While you were sleeping: Thomas takes women’s 200m title, Team USA surprise no one
- The final four of the men’s basketball is set, while the women’s football final will be a clash of styles
Ah, the blissful dawn chorus of the Hong Kong taxi driver as they go honking and revving their way around the city, not the greatest sound wake up to.
But then you get us dropping into your inbox, with a quick recap of the night’s action to peruse alongside your milk tea or semi-skimmed decaf, half-caf thing. And all of sudden everything seems better, right?
Anyway, while you were sleeping, this is what was happening in Paris.
On the track
The men’s 1,500-metres was supposed to be a straight shootout between between Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Josh Kerr, somebody forgot to tell Cole Hocker.
The American came out of nowhere to pass Kerr on the outside and win in an Olympic record 3 minutes, 27.65 seconds.
Kerr took silver in a national record 3:27.79, while another American, Yared Nuguse, ran a personal best 3:27.80 for bronze. Ingebrigtsen, the defending champion, finished fourth in 3:28.24.
There was more American gold in the women’s 200m, with Gabby Thomas, the bronze medallist from Tokyo, winning in 21.83 seconds.