The must-see events each day in week two at the Games

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When Australia wanted her most, Kerr delivered. After being quiet for 89 minutes, Kerr scored a final minute equaliser to ship the match into additional time earlier than scoring what proved to be the profitable aim, whereas Teagan Micah pulled off an important penalty save within the seven-goal thriller at Ibaraki

AUSSIE Siblings Jaime and Will Ryan compete within the crusing from 1pm. Jamie will search for a medal within the 49er FX girls’s race, whereas Will and gold-medal profitable teammate Mat Belcher will contest the ninth day of the boys’s 470 competitors.

AUSSIE Equestrian nice Andrew Hoy, competing in his eighth Olympics, can be within the showjumping from 6pm.

OI In an Olympic first, transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard will characterize New Zealand within the girls’s 87+kg weightlifting competitors, starting at 8.50pm.

OI The ladies’s gymnastics particular person flooring train closing takes place from 6.45pm. With Simone Biles doubtful to compete, Japan’s Mai Murakami and Russia’s Angelina Melnikova are the highest picks for gold.

OI Sally Pearson received gold within the girls’s 100m hurdles in London, silver in Beijing and two world championships, so this occasion resonates with Australian audiences. The ultimate is at 12.50pm and world report holder Kendra Harrison is prone to be within the combine.

Tuesday, August 3

AUSSIE The lads’s hockey semi-finals are on at 11.30am and 8pm. Australia’s Kookaburras are among the many favourites and have been in sturdy type, so they need to be there.

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AUSSIE The lads’s biking group dash medals can be handed out from 6.41pm and Australia must be within the hunt with two-time most cancers survivor and three-time Commonwealth Video games medallist Matthew Glaetzer main the line-up.

AUSSIE At 8.20pm, pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall ought to compete within the Olympic closing regardless of a COVID-19 scare. Marschall received gold on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games and is in place to snare a medal.

OI All eyes can be on the US runner Gabby Thomas from 10.50pm as she makes an attempt to take the title and knock off Florence Griffith Joyner’s iconic world report within the 200m closing on the monitor.

OI Whether or not Kurtis Marschall manages to land a medal or not, the pole vault closing at 8.20pm is a must-watch occasion as Sweden’s Armand Duplantis might break his personal world report of 6.18m.

OI The lads’s horizontal bar closing will happen at 7.37pm. Whereas Japan’s Daiki Hashimoto is anticipated to win gold, Australia’s Tyson Bull can even compete within the closing.

Wednesday, August 4

AUSSIE From 8.30am, golfers Minjee Lee and Hannah Inexperienced will tackle the world’s finest within the first spherical of the ladies’s golf. Lee is ranked No.7 on this planet and Inexperienced No.17, so they’re probabilities of a medal.

AUSSIE Cheer on the Hockeyroos within the semi-finals, beginning at 11.30. They’ve had a formidable marketing campaign up to now and will make it in to the ultimate 4 of the ladies’s hockey. Time will inform if they will hold that momentum going all the best way to the gold medal match on Friday.

AUSSIE From 8pm, see four-time Olympic equestrian Edwina Tops-Alexander compete within the particular person showjumping closing. Tops-Alexander is main the International Champions Tour and is in place to take a medal at Tokyo.

OI The ladies’s park skateboarding closing will kick off at 1.30pm with 13-year-old Brit and Olympic debutant Sky Brown trying to take house a medal only one yr after fracturing her cranium in a fall.

OI At 10.55pm American runner Noah Lyles will look to affix Usain Bolt as an Olympic 200m champion. The reigning 200m world champion ran 19.73 seconds earlier this yr and appears arduous to beat.

OI The creative swimming free routine closing begins at 8.30pm. Beforehand often known as synchronised swimming, the occasion has lengthy been dominated by Russia.

Thursday, August 5

AUSSIE From 10am, try the boys’s park skateboarding with Australia’s Keegan Palmer and Keiran Woolley competing. Ranked seventh on this planet, Palmer may take a medal within the park closing, which commences at 1.30pm.

AUSSIE From 10.10am, catch the ladies’s excessive bounce qualification rounds. Australian Olympic debutant Nicola McDermott will hopefully get by way of to Saturday’s closing after lately leaping 2m.

AUSSIE The lads’s basketball semi-finals are on at 2.15pm and 9pm, and, on the danger of getting forward of ourselves, the Boomers must be within the combine. In the event that they attain the gold medal recreation, it’ll be performed on Saturday at 12.30pm.

OI The lads’s 400m monitor closing begins at 10pm and 25-year-old Bahamian Steven Gardiner would be the one to beat.

OI The lads’s finals of sport climbing start at 6.30pm with the velocity, bouldering and lead occasions. Japan’s Tomoa Narasaki can be a powerful contender for gold, though the Czech Republic’s Adam Ondra might problem him.

OI The medals can be determined in girls’s group desk tennis from noon, the place China will take an influence of beating.

Friday, August 6

AUSSIE Seashore volleyball duo Maria De Artacho del Photo voltaic and Taliqua Clancy may compete in both the bronze or gold medal matches, beginning at 11am. They’re in with shot after taking bronze on the 2019 world championships.

AUSSIE Australia’s Kelsey-Lee Barber is the reigning world champion in girls’s javelin and the ultimate will happen from 9.50pm. Whereas she has struggled for type after current accidents, she will be able to’t be discounted.

AUSSIE The ladies’s bronze and gold medal hockey matches happen at 11.30am and 8pm, respectively. With Australia seeded No.2 behind the Netherlands, they might function in one among them.

OI The lads’s boxing heavyweight closing will start at 4.05pm. Traditionally, the US have been sturdy in Olympic boxing with 50 gold medals. The subsequent finest nation is Cuba with 37, whereas Nice Britain has 18.

OI At 9.50pm, two of karate’s biggest rivals might face one another. In 2012, world No.1 Rafael Aghayev felt disrespected by Italy’s Luigi Busa after Busa carried out a Gangnam Type dance as a substitute of bowing when he beat the Azerbaijani. The 2 are effectively positioned to win medals.

OI The ladies’s soccer gold medal match begins at noon. Whereas the Matildas might be within the hunt, it’ll be value watching regardless.

Saturday, August 7

AUSSIE The ladies’s water polo medals can be handed out from 2.40pm, with the gold medal match starting at 5.30pm. Led by Rowena Webster, the Aussie Stingers are in place to take a medal after ending third on the world championships in 2019.

AUSSIE The Boomers might be enjoying within the males’s basketball closing at 12.30pm and the Opals might be enjoying within the girls’s bronze medal recreation at 5pm. Ranked second on this planet, it’s not but clear how the departure of NBA star Liz Cambage will have an effect on the Opals.

AUSSIE Stewart McSweyn will hopefully compete within the 1500m athletics closing at 9.40pm. McSweyn truly certified for 3 occasions however selected to deal with the 1500m as he has an opportunity to complete on the rostrum with a private finest of three.29.51.

OI The lads’s soccer closing begins at 9.30pm. The Olyroos have been eradicated on Wednesday after a 2-0 loss to Egypt, however the closing will nonetheless have loads of intrigue.

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OI The 10m platform diving is all the time an interesting occasion with it’s mixture of ability and braveness, and the boys’s closing begins at 4pm.

OI Evening owls can catch the boys’s gold medal handball match from 10pm. Denmark are the gold medal favourites, however they may probably be challenged by Norway, Denmark and France.

Sunday, August 8

AUSSIE Matthew Glaetzer is a good probability of constructing the rostrum within the males’s keirin. The quarter-finals begin at 11.25am and the ultimate is at 1pm.

AUSSIE The ladies’s basketball gold medal recreation begins at 12.30pm. Even when the Opals don’t make it this far, it is going to be one to look at.

AUSSIE There’s no extra Olympic occasion than the boys’s marathon. Australia’s Liam Adams, Jack Rayner and Brett Robinson will tackle the Tokyo warmth and the large area from 8am.

OI Boxing’s giants will sq. off within the males’s tremendous heavy gold medal match at 4.15pm.

OI The ladies’s handball closing will begin at 4pm. Norway are the group to beat, with France, Sweden and Russia predicted to push all of them the best way.

OI Starting at 5.30pm, the boys’s water polo closing will shut the Olympic competitors. Hungary are the favorite for gold, with Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro among the many threats.

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