Recap of Day 8 and looking forward to Day 9
Well, thank you for joining us once more on the official Paris 2024 live blog.
Don’t forget to stick with Olympics.com for all the reaction, reports, and stories from Paris 2024, and join us again bright and early tomorrow morning for Day 9 as we enter the second half of these Olympic Games.
In case you missed it, here were the big stories of Day 8:
And here is what you can look forward to on Day 9:
The swimming action concludes and the men’s athletics 100m final (9:55pm) takes centre stage. Fresh off the back of their own 100m final, the women sprinters will also begin their 200m campaigns (heats from 10:55am).
A total of 20 gold medal events will take place on 4 August.
The men’s golf competition also comes to a close with the fourth and final round (begins 9am), while there will be a new men’s singles Olympic champion in table tennis (2:30pm), with either Fan Zhendong or Truls Möregårdh set to take gold.
Tennis also concludes with the men’s singles and women’s doubles finals (from 12pm).
Here are the day’s top picks:
Athletics (track and field) – Can anyone stop Lyles’ treble hunt?
There are three athletics finals on Day 9 at the Stade de France, but undoubtedly the one that will attract the most attention is the men’s 100m final (9:55pm).
Marcell Jacobs of Italy is the defending champion, but he has had three injury-hit years since winning shock gold at Tokyo 2020. So attention will turn to the USA’s Noah Lyles, the world champion, who will be going for at least a treble of sprint golds in the 100, 200, and 4×100 relay.
Assuming they come through the semi-finals (8pm), don’t count out other hopes such as Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala, Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes, Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, and Lyles’ U.S. compatriots Kenny Bednarek and Fred Kerley, who won silver behind Jacobs in Tokyo.
Cycling (road) – Chaos or normalcy?
What makes the Olympic road races so different from a regular one-day race on the UCI World Tour is that teams and riders are not permitted to use race radios. At Tokyo 2020 in 2021, that allowed Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer to break away and score a shock victory as the heavily favoured Dutch riders failed to realise Kiesenhofer was up the road.
With that memory no doubt fresh in their minds, the usual favourites – the Dutch, including London 2012 champion Marianne Vos; but also Poland’s Katarzyna Niewiadoma; Italy’s Elisa Longo Borghini; Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky; Australia’s Grace Brown; Great Britain’s Lizzie Deignan; and others – will seek to prevent a repeat.
Kiesenhofer is also set to take part, although it would appear her chances of pulling off a repeat are slim, with the peloton now wise to the danger.
Medal events
Archery
14:33–14:59: M individual medal matches
Artistic gymnastics
15:00–15:30: M rings final; 15:40–16:20: W uneven bars final; 16:24–17:00: M vault final
Athletics
19:55: W high jump final; 20:30: M hammer throw final; 21:50: M 100m final
Badminton
15:00–17:10: M doubles medal matches
Boxing
12:04 and 16:34: W 54kg semi-finals; 12:20 and 16:50: M 51kg semi-finals; 12:36 and 17:06: M 63.5kg semi-finals; 12:52 and 17:22: M 80kg semi-finals; 13:08 and 17:38: M 92kg semi-finals (losing semi-finalists win bronze)
Cycling (road)
14:00–18:15: W road race
Equestrian
10:00–13:30: Dressage individual Grand Prix Freesyle
Fencing
19:10–21:40: M foil team medal matches
Golf
09:00–18:00: M round 4
Shooting
15:30–16:45: W skeet final
Swimming
18:30: W 50m freestyle final; 18:37: M 1500m freestyle final; 19:10: M 4x100m medley relay final; 19:32: W 4x100m medley relay final
Table tennis
13:30–15:30: M singles medal matches
Tennis
From 12:00: W doubles bronze medal match, M singles gold medal match, W doubles gold medal match
Full daily schedule here.
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Publish date : 2024-08-04 00:42:14
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