Good morning and welcome to our live blog of day 9 of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. We have all sorts of good things to look forward to today, and I am confident to predict that we will be hearing the phrase ‘Super Sunday’ quite a bit. For British readers that will be especially the case if Team GB delivers some medals.
Possible opportunities for that will include Tommy Fleetwood in the men’s golf, he is one shot off the lead in third place going into the final round. Defending champion Xander Schauffele and Jon Rahm are tied on -14 in the lead.
They’ve already secured a team bronze, and now Charlotte Fry, Carl Hester and Becky Moody will compete individually in the dressage final. That happens at 9am UK time and I think we will probably cover that in this very blog. Some of the other events we will do as separate blogs but I’ll mark your card as to what we’ve got where. Fry is the world champion incidentally so maybe she’s the woman most likely of that trio.
Amber Rutter goes into the two final rounds of women’s skeet qualification as the joint-leader. She missed Tokyo 2020 due to COvid and she’s got a three-month year old baby. Amazing, what a story that would be.
Worthy events all but of course all of these bend the knee to the men’s 100m final in terms of global interest. Britain sends forth Zharnel Hughes and Louie Hinchliffe to the semis, which take place at 8pm and then we’ve got the big one, the men’s 100m final, at about 8.55pm.
Harry Hepworth is in the rings final at 2pm and he then takes his tilt at the vault at 3.25pm. Jake Jarman has already got himself a bronze and will join in the rings. And Becky Downie goes on the uneven bars at 2.40pm.
In the pool, the men’s 4x100m medley relay team are in their final at 6.06pm. Basically, there’s absolutely loads! So get comfy and let’s hope for a day to remember.
