Tokyo Olympics LIVE updates Matildas lead Aussie teams charge to medal rounds high jumpers choose to share gold
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It’s hot and steamy at the track again today. Who’d have thought?
The heats of the women’s 1500m have just started. Georgia Griffith just railed home in the first heat in 4:14:43 - that’s her best run of the season.
And it was in the heat - the trackside reading is 36 degrees Celcius. It’s 9.40am local time.
Unfortuntately for Griffith, 14th won’t be good enough to get her into the semi. Her hopes of progression are dashed, but there’s two more Aussies to come.
Australia’s Georgia Griffith has just begun in the first heat of the women’s 1500m. There are Aussies in the next two heats as well - Jessica Hull and Linden Hall.
They all need to finish in the top six of their race (or be one of the next six fastest) to qualify for the semi-finals. We’ll bring you the results as they happen.
Don’t know much about the Italian winner of the men’s 100m final? Join the club. The victory of Lamont Marcell Jacobs was an absolute bolt from the blue.
Jacobs celebrates his success.Credit:Getty Images
As Michael Gleeson writes here, the 26-year-old is a long jumper-turned-sprinter who had never won a serious outdoor sprint competition in his life until yesterday.
Born in El Paso to an American father and an Italian mother, Jacobs moved to Italy when he was one, when the US military transferred his dad to South Korea. He identifies as Italian and speaks little English, and has come from nowhere in this unusual five-year COVID-stretched Olympic cycle to win one of Tokyo’s biggest events.
Tonight at 8.50pm AEST, the eyes of the world will be on Laurel Hubbard as she becomes the first openly transgender (or trans) woman to compete in the Olympic Games.
Hubbard is competing in the super heavyweight division (87+ kilograms) of the weightlifting competition, and there are plenty of people who aren’t happy about her presence in Tokyo.
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard.Credit:Getty Images
It has been suggested in many corners that Hubbard has an unfair advantage over the cisgender (or typical) women in her category, and that the Olympic guidelines allowing trans women to compete against cisgender women after lowering their testosterone are flawed.
Click here for an examination of those claims and some additional points raised by the author, Joanna Harper.
Tokyo 2020 officials have launched an investigation into an outdoor drinking party which led to police arriving at the Olympic village.
Organizing committee boss Toshiro Muto said on at a news briefing on Sunday multiple athletes and team officials were drinking alcohol at a park within the village on Friday.
Athletes are only permitted to drink alone in their rooms due to COVID-19 concerns.
Police arrived after the scene but Muto would not say what action the officers took. Tokyo organisers are now considering sanctions for the athletes involved.
The Australian Olympic Committee has since confirmed none of our athletes were at the party.
“Currently we are investigating the situation and based on the results … will take appropriate action,†he said via a translator on Sunday. “Regarding the police, after the incident occurred, we had heard they came. We haven’t learnt about the details yet.â€
Despite the COVID-19 concerns, Ariarne Titmus revealed on Monday morning the Australian swimming team had a celebration on one of the levels of their hotel on Sunday night.
“There was some dancing, the usual,†she told Channel Seven.
Kaylee McKeown seemed surprised Titmus had told the Seven hosts about the gathering when asked.
“I am not sure if I’m supposed to say what we got up to,†she said. “I was well behaved and I am a bit tired this morning, but I am alive and I am here. It’s OK.â€
It’s a pretty quiet morning of competition for our Australian athletes, at least in comparison to the first week of the Olympics. But shooter Sergei Evgleski has just begun the second qualifying stage for the 25m rapid pistol.
Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be broadcast on 7+. Evgleski needs to finish in the top six to reach the final - at this point, that seems to be long odds.
It’ll be another hour until we see any other Aussies getting to work, with three runners - Georgia Griffith, Jessica Hull and Linden Hall - to start their 1500m heats from 10.30am.
A quick reminder that you can find everything you need to know about these Olympics - the full medal table, the schedule and all the results - on our website. You don’t need to go very far either. Just click here.
The swimming’s wrapped up in Tokyo. It’s been Australia’s best Olympics for a while in the water and our swimming reporter Phil Lutton has written about what it means for the sport in this country.
“Enthralled by a prime-time Olympics and climbing all over the bandwagon of a swim team slaying it in Tokyo, casual sports fans were engaged and invested once again. That’s priceless,†Lutton says.
Australia’s relay swimmers celebrate victory on Sunday.Credit:Getty
“Any news is good news for a sport that has not only struggled to garner attention outside the Olympic cycle but has been drowned out by controversy when it has had its moment in the sun of late.
“The question for swimming officials is what do they do with all the goodwill and publicity now their budding stars and top performers are household names again.â€
Read the rest of it here.
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