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The primary medal of the day has gone to the Netherlands!

Van Rouwendaal claims gold within the girls’s 10km open water swim, with Australian Johnson taking second and Italian Taddeucci in third.

Australian Moesha Johnson remains to be within the lead, with Sharon van Rouwendaal from the Netherlands in second.

Britain’s Leah Crisp was in 18th as they got here spherical for the ultimate lap.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen handed the 400m mark, the Norwegian center distance phenomenon checked the clock: 54.9 seconds. Uh oh, the defending champion was on tempo for the world document, Hicham El Guerrouj’s 26-year mark and a journey into the unknown.

With no pacer or wave lights final evening to function a rabbit, Ingebrigtsen had accepted a gruelling race from the gun, one which bitter rival Josh Kerr had promised could be “vicious”. It’s an Olympic 1500m ultimate in spite of everything, a a lot purer type of racing, the place loads of emotional power is burnt in an occasion determined by minute changes. Pace up, decelerate, half a step inside, half a step outdoors. This occasion is a wonderful mix of physicality and ways.

USA and China are combating for supremacy within the rely of gold, silver and bronze medals gained on the Olympic Video games:

Lap three is finished, and the swimmers are having one other sip of their drinks.

After that lap Leah Crisp has slipped to 39 seconds behind the chief.

For the second Olympics working, Nice Britain’s males’s group pursuit completed a race in a lower than optimum place.

However the place Charlie Tanfield’s crash in Tokyo three years in the past was an emblem of the struggles in what most see as British Biking’s flagship occasion, this was a really totally different situation.

When Ethan Hayter blew up with 300 metres to go on this Olympic ultimate to finish any hopes of overhauling to Australia to take gold, there was a tinge of disappointment.

However the group of Hayter, Tanfield, Ethan Vernon and Dan Bigham had carried out every little thing inside their energy and got here desperately near the world document holders.

Greco-Roman wrestling can appear archaic and impenetrable to the layman – enormous, highly effective males locking onto each other and manoeuvring one another round a mat in some type of huge hug.

However when Cuba’s Mijain Lopez, generally known as ‘Big of Herradura’, is within the area, it rapidly turns into quite simple.

Even at 41, Lopez’s superhuman energy is apparent. He decides how the fight will go and everybody else merely has to fall into line.

In Paris on Tuesday, he made historical past. Nobody, not Carl Lewis or Al Oerter and even Michael Phelps has gained the identical particular person occasion at 5 consecutive Olympics. Till now.

World document holder Lamecha Girma from Ethiopia tripped over a barrier and fell on the ultimate lap.

He suffered a heavy fall, mendacity immobile as medical employees rushed to his assist, earlier than leaving the stadium in a neck brace on a stretcher,

“Following his fall within the 3,000m steeplechase, Lamecha Girma obtained fast care from the on-site medical groups. Our ideas are with him and we’re sending him our absolute best needs for a swift restoration,” Paris 2024 mentioned in a press release.

“Paris 2024 is in shut contact with the Ethiopian NOC to remain up to date on his situation.”

Breaking information: Noah Lyles simply misplaced a 200m race. Lyles is twice a world champion over the gap and had gained his final 26 races. However on a still-warm night on the Stade de France, the American dash king was crushed to the road on this Olympic semi-final by African champion Letsile Tebogo.

Maybe it’s extra correct to say Lyles completed second, somewhat than misplaced, given he comfortably certified for Thursday evening’s ultimate. Each males eased up within the final 20m with the end in sight and power to preserve. However they have been flat out across the bend, the place Tebogo burned into the lead, and maybe it was an indication that Lyles is not going to have all of it his personal manner.

The primary occasion of the morning is the ladies’s marathon swim.

It’s happening within the Seine, there are six laps, at the moment they’re over half an hour in and on their second lap.

Nice Britain’s Leah Crisp was in ninth place, however extra importantly she has stayed part of the main group which have pulled away from the remainder of the pack.