Dwell updates of all of the motion from the Paris Olympics on day six.
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Right here’s all it’s essential learn about at present’s motion on the Paris Olympics throughout Thursday, August 1 and heading into Friday morning.
New Zealand’s medal possibilities on day six
New Zealand has a very good probability for a doable 5 medals between the hours of 9.18pm and roughly 1am.
All of it kicks off with 4 rowing finals that includes black singlets. At 9.18pm, Lucy Spoors and Brooke Francis race within the ladies’s double sculls last. They set the quickest time within the semifinals and can begin in lane three. Each are former World Champions and Olympic medalists. Spoors was within the Girls’s Eight in Tokyo, whereas Francis gained silver this eventthree years in the past. Each athletes took trip after Tokyo to start out households and returned to worldwide competitors final 12 months with a fifth eventually 12 months’s world championships. Their greatest menace seems to be to be defending champions from Romania and the pair from Nice Britain.
They are going to be adopted by the lads’s double sculls last at 9.30pm which options Robbie Manson and Jordan Parry in lane six. That they had the fourth-best time within the semifinals.
The lads’s 4 of Logan Ullrich, Matt Macdonald, Tom Murray and Oliver Maclean race at 10.10pm from lane 4. Quickest within the heats they might be New Zealand’s greatest probability for a gold on day six. The crew options two gold medallists from the 2020 Eights crew in Macdonald and Murray. USA and Nice Britain anticipated to be their greatest threats.
And ending off the rowing medal hopes at 10.30pm, Jackie Gowler, Davina Waddy, Phoebe Spoors and Kerri Williams line up within the ladies’s 4 last in lane two. They gained a World Cup occasion earlier this 12 months, nevertheless the World champion Dutch crew weren’t in that last. They’re in lane 4 tonight. New Zealand had been second within the warmth behind Nice Britain.
The lads’s 49er crew Isaac McHardie and Will McKenzie have bounced across the high three spots, sitting first once more earlier than dropping to 3rd on this morning’s final race. They’re three factors behind the Irish duo in second and eight adrift of Spanish leaders Diego Botin and Florian Trittel. A gold is definitely on the playing cards if they’ll end excessive up the leaderboard. The 49er FX crew of Jo Aleh and Molly Meech have bounced again nicely to succeed in the medal race in seventh place however are out of medal rivalry sitting 27 factors off the rostrum.
Additionally in motion:
Golf: Kiwi males tee off at Le Golf Nationwide
Ryan Fox begins his spherical at 722pm alongside Emiliano Grillo (Argentina) and Alex Noren (Sweden). Fellow Kiwi Daniel Hillier makes his Olympic debut an hour later in a grouping with Adrien Dumont de Chassart (Belgium) and Guido Migliozzi (Italy). 10 minutes earlier than Hillier is the star threesome of Scottie Scheffler (USA), Rory McIlroy (Eire) and Ludvig Åberg (Sweden).
Judo: Moira Koster in motion
She faces German-born Guinea athlete Marie Branser in a first-round match-up. Branser has beforehand represented Germany and The Democratic Republic of Congo. She is the present African champion however misplaced within the first spherical on the Tokyo Video games.
Kosta is coming off a severe damage in April suffered within the bronze medal last on the Pan American Video games.
Hockey: Should win for Black Sticks
The New Zealand males’s hockey crew face Australia in a must-win pool match after shedding their first three video games, all tight affairs. To have any probability to complete within the high 4 they should beat the Aussies and Eire within the final two matches.
Swimming: Kiwis return to the pool
Lewis Clareburt options within the 200m IM medley heats, Taiko Torepe-Ormsby is within the splash and sprint 50m freestyle males’s warmth whereas the ladies’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay tead, led by Erika Fairweather, eye a spot within the finals to be raced tomorrow morning.
Crusing: Windsurfers eye medal knockouts
Josh Armit and Veerle ten Have proceed their last races earlier than the medal knockout section. Each look in contact of qualifying the subsequent section. In the meantime Tom Saunders begins his dinghy occasion with races 1-2.
BMX: Racing begins
Rico Bearman and Leila Walker start their respective BMX competitions beginning with the primary spherical of racing.
Olympics 2024 day six schedule
Thursday August 1
7.22pm: Golf, males’s first spherical (Ryan Fox)
7.30pm: Rowing – single sculls ladies’s semifinals (Emma Twigg)
7.50pm: Rowing – single sculls males’s semifinals (Tom Waterproof coat)
8pm: Judo – ladies’s 78kg spherical of 64 (Moira Koster v Marie Branser GUI)
8.22pm: Golf – males’s first spherical (Daniel Hillier)
8.28pm: Judo – ladies’s 78kg spherical of 32 (Moira Koster) – if certified
8.30pm: Hockey – Black Sticks males v Australia, pool B sport
9pm: Swimming – 200m IM medley males’s warmth (Lewis Clareburt)
9pm: Swimming – 4x200m freestyle relay ladies’s warmth
9pm: Swimming – 50m freestyle males’s warmth (Taiko Torepe-Ormsby)
9.18pm: Rowing – double sculls ladies’s last (Lucy Spoors and Brooke Francis)
9.30pm: Rowing – double sculls males’s last (Robbie Manson and Jordan Parry)
10.10pm: Rowing – 4 males’s last (Logan Ullrich, Matt Macdonald, Tom Murray and Oliver Maclean)
10.30pm: Rowing – 4 ladies’s last (Jackie Gowler, Davina Waddy, Phoebe Spoors and Kerri Williams)
10pm: Crusing – 1-person Dinghy males’s races 1-2 (Tom Saunders)
10.20pm: Judo – ladies’s 78kg spherical of 16 (Moira Koster) – if certified
11.16pm: Judo – ladies’s 78kg quarter-final (Moira Koster) – if certified
Friday August 2
12.43am: Crusing – 49er medal race (Isaac McHardie and William McKenzie)
1.03am: Crusing – foil ladies (Veerle ten Have)
1.35am: Crusing – 1-person Dinghy ladies’s races 1-2 (Greta Pilkington)
1.43am: Crusing – 49er FX medal race (Jo Aleh and Molly Meech)
1.53am: Crusing – foil males (Josh Armit)
2.51am: Judo – ladies’s 78kg semifinal (Moira Koster) – if certified
4.09am: Judo – ladies’s 78kg medal bouts (Moira Koster) – if certified
6am: BMX racing – males’s quarter-final (Rico Bearman)
6.20am: BMX racing – ladies’s quarter-final (Leila Walker)
6.44am: Swimming – 50m freestyle males’s semifinals (Taiko Torepe-Ormsby)
7.34am: Swimming – 200m IM medley males’s semifinal (Lewis Clareburt) – if certified
7.48am: Swimming – 4x200m freestyle relay ladies’s last
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