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Ana Peleteiro has no problems at the triple jump final

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

Spanish athlete Ana Peleteiro qualified without any problems and quickly for the triple long jump final at the Paris Olympic Games, where she is one of the favourites, and gave the first good news in the opening of the events in the stadium.

The Galician, current European champion and bronze medallist three years ago in Tokyo, needed to jump 14.35 metres to secure her ticket to the final medal fight. She did so in the first of her jumps, with 14.36, and then she did not jump any more in her group where there were other medal hopefuls such as the Cuban Leyanis Pérez, who made the best jump of all the participants with 14.68, and the Jamaican Shanieka Ricketts, who did it with the second (14.47).

Along with these three jumpers, favourites to take over from the absent Yulimar Rojas on the Olympic throne, other candidates also made it to the podium, such as the also Cuban Liadagmis Povea (14.39) or the Ukrainian Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk (14.30).

On the other hand, in the morning session, there was not so good news, with the three representatives of the 1,500 meters, Adel Mechal (3:35.81), Ignacio Fontes (3:37.50) and Mario García (3:37.90) having to go through the repechage to be in the semifinals after not being able to get into the top six of each series.

Something similar happened to the eight-hundred-meter runners Lorena Martín (2:02.52) and Lorea Ibarzabal (2.00.71), who were unable to directly qualify for the final and will also need to go through to the repechage, while things were worse for Marta García in the 5,000 meters, where she was eliminated after finishing tenth (15:08.87) in a series where only the first eight in each series qualified.

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Simone Biles wins gold again

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

American gymnast Simone Biles has regained the gold medal in the artistic all-around competition at the Olympic Games on Thursday, taking over from her compatriot Sunisa Lee, who took silver at the 2024 Paris Games in a final where Brazilian Rebeca Andrade completed the podium with bronze.

The rivalry between Biles, Lee and Andrade, fierce on the scoreboard but friendly inside the Bercy Arena, was a constant throughout this All-Around final from the first rotation. There, Biles scored 15.766 points, after a 640º maneuver with a double pike on the vault; Andrade scored 15.100 and Lee 13.933.

The Rio 2016 champion received 13.733 points from the judges on her next exercise, the uneven bars; Lee got 14.866 points and Andrade 14.666. But Biles brought out her best in the third rotation, the horizontal bar, starting with a back flip and saving a triple twist on her hands; she scored 14.566 points.

Lee had scored 14.000 points on the same apparatus and Andrade 14.133. The scoreboard was therefore very close and the fourth rotation, on the floor, would decide the winners of each step of the podium. It was then that Biles shone as she had done eight years ago at the Rio Olympics, when she really made herself known to the world.

In this decisive floor exercise, she performed a triple pirouette on the first diagonal; a forward pirouette, a double tuck and a double somersault to land on her second diagonal; a double plank with a half turn and a forward landing on her third diagonal; and a double plank and a back landing on the fourth diagonal.

A splendid routine earned her 15.066 points, securing first place overall (59.131). Meanwhile, Lee ‘fell’ to bronze with her 13.666 points, for 56.465 in total; she was surpassed by Andrade (14.033), who scored 57.932 in total. Biles thus became the first gymnast to win gold medals in the all-around program at non-consecutive Olympics.

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China continues to rule the medals table at the Paris Olympics – Sports

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

On the sixth day of the Paris Olympics, China won 2 more gold medals, after which China is at the first place in the medals table with 11 gold medals.

China continues to dominate the medals table in the Paris Olympics, with 11 gold medals, while the United States is second with 9 gold medals, hosts France, Australia and Japan are in third, fourth and fifth place with 8 and 8 gold medals Apart from this, Great Britain and Korea have won 6 and 6 gold medals respectively.

On the sixth day of competition at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, gold medals were decided in athletics in the men’s 20km walk event, with Ecuador’s Brian Daniel winning gold, followed by China’s Yang Jiayu in the women’s 20km walk.

China’s Liu Yukun won the gold medal in men’s 50m rifle three-position shooting, New Zealand won the women’s doubles skills final of rowing, Romania won the same event in men’s, and the Netherlands won the gold medal in the women’s four final of rowing. while USA won the gold medal in mens in the same event.

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In judo, Zelim of Azerbaijan won his country’s second gold medal of the Games, defeating Ilya Salmanzadeh of Georgia by a score of 1-10 in the men’s 100 kg final.

In the men’s kayak singles final of canoeing slalom Italy’s Giovanni De Genro won the gold medal, Italy’s fourth gold medal of the Games, Italy won another gold medal in the women’s 78kg category of judo, their athlete Elise Blandy. defeated Israel’s judoka 0-11 in the final.