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Cycling: A real sprint on the final lap by Ethan Hayter to come through to the line, matching France on 40 points, but passing them into the silver spot by virtue of a better position on that last lap. Denmark could take it a bit easier, having already locked up gold with so many sprint points. France in bronze, and the long, long work of the 200 madison laps comes to an end.
Madison gold: The winner gets 10 points, as well.
Madison gold: Denmark 41, France 36, Great Britain 30, inside the last 10 laps.
Madison gold: Denmark pick up three points at the 20 laps to go mark! Out to 39 now. Can’t lose a medal, and they’re four points clear of France. GB third on 27, and also picked up a warning a few laps ago, I didn’t clock what for.
Madison gold: Only France out of the top three picks up points with 30 laps to go. They go to 35. One behind the Danes. Three sprints to go.
Madison gold: The Germans have crashed! Or one of them, anyway. Not sure if they’re getting back into the race. Several teams have dropped out already: Australia, USA, Ireland, Canada. The field has thinned, a bit less chaotic.
Inside 40 laps to go, Denmark have 36 points, France 33, Great Britain 26. The Brits need to win a couple of the remaining sprints and they’re a chance.
Rhythmic gymnastics: Wow. The ribbon can be the most fickle apparatus, and it has done for Arina Averina here. One of the favourites, the Russian scores only 19.550 and that could drop her out of the medals. She looks very unhappy with her routine as she came off, even before the scores came in.
Madison gold: France dominating now as they take the sprint with 60 laps to go. They have 32 points to Denmark’s 28 and Great Britain’s 24.
Basketball: France win bronze in the women’s b-ball over Serbia, 91-76.
Modern pentathlon: Oh, this brilliant stuff is back on. They’re doing the jumpy horse bit. This is the sport where you have to shoot a gun, ride a horse… paint a watercolour, make a scone, and give a dramatic reading of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The flowering of modern manhood (as per the end of the Austro-Hungarian empire).
Madison gold: Great Britain drop to third. Denmark 25, France 24, Great Britain 23. We have 77 laps to go.
Madison gold: France wins the sprint with 90 laps to go, taking five points. Denmark second with three, Great Britain third with two. The latter two teams share the lead on 22 points, France on 19.
Rhythmic gymnastics: Dina Averina lodges 28.150. So she’s 0.850 behind Ashram in second place, leading into the ribbon rotation. This will be the fourth and final part of the event tonight. Arina Averina is third, Alina Harnasko fourth for Belarus.
Cycling: Great Britain have gone to the top of the leaderboard in the men’s madison: 18 points to Denmark and France on 14. We have 103 laps to go.
Rhythmic gymnastics: Linoy Ashram is blazing tonight! She produces another stunning routine, this time on clubs, and using a Beyoncé medley for good measure. Israel’s gymnast had the best score in hoop, equal best in ball, and the best in clubs so far with two gymnasts to come. Scores 28.650.
Dina Averina is yet to perform, but she’s now 29.000 behind, surely too much to make up in one routine. She’ll need to be perfect here and would still need to hope for an Ashram mistake on ribbon.
They blew Spain out of the water early, and never let them back in. They win 5-14, and that’s three gold medals in a row for the US in this event.
Rhythmic gymnastics: Viktoriia Onopriienko is my MVP of this event. She’s not being scored very high and I don’t know why, because I’m not a gymnastics judge. But – she’s had a great sense of humour in her work. Does her clubs routine to AC/DC Back in Black, wearing an all-black sparkly outfit and having fun with it. Scores 26.100 and gets up to fourth spot for the time being. More usefully, she’s ahead of two others who have done three apparatus so far.
Cycling: The cute thing about the madison is how the riders sometimes stop to hold hands for a little while. I love you too, bro.
Cycling: France has 10 points on the leaderboard so far. Great Britain has five.
Cycling: How does the madison work? Look, I’m not really sure. It gets raced over 50,000 metres – yes. That’s 200 laps of the velodrome. Two riders per team, ten teams, a sprint every ten laps, points for those sprints, and points for other things. Basically it looks like a hot mess on the track, with riders all over the place, and we’ve already had one fall but the rider was quickly back on the bike.
Basketball: Into the third quarter in the women’s bronze match, and France leading Serbia 51-60.
Water polo: The USA pulling away as time ticks down in the third quarter, the score is 4-10 over Spain.
Cycling: The men’s madison gold is coming up, having missed the last couple of Olympic Games programmes.
Handball: 2-2 in the grudge match, the old rivalry, the bronze medal bout between Egypt and Spain. Big night in the team sports for Spain: this match, the water polo, and the men’s football final later.
Rhythmic gymnastics: Arina Averina has asked for a judges’ inquiry into her score, and I think has succeeded in having the degree of difficulty altered. Her score for the clubs rotation is raised to 27.800. A very good score. For comparison, Anastasila Salos for Belarus is next and scores 24.950.
Water polo: Get in there, you Spaniards. It’s 4-7 now, the water polo juices are flowing.
Water polo: Ooh, make that three for Spain! And a huge fist pump into the bargain.
Water polo: Spain finally score a second goal. Sadly for them the USA have six.
Rhythmic gymnastics: We’re onto clubs, where the first gymnast Arina Averina turns out to Bella Ciao – the Italian partisan’s song that was used to such great effect in the Spanish TV show La Casa de Papel.
She’s very unhappy at the end of her routine though, obviously doesn’t feel that she nailed it. Scores nearly a point lower than she did with that routine in qualifying.
Rhythmic gymnastics: Dina Averina is the last competitor with the ball, and she scores a 28.300 after a routine with a supremely elegant beginning, set to Tchaikovsky. She goes up into second spot, ahead of her sister Arina by three quarters of a point, but trailing Linoy Ashram by 1.350. Innnteresting.
Water polo: The women’s gold match is into the second quarter, and the good ol’ US of A are making the early running. They’re up 4-1 over Spain. Plenty of dodgy stuff going on under the water, in classic polo style.
Rhythmic gymnastics: A great routine from Linoy Ashram. She uses Big in Japan by Alphaville, a song that starts slow and melancholy, then builds up the pace, and she matched that crescendo in her routine. Scores 28.300 and goes back to the top of the board, passing Arina Averina.
Rhythmic gymnastics: Also a much better tracklist than most sports. The last two routines from the two Ukrainian competitors have used Smooth Criminal, then Toxic by Britney. Never a bad time for it.
Rhythmic gymnastics: This is one of the quintessential Olympic sports where you start off asking why people would do this, then quickly end up staring at the screen asking how in the hell people do this. Most of us couldn’t even throw a hoop 20 metres in the air and then catch it. Ok, now catch it unsighted, with your foot, while doing a cartwheel.
It is genuinely phenomenal what these athletes do.
Diving: Cau Yuan the last competitor, and he just holds off his China teammate with the final dive of the day. A lower degree of difficulty means he can’t score as high, but he pulls off a near perfect dive nonetheless, back 2 and a half somersaults with 2 and a half twists, and it scores 102.6.
Enough for gold with 582.35 across his six dives, Yang so close behind with 580.40, demanding a hundred-plus dive from Cau. Daley in third tallies 548.25.
Diving: Yang Jian lands a monster score with the second-last dive of the day: 112.75 his mark! Forward 4 and a half somersaults with pike. Degree of difficulty 4.1, and almost no splash at all.
Diving: Tom Daley for Great Britain goes top with his final dive. A beauty. Still a few divers to come, he won’t finish with gold but he’s in contention for the dais.
His dives today:
Diving: We’re at the business end of the men’s 10 metre final. Some have completed their six jumps, some have one more to come. Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau nails his highest score of 88.80 on his final dive. Isn’t in medal contention, but that’s a good comeback after he didn’t land his first couple of dives.
Rhythmic gymnastics: We’ve had the first apparatus, which is the hoop, and now we’re onto the ball. Linoy Ashram of Israel led out of the hoop stage, with the Russian Averina sisters – Dina and Arina – second and third.
In the next five hours that are my domain, here’s where I’ll be looking. Times in Tokyo.
Hello all! Thanks Scott for the last five hours of power. And welcome, Olympic obsessives, to what in Tokyo time is the last night on the track, the last night in the velodrome (a bit more tomorrow morning), and the last day for a lot of sports. It will be gold, gold, gold across the next few hours, as so many competitions reach their ends. My name’s Geoff, drop me an email if you like, and if my hands are not on fire then I may even have time to include it.
And that’s all from me today. I’ll now place you in the very capable hands of Geoff Lemon. Thanks again for your company. Enjoy the rest of the day’s action.
Diving: a good fourth dive by Team GB’s Tom Daley but not a great one – his armstand back 3 somersault in pike earns “just” 80.5 points and it provides an opening wide enough for China’s Cao Yuan and Yang Jian to overtake the Brit, who is now in bronze medal position. But with two dives remaining there are just 16 points separating the three divers. Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau had his best dive in that round to improve into ninth position.
Diving: big, big third dive by Team GB’s Tom Daley in the men’s 10m platform final. Already in gold medal position after the opening two dives, Daley scored 91.8 from a difficult forward 3½ somersault, with one twist, in pike position. China’s Cao Yuan and Yang Jian are snapping at Daley’s heels – Daley has less than a point to spare over Yuan, the Rio 3m springboard gold medalist, with seven points back to Jian. Team USA’s Jordan Windle has moved into fourth place but Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau is in last position and has it all to do.
Daley has already won gold in the synchronised 10m platform event in Tokyo and is looking to better the individual bronze he won in London.
Diving: the second round of dives have taken place in the men’s 10m platform final, and Team GB’s Tom Daley is performing with distinction in the early stages. The Brit leads the way with 189.8 points, marginally clear of highly fancied Chinese divers Cao Yuan and Yang Jian. Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau, and Team USA pair Jordan Windle and Brandon Loschiavo, are well off the pace at this stage.
What a start by @TomDaley1994
@BBCSport | #TeamGB pic.twitter.com/jUcuyCoaCT
Okay, let’s take stock and recap what has taken place on day 15 in Tokyo:
Diving: the men’s 10m platform final is under way and Team GB’s Tom Daley has executed a brilliant dive in the opening round, scoring 98.60 with a reverse 3½ somersault. Daley was outdone, however, by China’s Cao Yuan, the Rio 3m springboard gold medalist, who scored a near-perfect 102.00 with the same dive. Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau flopped with a first dive of 57.60 but he will have opportunity to improve on that.
In case you missed it, earlier today Team USA won yet another Olympic gold medal in men’s basketball. But they were really made to work for it by France.
Related: Tokyo 2020 Olympics men’s basketball final: USA 87-82 France – as it happened
The question should probably be asked: what has said volunteer been doing for the past 14 days?
I’m somewhat lost in the grounds of the Olympic Stadium. I approach a local volunteer, he explains it’s his first day and can’t help. ‘Good luck’ he offers cheerfully #Tokyo2020
Boxing: another gold medal has been won at the Kokugikan Arena, with Stoyka Zhelyazkova Krasteva of Belarus beating Turk Buse Naz Cakiroglu by unanimous decision in the women’s fly.
Stoyka Zhelyazkova Krasteva’s victory in the women’s #Boxing flyweight category is also #BUL‘s second Olympic gold at #Tokyo2020! pic.twitter.com/mT7SPoEXV0
Women’s golf: Lydia Ko is now the first female golfer to win multiple Olympic medals, her bronze in Tokyo adding to the silver medal she won in Rio.
Here’s a bit more on Ko, and another Kiwi Olympian who is partial to a medal or two.
Related: New Zealand’s Lydia Ko claims golf bronze, but Carrington misses out on fourth gold
We’ve been blessed with good weather (oppressive heat notwithstanding) for most of these Games, but the heavens have opened in Tokyo today. The rain is forecast to ease soon but there’s a high chance of thunderstorms later this evening.
I’m en route now to the Olympic Stadium. We have some big events scheduled for tonight, including the women’s high jump and men’s 1,500m – both featuring Australian medal prospects.
Women’s golf: Back to the course for the “minor medals” playoff and Japan’s Mone Inami needed only one hole to beat New Zealand’s Lydia Ko and win silver in the individual stroke play event. Both women carded a six-under 65 in today’s final round to put themselves in medal positions. They finished one shot behind gold medalist, Team USA’s world No 1 Nelly Korda. Australia’s Hannah Green shot a final-round 68 to finish in a tie for fifth, three shots adrift of Inami and Ko.
The full clubhouse scores can be found here.
Galal Yafai laid the platform for this gold – Team GB’s first in the ring at Tokyo 2020 – with a devastating left that dropped Carlo Paalam to the canvas in the first round. Palaam fought back to claim the third round but the damage was done and the Philippines will have to wait a little longer for an Olympic gold medal.
Brilliant boxing by Yafai to lay down a marker in the first, take the points in the second and do enough to stay out of trouble in the third.
Boxing: Better from Carlo Paalam in the second round of their men’s fly final after being knocked to the canvas by Team GB’s Galal Yafai in the first. He has connected with a couple of heavy lefts to the Brit and it looks like we might have a fight on our hands. Not that Yafai was absent there; he was still busy and landing blows of his own.
But the judges are again with the Brit, with four of the five handing the round to Yafai. He is now one round away from gold. He needs to stay calm, hold his nerve, box clever and not let Palaam in.
Boxing: Team GB’s Galal Yafai and Carlo Paalam of the Philippines are into the first round of their men’s fly gold medal bout.
And Yafai has dropped Palaam with a right jab and then a huge left! A knockdown in the first round! Brilliant start from Yafai. Palaam looks rocked and unsteady on his feet. The bell rings to end round one – and all the judges are with the Brit.
For those just waking up in Britain, in contrast to how yesterday ended, it’s been a relatively quiet day for Team GB so far today in Tokyo. But plenty to look forward to:
Women’s marathon: Stephanie Davis came in 39th, Stephanie Twell 68th and Jess Piasecki 71st
Some Covid news now, courtesy of Reuters:
A leading Olympic Games health adviser said on Saturday that Tokyo 2020 had shown the Covid-19 pandemic could be beaten and would provide data to help countries around the world battle the coronavirus.
Women’s golf: The American taps home her final putt at the 18th to finish with a 69 and win by a shot to claim Olympic gold! Ko has to keep her nerve from a couple of feet to make par and force the silver medal place into a playoff with Inami. That’s coming right up!
1. Nelly Korda (USA) -17
2. Mone Inami (JPN) -16
2. Lydia Ko (NZ) -16
4. Aditi Ashok (IND) -15
Gold on the green. ⛳️ @NellyKorda claims the first medal in women’s golf since 1900. #TokyoOlympics pic.twitter.com/COnTtdWQth
Women’s golf: Inami, the 22-year-old Japanese, doesn’t make her put on the 18th and that’ll be a bogey for her, to fall back into a tie for second with Ko. But Hannah Green’s hopes of a medal end with a bogey – she ties for fifth with Kristine Emily Pedersen after the Dane ends with a three-under par 68.
Women’s golf: play is back under way at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Saitama after that brief lightning break. We have joint leaders, with gold still very much up for grabs for three players after 17 holes: Japan’s Mone Inami and Nelly Korda of the USA lead by a shot from New Zealand’s Lydia Ko. India’s Aditi Ashok is a shot back, with Hannah Green of Australia in fifth, a further shot adrift.
France put up one heck of a fight, with a pair of free-throws reducing Team USA’s lead to three points with 10 seconds to play, but the Americans held their nerve to run out 87-82 winners and claim their 16th Olympic gold medal and fourth in a row.
See below for Beau Dure’s minute-by-minute report and all the reaction.
Related: Tokyo 2020 Olympics men’s basketball final: USA v France – live!
Men’s beach volleyball: Norway have won their first beach volleyball gold medal, with Anders Mol and Christian Sorum beating the artist formerly known as Russia in straight sets – 21-17, 21-18. In fact, it’s Norway’s first Olympic beach volleyball medal full stop.
Earlier today, Qatar beat Latvia in straight sets to win the bronze medal.
It’s 3QT in the men’s basketball final.
The final stretch. Bring it home, fellas
END 3Q | 71 63#Tokyo2020 #Basketball pic.twitter.com/qXAwWmdqVv
Related: Tokyo 2020 Olympics men’s basketball final: USA v France – live!
Canoe sprint: that is all she wrote at the Sea Forest Waterway, with Germany taking out the final gold on offer in the final of the men’s K4 500m. Spain finished a very close second to grab silver with a gap to Slovakia in third. It wasn’t much of a final day in the water for Australia, who came in sixth of the eight finalists after missing out on a medal in the women’s K4 500m.
#GER wins gold in the inaugural men’s kayak four 500m final after a nail-biting finish!@PlanetCanoe #CanoeSprint @TeamD pic.twitter.com/PStDOaIHvf
Women’s golf: aaaaaaagggghhhhh! Play has been suspended in the final round of the individual stroke play event because of … lightning risk. Lordy, lordy.
As it stands, Team USA’s Nelly Korda holds a one-shot lead at 17 under through 16. But the big mover today is Japan’s Mone Inami, who is six under for the day to sit alone in second with two holes to play.
Tom Daley has just been interviewed on the BBC, and talked about the usefulness of knitting.
In a gesture towards the Guardian letters page, I think he should knit himself a pair of woollen swimming trunks. And wear them in the 10m finals.
I like your thinking, CC. If I had one wish, I’d ask Daley to knit me a replica gold medal – for best liveblogger in my family.
Men’s basketball: it’s half-time in the gold medal match and we have a game on our hands – Team USA are leading France 44-39.
But don’t take my word for it. Beau Dure has got you covered.
Related: Tokyo 2020 Olympics men’s basketball final: USA v France – live!
Canoe sprint: no fourth gold medal in Tokyo for Lisa Carrington with Hungary taking out the women’s K4 500m from Belarus and Poland. Carrington and her New Zealand teammates came fourth and Australia seventh of the eight finalists.
While Carrington’s incredible story will not be added to here, Hungary’s Danuta Kozák has now won her sixth Olympic gold medal following the two she collected in London and the three from Rio. Quite simply a remarkable paddler.
Women’s golf: Australia’s Hannah Green is ripping up the course on the back nine to return to medal contention in the final round of the individual stroke play event. Green has carded four birdies and an eagle turning in – with two holes to play – to be 14 under, three shots behind leader Nelly Korda of Team USA.
Women’s water polo: Australia have beaten the Netherlands 14-7 at the Tatsumi Water Polo Centre to claim, erm, fifth place.
The Olympics is big on play-offs for positions way lower than third, and I get the reasoning for that, but perhaps the IOC should consider medals beyond bronze. Perhaps fourth could be pewter and 12th could be tin.
Diving: the semi-finals of the men’s 10m platform event have been concluded and it’s China who again hold the whip hand at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.
Coa Yuan, the synchronised 10m platform silver medalist, and Yang Jian were the top two qualifiers and are the men to beat. But the Chinese will not want for competition, with Team GB’s Tom Daley (fourth in qualifying), Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau (sixth) and Team USA’s Jordan Windle (ninth) and Brandon Loschiavo (10th) all hoping to be medal chances.
Canoe sprint: the aforementioned women’s K4 500m final – did I mention Lisa Carrington could win a fourth Tokyo 2020 gold medal today? – is just one of four deciders to be staged on the Sea Forest Waterway today.
Australia will be one of New Zealand’s opponents in the women’s kayak event and the Australians are also paddling for gold in the men’s K4 500m final.
It’s gold for #CHN in the first ever women’s canoe double 500m Olympic final!@PlanetCanoe #CanoeSprint pic.twitter.com/o0v3b5eITl
The men’s basketball final is just minutes away. There have been some ripping gold medal matches over the years – involving Team USA, of course – but which one is your favourite?
Okay, in the name of full disclosure, I’ve included the tweet below purely to sprinkle some MJ magic into this liveblog. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.
The men’s #basketball final is always special. Which Olympics had the best gold medal match ever?
#StrongerTogether pic.twitter.com/UbBxCfDwOr
Related: Tokyo 2020 Olympics men’s basketball final: USA v France – live!
Caneo sprint: Lisa Carrington already has three gold medals this Olympic Games. She is already New Zealand’s most decorated Olympian. But she’s not done yet. New Zealand this morning qualified for the women’s K4 500m final, finishing second to Poland at the Sea Forest Waterway. This afternoon, Carrington – with Teneale Hatton, Alicia Hoskin and Caitlin Regal sharing the same vessel – will be aiming to become the first Kiwi to win four medals at one Olympic Games and the first paddler to win four canoe sprint medals at a single Olympics.
Thanks Bryan. Top of the morning, all. Or whichever juncture of the day you’re at. Big day of basketball, and quite a few other sports, but day 15 of the Games could end up belonging to one person: Lisa Carrington. More on the GOAT in a boat in a jiffy.
For now, why don’t you mosey on over to our separate liveblog of the men’s basketball gold medal match between Team USA and France? And then, of course, come right back here. Thanking you.
Related: Tokyo 2020 Olympics men’s basketball final: USA v France – live!
That’s it for me today. Our Scott Heinrich will take you through the next few hours.
Women’s golf: That took a quick turn. Ko bogeys the par-three 10th, Korda makes another birdie and all of a sudden the American is three shots clear of the pack with eight holes to go.
1 Nelly Korda (-17, thru 10)
T2 Lydia Ko (-14, thru 10)
Women’s golf: Nelly Korda has now made consecutive birdies on the 8th and 9th after double-bogeying the 7th to regain a one-shot lead over the field (-16) as she makes the turn at Kasumigaseki Country Club.
1 Nelly Korda (-16, thru 9)
2 Lydia Ko (-15, thru 9)
Australia: Sailor Mat Belcher will carry the Australian flag at Sunday’s closing ceremony after he added a second gold medal to his career haul earlier this week. Belcher, who won gold in the 470s with Will Ryan on Wednesday, is now Australia’s most successful sailor in Australian Olympic history. Crucially, he is also still in Tokyo, whereas some athletes have already departed as part of the fly-in-fly-out protocols in place due to Covid.
It won’t be the first time he has carried a flag at a Games ceremony – as a teenager he carried an Olympic flag as the Sydney Games in 2000 came to a close. “This has been a wonderful team that has achieved so much. To lead them into the closing ceremony means so much. I will be carrying the flag not just for those who are here but for all those now in quarantine back home or headed elsewhere. This will be for all of us.”
Women’s golf: After a double bogey that dropped her from her perch atop the leaderboard, Nelly Korda has just birdied the par-5 8th hole to join Aditi Ahsok and Lydia Ko back on top at 15-under for the championship. Denmark’s Emily Kristine Pederson (-14) and Japan’s Mone Inami (-12) are within touching distance as the final groups approach the turn. For now, the weather is cooperating.
A tip of the cap to Molly Seidel, the 27-year-old from Boston who captured an Olympic bronze in only her third ever marathon. Speaking to reporters of her pre-race expectations, she said: “I try not to have too many expectations. It is just to go out, stick your nose where it doesn’t belong and try and make some people angry. My goal today was just to go in and for people to think, ‘who the hell is this girl?’”
Mission accomplished.
I’ll have over to Bryan Graham now, and he’ll take you through some actual medals being won (hopefully). Bye!
Women’s water polo: The Canadians have maintained their lead over China, 7-5, in the seventh-eighth place playoff.
Women’s golf: Another birdie for Lydia Ko and she’s -4 for the round after just five holes! The New Zealander was five shots off USA’s Nelly Korda for the lead at the start of the day, and now that gap is just two. And now India’s Aditi Ashok hits a birdie, bringing her level with Ko. We could be in for a good finish here on the final day.
And the events are starting to come in thick-ish and mildly fast as the sun hits the sky in Tokyo. The women’s water polo seventh and eighth place final between China and Canada is underway – the Canadians are 2-0 up. In the women’s canoe sprint C2 500m the semifinals are done and the Chinese, Cuban, Hungarian, Moldovan, Ukrainian, German, Canadian and ROC teams make the final.
Women’s golf: New Zealand’s Lydia Ko is on a charge on the final day! She was five shots off the lead overnight but is three-under for the day through four holes … and is now three shots off the leader, USA’s Nelly Korda. Three women are tied for third: India’s Aditi Ashok, Japan’s Inami Mone and Denmark’s Emily Pedersen.
There were some great photos from the men’s super-heavyweight wrestling final last night in Tokyo. Gable Steveson won in the final seconds and the look of disbelief on his face – and that of his opponent, three-time world champion Geno Petriashvili – are amazing.
Women’s golf: It’s the only event going on so far (things elsewhere start to crank up in around 20 minutes). The overnight leader, USA’s Nelly Korda, is still the leader. She -1 for the round through three holes and has a nice four-shot cushion over India’s Aditi Ashok and New Zealand’s Lydia Ko who share second at the moment on -12.
And now on to Team USA! USA! USA! Plenty of medals up for grabs for them on Day 15. Here are a few highlights:
10.30pm EDT: men’s basketball final
There are a host of medal chances for Australia on the penultimate day of action. Nicola McDermott and Eleanor Patterson leap for high jump gold while Oliver Hoare and Stewart McSweyn are in the 1,500m final and the Boomers seek to win bronze against Slovenia. Here is your full rundown:
Related: Australia at the Olympics on Saturday: day 15 schedule of who and when to watch in Tokyo today
Want some lovely photos featuring athletes’ reflections (literal rather than philosophical)? Then here you go:
Related: Tokyo Olympics 2020: Reflections – in pictures
Women’s marathon: The Olympic marathon is supposed to be the ultimate test but that’s usually just because of the competition. The heat has been half the battle today. Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir streaks ahead to take gold, her teammate Brigid Kosgei, the world record holder, hangs on for silver. And it’s a brilliant bronze for USA’s Molly Seidel in just her third-ever marathon – she screams in delight as she crosses the line. If I don’t win an Olympic medal in my third marathon, I’m not going to be happy. The winning time is 2hr 27min 20 sec.
Women’s marathon: Brigid Kosgei has a personal best (and world record) of 2hr 14min. She won’t get anywhere near that today in this sweltering heat and she may not get the gold either: Peres Jepchirchir has dropped her Kenyan teammate! Kosgei looks uncomfortable now. She should still get silver but a lot can happen in the 1km or so to go.
Women’s marathon: Kenya’s Kosgei and Jepchirchir glance back as the runners go under some blessed shade in the campus of Hokkaido University. They’d have seen USA’s Seidel sliding into the distance. It’s between the two Kenyans for silver and gold now. About 1.6 miles to go.
Women’s marathon: And a big break! Kenya’s Kosgei and Jepchirchir have got ahead of the field. USA’s Seidel is maybe 10 seconds back in bronze, while Israel’s Salpeter has slowed to a walk. If her race isn’t over, her medal chances are. Two miles to go.
Women’s marathon: The temperature continues to climb in Sapporo as the morning wears on. The athletes are seeking the shady side of the road whenever they can. USA’s Molly Seidel is starting to fall of the leading pack now. Her inexperience may be coming into play now …
Women’s marathon: Yep, Chumba is definitely dropping off the leading pack so we now have USA’s Seidel, Kenya’s Kosgei and Jepchirchir, and Israel’s Salpeter in the medal hunt. This is only Seidel’s third-ever marathon and she look pretty comfortable as the athletes grab drinks from the feeding station.
Women’s marathon: Just over four miles to go and the leading pack is down Bahrain’s Chumba, USA’s Seidel, Kenya’s Kosgei and Jepchirchir, and Israel’s Salpeter. But Chumba is starting to drift off. One of these women will be the Olympic champion.
So, the end is nigh – and I’m not just talking about the collapse of the Gulf Stream. Yep, the Olympics are nearing their end – as is the women’s marathon as the athletes pound the streets of Sapporo (we’ve moved north to avoid the Tokyo heat. Although it’s hot in Sapporo too). We’ll have much more on the big race soon, but in the meantime here is my colleague Martin Belam with the Day 15 highlights.
All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Grafton, subtract eight hours for Bristol, 13 hours for Jacksonville and 16 hours for San Francisco.
