Key events
Tennis: Great Britain’s Jack Draper is in the second round of the men’s singles on Court Suzanne-Lenglen at Roland Garros. He’s playing Taylor Fritz from the USA and leads 6-5 in the first set. Elsewhere at Roland Garros, Fritz’s compatriot Coco Gauff leads Croatia’s Donna Vekic by the exact same score in the third round of the women’s singles.
Table tennis: China’s reigning women’s table tennis singles gold medallist Chen Meng has won her way into last 16 by beating Sweden’s Linda Bergstrom 4-1.
Corrections and clarifications: “Just to be an absolute pedant, but the photo used in the live blog illustrating the story about Brouillet’s photo of Brazilian surfer Medina is a different angle from a different photographer,” writes Ben Roome. “It should be Jérôme Brouillet/AFP/Getty Images and you’ve used Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock.” Never apologise for always welcome pedantry.
Sailing: After a very long delay, the second round of the Men’s iQFOiL, with all 24 competitors surfing across the water in Marseille. Team GB’s Sam Sills is currently in seventh place.
Judo: Great Britain’s Lucy Renshaw has been knocked out of the women’s -63kg competition by Austria’s Lubjana Piovesana, who used to represent Team GB until nailing her colours to the Austrian mast in 2023. Renshaw exits in the second round of the competition, having gone out in the first round in Tokyo.
“Judo’s such a cruel sport,” a tearful Renshaw tells the BBC. “The last 12 weeks have probably been the best 12 weeks of training I’ve ever done before. I felt like I had more to give. It wasn’t that exhausting because I felt good.”
On fighting somebody she knows well and used to train with: “I think that’s what happens when you fight somebody so regularly and you know them so well. It’s quite a rubbish fight because you know each other so well. She was the better player on the day.”
Sailing: Race two of the Men’s iQFOiL (a windsurfing class) in Marseille has been delayed but looks like it is going to start in the next few minutes. Organisers in race management boat are just waiting for the wind to settle and making some last-minute adjustments to the course: moving the start line, among other things … as you do.
There are 24 differenbt nations represented in the men’s competition and Sam Sills goes for Great Britain. After the completion of one race, he sits in 21st place overall.
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Good day, everyone. Barry Glendenning here to take you through the next couple of hours, with precious little in the way of glamour medal events looming.
We do have a Pool A men’s hockey game between Great Britain and the Netherlands looming in the next hour, while Ireland take on India in Pool B. Throw some tennis, archery, boxing, swimming and volleytball into the mix, and it’s quite the eclectic jamboree.
Imagine that bit of Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me where George Michael says “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Elton John!”, except it is me saying “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Barry Glendenning!”. I will see you back here in a couple of hours.
Team GB have announced a squad change in the men’s hockey, with Tom Sorsby coming in for the injured David Goodfield.
Tom Sorsby has been added to our men’s hockey squad after David Goodfield sustained an injury.
Sorsby has been brought into the team under the late athlete replacement policy and will be available to play against the Netherlands later today.#Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/r8YCd5qemj
— Team GB (@TeamGB) July 30, 2024
Great Britain, after a win over Spain and a draw with South Africa, face the Netherlands in Pool A at 12.45 local time. The Dutch have won their two games so far.
Earlier in Pool A France and Spain drew, and Germany are currently well in control against South Africa with a 4-1 lead at the start of the fourth quarter.
Kieran Pender
More here from my colleague Kieran Pender in Paris on that latest news of Covid in the swimming camps:
Australia’s Lani Pallister has withdrawn from the women’s 1500m freestyle after testing positive for Covid, the Australian Olympic Committee announced an hour before her anticipated heat swim on Tuesday.
Pallister won bronze in the long distance event at the 2022 world championships, but opted to withdraw from the Paris 2024 race in the hope of recovering in time for Australia’s 4x200m freestyle relay on Thursday.
The 22-year-old’s withdrawal leaves Moesha Johnson as the only Australian in the 1500m race; Johnson will also swim in the 10 kilometre open water marathon swimming later in the Games.
The AOC’s announcement has sparked fears of a growing Covid risk on the pool deck, after British swim star Adam Peaty tested positive on Monday less than 24 hours after winning silver in the 100m breaststroke.
Pallister is not the only Australian Olympian to go down with Covid in Paris – several members of the women’s water polo team, the Stingers, tested positive on the eve of the Games.
Chef de mission insisted that the Australian team was taking a different approach to Covid than three years ago, when the Tokyo Olympics were held amid the height of the pandemic.
“This is a high-performance environment, so we are being diligent,” Meares said at a press conference last week. “But I need to emphasise we’re treating Covid no differently to other bugs like the flu – this is not Tokyo.”
Read more here: Australian swimming camp hit by Covid as medal hope Lani Pallister tests positive
Men’s water polo: a fairly routine victory for Australia over Serbia in Group B the water polo. It finished 8-3 with Luke Pavillard scoring four of those.
Men’s hockey: it finished France 3-3 Spain, a result that isn’t really much use to the hosts, who have now failed to win in their first three matches.
Equestrian dressage: British Dressage, who run events in the UK, say that the concept of dressage dates back as far as 350BC and Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon. I don’t suppose he had a complicated system where sixty riders were divided into six groups of ten, with the top two qualifying for the Grand Prix final plus the six other best-scoring riders, but there you go. That is what is happening with the horses right now. Just look at that setting …
There is also a team competition qualification happening at the same time, with the top ten teams progressing to the final.
Men’s hockey: I’d be tearing my hair out if I was the French coach. They got back into the lead 3-2 but have let it slip again. France 3-3 Spain with six minutes to go.
Beau Dure has a feature today looking Taylor Knibb, who will – pollution permitting – follow up her appearance in the cycling time trial with the triathlon, joining a select group of athletes to perform in two different sports at the same Games.
The c-word has cropped up again. Reuters reports Australia’s Lani Pallister, a medal hope in the women’s 1,500 metres freestyle, has withdrawn from the event after testing positive for Covid. A team spokesperson said the decision had been made to save her energy for the 4×200 freestyle relay.
Women’s double sculls rowing: Team GB’s Mathilda Hodgkins Byrne and Rebecca Wilde have secured a spot in Thursday’s final after finishing second in their semi-final behind Romania’s Ancuța Bodnar and Simona Radiș. Norway came third but Australian pair Amanda Bateman and Harriet Hudson missed out in fourth place. In the other semi-final it was New Zealand, the Netherlands and France who progressed.
Men’s hockey: the hosts have been without a win so far in the Olympics, and France at one point had a 2-0 lead today, but they’ve let Spain right back into this. It is 2-2 with five minutes of the third quarter remaining.
Here are your medal winners from the 10m air pistol mixed team event. Gold for Serbia, silver for Turkey and bronze for India.
Reuters is carrying a quote from French triathlon federation technical director Benjamin Maze, who with some understatement has told FranceInfo radio “of course there is a little bit of anger and a lot of disappointment” among the athletes about the cancellation of today’s men’s triathlon.
Women’s handball: a convincing win for Germany over Slovenia in the end, to give the Germans their first win at the thrid attempt. The match finished 41-22 in Group A, with seven goals apiece for Xenia Smits and Annika Lott. All the teams in this group are playing today at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, with the next two fixtures being Norway v South Korea this morning, and Sweden v Denmark tonight.
Kieran Pender
Australia has brought in Ben O’Connor for the men’s road race after Luke Plapp withdrew after his crash in slippery conditions in the individual time trial on Saturday.
Plapp was admitted to hospital and required abdominal surgery after the incident, which ruled him out of the road race this weekend.
“Luke is receiving the best of care in hospital and is being well supported by our medical team,” said Australian Chef de Mission Anna Meares. “We expect he’ll be out of hospital this week and wish him a speedy recovery.”
O’Connor is one of Australia’s leading general classification riders; he placed fourth in the Giro d’Italia in May and is expected to ride the Vuelta a España next month. He will ride in support of Australian leader Michael Matthews, alongside Simon Clarke. “Ben has performed strongly this season and is currently in top form,” said Meares.
Gold for Serbia in the 10m air pistol mixed team shooting 🥇🥇🥇
Shooting 10m air pistol mixed team: after a tense finish Damir Mikec and Zorana Arunović have won Serbia’s first medal of these Games, and it is gold.
Despite at one point trailing Turkey 8-2, a combined score of 20.1 in the fifteenth round of shooting gave them a 16-14 triumph. The Serbian pair had finished fourth in this event in Tokyo.
Şevval İlayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikeç took silver, with Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh winning bronze for India in the earlier bronze medal match against South Korea.
Shooting 10m air pistol mixed team: Turkey are Serbia are tied 10-10 in this final 👀
Men’s volleyball: Italy have beaten Egypt 25-15 25-16 25-20 in Pool B. The US face Germany in Pool C at 13.00 local time.
Rowing men’s single sculls: it is the quarter-finals in this today. New Zealand’s Thomas Mackintosh is holding the lead in the first one at the moment.
Men’s hockey: hosts France have copped a couple of thumpings so far in this tournament, losing 8-2 to Germany and 4-0 to the Netherlands in their first two games. However they have taken an early lead against Spain this morning in a match that started at 10am local time.