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The sphere has began breaking apart round midway by means of this primary girls’s 5000m warmth. Japan’s Nozomi Tanaka has led all through however the query might be if she will be able to proceed to be the tempo setter as qualify for the ultimate, she pulled away and had an enormous hole however the chasing group has caught her.

Canada’s Félix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriela Dabrowski has received the primary set 6-3 with a really comfy efficiency to date towards the Netherlands’ Wesley Koolhof and Demi Schuurs. This match will decide the tennis blended doubles bronze.

{Photograph}: Angelika Warmuth/Reuters

The primary warmth within the girls’s 5000m is underway. One of many sport’s stars is on this warmth with Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon that includes. The primary eight finishers in every warmth, of which there are two, will qualify for the ultimate.

Within the males’s decathlon – who at the moment are on the excessive bounce – each the USA’s Harrison Williams and Estonia’s Janek Oiglane have posted season greatest’s on the excessive bounce with 1.87m. They may but enhance upon that because the fourth occasion within the decathlon continues.

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The lads’s trampolining qualification for the ultimate has began and Colombian athlete Angel Hernandez is first up. On his first train he scores a 57.9 however he may have one other train to enhance upon that rating as soon as all the remainder of the athletes have their first.

GB have Zak Perzamanos on this occasion and he might be going ninth within the rotation.

Within the blended tennis doubles bronze match Canada’s Félix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriela Dabrowski are a break up within the first set towards the Netherlands’ Wesley Koolhof and Demi Schuurs. The Canadian pair lead 3-1 within the first set.

Tumaini Carayol

Tumaini Carayol is in Paris for the Guardian:

Over the previous few Olympic cycles, girls’s creative gymnastics has modified past creativeness. After the emergence of the prodigious teenage gymnasts Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci within the Seventies, it was broadly believed that feminine gymnasts peaked of their teenage years and as they continued to mature bodily, the prospect of sustaining their advanced routines was more and more distant.

However in recent times, the typical age of the perfect gymnasts has elevated and quite a few distinguished athletes have loved lengthy careers. This theme has solely additional accelerated in Paris, which has to date been dominated by older gymnasts. This consists of the enduring greatness of Simon Biles, who on Thursday turned the oldest gymnastics all-around champion since 1952.

As such a robust, formidable athlete, Biles has helped change the picture of gymnasts with the physique varieties that may be profitable within the sport and to interrupt down previous myths: “It was all the time, the smaller and lighter you might be, particularly in girls’s gymnastics, the better gymnastics was,” says the 2014 Commonwealth Video games champion Becky Downie.

“If you find yourself a toddler, you might have a a lot smaller, strong physique. However then there was that shift. Not simply when it comes to our sport and funding, however once we noticed the rise of the People. They have been robust, they have been muscular, they weren’t actually tiny bodied athletes. I believe that basically created a shift within the sport to be such as you truly could be muscly and robust, and really it’s useful.”

Learn extra from Tumaini Carayol right here: Biles is epitome of shift in gymnastics that prioritises autonomy over age

France’s Riner wins +100kg judo gold

France’s Teddy Rinner has received the +100kg judo gold after beating the Republic of Korea’s Minjong Kim 10-0. Within the bour Rinner scored an ippon.

Earlier on Uzbekistan’s Alisher Yusupov and Tajikistan’s Temur Rakhimov received bronze.

The Matildas are out of the ladies’s soccer occasion after shedding two of their three group matches. Right here’s some response:

There’s about to be an motion packed night of athletics. First up is the boys’s decathlon who tackle their fourth occasion within the excessive bounce. There will even be the primary spherical of the ladies’s 5000m and the ladies’s triple bounce qualification.

Elsewhere, the boys’s trampolining qualification additionally will get underway in lower than 10 minutes.

An replace on the boys’s soccer quarter-final, VAR have dominated out Japan’s equaliser for offside. Re-watching the purpose I believe that could be a pretty harsh name however Spain lead 1-0.

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The blended doubles bronze medal match has simply began within the tennis. Canada’s Félix Auger-Aliassime – who misplaced earlier at the moment within the males’s singles to Carlos Alcaraz – and Gabriela Dabrowski play towards the Netherlands’ Wesley Koolhof and Dmei Schuurs.

Japan have equalised towards Spain within the males’s soccer to make it 1-1 and it was a bit too simple for Mao Hasoya to attain. He was handed the ball within the field and had two Spanish defenders swarm him. However the participant span and sliced it into the underside left nook. Sport on.

Within the males’s soccer, Spain are nonetheless main Japan 1-0. Earlier on Morocco beat the USA 4-0, you possibly can make amends for that right here:

The ladies’s kayak cross time trial has ended and Mallory Franklin has been hit off the highest spot. France’s Camille Prigent recorded a time of 70.33 to high the desk with Australia’s Jessica Fox rating of 70.84 placing her in second, forward of Franklin. GB’s different paddler Kim Woods completed sixteenth.

This determines the seedings for the following spherical, which can happen tomorrow.

Joanna Walters

The champion American gymnast Simone Biles discovered time in a single day between counting her report haul of Olympic medals to ding Donald Trump on social media after his offensive and unfaithful remarks at a gathering of Black journalists earlier within the week.

She posted on X early on Friday: “I really like my black job” with a black coronary heart emoji alongside, responding to a different submit of her beaming together with her newest Olympic gold medal.

There’s extra from Joanna Walters on this story right here: ‘I really like my black job’: Simone Biles mocks Trump’s offensive panel remarks

Souza wins +78kg judo gold

Brazil’s Beatriz Souza has received the +78kg girls’s judo gold medal after beating Israel’s Raz Hershko 1-0.

Souza scored a waza-ari early on and it was the rating that made the distinction.

Earlier on the Republic of Korea’s Hayun Kim and Romane Dicko each received the bronze for a similar class.

Beatriz Souza of Brazil reacts after profitable Raz Hershko of Israel. {Photograph}: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

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Lauren Cochrane

The Olympic Video games in Paris have supplied many vogue moments. The newest comes at a micro stage. Rivals, mainly in gymnastics and athletics, are making nails a giant a part of their look.

Sha’Carri Richardson is the pioneer right here. Her assertion nails have lengthy been a part of her fashion. For the 100-metre heats on Friday, her nails have been pointed, jewelled and brightly patterned. They have been adorned with the US flag for the opening ceremony final weekend.

The gymnasts Sunisa Lee and Jordan Chiles each have lengthy nails – Chiles adorning hers with jewels and vivid colors. Shot putter Raven Saunders has talons adorned with the Olympic rings. Noah Lyles, the US monitor and discipline star, has “icon’” spelt out throughout his. To proceed the pattern, there’s even a nail salon within the Olympic Village.

The nails of US gymnast Jordan Chiles. {Photograph}: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Instances/Getty Photos

Sportspeople have historically stored their on-field fashion minimal in a bid to concentrate on optimum efficiency, so the nails right here have raised eyebrows. Nonetheless, Dr Danielle Adams Norenberg, the top of psychology on the UK Sports activities Institute, who works with Staff GB, says they will truly give an edge: “I’m all for serving to [athletes] work out how they’re going to specific themselves by means of their efficiency in a method that enhances their strengths and helps their strategies.”

Learn extra right here: ‘Bougie and exquisite on the monitor’: nails full the have a look at the Olympics

Within the girls’s tennis doubles AIN’s (particular person impartial athletes) pair Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider have overwhelmed Spain’s Cristina Bucșa and Sara Sorribes in straight units to succeed in the gold medal match.

They may play Italy’s Jessica Paolini and Sara Errani who beat the Czech Republic’s Karolina Muchova and Linda Nuskova earlier at the moment.

The Spain and Czech Republic groups will play one another within the bronze medal bout.

If I obtained you to guess which actor would do his personal stunts on the Olympic closing ceremony I believe you’d all get it proper. However you possibly can examine in case you have been right here:

Spain have gone 1-0 up towards Japan of their males’s soccer quarter-final. A purpose from Fermín López, who performs his membership soccer at Barcelona, edges them forward. An extended option to go in that one.

Jack Snape

Jack Snape has been on the Stade de France for the Guardian:

The world’s quickest girls flew down the Olympic straight within the 100m heats on the primary morning of athletics on the Stade de France, however one carried a heavier burden. Kimia Yousofi, a part of the six-person Afghan staff competing in Paris, trailed the remainder of the pack and completed two seconds behind the winner.

Afterwards, she held up phrases scribbled on an A4 piece of paper. “Schooling” written in black. “Sport” beneath it in inexperienced. In pink, the third color of the Afghanistan flag, “our rights”. “I’ve a message for Afghan women,” she stated. “Don’t surrender, don’t let others determine for you. Simply seek for alternative, after which use that chance,” she stated.

The 28-year-old carried the nation’s flag on the Tokyo Video games, however fled to Iran when the Taliban took management in 2021. Her staff in Paris is made up of three males and three girls, chosen by the Afghanistan Olympic Committee which operates exterior the nation. “I simply need to signify Afghan individuals with this flag, our tradition. Our women in Afghanistan, our girls, they need primary rights, training, and sport,” she stated.

Learn extra right here: Afghanistan 100m runner Kimia Yousofi sends Olympic message to the Taliban

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The lads’s kayak cross time trials occurred earlier on and GB’s Joe Clarke completed with the quickest time. All of the athletes make it by means of the primary spherical however this decided the seedings for the following spherical. GB’s different athlete within the males’s occasion, Adam Burgess, completed twenty sixth.

The ladies’s occasion is within the technique of spherical one now and GB’s Mallory Franklin has simply completed her course. She has shot to the highest of the rankings with a time of 71.85. GB even have Kim Woods within the sport and I’ll let you understand how she will get on as soon as she has had her run.

Within the males’s soccer Morocco have knocked the USA out of the occasion after beating them 4-0.

The second quarter-final has simply began between Japan and Spain. I’ll preserve you up to date as that one rolls out.

Republic of Korea win blended staff archery gold 🥇🥇🥇

The Republic of Korea have overwhelmed Germany 6-0 within the blended staff archery last to assert the gold medal.

The USA beat India 6-2 earlier at the moment to win bronze.

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Thanks Martin, first up I’ve some gold medal information to deliver you.

Listed here are Nice Britain’s gold medal-winning equestrian leaping staff.

Scott Brash (left), Ben Maher (proper) and Harry Charles have a good time profitable gold. {Photograph}: David Davies/PA

Staff GB with their medals. {Photograph}: Caroline Brehman/EPA

The individuals get medals, hopefully the horses get some golden sugar lumps or one thing?

Higher information for the archery part of Staff USA, reasonably than the soccer part. The blended staff pair of Casey Kaufhold and Brady Ellison have claimed the bronze medal. They appeared fairly thrilled with all of it.

Casey Kaufhold celebrates. {Photograph}: Brynn Anderson/AP

Ladies’s tennis singles: a snug 6-2 6-1 victory for Poland’s Iga Świątek over Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova for the bronze medal ultimately.

Poland’s Iga Świątek (L) and Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova. {Photograph}: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters

Males’s soccer: Ilias Akhomach and Achraf Hakimi have added a second and third for Morocco of their quarter-final towards the USA. There are quarter-hour to go nevertheless it seems just like the US are going dwelling.

Zoe Williams has put collectively these lighthearted 5 key questions for the remainder of the Olympics. Fortuitously for my blushes she has not put in “Why can Martin Belam steadily not spell Guatemala appropriately?”.

Bryony Web page has stated her gold medal hasn’t sunk in, and that she feels “so liked and supported”. She described her trampolining self-discipline as “flying by means of the sky”, earlier than self-deprecatingly saying “I simply bounce up and down on a trampoline and attempt to make it look good.”

She informed viewers of the BBC that she had initially been confused about when she was leaping, as she walked in second however was truly going seventh, however that labored in her favour, as “I had longer to arrange, get my coronary heart charge on the proper stage.”

She stated:

Once I stood on the trampoline, the scores have been coming in from the opposite athletes. I wasn’t capable of watch the routines as a result of I wished to be in my very own zone, however listening to the scores, I sort of knew {that a} medal was up for grabs if I simply did sort of a standard routine. However I wished to step up and do the highest finish of my routine, and I nearly obtained there, so I’m actually proud of that.

Barney Ronay has been in Paris for the Guardian:

One week in, the Video games have to date been grand, exhilarating, and unusually gentle and sustainable of their staging. However the huge moments have primarily been Francophone, from delight on the males’s rugby sevens victory – France’s gamers are nonetheless engaged in an unceasing celebration: a number of them have been seen most just lately dancing in sun shades in Ibiza – to a gap ceremony that was principally a slick and persuasive TV advert for Paris, to the fantastic spectacle of the triathlon that felt at instances like a mash-up of ominous air pollution bulletins and a super-shiny chocolate field Netflix collection, E.coli in Paris.

Learn extra right here: Stylish and exquisite Olympic celebration in Paris nonetheless trying to find moments of true unity

Ewan Murray at Vaires-sur-Marne earlier described victory for Emily Craig and Imogen Grant as “the final word redemption story” as they received the final ever staging of the ladies’s light-weight double sculls in Paris after a mere 0.01 seconds denied the pair a medal in Tokyo three years in the past.

Talking on Eurosport, Grant stated “I’m undecided if he would have each been right here to be trustworthy (with out the expertise of Tokyo). The consequence at the moment is a fruits of the Tokyo consequence, however [also] the entire hours and hours of coaching we’ve put into this.”

A clearly emotional Craig added:

I believe each of us are standing right here with all the pieces we’ve ever wished in our whole lives. And we don’t actually know what to do with it.

Gold melladists Emily Craig and Imogen Grant of Nice Britain, silver medallists Gianina Elena van Groningen and Ionela Livia Cozmiuc of Romania and bronze medallists Dimitra Kontou and Zoi Fitsiou of Greece in the course of the ceremony. {Photograph}: Europa Press Sports activities/Europa Press/Getty Photos

Archery blended staff: we’re going to get the medal matches shortly from Les Invalides. India and the USA will play for bronze, adopted by South Korea and Germany dealing with off for gold.

Dhiraj Bommadevara and Ankita Bhakat of India. {Photograph}: Alex Pantling/Getty Photos

Florian Unruh of Germany. {Photograph}: Alex Pantling/Getty Photos

Ladies’s tennis singles: Iga Świątek has received the primary set within the bornze medal match 6-2.

Iga Świątek of Poland. {Photograph}: Caroline Blumberg/EPA

Daniel Boffey

Daniel Boffey has been within the Aquatics Centre in Paris for the Guardian. Right here is his report on this morning’s diving:

Britain’s Olympic diving staff have been celebrating their greatest ever Video games as Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding picked up a bronze medal in a good males’s 3m springboard synchronised dive that went to the wire.

With the person occasions but to come back, Britain has now earned 4 medals within the aquatics centre with Laugher acknowledging the strain on him after the early success, together with a bronze for his girlfriend Lois Toulson, within the synchronised 10-metre platform.

“I might by no means have heard the top of it if I didn’t get one and she or he did,” stated Laugher, 29, from Ripon. “That is Staff GB’s greatest ever diving haul. We’ve accomplished fantastically. 4 medals from 4 synchro occasions is unreal.”

China’s Lengthy Daoyi and Zongyuan Wang received gold, persevering with Chinese language dominance within the diving pool, and Juan Manuel Celaya and Osmar Olvera representing Mexico took silver however the medal positions have been unsure proper up till the final dive.

Learn extra from Daniel Boffey right here: Laugher and Harding declare bronze to make sure GB’s greatest Olympic diving haul

Lin Yu-Ting, one of many boxers on the centre of controversy round gender {qualifications} in boxing, has reached the quarter-finals after a unanimous judges’ resolution towards Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan.

Lin, 28, is one in all two boxers, who have been disqualified by the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (IBA) from final 12 months’s World Championships for failing gender eligibility checks however got the inexperienced gentle to compete within the Paris Olympics.

Lin Yu-Ting is said victor after the judges’ resolution. {Photograph}: Peter Byrne/PA

Earlier Lin was supported by Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s first feminine president from 2016-2024, who posted to social media to say “Let’s cheer for Lin Yu-ting collectively.”

Lin Yu-ting, who competes underneath the Chinese language Taipei banner on the Olympics is the primary seed within the 57kg division, and exited the identical competitors on the spherical of 16 stage in Tokyo.

Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting prepares to struggle Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova. {Photograph}: John Locher/AP

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Males’s soccer: now we have reached the quarter-final stage, and within the first match Morocco are holding a 1-0 lead over the USA. 28-year-old Soufiane Rahimi who performs for UAE Professional League membership Al Ain with a penalty within the twenty ninth minute.

Morocco’s Soufiane Rahimi celebrates after scoring a penalty kick. {Photograph}: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Photos

Kieran Pender

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My colleague Kieran Pender clarifies right here what that basketball consequence earlier means for Australia’s males:

Males’s basketball: Australia are sweating on different outcomes after shedding 77-71 to Greece in Lille. The Boomers had opened their group strongly with a win over Spain, earlier than slumping to Canada on Tuesday. A win over Greece would have assured development to the following spherical.

Jock Landale led the scoring for Australia with 17 factors, whereas NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo contributed 20 factors for Greece. The Boomers can nonetheless progress to the quarter-finals if Canada beat Spain within the different group A tie to be performed later this afternoon.

Right here is a kind of profitable fence jumps from Jefferson, who brings dwelling the gold for Staff GB.

Scott Brash of Nice Britain on horse Jefferson. {Photograph}: Johanna Säll/BILDBYRÅN/REX/Shutterstock

Scott Brash knew he might afford a time penalty, and duly picked one up. Ben Maher additionally picked up a time penalty on the opening spherical, using Dallas Vegas Batilly. Harry Charles on Romeo 88 was the opposite rider within the trio, and all three went clear of their rounds. Good stuff from Staff GB’s equestrian organisation right here.

Staff GB win gold within the equestrian staff leaping 🥇🥇🥇🐴🐴🐴

Equestrian staff leaping: it’s a gold for Nice Britain. Scott Brash on Jefferson knew a transparent spherical would safe the highest spot, and he and the horse did it. There have been a few fences the place it regarded a good squeak, however they did it.

The USA end second on 4 penalties, to Britain’s two. France simply pipped the Netherlands for bronze on time, with the 2 groups tied on seven penalties.

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Time isn’t an issue for Scott Brash on Jefferson. They only must go clear.

Equestrian staff leaping: there are groans within the crowd as Julien Epaillard on Dubai Du Cedre places down a fence, however he makes an honest restoration. The USA have 4 penalties, France and the Netherlands are tied on seven penalties, France having gone barely faster by 0.57 seconds. They’re within the medals in the intervening time. Nice Britain are going for gold now. It’s all all the way down to Scott Brash on Jefferson.

Equestrian staff leaping: McLain Ward goes on Ilex for the USA and he goes clear. It’s a great spherical underneath strain. The US at the moment are within the lead, on 229.90 seconds and 4 penalties. The hosts go subsequent, after which Nice Britain. This isn’t going to be for the faint-hearted.

McLain Ward of USA on horse Ilex. {Photograph}: Johanna Säll/BILDBYRÅN/REX/Shutterstock

Equestrian staff leaping: a tough spherical for Cian O’Connor on Maurice there, he picks up 9 penalties and that locations them fourth and outdoors the medal possibilities. Such a disgrace, particularly after Daniel Coyle on Legacy had gone clear within the second spherical, placing the Irish inside touching distance of the rostrum.

We frequently hear athletes say how irritating it has been to narrowly miss out on a greater consequence or look disenchanted with a podium end that isn’t gold, however not Staff GB diver Anthony Harding, who has informed viewers of the BBC that “It wasn’t to be to beat China or Mexico however I’m so blissful to get the bronze. I can die blissful now. I all the time believed I might make it to the Olympics … to stroll away with a medal, with Jack [Laugher], is superb.”

Equestrian staff leaping: a clear spherical from Philipp Weishaupt on Zineday finishes Germany’s contribution to the competition. They’re within the lead for now with eight penalties in complete. There are 5 groups left to complete.

Zineday mid-flight for Germany. {Photograph}: Martin Dokoupil/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Alexandra Topping

Lisa Nandy, the UK tradition secretary, has described the Olympic boxing bout between Imane Khelif of Algeria and the Italian Angela Carini as “an extremely uncomfortable watch” , as a row in regards to the inclusion of two boxers who failed gender eligibility checks on the 2023 world championships continued.

Carini deserted her bout towards Khelif after 46 seconds on Thursday saying she “most well-liked to cease for my well being” and including “I’ve by no means felt a punch like this”.

Nandy acknowledged concern about “getting the steadiness proper” in boxing and different sports activities in relation to feminine opponents. However she stated the “organic details are much more difficult than is being introduced on social media and in a number of the hypothesis”.

Khelif and Lin Yu‑ting of Chinese language Taipei (Taiwan) have been disqualified from the 2023 girls’s world championships with the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation president, Umar Kremlev, saying DNA checks had “proved that they had XY chromosomes and have been thus excluded”. Lin is because of face Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova in a featherweight bout shortly.

Learn extra from Alexandra Topping right here: ‘An uncomfortable watch’: UK minister speaks on Olympic boxing gender row

Males’s basketball: Australia narrowed the hole with Greece ultimately, however slip to a 77-71 defeat. Meaning Greece leapfrog Australia into second place within the group. Canada towards Spain is the ultimate group match, at 17.30 native time at the moment.

Equestrian staff leaping: after two horses every – is that the technical time period? It’s now – Staff GB are main the competitors, on a mixed time of 157.93 with one penalty. Hosts France are placing up a robust present in second. The US are in third place. Scott Brash on Jefferson is the remaining rider for the British.

Julien Epaillard rides Dubai Du Cedre for France, and McLain Ward goes on Ilex for the USA. Eire are poised in fourth to make the most of any slip ups. Cian O’Connor on Maurice will anchor their staff.

Shane Sweetnam and horse James Kann Cruz compete for Eire earlier. {Photograph}: Alex Broadway/Getty Photos

Carlos Alcaraz is safely by means of to the boys’s singles last. Subsequent up on that court docket in Roland Garros is Poland’s Iga Świątek and Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova for the bronze medal within the girls’s singles.

Carlos Alcaraz works on his levitation expertise at Roland Garros. {Photograph}: Daniel Kopatsch/Getty Photos

Ladies’s windsurfing: in case you have been getting pissed off that we weren’t bringing you any motion from the ladies’s windsurfing, that’s as a result of there isn’t any. On the Marseille Marina they’ve reached the quarter-final stage, however the climate circumstances are inflicting a delay. Organisers say 15.15 native time – in about twenty minutes – is the earliest attainable resumption time.

Males’s tennis singles: Carlos Alcaraz has simply gone 4-1 up within the second set after taking the primary 6-1, so I’d wager he might be within the last.

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