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Thanking you, Bryan. Beach volleyball, anyone?
The bronze medal has gone to Switzerland, with Joana Heidrich (spelling is close enough to say no relation) and Anouk Vergé-Dépré beating the Latvians, Tina Graudina and Anastasija Kravcenoka, in straight sets to claim their nation’s first women’s beach volleyball medal. The big one, USA v Australia, is now less than half an hour away. Get excited.
I’ll now hand off to Scott Heinrich, who will be taking you through the next few hours. Bye for now!
Women’s hockey: And just like that, Team GB are on the board in the bronze medal match. Ellie Rayer is credited with the goal after her cross is deflected by an Indian defender into the goal. Team GB 1-0 India early in the second quarter.
Women’s hockey: Team GB and India are deadlocked at 0-0 through one quarter of their bronze medal match. The British team have won the possession battle and fired three shots on goal to India’s none, but haven’t yet made the pressure count for them.
Women’s golf: It’s moving day at Kasumigaseki Country Club but Nelly Korda is threatening to turn the proceedings into a race for silver. She’e just birdied the par-5 fourth hole to go 15-under for the tournament and five shots clear of the field. She went birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie-birdie on this stretch of the course yesterday. Japan’s Mone Inami and India’s Aditi Ashok are tied for second at 10-under.
Men’s 50km walk: Turns out Poland’s Dawid Tomala has won the gold medal today in only the second 50km racewalk he’s ever completed.
“It was an amazing day for me,” he said. “I can’t believe it. I work for it my whole life since I was 15 when I thought for the first time during training I would like to be a (Olympic) gold medallist. At first I thought (I wanted to win Olympic gold in the) 20km, but this year changed everything. I competed over 50km in Dudince (where he finished fifth). This was only the second 50km in my life (he did not finish in a 50m race walk in Dudince in 2017) and I win it (the Olympic title). It is crazy, right?”
Beach volleyball: The Swiss team of Joana Heidrich and Anouk Vergé-Dépré have taken the opening set of the women’s bronze medal match, 21-19, over Tina Graudina and Anastasija Kravcenoka of Latvia.
Coming up very shortly, we have the women’s beach volleyball bronze medal match, women’s hockey bronze match and the start of the men’s kata karate. I’ll hand over to Bryan Graham, who will be your guide. Bye!
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And here are some highlights for Team USA on Day 14:
10.30pm EDT: women’s beach volleyball gold medal match
Day 14 of the Games and Team Australia look like they’ll continue to soar. Australia has three women in the javelin final and two in the 1500m, it’s Australia v USA in the beach volleyball final and Harry Garside goes for a chance at boxing gold. Read the full rundown here:
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Canoe Sprint Women’s C2 500m: The heats are on as the sport makes its Olympic debut. The world champion pair of China’s Xu Shixiao and Sun Mengya win with ease – that makes sense what with the world champions bit. Germany’s Lisa Jahn and Sophie Koch are the other qualifiers for the semifinals. Australia’s Bernadette Wallace and Josephine Bulmer finish in seventh.
Women’s golf: There’s a bit of weather on the way in Tokyo but authorities are optimistic the full rounds of the women’s golf tournament will be played, but tomorrow’s fourth round will most likely start earlier to avoid forecasted storms.
Men’s 50k walk: Tomala looks incredibly relaxed as he sits down for a well deserved rest with his gold medal. The 31-year-old looked shattered as he reached the final stages but has understandably perked up now he’s an Olympic champion. He honestly looks like he’s just finished a quick jog round the park.
Men’s 50km walk: And Poland’s Dawid Tomala wins gold! It was an almost flawless race in horrible conditions over a brutal 50km. He raises the Polish flag as he crosses the line. Brilliant stuff. And he manages to stay on his feet as he grins for the cameras. Germany’s Hilman takes silver … and what’s this? Canada continue their brilliant Olympics as Evan Dunfee comes from nowhere to take bronze from Spain’s Marc Tur.
Men’s 50km walk: Hilbert and Tur are one violation away from being disqualified. There is not way they can catch Tomala so hopefully they concentrate on making it through and collecting their deserved medals.
Men’s 50km walk: One kilometre to go for the heroic Tomala. And he already has the Polish flag in his hand. A little presumptive but he deserves it.
Men’s 50km walk: And Tomala is on the last 2km lap! He pours (hopefully chilled) water over himself. Please give this man an ice bath along with his (probable) gold medal. Tur and Hilbert, in second and third, are two minutes behind as they hear the bell for the last lap. They’ve gained a minute on Tomala in the last few km, but it’s almost certainly not enough.
Men’s 50km walk: Spain’s Marc Tur and Germany’s Jonathan Hilbert are now on their own in second and third. They are exchanging words, perhaps discussing how they will catch Tomala, who has a huge lead. He looks a little ragged, so hopefully there are no rule violations and a disqualification. I think that is the only thing that can stop him.
Men’s 50km walk: 4km to go and Poland’s Tomala has a lead of just under 3 minutes. The chasing pack are catching him up but nowhere near quick enough. At this pace he’ll still win by two minutes or so. The chasing pack looks like it has dropped Canada’s Evan Dunfee and Japan’s Masatora Kawano. Germany’s Jonathan Hilbert, Spain’s Marc Tur and Portugal’s João Vieira look like they will battle for silver and bronze.
Men’s 50km walk: Japan’s Masatora Kawano has done brilliantly to haul himself back into the lead chasing pack after taking a break to vomit. The rigours of the last 10km can cause muscle cramps, gastro-intestinal problems, low sodium, low blood sugar, dehydration or core temperature problems. It’s one of the reasons, the Olympics don’t want this distance at Paris 2024.
Men’s 50km walk: The chasing pack is down to five: Germany’s Jonathan Hilbert, Spain’s Marc Tur, Portugal’s João Vieira, Canada’s Evan Dunfee and Japan’s Masatora Kawano. Our leader, Dawid Tomala of Poland, goes through 44km and his lead is now 3min 11 seconds as he pours water on himself and wisely keeps to the shady side of the road. They’re not closing the gap.
Men’s 50km walk: Tomala’s time over 42km – just about a marathon – was 3hr 12min. Except he walked it. In blistering heat. A lot of the rest of the race will be about managing the heat. Tomala’s lead is just over three minutes with time – and distance – running out for the pack. The TV commentary team point out that that’s around a 750m gap.
Men’s 50km walk: The temperature is projected to be 31C/88F at the end of the race. This is the last time the 50km will be at the Olympics, so it’s going to go out in brutal heat.
Men’s 50km walk: Australia’s Rhydian Cowley looks in danger of being dropped by the chasing pack at the 40km mark. And with 10km to go Tomala has increased his lead t0 2min 50sec – and doesn’t look like he’s slowing down. What a performance – he’s out on his own, a magnificent solo effort. But the final 10km is (obviously) the toughest.
Men’s 50km walk: Will Tomala’s lightning pace hurt him in the final stages? He’s approaching the 3hr mark and the temperature continues to climb. Canada’s Evan Dunfee has made a small break to try to catch the Pole, but his lead is up from 2min 04sec at the last timecheck to 2min 28sec with 12km to go.
Meanwhile, Spain’s Jesús Ángel García – at the age of 51 and in his eighth Olympics – is in 27th.
Men’s 50km walk: One lovely thing about this event is today is that there are actual real life spectators on the street as Tokyo starts its day. Poland’s Tomala now has a lead of 2min 04sec over the pack with 14km to go. He did the last 5km in 21 minutes! 21! I’m happy if I can run 5km in 25 minutes. And he’s walking! I guess that’s why he’s at the Olympics and I’m typing about it.
Men’s 50km walk: Poland’s Dawid Tomala maintains his lead of nearly two minutes as he slings his bag from the feeding station over his shoulder and tucks into some well deserved water and snacks. Then he throws the rest of the water over his head, which makes sense seeing as it’s already 28C/82F at 8.15am.
Hello Olympics fans. And specifically race walking fans, I know it’s a big day for you. In preparation for today’s blog, I walked earlier.* More than once, it was great.
(*Amusing aside courtesy of Will Unwin).
