Editor’s Pick
Review of Day 9 and looking ahead to Day 10
Well, what a night at the Stade de France that was – and what a packed day of action!
Here’s a selection of the top stories from today
Thank you for joining us on the official Paris 2024 live blog for Day 9. We’re into the last week of the Olympic Games now!
Picture by Alex Pantling/2024 Getty Images
Competition begins on Day 10 in sports such as artistic swimming, track cycling, sport climbing, and wrestling, while the badminton, basketball 3X3, canoe slalom, artistic gymnastics, shooting, and triathlon programmes are due to end.
A total of 20 medal events are on tap on 5 August, including the men’s pole vault final (7pm) in athletics, where Mondo Duplantis will not just attempt to defend his Olympic title, but also go for a new world record.
The first of the urban sports to award medals at La Concorde will be basketball 3X3 (finals from 9pm), while there will be first-ever medals handed out in the new kayak cross events (4:55pm). Speaking of new events, the men’s Boulder & Lead combined (10am) and women’s speed (1pm) sport climbing will each begin, having been split out from the combined event in Tokyo which saw all three disciplines of climbing in one.
Meanwhile, the men’s football tournament reaches its semi-final stage, with Marseille and Lyon playing host to the four teams trying to guarantee themselves a medal.
Here are the day’s top picks:
Athletics (track and field) – World record watch for Mondo
Is it a foregone conclusion that Duplantis will win the men’s pole vault? After all, in 2024 only two men have cleared a height of 6m or higher: the Swede, and USA’s Chris Nilsen.
But they’re not in the same league. No one is. For Duplantis’ world lead is 6.24m, the world record, which he set at the Xiamen Diamond League. Nilsen’s best this year is 6.00m flat, with the Philippines’ E.J. Obiena third on the yearly list at 5.97m.
Last year, just four men hit the 6m mark or better, with Duplantis at 6.23m – the previous world record, obviously – and the next-closest man KC Lightfoot, who did not qualify for Paris at the U.S. Trials, on 6.07m.
Therefore it appears that the real contest will be between Duplantis and the bar; between Duplantis and the forces of gravity. Can the Louisiana-born Swede go to 6.25 in Paris?
Surfing – New champions to be crowned
After multiple delays to the surfing competition brought on by unhelpful surf conditions, we’re finally set for a good day at Teahupo’o for the semi-finals and final.
And there will be six new medallists in both men’s and women’s events, with none of the podium finishers from Tokyo 2020 reaching the semi-final stages.
Medal events
Artistic gymnastics
11:45–12:25: M parallel bars final; 12:38–13:18: W balance beam final; 13:33–14:08: M horizontal bar final; 14:23–15:03: W floor exercise final
Athletics (track and field)
19:00: M pole vault final; 20:30: W discus throw final; 21:15: W 5000m final; 21:47: W 800m final
Badminton
10:55–11:55: W singles gold medal match; 14:30–16:40: M singles medal matches
Basketball 3X3
21:00–22:35: W medal games; 21:30–23:05: M medal games
Canoe slalom
16:55–17:00: W kayak cross final; 17:00–17:05: M kayak cross final
Cycling (track)
19:53–20:03: W team sprint finals
Shooting
09:30–10:30: M 25m rapid fire pistol final; 15:00–16:15: Mixed team skeet medal matches
Surfing
21:24–22:30 Paris time (09:24–10:30 Tahiti time): M medal matches; 22:36–23:42 Paris time (10:36–11:42 Tahiti time): W medal matches
Triathlon
08:00–09:40: Mixed relay
Subject to water quality
Full daily schedule here.
Basketball: Women’s quarter-final draw confirmed
Team sports results from Paris 2024, Day 9, 4 August 2024
Let’s check out the results from all the team sports today, and what they mean:
Men’s 3×3 basketball
- France 21-12 People’s Republic of China
- Poland 16-22 Latvia
- Lithuania 20-18 Serbia
- USA 6-21 Netherlands
That meant Latvia and Netherlands qualified for the semi-finals, with Lithuania, Serbia, France, and Poland qualifying for the play-in round.
- Lithuania 21-15 Poland
- Serbia 19-22 France
The semi-finals are set as follows: Latvia vs France, Netherlands vs Lithuania
Women’s basketball
- Japan 58-85 Belgium
- Canada 70-79 Nigeria
- Germany 68-87 USA
- Australia 79-72 France
The quarter-finalist teams are: USA, Spain, France, Serbia, Germany, Australia, Nigeria, Belgium
Men’s handball
- Sweden 40-27 Japan
- Egypt 34-27 Argentina
- Germany 36-29 Slovenia
- Hungary 20-24 France
- Denmark 32-25 Norway
- Spain 32-31 Croatia
The bracket is set as follows, starting with the quarter-finals: Germany vs France, Spain vs Egypt, Norway vs Slovenia, Denmark vs Sweden
Men’s hockey quarter-finals
- India 1 Great Britain 1 (India win 4-2 in a shootout)
- Belgium 2 Spain 3
- Netherlands 2 Australia 0
- Germany 3 Argentina 2
Netherlands play Spain and Germany face India in the semi-finals.
Women’s volleyball
- Italy 3-0 Türkiye
- France 0-3 USA
- China 3-1 Serbia
- Brazil 3-0 Poland
The bracket is set as follows, starting with the quarter-finals: Brazil vs Dominican Republic, USA vs Poland, China vs Türkiye, Italy vs Serbia
Women’s water polo
- Hungary 12-14 Australia (penalty shootout, 9-9 after regulation)
- Italy 11-13 Spain
- Canada 11-20 Netherlands
- France 4-11 Greece
The bracket is set as follows, starting with the quarter-finals: Australia vs Greece, Hungary vs USA, Netherlands vs Italy, Canada vs Spain
Athletics: Lyles reacts to gold
Here is some immediate reaction from the 100m champion Noah Lyles:
“It’s been a rollercoaster, ups and downs. I’m usually a guy who likes to come out blazing in all my rounds, especially in the 200m. But the 100m, it’s my first time here on the Olympic stage.
“You only need one. As long as that’s the last one, that’s all that matters.”
He added to UK broadcasters BBC Sport:
“I had to take every round as it was and I was a little upset after the first round so I came with the aggression and after I ran that (9.)83 (in semis) and I was done with the aggression. My sports therapist told me you need to let go, you’re holding on. Let go and release it.”
Athletics: Silver medallist Thompson – “I didn’t trust myself enough”
We’ve just heard from a reflective Kishane Thompson in the mixed zone, where he was remarkably serene about having missed out on gold by just 0.005 seconds.
“To make it here and to give off one of my best performances, not my best, I’m really grateful for it,” he said. “I mean, I made a mistake. I’m just going to keep on working and doing as best as I can.
“I didn’t trust myself enough, and my speed, to bring me to the line in the right position I needed to be.
“Today I really gained a lot of experience running with all these great competitors. Big up to all of them. But I really beat myself today in that I didn’t trust myself and my speed to bring myself to the line in first place.
“I don’t look at it as to do it over. I just have to take it and move on, there’s no going back. I’m disappointed but I’m also glad, I’m grateful. At the same time I’ve finished injury-free, I made my mistakes, and I know what I should improve on now, so for that experience I’m super proud of myself.”
Athletics: How quick was the men’s 100m final at Paris 2024?
According to World Athletics, that race made a bit of history: the first time a single 100m race, with a legal wind, has seen eight men crack 10 seconds.
- Noah Lyles, USA, 9.79 (.784) PB
- Kishane Thompson, JAM, 9.79 (.789)
- Fred Kerley, USA, 9.81 SB
- Akani Simbine, RSA, 9.82 NR
- Lamont Marcell Jacobs, ITA, 9.85 SB
- Letsile Tebogo, BOT, 9.86 NR
- Kenny Bednarek, USA, 9.88
- Oblique Seville, JAM, 9.91
Athletics: National records set in men’s 100m final
Congratulations go, too, to Akani Simbine in fourth and Letsile Tebogo in sixth for setting new national records for South Africa and Botswana respectively: 9.82 and 9.86.
Athletics: Lyles celebrates with champions’ bell
Noah Lyles cups his ears as he heads over to the Olympic champions’ bell at the Stade de France – it will be donated to Notre-Dame after the Games – and rings it about eight times.
The camera cuts to Snoop Dogg in the stands cheering with a big USA flag.
What a finish that was from Lyles, who didn’t look in it about halfway through!
- Athletics
Medal Moment
Athletics: Lyles wins men’s 100m gold in photo-finish
Here we go then. Introductions for each of the runners. All of them get big cheers, the biggest reserved for Noah Lyles and Marcell Jacobs.
Lyles beats his chest as he runs out onto track. He looks confident.
After what seems like an interminable wait, the referee finally gives the call for on your marks. The runners were jumping up and down to stay warm.
This is remarkable. It’s a great start from Thompson. Lyles is slow out of the blocks but he’s quickly catching.
It’s a photo finish at the line!
They’ve given it to Lyles! 9.79 (9.784) PB, by five-thousandths of a second! He sets off running around the track in celebration, jumping up and down, as his win is confirmed.
Thompson in 9.789.
Fred Kerley bronze in 9.81.
Lyles has found his mother in the crowd and is getting massive hugs from her. The world champion is the Olympic champion.
Noah Lyles wins Olympic men’s 100m gold in photo finish; Kishane Thompson takes silver ahead of Fred Kerley – all results
Athletics: Time for the men’s 100m final
Ahead of the men’s 100m final, we have a light show accompanied by music from a DJ in the Stade de France!
The final lines up as follows:
- Lane 2: Kenny Bednarek, USA
- Lane 3: Fred Kerley, USA
- Lane 4: Kishane Thompson, JAM
- Lane 5: Akani Simbine, RSA
- Lane 6: Oblique Seville, JAM
- Lane 7: Noah Lyles, USA
- Lane 8: Letsile Tebogo, BOT
- Lane 9: Lamont Marcell Jacobs, ITA
- Fencing
Fencing: Japan win men’s team foil gold
Over in the fencing, top seeds Japan have taken the men’s team foil title against second seeds Italy!
Italy actually led 20-18 and 25-23 earlier, but the Japanese team have been on a run, taking 12 of the last 14 points to win 45-36.
Earlier, France took bronze over USA.
Paris 2024 fencing: All results, as Japan display pinpoint precision to win gold in men’s team foil
Athletics: Ethan Katzberg (CAN) wins men’s hammer throw
We’re into the final round of throws in the men’s hammer throw final now.
World champion Ethan Katzberg of Canada leads with a mammoth 84.12m first-round effort, which came within 0.68m of the Olympic record that stands from 1988!
No one else is close, with Bence Halász of Hungary sitting in second on 79.97m and Mykhaylo Kokhan of Ukraine on 79.39 in third.
Can anyone shake that up in this final round?
None of the men in fifth to eighth can. So Norway’s Eivind Henriksen is up next as the only man who can knock one of the top three out of the medals. But that effort is well short, and our top three is set.
Kokhan gets his effort close to the 80m line but that doesn’t look like an improvement. So we’re down to two.
That looks like it’s right around 80m or so for the Hungarian Halász, perhaps. He will walk away with silver on his birthday, with no improvement.
So our world champion is also the Olympic champion. Can Katzberg improve on his best mark?
The Stade de France claps as one for the Canadian. That’s well over the 80m mark but won’t be an improvement, it doesn’t matter, he is the gold medallist! He runs over to celebrate with his coaches, giving one of them a big bear hug as he punches the air
Athletics: Men’s 1500m finalists set
The contest between Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway and Josh Kerr of Great Britain is the biggest draw in the men’s 1500m, and here in the semi-finals Kerr just matches Ingebrigtsen on the final 200m as they cross first and second.
The top six from each semi-final qualified for the final, and they are: Ingebrigtsen, Kerr, Cole Hockey (USA), Brian Komen (KEN), Stefan Nillessen (NED), Pietro Arese (ITA); Yared Nuguse (USA), Hobbs Kessler (USA), Neil Gourley (GBR), Niels Laros (NED), Timothy Cheruiyot (KEN), Narve Gilje Nordås (NOR).
Joint-bronze medallist Iryna Gerashchenko immediately runs across to her and gives her a big hug, draped in their national flag.
Two Ukrainians and two Australians will share the podium: Mahuchikh gold on 2.00m, Nicola Olyslagers silver on countback on 2.00m, and joint-bronze for Gerashchenko and Eleanor Patterson on 1.95m, who couldn’t be separated on countback.
Athletics: Yaroslava Mahuchikh wins women’s high jump gold
Two misses at 2.02. Nicola Olyslagers needs to clear this… and she doesn’t.
Gold for Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine. Olyslagers will take silver for a second Olympic Games running.
Mahuchikh, who also has two misses at 2.02, will have one more shot at that height with the gold medal to her name. If she clears it, she could potentially try for a new record.
In fact, she is passing at 2.02 and will have one attempt at 2.04m.
Paris 2024 athletics: All results, as Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh claims women’s high jump gold
Athletics: Women’s 800m finalists confirmed
A little earlier, we had the three semi-final heats in the women’s 800m.
Here are the eight women who have reached the final, to be held tomorrow night:
Mary Moraa (KEN) 1:57.86, Worknesh Mesele (ETH) 1:58.06; Tsige Duguma (ETH) 1:57.47, Shafiqua Maloney (VIN) 1:57.59, Juliette Whittaker (USA) 1:57.76, Renelle Lamote (FRA) 1:57.78; Keely Hodgkinson (GBR) 1:56.86, Prudence Sekgodiso (RSA) 1:57.57
Paris 2024 Olympics: Keely Hodgkinson on ‘navigating’ the mazy road to 800m gold
Athletics: Nicola Olyslagers clears 2.00m to keep high jump going
So here we go. Two misses for Nicola Olyslagers, while Mahuchikh has cleared 2.00m.
Can Olyslagers do it too? She does! On we go.
Athletics: Patterson (AUS) and Gerashchenko (UKR) tie for bronze
Two women are left in the race in the women’s high jump final: world record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine and defending silver medallist Nicola Olyslagers of Australia.
Their teammates Iryna Gerashchenko and Eleanor Patterson respectively are out at 1.98m, tying for bronze on 1.95m with three total misses each.
Athletics: World leader Thompson, Tokyo silver medallist Kerley through to 100 final
This third semi-final includes Andre de Grasse of Canada, Zharnel Hughes of Great Britain, world leader Kishane Thompson of Jamaica, Abdul Hakim Sani Brown of Japan, Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya, and Fred Kerley of USA.
It’s a stacked heat, and some of those big names are going to miss out. Who, is the question.
And it’s Thompson, in 9.80, from Fred Kerley in 9.84.
It means Jacobs and Bednarek qualify from semi-final 2 on time.
Hughes got a really slow start and never caught up.
Athletics: Simbine, Tebogo qualify from second 100m semi-final
Defending champion Marcell Jacobs gets a pretty big cheer in this second semi-final. Others in this heat include Ackeem Blake of Jamaica, Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, South Africa’s Akani Simbine, and USA’s Kenny Bednarek.
Simbine takes it in 9.87, just pipping Tebogo in 9.91!
Jacobs 9.92 in third and Bednarek 9.93 in fourth are on the bubble ahead of the third heat.
Athletics: Seville, Lyles qualify from fast first 100m semi
Men’s 100m semi-finals time. The top two per semi-final, and the next two fastest, qualify for the final at 9:50pm tonight.
This first heat features world champion Noah Lyles of USA, and eight of the nine men in it have a personal best under 10 seconds.
Lyles gets a big roar and he shows off for the camera. Also in this heat is Louie Hinchliffe of Great Britain and Jamaica’s Oblique Seville.
It’s a slow start from Lyles, but he catches up, and it’s Seville who wins in a 9.81 PB.
Lyles in 9.83 right behind him, but that was fast!
A decent 0.7m/s tailwind.
Athletics: Recap of men’s 400m heats
We’ve had the men’s 400m heats earlier this evening and we can now bring you the qualifiers for the semi-finals.
There was a big surprise as defending champion Steven Gardiner did not make the start line.
USA’s Michael Norman and Quincy Hall were the top qualifiers in 44.10 and 44.28 respectively.
Athletics: Tamberi fighting illness to make Paris start line
Some breaking news from reigning men’s high jump Olympic champion Gianmarco Tamberi: he’s still in Italy and recovering from “probably kidney stones”, and fighting hard to make it to Paris.
“One thing is certain, I don’t know how I’ll get there, but I’ll be on that platform and I’ll give my soul until my last jump, whatever my condition is.”
Tennis: Nadal offers encouragement to Alcaraz
Rada Nadal has sent a post on X offering encouragement to men’s singles silver medallist and his doubles partner here, Carlos Alcaraz.
“Although I know that today is a difficult day, value a medal that is very important for the whole country, and you will see in time, for you too.
“Thanks for this incredible week and for a medal that you have given us, to Spanish sport.”
Swimming: USA break women’s 4x100m medley relay world record to close swimming at Paris 2024
Would you believe it, this is the last swimming final of Paris 2024.
It’s the women’s 4x100m medley final. Australia are top qualifiers, with Canada in 5, USA in 6, and People’s Republic of China in 3 the other teams who will fancy their chances.
Away they go and Kaylee McKeown leads early on in the middle for the Aussies. There’s very little to separate the favourites though!
USA lead at 50 through Regan Smith but on the turn she has taken a chunk out of the field! She will hand over to Lilly King in the lead.
King has a clear lead now and the world record line has popped up on screen. She is over a length clear of Jenna Strauch.
Gretchen Walsh has a massive lead as she hits the pool for the fly. This is three lengths, if not more. Nearly three seconds ahead.
Walsh is well inside the world record split now! Maggie Mac Neil has pulled Canada clear in second.
Torri Huske is on anchor for USA and a length ahead of the world record pace. Summer McIntosh is trying to chase her down for Canada.
Mollie O’Callaghan and Yang Junxuan are both closing on McIntosh!
Have they both taken her?
World record for USA and gold! 3:49.63, lowers the U.S.’s own mark from the 2019 World Championships.
Australia take silver and China bronze, with Canada dropping back to fourth.
