Olympics 2024 LIVE: Marathon updates as Tamirat Tola wins gold and Eliud Kipchoge struggles on brutal course

The penultimate day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games guarantees to be a jam-packed trip of blockbuster leisure with 39 gold medals to be gained beginning with the lads’s marathon at 7am.

In the meantime, Group GB goal medals within the ultimate spherical of ladies’s golf, the 10m platform diving and on the athletics monitor with Max Burgin focusing on 800m gold and Laura Muir and Georgia Bell eyeing up 1500m medals.

Really, we’re simply listening to that Eliud Kipchoge dropped out on 31 km. A tragic approach for the best marathon champion of all time and an Olympic legend to bow out.

He has reached the tip of his highway.

We’re nonetheless ready on Eliud Kipchoge to cross the road, I feel. The 2-time champion was 77th, final total, on the 30km cut up. The 39-year-old was bidding to change into the primary three-time marathon winner on the Olympics. However this was a brutally onerous course and the hills obtained him.

Dangle on! That’s an Olympic document from Tola! Astonishing, on that course, with these hills!

2) Bashir Abdi – BEL +0.21

3) Benson Kipruto – KEN + 0.34

4) Emile Cairess – GBR +1:03

5) Akira Akasaki – JPN + 1.06

GOLD for Tamirat Tola and Ethiopia within the Olympic males’s marathon!

What a end from Tola! He holds up his arms as he cruises to the road at Invalides, taking within the applause!

What a sight! It’s 2:06:25 for Tola! WHAT A RUN!

It’s silver for Belgium’s Bashir Abdi, bronze for Kenya’s Benson Kipruto.

Gorgeous end from Nice Britian’s Emile Cairess! A gutsy fourth place end after catching Deresa Geleta!

One km to go! Tola has a 22-second lead! He’s going to cruise to victory right here!

The struggle for silver and bronze goes to go right down to Bashir Abdi, Benson Kipruto and Deresa Galeta.

Nice Britain’s Emile Cairess is in sixth, heading for an excellent top-10 end in Paris.

Tola has elevated his result in 25 seconds right here! Until he blows up proper on the finish, the 2022 world champion goes to win gold for Ethiopia in Paris!

After Kenya’s current dominance, Tola is trying to win Ethiopia’s first gold within the males’s marathon for the reason that 2000 Video games in Sydney.

There’s a shocking shot of Tola as he heads in direction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, cruising via the streets.

Is he struggling? Is he tremendous? He’s obtained 5 km to go to win Olympic gold and, truly, he’s elevated his result in 20 seconds.

My phrase… a 14:02 five-km cut up for Tola from 30-35km.

It’s given him a lead heading into the ultimate 20 minutes of the race, however will it price him?

Geleta, Abdi and Kipruto are lurking. They’ll work collectively to catch Tola out in entrance.

2) Deresa Geleta – ETH +0.18

3) Bashir Abdi – BEL +0.18

4) Benson Kipruto – KEN – 0.18

5) Akira Akasaki – JPN + 0.19

2) Emile Cairess – GBR +0.22