Tokyo 2020 Olympics: USA v Australia in basketball semi, canoe speed, 110m hurdles, skateboarding, basketball and additional – dwell!

Kieran Pender

Basketball: how’s this for a semi-final match-up then? The mighty USA and Australia are about to tip-off in Saitama with a space within the gold medal match at stake. Here’s our man on the ground Kieran Pender along with his match preview:

It was as soon as a tall wrestle over the final 500m, Australia and Germany going disappear for disappear, however Australia’s Thomas Inexperienced and Jean van der Westhuyzen called on their final reserves of strength to drag some distance off from the field champions and invent it one more gold for Australia at the Sea Wooded space Waterway and the nation’s 16th in total at the Tokyo Games. The Czech Republic rattled dwelling for bronze.

It’s a triple contend with! The stuff of chronicle is transpiring sooner than our very eyes as Carrington brushes apart a high-quality self-discipline to bid a third gold medal of at Tokyo 2020, adding the K1 500m title to her wins within the K1 200m and K2 500m. Hungary’s Tamara Csipes was as soon as a fearless second with bronze going to Denmark’s Emma Aastrand Jorgensen.

Carrington now stands above all a spread of Kiwis, claiming her sixth Olympic medal here to overtake the five won by fellow kayakers Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald and equestrian superstar Sir Sign Todd.

Pichardo jumps an Olympic represent of 17.98m to rob gold from China’s Yaming Zhu (17.57m, PB) and Hugues Fabrice Zango (17.47m), whose bronze is Burkina Faso’s first ever medal at an Olympic Games (along with as Higher Volta). Workforce USA’s Will Claye was as soon as exact 3cm lifeless Zango in fourth space while Donald Scott jumped a season-simplest 17.18m however might per chance set apart no better than seventh space.

Pichardo, the field No 3, is a long-established superstar turn at Diamond League occasions and now has an Olympic gold to add to his European Indoor title.

Apt support to Workforce USA’s wonderful flop within the lads’s 4x100m relay heats, and Carl Lewis is never any longer mincing his phrases. Here’s an even broken-down crack from a man who wouldn’t bellow it if it wasn’t correct.

He’s the field’s finest and Crouser throws an Olympic represent 23.30m exact to point to it. The American was as soon as already in gold medal space however Crouser’s final throw trumped his bear OR throw of 22.52 in Rio and was as soon as a mere 7cm lifeless the field represent (which, pointless to bellow, is his).

Joe Kovacs made it a 1-2 for Workforce USA with a throw of 22.65, while Novel Zealand’s Tomas Walsh threw a seasonal-simplest 22.47 to decide bronze.

Nevertheless this was as soon as Crouser’s day. He’s head and (very gargantuan) shoulders above the leisure.

Men’s shot build apart final: things are no doubt heating up at the Nationwide Stadium – both actually and figuratively – with Workforce USA occupying the principle two areas all the intention throughout the fifth round of attempts.

Ryan Crouser has thrown an Olympic represent 22.92m to sit down within the gold medal space and can also even worship knocking off his bear world represent along with his final are trying. Countryman Joe Kovacs (22.65) is in sliver medal space, with Novel Zealand’s Tomas Walsh (22.18) at demonstrate in third space.

Workforce USA’s Grant Holloway, the overwhelming favorite, led from lane four however he had no reply to the withering burst of Hansle Parchment, who stormed past to rob gold in 13.09. The Jamaican not instantly has a gold medal after coming so terminate in necessary meets within the past. The tedious Holloway clung on for silver, exact in attain of Ronald Levy – which implies two spots on the rostrum for Jamaica.

Workforce USA’s Devon Allen came a terminate fourth with Workforce GB’s Andrew Pozzi no longer some distance-off in seventh.

Canoe speed – men’s K1 200m final: wow, that was as soon as terminate – there was as soon as less than a second preserving apart first and final – however gold has long gone to Hungarian Sandor Totka and silver to Italy’s Manfredi Rizza.

Workforce GB’s Liam Heath, the Rio gold medalist on this event, was as soon as a whisker away in third space to snatch bronze.

Men’s 4x100m relay heats: both of at the moment time’s heats bear exact been determined. Here’s what came about:

• Jamaica, who bear this form of proud history on this event as twin defending champions, won the outlet warmth from Workforce GB and Japan
• In the second warmth, Workforce USA had been fancied to qualify and be a medal likelihood however they bombed out to tire into sixth space. The warmth went to China, with Canada operating second off the support of a sizzling Andre de Grasse leg and Italy, with 100m gold medalist Lamont Jacobs operating the second leg, finishing third in national represent time

The tip three in every warmth qualify for the final, plus the two quickest losers.

Kieran Pender

I’m en route to Saitama Mountainous Arena, about an hour from Tokyo, for the Boomers’ blockbuster semi-final clash with Workforce USA.

An Olympic medal has eluded the Australian men’s basketball crew on so over and over – they’ve played for bronze four times within the past four decades and lost in all of them, most recently by one point in 2016.

If the Aussies can beat the People this afternoon, they’re guaranteed a medal and might per chance play for gold this weekend. In the event that they lose, they can bear one more alternative to prevent their drought within the bronze medal travel. As any person that has lined Australian basketball for unheard of of the past decades, I’ll admit I no doubt feel a minute bit anxious correct now.

Men’s park skateboarding: an eventful fourth and final warmth saw a shake-up of the leaderboard, with Brazil – headed by total high qualifier Luiz Francisco – boasting three finalists, Australia two – Kieran Woolley and Keegan Palmer, who sealed his build with a lope of 77.00 within the final warmth and Workforce USA one, with Cory Juneau sneaking into eighth build courtesy of his closing 73.00 lope. Juneau’s compatriots, Zion Wright and world No 1 Heimana Reynolds, both did not qualify.

Finalists (in qualifying characterize):

• Luiz Francisco (BRA)
• Kieran Woolley (AUS)
• Pedro Quintas (BRA)
• Pedro Barros (BRA)
• Keegan Palmer (AUS)
• Steven Piniero (PUR)
• Vincent Matheron (FRA)
• Cory Juneau (USA)

Wasn’t it a big lope by Australia’s Peter Bol in final night’s 800m final? To position the trail and hold on for fourth was as soon as a efficiency of enormous merit. High bloke to boot. Deserves everything correct that comes his manner.

Men’s triple jump final: early days at the Nationwide Stadium however atmosphere the trail at this stage is world No 3 Pedro Pichardo of Puerto Rico with a hop, skip and a jump of 17.61m.

Workforce USA pair, world No 2 Will Claye (17.19m) and Donald Scott (17.15m), bear chanced on their groove early to be sitting in second and third build respectively. Nevertheless there is a lengthy manner to pass on this event.

Men’s park skateboarding: USA’s Zion Wright has joined compatriot, world No 1 Heimana Reynolds, on the scrapheap of this event after Pedro Barros grew to become what’s likely a third Brazilian to qualify for the final with a lope of 73.00 within the final warmth.

Nevertheless in better info for Workforce USA, Cory Juneau has snuck into eighth build with a distinguished lope of 71.08. Australia’s Keegan Palmer must set apart better than his first lope of 64.04 however he has two extra runs to resolve that.

Females’s beach volleyball: Australia are through to the final after a comprehensive straight-sets victory over Latvia within the semis at Shiokaze Park!

Mariafe Artacho del Describe voltaic and Taliqua Clancy bear grown in self assurance because the event has improved and they had been ruthless here, maintaining their nerve in an actual 23-21 opening position sooner than blowing the Latvians away 21-13 within the second to e book their build within the gold-medal contest.

There they’ll face Workforce USA’s April Ross and Alix Klineman, who earlier at the moment time crushed Switzerland in straight sets.

Men’s park skateboarding: the quality exact retains recuperating and better at Ariake Park and the third warmth has viewed a shake-up at the head of the leaderboard.

Brazil’s Luiz Francisco is now high of the tops with a lope of 84.31, marginally sooner than Australia’s Kieran Woolley (82.69) in second. Woolley didn’t build apart a foot or wheel wicked in his very first lope and is now assured of a build within the final.

Spain’s Pedro Quintas is third, with Puerto Rico’s Steven Piniero, France’s Vincent Matheron and Spanish duo Danny Leon and Jaime Mateu terminate in lifeless. USA’s Zion Wright is clinging onto a final berth in eighth build however the gigantic info is world No 1, American Heimana Reynolds, is out of the event. His simplest lope of 63.09 within the outlet warmth was as soon as nowhere terminate to correct ample.

South African Dallas Oberholzer, at 46 nearly four times the age of the day earlier than at the moment time’s ladies folk’s silver medalist Kokona Hiraki, is coming stone motherless with a simplest lope of 24.08. Nevertheless at his advancing years he deserves a medal exact for participating. I’m 46 and can also barely score out of bed some mornings.

Workforce USA’s Cory Juneau and Australia’s Keegan Palmer to advance support within the final warmth.

Females’s beach volleyball: over at Shiokaze Park, Australia bear taken a 1-0 lead over Latvia in their semi-final clash, taking an actual first position 23-21.

The two Australians, Mariafe Artacho del Describe voltaic and Taliqua Clancy, bear loved a blinding Olympics and are in actuality so terminate to gold medal contention they can fashion it.

The safe is locked at 11-11 within the second position.

Females’s 4x100m relay heats: over at the Nationwide Stadium, both heats of this event bear been lope and won. Here’s what went down:

• Workforce GB position a recent national represent to decide their warmth in a time of 41.55. USA followed in lifeless with operating Jamaica paying for a messy changeover to invent third.
• In warmth two, Germany stopped the clock at 42.00, beating Switzerland and China.

Nevertheless the total action was as soon as within the slick opening warmth. The fourth and fifth there, France and the Netherlands, leer position to development because the quickest losers and, on this proof, Workforce GB will likely be very keen to beat within the final.

Men’s park skateboarding: gigantic, gigantic lope by Brazil’s Pedro Quintas to flit into the lead with a 79.02 effort along with his final jog within the second warmth.

The second lope of 72.24 by Danny Leon was as soon as ample to space the Spaniard in second space, one build above compatriot, Jaime Mateu. USA’s Zion Wright is sitting in fourth, exact sooner than Italy’s Alessandro Mazzara, which implies world No 1, American Heimana Reynolds, is now sixth space. With two extra heats to pass and exact the head eight to undergo to the final, Reynolds is in for an anxious wait.

Australia’s Kieran Woolley to advance support in warmth three.

Scott Heinrich

Thanks Tom and proper morning/day/evening, all. Wowee, day 13 in Tokyo has got the lot. Whilst you are going to be ready to’t salvage one thing at the moment time to score the juices flowing, you’re potentially on the wicked blog. Nevertheless rather a pair of you (myself included) will likely be counting the seconds until Australia face the can also of USA within the lads’s basketball semi-finals – there are about 15,300 to pass, give or rob, so no longer lengthy to wait. Nevertheless lots – and I mean lots – to lift us occupied until then, along with Australia within the semi-final of the ladies folk’s beach volleyball. Which is exact about to open. So let’s score cracking.

“I exact spent the final half-hour reviewing the Guardian “Olympic Pictures of the day” from Opening Ceremony to at the moment time,” says Marc Plaisant. “My seek of the pandemic olympics has modified utterly. First I might per chance bear cared-a-less, however since I’ve haven’t overlooked an opening ceremony since 1984 I watched the outlet ceremony with a ‘preserve the represent going’ perspective. I carried out up twisted and bear no longer appeared support. Whilst you and your co-bloggers would, please remind your readers to analysis the day-to-day pictures. So many emotions bubbled up (correct and homely). My fave to this point cyclist Kiesenhofer successful Womens Road lope, all on her bear and no backing crew.”

I cherished the skateboarding the day earlier than at the moment time for the early life’ glee however the swimming was as soon as constantly perfect – significantly the recommendations within the mixed relays.

Anyway, photos. Yes! A large gallery at the moment time from my colleagues on the image desk:

Decathlon: The chief, Canada’s Damian Warner, steamed dwelling in warmth three of the 110m hurdles and elevated his lead over the pack.

The standings are in actuality:

1) Damian Warner (Canada) 5767 facets

2) Ashley Moloney (Australia) 5605 facets

3) Pierce Lepage (Canada) 5454 facets

4) Kevin Mayer (France) 5327 facets

5) Garrett Scantling (USA) 5309 facets

The rapidly track can also very effectively be serving to those that set apart better within the sprints than the self-discipline occasions. Nevertheless no topic, Warner is inserting in an even efficiency and might per chance rob some catching.

Men’s park skateboarding: Four heats of 5 skaters within the prelims with the head eight total going into the final later at the moment time. So where you invent in your warmth is never any longer that essential – that you simply might invent fifth and indifferent jog to the final in case your safe is correct ample. Anyway, after two runs of heat one, the field No 1 Heimna Reynolds is struggling rather – with a 44.29 his simplest safe, which won’t be correct ample for the final in all likelihood. Let’s seek what he does on his third lope … and he gets a 63.09 . Hmmm, the consultants reckon one thing over 75 as your simplest safe out of your three runs will score a skater into the final. The warmth finishes with these high three:

1) Zion Wright (USA) – 67.21

2) Heimana Reynolds (USA) – 63.09

3) Andy Anderson (Canada) – 60.78

There are indifferent 15 skaters to advance support and none of those men will no doubt feel assured of a space within the final.

Genuine. A few extra occasions are about to open now. We now bear got the decathlon 110m hurdles, Switzerland v USA within the ladies folk’s beach volleyball semi-finals and the qualifying for the lads’s park skateboarding. The ladies folk’s event the day earlier than at the moment time was as soon as even handed one of my highlights of the Games to this point. Now not exact thanks to the flexibility of the athletes, however since the early life – and they had been mainly early life – appeared no doubt blissful for every a spread of’s success. At their age, I’d bear stormed off with my skateboard as soon as anyone did better than me (which might per chance presumably be very rapidly). Here’s rather extra on the day earlier than at the moment time’s action:

“Morning Tom!” cries Jonathan Perry. “It’s sooner than 9am here in Tokyo and I’m dripping with sweat after taking section within the less-than-Olympic event of inserting the containers out.

“So here’s a build apart a question to – is any action going to be taken in opposition to Tokyo for the evident lie in their host metropolis application about summer season being ‘peaceable and sunny and very perfect for sport’? Or in opposition to the IOC for taking the bid on face price and no longer bothering to google ‘summer season temperatures in Tokyo’? I decide no longer, however no doubt there must be some roughly penalty for blatant untruths in ones application?”

Yeah, Tokyo might per chance bear been rather flexible with the fact in their application. Nevertheless no doubt the rich dudes who lope the IOC had been to Tokyo within the summertime all the intention through even handed one of their freebie journeys? Even when I feel about the aircon in their five-superstar hotel was as soon as perfect, so presumably they didn’t leer the warmth.

And here is what we are in a position to rely on from Workforce USA within the hours forward. Apt a hunch, however I mediate they’ll decide some medals.

10.05pm EDT: men’s shot build apart final

Ryan Crouser, the 28-one year-broken-down American who holds the field represent in both indoor and outside shot build apart, has a enormous likelihood at his second Olympic gold. Crouser won the shot build apart competition in Rio de Janeiro, where he position an Olympic represent, and at the US trials in June, he position a recent world represent with a 23.37m throw. Crouser had the absolute best throw within the semi-final by a margin of extra than half a meter. Two a spread of People, Payton Otterdahl and Joe Kovacs, earned berths within the final, too, grabbing the final two qualifying spots.

10.55pm EDT: men’s 110m hurdles final

Both People competing within the lads’s 110m hurdles won their respective semi-final races; Grant Holloway carried out with exact a rather sooner time than Devon Allen. Holloway is the reigning world champion within the event, and Allen made the US crew for Rio and carried out fifth within the event. Every has a ambitious likelihood to medal.

6am EDT: ladies folk’s pole vault final

Katie Nageotte, 30, is competing in her first Olympics after missing the crew by two spots in 2016. She position an Olympic trials represent with her vault in June, and Morgann Leleux Romero carried out second lifeless her there and likewise secured a build within the final in Tokyo. Sandi Morris, the American who won silver in Rio, won’t score a replace for protect her medal after she was as soon as injured when her pole broke in a qualifying round.

2.35am EDT: men’s featherweight boxing final bout

Duke Ragan defeated Ghana’s Samual Takyi on Monday to make a build within the gold-medal bout, where he’ll face Albert Batyrgaziev of Russia. Ragan, 22, is 4-0 as a legitimate, with one TKO; these are his first Olympics, and he grew to become legitimate in 2020. Batyrgaziev, 23, also grew to become legitimate final one year and is 3-0 since. He’s won all three bouts in TKOs. Can also just indifferent Ragan rob gold, he’ll snap the US’s travel of 17 years with out a boxing gold at the Games.

4am EDT: ladies folk’s soccer bronze medal match

Yes, these Olympics bear felt worship a turning point for the USWNT, which lost their opening community stage game to Sweden, 3-0. The ladies folk coasted to a 6-1 victory over Novel Zealand after that, however within the three games since, the going’s been no longer easy, and they not instantly lost, 1-0, to Canada within the semi-final Monday. In the bronze medal match, the US face Australia, the crew they played to a 0-0 appeal to the community stage. A decide, and the ladies folk will salvage a medal.

Highlights for Australia on Day 13? Oh boy, will now we bear highlights for you. The Kookaburras jog for gold in opposition to Belgium while the Boomers meet the mighty Workforce USA within the lads’s basketball semi-finals and the Matildas also play the US within the ladies folk’s soccer bronze medal match. In total, the absolute best US-Australia tension since that narrate with Johnny Depp and his dog.

More here (on the game, no longer Depp. For the dog stuff, click here):

Niall O’Keeffe writes in: “Mountainous excitement in Ireland as our boxer Kellie Harrington aims for gold at 6am UK/Ireland time,” he says. “Mountainous chronicle as she comes from the internal metropolis of Dublin which is mostly within the data for the wicked causes. Nevertheless her hood and the total nation are lifeless her! We don’t decide many medals so gigantic deal for us!”

In that case, I’ll print your electronic mail. Which I exact did.

Men’s marathon swimming: We are on the final lap and rather less than 1500m to pass. Germany’s Florian Wellbrock leads Hungary’s Kristóf Rasovszky by 4.6 seconds. France’s Marc-Antoine Olivier, who won bronze in 2016, is within the equal space this one year and is 13.7 seconds lifeless with Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri 16.3 off Wellbrock in fourth. It’s Wellbrock’s lope to lose now with finest Rasovszky having an actual likelihood of catching him.

I am having fun with the fact that the TV graphics can’t slot in Marc-Antoine Olivier, so they exact name him “Olivier” worship he’s a Brazilian footballer or a understanding artist.

Whats up obtainable. A busy day forward in Tokyo – here’s my colleague Martin Belam with what might per chance tickle your worship…

Key occasions for Day 13

All occasions are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Cairns, subtract eight hours for Aberystwyth, 13 hours for Baltimore and 16 hours for Los Angeles.

🌟Whilst you finest seek one narrate: 7pm Hockey – Australia and Belgium are going to wrestle it out within the final for gold. Australia final won it in 2004. Belgium bear by no means won, however will likely be aiming to pass one step better than their silver in Rio 🏑🥇

• 6.30am Marathon swimming – it’s 10km of originate water for the lads, and I’m indifferent tired from watching the ladies folk swim it unhurried final night/early this morning 🥇
• 7.30am Golf – day two of the ladies folk’s competition.
• 9am-10.50am and 9pm-10.50pm Sea wander Volleyball – the ladies folk’s semi-finals are within the morning, the lads’s semi-finals are the unhurried night session.
• 9am-3.05pm and 7pm-9.45pm Athletics – the necessary sights within the stadium embody the men’s triple jump final and men’s shot build apart final within the morning, after we also score the men’s 110m hurdles final at 11.55am. In the evening session, it is the ladies folk’s pole vault final and the men’s 400m final is at 9pm. All throughout the day there’s extra heptathlon and decathlon, and those invent with the ladies folk’s 800m heats and the lads’s 1500m which round off the day 🥇
• 9am-12.30 Skateboarding – the lads jog within the park event 🥇
• 9.30am-1.05pm Canoe speed – there are finals within the lads’s kayak single at 11.42am, the ladies folk’s canoe single 200m at 11.57am, the ladies folk’s kayak single 500m at 12.29pm and the final lope of the day is the lads’s kayak double 1000m at 12.55pm 🥇
• 1.15pm and 8pm Basketball – the lads’s semi-finals. Workforce USA v Australia to open with, then the evening game is Slovenia v France.
• 3pm Diving – the final of the ladies folk’s 10m platform 🥇
• 3.30pm-6.50pm Note cycling – Thursday’s action substances the ladies folk’s keirin final at 5.45pm and the conclusion of the lads’s omnium at 5.55pm 🥇
• 4.30pm Flee walking – it’s the one where you stop up shouting at the tv: “Apt lope! Or stroll! Nevertheless no longer this! What even is this?” It’s in Sapporo to are trying and invent it cooler for the lads, who jog over the 20km distance 🥇
• 5pm Soccer – USA v Australia for the ladies folk’s bronze medal 🥉
• 5pm and 9pm Handball – the lads’s competition is at the semi-final stage: France v Egypt first then Spain v Denmark. It’s tiresome correct. You should present watching it a jog.
• 5.30pm, 6.30pm and 9.10pm Sport mountain climbing – it’s medal time for the lads 🥇

Which you might additionally salvage our corpulent interactive occasions schedule here. As well to letting you gape out what’s coming up, it also provides you the currents ratings of the sports actions for the time being in action.

Because it stands

With five medals at the moment time for Workforce GB and three for Australia, you specialize in that officials at both national Olympic committees must be pinching themselves to be above Now not Russia within the emoji table this deep into the Games. Here’s how it stood at 10.50pm Tokyo time:

1 🇨🇳 China 🥇 32 🥈 22 🥉 16 total: 70

2 🇺🇸 USA 🥇 25 🥈 31 🥉 23 total: 79

3 🇯🇵 Japan 🥇 21 🥈 7 🥉 12 total: 40

4 🇬🇧 Mountainous Britain 🥇 15 🥈 18 🥉 15 total: 48

5 🇦🇺 Australia 🥇 15 🥈 4 🥉 17 total: 36

6 ◽️ Now not Russia 🥇 14 🥈 21 🥉 18 total: 53

7 🇩🇪 Germany 🥇 8 🥈 8 🥉 16 total: 32

8 🇫🇷 France 🥇 6 🥈 10 🥉 9 total: 25

9 🇮🇹 Italy 🥇 6 🥈 9 🥉 15 total: 30

10 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🥇 6 🥈 8 🥉 9 total: 23