It’s a packed Olympics schedule on day 15 of the Paris 2024 Video games with Group GB eager so as to add to their medal assortment on the penultimate day of competitors.
Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola gained gold within the males’s marathon as he attacked a brutal Paris course that left all-time nice Eliud Kipchoge struggling in the back of the sector. Two-time champion Kipchoge was bidding to make historical past with a 3rd title, however dropped out after 31km.
Tola attacked on the hills and elevated his lead over the ultimate quarter of the race to win gold for Ethiopia with a shocking Olympic document of two:06:26, forward of Belgium’s Bashir Abdi and Kenya’s Benson Kipruto. Nice Britain’s Emile Cairess battled to a powerful fourth place.
Erin McNeice will hope to emulate Toby Roberts within the girls’s boulder and lead ultimate, with Noah Williams and Kyel Kothari contending for extra diving medals within the males’s 10m platform. On the velodrome, Ethan Hayter and Oliver Wooden bid for madison gold, whereas Emma Finucane goals to achieve the ladies’s dash ultimate.
Afterward the monitor, Laura Muir and Georgia Bell headline the athletics for Group GB as they go in quest of medals within the girls’s 1500m whereas Max Burgin targets glory within the males’s 800m. There are additionally two enormous gold medal matches to look out for: first because the USA face Brazil within the girls’s soccer ultimate earlier than the USA take hosts on France within the males’s basketball ultimate.
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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.
Jamie Braidwood10 August 2024 05:00
Olympics 2024: Tamirat Tola wins males’s marathon!
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.
Jamie Braidwood10 August 2024 09:26
Olympics 2024: Tamirat Tola wins males’s marathon!
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.
Jamie Braidwood10 August 2024 09:22
Olympics 2024: Tamirat Tola wins males’s marathon!
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
Jamie Braidwood10 August 2024 09:16
Olympics 2024: Tamirat Tola wins males’s marathon!
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!
Jamie Braidwood10 August 2024 09:08
Olympics 2024: Males’s marathon
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.
Jamie Braidwood10 August 2024 09:04
Olympics 2024: Males’s marathon
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.
Jamie Braidwood10 August 2024 08:59
Olympics 2024: Males’s marathon
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.
Jamie Braidwood10 August 2024 08:54
Olympics 2024: Males’s marathon
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.
Jamie Braidwood10 August 2024 08:50
Olympics 2024: Males’s marathon
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
Jamie Braidwood10 August 2024 08:48