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Gold! Ladies’s 100m breaststroke – Lydia Jacoby (USA)
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Gold! Males’s 100m backstroke – Evgeny Rylov (ROC)
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Australia’s hopes of touchdown a medal within the inaugural browsing comp are very a lot alive after Owen Wright stormed into the semi-finals, to be staged later immediately at Tsurigasaki Browsing Seaside.
Wright – the brother of twice girls’s world champion Tyler – moved right into a final-four conflict with Brazil’s Italo Ferreira in troublesome circumstances on Tuesday morning, which he managed to navigate with slightly assist from dry land.
“It’s actually tough on the market immediately,” he stated. “I sat on the mistaken spot proper firstly. However then the crew on the seaside helped me and I bought two good waves immediately. I’m fairly stoked on the teaching from the seaside.”
Ferreira, the present world No 2 awaits, and is certain to be a troublesome opponent to beat.
“I’ll simply do the identical, placing good factors on the board, bought these large airs within the bag, so I’m going to place it to the check, shall be making an attempt to do my finest and put some strain,” Wright stated.
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After all of the US vs Australia chat, we’re set for a US-UK duel within the pool shortly within the first remaining of the morning session right here in Tokyo, the males’s 200m freestyle.
Kieran Smith, a 21-year-old, Connecticut-born, 6ft5in pupil on the College of Florida, took the bronze within the 400m freestyle on Sunday – the race memorably gained by the underdog Tunisian teenager, Ahmed Hafnaoui. Smith is trying so as to add one other medal within the 200m. Not unhealthy contemplating this meet just isn’t solely his first Olympics but additionally his Group USA debut.
He swam the second-fastest time in qualifying, half-a-second behind Group GB’s Duncan Scott, the one man to go beneath 1:45. He goes in lane 5, sandwiched between Scott and one other Briton, Tom Dean.
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Time for a baton change. Thanks Tom for a pacesetting lead off leg, and hey everyone from breezy Melbourne, Australia, on what’s hopefully the ultimate day of our newest Covid-related lockdown.
Time to coach our focus once more on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre the place one other gold rush awaits. Right here’s what’s in retailer:
- 10.30am native time – Ladies’s 200m freestyle semis (Ariarne Titmus is within the first warmth, adopted by Katie Ledecky within the second. If these names don’t imply something to you, compensate for yesterday’s unbelievable 400m freestyle remaining right here.)
- 10.43am – Males’s 200m freestyle remaining ? (Group GB’s Duncan Scott and Thomas Dean are in lanes 4 and 6, with the USA’s Kieran Smith between them. After Adam Peaty dominated yesterday, hopes are excessive for extra British success within the water.)
- 10:51am – Ladies’s 100m backstroke remaining ? (Australia’s current world file breaker Kaylee McKeown is a robust likelihood for gold, whereas compatriot Emily Seebohm just isn’t out of the working of securing a medal at a fourth consecutive Video games. Earlier world file holders Regan Smith (USA) and Kylie Masse (CAN) occupy the center lanes, whereas Nice Britain’s Kathleen Dawson is one other to keep watch over.)
- 10:59am – Males’s 100m backstroke remaining ? (The USA’s defending champion, and world file holder, Ryan Murphy, is up in opposition to Australian challenger Mitch Larkin)
- 11.17pm – Ladies’s 100m breaststroke remaining ? (Can South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker maintain off Group USA’s Lydia Jacoby and Lilly King?)
- 11.35pm – Males’s 200m butterfly semis (Working out…)
- 11.58pm – Ladies’s 200m particular person medley semis (… of steam)
I’ll do my finest to maintain up with the opposite motion across the Video games, notably powerhouses Australia and New Zealand colliding within the rugby sevens, the quarterfinals of the browsing, some hockey, and likely extra moreover. Be happy to drop me an e mail or a tweet (see particulars on the high of the web page) in case you suppose one thing notably noteworthy requires a shout out.
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One other large morning of medal motion awaits on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. First-up in just below an hour is the girls’s 200m freestyle semi-final – spherical two of the Ariarne Titmus (Aus) v Katie Ledecky (USA) duel within the pool. Duncan Scott will then be Nice Britain’s large medal hope of the morning, swimming from lane 4 within the males’s 200m freestyle remaining.
Essentially the most open remaining of the morning is the girls’s 100m backstroke. The Olympic file has already been damaged 4 instances in qualifying for the ultimate, by three totally different swimmers. There’s each likelihood the world file will fall within the remaining – with Kaylee McKeown (Aus), Kylie Masse (Canada), Regan Smith (USA) all in high kind.
The lads’s 100m backstroke remaining will comply with – Ryan Murphy (USA) is in lane 4, however shall be battling Kliment Kolesnikov (Russia) and Mitch Larkin (Aus).
The girls’s 100m breaststroke remaining can be an open race: Tatjana Schoenmaker (South Africa) certified quickest, however American Lilly King was not far off the tempo. There’s a bunch extra semi-final motion, too – males’s 200m butterfly and ladies’s 200m particular person medley. It’s onerous to maintain up!
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Flora Duffy wins Bermuda’s first-ever gold!
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