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Souza wins +78kg judo gold
Brazil’s Beatriz Souza has won the +78kg women’s judo gold medal after beating Israel’s Raz Hershko 1-0.
Souza scored a waza-ari early on and it was the score that made the difference.
Earlier on the Republic of Korea’s Hayun Kim and Romane Dicko both won the bronze for the same category.
Lauren Cochrane
The Olympic Games in Paris have provided many fashion moments. The latest comes at a micro level. Competitors, chiefly in gymnastics and athletics, are making nails a big part of their look.
Sha’Carri Richardson is the pioneer here. Her statement nails have long been part of her style. For the 100-metre heats on Friday, her nails were pointed, jewelled and brightly patterned. They were decorated with the US flag for the opening ceremony last weekend.
The gymnasts Sunisa Lee and Jordan Chiles both have long nails – Chiles decorating hers with jewels and vivid colours. Shot putter Raven Saunders has talons decorated with the Olympic rings. Noah Lyles, the US track and field star, has “icon’” spelt out across his. To continue the trend, there’s even a nail salon in the Olympic Village.
Sportspeople have traditionally kept their on-field style minimal in a bid to focus on optimum performance, so the nails here have raised eyebrows. However, Dr Danielle Adams Norenberg, the head of psychology at the UK Sports Institute, who works with Team GB, says they can actually give an edge: “I’m all for helping [athletes] figure out how they’re going to express themselves through their performance in a way that enhances their strengths and supports their methods.”
Read more here: ‘Bougie and beautiful on the track’: nails complete the look at the Olympics
In the women’s tennis doubles AIN’s (individual neutral athletes) pair Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider have beaten Spain’s Cristina Bucșa and Sara Sorribes in straight sets to reach the gold medal match.
They will play Italy’s Jessica Paolini and Sara Errani who beat the Czech Republic’s Karolina Muchova and Linda Nuskova earlier today.
The Spain and Czech Republic teams will play each other in the bronze medal bout.
If I got you to guess which actor would do his own stunts at the Olympic closing ceremony I think you’d all get it right. But you can check if you were here:
Spain have gone 1-0 up against Japan in their men’s football quarter-final. A goal from Fermín López, who plays his club football at Barcelona, edges them ahead. A long way to go in that one.
Jack Snape
Jack Snape has been at the Stade de France for the Guardian:
The world’s fastest women flew down the Olympic straight in the 100m heats on the first morning of athletics at the Stade de France, but one carried a heavier burden. Kimia Yousofi, part of the six-person Afghan team competing in Paris, trailed the rest of the pack and finished two seconds behind the winner.
Afterwards, she held up words scribbled on an A4 piece of paper. “Education” written in black. “Sport” underneath it in green. In red, the third colour of the Afghanistan flag, “our rights”. “I have a message for Afghan girls,” she said. “Don’t give up, don’t let others decide for you. Just search for opportunity, and then use that opportunity,” she said.
The 28-year-old carried the country’s flag at the Tokyo Games, but fled to Iran when the Taliban took control in 2021. Her team in Paris is made up of three men and three women, selected by the Afghanistan Olympic Committee which operates outside the country. “I just want to represent Afghan people with this flag, our culture. Our girls in Afghanistan, our women, they want basic rights, education, and sport,” she said.
Read more here: Afghanistan 100m runner Kimia Yousofi sends Olympic message to the Taliban
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The men’s kayak cross time trials happened earlier on and GB’s Joe Clarke finished with the fastest time. All the athletes make it through the first round but this determined the seedings for the next round. GB’s other athlete in the men’s event, Adam Burgess, finished 26th.
The women’s event is in the process of round one now and GB’s Mallory Franklin has just finished her course. She has shot to the top of the rankings with a time of 71.85. GB also have Kim Woods in the sport and I’ll let you know how she gets on once she has had her run.
In the men’s football Morocco have knocked the USA out of the event after beating them 4-0.
The second quarter-final has just started between Japan and Spain. I’ll keep you updated as that one rolls out.
Republic of Korea win mixed team archery gold 🥇🥇🥇
The Republic of Korea have beaten Germany 6-0 in the mixed team archery final to claim the gold medal.
The USA beat India 6-2 earlier today to win bronze.
Thanks Martin, first up I have some gold medal news to bring you.
Here are Great Britain’s gold medal-winning equestrian jumping team.
The people get medals, hopefully the horses get some golden sugar lumps or something?
Better news for the archery section of Team USA, rather than the football section. The mixed team pair of Casey Kaufhold and Brady Ellison have claimed the bronze medal. They seemed pretty thrilled with it all.
Women’s tennis singles: a comfortable 6-2 6-1 victory for Poland’s Iga Świątek over Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova for the bronze medal in the end.
Men’s football: Ilias Akhomach and Achraf Hakimi have added a second and third for Morocco in their quarter-final against the USA. There are 15 minutes to go but it looks like the US are going home.
Zoe Williams has put together these lighthearted five key questions for the rest of the Olympics. Fortunately for my blushes she has not put in “Why can Martin Belam frequently not spell Guatemala correctly?”.
Bryony Page has said her gold medal hasn’t sunk in, and that she feels “so loved and supported”. She described her trampolining discipline as “flying through the sky”, before self-deprecatingly saying “I just jump up and down on a trampoline and try and make it look good.”
She told viewers of the BBC that she had initially been confused about when she was jumping, as she walked in second but was actually going seventh, but that worked in her favour, as “I had longer to prepare, get my heart rate at the right level.”
She said:
When I stood on the trampoline, the scores were coming in from the other athletes. I wasn’t able to watch the routines because I wanted to be in my own zone, but hearing the scores, I kind of knew that a medal was up for grabs if I just did kind of a normal routine. But I wanted to step up and do the top end of my routine, and I almost got there, so I’m really happy with that.
Barney Ronay has been in Paris for the Guardian:
One week in, the Games have so far been grand, exhilarating, and unusually light and sustainable in their staging. But the big moments have mainly been Francophone, from delight at the men’s rugby sevens victory – France’s players are still engaged in an unceasing celebration: a selection of them were seen most recently dancing in sunglasses in Ibiza – to an opening ceremony that was basically a slick and persuasive TV advert for Paris, to the wonderful spectacle of the triathlon that felt at times like a mash-up of ominous pollution bulletins and a super-shiny chocolate box Netflix series, E.coli in Paris.
Read more here: Chic and beautiful Olympic party in Paris still searching for moments of true unity
Ewan Murray at Vaires-sur-Marne earlier described victory for Emily Craig and Imogen Grant as “the ultimate redemption story” as they won the last ever staging of the women’s lightweight double sculls in Paris after a mere 0.01 seconds denied the pair a medal in Tokyo three years ago.
Speaking on Eurosport, Grant said “I’m not sure if he would have both been here to be honest (without the experience of Tokyo). The result today is a culmination of the Tokyo result, but [also] all of the hours and hours of training we’ve put into this.”
A clearly emotional Craig added:
I think both of us are standing here with everything we’ve ever wanted in our entire lives. And we don’t really know what to do with it.
Archery mixed team: we are going to get the medal matches shortly from Les Invalides. India and the USA will play for bronze, followed by South Korea and Germany facing off for gold.
Women’s tennis singles: Iga Świątek has won the first set in the bornze medal match 6-2.
Daniel Boffey
Daniel Boffey has been in the Aquatics Centre in Paris for the Guardian. Here is his report on this morning’s diving:
Britain’s Olympic diving team were celebrating their best ever Games as Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding picked up a bronze medal in a tight men’s 3m springboard synchronised dive that went to the wire.
With the individual events yet to come, Britain has now earned four medals in the aquatics centre with Laugher acknowledging the pressure on him after the early success, including a bronze for his girlfriend Lois Toulson, in the synchronised 10-metre platform.
“I would never have heard the end of it if I didn’t get one and she did,” said Laugher, 29, from Ripon. “This is Team GB’s best ever diving haul. We’ve done fantastically. Four medals from four synchro events is unreal.”
China’s Long Daoyi and Zongyuan Wang won gold, continuing Chinese dominance in the diving pool, and Juan Manuel Celaya and Osmar Olvera representing Mexico took silver but the medal positions were in doubt right up until the last dive.
Read more from Daniel Boffey here: Laugher and Harding claim bronze to ensure GB’s best Olympic diving haul
Lin Yu-Ting, one of the boxers at the centre of controversy around gender qualifications in boxing, has reached the quarter-finals after a unanimous judges’ decision against Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan.
Lin, 28, is one of two boxers, who were disqualified by the International Boxing Association (IBA) from last year’s World Championships for failing gender eligibility tests but were given the green light to compete in the Paris Olympics.
Earlier Lin was supported by Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s first female president from 2016-2024, who posted to social media to say “Let’s cheer for Lin Yu-ting together.”
Lin Yu-ting, who competes under the Chinese Taipei banner at the Olympics is the number one seed in the 57kg division, and exited the same competition at the round of 16 stage in Tokyo.
Our picture team have put together this gallery of the best images from today at the Olympics.
Men’s football: we have reached the quarter-final stage, and in the first match Morocco are holding a 1-0 lead over the USA. 28-year-old Soufiane Rahimi who plays for UAE Pro League club Al Ain with a penalty in the 29th minute.
Kieran Pender
My colleague Kieran Pender clarifies here what that basketball result earlier means for Australia’s men:
Men’s basketball: Australia are sweating on other results after losing 77-71 to Greece in Lille. The Boomers had opened their group strongly with a win over Spain, before slumping to Canada on Tuesday. A win over Greece would have guaranteed progression to the next round.
Jock Landale led the scoring for Australia with 17 points, while NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo contributed 20 points for Greece. The Boomers can still progress to the quarter-finals if Canada beat Spain in the other group A tie to be played later this afternoon.
Here is one of those winning fence jumps from Jefferson, who brings home the gold for Team GB.
Scott Brash knew he could afford a time penalty, and duly picked one up. Ben Maher also picked up a time penalty on the opening round, riding Dallas Vegas Batilly. Harry Charles on Romeo 88 was the other rider in the trio, and all three went clear in their rounds. Brilliant stuff from Team GB’s equestrian organisation here.
Team GB win gold in the equestrian team jumping 🥇🥇🥇🐴🐴🐴
Equestrian team jumping: it is a gold for Great Britain. Scott Brash on Jefferson knew a clear round would secure the top spot, and he and the horse did it. There were a couple of fences where it looked a tight squeak, but they did it.
The USA finish second on four penalties, to Britain’s two. France just pipped the Netherlands for bronze on time, with the two teams tied on seven penalties.
Time isn’t a problem for Scott Brash on Jefferson. They just need to go clear.
Equestrian team jumping: there are groans in the crowd as Julien Epaillard on Dubai Du Cedre puts down a fence, but he makes a decent recovery. The USA have four penalties, France and the Netherlands are tied on seven penalties, France having gone slightly quicker by 0.57 seconds. They are in the medals at the moment. Great Britain are going for gold now. It is all down to Scott Brash on Jefferson.
Equestrian team jumping: McLain Ward goes on Ilex for the USA and he goes clear. It is a tremendous round under pressure. The US are now in the lead, on 229.90 seconds and four penalties. The hosts go next, and then Great Britain. This is not going to be for the faint-hearted.
Equestrian team jumping: a difficult round for Cian O’Connor on Maurice there, he picks up nine penalties and that places them fourth and outside the medal chances. Such a shame, especially after Daniel Coyle on Legacy had gone clear in the second round, putting the Irish within touching distance of the podium.
We often hear athletes say how frustrating it has been to narrowly miss out on a better result or look disappointed with a podium finish that isn’t gold, but not Team GB diver Anthony Harding, who has told viewers of the BBC that “It wasn’t to be to beat China or Mexico but I’m so happy to get the bronze. I can die happy now. I always believed I could make it to the Olympics … to walk away with a medal, with Jack [Laugher], is amazing.”
Equestrian team jumping: a clean round from Philipp Weishaupt on Zineday finishes Germany’s contribution to the contest. They are in the lead for now with eight penalties in total. There are five teams left to finish.
Alexandra Topping
Lisa Nandy, the UK culture secretary, has described the Olympic boxing bout between Imane Khelif of Algeria and the Italian Angela Carini as “an incredibly uncomfortable watch” , as a row about the inclusion of two boxers who failed gender eligibility tests at the 2023 world championships continued.
Carini abandoned her bout against Khelif after 46 seconds on Thursday saying she “preferred to stop for my health” and adding “I have never felt a punch like this”.
Nandy acknowledged concern about “getting the balance right” in boxing and other sports when it comes to female competitors. But she said the “biological facts are far more complicated than is being presented on social media and in some of the speculation”.
Khelif and Lin Yu‑ting of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) were disqualified from the 2023 women’s world championships with the International Boxing Association president, Umar Kremlev, saying DNA tests had “proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded”. Lin is due to face Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova in a featherweight bout shortly.
Read more from Alexandra Topping here: ‘An uncomfortable watch’: UK minister speaks on Olympic boxing gender row
Men’s basketball: Australia narrowed the gap with Greece in the end, but slip to a 77-71 defeat. That means Greece leapfrog Australia into second place in the group. Canada against Spain is the final group match, at 17.30 local time today.
Equestrian team jumping: after two horses each – is that the technical term? It is now – Team GB are leading the competition, on a combined time of 157.93 with one penalty. Hosts France are putting up a strong show in second. The US are in third place. Scott Brash on Jefferson is the remaining rider for the British.
Julien Epaillard rides Dubai Du Cedre for France, and McLain Ward goes on Ilex for the USA. Ireland are poised in fourth to take advantage of any slip ups. Cian O’Connor on Maurice will anchor their team.
Carlos Alcaraz is safely through to the men’s singles final. Next up on that court in Roland Garros is Poland’s Iga Świątek and Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova for the bronze medal in the women’s singles.
Women’s windsurfing: if you were getting frustrated that we weren’t bringing you any action from the women’s windsurfing, that is because there isn’t any. At the Marseille Marina they have reached the quarter-final stage, but the weather conditions are causing a delay. Organisers say 15.15 local time – in about twenty minutes – is the earliest possible resumption time.
Men’s tennis singles: Carlos Alcaraz has just gone 4-1 up in the second set after taking the first 6-1, so I’d wager he will be in the final.