Olympics 2024 LIVE: Men’s triathlon postponed before Simone Biles and Team GB’s women in gymnastics final

The males’s triathlon on the Olympics has been postponed on account of polluted water in the Seine River, with last-minute assessments revealing water high quality ranges that have been “still above the acceptable limits” for Tuesday’s race to go forward on time and leaving athletes going through uncertainy.

Heavy rain led to elevated ranges of the dangerous micro organism E.coli in the Seine, regardless of greater than €1bn spent in an formidable plan to scrub up the river and host open-water swimming occasions in the Seine. Organisers had beforehand stated they have been assured the race would go forward on time.

Swimming coaching occasion for the triathlon had been cancelled for 2 consecutive days on Sunday and Monday due to considerations over water high quality and organisers now plan to stage each males’s and women’s races on Wednesday morning, however that continues to be contingent on water ranges bettering.

“Following a gathering on water high quality held on 30 July at 3.30am attended by Paris 2024, representatives of World Triathlon and their Technical and Medical Delegates, the International Olympic Committee, Météo France, the City of Paris and the Prefecture of the ile-de-France Region concerned in finishing up water high quality assessments, a choice has been made to postpone the lads’s triathlon occasion which was on account of be held on 30 July at 8am.

“Considering the newest climate data, it has been determined to schedule the lads’s triathlon occasion on 31 July at 10h45. The women’s triathlon is because of happen the identical day at 8am. Both triathlons are topic to the forthcoming water assessments complying with the established World Triathlon thresholds for swimming. The unique contingency day additionally stays in place for August 2, for additional concerns.

“Paris 2024 and World Triathlon reiterate that their precedence is the well being of the athletes. The assessments carried out in the Seine as we speak revealed water high quality ranges that didn’t present adequate ensures to permit the occasion to be held.

“Unfortunately, meteorological occasions past our management, such because the rain which fell over Paris on 26 and 27 July, can alter water high quality and compel us to reschedule the occasion for well being causes. Despite the development on the water high quality ranges in the final hours, the readings at some factors of the swim course are nonetheless above the suitable limits.

“We will present the athletes who’re due to participate in the lads’s triathlon occasion with all data on its postponement, in addition to real-time updates on the scenario. Information concerning tickets and broadcast of the occasions on Wednesday July 31 might be shared in the following hours. There might be a gathering at 8am between World Triathlon and the coaches to offer additional data and the up to date schedule for July 31.”

Delicious Orie’s Olympic goals went up in smoke as Britain’s nice super-heavyweight hope grew to become the newest to endure a controversial exit on the North Paris Arena.

The 27-year-old dubbed ‘the next Anthony Joshua’ was seeded second in his weight division and seemed to be Team GB’s finest likelihood of a boxing medal.

But the decision of the judges in the last-16 bout in opposition to Davit Chaloyan went in opposition to him as he grew to become the fourth British boxer to fall on the first hurdle.

Fearless Adam Burgess turned Olympic agony to ecstasy with a shocking canoe slalom silver.

The 32-year-old missed out on the rostrum by 0.16 seconds in Tokyo however banished these demons as he mastered the brutal course at Stade Nautique de Vaires-sur-Marne.

Max Whitlock delivered a well timed reminder that he’s prepared to finish his glittering gymnastics profession on a golden excessive regardless of the agony of a fourth-place end in the Olympic males’s crew final in Paris.

Summer McIntosh ripped off her hat and started celebrating, punching the air, pointing to her household and breaking into the smile that’s going to grow to be ceaselessly entwined with the Olympic Games over the following decade. As she did so, absorbing the second, she barely appeared to note that a few of her rivals in the 400m medley final have been nonetheless ending the race.

It will not be exhausting to picture the 17-year-old as the following phenomenon of Olympic sport, a determine to rival Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps in reputation. She is already the current and way forward for swimming, and this dominant efficiency, successful her first Olympic gold medal, was simply the beginning with three extra particular person occasions to return.

As Daiki Hashimoto crossed his arms on the pommel horse, in a routine he had practiced numerous occasions to the purpose of perfection, the defending Olympic champion in the person all-around felt his grip loosen. From a golden Olympics in Tokyo three years in the past, the place he was the face of the Covid video games, Hashimoto’s return to Paris was shortly turning right into a nightmare.

Having crashed out in qualifying for the horizontal bar final on Saturday, surrendering the defence of one in all his particular person titles, one other slip regarded to have price Japan in their bid for all-around crew gold. By the midway stage, the eight-time champions have been fifth, lagging behind China.

David Popovici, hailed as ‘The Chlorine Daddy’ by his followers, supplied a menacing pose on the block as a hushed silence descended on La Defense Arena forward of the lads’s 200m freestyle final.

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Simone Biles will bid for her first medal of the Games as she and the remainder of Team USA’s gymnasts go for gold in the women’s crew final. Led by a spectacular displaying from Biles, the Americans topped the standings in qualifying and are agency favourites, whereas Team GB will hope to be in the medal combine with an improved outing.

After the lads’s triathlon was postponed, there might be no issues with the standard of the water at La Defense Arena as a packed programme of swimming continues. Team GB’s fab 4 (Duncan Scott, Matt Richards, James Guy and Tom Dean) defend their males’s 4x200m freestyle relay crown at 9.01pm BST, with Richards and Scott seeking to recover from disappointment in the person occasion with one other group gold. Daniel Wiffen, in the meantime, is an effective contender to proceed Ireland’s success in the pool after Mona McSharry’s bronze final night time — he swims in the 800m freestyle.

And over on the Stade de France, the rugby sevens concludes with the women’s medal matches. An spectacular Australia have lived as much as their billing as pre-tournament favourites, however New Zealand might nicely stand in their means in the final. Canada and the USA are their respective semi-final opponents.