![]() ![]() India hasn’t had a male athlete on the podium since 2012. “These are not just ordinary Indian names, but the names of India’s last five Olympic medalists. Harsh Kumar writes: “Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (silver medalist in weightlifting, Tokyo 2020), PV Sindhu (bronze medalist in badminton, Tokyo 2020), Lovlina Borgohain (medal confirmed in boxing, Tokyo 2020), PV Sindhu (silver medalist in badminton, Rio 2016), Sakshi Malik (bronze medalist in wrestling, Rio 2016) Favourites for the win are a strong German squad, who are defending world champions from 2020 and have a standout star in 23-year-old Emma Hinze. The team pursuit qualifiers for both sexes will be held on Monday but the women’s team sprint will be the only event to reach its completion on Monday, at around 6.10pm Tokyo time. ![]() The USA women’s pursuit team, led by world time-trial champion Chloe Dygert, are the ones to beat as far as Laura Kenny and her teammates are concerned. I’m surprised they let him go, especially because we trained with him and he’s a really fast rider. “He’s done a lot with our aerodynamics,” said Rasmus Pedersen, one of Denmark’s world record breakers. Part of the secret to their success has been Dan Bigham, the British aerodynamicist who switched to Denmark in 2019 after asked him to choose between engineering and riding. The bookie’s choice is Denmark, who triumphed in a world record time at the 2020 World Championships in Berlin. Team GB have taken 20 of the 30 available golds in the last three Games but this year their men’s pursuit team are only fourth-favourites this time out. ![]() Perhaps most excitingly, the track cycling programme gets under way at the Izu Velodrome. More on the magic of leftfield farmland training drills here: In the men’s long jump final, Cuban Juan Miguel Echevarria will be the man to beat after producing 8.50m in the qualifying round, while in the hurdles all eyes will be on the Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who won her semi-final in an Olympic record 12.26 seconds – a top-six time in history.Īnd last but not least, esteemed lamb-chaser Laura Muir will begin her 1500m campaign, with the heats getting under way in the morning. The favourite there is USA’s Gabby Thomas, who set a world lead in each round at the trials, followed by the Jamaican duo of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson. We’ll also see the semi-finals for the women’s 200m in a year in which six women have run the distance in under 22 seconds for the first time in history. Pre-race favourite Trayvon Bromell from the US only scraped into the semis after finishing fourth in his heat in 10.05.In a busy day of track and field, there will be five medals up for grabs: men’s long jump, women’s 100m hurdles, women’s discus, men’s 3,000m steeplechase and, at 9.40pm Tokyo time, the women’s 5,000m. No Australian man has qualified for an Olympic 100m final since Hec Hogan won bronze in Melbourne in 1956. "I'm taking it round by round but hopefully I've put a few people on notice now." "No matter what the bookies say, or the pundits or the punters, I hope there are a few more believers tonight. "But I've never been here to just to make the final. "There were a lot of media pundits writing up really well-meaning stories about how great it would be for me to make a final "Without a doubt - finals and beyond," he said. "I doubt any of these guys would have any idea who I am."Įqual-fifth fastest qualifier for Sunday's semis, with Canadian Andre de Grasse topping the time sheets with 9.91, Browning is putting no limits on what he can achieve if he gets through to the final late on Sunday evening. "When you're in lane one, you don't get a personalised introduction and I was definitely trying to harness a bit of that underdog spirit today. All the world's best guys are on my hit-list. "I've wanted to get him (Blake) for a long time. "It feels good to take a few scalps early on," Browning said. The 23-year-old from Sydney left the likes of 2011 world champion Yohan Blake from Jamaica trailing in his wake. "I've just been training and racing in Australia and I've been dying for a bit of world-class competition."īrowning was out of the blocks quickly in lane one on Saturday and never looked like being beaten. "It's the one thing I've probably been lacking on the Australian circuit. ![]()
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