The Workforce GB pole vaulter Molly Caudery has crashed out of the Olympics in qualification after failing to clear her opening top of 4.55m.

There shall be no British illustration within the girls’s ultimate after Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist, Holly Bradshaw, additionally bowed out, failing 3 times at 4.40m.

Caudery, from Cornwall, received the world indoor title in March and set a brand new British file, with excessive hopes for a medal in Paris, in addition to setting a world lead within the occasion within the build-up to the Video games.

The 24-year-old, nonetheless, is not going to contest the ultimate after bowing out after three failed makes an attempt at a top 37cm decrease than her British file of 4.92m.

She instructed the BBC: “It’s actually heartbreaking. Not the expertise I hoped for and I’m so sorry for everybody again dwelling. I want I might have completed higher, however I’m going to strive study from this and I’ll take every little thing I can from it.

“I felt nice, the perfect form of my life. I didn’t really feel too nervous I like an enormous crowd. I don’t know why, but it surely wasn’t my day.”

There was additional disappointment for Nice Britain within the discipline occasions with each males’s discus throwers failing to qualify for the ultimate. Lawrence Okoye and Nicholas Percy completed eleventh and twelfth of their respective qualifying teams.

In the meantime, British sprinter Zharnel Hughes has withdrawn from Monday night time’s Olympic 200m heats because of a hamstring subject.

Hughes, the world 100m bronze medallist, got here up in need of reaching a second straight Olympic ultimate at that distance on Sunday night time after clocking 10.01 to complete 14th of the semi-finalists.

He skipped the European and British championships after sustaining a hamstring harm, however was given a discretionary place and earlier than these Video games stated he was feeling match forward of Paris.

A British Athletics assertion stated: “Zharnel Hughes has withdrawn from the 200m heats tonight because of a hamstring tightness which requires monitoring for the following 48 hours. No choice has been taken as but in relation to his relay involvement.”

World indoor champion failed three makes an attempt at 4.55m as fellow Briton Holly Bradshaw additionally went out in girls’s pole vault qualifying in Paris

Molly Caudery would normally count on to clear 4.55m with ease. It’s a routine top that’s 37cm in need of her British report. However girls’s pole vault qualifying on Monday morning on the Paris Olympics she inexplicably didn’t recover from it 3 times and won’t compete within the ultimate.

The world indoor champion from earlier this 12 months, Caudery was anticipated to problem for a podium place. Even gold was a definite risk. As an alternative, she must watch from the sidelines and can journey dwelling questioning how and why all of it went fallacious within the greatest occasion of the 12 months.

“I’m at present in a little bit of shock,” she stated. “I’m so upset. I don’t have any excuse. I felt nice and in the perfect form of my life, I beloved the large crowd, I didn’t really feel overly nervous, I don’t have a purpose proper now for what simply occurred. That is going to take a little bit of time to course of.”

The 24-year-old continued: “4.55m is a bar that I leap day in, time out. There may be not one piece of doubt in my thoughts that I wasn’t going to clear it.

“Some folks would possibly say I got here in too excessive, however that’s definitely not mine or my coach’s opinion. When I’ve been leaping 4.80m and 4.90m all 12 months spherical, 4.55m shouldn’t have been an issue. It’s only a actually unlucky day.”

So as to add to the British woes on this occasion, Holly Bradshaw additionally didn’t progress as she failed at 4.20m. An Olympic bronze medallist from three years in the past, these are her ultimate Video games and she or he hoped to exit on a greater word.

“It’s not the ending I wished however in life you don’t at all times get what you deserve,” Bradshaw stated.

“I believe I’m only a bit crushed. I’ve struggled all 12 months with a niggly Achilles and my staff have completed an incredible job to get me pain-free. As we speak was the primary competitors or coaching session I’ve been utterly pain-free.

“I believe with what occurs in pole vault I used to be on the again foot, I used to be on too tender a pole, had a little bit of a flirty wind which with a greater build-up I’d brush off, however I simply obtained caught out with a number of technical and tactical choices.”

She added: “I felt actually good, its solely taken 4.40-55m to make the ultimate and I’m properly price that on the minute. I’ve had an terrible 12 months and struggled to come back to phrases with dad passing away however I don’t assume anybody ever does, however to make it right here I believe he can be proud. It could have been nice to be higher, however it’s what it’s and I’ve a greater perspective, I misplaced my dad and different issues don’t matter as a lot.”

Amongst these progressing have been Nina Kennedy of Australia, European gold medallist Angelica Moser of Switzerland and Olympic champion Katie Moon of america.

Nick Percy and Lawrence Okoye additionally went out because the British discus throwers threw 61.81m and 61.17m respectively to complete 20^th and 24^th , with the qualification led by world record-holder Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania with 67.47m.

“It was only a robust day for me,” stated Okoye. “I used to be in a boot two weeks in the past so my preparation hasn’t been excellent, however you’ve obtained to do what you’ve obtained to do. I needed to combat.”

Percy stated: “It’s the Olympic Video games and there’s a lot of stress, you solely have three makes an attempt, it isn’t straightforward. I’m actually proud. The previous couple of weeks have been a battle emotionally. I stated to my household and coach beforehand, if I stroll away with a 62m throw, I’ve completed very properly. With 61.81m, you’re mainly there.

“Within the final spherical, it is vitally uncommon you could say you might have practically 70,000 clapping for you. It’s a actual emotional factor. I’m taking all of it in, I don’t need this to finish. It’s such a special occasion, so there is no such thing as a disappointment.”

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Amber Anning certified within the girls’s 400m with a warmth win in 49.68 forward of Lieke Klaver of the Netherlands.

Laviai Nielsen additionally went by with 50.36 as  runner-up behind Nickisha Pryce of Jamaica in her warmth however fellow Brit Victoria Ohuruogu goes into the repechage spherical after clocking 50.93.

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Karsten Warholm led the 400m hurdles qualifiers with 47.57 as British champion Alastair Chalmers additionally progressed with 48.98 for third in his race.

Fellow British 400m hurdler Jessie Knight additionally progressed with 55.10 in her repechage race.

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Again within the peloton, the principle group of riders, the sturdy Netherlands workforce of Demi Vollering, Lorena Wiebes, Ellen van Dijk and Vos led the group whereas biding their time. Kopecky, the present world champion, additionally remained within the group. Kopecky received 11 races within the season main as much as the Olympics.

With 100km (62 miles) to go and headed into the second climb of the day, the lead group of Jencusova, Gafinovitz, and Yulduz, which at that time included sister Fariba, Vietnam’s Thi That Nguyen and Impartial athlete Hanna Tserakh with a 5:18 lead over the principle group — the most important lead of the day.

Midway by the race, the peloton quickened the tempo and began to chip away on the lead. Coming into the ultimate climb earlier than the town circuit, the place the majority of the motion occurred within the males’s race, van Dijk closed the hole to three:36. By the point the race entered the town once more, the lead was down to only two minutes.

The peloton caught Fariba and Tserakh, who had separated, because the group started the climb on the Cote de la Butte Montmartre. Catastrophe struck for American Chloe Dygert on the primary flip of the climb when she crashed close to the entrance of the principle group. The crash, within the narrowest a part of the highway, precipitated a break up within the giant peloton group with many medal favorites caught within the carnage.

Dygert received the bronze medal within the ladies’s time trials earlier within the Video games. She additionally suffered a nasty crash within the race and needed to be helped off her bike. Within the highway race, she finally hopped again on her bike, however at that time was properly behind. 

Faulkner managed to remain forward of the crash. She executed an assault and took the lead within the race with Spain’s Mavi Garcia. Gold medal contenders Kopecky and Italy’s Elisa Longo Borghini additionally emerged forward of the crash. 

Coming into the ultimate climb of the Montmartre, Vos and Hungary’s Blanka Vas separated from the principle lead pack for a 30 second lead.

On the ultimate climb, Faulkner and Kopecky executed a formidable climb to shut the hole behind the lead pair to 5 seconds. Along with her mother and father in attendance, Faulkner left her opponents speechless as she surged forward down the stretch, leaveing no room for pursuit, to safe the gold medal. She completed the feat on the fortieth anniversary of the final (and solely) American gold on this occasion, received by Connie Carpenter-Phinney on the 1984 Video games.

Faulkner on her aggressive assault: “I knew I needed to assault them as quickly as we caught them. I knew they have been sprinters. However I knew they did not need to work collectively – they have been three completely different nations. I knew if I received a small hole they must race for second.”

After the transfer, she tried to maintain her focus, “I simply counted to 10 about 10 instances till I hit the end line.”

Dygert had a formidable push to get again within the race, nevertheless it was too little too late as she ran out of time and finally completed fifteenth. 

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Bitcoin is experiencing its worst value crash since 2022, falling greater than 10 per cent on Monday morning to hit a six month low.

The world’s main cryptocurrency dropped beneath $50,000 (£39,000) for the primary time since February earlier than recovering to $52,000 on the time of writing.

The sudden plummet comes after one of the crucial constructive durations in bitcoin’s historical past, having rallied to a record-breaking $74,000 in March and remained near that degree till this weekend.

Different main cryptocurrencies have suffered even better losses, with Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB), Cardano (ADA) and Solana (SOL) all falling by round 15 per cent over the past 24 hours.

The general crypto market has fallen beneath $2 trillion to $1.85 trillion, having decreased by 13 per cent over the past day. Mixed with losses over the earlier week, bitcoin has misplaced practically 1 / 4 of its worth in simply seven days.

The newest value crash comes amid a wider downturn in monetary markets, partly triggered by fears of a looming world recession.

The sudden crypto collapse took some market analysts unexpectedly, with the earlier consensus amongst many consultants being that bitcoin may rally to a different new all-time excessive this yr following a profitable halving and the influx of billions of {dollars} price of funding from newly accepted bitcoin spot alternate traded funds (ETFs).

The bitcoin halving, which occurred in April, noticed rewards for mining the cryptocurrency fall by half. The quadrennial occasion, which is hardcoded into bitcoin’s underlying digital infrastructure, is designed to be an anti-inflationary measure and sometimes precedes record-breaking value runs.

“The cryptocurrency market has been hit by a sell-off, the likes of which haven’t been seen in a very long time,” Alex Kuptsikevich, a senior market analyst at FxPro, informed The Unbiased.

“We’d not have been shocked to see such a sell-off earlier than the halving as a result of final takeout of consumers earlier than the beginning of energetic development. There’s nothing uncommon about such a downward amplitude in a bear market both, however not now, when the four-year cyclical sample ought to work on the bulls’ aspect.”

Algeria’s Kaylia Nemour had the gang at Bercy Area within the palm of her hand Sunday afternoon (4 August) as she swung her manner into historical past on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024.

The French-born gymnast struck uneven bars gold with a large 15.700 rating, holding off a powerful problem from the Folks’s Republic of China’s Qiu Qiyuan, the reigning world champion on the occasion. Qiu scored 15.600.

Two-time Olympic all-around medallist Suni Lee grabbed a 3rd medal of those Video games in third at 14.800.

“It truly is my lifelong dream,” Nemour advised Olympics.com. “It has been a aim since 2020. Even I had my doubts earlier than I stepped on the bar, I advised myself it wasn’t doable that I might be Olympic champion. And I handed, it was unbelievable.”

Nemour’s triumph is a primary for Algeria and any African gymnast on the Olympic Video games. She is Algeria’s sixth ever Olympic champion.

“I’m very pleased to have received this medal for Algeria. I hope I made them proud,” she mentioned. “It is true that the strain was very excessive the final days, however I managed to remain calm and centered. I used to be in a position to carry out my routine (nicely) as we speak.”

A yr in the past, Nemour made historical past for her nation as she received world silver on the occasion. It was the primary medal by an African gymnast on the World Gymnastics Championships.

Her 2024 season has been sensible, with World Cup wins and big 15.500 or larger scores in Cottbus, Doha and Baku. These performances marked the 17-year-old as a favorite for gold in Paris.

Nemour was overcome with emotion as quickly as her toes hit the mat on her caught double structure dismount. Qiu embraced her because the rating got here up, with Lee coming over to congratulate the Algerian.

“Everybody did unbelievable. It was tremendous cool to only see them as a result of I believe solely we are able to actually perceive all of the work that we put in,” Lee advised reporters afterward. “So seeing all of them go up there and do every thing that they had been alleged to do after watching them in observe, that is simply tremendous cool and I am so pleased for everybody.”

Former England cricketer Graham Thorpe has died aged 55, the England and
Wales Cricket Board has introduced.

The previous Surrey left-hander was famend as one of many most interesting English gamers of his era, taking part in precisely 100 Exams and scoring 16 centuries earlier than retiring in 2005.

He captained England on three events and served in varied teaching roles for his nation between 2010 and 2022.

”There appear to be no acceptable phrases to explain the deep shock we really feel at Graham’s dying,” an announcement from the governing physique learn.

”A couple of of England’s finest-ever batters, he was a beloved member of the cricket household and revered by followers everywhere in the world.

“His ability was unquestioned, and his talents and achievements throughout a 13-year worldwide profession introduced a lot happiness to his teammates and England and Surrey CCC supporters alike. Later, as a coach, he guided the perfect England Males’s expertise to some unimaginable victories throughout all codecs of the sport.

”The cricket world is in mourning at present. Our hearts exit to his spouse Amanda, his youngsters, father Geoff, and all of his household and buddies throughout this unimaginably troublesome time. We are going to at all times keep in mind Graham for his extraordinary contributions to the game.”

Surrey chair Oli Slipper led the tributes from Thorpe’s former county, the place he revamped 300 appearances in each first-class and Checklist A cricket throughout a 17-year profession.

“Graham is without doubt one of the nice sons of Surrey and there’s an awesome disappointment that he won’t stroll via the gates of the Oval once more. He’s a legend of Surrey and introduced nice delight to the membership sporting each the Three Feathers and the Three Lions.

“He made excellent contributions to the membership as a cricketer, and as a person, and he will probably be so sorely missed.”

Previous and current gamers have been amongst these to pay tribute to Thorpe as properly, together with one among his former England captains in Michael Vaughan.

“RIP Thorpey. Thanks for all the recommendation all through my profession, you have been a fantastic participant and a superb team-mate,” Vaughan posted on X.

“You will have gone far too younger however you allow as an England cricket legend… Ideas with all who knew Thorpey and to all of the household xxx.”

Present England opener Ben Duckett additionally wrote on X, posting: “Heartbreaking to see Thorpey has handed away. He was one among my heroes rising up and I used to be lucky to work with him.

“My ideas exit to all of his family and friends throughout this robust time.”

Duckett’s England team-mate Joe Root added his personal tribute on Instagram as properly.

“Hero, mentor and a lot extra,” Root wrote with an image of him and Thorpe celebrating England’s 2019 Cricket World Cup triumph. “Relaxation in peace and thanks for every little thing!”

Graham Thorpe: 1969-2024

Thorpe made his first-class debut for Surrey in the summertime of 1988 earlier than establishing himself as an everyday within the 1989 season.

He lastly made his England debut on the age of 24, scoring 114 on debut towards Australia at Trent Bridge in 1993.

Thorpe would go on to turn out to be a mainstay of the middle-order along with his unbeaten double-hundred towards New Zealand in Christchurch in 2002 among the many highlights of his profession – his innings comprised 28 fours and 4 sixes.

Thorpe performed sporadically for England till his worldwide retirement in 2005. He went on to start a training profession in Australia, the place he labored with the likes of Steve Smith and David Warner at New South Wales, earlier than becoming a member of the England and Wales Cricket Board as a batting coach.

He was appointed Afghanistan head coach in March 2022 following his departure from the England set-up, however didn’t take up the function as a result of unwell well being.

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – The legend of Scottie Scheffler retains rising, and the most recent addition is golden.

World No. 1 Scheffler caught hearth on the again 9 at Le Golf Nationwide, coming from off the tempo to swipe the gold medal for Crew USA from a gaggle of elite contenders within the closing holes of a enthralling Paris Olympics competitors.

Opening the ultimate spherical 4 pictures again of the leaders, Scheffler tied a course report by firing a 9-under-par 62 on Sunday. He birdied his first three holes of the afternoon after which six of 9 after the flip, together with a pivotal run of 4 in a row to grab a spot atop the leaderboard that he would not lose.

Scheffler’s match whole of 19 below beat silver-medalist Tommy Fleetwood of Nice Britain by one shot. Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama (17 below) received the bronze medal.

In his first Olympics, Scheffler, 28, hadn’t been thrilled with how he’d performed the primary three rounds, however he’d performed nicely sufficient to remain with out shouting distance. Finally, he stepped up whereas different high gamers stumbled down the stretch. Spain’s Jon Rahm – who led by 4 strokes at one level Sunday – performed holes No. 11 via No. 14 at 4 over, making a pricey double bogey on 14.

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Eire’s Rory McIlroy hit it into the water on No. 15. That was a pricey double bogey for him.

In the meantime, Scheffler took the solo lead with a 17-foot birdie putt on No. 17, one stroke forward of Fleetwood, who nonetheless had three holes remaining. After a birdie on the par-3 sixteenth to catch Scheffler, Fleetwood drove it into the deep tough on No. 17. From off the inexperienced, he chipped a poor third shot too far previous the outlet and bogeyed to slide to 18 below. Scheffler was on the driving vary, getting ready for a attainable playoff, as Fleetwood missed the inexperienced on No. 18 and could not chip in for a birdie.

It was the second Olympic golf gold medal in a row for the U.S. males, with Scheffler matching teammate Xander Schauffele’s gold from Tokyo.

Schauffele opened Sunday’s spherical tied for the lead however unraveled within the closing 11 holes. He bogeyed No. 8. Then on No. 12 and No. 13, wayward drives into the tough led to bogeys, and a double bogey on No. 15 ended dwindling possibilities for a medal.

One other American – Wyndham Clark – who’d been largely forgotten since capturing a first-round 75, closed with consecutive 65s to go to 11 below for match. It was an encouraging weekend for a participant who had been struggling of late. And the USA’s Collin Morikawa could not get a lot going this week, capturing three 70s to complete 6 below.

BBC commentator Matthew Pinsent interviewed Staff GB’s ladies’s eight rowers on his KNEES following their bronze medal win on the Olympics.

Pinsent was overlaying the lads’s and girls’s eight finals on Saturday morning.

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Staff GB claimed bronze within the ladies’s occasion, ending behind Romania and Canada.

They appeared thrilled when talking to four-time Olympic gold medal winner Pinsent and Dame Katherine Grainger after the race.

However with a view to get all eight athletes within the digicam body, Pinsent accomplished the interview on his knees.

He mentioned: “We’re actually going to wrestle to get you all in. I will get on my knees in entrance of you.”

Grainger then quipped: “Matthew does not get on his knees for many individuals!”

Whereas returning to his ft after the chat, Pinsent then joked: “My knees aren’t what they was once!”

Talking after the race, Emily Ford mentioned: “The entire method we simply trusted each other and trusted the method.

“Now we have actually discovered to have perception in ourselves and that is precisely what we did.

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“I believe this medal is greater than for simply us lot standing right here – it is for folks previous and current, our household, and all of our assist community.

“Anybody that has acquired ambition: go on the market, consider in yourselves and you are able to do it.”

Holly Dunford added: “That was unbelievable. I believe we left the whole lot on the market and I believe we might be actually happy with what we’ve simply executed. Wow.”

And Eve Stewart defined: “I believe it was nice execution. I am simply so thrilled to be standing right here and I do not actually have many different phrases than that, to be trustworthy.”

Staff GB gained gold within the males’s eight remaining, beating Netherlands and USA.

What’s taking place right now at The Video games?

WHAT TO WATCH TODAY

TODAY’S BRIT MEDAL HOPES

Max Whitlock goes for an unprecedented fourth consecutive medal on the pommel horse (4.10pm)
Our dressage crew can declare one other gold on the equestrian (9am) after gold, silver and bronze on the final three Video games.
Staff GB will need to retain the 4x100m combined chill out relay (8.33pm) within the pool and Jake Jarman goes within the males’s flooring gymnastics remaining (2.30pm).

BRITS TO WATCH

Tom Pidcock will get again within the saddle after his epic mountain biking gold with the lads’s highway race (10am).
It’s the final day of rowing with GB in with an opportunity of extra medals – particularly within the males’s and girls’s eights (10.10am).
GB tackle Argentina of their remaining ladies’s pool sport within the hockey (9am).
And Tommy Fleetwood continues his cost in direction of {golfing} gold, co-leading at -11 after a seven-under yesterday (10.44am).

GLOBAL STARS TODAY

US sprinter Sha-Carri Richardson and Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson will battle it out for girls’s 100m dash gold – with Dina Asher-Smith hoping to maintain tempo (8.20pm).
We additionally get a primary look within the heats at 100m males’s stars People Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman who will battle with Zharnel Hughes for glory (10.45am).

FANCY SOMETHING DIFFERENT?

Badminton typically slips beneath the radar on the Olympics however is at all times unbelievable viewing with lightning-quick reactions.
The ladies’s doubles remaining options 4 of the perfect gamers on the earth as Indonesia face China (3.10pm).

STATS MAD

6 – As of Saturday morning, solely six athletes have gained the identical particular person occasion on the Olympics 4 instances. Katie Ledecky might be a part of that prestigious listing – which options Carl Lewis and Michael Phelps – within the 800m freestyle (8.09pm). Vincent Hancock might additionally do it within the skeet capturing right now (2.30pm).

Observe all of the motion because it unfolds with our Paris 2024 Olympics LIVE weblog.