Paris 2024- Day 4 (Tuesday 30th July) (1 Viewer)

Day 4: Tuesday 30 July​

Thirteen gold medals:

Artistic gymnastics (women's team final), fencing (women's epee team), judo (women's -63kg, men's -81 kg), rugby sevens (women's), shooting (mixed team 10m air pistol, men's trap), surfing (men's and women's), swimming (women's 100m back, men's 800m free, men's 4x200m free relay), table tennis (mixed doubles).

Highlights

The men's triathlon was due to happen on day four, but has now been postponed until Wednesday because of water quality levels in the Seine.

Women's team gymnastics is one of the Olympics' worldwide blockbuster events. The United States will expect one of its largest TV audiences of the Games for Simone Biles and her compatriots in Tuesday's final, which begins at 17:15. Becky Downie, back in the British team for a third Olympics, is tasked with helping to steer GB towards a podium finish. The women's team event is intensely competitive right now, and any of six or seven nations could take a medal, with the absence of Russian athletes also opening up the contest.

There is lots going on in swimming's evening session. Team GB have a real chance of gold in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay, having won the Olympic title in Tokyo and the world title in 2023. Tom Dean, James Guy, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott are all veterans of both victories and are in the line-up. The relay starts at 20:59. The women’s 100m backstroke at 19:57 is expected to feature Australia's Kaylee McKeown, a three-time champion in Tokyo, against the likes of American Regan Smith and Canada's Kylie Masse.

Brit watch

Andy Murray, in his final tennis tournament, continues in the men's doubles with Dan Evans (about 15:30) as they seek to beat Belgians Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen for a place in the quarter-finals.

It is day one of dressage. Yes, you did just see dressage a few days ago. That was eventing dressage. This is dressage dressage, in which GB have an accomplished team despite the absence of three-time gold medallist Charlotte Dujardin. The event begins at 10:00.

Freestyle BMX begins with qualifiers featuring GB's Kieran Reilly and Charlotte Worthington (12:25 onward). Reilly is the men's world champion and Worthington is the Olympic champion. In the men’s event, France’s Anthony Jeanjean is an imposing threat to Reilly, particularly having demonstrated he can entertain a home crowd with a World Cup win in Montpellier leading up the Games. Australia’s Logan Martin is defending his Tokyo title.

Joe Clarke, who won canoe slalom gold in Rio eight years ago but was left out of the GB team for Tokyo in 2021, is back for Paris and begins his K1 event with the heats from 15:00. Mallory Franklin, the women’s C1 Tokyo silver medallist and world champion, starts her heats at 14:00.

GB men's hockey team play the Netherlands, the only team with a better world ranking, in their group at 11:45. Ireland play India at 12:15.

Tokyo bronze medallist Matthew Coward-Holley and 2022 world silver medallist Nathan Hales will hope to be in the men’s trap shooting final from 14:30. Coward-Holley comes into the Games ranked third in the world behind Spain's Alberto Fernandez and Australia’s James Willett.

World watch

A win on home turf would give France's Tokyo opening ceremony flagbearer Clarisse Agbegnenou a third Olympic judo gold alongside the -63kg and mixed team titles she won three years ago. Lucy Renshall is GB's representative in the event. Medal contests are from 16:49.

3x3 basketball is making its second Olympic appearance after a debut in Tokyo, offering a street version of the game using half a court. Latvia won the first 3x3 Olympic men’s title three years ago and begin their defence against Lithuania (17:35), who proved a surprise package at the 2022 World Championships, getting all the way to the final with victories against teams including France and the US.

Surfing presents a dilemma for writers of day-by-day guides: if it starts on Tuesday and goes through the night into Wednesday, where to put it? In case you want to follow the whole thing: the quarter-finals begin at 18:00 on Tuesday, the semi-finals will go past midnight, the men’s gold-medal contest will be at 02:34 on Wednesday and the women’s final will be at 03:15. Remember, this is because the surfing is in Tahiti, which is 12 hours behind France.

The US will expect to win the women’s surfing title with the likes of Olympic champion Carissa Moore and world champion Caroline Marks on the team, but watch out for Brazil’s Tatiana Weston-Webb, Costa Rica’' Brisa Hennessy and France’s Vahine Fierro, who used to live in Tahiti and trains there. On the men’s side, Brazil’s Gabriel Medina and US surfer John John Florence are two out of a dozen or more names in with a serious chance of winning. Tahitian Kauli Vaast, surfing for France, is an underdog who could exploit his local knowledge.

Women's rugby sevens reaches the final at 18:45. New Zealand face USA and Canada meet Australia in the semis from 14:30.

Expert knowledge

The Dominican Republic's men's football team, whose squad includes Leeds defender Junior Firpo, are playing fellow Olympic debutants Uzbekistan (14:00), who have already been eliminated.

Something jaw-dropping happened at Tokyo 2020: China failed to win one of the table tennis gold medals. To put this in perspective, China have won 32 of the 37 Olympic table tennis titles ever contested, and the one they missed in Tokyo was the first the country had not won since 2004. To rub salt into that wound, it was a new event, the mixed doubles, where Japan's Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito pulled off a come-from-behind win over Chinese rivals for gold on home soil. Could China possibly be denied again? Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha are the world number one-ranked duo coming into the Paris 2024 mixed doubles, which concludes with the final at 13:30.
 
Lord Shufflington goes at 10am in the Tiddlywinks Round-Robin. He got a silver at last year's Brasilia expo.
 
I'll be keeping an eye on the BMX but they never really go all out on the qualifiers. Kieran is very good at the minute but I think Chaz is off form slightly after having some mental health issues after her win in Tokyo - would be nice to see her medal in Paris.

Also fancy Joe Clarke in canoe slalom purely because of his massive biceps.
 
I went to see BMX at 2012 as I was already in the Olympic Park and found a last minute £20 ticket but for the LIFE of me, I can't remember a THING about it, possibly because I was sat behind a few of the British rowing team who all had SPECTACULAR backs that I couldn't remove myself from.
 
Fuming that there's still too much shit in the Seine to do the Triathlon today WHEN I AM AT HOME rather than tomorrow when I have to be in the office. It's RUINED MY PLANS

Today is now mostly about the gymnastics / Simone Biles for me
 
I hope I'll be back to watch the gymnastics. Definitely wanting to watch the surfing, which I've never done. Shamefully not caught any of the swimming yet.
 
PercyPig said:
The surfing has been lovely to watch before bed.
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I’ve been enjoying it too. The Tahiti setting is stunning.

It was horrendous last night/this morning. They were practically surfing in a storm. I was amazed they didn’t call it off given the number of times the safety crew were out.
 
Wow. That came out of the blue. When was the last time we had a shooting gold?

EDIT: 2012, Pete Wilson.
 
In the BMX Charlotte didn't qualify for the finals tomorrow but Kieran Riley has qualified top. Men's final looks like it will be amazing.
 
What’s the American tennis player BANGING ON ABOUT?
 
rhythm bandit said:
All the shooters seem so calm it's fascinating to watch.
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I was reading that this is actually in the rules and they can be penalised for boisterous behaviour, running, overly enthusiastic gestures etc. something to do with not reacting too much and keeping stoic when there's guns around. :sugar:
 
Omg did he cause the E. coli outbreak in the UK the other month?
 
Why didn't the French organisers have contingency plans in place if the Seine could not be used?
 
Isn't there a lake/big pond somewhere in Paris that could be used? Failing that, a lido.
 
Nancy said:
Why didn't the French organisers have contingency plans in place if the Seine could not be used?
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Good ol' French nonchalance :disco:

Team GB currently looking good for a medal (probs bronze) in the women's gymnastics team final.
 
Nancy said:
Isn't there a lake/big pond somewhere in Paris that could be used? Failing that, a lido.
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If the Seine is unworkable they will replace the swim with a run, so run/cycle/run sequence which kinda ruins it for those who are strongest in the swim.
 
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