Tokyo Olympics LIVE updates 62-year-old Aussie wins silver medal Biles to compete
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Australia’s Steve Solomon has finished third in his semi-final for the men’s 400m. He won’t be running in the final. Given he finished outside of the top two he would have had to have run as one of the next two quickest from the three semi-finals. But both the third and fourth places runners from the first semi-final went quicker than he did. Solomon ran 45.15, slower than his PB of 44.94 in the heats.
Australia are at a loss as to what caused Alex Porter’s crash in the men’s pursuit team event at the velodrome earlier this evening. Porter essentially face-planted into the hard wooden boards of the velodrome at 65 kilometres/hour.
Australia’s Alex Porter crashed when his handlbars snappedCredit:Getty Images
Australia got to take a re-run, with a battered and grazed Porter bravely getting back in the saddle. “We’re not too sure, exactly, what happened â€" there was obviously something wrong with the bars,†said Australian cycling team boss Simon Jones.
“When you land on your face at 65 kilometres/hour and you’ve got half an hour to do that again, it’s absolutely amazing.
“Talk about Australian fighting spirit â€" I’m almost speechless.â€
Jones said Porter was “really, really lucky†not to suffer more serious injuries.
“He slid on his face â€" he’s not quite as pretty as he was before,†Jones said.
Australia will ride off against slowest qualifiers Switzerland on Tuesday and must post a time fast enough to reach Wednesday’s bronze medal ride.
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Lamont Marcell Jacobs believes reconnecting with his estranged American father helped him make history by becoming the first Italian to claim Olympic men’s 100 metres gold on Sunday.
Jacobs secured a surprise victory with a European record time of 9.80 seconds, becoming the first winner of the post-Usain Bolt era and the first European Olympic men’s 100 metres champion since Britain’s Linford Christie in 1992.
Jacobs celebrates his success.Credit:Getty Images
It was a stunning run from the 26-year-old underdog, who was born in the United States to an American father and Italian mother.
“I was born in Texas, but I stayed there for six months before my parents separated and I came to Italy. Italy is my country,†Jacobs told Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I did not hear from my father again until one year ago, when I decided to work with a mental coach. She told me that to run fast I would need to reconnect with the father I had never known.
“The reconciliation gave me something more, which has helped me in the last few days. But I have never met him in person, we write to each other and talk.â€
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The Matildas are in action in their semi-final against Sweden. The match has got its own separate live blog. Follow all the action here.
Australian Riley Day just ran a PB in the semi-finals of the 200m sprint. However, she has missed the final.
“Holy shit,†she said on Seven after running the PB.
“That was a much better race than this morning. I’ve got my groove … That’s awesome.“
Riley Day.Credit:Getty
Day said she isn’t intimidated by the big stars running alongside her.
“I don’t like to let that stop me. I want to be the best and I’m going to stop at nothing to be the best.
“My coach, Paul and my strength coach Chris worked tirelessly to get me to be where I am. So everything goes to them here. Unbelievable.â€
Australia’s Riley Day has run a personal best in her women’s 200-metre semi-final sprint.
Day finished fourth in 22.56 seconds, which is not enough for automatic qualification, but she could go through as one of the two next best from the three semi-finals.
Riley Day.Credit:Getty Images
Running from lane nine, that’s a really good result for the 21-year-old Queenslander.
Jamaican sprinting great Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the heat in a canter. She came second in the 100-metre sprint in somewhat of a surprise.
Andrew Hoy, 62, at his eighth Games, with a clear round and that’s a silver medal at least for Australia.
Andrew Hoy in action.Credit:AP
Team gold in the eventing for Great Britain and silver for Australia after the show jumping. Hoy a wonderful story in a staggering eighth Olympic Games.
Hoy has qualified fourth for the individual final later tonight. Kevin McNab and Shane Rose have also qualified.
Huge shock in the women’s football semi-final as the USA, the world champions, crash out to arch-rivals Canada. The Americans dominated play, particularly in the second half, but went down 1-0 after conceding a penalty late in the game.
The Canadians celebrate their goal.Credit:AP
It is being hailed as the greatest moment in Canadian women’s football history â€" and it is hard to disagree. The Matildas are in action in an hour in the other semi-final when they take on Sweden for the right to play Canada for gold in the championship decider.
For context on the magnitude of the victory, from AP: The Canadians had not won against the United States since 2001. Overall the United States are 51-4-7 against Canada. The most recent meeting was a 1-0 US victory at the SheBelieves Cup in February. Their previous Olympic meeting was back in 2012, a controversial semi-final that went to extra time. Canadian star Christine Sinclair scored three goals, but the United States won it 4-3 on Alex Morgan’s header in the 123rd minute.
The controversy stemmed from questionable calls, including a rare six-second violation against Canadian goalkeeper Erin McLeod late in normal time, touching off a sequence that resulted in the tying goal. In Tokyo, Canada advanced 4-3 on a penalty shootout after a scoreless draw with Brazil. The Canadians have won the bronze medal in the past two Olympics. The United States already advanced further in Japan than in the Rio Games, when the team was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Sweden.
Dominic Bossi will bring you live coverage of the Matildas’ semi-final in a special separate blog.
It will be the culmination of a journey that began in Sudan. At the age of four, his family escaped the civil war that would engulf that country for more than two decades. After arriving in Egypt in 1998 his family would wait another four years before emigrating to Australia.
Australian 800-metre runner Peter Bol. Credit:Instagram
His first experience of Australia was stepping off a plane in Toowoomba in Queensland. He was eight and remembers it vividly.
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