Key events
Kieran Pender has been hard at work in Paris and has this great story about how Australia’s women are leading the way in bringing home the gold this Olympics.
The women’s high jump is gearing up to be a hotly contested event after Ukranian Yaroslava Mahuchikh jumped a record 2.10m at the Diamond League three weeks ago. But Australians Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson are determined they can match her. The final is on today and it’s sure to be thrilling. Jack Snape has this great interview with Olyslagers to get you up to speed before it all kicks off.
While we’re on the topic of medals, let’s check out the medal tally. China retain top spot, while the US has clawed their way back into the second. The host nation France are sitting comfortably in third, with Australia sliding down to fourth as the swimming begins to wrap up. Great Britain, Republic of Korea, Japan, Italy, Netherlands and Canada round out the top 10 with plenty more medals still to be won.
If you’re all about the medals, there are plenty up for grabs today! Here’s what you can expect:
Medal Events
🥇 Golf – men’s stroke play
🥇 Equestrian – dressage individual grand prix freestyle
🥇 Tennis – women’s doubles / men’s singles
🥇 Cycling – women’s road race
🥇 Boxing – women’s 54kg / men’s 51kg, 63.5kg, 80kg, 92kg
🥇 Table Tennis – men’s singles
🥇 Archery – men’s recurve individual
🥇 Badminton – men’s doubles & singles / women’s singles
🥇 Gymnastics – men’s rings, vault, parallel bars & horizontal bar / women’s uneven bars, beam & floor exercise
🥇 Shooting – women’s skeet / men’s 25m rapid fire pistol / mixed skeet
🥇 Swimming – women’s 50m freestyle & 4x100m medley relay / men’s 15oom & 4x100m medley relay
🥇 Fencing – men’s team foil
🥇 Athletics – women’s high jump / men’s hammer throw & 100m
🥇 Surfing – men’s & women’s shortboard
Day Nine Schedule
There is so much in store for us all today, it’s that most wonderful point of the Olympics where we have some swimming and athletics crossover, which is always chaotically amazing. You can check out the live schedule to get all the latest updates and times in your timezone.
For those in Australia, we also have quite a lot of Australians in action – you can read all about it and get the event times in this great guide.
Preamble
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Megan Maurice
Hello everybody and welcome to live coverage of the ninth official day of competition of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.
I hope you’ve all been enjoying it so far – here in Australia there have been a lot of late nights and early mornings, but Australian sports fans are well accustomed to dealing with sport induced sleep deprivation.
Day eight was full of action, with probably the biggest news of the day being the huge upset of St Lucia’s Julien Alfred taking out the 100m women’s gold ahead of Sha’carri Richardson. Elsewhere on the track, Dutch runner Femke Bol came from nowhere to drag her team to victory in the 4x400m mixed relay. There was more Simone Biles magic, as the star gymnast picked up her seventh gold medal, and over in the pool Katie Ledecky got the better of Ariarne Titmus to win her fourth 800m gold in a row. Snoop Dogg stole the show at the equestrian (words I never could have imagined typing in my wildest dreams) and Remco Evenepoel picked up the gold for Belgium in the men’s cycling road race.
So that’s the whirlwind tour, but we’ll do a deeper dive over the next few hours and very soon I’ll be getting into the day nine schedule and what to expect and look forward to throughout today! I’ll be your host for the next three hours or so, so settle in, relax and let’s get into some Olympics!
