Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, on the centre of an Olympic gender eligibility row, goes for gold in Paris on Friday as Thierry Henry bids to steer France’s footballers to glory. With simply three days of sport to go on the Video games, there’s a packed athletics programme on the Stade de France. The boxing competitors has been overshadowed by a bitter row over whether or not Khelif and Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting needs to be allowed to compete within the ladies’s class.
Khelif and Lin have been disqualified from final 12 months’s world championships by the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (IBA) after failing unspecified gender eligibility assessments however she and Lin have been cleared to compete in Paris.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee is operating the boxing within the French capital, which is being held at Roland Garros, the house of French tennis.
The 25-year-old Khelif and Lin each fought on the Tokyo Olympics three years in the past however there was no controversy on the time and neither received a medal.
On Friday, Algeria’s Khelif takes on China’s Yang Liu within the 66kg ultimate whereas Lin is in motion on Saturday in a unique weight class.
Cries of “Imane, Imane” rang out repeatedly earlier than and through Khelif’s semi-final bout on Tuesday as the gang voiced their assist for the boxer.
“I’m like all athletes, I’m right here to attain my dream,” she stated.
The penultimate night of observe and discipline motion options the boys’s and girls’s 4x100m relays, the boys’s 400m hurdles, the ladies’s 400m and the ultimate occasion of the heptathlon, the 800m.
US dash star Noah Lyles was tipped for a dash treble in Paris after profitable the 100m earlier this week however he may solely acquire bronze in his favoured 200m on Thursday.
Minutes after the race, received by Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, Lyles revealed he had examined constructive for Covid, saying the illness had “taken its toll”.
The American later posted on social media that his Video games have been possible over, however the US stay favourites to take gold within the dash relay.
In Friday’s ladies’s 10,000m ultimate, Dutch runner Sifan Hassan will try to defend her crown after arising quick in her bid for a historic long-distance treble.
Defending champion and world record-holder Karsten Warholm is favorite to defend his title within the males’s 400m hurdles.
Henry ‘goosebumps’
Henry’s France tackle Spain within the males’s soccer ultimate on the Parc des Princes.
Henry, one in every of France’s all-time nice gamers, has led his nation to the brink of their second soccer gold, 40 years after they received the title in Los Angeles.
They’ve conceded only a single purpose in 5 matches and Henry admits he doesn’t need his Olympic dream to finish.
“I feel it is going to be tough waking up,” he stated. “Each evening I watch and get goosebumps once I see guys win.”
Spain got here from behind to beat Morocco 2-1 of their semi-final in Marseille in entrance of a hostile crowd, which can give them confidence that they’ll deal with the strain within the French capital.
“It is one other ambiance that I’ll like,” stated Fermin Lopez, who has scored 4 targets on the Olympics after serving to Spain win Euro 2024.
“In any state of affairs we will overcome something. Now we need to get the gold.”
In diving, China are focusing on gold within the ladies’s 3m springboard as they shut in on clear sweep in Paris, with victories in all six occasions to date.
Defending champions the Netherlands tackle China within the ladies’s hockey ultimate, chasing their fourth title in 5 Video games after the Dutch males’s crew received gold.
Historical past shall be made when the primary Olympics medals are received within the breaking competitors staged at La Concorde.
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