Reside updates of all of the motion from the Paris Olympics on day eight.
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Right here’s all you should learn about right this moment’s motion on the Paris Olympics throughout Friday, August 2 and heading into Saturday morning.
New Zealand’s medal probabilities on day eight
It may very well be a late evening and an early morning for Kiwi followers hoping to catch one other potential medal spree in Paris.
Defending Olympic champion Emma Twigg competes within the single sculls closing at 8.18pm. Twigg set the quickest time within the semifinals by greater than two seconds and is a scorching favorite to go back-to-back and declare New Zealand’s fourth rowing medal on the Video games. Shortly after her race, males’s single sculler Tom Waterproof coat will look to emulate fellow Kiwi winners within the boat Rob Waddell and Mahe Drysdale when he traces up within the closing at 8.30pm.
There may very well be extra medals from the Kiwi crusing contingent with each windsurfers Veerle ten Have and Josh Armit lining up within the quarter-finals with potential finals going down at 10.50pm and 11.23pm respectively.
Then set your alarm for 5am for the beginning of the boys’s shot put with two medal probabilities in Jacko Gill and Tom Walsh within the closing. The three People of two-time Olympic champion Ryan Crouser, Joe Kovacs and Payton Otterdahl in addition to Czech Tomas Stanek will probably be pushing for medals.
Erika Fairweather will seem in a fourth closing on the Video games, swimming within the 800m freestyle closing at 7.09am, an occasion she dubbed her least favorite yesterday.
Then at 7.20am, the quickest ladies on the earth will compete within the 100m closing. Kiwi Zoe Hobbs will run within the semifinals at 5.50am to get a spot within the medal race.
Different Kiwis in motion
Golf: Ryan Fox and Daniel Hillier
It’s spherical three at Le Golf Nationwide the place Fox (-2) and Hillier (+6) each want a low spherical to have any probability of being in medal competition with the leaders at -11.
Capturing: Chloe Tipple
Showing in her third Olympics, Tipple takes half within the ladies’s skeet qualification.
Biking – Males’s highway race (Laurence Pithie and Corbin Robust)
An extended day on the bike awaits the Kiwi duo. They face a 273km journey, the longest in Olympic historical past anticipated to take round seven hours. World highway race champion Mathieu van der Poel and Olympic time trial champion Remco Evenepoel are within the subject.
Crusing – Extra Kiwis on the water
Greta Pilkington (thirty sixth of 43) and Tom Saunders (fifth of 43) return to motion within the dingeys whereas Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson start their Nacra marketing campaign.
Canoe slalom – Luuka Jones and Finn Buther
With the qualification out of the best way now it’s time to race one another with Jones and Butcher hitting the water, which they do from a ramp, to race within the thrilling KX (assume snowboard cross on water).
New Zealand schedule Olympics 2024 Day 8
Saturday August 3
7pm: Golf, males’s third spherical (Ryan Fox and Daniel Hillier)
7pm: Capturing, ladies’s skeet qualification (Chloe Tipple)
8.18pm: Rowing – Single sculls ladies’s closing (Emma Twigg)
8.30pm: Rowing – Single sculls males’s closing (Tom Waterproof coat)
9pm: Biking – Males’s highway race (Laurence Pithie and Corbin Robust)
10.05pm: Crusing – 1-person Dinghy ladies’s races 5-6 (Greta Pilkington)
10.13pm: Crusing – Foil ladies’s quarter-finals (Veerle ten Have)
10.20pm: Crusing – 1-person Dinghy males’s races 4-6 (Tom Saunders)
10.33pm: Crusing – Foil males’s quarter-finals (Josh Armit)
10.35pm: Crusing – Foil ladies’s semifinals (Veerle ten Have) – if certified
10.50pm: Crusing – Foil ladies’s closing (Veerle ten Have) – if certified
10.55pm: Crusing – Foil males’s semifinals (Josh Armit) – if certified
11.05pm: Crusing – Nacra races 1-3 (Micah Wilkinson, Erica Dawson)
11.23pm: Crusing – Foil males’s closing (Josh Armit) – if certified
Sunday August 4
1.30am: Canoe slalom – KX ladies’s spherical 1 (Luuka Jones)
2.40am: Canoe slalom – KX males’s time spherical 1 (Finn Butcher)
5am: Athletics – Males’s shot put closing (Jacko Gill and Tom Walsh)
5.15am: Athletics – Males’s 1500m repechage (Sam Tanner)
5.50am: Athletics – Girls’s 100m semifinal – Zoe Hobbs
7.09am: Swimming – 800m freestyle ladies’s closing (Erika Fairweather)
7.20am: Athletics – Girls’s 100m closing – Zoe Hobbs – if certified
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