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Sport is happening all over the place in Paris. And Barry Glendenning is now here to take you through the next bit … over to you, Barry.
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Men’s climbing: boulder & lead: Thanks to Ivana for the heads up on email:
“Toby Roberts (GB) just qualified for the final in sport climbing (boulder&lead).”
He did! Alberto Lopez of Spain was first in the semi-final, with 72 points, GB’s Roberts second with 68.1, Adam Ondra of Czech Republic third, also 68.1.
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Women’s golf: Celine Borge continues to lead the way at Le Golf National. The Norwegian is three under par after eight holes.
Aditi Ashok (India) is one under through nine holes, Yin Ruoning of China is one under after six.
But … Nelly Korda is three over after seven!
Celine Borge tees off at the first. Photograph: Matt York/APShare
Women’s 50kg wrestling update from Beau Dure:
The Indian wrestler, Vinesh Phogat, didn’t make weight for today’s gold medal match at 50kg and has been disqualified.
Contrary to some reports, Phogat’s disqualification does not mean the USA’s Sarah Hildebrandt wins gold. The wrestler Phogat beat in the semifinals, Yusneylis Guzman Lopez of Cuba, has been put through to the final.
In her first match, Phogat pulled off one of the shocks of the Games, beating Yui Susaki, who hadn’t conceded a point in Olympic or world championship matches in five years.
Even though Phogat’s results have been scrubbed from the competition, the wrestlers she defeated, including Susaki, are still in the repechage and can get bronze.
Phogat was a nominee for the Laureus Sports Awards comeback of the year honour a few years ago.
Vinesh Phogat of India with Yusneylis Guzman Lopez of Cuba. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/ReutersShare
Updated at 11.51 CEST
Kieran Pender
Women’s basketball: The Australians have extended their advantage through the second quarter at the basketball, with the Opals leading by 16 at the half-time break, 48-32. Jade Melbourne has led the scoring for Australia, knocking down 14 points with only one missed three detracting from an otherwise perfect streak. Ivana Raca has been Serbia’s most effective scorer, with 57% accuracy.
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Updated at 11.47 CEST
Final handball score AET: Spain 29-28 Egypt
Egypt led the men’s handball quarter-final by four goals in the second half. Spain fought back and their goalkeeper, Gonzalo Vargas, made no fewer than 17 saves to keep their opponents out! It’s over!
Daniel Fernandez of Spain celebrates. Photograph: Alex Plavevski/EPAShare
Updated at 11.52 CEST
Men’s handball: Under a minute left … Spain 28-28 Egypt … penalty Spain!
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Men’s diving: Wang Zongyuan (China) currently tops the charts in the 3m springboard with a total of 435.25.
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Men’s handball: Spain 27-27 Egypt with about three minutes to go in extra time … but Ali Zein has just been sent to the sin bin for Egypt after making contact with an opponent’s face!
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Updated at 11.39 CEST
Men’s high jump: Mutaz Barshim (Qatar), Shelby McEwen (USA) and Stefano Sottile (Italy) currently top the standings in qualifying. Tamberi is fourth.
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Updated at 11.38 CEST
Men’s high jump: JuVaughn Harrison (USA) has crashed out in qualifying after three failed jumps. He appears to have injured himself on the third and final effort, too.
JuVaughn Harrison came seventh in the high jump in Tokyo. Photograph: Aleksandra Szmigiel/ReutersShare
Men’s 5000m: George Mills of Team GB is very unhappy with Hugo Hay of France after the 5,000m heat at the Stade de France, for some reason. I did not see the race so not sure what occurred but will try and bring you more on that when I get it …
Narve Gilje Nordas of Norway won the first heat in a time of 14min 08.16sec. Hagos Gebrhiwet (Ethiopa) second, John Heymans (Belgium) third.
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Updated at 11.32 CEST
Marathon swimming training session goes ahead in River Seine
The athlete training session for the Olympic marathon swimming in the River Seine went ahead on Wednesday morning. World Aquatics cancelled a familiarisation session 24 hours earlier before the women’s race on Thursday and men’s event on Friday as water quality assessments found that levels of Enterococci – an indicator of faecal pollution – were too high in the river.
But a Paris 2024 statement said: “During a meeting on water quality held on 7 August at 4am attended by representatives from World Aquatics, including their technical delegates and medical delegates, Paris 2024, Meteo France, DRIEAT, the City of Paris and the Prefecture of the Ile-de-France Region involved in carrying out water quality tests, World Aquatics have confirmed that the familiarisation session for the marathon swimming (athlete training) will go ahead as planned on 7 August from 7.30-9.30am.
“The results of the latest water quality tests, reviewed during the meeting at 4am, have been assessed as compliant by World Aquatics, allowing for the familiarisation session for the marathon swimming to take place.”
The issue of water quality had dominated the build-up to all three triathlons in the first week of the Games. Several familiarisation sessions were cancelled and the men’s race delayed by one day to allow conditions to improve.
Monday’s mixed relay went ahead without the Belgian team, who withdrew after athlete Claire Michel fell ill having competed in the women’s race, finishing 38th, the previous Wednesday. In the build-up to the Olympics, Paris invested 1.4billion euros trying to clean up the Seine, but water quality levels have dipped during the Games after a number of storms. PA Media
The men’s triathlon on the Seine. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The GuardianShare
Kieran Pender
The Australian Opals are up by seven points after the first quarter of the women’s basketball quarter-finals, leading Serbia 26-19. It has been a physical opening contest – Yvonne Anderson looking dangerous for the Serbians, but the Opals doing well to control the contest. The winner of this match will face the United States or Nigeria in the semi-final.
Alanna Smith takes a free throw for Australia. Photograph: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Men’s handball: You could tell a classic was brewing … Spain 25-25 Egypt is a final score in the quarter-final in Lille. The match goes to extra time: two five-minute periods.
Egypt had a chance to win it in the final seconds, but the Spain goalie, Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas, pulled off a stunning save.
Seif Elderaa of Egypt in action with Gonzalo Perez de Vargas of Spain. Photograph: Bernadett Szabó/ReutersShare
Updated at 11.20 CEST
Jakob Ingebritsen has taken to Instagram, reacting to last night’s shock result in the 1500m:
”My team always say that “because you have a big mouth and is the one to beat, you have everything to lose in competitions”. Today, Cole Hocker, Yared Nuguse and Josh Kerr outsmarted me. They were “the best guys” when it really mattered. And I want to congratulate them all on a great performance! … Of course, I am disappointed!
“Running is the ultimate sport. Everyone can participate. Everyone can set their own goals and achieve them. All you need is to show up … Thank you to all my competitors for putting on a great show today. Congratulations to the guys bringing home the medals! Luckily for me, I get to do it all again tomorrow morning.”
The final few metres of the men’s 1500m Photograph: Joel Marklund/BILDBYRÅN/ShutterstockShare
Who is leading the medal table? You can find out here:
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Thanks to Fabiana Scarazzato for the following email regarding the high-jumper Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy, he who lost his wedding ring:
“Three days ago Tamberi was rushed to hospital where it was discovered he had kidney stones, so the fact that he managed to be in Paris today for the qualifier is quite the miracle.”
Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy. Photograph: Matthias Schräder/APShare
Sean Ingle
Over the hardest three laps of his life, Cole Hocker clung on with the stubbornness of a mule. Then, in an Olympic 1500m final for the ages, he kicked like one.
It took the 23-year-old American past the fading Tokyo gold medallist Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway. Then, in an extraordinary last few yards, Britain’s world champion Josh Kerr. And suddenly, and without warning, a 37-1 underdog from Indianapolis had shaken up the world.
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Women’s golf: All, or certainly many, eyes are on Nelly Korda at Le Golf National. She has dropped a shot early doors, though, and is one over par through three holes.
Borge of Norway leads on two under par after five.
Nelly Korda of Team USA hits a putt. Photograph: Lisa Leutner/ReutersShare
Updated at 11.05 CEST
Men’s handball: Spain 17-20 Egypt after 48min.
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Josh Kerr speaks to the BBC after last night’s silver medal in the men’s 1500m: “I was just trying to stay as close as possible … I could feel like we were really rolling, it was unrelenting pace.
“He [Cole Hocker] is a fantastic athlete … we could feel there were some guys still there and it wasn’t just us [Kerr and Jakob Ingebritsen].
“It was a great move for him, but it took the sting out of my legs a little bit, I was just trying to get to the finish line as fast as I could.
“You shake everyone’s hand, you move on, and you try and get better from it.”
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Tomorrow night at the Stade de France, it’ll be McLaughlin-Levrone v Bol in the women’s 400m hurdles final. Not to be missed.
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In skateboarding, the men’s park final is coming up this afternoon, with the BBC coverage beginning at 4.30pm. A little later there is track cycling – including men’s and women’s team pursuit. The men’s 400m final will feature in the athletics this evening.
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The men’s 800m heats will be coming up a bit later at the Stade de France, which is nice.
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Men’s diving: In the men’s 3m springboard semi-final, Team GB’s Jack Laugher is currently placed eighth after two dives, having scored 86.70 and 87.50.
Yona Knight-Wisdom of Jamaica leads the way at the top of the standings.
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Updated at 10.45 CEST
Jonathan Liew
A humble statement, on behalf of the media and the entire athletics establishment. In light of the surprising events at the Stade de France on Tuesday, we wish to make a few minor clarifying amendments to some of the coverage you may have seen over the last 12 months.
For example, when we described the Olympic men’s 1500m final as a head-to-head showdown between Josh Kerr and Jakob Ingebrigtsen we should of course have pointed out these two men would end up finishing second and fourth. When we thrust microphones in front of Kerr and Ingebrigtsen and asked them to take pot shots at each other, we in fact misspoke when we actually meant to be asking them both to trash talk Cole Hocker.
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Men’s high jump: Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy takes out 2.20m after whipping up the crowd before his jump at the Stade de France. For some reason, he pulls a disgusted face after successfully completing the jump. What a showman!
He’s the bloke who lost his wedding ring in the river during the opening ceremony.
“It will remain forever in city of love,” he said.
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Updated at 10.42 CEST
Full results for the inaugural Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay can be seen here.
As stated it’s gold for Spain, silver for Ecuador and bronze for Australia.
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Women’s golf: Celine Borge (Norway) leads at Le Golf National. She’s flown out of the blocks, so to speak, and is two-under par after three holes.
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Women’s 100m hurdles: The American-born British runner, Cindy Sember, is through, running 12.72sec in her heat. “I think I’m ready for a medal,” she tells the BBC.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (Puerto Rico), Pia Skrzyszowska (Poland) are also qualified after the heats, and now Nadine Visser (Netherlands), Masai Russell (USA) and Cyrena Samba-Mayela (France) are also through after the heats.
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Men’s handball: Spain 8-12 Egypt at half time in the quarter-final in Lille. Ali Zein of Egypt just executed a fantastic dinked penalty shot on the stroke of half time. He feinted to go low and hard and then popped it over the goalie’s head. The handball equivalent of a Panenka.
Ali Zein (right). Skills. Photograph: Alex Plavevski/EPAShare
Updated at 10.28 CEST
Gold for Spain in the Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay
Perez brings it home for the Spanish team after 42km in this inaugural event. That was a dominant performance from the 28-year-old who won silver in the individual 20km event. Ecuador silver, 51sec down, Australia bronze, 1min 07sec behind.
Organisers will no doubt regard this new event as a roaring success. It was a really high quality race and very entertaining.
Maria Perez and Alvaro Martin of Spain celebrate after crossing the finish line to win gold in the marathon race walk mixed relay. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 10.36 CEST
There really is … quite a lot of sport happening at the Paris Olympics today. You can check out our live schedule here. (Sympathy for live-bloggers optional.)
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Updated at 10.20 CEST
Women’s 100m hurdles heats: Tobi Amusan wins in 12.49sec. Alaysha Johnson of the USA second in 12.61sec, Janeek Brown (Jamaica) third in 12.84. The top three qualify.
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Updated at 10.21 CEST
Kieran Pender
It’s Serbia vs Australia redux at the basketball this morning at Bercy Arena. On Tuesday, the Serbian men’s team overcame the Australian Boomers in over-time to win through to the semi-finals. But today is another day and the Australian women, the Opals, will be hoping to get revenge. The Aussies started slowly at this tournament but showed plenty of grit to progress through to the knock-out round, overcoming home nation France in a must-win clash last Sunday. Keep an eye on Lauren Jackson – the legendary basketballer, 43, is back at the Games after first retiring before the 2016 Rio Olympics due to injuries. Talk about longevity.
The Bercy Arena. Photograph: Carlos Perez Gallardo/ReutersShare
Men’s handball: Spain 8-9 Egypt after 26min. A classic encounter appears to be developing.
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Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay: It’s 40sec now for Perez up front. Montag is in bronze medal position for Australia, more than 30sec down on Morejon of Ecuador.
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Women’s golf: Yin Ruoning of China has obviously been in the drink at the first. She’s pictured chipping out of the drop zone and hits a fantastic shot that pitches beyond the hole and spins back to within a couple of feet. That is why she’s in the side.
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Updated at 10.10 CEST
Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay: Correction, the overall race distance is 42.195km, or 26.2 miles in old money.
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Tom Daley Tokyo content over there on the official Olympics X feed:
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Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay: Spain remain in control as the race moves into its final 2.5km. (It’s 40km in total: four legs of 10km).
Maria Perez of Spain leads by 32sec and it would appear to be an insurmountable lead. A brilliant performance by Perez because the gap was only a handful of seconds when the fourth leg began.
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Updated at 10.04 CEST
Women’s canoe sprint: Gazso (Hungary) and Wood (Australia) place first and second in heat two and progress to the semi-finals. Wang (China) and Peters (Belgium) follow suit in heat three.
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Men’s handball: Spain 6-8 Egypt after 20 minutes in the quarter-final. This is end to end stuff.
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Women’s golf: Charley Hull of Team GB hits a stunning second shot at the first after an indifferent drive. A brilliant hit with a fairway wood with the ball nestled on the edge of the fairway, carrying the water and leaving a very long putt for birdie.
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Women’s golf: Maria Fassi of Mexico drains a magical chip at the first to move one under par. Meanwhile, back on the tee, the world No 1 Nelly Korda is getting ready to tee off. She receives a warm round of applause from the fans gathered around the tee.
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Men’s handball: Spain 5-4 Egypt is a latest score from Lille after 14min of the first half.
I snaffled a ticket for the handball at the Copperbox back in 2012, which was nice. France v Croatia if I remember correctly.
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Updated at 09.51 CEST
Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay: Perez of Spain continues to lead Ecuador’s Morejon on the fourth and final leg. They’ve been racing for 2hr 16min now. Perez has 13sec.
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Women’s taekwondo: The 49kg competition has begun. Oumaima El Bouchti (Morocco) has already beaten Ana da Costa da Silva Pinto Belo (East Timor) 2-0.
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Men’s handball: Egypt have just taken the lead against Spain after seven minutes of their quarter-final.
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Women’s canoe sprint: The Women’s K1 500m heats have now begun at Vaires-sur-Marne. Aimee Fisher (NZ) and Brenda Rojas (Argentina) place first and second respectively in the first heat and qualify for the semi-finals.
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Updated at 09.39 CEST
Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay: Pintado has pulled a couple of seconds clear of Martin. He’s also just been yellow-carded by a judge. He seems to be sailing close to the wind, to employ an entirely inappropriate metaphor.
Now Martin of Spain has overtaken Pintado! The race time has ticked past two hours. The fourth leg will be contested by women athletes. Martin of Spain tags to Maria Perez, Pintado to Glenda Morejon.
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Updated at 09.36 CEST