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Sue Aspinall writes in to ask what I’m sure many are thinking:
Hi Scott enjoying the running commentary, but can you explain how in the HJ they have the same height and tie the gold, whereas LJ have the same distance and it gets separated on a mysterious countback, what is this?
Maybe you or, more likely, another reader can explain why long jumpers often start their run-up with those prancing, loping strides, rather than just accelerating as fast as possible like the sprinters do?
Women’s hockey quarter-finals: over at a hot and humid Oi Hockey Stadium, Argentina secured their place in the semi-finals with a 3-0 win over Germany earlier this morning. Las Leonas are gunning for their first Olympic gold medal, having gone close with silvers both in London and Rio.
The identity of their next opponents remains very much up in the air, with Australia perhaps surprisingly 1-0 down at the half-time break in their quarter-final against India.
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Canoe sprint – men’s kayak single 1000m: Australia’s Thomas Green has qualified for the semi-finals after finishing second to Josef Dostal of the Czech Republic in the first of this morning’s heats. Green’s countryman Jean van der Westhuyzen, however, will have to progress via the quarters after finishing third to Portugal’s Fernando Pimenta in the third heat.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Oh this? Just Olympic champ @TomDaley1994 knitting in the stands while watching the diving. pic.twitter.com/o17i6vsG2j
Men’s hammer throw: athletics is done for now but there were plenty of performances to keep us going until action resumes tonight at the National Stadium.
Before we head elsewhere, Team GB’s Nick Miller threw 76.93m to finish a highly creditable third in Group A qualifying this morning. France’s Quentin Bigot, second in the 2019 World Championships, led the way with a throw of 78.73m ahead of Ukranian Mykhaylo Kokhan (78.36m).
Okay, before we do a sweep around Tokyo how about the effort of Sifan Hassan to get knocked down in her 1,500m heat, get up and win the race? Don’t take it from me, take it from Reuters:
Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan’s dream of an unprecedented treble looked under threat on Monday as she tumbled and fell in her 1,500 metres heat but she recovered brilliantly and pushed hard to win her race and advance to the semi-finals.
Hassan, a 5,000m world bronze medalist and world champion in the 1,500m and 10,000m, confirmed she will bid to win medals in all three races, in what would be an Olympic first. It didn’t go smoothly for her on Monday.
Camacho-Quinn dominates a top-notch field, clearing away from the sixth jump to win in 12.37 and cap an incredible season in sprint hurdling.
USA’s Kendra Harrison (12.52) claims silver – her first Olympic medal – in a photo finish over fast-finishing Jamaican Megan Tapper (12.55). Harrison did well to steady herself after clipping the eighth jump.
Women’s 100m hurdles final: incredibly high-quality race coming up, if that needs to be said for an Olympic final. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn is the woman to beat.
Huge, huge jump by Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece to jump 8.41m and knock Juan Miguel Echevarria out of gold medal contention on countback. Echevarria has a chance to better the Greek’s leap with his final jump but pulls up on his approach to the sand, clutching his leg. Oh the drama! Gold to Tentoglou!
So first position in the high jump was shared and now the first two men in the long jump final cannot be separated by distance, only countback. Tentoglou has been the standout jumper this season but that was cruel on Echevarria, who was all over a gold medalist until the very end. Bronze goes to Cuba’s Maykel Masso with a jump of 8.21m.
Men’s long jump final: Righto, we are at the business end now: the sixth and final round of jumps.
Cuban Juan Miguel Echevarria still holds away in gold medal position with that jump of 8.41m. Sweden’s Thobias Montler just put in what looked to be a superior jump – and it was – but agonisingly it was a foul, barely centimetres over the stripe. Heartbreak for the Swede. But rules are rules.
Perhaps it’s the sexiness of the 100m, perhaps it’s because Australia has been starved of a male sprinter of note for what seems like a lifetime. Perhaps it’s both.
Even though he failed to back up his sizzling heat run in the semis, there is barely a sports fan down under who does not know the name Rohan Browning.
Related: Rohan Browning ends Australia’s long wait for a bona fide 100m star | Kieran Pender
Women’s 200m: the seventh and final heat has gone the way of USA’s Jenna Prandini, who looked to run well within herself in a time of 22.56 – not the quickest of the morning but by no means the slowest. And a big run by Australia’s Riley Day to finish third and qualify for the semi-finals. Splitting the pair was Gambian Gina Bass.
“I’m into the semi-final, It’s unreal. I think I handled myself well,” said Day, AKA the Beaudesert Bullet. Her plan for the semis? “Absolutely floor it.”
Men’s long jump final: the springheeled Cuban Juan Miguel Echevarria is still showing the way with that jump of 8.41m but the big mover is USA’s Juvaughn Harrison, who has leapt into bronze medal contention with a jump (his fifth of the final) of 8.15m.
A bit of Covid news, anyone? Bad luck if the answer is no.
Tokyo Olympics organisers reported on Monday 17 new Games-related Covid-19 cases including one athlete, bringing the total number since 1 July to 276.
Women’s 200m: no such dramas for 100m gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah, who like Jackson left plenty in reserve in the penultimate heat but didn’t make the mistake of failing to qualify for the semis. The Jamaican was content to sit in third in the run to the line, behind Canadian Crystal Emmanuel (22.74) and Team GB’s Beth Dobbin.
Women’s 200m: big news out of the fifth heat with 100m bronze medalist Shericka Jackson fairly well ambling down the straight to be nosed out of third place – and out of the event. She finished 0.004 – that’s four one-thousandths of a second! – behind Dalia Kaddari in what is a big-name casualty from the women’s 200m. The Jamaican looked to ease up on the line. As the kids say, WTF?!?!
The heat was taken out by Bahaman Anthonique Strachan in a sluggish 22.76.
Women’s 200m: a couple more heats have been run and won, with Swiss Mujinga Kambundji claiming a five-runner third heat in 22.26.
But the action was really up a notch or two in the fourth heat. Namibian Christine Mbomba ran a national record 22.11 and was pushed all the way by USA’s Gabrielle Thomas. Daylight was third in what was a two-woman race. Well, that’s not entirely true. Third place went to Nigeria’s Aminatou Seyni, who was a half second and change behind Thomas in a time of 22.72. In sprinting, that is a big gap.
Men’s long jump final: some moving and shaking after the second round of jumps. At least there was. Gold medal favourite Juan Miguel Echevarria had slipped to fourth fourth place but is now back where many think he will stay – on top – after nailing a 8.41m jump early in the third round.
Cuba’s Maykel Masso and Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou are presently in medal positions but there is a way to go in this final. The best USA’s Juvaughn Harrison, fresh from his exertions in the high jump, can do after two jumps is 7.70m.
Women’s 200m: Easy does it for Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the Jamaican who ran second in the 100m final, leading throughout from lane six to clock 22.22. Also guaranteed a spot in the semis is Namibian Beatrice Masilingi and Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers, the Rio silver medalist who toiled into third place. She really does look a power of the past.
She fairly well glides over the track, does Fraser-Pryce. She’ll be there at the business end of this event.
Women’s 200m: the first heat has been taken out by fourth placegetter in the 100m final, Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Côte d’Ivoire in a time of 22.30. She did it rather easily to finish in front of, Shaunae Miller-Uibo (Bahamas) and Nigeria’s Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha. All three are automatically through to tonight’s semi-finals.
Men’s long jump final: the first round of jumps is under way. The red-hot gold medal favourite, Juan Miguel Echevarria of Cuba, has shown up early with a leap of 8.09m. Long way to go. More on that shortly.
Now, however, attention turns to the women’s 200m heats.
Thanks Tom. Stellar work as usual from your good self. Plenty on – mostly at the National Stadium – but my doesn’t the end of the swim meet seem to leave a a big hole in the Olympics. I might well be saying that as an Australian…
Anyhoo, on with the Games.
I’ll hand over to the esteemed Scott Heinrich now. Enjoy the rest of the day’s fun…
In the men’s hammer throw, Group A have finished their throws. France’s Quentin Bigot and Ukraine’s Mykhaylo Kokhan threw past the automatic qualification distance of 77.50m GBs Nick Miller finished third with 76.93m and will almost certainly make the final too. USA’s Alex Young was 11th and will struggle to move on.
Next is the men’s long jump final. USA’s Juvaughn Harrison is worth a note: he competed in the high jump final last night. No Aussie, British, NZ or Canadian athletes in this one.
In the Canoe Sprint Women’s K1 200m, GB’s Deborah Kerr and Emily Lewis missed out on the top two spots in their heats, which would have seen them go straight through to the semifinals. They will get another chance in the quarters though. NZ’s Lisa Carrington won her heat though and is straight into the semis.
The third and final heat of the 1500m stars the reigning Olympic champion, Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon. She duly wins by a mile (not a literal mile, pedant). I believe that is what is called “sending a message”. And the commentator duly says she “sent a message”. It’s the fastest heat, which makes sense as they knew what they needed to run to get to the semis. Other qualifiers from the heat are Uganda’s Winnie Nanyondo, Australia’s Linden Hall, Japan’s Tanaka Nozomi, USA’s Heather MacLean and GB’s Katie Snowden. USA’s Cory McGee is through as a fastest loser but GB’s Revee Walcott-Nolan missed out by 0.01 seconds. Eeesh.
The brilliant Dutch runner Sifan Hassan is next in heat two of the women’s 1500m. She, you may remember, is also competing in the 5000m and 10000m. In fact she’s back for the 5000m final later today. She hangs at the back of the pack for much of the race (she won the 1500m at the 2019 world champs – and the 10,000m while she was at it). Oh, and she falls on the final lap! But she’s back up. She has to sprint to get back in contention, which she does and qualifies as winner. Of course she does. Told you she was brilliant. That may well take it out of her for tonight’s 5000m final though…
The other automatic qualifiers are Australia’s Jessica Hull, Czech star Diana Mezuliáníková, USA’s Elle Purrier St Pierre, Italy’s Gaia Sabbatini and Ethiopia’s Lemlem Hailu. GB’s Revee Walcott-Nolan is seventh and may end up as a fastest loser.
Alix Klineman and April Ross of the USA are through to the quarter-finals of the women’s beach volleyball with a 2-0 victory over Cuba’s Leila Martínez and Lidiannis Echevarria.
A fairly slow few laps before a burst on the final one for a winning time of 4min 03sec. Laura Muir qualifies comfortably in a heat won by Canada’s Gabriela Debues-Stafford. Finland’s Sara Kuivisto ran a national record to make the next round alongside Winny Chebet of Kenya and Freweyni Hailu of Ethiopia. USA’s Cory McGee is eighth and probably won’t make it as a fastest loser. Australia’s Georgia Griffith was 14th and her campaign is over.
On to the women’s 1500m now. And Britain’s Laura Muir goes in heat one. She has easily the best personal best out of any of the other athletes in the heat. She finished seventh in Rio and fifth at the world championships. The first six in the heat go through. USA’s Cory McGee and Australia’s Georgia Griffith will also hope to qualify. It’s 30C/86F in Tokyo and only just past 9.30am. Yikes!
You can read more on Laura Muir here:
Related: Laura Muir’s journey: from chasing lambs to racing for Tokyo 1500m gold
GB’s Nick Miller is just short of the mark for automatic qualification for the hammer final with a throw of 76.93m. But that should be good enough to make the final anyway. He’s now in third place after a foul on his first attempt.
The US pair of Ross and Klineman won every game in the group stages of the women’s beach volleyball and they’re going along pretty well in the last 16. They’re up 1-0 in sets at the moment to Cuba’s Martínez and Echevarria.
There was a surprise winner in the men’s 100m yesterday in Tokyo and our man at the Olympic Stadium, Andy Bull, has some Thoughts:
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the fastest man on the planet, the face of the 2020 Games, your new Olympic champion, wait, wait, I’ve got it here somewhere, on one of these pieces of paper, yes: Marcell Jacobs. If you don’t know – and plenty didn’t – you do now. Jacobs, a 26-year-old former long jumper, born in Texas, raised in Italy, won a wildly unpredictable and wide-open men’s 100m in 9.80sec. Which is pretty damn quick. And would have won almost every other Olympic final, including, yes, the last one at Rio in 2016, when Usain Bolt finished in 9.81sec.
And there he is, unavoidably. I say almost every Olympic final because there are two exceptions, Bolt’s twice-in-a-lifetime runs in Beijing in 2008 and London 2012. If you were watching on Sunday, you’ll have seen that World Athletics have started blacking out the stadium at the beginning of the sprint finals. It’s one of the new tricks they’re using to make the sport more appealing now that they’re having to do without their biggest star. Maybe they’re hoping that in the pitch blackness, no one will notice the shadow Bolt still casts over the sport.
Related: Marcell Jacobs has inspiring story to share in sprinting’s post-Bolt era
France’s Quentin Bigot has the first action of the day at the Olympic Stadium. He throws 76.10m in the men’s hammer qualification. Also coming up in the next hour: Cuba v USA in the women’s beach volleyball; the heats of the women’s K1 200m canoe sprint; the women’s 1500m heats; and Germany v Argentina in the women’s hockey quarter-finals.
The women’s 1500m heats start in around 30 minutes. The Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan will attempt to make the next round. Just getting to this stage is impressive enough, but Hassan will be on the track again this evening in Tokyo in the 5000m final. Oh, and she’s also running in the 10,000m later this week. She’s not here to make up the numbers either. She won the 1500m and the 10,000 at the 2019 world champs. Oh, and got bronze in the 5000m at the 2017 world champs.
The only live sport going on at the moment is the Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol. And it’s only qualification! Not even the final! Sorry, I don’t make the schedule. These guys would be incredibly annoying to play online in Call of Duty, especially if, like me, you only play it once a year at a friend’s house where you spend your time getting shot 28 times in a minute by some 14-year-olds on the other side of the world (they have really powerful rifles).
There has been some debate on the sports desk about the shared gold in the high jump yesterday in Tokyo. For those of you catching up Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi and Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim passed up the chance for a sudden death jump off for gold and instead decided to share the Olympic title. “I still can’t believe it happened,” Tamberi said. “Sharing with a friend is even more beautiful. … It was just magical.”
Related: Italian friends share delight at two shock golds inside five minutes
Can’t get enough of the shared high jump gold medal. Watched the reaction video on repeat.
And it’s a big day for the United States women’s soccer team, who take on their rivals to the north,
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Here’s Suzanne Wrack, who will be at the match for us, on what to expect:
As tight as that game was and as much as it added to an already spicy rivalry, the Canadians have struggled to get the better of the US. The last time Canada beat USA was 20 years ago, in March 2001. Of the 61 games played between the two teams the US have won 51 times, lost three and seven have ended in draws.
That record does not mean there is any room for complacency, said Andonovksi. “They’re a very good team. They have very good individuals,” he warned.
Related: USA confident going into women’s soccer semi-final against rivals Canada
After a remarkably successful week in the pool, Team Australia turn their eyes toward other disciplines. Today, the Hockeyroos play a quarter-final against India, Australia’s sailors target more medals, while there is hope of equestrian success and the Matildas seek to continue their charge towards a medal against Sweden. Here’s a full rundown of what to expect from the Aussie athletes:
Related: Australia at the Olympics on Monday: day 10 schedule of who and when to watch in Tokyo today
Hello. And so we bade farewell to swimming yesterday but we still have the athletics/track & field, cycling and, of course, the modern pentathlon. Actually let’s check if we have the modern pentathlon coming … Yep! On the fifth. So that’s nice
Anyway, here’s my colleague Martin Belam with what’s coming up today.
