Paris 2024 - Day 5 (Wed 31 July) (1 Viewer)

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The women’s triathlon is well underway - two Brit in contention.
 
Following Percy Pig’s approach:

Day 5: Wednesday 31 July​

Eighteen gold medals:

Artistic gymnastics (men's individual all-around), BMX freestyle (men's and women's), canoe slalom(women's C1), diving (women's synchro 10m platform), fencing (men's sabre team), judo (women's-70kg, men's -90kg), rowing (men's quadruple sculls, women's quadruple sculls), shooting (women's trap), swimming (women's 100m free, men's 200m fly, women's 1500m free, men's 200m breast, men's 100m free), triathlon (women's and men's individual).

Highlights

On Wednesday, the women’s triathlon is due to start at 07:00, before the postponed men's event begins at 09:45. Team GB have a very strong women's team in world champion Beth Potter, Tokyo individual silver medallist Georgia Taylor-Brown and world top 10-ranked Kate Waugh. France’s Cassandre Beaugrand and Emma Lombardi are also contenders for gold at their home Games. Competitors start from the Pont Alexandre III bridge in view of the Eiffel Tower, swim 1500m in the Seine then run up a set of steps to start the 40km bike course, which includes some cobbled stretches. Lastly, there is a 10km run.

In the men's race, GB's Alex Yee will hope to be at the front of the action. Yee won Olympic silver in a pulsating Tokyo contest three years ago. Norwegian Kristian Blummenfelt, who pulled past Yee to win gold that day, is back but has since moved up to Ironman distance then back down again, and it remains to be seen if he will master that transition.

The men's all-around gymnastics final begins at 16:30, an event where athletes compete on all six apparatus to decide the best overall gymnast at the Olympics. Britons Jake Jarman and Joe Fraserhave qualified, but defending champion and multiple world title-winner Daiki Hashimoto is the favourite.

We reach the freestyle BMX finals from 12:10, where GB's Kieran Reilly is a proven champion on the world stage, though Charlotte Worthington failed to reach the women's final. This is freestyle’s second Olympic appearance. To win gold, perform as many tricks as you can in 60 seconds and make sure they are better than anyone else’s.

Wednesday could bring a medal opportunity for GB’s Mallory Franklin in the C1 women’s canoe slalom (final from 16:25). Australia’s Jessica Fox, one of the greatest canoeists of all time and the Tokyo champion, will be one of Franklin’s biggest rivals. Watch out for Elena Lilik, who beat Andrea Herzog – Tokyo’s bronze medallist – to claim Germany’s sole entry in this event.

Brit watch

Rowing’s quadruple sculls finals begin at 11:26. Britain are the world champions in the women’s event and picked up 2022 world silver in the men’s race.

In shooting, Lucy Hall, a European silver medallist in 2022, will hope to feature in the women’s trap final at 14:30.

Jemima Yeats-Brown lost her sister and biggest fan, Jenny, to brain cancer just after winning Commonwealth judo bronze in 2022. Yeats-Brown says that has helped inspire a “life’s too short” approach to competing that helped her secure fifth at the World Championships in 2023. She fights in the -70kg category, where medal contests start at 16:18.

In hockey, GB’s women play South Africa at 09:30.

World watch

France superstar Leon Marchand will bid to become the first swimmer to win medals in breaststroke and butterfly events at an Olympics. He won the 400m individual medley on Sunday but faces a formidable opponent in the 200m butterfly final at 19:37 BST – reigning Olympic champion and world record holder Kristof Milak of Hungary. Marchand then goes for 200m breaststroke gold at 21:31 BST.

David Popovici, a superstar of the Romanian team, had a tough 2023 but returned to form by winning men's 200m freestyle gold on Monday. The 100m freestyle is a chance for Popovici to secure a second gold after finishing seventh in Tokyo aged just 16. GB's Matt Richards missed out on the final. Also watch for American Katie Ledecky in the women’s 1500m free (20:04).

In men’s basketball the US-South Sudan game (20:00) pits one of the most dominant teams in Olympic history against a first-time entrant. South Sudan became an independent state in 2011 and its basketball federation joined world governing body Fiba in 2013, so getting to the Olympics about a decade later is pretty good going, to put it mildly.

At the heart of that story? Luol Deng, who played basketball for GB at London 2012. Deng, who spent a decade playing for the NBA’s Chicago Bulls, holds British and South Sudanese citizenship. For years as a coach, he has been a driving force (and financial force) behind the South Sudan team’s rise to Olympic status. Facing the US in Paris may be the pinnacle of that incredible story arc.

Expert knowledge

Lois Toulson and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix come into Paris 2024 as history-makers before they even start their first dive. The duo won world silver last year, the first time Britain had won any women’s diving medal at that level. If they win another medal here – the women’s 10m synchro diving final starts at 10:00 – watch for some cartwheels on the BBC studio sofa, as Andrea’s dad is Fred Sirieix, star of First Dates turned BBC presenter at Paris 2024.
 
Bizarre choices by the TV producers to cut away from the lead at the key moment.
 
WHY was the triathlon on both BBC streams for quite such a long time?
 
Amazing from Alex Yee. It looked like he might even slip down to 3rd at the end until that finish.
 
Men’s rowing: The men’s quadruple scull saw Team GB’s men finish fourth, just missing out on a medal. Netherlands were first, Italy silver and Poland third.

I think this was lost in all the Tri drama
 
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