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It was a fabulous Friday for Great Britain as the medals continued to flow, with three more golds added to the tally in Paris.
Bryony Page completed her full set of colour as she took top spot in the trampolining while show jumper Harry Charles followed in the footsteps of his father Peter as he claimed team final gold alongside Ben Maher and Scott Brash.
The current of gold keeps flowing at the rowing too, where Emily Craig and Imogen Grant triumphed in the last running of the lightweight women’s double sculls, with the event out of the programme in Los Angeles in four years’ time.
Bryony Page wants to realise her dream of heading off to join the circus after completing her set of Olympic trampolining medals with gold in Paris.
The 33-year-old became the first British medallist in the discipline when she won a surprise silver medal in Rio eight years ago before taking bronze in Tokyo.
She went into this competition as the reigning world champion and gold medal favourite, and she lived up to that billing in spectacular style.
Page did not rule out competing again in Los Angeles in four years’ time but first she wants to pursue an opportunity to join Cirque du Soleil as an acrobat and tour with them.
Charles, Maher and Brash secured Britain’s second team equestrian medal of the Games in the show jumping arena.
With the eventing team having triumphed on Monday, the jumping side put on a show at the Chateau de Versailles with all three jumping clear, while Brash and Maher’s time penalty point apiece did not prove too costly as Britain beat the USA to the main honours.
Craig and Grant banished the demons of Tokyo 2020 by becoming the last Olympic lightweight women’s double sculls champions.
The event will be taken out of the rowing programme after the Paris Olympics, with beach sprints introduced in their place in LA in four years’ time.
Away from the golds, there were plenty of place honours for Britain – not least Ben Proud’s silver in the men’s 50m freestyle final.
Proud has won world, European and Commonwealth titles in his decorated career but he has had a couple of near misses for a podium spot at the Olympics – fourth at Rio 2016 and joint fifth at Tokyo 2020.
He ended his wait on Friday night but missed out on gold by five hundredths of a second as Australia’s Cameron McEvoy took top spot in a time of 21.25 seconds, with France’s Florent Manaudou third.
Duncan Scott also took silver in the pool as home favourite Leon Marchand bossed the men’s 200m individual medley final.
Max Whitlock will be pushed to the brink in his bid to nail a third consecutive Olympic pommel title at the Bercy Arena.
Whitlock was out-scored in qualifying by Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan, the defending world champion, and Stephen Nedoroscik of the US. The 31-year-old will need to produce one of the best performances of his career at 5.16pm (4.16pm) if he is to end his career on a high.
There was British disappointment in BMX racing as Kye Whyte was injured in his semi-final and Bethany Shriever came last in her final.
In the tennis, Novak Djokovic beat Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-2 to set up the dream final against Carlos Alcaraz.
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That’s it from us on this day seven blog, but Rob is still going over on the football blog for the fallout from the bust-up in Bordeaux.
Please join us tomorrow for more from the Olympic Games.
France held on to win their football quarter-final against Argentina but there was a serious outbreak of handbags at the final whistle and, according the Eurosport commentator, it has also been kicking off in the tunnel.
Lots of recent bad blood between these two sporting nations of course.
You can follow the latest reaction from Bordeaux with Rob Bagchi here
In the men’s football quarter-finals, France are winning their grudge match against Argentina 1-0 but just had a goal ruled out by VAR. They are into stoppage time Bordeaux, but there will be 10 minutes of it.
You can follow it here
The Olympic boxing gender scandal has intensified today and the Telegraph’s chief sports writer Oliver Brown says it has now “assumed dimensions that the International Olympic Committee can no longer control, with each crushing victory by a biologically male fighter over a female confirming the impression that it has abandoned its fundamental duty of care”.
Read Oliver’s full column here
Great Britain’s men’s hockey team have lost 2-1 to Germany in their final pool match.
Both sides had already qualified for the quarter-finals but the winner will, in theory, get an easier draw.
A Christopher Ruehr double put the Germans ahead and although Gareth Furlong pulled one back in the fourth quarter, Team GB could not find an equaliser.
A major shock at the BMX racing – Team GB’s Beth Shriever, who was the strong gold medal favourite, has finished last in the women’s final.
Australia’s Saya Sakakibara won gold, the Netherlands’ Manon Veenstra took silver and Switzerland’s Zoe Claessens claimed bronze.
Follow the BMX live here
France have a sensational 1-2-3 in the men’s BMX racing, with Joris Daudet, Sylvain Andre and Romain Mahieu sending the stadium wild.
Team GB’s Kye Whyte crashed out in the semi-finals.
Next up is the women’s final with GB’s Beth Shriever favourite for gold.
Follow the BMX live here
Team GB’s Zak Perzamanos has finished fourth in the men’s trampoline final.
Belarus’s Ivan Litvinovich (competing as a neutral) took gold ahead of Chinese pair Wang Zisai and Yan Langyu.
It was such a tense match, there were a lot of emotions, so much expectations and stress particularly as a win meant I would secure a medal for my country and it’s my first Olympic final. I’m thrilled.
I was very nervous before the match because I lost three out of four of my semi-finals in Olympic Games, so I really wanted to get over this hurdle.
I lost quite comfortably to Carlos [Alcaraz] at Wimbledon but this is a different surface and I’m playing better and moving better than I was at Wimbledon, and in a way I have nothing to lose as I already have a medal, so I’m going to go for it.
Novak Djokovic has beaten Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-2 in their semi-final to set up the dream final against Carlos Alcaraz.
It will be the first Olympic final for the great Serb and he will face the Spaniard who beat him in the Wimbledon final and is fast becoming the new king of the sport.
British Cycling have just confirmed to me that Kye Whyte is definitely not returning for third run (as if that wasn’t obvious). I am sitting right behind a group of British Cycling staff, performance analysts, medical staff and so on. The looks on their faces when Whyte went down was one of complete horror. One was filming his run and zoomed right in on the medics as they attended to him. What a shame. Let’s hope his injuries aren’t too bad. He’s a lovely guy.
Follow the BMX live here
France’s Léon Marchand wins fourth gold of Games in men’s 200m individual medley final as Team GB’s Duncan Scott takes silver.
Follow latest reaction here
Australia’s Kaylee McKeown has won the women’s 200m backstroke final. Team GB’s Katie Shanahan came fifth with compatriot Honey Osrin seventh.
McKeown had already won the 100m backstroke so replicates the double she did in Tokyo.
Follow latest reaction here
Team GB swimmer comes second in 50m freestyle final behind Australia’s Cameron McEvoy.
Follow latest reaction here
He breaks Musetti at 5-4 to take it 6-4.
And the 21-year-old from Liverpool starts with 59.840, his best yet.
It has gone with serve at the start with Novak Djokovic leading Lorenzo Musetti 3-2 in the first set.
Team GB’s Zak Perzamanos has made it through as the seventh of eight qualifiers for the final which starts at 7pm BST.
The 4x400m team of Vernon Norwood, Shamier little, Bryce Deadmon and Kaylyn Brown have gone round in 3.07.41, shaving 1.39sec off one of the youngest of athletics records.
Team GB won the second heat in a national record time of 3.10.61.
Follow the latest from Stade de France here.
Team GB’s Zak Perzamanos lies sixth of 16 entrants. The top eight go through to tomight’s final.
The first quarter-final ended in a 4-0 victory for Morocco over USA and the second is about to end with Spain leading Japan 3-0 in stoppage time by virtue of two goals scored by Barcelona’s Fermin Lopez and one from Abel Ruiz of Girona.
Tonight Egypt take on Paraguay in the third quarter-final before hosts France play Argentina, their first meeting since the Argentina senior squad racially abused France’s players in a song after winning the Copa America last month. There is bound to be plenty of needle in Bordeaux tonight.
You can follow that match here.
Just after winning gold in the badminton doubles, Liu Yuchen proposed to his partner and fellow gold medallist Huang Ya Qiong and she said yes.
Teddy Riner speaks to the BBC:
I hope it is not a dream. Wow! I am very happy. A lot of pressure on me. All people say: ‘Teddy will win.’ Today I take my chance. I am a very proud for my family, for my name, for my sport, for my country.
The home town hero has won his third Olympic gold. There will be no more popular winner in Paris tonight.
Riner’s first big attack is repelled by Kim wriggling out and dropping between his legs to loosen the grip. Both are penalised for a lack of attack.
And then Riner wins with IPPON!
As the contest starts, shouting ‘Teddy!’ ‘Allez!’ and clapping rhythmically. This is gripping stuff. Arf!
As Riner prepares to enter to combat the world champion, Kim Min-jong. The last time they fought Riner won but he prefers to fight tall opponents rather than those who can slip under his shoulders.
We have juts had the 100+kg bronze medal match and it was won by Alisher Yusupov of Uzbekistan. I’m going to need ear defenders for the imminent entrance of Teddy Riner.
There have been reports of a bomb scare near the Stade de France and the area around the stadium being placed in lockdown – but I’m at the stadium and fans are flocking in through the various entrances as normal ahead of the first evening of athletics. The race walk medal presentation is currently taking place. However, one of the local stations did appear to be cordoned off by a heavy police presence following the morning session. Currently awaiting confirmation from Paris organisers on why that was but no sense currently inside the stadium that the programme tonight will be impacted.
Catch up on all the latest from the athletics here in our live blog.
France’s Teddy Riner, who you may well remember from London 2012 when he won gold in the 100kg+ class, or Rio where he defended it, or Tokyo where he won a third gold in the mixed team event having taken bronze as an individual, or from the opening ceremony, where he lit the cauldron, is back in the men’s final this evening where he will face Kim Min-jong of South Korea.
And will start moving day on -5, six off the lead. Scottie Scheffler, plating with McIlroy, os one stroke better off at six-under.
Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz has double baguetted Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1, 6-1 in the first semi-final. Novak Djokovic takes on Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti in the second match.
In the women’s singles Iga Switakek defeated Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-2, 6-1 in the bronze medal match before tomorrow’s final between China’s Zheng Qinwen and Croatia’s Donna Vekic.
The bogey on the 18th notwithstanding, that was a terrific 64 by Tommy Fleetwood that has given him a share of the halfway lead alongside Xander Schauffele and Hideki Matsuyama on 11-under. He is such a quality ball-striker and loves Le Golf National. If his putter behaves,Team GB has a serious shot of golfing gold for the second time in three Olympics.
That drags him bacj to -4 as he heads to the 18th tee.
After Matsuyama double bogeyed the last. It’s an eight-footer for Fleetwood but he sweeps it to the right of the hole. Bogey for Fleetwood which gives us a three-way tie for the lead after Fleetwood’s 64 on Friday.
Matsuyama (Japan) -11 (18) Fleetwood (GB) -11 (18) Schuaffele (USA) -11 (18) Rahm (Esp) -9 (18)
GB’s Fitzpatrick is on five-under, USA’s Morrikawa on -4 in the clubhouse. Rory McIlroy is on -6 with two to play.
But he is making a total Horlicks of the 18th, going into the drink with his third at the brutal final hole at Le Golf National and looks certain to drop at least a couple of strokes. Fleetwood is in the green with a putt to save par.
As they stand:
Matsuyama (Japan) -13 (17)Fleetwood (GB) -12 (17)Schuaffele (USA) -11 (18)Rahm (Esp) -9 (18)
Rory McIlroy is playing fine – but on this leaderboard fine looks like it will not be nearly good enough if precious metal is forthcoming. The Irishman is two-under for the day through 12 holes of his second round and five-under for the tournament. He needs to get some sort of wiggle on over this last half dozen as he does not want to be spotting Xander Schauffele six shots going into the weekend. Big crowds following him again and they were rewarded when he hit the flagstick from 260 yards on the par-five third to set up an eagle.
So far so good over the early fences, even if his horse Hello Jefferson does jump slightly out to the right.
Clears the last fence to finish with a time of 79.54 seconds, and despite one penalty that is good enough for Team GB to take the gold medal!
That success takes Team GB to third in the medal table.
He is riding an 11-year-old mare Dubai du Cedre, but she was far from smooth over a couple of hurdles. Clips the top of obstacle number nine and incurs four penalties but finishes with a time of 78.83 seconds. USA remain in pole position.
The Americans’ reaction suggest they think that have a strong chance at gold after Ward records a time of 76.57 seconds with no penalties.
That puts the Netherlands on seven after their final run… Ireland, USA, France and Great Britain are the final four teams to go.
That puts them onto eight penalty points and in the lead so far. A chance of a medal? Probably not but you can never rule it out.
Harrie Smolders up next for the Dutch, who have six penalty points.
Sweden end up with a score of 12 and their goes their medal hopes.
Well, realistically they have. Their total is 20.
His first of the back nine and fifth of the day. That moves him onto 10-under for the tournament.
The Spaniard, then, guarantees himself at least a silver medal. Will he face Novak Djokovic or Lorenzo Musetti?
After starting the day at +2 for the tournament he has put himself into contention for a medal going into the final two rounds at Le Golf National.
A great chance that Team GB can add to this very shortly.
Great Britain lead heading into the final round as 25-year-old Harry Charles puts in a fantastic run. What chance of a Team GB third gold today?
Imogen Grant:
“It feels like an absolute blur, as soon as we set off we were so single minded focussd, we were on a mission today. I think we both knew we had it in us today, the tears was an outpour of training early nights, party and weddings missed, just all of it coming out at once.
Emily is the toughest, most incredible person I’ve had the pleasure to row with. she took me from a clueless single rower to an Olympic champion. She’s been there every single step of the way. I kind of want to go out and do it again.”
Emily Craig:
“It’s so unbelievably simple and difficult to perfect, that’s why I love it and hate it in equal measure. I have so much respect for how talented Imogen is. She has so much confidence, the days where I don’t know if I can do it, I have to look at her and know it will be fine. There were points today where I needed that.”
He rolls in a par putt on 18 to post a 66, five-under. His playing partner Schauffele also posts a 66 to stay in the lead at 11-under.
Tommy Fleetwood is looking sharper than at any time since perhaps his third place finish at the Masters in April. He went through the first nine golf of his second round in five-under – including an eagle on the third – to move to nine-under.
The problem for the Englishman – and the rest – is that Xander Schauffele is leading on 11-under playing the last and they will likely have to deny the American one of the great seasons if they are to win gold. Schauffele has won two majors in 2024 – most recently, of course, The Open two weeks ago – and if he defends his Olympics title successfully there is only one Player of the Year.
Schauffele, USA
Fleetwood, GBMatsuyama, JapanRahm, Spain
Detry, BelgiumJaeger, Germany
Fleetwood on the par-3 eighth does not hit a brilliant shot. On the right of the greeem and slips down the slops and off the green. Should be a par from there and nothing worse but it would have to be a hell of a chip or putt to make it. More on him from our golf correspondent shortly.
35ft and he casually rolls it in and it broke both ways on its way to the hole. He’s onto nine-under now with four birdies in his first seven holes! Matsuyama bogeys hole seven to drop another shot… the leaderboard is shifting around quite rapidly now.
Sami Valimaki has had a more difficult second round. He finishes on level par for the day and minus four for the tournament. Had a few good saves and recoveries today and spent a lot of the day at six-under but the round got away from him a little. He is no longer the leading Finn, either, with Tapio Pulkannen’s day score of five-under putting him in a tie for sixth at seven-under.
He has moved to five-under for the day and is in a tie for second alongside round-one leader Matsuyama and Fleetwood on nine-under for the tournament.
Rory McIlroy has a seven footer or so for a birdie to move to seven-under. It just rolls past the left lip so he will stay at six-under in a tie for eighth. The leaderboard is bunching up nicely. A full update on that coming soon.
China’s Yicheng Hu is the last woman to go but makes a bit of a mess of her go and walks off disconsolately. That means Bryony Page wins gold!
Follow all the reaction here.
Bryony Page is leading with a fine score with one competitor to go. Follow the latest here.
He is now in a tie for the lead with Japan’s Matusyama. Detry has made another birdie to go to -8 for the day as has Fleetwood. McIlroy is making steady progress and is now three-under for the day and six-under for the tournament. Well in the mix for Ireland.
The final will be coming up in about 15 minutes or so.
She’s in fifth with a score of 54.970 but there are not enough competitors remaining to dislodge her from the top eight. Her final is coming very soon and you can follow all the action from that here.
His ball is buried deep in the thick rough and all he can do is advance it out about 20-30 yards onto the fairway. Shouldn’t derail his round too much but might just need to be happy with taking his medicine as it were.
Bryony Page should make it through. Can her team-mate? No, she cannot. She stays down in 13th and does not really improve her score, so that is the end of her for this event.
She is currently sixth and the top eight qualify for the final later today.
She moves up to fifth with a 55.62 with that routine. She has not qualified yet.
Isabelle Songhurst is up next and needs to improve a fair bit with her second routine to stand a chance of making the final.
The four of Kathleen Dawson, James Wilby, Joe Litchfield and Anna Hopkin secure Great Britain’s spot in the final, which takes place tomorrow evening. They were third in their heat behind the United States and China. Dawson and Hopkin were part of the team that won gold in Tokyo, of which Adam Peaty was a part.
Peaty not in the team for this one, having been diagnosed with Covid. He has resumed training, however.
The Belgian started round two on level par but is seven under after 12 holes, which puts him level third with Tommy Fleetwood. At the other end of the scale, Viktor Hovland is the worst of the day’s players relative to par being four over after 11. He did triple-bogey the first hole but has not managed to claw back any ground since then. He is three-over for the tournament and down in a tie for 54th…
Bryson DeChambeau sought to quieten the row about his absence from this Olympic tournament with his tweet after the first round. “Shoutout to the guys in Paris this week,” he posted. “Of course I would love to be out there competing with them, but no matter the situation, I’ll always be rooting for a Team USA victor.”
Despite winning the US Open in June and finishing second in the USPGA in May and seventh in the Masters in April, DeChambeau fell short of qualification.That is because the world rankings decides who plays and as DeChambeau plays on LIV Golf, which does not have world ranking status, he misses out.
Fellow LIV player Joaquin Niemann thinks it is “unfair” and declared that “the top players are not all here”. Rory McIlroy was less sympathetic. “They were very aware of the decision they made [when joining LIV],” he said.
Niemann wants the powers that be to sort it out for Los Angeles in 2028. Golf hopes to have reached a peaceful resolution by then, but if not the IOC and International Golf Federation have a choice to make. It simply does not feel correct that a major-winner from this season is not here.
She does not win her heat but isn’t too far behind winner Ewa Swoboda.
Daryll Neita and Imani Lansiquot are also through to the semis at the Stade de France. Follow the latest from the athletics here.
Schauffele, USA
Matsuyama, Japan
Detry, BelgiumFleetwood, Great Britain
Valimaki, FinlandRahm, SpainOrtiz, MexicoNiemann, ChileGrillo, Argentina
Manassero, ItalyJaeger, Germany
Rory McIlroy is currently at three-under but has a very good chance to move to minus five if he holes his short-ish eagle putt on four.
He eagled the third and puts his ball to literally an inch with his approach on four so that will put him to three under par for the day and seven under for the tournament.
Meanwhile, McIlroy hits the flagstick with his long approach on the third which ends up about six feet from the hole, which will be for eagle. Leader Matsuyama left a long birdie putt very, very short. He then misses the par putt from 17ft or so which means he bogeys the fourth to move back to nine-under for the tournament.
Isabelle Songhurst has just gone and scored 52.92 which puts her into seventh. Bryony Page is in second so far behind Bladtceva. It is the top eight who progress to the final.
After so many near-misses in the rowing, the lightweight women’s double sculls pair of Emily Craig and Imogen Grant take gold after leading almost the entire race! Never in doubt.
He birdies the first to move out into the lead on his own at nine under par. Rahm has dropped a shot and is back to six under alongside Finland’s Sami Valimaki and Chile’s Joaquin Niemann. A whole host of players are on five-under.
Can they take Team GB’s first gold of the day?
Follow the latest updates from the Olympic Rowing Basin here.
Laugher and Harding are in second with just the Mexicans to go after nailing their final dive. They move into second which guarantees them a medal. But what colour will it be?
It’s bronze!
Mexico score a superb 94.77 to claim silver with China (surprise) claiming another gold. Follow all the latest reaction here.
The American is now -2 for the day after yesterday’s 65 and is sharing the lead with Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, who has just teed off. Rahm still on -7 for the tournament.
China lead the way and then it’s Mexico.
Follow the latest from the aquatics centre here. It’s close…
They led for the majority of the race but are beaten in probably the last 100m, if not less, by the Croatian pair! It’s silver, anyway. Follow the reaction from that here, with more medals on offer for Team GB later this morning.
They are contesting the final in the men’s pair, which is happening imminently.
Follow all the latest from that attempt as Team GB aim to add another rowing medal to their total.
Good news is that Josh Kerr has won his opening round heat in the men’s 1500m and by a pretty decent margin.
Follow all the latest from the athletics here.
Follow the latest updates on that here.
The Spaniard is three under after four for today and has moved up to second after his tap-in birdie on the fourth. His playing partner Schauffele also birdies so the pair move to within a shot of the leader and are in a tie for second.
Matsuyama is still out at the top on eight-under though he isn’t out for another 45 minutes or so.
Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding are off in that very soon and you can follow all the updates as the pair go for gold.
Chiara Leone has taken gold for Switzerland with United States’ Sagen Maddalena taking silver ahead of Qiongyue Zhang in the bronze-medal spot.
The etirement of the double Wimbledon and Olympic champion sparks a debate about his claim to be the finest sporting hero Britain has produced.
Our writers have weighed in and you can read their opinions here.
He will be in a fine position for his approach. The Englishman begins the day at +2 so has a lot of work to do…
Hovland misses a medium-length putt for double bogey and taps in for a seven after finding the water twice.
Always feels like the Olympics proper begins once you get the track and field under way. No disrespect to the other sports.
You can follow all the updates from the morning session right here.
He tugs the approach slightly, landing to the left of the green and it rolls into the water. This could be a big score… he will be playing the next shot for five. Schauffele safely onto the green though a fair distance left. It’s all about keeping it dry and getting through these first two holes.
Rahm has a good chance to stiff his approach from 129 yards. He’s just inside of Schauffele, probably 40ft away on the right of the green.
Open winner Schauffele, double-major winner Rahm and 2023 FedEx Cup winner Viktor Hovland.
Schauffele might have a difficult second shot, up against the water. His ball is dry. Hovland takes a driving iron off the tee, because the water is very much in play. However he ends up pulling it so far left it is almost difficult to believe. Splash. No chance of Rahm doing that as he fades it to the right side of the fairway.
Germany are two sets and two points up, if you are interested in that kind of thing.
He stays at minus four for the tournament. As we see shots of Jon Rahm on the range.
Probably there to cheer on compatriot Viktor Hovland.
All sorted let’s gooooo🏌🏼♂️🏌🏼♂️
Ruud loves golf, in fairness, and even has his own Instagram account dedicated to golf. He played at Winged Foot a couple of years ago, before the US Open at Flushing Meadows.
In one of the most shaming episodes in Olympic history, Italy’s Angela Carini was forced after only 46 seconds to abandon a fight against an Algerian boxer who had failed two sex tests, claiming she had been hit so hard by Imane Khelif that she feared for her life.
There was widespread and immediate condemnation of the International Olympic Committee for how it had placed Carini in a position of extreme danger by pitting her against Imane Khelif, a biological male, to the point where she said that she “couldn’t breathe anymore”. She could be heard telling her corner during the fight: “Non è giusto” (“It’s not fair”).
Read the full story here.
First up Iga Swiatek takes on Anna Karolína Schmiedlová in the women’s singles bronze medal match. No medals won technically in the men’s tennis but two of Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada, Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti will confirm at least a silver medal with two semi-finals taking place from 12.30pm at Roland-Garros.
Tom Pidcock took gold in the men’s cross-country mountain bike event earlier this week, defending his title. He will go again in the men’s road race this weekend and Great Britain’s greatest ever cyclist believes he can win.
Tom doesn’t win a lot of races, but when he does, it tends to be a memorable one where he’s risen to the occasion. He will be one of a number of opportunists, like home favourite Julian Alaphillippe, trying to sniff out the right move. And come to think of it, the Men’s Olympic Road Race has historically provided a winner who wasn’t an out-and-out favourite. I cannot wait.
Read the full column here.
1. Matsuyama, Japan -82. Schauffele, USA -6T3. Niemann, Chile -5T3. Grillo, Argentina -5T3. Tom Kim, South Korea -5T6. Noren, Sweden -4T6. Fox, NZ -4T6. Fleetwood, GB -4T6. Straka, Austria -4T6. Scheffler, USA -4T6. Valimaki, Finland -4T6. Van Rooyen, SA -4T6. Rahm, Spain -4
Rory McIlrory in the group of seven who are tied for 14th on three-under.
The too-long-didn’t-read version: McIlroy/Scheffler/Aberg out at 11.06, Fleetwood and leader Matsuyama at 10.44am, Fitzpatrick at 9.11am, Schauffele, Hovland, Rahm at 8.55am.
8:00 a.m.: Yuan Yechun (China), Camilo Villegas (Colombia), Matteo Manassero (Italy) 8:11 a.m.: Adrian Meronk (Poland), Sami Valimaki (Finland), David Puig (Spain) 8:22 a.m.: Erik van Rooyen (South Africa), Keita Nakajima (Japan), Kevin Yu (Chinese Taipei) 8:33 a.m.: Stephan Jaeger (Germany), Nicolai Højgaard (Denmark), Thomas Detry (Belgium) 8:44 a.m.: Byeong Hun An (Korea), Shane Lowry (Ireland), Nick Taylor (Canada) 8:55 a.m.: Xander Schauffele (USA), Viktor Hovland (Norway), Jon Rahm (Spain) 9:11 a.m.: Matthieu Pavon (France), Collin Morikawa (USA), Matt Fitzpatrick (Great Britain) 9:22 a.m.: Shubhankar Sharma (India), Rafael Campos (Puerto Rico), Carlos Ortiz (Mexico) 9:33 a.m.: Nico Echavarria (Colombia), Mito Pereira (Chile), Kris Ventura (Norway) 9:44 a.m.: Fabrizio Zanotti (Paraguay), Joel Girrbach (Switzerland), Tapio Pulkkanen (Finland)9:55 a.m.: Victor Perez (France), Matti Schmid (Germany), C.T. Pan (Chinese Taipei) 10:06 a.m.: Thorbjørn Olesen (Denmark), Alejandro Tosti (Argentina), Joaquin Niemann (Chile) 10:17 a.m.: Emiliano Grillo (Argentina), Alex Noren (Sweden), Ryan Fox (New Zealand) 10:33 a.m.: Min Woo Lee (Australia) Corey Conners (Canada), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (South Africa) 10:44 a.m.: Wyndham Clark (USA), Hideki Matsuyama (Japan), Tommy Fleetwood (Great Britain) 10:55 a.m.: Sepp Straka (Austria), Jason Day (Australia), Tom Kim (Korea) 11:06 a.m.: Scottie Scheffler (USA), Rory McIlroy (Ireland), Ludvig Åberg (Sweden) 11:17 a.m.: Adrien Dumont de Chassart (Belgium), Daniel Hillier (New Zealand), Guido Migliozzi (Italy) 11:28 a.m.: Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Thailand), Gavin Green (Malaysia), Gaganjeet Bhullar (India) 11:39 a.m.: Phachara Khongwatmai (Thailand), Abraham Ancer (Mexico), Dou Zecheng (China)
Welcome to day seven of our coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympics. As far as Team GB are concerned, yesterday was a more subdued day, with no gold medals at all. There were several other medals, though, all in the rowing with the women’s double sculls claiming bronze, the women’s four taking silver whilst bronze was taken by the men’s four as well.
What chances of more medals on Friday? Pretty good, you would say. There are two medal races in the rowing today as Emily Craig and Imogen Grant go in the women’s lightweight double sculls at 11.22. Before that, though, are Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George in the men’s pair final, having qualified second in their heat.
Over in BMX, where Team GB did pretty well in Tokyo, and medal winners Beth Shriever and Kye Whyte taking part in their finals at 8.50pm and 8.35pm respectively. They both won medals last Games but Whyte will be hoping to turn his silver into gold as Shriever will be looking to retain her status as Olympic champion.
In sailing Emma Wilson is guaranteed at least a bronze medal in the women’s windsurfing, on a day when the track and field events begin.
In trampolining, Bryony Page is in with a shout with a medal having won silver in Rio 2016 and bronze in Tokyo 2020. Zak Perzamanos takes part in the men’s individual, though they will both need to qualify with that process starting at 11am for the women and 5pm for the men.
There are medals to be won aquatically with Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding in the men’s 3m synchro final, which starts at 10am. In the pool this evening Team GB has Ducnan Scott in the men’s 200m medley final, a couple of Britons in the women’s 200m backstroke (Honey Osrin and Katie Shanahan). Ben Proud, who swam very well in his semi-final, goes in the 50m freestyle.
We will also be taking in the second round of the golf today, which resumes at Le Golf National.
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