Thefor Day 7, Friday 2 August (all times in AEST):
Wednesday 31 July (All times in AEST)
Australians Min Woo Lee (59th) and Jason Day (21st) will be looking to improve on a challenging opening round yesterday and make their way up the ladder. Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama currently leads by two shots.
Australia are currently top of the eight-team competition table, having won three of their first four games. Tonight, they face Azerbaijan at 5:30pm and Spain at 8:30pm. Should they finish the group stage in the top two, they progress straight to the semi-finals.
One of the great Olympic spectacles – the track and field stadium program – kicks off tonight, and there are plenty of Australians in action. Ashley Moloney and Daniel Golubovic will compete in the Men’s Decathlon, Nicole Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson start their Women’s High Jump qualification campaign, and Oliver Hoare, Adam Spencer, and Stewart McSweyn have the first round of the Men’s 1500m.
Another night of blockbuster swimming action. Kaylee McKeown and Ella Ramsey feature in the 200m Medley heats, Matthew Temple and Ben Armbruster line up in the 100m Butterfly heats, Ariarne Titmus and Lani Pallister will take on the 800m Freestyle (less than 24 hours after winning gold in the 4x200m relay), and Australia’s 4x100m Mixed Medley compete in one of two heats.
Australians Annabelle McIntyre and Jess Morrison are in the six-team medal race after coming first in their semi-final. Here, they’ll be looking to secure a spot on the podium.
Australian duo Matthew Ebden and John Peers will have to beat third-seeded U.S. duo Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul for a spot in the gold medal match.
Australia have won three of their four matches in Paris so far, and currently sit in second position of Pool B (the top four of six teams in the two pools qualify for the quarter-finals). India’s men’s hockey team is the most successful team ever in the sport, having won eight gold medals.
The pointy end of the tournament — Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime takes on Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz for a spot in the gold medal match. It will be followed by the Women’s Singles bronze medal match between Iga Świątek of Poland and Slovakian Anna Karolina Schmiedlová.
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It’s a crucial game for the Boomers. A loss here could see them slip out of contention for a quarter-final berth. They’ll have to overcome a Greek side led by NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Australia currently sits in second position in Group A after two games, and look to have done enough to progress to the quarter-finals next week. This match against Canada is crucial for determining where they finish in their group, and the team they’ll face in the next knock-out stage of the tournament.
Tim Anderson and Tristan Carter will compete in the men’s event, followed by the Fox sisters in the women’s event at 12:40am. This is the first qualifier for the event, which couldn’t possibly result in Jess Fox bringing home a third gold medal. Surely not. Unless…
Australian Teremoana Teremoana will face Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov in the top weight division, with the winner guaranteed a three-in-four chance at a medal.
The Athletics program continues at the Stade de France. Ashley Moloney and Daniel Golubovic will continue the program in the Men’s Decathlon, Rose Davies, Lauren Ryan, and Isobel Batt-Doyle will line up in the Women’s 5000m, Taryn Gollshewski features in the field for the Women’s Discus, Abbey Caldwell, Catriona Bisset, and Claudia Hollingworth compete in the Women’s 800m, and we get our first look at a relay with the 4x400m Mixed Relay Heats.
Let’s bounce. Australian Brock Batty will first appear in the qualifications from 2:00am, followed directly by the final. It’s a field of 16, with eight progressing to the final.
Novak Djokovic will face Italian Lorenzo Musetti in the other semi-final, with the gold medal match set for 8pm on Sunday night (AEST).
In one of the most inspiring stories in the Australian Olympic team, Saya Sakakibara goes into the semi-finals of the Women’s BMX Racing event having won all three of her quarter-finals earlier this morning. After following her older brother, Kai, into the sport, Saya nearly quit BMX racing after Kai sustained a traumatic brain injury in a crash in the 2020 World Cup. She was then seriously injured in a crash in the Tokyo Olympics, but has overcome all challenges to be back at the top of her sport in Paris. A serious gold medal contender, with the final being run at 5:50am (AEST).
🏊♀️🥇The fastest race in swimming. Aussie Cam McEvoy will be in Lane 5, but Olympic record holder Caleb Dressel in Lane 2 is one to watch. The world record is a blistering 20.91 seconds, set back in 2009.
🏊♀️🥇We’ll be watching Kaylee McKeown in Lane 5, as she looks to secure the double-double of winning both the 100m and 200m backstroke gold medals in both Tokyo and Paris.
