Paris 2024 Olympics day 11: athletics, cycling, boxing and more – live
Hello everybody and welcome to live coverage of the 11th official day of competition of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.
Day ten belonged to Armand Duplantis, who lived up to his billing as the athlete of his generation by captivating the Stade de France en route to a new pole vault world record. Other superstars contributed to another magnificent day of sport without celebrating gold. That includes Simone Biles who had to settle for a solitary silver from her final pair of apparatus finals, and Faith Kipyegon, who was run down by compatriot Beatrice Chebet in the final strides of a controversial 5,000m race.
Elsewhere, Viktor Axelsen defended his badminton gold medal, another Fox - Noemie this time - won on the whitewater, and Team GB got to work in the velodrome. And on an action packed day across the Games there was time for a Tahitian local to triumph on the terrifying Teahupo’o break.
So what can we look forward to today?
Medal Events
🥇 Equestrian – individual jumping (from 10:00)
🥇 Sailing – women’s & men’s dinghy (from 14:43)
🥇 Diving – women’s 10m platform (from 15:00)
🥇 Skateboarding – women’s park (from 17:30)
🥇 Wrestling – men’s greco-roman 60kg & 130kg / women’s freestyle 68kg (from 18:15)
🥇 Hammer – women’s (from 19:57)
🥇 Cycling - men’s team sprint (20:10)
🥇 Long Jump - men’s (20:15)
🥇 1500m - men’s (20:50)
🥇 3000m Steeplechase - women’s (21:14)
🥇 200m - women’s (21:40)
🥇 Boxing - women’s 60kg (23:06)
*(All times listed are Paris local)
Simon Burnton’s day-by-day guide
Athletics: men’s 1500m final
Jakob Ingebrigtsen won gold in Tokyo but since then has twice been pipped by Britons at global tournaments, beaten by Jake Wightman at the 2022 world championships and Josh Kerr at the 2023 event. The 1500m has been a thrilling, hotly contested event in recent years and there are several athletes who could halt the Kerr v Ingebrigtsen hype including another Norwegian in Narve Gilje Nordås, who is coached by Ingebrigtsen’s estranged father, Gjert (who has not been accredited for the Olympics because he faces criminal charges in Norway).
Skateboarding: women’s park final
The 14-year-old Australian and world No 2 Arisa Trew is one to keep an eye on here: last year she became the first female to pull off a 720, and in June was the first to land a 900 (two and a half rotations) and a switch McTwist (if you know you know). The park course is too slow to allow those tricks, but she will be trying to push the boundaries. Meanwhile Sky Brown, who won bronze for Britain at 13 in Tokyo, returns.
Greco-Roman wrestling: men’s 130kg gold final
At the other end of the Olympic age spectrum, Cuba’s Mijaín López, 42 in August, is attempting to become the first athlete to win five consecutive gold medals in the same individual event – and in so doing to present a plausible argument for being the greatest ever Olympian. “I will do it,” he said in March. “The fatigue is there, the physical pain is there, so the mind has to be strong, the motivation has to be even stronger.”
I’m sure I’ve failed to include something notable to you in this short rundown, so feel free to let me know what’s on your agenda by emailing: jonathan.howcroft.casual@theguardian.com.
I’ll be around for the first few hours of the blog here in Australia, after which I’m handing over to Yara El-Shaboury.