Tokyo 2020 Olympics mens football final in extra time GB reach 20 golds live
Men’s football: Little time is wasted during the changeover in extra time. Following a brief pause to allow everyone, including himself, to get fluids on board, the referee blows for the second half. It rermains all square at 1-1 between Brazil and Spain and the prospect of penalties looms.
Steven Bloor has been busy in his dark room, sifting through the best images of the penultimate day of competition in Tokyo.
Men’s football: Meanwhile in Yokohama, we’re approaching the end of the first half of extra time in the gold medal match between Spain and Brazil. Both sets of players look totally exhausted. Well , most of them do. Pedri, who is just 18, is still running all over the place despite the fact he’s playing in his 74th match of the season. And with Leo Messi on his way to Paris Saint-Germain, the Barcelona man is unlikely to get much of a rest in the season ahead.
Men’s handball: A shout-out to reader Alexandre Chesnau, who is watching handball and volleyball so that I can keep an eye on the football instead. “Just informing you that France won the gold in men’s handball by beating Denmark 25-23,†he writes. “The men’s volleyball team leads two sets to nil and 13-12 against Not Russia. We’re feeling pretty happy over here!â€
An email: “Just a thought about the Dutch at the athletics tournament,†writes Johan van Slooten. “Before the start of the Games, the Netherlands had achieved 17 medals in athletics in total. In this tournement, they added seven medals - more than the Dutch won between the Games of 1952 and 2016, and the most in any Games (even more than six medals won in 1948, which included four golds by Fanny Blankers Koen).â€
Diving: “There’s still a lot further to go, there are 10 countries competing at these Olympic Games where being LGBT is punishable by death,†said Britain’s Tom Daley after securing bronze behind two Chionese competiotrs in the men’s 10m platform. “I feel extremely lucky to be representing Team GB, to be able to stand on the diving board as myself with a husband and a son and not worry about any ramifications.â€
Men’s football: The ref blows for full time, which means we’ll have 30 minutes of eatra time followed by penalties, if they are required.
Men’s football: It’s all square in the gold medal match between Brazil and Spain, with Mikel Oyarzabal having cancelled out Brazil’s opener shortly after the hour mark. We’re into the second of three minutes of added time. Richarlison tries to drill a cross from the left into the Spain box but his effort is blocked.
Athletics: And that, unless I am very much mistaken, concludes the track and field competition for these Olympics ... unless we’re counting the men’s marathon, which is slated to take place later tonight. And I’m not. Congratulations to all involved.
Athletics: Meanwhile in the men’s javelin, Neeraj Chopra made history for India earlier. The farmer’s son, aged 23, took gold with a winning throw of 87m 58cm. Czech chuckers Jakub Vadlejch and Vitezslav Vesely took silver and bronze. That’s India’s first ever track or field gold. Well done Neeraj!
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August 7, 2021Athletics: Mariya Lasitskene of the ROC has just won gold in the women’s high jump after Australia’s Nicola McDermott fails with her three attempts at 2m 04cm. Ukraine’s teenage jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh gets the bronze the medal. McDermott went tantalisingly close with her final attempt but couldn’t quite clear the bar.
Athletics: That’s a real turn-up for the books, with the Dutch taking over two seconds off their national record to finish second ahead of Botswana in third.
Athletics: They win easily, while the Netherlands nicked silver from Botswana in the closing stages. Rai Benjamin ran a brilliant anchor leg for the USA.
Athletics: Team GB’s women finished fifth in the women’s 4x400m, by the way.
Athletics: Thoughts turn to the men’s 4x400m final, which the USA are expected to win doing handstands. You never know in the relay, which is a funny old game, so don’t rule out an upset.
Men’s basketball: Hats off to Australia, who have earned themszelves a spot on the podium after beating Slovenia in the bronze medal match. They won 107-93 and their star player Patty Mills finished the game with 42 points. “We’ve set the standard now,†he said after the game. The USA, who beat France in the final, might beg to differ although it’s probably fair to assume Patty was talking about setting the standard for Australian basketball. They’ve never won a medal at it before, so onwards and upwards in every sense of the word.
Men’s football: With 54 minutes gone in the gold medfal match, Brazil lead Spain by the only goal of the game which was scored by Hertha Berlin’s Matheus Cunha.
Equestrianism: I’m not sure if whoever wrote this headline should receive some sort of award or be taken down to the river to pray ... for some sort of divine intervention and assistance.
Athletics: Australia’s Nicola McDermott has just failed at her first attempt at 2m 02cm in the women’s high jump. She was the first to attempt it.
Athletics: Thanks to the weather, I’ve managed to miss the women’s 4x400m final, but my pictures return in the immediate adftermath of the race. Team USA have won in a time of 3min 16.85 seconds and were followed home by Poland (3min 20.53sec) and Jamaica (3min 21.24sec). Humble apologies for the brief but irritating loss of transmission.
Weather: In slightly less good news, a torrential downpour of Biblical proportions in one corner of SouthLondon has rendered your reporter’s satellite feed temporarily (I hope) out of commission. If anything interesting or noteworthy is going on in Japan, feel free to keep me informed.
Athletics: In further good news for our Antipodean cousins who excel in the field of leaping, Australia’s Nicola McDermott has just cleared two metres in the women’s high jump, becoming the first in the competition to do so.
Men’s basketball: The bronze medal match between Australia and Slovenia remains ongoing and Australia lead 75-66 with less than a minute left in the third quarter. Patty Mills is running the show for the Aussies, having notched up 36 points, three rebounds, five assists and one steal.
Men’s football: It remains scoreless in the gold medal match between Brazil and Spain as the game approaches half-time. Brazil were awarded a spot-kick through the intercession of VAR earlier, but Richarlison blasted the ball over the bar.
Kon’nichiwa everybody. You join me mere seconds after Jessica Springsteen, daughter of blue collar, working class hero Bruce, has won silver as part of the USA’s showjumping team.
Sweden took the gold in a jump-off, with Peder Fredricson and his mount All In pulling a brilliant clear and quick round out of the fire to steal gold from under the noses of Jessica and her team-mates at the death. Belgium finished third.
That’s enough for me. There’s nothing like these Olympic days. Fare the well through the last few events, Barry Glendenning will be your guide.
It’s 0-0 in the men’s football final between Brazil and Spain. What else have we had in the past five hour?
High jump: Nicola McDermott goes into the gold medal spot! She clears 1.98 on her second attempt, and Geraschenko hits the bar on her first. She’ll get another shot at levelling McDermott though. Australia’s Patterson nearly makes it over too, but just nudges the bar.
Three more jumpers dropped out at 1.96. We’re down to nine in the comp.
Artistic swimming: The team free routine fin happened not long ago: Russia, China, Ukraine the order of the medals there.
Baseball: It’s still 1-0 after six innings in the USA Japan final... with Japan in the lead.
Javelin: India is on track for gold here... Neeraj Chopra threw 87.58 on his second attempt, and no one has got within two metres of that with only a few throws remaining.
Equestrian: It goes Sweden, USA, Belgium in the end. The former two totalled 8 penalties across all three rides. But that means it’s a jump-off, even though Sweden had the better times.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen brings it home. A new Olympic record after two nights ago, three seconds faster in 3:28:32.
Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot was happy to go out fast, and McSweyn stayed with the two of them for the first couple of laps, but faded on the last. Josh Kerr sat back in the pack but put on a burst late. Kipsang tried to do the same, but Ingebrigtsen had enough left to put on the afterburners and pull away.
Cheruiyot hangs on for silver, Kerr doesn’t let Kipsang catch him for bronze.
Basketball: Australia up 45-40 with a couple of minutes left in the half.
High jump: Nicola McDermott clears 1.96! On her second attempt. She’s currently in a bronze medal spot on countback.
1500 metres: The men’s 1500 is about to start. Two Australians in that field of 13: they are Oliver Hoare and Stewart McSweyn. Josh Kerr lines up for Great Britain, with Jake Heyward and Jake Wightm. Kenya’s Abel Kipsang is there, the Olympic record-holder from qualifying.
High jump: Iryna Gerashchenko, the Ukrainian, clears 1.96. And Eleanor Patterson for Australia matches her! Both of them on the first attempt, neither has missed all night. That’s a season best for Patterson, and it starts to look like a medal-winning spot as the rest of the field hit the bar at their first attempts.
High jump: The 12 remaining women in the gold medal final have all got over 1.93 in the end, though some took their full three attempts to get there.
Equestrian: Ben Maher has withdrawn from the team jumps final. With no chance to win a medal, he decided it wasn’t worth risking anything happening to his horse. So that’s it for Great Britain. Germany’s Daniel Deusser has also pulled out.
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Basketball: Tight into the second quarter, about 9 minutes left and the Boomers are leading 25-24. Patty Mills tries a jumper for three but bounces out.
The medal triple for Hassan! Gold here, gold in the 5000, bronze in the 1500, all at the one Olympic Games. Truly, truly astonishing. No runner has ever achieved this, man or woman.
Kalkidan Gezahegne wins silver. Letesenbet Gidey, the world record holder in less oppressive conditions than this, was brave for bronze.
10,000 metres: Sifan Hassan waits until the last 150 metres to make her move. Then when she makes it, Gidey has nothing left. Suddenly Hassan is on her shoulder. Then they come up behind a pack of slower runners, and Hassan is around the outside. Gezahegne goes with her at first, trying to hang on, and at 1000 metres out it looks like they might duke it out for the line. By 40 metres out Hassan is clear, clear, clear. She has just left everyone in her dust - no matter how well they ran, she is another species.
10,000 metres: What a kick from Hassan! This woman is unbelievable.
10,000 metres: Gidey starting to battle. Hassan thinking about when to kick. Gezahegne lurking. 400 to go.
10,000 metres: Gidey, Hassan, Gezahegne. Two laps to go. They’re sticking together, sweating dramatically in the Tokyo heat, singleminded determination.
10,000 metres: Gidey, Hassan, Gezahegne, as they pass 9k. They’re waaaay out there on their own.
High jump: The two Australian women, McDermott and Patterson, both clear 1.93 on their first attempt. No fails yet, and they’re played top three.
10,000 metres: Gidey for Ethiopia, Hassan, Gezahegne for Bahrain, are in a class of their own. Way out in front, they’re starting to lap the slower runners, and they’ve burned off Hellen Obiri of Kenya with about 8000 metres gone.
Basketball: And another thing - the Australian Boomers are going for their first Olympic medal. Bronze contest with Slovenia has started. Australia up 6-2.
Javelin: The men’s gold contest starts. Neeraj Chopra sets the early standard for India, throwing 87.03.
High jump: Nilsson is out, three strikes on 1.89, and the field reduces to 12.
High jump: Patterson and McDermott for Australia both make it over 1.89. This is a very interrupted program because the 10,000 metre race keeps coming through the middle of the run-up area. Can’t we get the high-jumpers a pedestrian bridge? Everyone clears 1.89 in the end except for Maja Nilsson for Sweden, who has clipped the bar twice.
Equestrian: Harry Charles clocks 8 penalties for Great Britain in the second round of jumpers in the team final. That leaves them second last on 24 penalties, with Ben Maher to come. France leads with 2 penalties, Sweden, USA and Belgium on 4.
Baseball: Japan score first in the gold medal match! 1-0 over USA. Murakami Munetaka hits a home run with no one else on base.
10,000 metres: At the track, the women’s race is underway. Sifan Hassan is the one to watch, the extraordinary Dutch runner. Bronze in the 1500, gold in the 5000 already at these Games.
Gold for Great Britain, as Choong wins the laser. Egypt’s Ahmed Elgendy really threatened. He actually took the lead in the running race on the last lap, only for Choong to dig deep enough to retake it, and kick on to leave clear air between him and second place.
1482 total points is also an Olympic record for Choong. Jun Woongtae gets bronze for Korea.
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