Hello Olympic fans. And especially to the running fans, I know it’s a big day for you all. In preparation for today’s blog, I went first.* More than once, it was great.
(*Entertaining courtesy of Will Unwin).
As the games get into the final stages things are calming down a bit but don’t stop reading because that’s how we make our money and I need to buy some new shoes. Plus the Olympics are great! Here’s my colleague Martin Bellum on what to expect today.
Major events of Friday 6 August
All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add one hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for Aberdeen, 13 hours for Washington DC, and 16 hours for San Francisco.
If you only watch one thing: Modern Pentathlon from 2.30 PM to 7.30 PM – You’ll never explain to me that the sport that makes up the modern pentathlon didn’t come out of a hat in 1912 when someone asked people to write down things they thought a 13th-century French knight would be able to do, But it is undoubtedly compelling viewing. The ladies go swimming today at 2.30pm, fencing at 3.45pm, some showing off at 5.15pm and then finish it off with a combined cross-country hike and a little laser-shooting, where you have to make up for the miss is not punished. , but the faster you can hit five targets the faster you can run again. unacceptable goods
- 5:30 And Race Walk at 4.30 pm – Yes, it’s 5.30 a.m. for the men’s 50km race in Sapporo. The women’s race runs 20 km in the afternoon. Imagine getting up at 5.30 am.
- 7.30am Golf – Two hours after the men’s 50 km race walk begins at 7.30 a.m. at a leisurely pace for round three of women’s golf
- 10:30 And Hockey at 7 pm – Team GB women go for bronze against India in the morning, then Argentina and Netherlands knock it out hockey for gold in the evening
- 1.40 hrs And 8 o’clock basketball – Women’s semi-finals. The US has a nearly 1,057-year long winning streak and faces Serbia in the first match. The hosts play France in the evening.
- 3:30 And Water Polo at 7.50 pm – There are also some placing matches, but the real meat is the men’s semifinals. Greece vs Hungary in the afternoon and Serbia vs Spain in the evening. Expect fireworks.
- 3.30pm-7.15pm Track Cycling Highlights include the women’s Madison final at 5.15 pm and the men’s sprint final at 6.35 pm.
- 5.30 pm, 6.30 pm And Climbing Sports at 9.10am – This is the climax of the women’s event in three seasons with the medals at the end
- Artistic swimming at 7.30 pm – This is team technical routine.
- Table Tennis at 7.30 – First there is a bronze match at 11 in the morning, but in the evening there is a gold medal match for the men’s team. Can Germany stop China from making it their fourth consecutive victory since the event began in 2008? probably not
- 7.50pm-10.55pm Athletics – The stadium has only one season and is mostly finals: women’s javelin, men’s 5,000 metres, women’s 400 metres, women’s 1500 meters – which will feature Lisa Muir and Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands – and ends after Women’s and men’s 4x100m final
- football at 9 pm – Rescheduled women’s final between Sweden and Canada
You can find our full interactive event schedule Here, and it serves as a live scoreboard during the day.
as it stands
emoji table is as follows to stand Tokyo time at 10.15 pm:
1 China 34 24 16 Total: 74
2 USA 29 35 27 Total: 91
3 Japan 22 10 14 Total: 46
4 Australia 17 5 19 Total: 41
5 ️ Russia No 16 22 20 Total: 58
6 Great Britain 16 18 17 Total: 51
7 Germany 9 916 Total: 34
8 France 7 119 Total : 27
9 Italy 7 10 18 Total : 35
10 Netherlands 7910 Total: 26