Paralympics day 10: Sarah Storey ruling nothing out

A dramatic dash end in Paris noticed the 46-year-old come out on high in her ninth Video games to win a nineteenth Paralympic gold.

Might Storey make it a tenth Video games?

Gaugain, 27 years youthful than Storey, made a break for victory within the remaining phases of the 71-kilometre occasion, however the expertise of the reigning champion prevailed earlier than she punched the air in celebration.

Storey, who completed the race in a single hour, 54 minutes and 24 seconds in entrance of Gaugain with Colombian Paula Ossa in third, didn’t rule out a tenth Video games.

She mentioned: “I wished to be an athlete for so long as I probably may. I by no means anticipated eight Video games, not to mention 9.

“You place your self on the market each time you set your self on the beginning line and I hold doing that and hold discovering methods to win a motorcycle race, so lengthy might that proceed.

“I must get pleasure from this one first however, to cite Simone Biles (American gymnast), completely – by no means say by no means to something.”

Hewett and Reid finish watch for Paralympic double Gold

Wheelchair tennis duo Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid clinched Paralympic doubles glory with a dominant straight-sets win at Roland Garros.

The 2-time silver medallists fell simply brief in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, however lastly celebrated gold on Court docket Philippe-Chatrier after a convincing victory over Japanese second seeds Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda 6-2 6-1.

The reigning Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon champions have now added one other doubles title to their glittered trophy cupboard.

After getting over the road on the third time of asking and an hour and 35 minutes, the pair hugged one another in celebration however Hewitt has all of it do once more in singles motion on day 10 towards Oda.

Cockroft again on monitor

Hannah Cockroft returns to the monitor after she tasted extra gold delight within the T34 girls’s 100m on Sunday.

Cockroft will eye one other gold within the girls’s T34 800m remaining at 20:22, however will face stiff competitors from Tokyo silver medallist Kare Adenegan and 2021 European champion Fabienne Andre.

Elsewhere within the athletics, Isaac Towers could have a shot on the medals within the T34 800m at 10:12 after he qualifying fifth on Friday.

Extra medals for Clegg?

Stephen Clegg might be the final ParalympicsGB swimmer within the pool as he appears so as to add to his medal haul.

Clegg will go for extra glory within the males’s S12 100m butterfly with qualification coming earlier than the combat for medals.

Final day out in Paris, Clegg comfortably held off Azerbaijan’s Raman Salei and Ukraine’s Yaroslav Denysenko to clinch Paralympic gold within the males’s S12 100m backstroke

The 28-year-old can be hoping to eclipse his elder sister Libby Clegg, a former sprinter who has 5 Paralympic medals in comparison with Stephen’s 4.

“Me and my sister had a chat earlier than popping out right here about medal tally,” he mentioned.