The lead didn’t final lengthy for Potter both, however there are many swaps and modifications happening to make sure everyone does the work main the tempo after which will get an opportunity in among the many following group, conserving vitality when potential. Maya Kingma is in entrance proper now with Potter in eighth for instance, however they’re all inside a second or two of the lead.

Luxembourg’s Lehair is down and in tears in one other a part of the course, being attended by a steward by a barrier – we didn’t see that crash however clearly she’s fearing an exit at this level.

“A whole lot of medal contenders are having to struggle their means again after slips – the solar is drying the streets a bit now,” says former Group GB triathlete Vicky Holland.

The second chasing pack has better numbers in it and…on the identical nook, one other spill. Three not less than go down this time, together with New Zealand’s Thorpe and France’s Periault – she in flip then seems to clip Biagoli of Argentina who additionally falls. Carnage. All look OK to rise up and proceed fortunately.

There’s 9 within the chasing group again on the entrance and they’re much, a lot nearer to Flora Duffy now, we’ll see the hole on the subsequent checkpoint up forward… in truth there is no such thing as a hole, as three or 4 bypass Duffy and he or she joins in with the primary group.

Julie Derron is our new chief, a Swiss athlete, for a brief spell, however there are a number of modifications as we finish the primary lap on the bikes…and as they start lap 2, it’s Beth Potter who’s out in entrance!

The early curiosity right now comes on the triathlon with the ladies’s race ongoing and the lads’s race beginning at 9.45am BST however there are many stay British medal possibilities upcoming on what might be a golden day for Group GB.

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson go for glory within the girls’s 10m synchro diving remaining (10am), the lads’s and girls’s quad sculls are the primary rowing finals of the Video games (11.26am), high qualifier Kieran Reilly is in BMX freestyle motion (1.44pm), Mallory Franklin will search for a canoe slalom medal at a second straight Olympics (semi-finals 2.30pm, remaining 4.25pm) and gymnasts Joe Fraser and Jake Jarman are within the males’s gymnastics all-around remaining (4.30pm).

Right here’s a full rundown of right now’s occasions:

Maria Velazquez Soto of Colombia and Norway’s Lotte Miller appear to be the primary pair who’ve suffered on the cobbles – each have gone for substitute bikes after a spill. The streets of Paris are…extraordinarily cobbly in lots of sections, together with the same old marathon route (which is totally different to the Olympic marathon route) and loads of this 40km bike route.

There’s a giant group chasing the chief Duffy as they head into the blue-carpeted bridge, Georgia Taylor-Brown as much as seventh. Potter nonetheless in there too – there seems about 14 or so in that first chasing group.

As they arrive out of the straight and switch to the left it’s diminished by one although – Brazil’s Lopez who was high three within the swim spins out on the skiddy streets! She’s again up rapidly however momentum misplaced.

Kasper (USA), Vermeylen (BEL) and Tertsch (GER) additionally all take a spill collectively moments later!

2016 bronze medallist Vicky Holland:

“I’ve been watching eagerly and that was a really attention-grabbing swim. Duffy is such an clever racer, she’s talked in regards to the nuances with the swim and the sturdy present – she hugged the facet as a lot as she will and it’s blown the sphere aside way over you normally see in a triathlon. She gained’t be afraid to be solo but it surely’s a protracted solution to be by yourself.

“The entrance British duo are positioned nicely at this level I’d say.”

To place this check into perspective, 18:16 in London 2012 was the ladies’s report for the swim within the Olympic triathlon – we’re at 22:02 when Duffy emerges from the water and begins the run alongside a bridge, up 36 steps and onto the street in direction of her bike. She’s very a lot first as she will get there!

Beth Potter remains to be in fifth and emerged 20 seconds again from the front-runner, though did handle the transition onto the bike barely higher than Duffy.

Taylor-Brown comes out in tenth so actually nonetheless within the working. Effectively, biking now, however you already know what I imply.

40km and we’re off on two wheels for all athletes now.

There have been some actual struggles about 500m into the swim as the ladies went across the big inflatables, the present seeming to catch the vast majority of the group and pushing them barely backwards – they needed to creep in direction of the financial institution barely first, then have been in a position to transfer on.

Now as they finish lap one they begin to emerge from the water, up the ramp, alongside a brief walkway and dive straight again in for the final swimming part.

Beth Potter is fourth at this level, then the opposite athletes actually unfold out over a protracted interval – clearly this water has been a large problem for some.

1st 13:12 – Duffy (Bermuda)

eleventh, Taylor-Brown (GB) +28secs

Earlier than the race, Tokyo gold medallist Georgia Taylor-Brown spelt out the realties of life as a triathlon:

“We haven’t finished something in another way for this race,” she stated. “After the races, we’ll be washed down by docs with a sort of pink resolution that they use in hospitals. We’ll use mouthwash immediately to clear all the things out and doubtless peptobismol to line our stomachs… pre and probiotics we’ve been taking.”

“We race in horrible water high quality on a regular basis and individuals are getting sick, however that’s the state of affairs the world is in. I do know that measures are being taken and we’ve been doing our personal issues for years. Generally we’ll be swimming and we will see oil from ships within the water in entrance of us. So, we’re used to it and that isn’t factor, however issues gained’t change till extra money is put into it.”

It’s 1500m swimming, 40km biking after which a 10km run to complete – and regardless of all of the doubts about it, regardless of yesterday’s postponement, poor climate and basic confusion…we’re underway within the triathlon.

The ladies are up first, they’re within the Seine and battling the currents.

Beth Potter representing Nice Britain is in there and so too Kate Waugh and Georgia Taylor-Brown.

Again right now’s motion, with the information that the ladies’s triathlon (7am BST) and males’s triathlon (9.45am BST) will go forward.

“Following the disappointing information that water high quality outcomes weren’t inside the permitted ranges to carry the swim phase of the lads’s particular person occasion as deliberate on 30 July, the race has been postponed and can now happen at 10.45am on Wednesday 31 July,” World Triathlon stated in an announcement.

“There was no impression upon the schedule of the ladies’s race, with the athletes nonetheless set to exit at 8am on Wednesday, nonetheless each of the medal ceremonies will now be held after the conclusion of the lads’s occasion.”