Britain after missing out on selection for Ireland, narrowly failed to make the GB team. But Harrington will have to contend with China's Asian Games champion Yang Wenlu.
And in the women’s welterweight semi-final, Algeria’s Imane Khelif will take on Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng. Khelif was in tears after guaranteeing herself a medal by beating Hungarian Luca Anna Hamori in the quarter-finals.
China have won every women’s 10m platform diving event at the Olympics since 2008. The past two times, they took the silver medal as well. Gold and silver have gone to China at each of the past four world championships, too. That means GB’s Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, who took world bronze this year, has a job on to get any further up the podium – but it’s not impossible. The final is from 14:00.
Women’s football semi-finals take place at 17:00 and 20:00 with USA taking on Germany in the earlier match followed by Brazil against Spain
In hockey, the men’s semis are at 13:00 and 18:00. The Netherlands take on Spain followed by Germany against India.
Wrestling’s first Paris 2024 medals are awarded, bringing with them a chance to watch some history. In the men’s Greco-Roman 130kg final (19:30), Cuba’s Mijain Lopez – if he gets there – could become the first person to win the same individual Olympic event five times in a row, two weeks before his 42nd birthday.
