We’re into the final week of Olympic competition
Coming into day 10 of the Paris 2024 Olympics, GB are sitting fifth in the medal table with 38 medals overall, however they will be weary of the ever increasing bronze medal counter which has left gold medals a bit of a rarity in the last couple days.
Today will offer some opportunity to increase that gold medal counter, however it will mostly concern laying the foundations for success as notably the track cycling, one of GB’s traditionally strong sports, gets underway.
The day started early at 7am with the mixed relay triathlon in which GB managed a bronze medal after a crazy final dash to the line between three nations.
At 9am bronze medallists from last week Andrea Spendolini Sirieix and Lois Toulson will be diving again in the women’s 10m platform preliminary round.
Meanwhile, at the same time, one of the games newest and most exciting additions to the Olympics, the sport climbing, which was introduced at Tokyo 2020 and will be sure to captivate audiences again in Paris.
GB will have interest in the men’s boulder and lead and boulder competitions with Hamish McArthur and Toby Roberts.
Starting at 9am also, the athletics will be underway in the Stade de France with Alastair Chalmers in the 400m hurdles, Nicholas Percy and Lawrence Okoye in the men’s discuss throw qualification and Jessie Knight in the women’s 400m hurdles repechage.
At 09:40 one of GB’s biggest athletics medal hopes will be starting her campaign as Molly Caudery looks to qualify in the women’s pole vault competition, joined by compatriot Holly Bradshaw.
At 10:55 Laviai Nielsen will lead a triplet of women racing in their first heat of the 400m, with the GB runner already having a bronze medal to her name from Paris after third place in the mixed 4x400m relay.
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From 11am the sailing gets underway in Marseille with the women’s and men’s kite, the mixed multihull event and the women’s, men’s and mixed dinghy events.
GB’s horse riders will make a return at 13:00 in the individual jumping qualifier with three competitors going for glory.
14:30 will see the return of the exhilarating kayak cross quarter-finals with Mallory Franklin and Kimberley Woods looking to medal for GB, while Joseph Clarke goes for the men at 14:52.
Anticipation will be high in the run up to the start of the track cycling at 16:00 with qualifying underway in the women’s team sprint, men’s team pursuit, and the men’s team sprint.
Meanwhile at 16:30 Team GB’s women’s hockey team will be playing a tough quarter-final game against the Netherlands in the hope of passing through for a chance of playing for a medal.
This evening at 18:55 Zharnel Hughes will race in his first 200m heat and will be looking to make it to the final after missing out in the 100m.
Stop everything before 20:47, as that will be the big one, because that is when Keely Hodgkinson will race in the final of the women’s 800m with the weight of a nation on her shoulders as the outright favourite to improve on her silver from Tokyo and take gold for Great Britain.
