Tokyo Olympics Johnson-Thompson injured GB showjumping and sailing gold live
Men’s hammer: GB’s Nick Miller is disappointed with sixth but he was carrying a knock. He notes that athletes want to win so anything that isn’t that is a problem; he says his result “isn’t terribleâ€, and I hope that when he has time to look back, it gives him some satisfaction.
Women’s basketball: France leads Spain 36-30 at half-time. The winners here meet Japan, with USA taking on Serbia in the other semi.
Decathlon: There’s something faintly amusing about watching strapping decathletes haul their exhausted bodies around the track â€" they must hate their event, and this aspect of it more than most. Urena of Spain wins in 48.00, but the rest of the medal-contesting lads are in the next heat.
Decathlon: Here comes the second 400m heat...
Heptathlon: Man, this was hard to watch.
Women’s basketball: Spain, who were solid favourites for this match, now trail France 33-24 with just under three minutes left in the second quarter.
Men’s decathlon: The first 400m heat is away and Mayer of France, the silver medalist in Rio whose high jump effort yanked him into contention, can only come fourth in 50.31. Erm of Estonia wins in 48.25, with Ziemek of USA, who was fifth overall, coming second in 49.06.
Men’s beach volleyball: ROC have taken the first set off Germany; the winner will play Qatar or Italy in the last four, with the other semi between Norway and Latvia.
Henriksen drops 96cm shy of his target and the perennial bronze medalist has finally done it! Henriksen of Norway and Fajdek of Poland come second and third respectively.
Men’s hammer final: Henriksen ascends the duchen; can he stop Nowicki?
Men’s hammer final: Fajdek, his left leg and shoulder covered in tatts, looks for something special from his final go ... and can’t find it. He too is short of 80m and bronze is the best he’s getting; at 32, though, having presumably worried his time had passed, he’ll take it.
Men’s hammer final: Kokhan of Ukraine lies fourth, but his final chuck dives short of 80m and that’s the end of him. But at 20-years-old, he’ll come again.
Men’s hammer final: Here come the big dogs; we’re down to the final four...
Men’s hammer final: GB’s Nick Miller has just chucked 78.15, a season’s best, and will finish sixth, the best anyone from these shores has ever managed in the event.
Men’s hammer final: Nowicki of Poland still leads with 82.52, and Fajdek, his “fellow countrymanâ€, briefly moved form third to second with 81.53. But Henriksen of Norway then luzzed 81.58 and sits in the silver-medal position; all three have one go left.
Check out how great this is!
World Athletics (@WorldAthletics).@TheKoriMonster and @natashahastings' reaction to THAT 400m hurdles race is all of us rn.
🥇 51.46 â€" @GoSydGo 🤯
🥈 51.58 â€" Dalilah Muhammad 🤯
🥉 52.03 â€" Femke Bol 🤯
Still live on #WAInsideTrack trying to comprehend what just happened: https://t.co/G8W3jF2IDw pic.twitter.com/mt2I9cqTWI
August 4, 2021Coming up:
â€" The end of the men’s hammer final
â€" Spain v France in the last eight of the women’s basketball; France lead 21-16 at the end of the first quarter.
â€" Germany v ROC in the last eight of the men’s beach volleyball; ROC lead 17-15 in the first set.
â€" 400m heats in the men’s decathlon.
â€" Brazil v ROC in the last eight of the women’s volleyball.
â€" The men’s 200m final.
â€" Qatar v Italy in the last eight of the men’s beach volleyball.
Men’s 800m final: Korir is the quickest of all these over 400m and Dobek used to be a 400m hurdler, so when the first lap was slow, the race massively favoured those two and made the lads who lingered at the back look silly. No way were they going to close the 10m they needed to, and perhaps the days of staying tight for the final 200m are probably gone.
Men’s 800m final: Korir won that a little bit too easily â€" I’m not sure what happened to Rotich, who was going backwards 500m out, then found his legs halfway down the home straight. By then, Korir was clear â€" another 10m and he might’ve come second â€" but the line was where he needed it to be and Rudisha’s successors are involved!
Rotich, who left himself to much to do, takes silver for Kenya, with Dobek of Poland taking bronze.
Men’s 800m final: Korir hits the front and here come Dobek and Rotich! Dobek looks hard but has Rotich left himself too much to do?
Men’s 800m final: Bol takes it on at the bell but it’s slow, so Bol steps on the gas, Korir and Dobek with him...
Men’s 800m final: Amos, who came second to Rudisha in London, is the fastest in the field though past his best, and he comes across from lane eight while Korir of Kenya leads, Bol and Rotich tucked in.
Men’s 800m final: Away we go!
Men’s 800m final: Sadly, we’re bereft of the great but injured David Rudisha, so here’s an interview with him â€" he’s every bit the don you hope he is.
And here is in in Joy of Six: sporting beauty.
Rotich is favourite, but based on what i saw in the heats, I kind of fancy Dobek for a medal.
Hi everyone and thanks Geoff. Let’s get straight on with the final of the men’s 800m...
As of 9pm Tokyo time, that is.
That’s it from me. Daniel Harris for the men’s 800 metres and beyond. Bye now.
Baseball: 2-1 to Japan at the top of the sixth in the semifinal.
More important updates from Netherlands, emailed by Inge Kersten.
“You might be pleased to know that, after climbing wasn’t mention on an Tokyo update here on Dutch radio, that after I sent them a message saying that over on the Guardian live blog they are waxing lyrical (is that the phrase?) about climbing but I don’t hear anything about it here. And my message was just called out on the radio and their commenter will start watching it. You are spreading the love.â€
We climb together, Inge, all of us. We ascend to the summits of our hearts.
He holds on! Fredricson silver for Sweden, van der Vleuten bronze for the Netherlands. All six riders got around without taking a rail, so it was only time to separate them. 37.85 is the winning time.
The arachnids do it in the artistic swimming duet final. Last to perform, straight to the top, with 195.9079 their score. Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romashina win gold. China silver, Ukraine bronze.
Four riders done, two to come, and Maher lodges 37.85 seconds with no penalties to take top spot.
Ah, this is awful. KJT has done her achilles in her 200 metres heat for the heptathlon. The GB champion gets up and hobbles through the rest of the race, then gets disqualified because she fell out of her lane when she hit the ground.
Artistic swimming: Aaaaaah, the Russians are doing a swim routine to the theme of ‘spiders’, and they have spiders on their swimsuits, and they started off on the pool deck squatting together and making a kind of eight-legged creature with their bodies, and I will never sleep again.
Really creepy music in the background, too. Hope the judges like horror.
Hockey: Argentina go into the gold medal match. It’s been a wonderful run for India’s women, and their first goal here made you think that it might continue. But Argentina fought back to take a lead, then hold it, to win 2-1.
Equestrian: Six riders get around the course with no faults. So you know what that means?
<Zoolander voice> It’s a jump off! </Zoolander voice>
Ben Maher for Great Britain will be in there, he was third fastest around the course. Along with the aforementioned van der Vleuten and von Eckermann, Peder Fredricson, Malin Baryard-Johnsson, and Daisuke Fukushima.
Three Swedes in that lot. Three! Why are you so good at perfect horses, Sweden? What is going on?
One Dutch, one British, and one Japanese. To jump for medals. To dance for coins. Go on, horse whisperers.
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