Paris 2024 Olympics day eight: athletics, rowing, men’s cycling road race and more – live

Hello everyone and welcome to the live broadcast of the eighth official competition day of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.

Day six was another stunning day for the hosts with French superstars Teddy Riner and Leon Marchand continuing the incredible atmosphere surrounding these Games. Australia enjoyed another gold rush with Kaylee McKeown becoming the first Australian to win four individual gold medals. And there were exciting signs from the opening day of athletics action with the Stade de France track being praised for its speed. But for all this extraordinary action, it was a day overshadowed by “the most wildly politicised, toxic and largely misunderstood event of these Olympic Games.”

What can we expect today?

Medal Events

🥇 Shooting – 25m pistol women (from 09:30)
🥇 Rowing – men & women single scull / men & women eight (from 09:30)
🥇 Equestrian – dressage team grand prix special (from 10:00)
🥇 Cycling – Men’s Road Race (from 11:00)
🥇 Tennis – men’s doubles / women’s singles (from 12:00)
🥇 Sailing – windsurfing for women and men (from 12:13)
🥇 Table tennis – women’s singles (from 2:30 PM)
🥇 Archery – women individual (from 14:46)
🥇 Gymnastics – floor and pommel horse men / vault women (from 15:30)
🥇 Shooting – skeet men (from 15:30)
🥇 Judo – mixed team (from 4:00 PM)
🥇 Badminton – women’s doubles (from 16:10)
🥇 Athletics – men’s shot put and decathlon / women’s triple jump and 100m / 4 x 400m mixed relay (from 16:10)
🥇 Fencing – women’s sabre team (from 20:00)
🥇 Swimming – Men’s 100m butterfly / Women’s 200m medley & 800m freestyle / 4 x 100m mixed medley relay (from 20:30)
🥇 Surfing – men & women (from 22:00)
*(All times mentioned are local times in Paris)

Simon Burnton’s Daily Guide:
Gymnastics: Men’s Bow Finals
In his final event, Max Whitlock is attempting to become the first gymnast ever to win four Olympic medals on the same apparatus. Since winning gold in Tokyo, Whitlock has retired, not retired (“I felt like a complete waste of space”), and has generally had a positive outlook, with occasional hiccups and minor injuries. “There are still areas I can improve on, but I’m definitely on the right track,” he said of his preparations in March. Also up for grabs today are the men’s floor and women’s vault.

Athletics: Women’s 100m Final
The second night of athletics at the Stade de France and the action is heating up, with five titles up for grabs, including the women’s 100 metres, where American Sha’Carri Richardson will try to stop Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. For Fraser-Price, this is her final race, 16 years after winning gold in Beijing. “I want to finish on my own terms,” ​​she says.

Swimming: Women’s 800m Freestyle
At a competition in Orlando in February, 17-year-old Canadian tyro Summer McIntosh defeated Katie Ledecky in the 800m freestyle, the American’s first defeat at that distance in a final in 13 years. But McIntosh, who trains with Ledecky at the University of Florida, has decided to focus on other events in Paris, leaving Ledecky as the odds-on favorite to cement her status as the all-time great with a fourth straight Olympic gold medal at that distance.

Other unmissable moments are… well, practically everything. We’re in the final sessions of sports that dominated the opening week, and in the thick of the action at the Stade de France, so wherever you watch, there will be a reason to keep watching. If you’re forced to, I’d advise you not to miss a last glimpse of the surf of Teahupo’o. The men’s road race (cycling) promises to be brutal. And the crowning of the decathlon gold medalist is similar to crowning the king of the Games.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten something of note for you in this brief round-up, so please let me know what’s on your agenda by emailing jonathan.howcroft.casual@theguardian.com or, if you’re still rummaging through the post-Twitter bin, find me at X @jphowcroft.

The first few hours of my blog will be here in Australia, then I will hand over to Martin Belam in the UK.