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Crew GB search for extra medals on the Olympics on Thursday as Paris 2024 rolls on with one other hectic schedule within the French capital.
Thursday’s highlights and stars to observe
The world’s eyes might be on Simone Biles as soon as extra as we speak as the best gymnast of all time bids for her sixth Olympic gold medal within the sport’s most coveted occasion, the person all-around remaining (5.15pm BST). Her greatest competitors might properly come from fellow American Suni Lee, who received gold in Biles’ absence in Tokyo and who impressed throughout the USA’s crew win on Tuesday. And look out for Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who received silver in Tokyo and is the reigning Olympic champion on the vault.
Britain will hope to scoop at the very least one gold within the numerous rowing finals, with flagbearer Helen Glover competing within the girls’s 4 (10.50am) earlier than Crew GB’s world champions go within the males’s 4 (11.10am).
Golf makes its first look of those Olympics with spherical one of many males’s competitors (8am) at Le Golf Nationwide, that includes Rory McIlroy for Eire. He goes up in opposition to American duo Scottie Scheffler and reigning Olympic champion Xander Schauffele, whereas Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick are the British pair.
American, Australia and Canada will face off within the girls’s 4x200m freestyle relay (9.03pm) within the pool, after Canadian teenage star Summer season McIntosh has bid for the ladies’s 200m fly title (7.30pm).
And athletics makes it first look in these Video games, technically, with the ladies’s and males’s 20km race walks (6.30am and eight.20am).
Listed here are the day’s high picks for Crew GB and a full rundown from round Paris:
Crew GB watch as we speak (all occasions BST)
Athletics, males’s 20km stroll, 6.30am (Callum Wilkinson)
Rowing, girls’s double sculls, 10.18am (Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, Rebecca Wilde)
Rowing, girls’s 4, 10.50am (Helen Glover, Esme Sales space, Samantha Redgrave, Rebecca Shorten)
Rowing, males’s 4, 11.10am (Oliver Wilkes, David Ambler, Matthew Aldridge, Frederick Davidson)
Canoe Slalom, males’s K1 remaining 5.30pm (Joe Clarke)
Gymnastics, girls’s particular person all-around remaining, 5.15pm (Alice Kinsella, Georgia-Mae Fenton)
Swimming, Ladies’s 4x200m freestyle relay, 9.03pm (tbc)
Day 6 (Thursday 1 August) – 18 medal occasions
Archery
8.30am-12.25pm: Males’s and ladies’s particular person eliminations2.30pm-6.25pm: Males’s and ladies’s particular person eliminations
Inventive gymnastics
5.15pm-7.25pm: Ladies’s particular person all-around remaining 🥇
Athletics
6.30am-8.05am: Males’s 20km race stroll remaining 🥇8.20am-10.05am: Ladies’s 20km race stroll remaining 🥇
Badminton
7.30am-10am: Males’s singles: spherical of 16; girls’s doubles: quarter-finals12pm-3.30pm: Males’s doubles: quarter-finals, males’s singles: spherical of 165.30pm-9pm: Ladies’s singles: spherical of 16; Blended doubles: semi-finals
Basketball
10am-2.15pm: Ladies’s group part (2 matches)4.15pm-6pm: Ladies’s group part (1 match)8pm-9.45pm: Ladies’s group part (1 match)
Basketball 3×3
8am-10am: Males’s and ladies’s pool spherical (4 matches)11.30am-1.30pm: Males’s and ladies’s pool spherical (4 matches)5pm-7pm: Males’s and ladies’s pool spherical (4 matches)8.30pm-10.30pm: Males’s and ladies’s pool spherical (4 matches)
Seaside volleyball
8am-12pm: Males’s and ladies’s prelims (4 matches)2pm-5pm: Males’s and ladies’s prelims (3 matches)7pm-10pm: Males’s and ladies’s prelims (3 matches)
Boxing
10am-12.25pm: Ladies’s 50kg, girls’s 75kg: spherical of 32 or spherical of 16; girls’s 54kg, males’s 63.5kg, males’s 92kg: quarter-finals2.30pm-5.10pm: Ladies’s 50kg, girls’s 75kg: spherical of 32 or spherical of 16; girls’s 54kg, males’s 63.5kg, males’s 92kg: quarter-finals7pm-9.25pm: Ladies’s 50kg, girls’s 75kg: spherical of 32 or spherical of 16; girls’s 54kg, males’s 63.5kg, males’s 92kg: quarter-finals
Canoe slalom
2.30pm-5.35pm: Males’s K1: semi-finals and finals 🥇
Biking (BMX racing)
7pm-9.20pm: Males’s and ladies’s quarter-finals and last-chance runs
Equestrian
10am-1pm: Leaping crew qualifier
Fencing
9am-4.10pm: Ladies’s foil crew: desk of 64, desk of 32, desk of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals, placement matches6.10pm-9pm: Ladies’s foil crew: bronze medal bout, gold medal bout 🥇
Golf
8am-5pm: Males’s match: spherical 1
Handball
8am-11.30am: Ladies’s prelims (2 matches)1pm-4.30pm: Ladies’s prelims (2 matches)6pm-9.30pm: Ladies’s prelims (2 matches)
Hockey
9am-11.30am: Males’s pool stage (2 matches)11.45am-2.30pm: Males’s pool stage (2 matches)4pm-6.30pm: Ladies’s pool stage (2 matches)6.45pm-9.30pm: Ladies’s pool stage (2 matches)
Judo
9am-1pm: Ladies’s -78kg, males’s -100kg: elimination rounds3pm-6pm:Ladies’s -78kg, males’s -100kg: medal rounds 🥇
Rowing
8.30am-11.40am: Ladies’s single sculls, males’s single sculls: semi-finals; girls’s eight, males’s eight: repechage; girls’s double sculls, males’s double sculls, girls’s coxless 4, males’s coxless 4: remaining B; girls’s double sculls, males’s double sculls, girls’s coxless 4, males’s coxless 4: medal remaining 🥇
Crusing
10am-6pm: Males’s and ladies’s skiff: medal races; Males’s and ladies’s windsurfing and dinghy 🥇
Capturing
8.30am-9.50am: Males’s 50m rifle 3 positions: finals 🥇11am-12.30pm: Ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions: qualification
Swimming
10am-12pm: Ladies’s 200m again, males’s 50m free, males’s 200m particular person medley, girls’s 4x200m free relay: heats7.30pm-9.30pm: Ladies’s 200m fly: remaining, males’s 200m again: remaining; males’s 50m free: semi-finals; girls’s 200m breast: remaining; girls’s 200m again, males’s 200m particular person medley: semi-finals; girls’s 4x200m free relay: remaining 🥇
Desk tennis
9am-12pm: Males’s and ladies’s singles: quarter-finals2pm-5pm: Males’s and ladies’s singles: quarter-finals7pm-10pm: Males’s and ladies’s singles: quarter-finals
Tennis
11am-4pm: Males’s singles quarter-finals, girls’s singles semi-finals11am-6pm: Males’s singles quarter-finals, girls’s and combined doubles semi-finals11am-6pm: Ladies’s and combined doubles semi-finals6pm-10pm: Males’s singles quarter-finals, girls’s singles semi-finals
Volleyball
8am-10.30am: Ladies’s prelims12pm-2.30pm: Ladies’s prelims4pm-6.30pm: Ladies’s prelims8pm-10.30pm: Ladies’s prelims
Water polo
9.30am-12.30pm: Males’s prelims (2 matches)2pm-5pm: Males’s prelims (2 matches)6.30pm-9.30pm: Males’s prelims (2 matches)
