Preview of Day 13 at Paris 2024
That concludes all the action from Day 12 at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Thanks for joining us on the live blog today.
There are a total of 27 gold medal events on Day 13, Thursday 8 August. Here are our top picks of the day:
Team sports reach exciting end, world record watch
The men’s basketball competition reaches the semi-final stage (5:30pm, 9pm), while the men’s football bronze medallists will be decided (5pm) and the men’s hockey tournament concludes (2pm, 7pm).
Will the world record fall in men’s speed climbing as that competition comes to an end (12:28pm)? Samuel Watson’s already lowered his own mark of 4.79s down to 4.75s. But Watson himself posted a training video of him completing the 15m-high wall even quicker than that leading up to the Games. That time could certainly fall again.
Athletics: Lyles, McLaughlin-Levrone, Chopra in action
Noah Lyles will aim to complete the second leg of a potential treble on 8 August as the men’s 200m final (8:30pm) takes place. The U.S. national record holder has made no secret of the fact he wants to take down Usain Bolt’s world record, and his personal best is just 0.12 seconds away from Bolt’s mark.
Meanwhile, India will be targeting a second athletics Olympic gold medal as defending champion Neeraj Chopra goes in the men’s javelin throw final (8:25pm). In Tokyo, Chopra became India’s first individual Olympic champion since 2008 and the first in track and field. However, competition will be fierce as ever from the likes of Jakub Vadlejch, while Germany will have Julian Weber.
And then there’s Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the woman seemingly no one can beat. Having set a new world record (pending ratification) of 50.65 at the U.S. Trials, and with no-one else close, she is the runaway favourite in the women’s 400m hurdles final (9:25pm), but don’t count out Femke Bol, the only other woman to have run under 51 seconds.
Sailing: Singapore could win historic medal
The small Southeast Asian island state of Singapore has only had one Olympic champion in history, when Joseph Schooling won swimming gold at Rio 2016. That could change on Day 13 at the Marseille Marina, as sailing gets set to crown its first kiteboarding champions in this new event (from 3:40pm if conditions allow).
That’s thanks to Max Maeder, the 17-year-old who is already two-time reigning world champion despite his young age, in addition to silver in 2022 and three Youth World Championships titles. He also won gold at the Asian Games last year to add to a growing list of achievements.
Medal events
Athletics (track and field)
20:00: W long jump final; 20:25: M javelin throw final; 20:30: M 200m final; 21:25: W 400m hurdles final; 21:45: M 110m hurdles final
Boxing
21:30–22:01: M 57kg semi-finals; 22:02–22:33: W 75kg semi-finals (losing semi-finalists win bronze); 22:34–22:50: M 51kg final; 22:51–23:06: W 54kg final
Canoe sprint
13:30–13:40: M C-2 500m final A; 13:40–13:50: W K-4 500m final A; 13:50–14:00: M K-4 500m final A
Cycling (track)
19:11–19:17: W keirin final; 19:27–20:00: M omnium points race
Diving
15:00–16:40: M 3m springboard final
Football
17:00–20:00: M bronze medal match
Hockey
14:00–15:45: M bronze medal match; 19:00–20:45: M gold medal match
Marathon swimming
07:30–10:00: W 10km open water
Subject to water quality conditions.
Sailing
11:43–12:10: Mixed two-person dinghy medal race; 12:18–12:38: Mixed multihull medal race; 15:40–16:10: M kiteboarding final; 16:37–17:07: W kiteboarding final
Sport climbing
12:54–13:00: M speed finals
Taekwondo
20:19–21:33: M -68kg medal contests; 20:35–21:52: W -57kg medal contests
Weightlifting
15:00–17:08: W 59kg; 19:30–21:38: M 73kg
Wrestling
19:30–20:05: M Greco-Roman 67kg medal finals; 20:05–20:40: M Greco-Roman 87kg medal finals; 20:50–21:25: W freestyle 53kg final
Full daily schedule here.
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