
Olympic medal table
Schedule of competitions involving Russians at the Olympics
Where did the Russians perform?On the third day of the Games, six Russian tennis players will compete.
Scheduled and completed matches:
Diana Schneider - Wang Xiyu ( CHINA ): lost 3:6, 1:6.
Roman Safiullin - Tomas Martin Etcheverry (Argentina): victory with a score of 6:0, 7:6.
Ekaterina Alexandrova / Elena Vesnina - Karolina Muchova / Linda Noskova (Czech Republic): lost with the score 6:2, 6:7, 6:10.
Daniil Medvedev / Mirra Andreeva - Sara Errani / Andrea Vavassori ( Italy ): lost with a score of 3:6, 2:6.
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11:00 PM. South African Tatyana Smith won the women's 100m breaststroke final at the Olympics, finishing the distance in 1 minute 5.28 seconds.
On July 26, Russian swimmer Evgenia Chikunova won the same distance at the Russian Cup in 1 minute 5.26 seconds. She will receive 2 million rubles for surpassing the Olympic champion's time.
22:15. The Russian pair Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev were eliminated after the first round of the mixed doubles at the Olympic Games.
At the tournament's opening, the Russians lost to the Italian pair Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori with a score of 3:6, 2:6. The match lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes.
On July 28, Medvedev was eliminated from the doubles tournament with Roman Safiullin, and Andreeva lost to Polish tennis player Magda Linett on the same day.
9:40 PM. The Japanese artistic gymnastics team won the team all-around, beating their Chinese rivals right at the end. Su Weide, for the Chinese, performed poorly on the high bar, falling twice and scoring only 11.600 points. The Americans finished third, their first medal in the team competition since 2008.
Tokyo champions RUSSIA refused to travel to Paris as neutrals.
Ukrainian gymnast Ilya Kovtun said the absence of Russians "gives other countries more opportunities."
21:05. World No. 2 Cori Gauff complained about living conditions in the Olympic Village.
"Two bathrooms for ten girls," she wrote. She added that because of these living conditions, many had moved to hotels, and now they have two bathrooms for five athletes.
7:55 PM. Azerbaijani judoka Hidayat Heydarov won Olympic gold in the 73 kg weight class. This is Azerbaijan's first medal at the Beijing Games.
Silver went to Frenchman Joan-Benjamin Gaba, bronze went to Adil Osmanov from Moldova and Japanese Soichi Hashimoto.
7:45 PM. Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome defended his Olympic street skate title. Americans Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston took silver and bronze, respectively.
19:40. Judoka Krista Deguchi won Canada's first gold medal in judo in the 57 kg weight class, defeating reigning world champion Ha Mi-mi of Korea in the final.
Bronze medals were awarded to Japanese Haruka Funakubo and Frenchwoman Sarah-Léonie Cizic (vice-champion of Tokyo).
7:35 PM. French canoeist Nicolas Jestin won gold in the canoe slalom. Britain's Adam Burgess won silver, and Slovakia's Matej Benjuš won bronze.
19:00. Three-time Olympic champion British swimmer Adam Peaty tested positive forcovid the day after winning silver in the 100m breaststroke.
After the swim, the Briton said he wasn't feeling well and had a slight sore throat. His condition worsened overnight, but the team is hopeful he'll recover in time for the relays.
6:50 PM. The Olympic organizing committee told RBC that it was obligated to revoke the accreditations of four TASS journalists because they had not received the appropriate approval from the relevant authorities. Five RIA Novosti Sport journalists were denied accreditation before the Games.
6:47 PM. The South Korean men's team won the team archery competition. The French team took silver. In the bronze medal match, the Turks defeated the Chinese.
6:00 PM. Three-time Olympic swimming champion Australian Ariarne Titmus complained about conditions in the Olympic Village.
"These conditions are definitely not designed for high results," the athlete said.
5:45 PM. Olympic individual time trial medalists Remco Evenepoel, Wout van Aert, and Filippo Ganna were unable to take their traditional selfie due to a frozen phone from their Samsung phone, a sponsor of the Games.
5:00 PM. Ukrainian sabre fencer Olga Kharlan, who refused to shake hands with Russia's Anna Smirnova at the World Championships in Milan last year, hugged Tolyatti native Anna Bashta at the Olympics. Bashta has represented Azerbaijan since 2019 .
4:50 PM. Britain's Tom Pidcock won gold in cross-country (mountain bike). France's Victor Koretsky took second place, and South Africa's Alan Hatherley took third.
16:45. In the individual eventing show jumping competition, Germany's Michael Jung (the first rider to win the event, a three-time Games champion) took gold, Australia's Christopher Burton took silver, and Great Britain's Laura Collett took bronze.
4:40 PM. Novak Djokovic convincingly defeated Rafael Nadal in the second round, 6-1, 6-4. This was the players' 60th meeting in the ATP tournament, and the Serb leads the match 31-29.
16:35. Roman Safiullin won his second singles match against Argentine Thomas Etcheverry (6:0, 7:6 (7:1)) and advanced to the 1/8 finals, where his opponent could be world number three Carlos Alcaraz.
They had only met once before on court—at the Paris Masters last year. Safiullin won that match in straight sets.
4:20 PM. Elena Vesnina announced she will retire this season. The Paris Olympics were the 37-year-old tennis player's fifth and final. Vesnina and Ekaterina Alexandrova previously lost their first doubles match and were eliminated from the tournament.
3:30 PM. Medals were awarded in the women's 10m air rifle event at the Olympics. Sixteen-year-old Korean athlete Pan Hyo-jin edged China's Huang Yuting by 0.1 points in the shootoff, with both athletes matching the Olympic record (251.8). Switzerland's Audrey Gonyea took third place.
In the men's event, gold was won by China's Sheng Lihao (252.2) with an Olympic record, Sweden's Viktor Lindgren came in second, and Croatia's Miran Maricic came in third.
15.27. In the team eventing show jumping, the British defended their Olympic champion title, the French took silver, and the Japanese took bronze.
3:25 PM. China's Lian Junjie and Yan Hao won the men's synchronized platform diving competition. Second place went to Great Britain's Thomas Daley (Tokyo champion in this event) and Noah Williams. Third place went to Canada's Rylan Vince and Nathan Zsombor-Murray, who brought their country its first Olympic medal in this discipline.
3:20 PM. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo called the Olympic opening ceremony magnificent. "Many people told me, 'It was magnificent, we were all touched, it was so French.' It said it all," the mayor said.
3:00 PM. The tennis pair Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Alexandrova also had a poor start to the Olympics. The Russians lost to the Czechs Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 6-10.
2:00 PM. Russian tennis player Diana Schnyder failed to advance to the third round of the Olympic tournament, losing to China's Wang Xiyu (ranked 54th in the world) 3-6, 1-6.
To reach the quarter-finals, Wang Xiyu will play against the world's number one tennis player, Poland's Iga Świątek, or France's Diane Parry (59th).
Two other Russian singles competitors, Mirra Andreeva and Ekaterina Alexandrova, were eliminated in the first round.
1:00 PM. Three-time African champion Algerian judoka Messaoud Dris was disqualified before his first bout at the Paris Olympics against Israeli Tohar Boutboul, according to the competition protocol.
According to the BBC, Dries failed to weigh in before the fight.
The Israeli National Olympic Committee stated that Dries deliberately missed the 73 kg weight limit to be disqualified from the competition, and that such behavior has no place in sport.
Butbul's next opponent will be Hidayat Heydarov from Azerbaijan.
Another Algerian, Fethi Nourine, withdrew from Tokyo due to a potential fight with Boutboul. Nourine expressed support for Palestine and stated that he could not fight an Israeli (Algeria does not recognize the state of Israel). The judoka was immediately suspended, and in September of that year, he and his coach were disqualified for ten years.
In November, the IOC warned athletes against discriminating against Israeli competitors over the situation in Gaza, citing the Tokyo Games as an example.
Butbul is a bronze medalist in the mixed team tournament in Tokyo and a vice-champion of the 2021 European Championship.
12:40 PM. Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic expressed dissatisfaction with the rules for player substitutions at the Olympics. Sportskeeda quotes the Serbian.
Djokovic defeated Australian Matthew Ebden 6-0, 6-1 in the first round. The match lasted 53 minutes. Ebden replaced Britain's Andy Murray in the singles. The Australian specializes in doubles, where he is ranked number one, and had not competed in singles for several years.
Djokovic admitted that he does not understand how a doubles specialist was chosen as a replacement for the singles tournament.
"I really don't understand the rules," the Serb told reporters after his victory. "It's illogical to me that someone withdraws from a singles tournament and you replace them with a doubles player."
"I don't think it's a good image for the sport, to be honest," the tennis player added. "There are plenty of singles players who had enough time to come here and could have been called up."
Djokovic expressed hope that the rules would change.
"I hope the ITF (International Tennis Federation – RBK Sport) and the IOC will change the substitution rule, because Matt has had a tough time. He hasn't played singles for two years," the Serb noted.
12:00 PM. The second consecutive training swim for triathletes at the 2024 Olympics has been cancelled due to poor water quality in the Seine, AFP reports.
The first training swim was supposed to take place on the morning of July 28, the second on the 29th.
According to the organizing committee, water quality has deteriorated due to heavy rains. The triathlon competitions are scheduled for July 30 and 31.
Earlier in July, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the Seine to prove the capital's river was safe for competitions.
11:30 AM . Slovakian Deputy Prime Minister Tomáš Taraba, who was supposed to represent the country at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, has canceled the event due to the opening ceremony. He wrote this on his FACEBOOK page.FACEBOOK (banned in Russia; owned by Meta Corporation, recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).
"For the normal world, these Olympics will always be a disgusting symbol of the perverse decline that has abused the beauty of sport and turned it into progressive political theater. Therefore, I have decided not to participate in the closing ceremony," Taraba wrote.
11:00 AM. What are the Russian tennis players' chances of winning on July 29?
Diana Schneider will face Wang Xu (China). Schneider is ranked 24th, while Wang Xu is ranked 52nd. Bookmakers consider Schneider the clear favorite, offering odds of 1.35 on her victory, while the Chinese boxer is priced at 3.25.
Roman Safiullin will play against Argentinean Tomas Etcheverry.The Russian is ranked 67th, while his opponent is ranked 35th. Bookmakers consider Safiullin an underdog in this match, with odds of 2.6. The odds for Etcheverry to win are 2.6.
The Russian duo of Ekaterina Alexandrova and Elena Vesnina will face Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova (Czech Republic). Doubles and mixed doubles are the most unpredictable events at the Olympics. Both pairs are unseeded, and bookmakers are giving them equal odds.
The mixed doubles match will feature Daniil Medvedev/Mirra Andreeva against Sara Errani/Andrea Vavassori (Italy). The Russians are unseeded, while their opponent is seeded fifth. Bookmakers consider the Italian pair the clear favorites, with odds of 1.5. They offer odds of 2.4 for Medvedev and Andreeva.