Noah Lyles is looking to become the first American in four decades to win the Olympic sprint double at the Games on Thursday.
The women’s 10km marathon swimming went ahead as planned after water-quality tests in the Seine river met thresholds.
More than 30 medalsare on offer throughout the day, including in athletics, sailing, boxing, taekwondo, wrestling and track cycling.
Here is what you need to know about the Olympics on Thursday:
SAILING GOLD
Austria’s Lara Vadlau and Lukas Maehr won gold in the mixed dinghy event. Japan’s Keiju Okada and Miho Yoshioka secured silver while Anton Dahlberg and Lovisa Karlsson of Sweden won bronze.
Italy’s Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti won gold in the mixed multihull event, ahead of Argentina’s Mateo Majdalani and Eugenia Bosco.
SPRINT RELAY
The United States took the first, convincing step towards ending their men’s 4-x100 metres relay drought when they qualified fastest from Thursday’s heats with a lot more firepower to come, but Jamaica crashed out after two horrible changeovers.
The U.S. women’s team also look well placed to reclaim the title from Jamaica after qualifying fastest, despite a changeover scare.
SPRINT DOUBLE FOR LYLES?
Lyles, the newly minted world’s fastest man, takes to the track again aiming to complete the prestigious sprint double by adding the 200 metres title to his 100m victory last week.
If he succeeds, Lyles will be the first American to achieve the sprint double since Carl Lewis in 1984.
MARATHON SWIMMING
Netherlands’ iron woman Sharon van Rouwendaal claimed her second Olympic women’s 10km marathon swimming gold when she snatched victory from her Australian friend and training partner Moesha Johnson in the long slog through the river Seine.
DOPING
China’s anti-doping agency (CHINADA) urged the International Testing Agency (ITA) to intensify testing of U.S. track and field athletes, after American sprinter Erriyon Knighton tested positive for the banned substance trenbolone.
Knighton tested positive for trenbolone this year but was not suspended for the Paris Games after an arbitrator found the result was likely caused by contaminated meat.
PHOGAT RETIRES
Vinesh Phogat said she hadretired from wrestling following the Indian’s disqualification before the women’s 50kg freestyle final at the Olympics on Wednesday.
Phogat was set to lock horns with American Sarah Hildebrandt for the gold medal but the 29-year-old fell 100 grams short despite starving herself for a week and spending hours in the sauna to cut down to her competition weight.
CARRINGTON IN HUNT FOR SEVENTH MEDAL
The first medals in the canoe sprint are up for grabs and Lisa Carrington, New Zealand’s most successful Olympian, will look to add to her impressive haul of five golds and a bronze when she takes part in the women’s kayak four 500m.
(Reuters)