Live updates: Paris Olympics, Sha’Carri Richardson seeks redemption as track and field begins

The most important event of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is finally here. The 20-kilometer racewalks marked the beginning of the track and field competition Sha’Carri Richardson on August 1, but the in-stadia action began on August 2, and  will live cover all of it.

There is a break of approximately 6-7 hours between the morning and evening sessions of the daily track and field events. The first three rounds of the men’s decathlon, the first two rounds of the women’s 100 meters, the first round of the men’s 1500 meters, and the qualification stages of the men’s hammer throw and women’s high jump are the highlights of Friday’s AM session.

The first Friday session on August 2 runs from 10:05 a.m. Paris time until 12:15 p.m. local time, when the men’s decathlon shot put competition concludes. That is from 4:05 a.m. to after 6:15 a.m. on the East Coast of the United States.

Track and Field Live Updates from the 2024 Olympic Games, Friday, August 2, 10:05 a.m. Paris: Men’s Decathlon 100m

The track occasions start with the decathlon, and the occasion is more open than any time in recent memory now that world record holder Kevin Mayer, who had wellness questions going into the Games, scratched yesterday.

The group looks almost full (66,000 for every the BBC), which is an extraordinary sign for a morning meeting without any finals.

Markus Rooth wins the first heat with a time of 10.71, making it a Norwegian sweep; however, the second heat features names that are more familiar to Americans: The NCAA champion and record holder from Germany,

Leo Neugebauer, will set a new record in Paris alongside Harrison Williams and Heath Baldwin, the first American athletes to compete in the Olympics.

Harrison Williams defeats Neugebauer in a photo finish to become the first American to start an Olympic track race in Paris

Safeguarding gold medallist Damian Wariner of Canada begins in the third intensity, Sha’Carri Richardson as does the last American Zach Ziemek. In the 100m, his DWB is 10.12. Lindon Victor moved early, yet the lighting weapon didn’t yet fire so we’ll check whether we get a green card.

It’s a yellow card – – uncommon however conceivable in olympic style events – – for Lindon Victor, which basically implies he’s protected the same length as he doesn’t repeat the experience. Warner wins it in 10.25, which is good for him. For the record, we are experiencing slight positive tailwinds (+0.9 m/s for the first heat), which bodes well for the women’s 100-meter race that is about to take place. Ziemek comes in last with 10.60,

while the Puerto Rican Ayden Owens-Delerme surprises by placing second with 10.35.

Paris: 10:10 a.m. Men’s Hammer Throw Qualification Group A Unlike the women’s high jump, the men’s hammer throw’s two qualification groups begin separately. None of the first eight athletes in Group A have reached the 77.00 m requirement for automatic qualification, and five of them have fouled on their first attempt.

With a throw of 77.42 meters on his second attempt, Ukraine’s Mykhaylo Kokhan becomes the first competitor to auto-advance, making the first statement of the meet. The main American in this gathering, Daniel Haugh, bombed on his initial two endeavors, so he’ll have another opportunity.

Another foul on Haugh’s final attempt leaves him just left of the sector, making him the first American track athlete to miss the Paris Olympics.

Canada’s Rowan Hamilton, who had a foot foul on his most memorable endeavor, has the best sign of Gathering A with 77.78 m. We’ll need to trust that Gathering B will see the other American Rudy Winkler.

Paris: 10:15 a.m. Qualification for Women’s High Jump There will be two qualification groups jumping simultaneously. The star is Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine, who holds the world record.

Angelina Topic of Serbia, third in the Diamond League finals last year, appears to have been injured on a warmup jump and is being treated by medical personnel.

Mahuchikh’s countryman Yuliia Levchenko, 2017 Big showdowns silver medalist, has no-heighted. After suffering an injury in the warmup, Angelina Topic hesitates on her third attempt, but after the reset, she clears the bar and moves on!

The Arkansas high jumper Rachel Glenn, who can also run a mean 400 hurdles, is tied for eighth in Group A. She fouls three times at 1.92 meters. She will have to wait to find out if it is sufficient to advance to the finals.
Angelina Topic wins with a score of 1.92, concluding the deal for Glenn because she will not advance.

When Mahuchikh finally jumps, she looks fine and clears on her first attempt to qualify, despite skipping the initial heights. Nicola Olyslagers, from Australia, also clears well.

American Vashti Cunningham fails three times at 1.92 in Group B. However, she and Topic are tied for 12th, so they should both advance to the final and we’ll have 13 competitors.

10:35am Paris: Women’s 100-meter Preliminary Round: The three athletes with the fastest times overall and the next five advance to the quarterfinals later this session. It will be a great opportunity to see “universality place” athletes from smaller countries around the world compete for Olympic glory because all of the medal contenders, including Sha’Carri Richardson, have a bye to the quarterfinals.

Natacha Ngoye, Alessandra Gasparelli, and Xenia Hiebert automatically qualify for the quarterfinals after a green-card false start in the first heat. Ngoye runs 11.34. As the first DNF on the track, South Sudan’s Lucia Moris falls injured in lane 1. This causes a delay on the track.

Auto-advanced are Vietnam’s Thi Nhi Yen Tran (11.81), Grenada’s Halle Hazzard, and China’s Bo-Ya Zhang in the second of four heats.

Sao Tome and Principe’s Gorete Semedo defeats Guadalupe Torrez and Leonie Beu to win heat 3 in 11.44. In these heats, American Samoa, Nicaragua, and British Guiana set numerous national records.

Heat 4 is won by Zahria Allers-Liburd in 11.73, who will progress close by Asimenye Simwaka and Mariandree Chacon. The next five fastest people will also advance because the time qualifiers have also been set.

Sharon Firsua, a former Solomon Islands marathoner who had to compete in the 100 meters because there were no universality spots in the marathon, finishes ninth in 14.30.

We are seeing 0.0, 0.0, +1.1, and +0.2 for those on wind watch for the four heats. Not awful at all going to the quarter-finals.

The minuscule “qs” are: 11.88 for Carmona (Nicaragua), 11.97 for Acquaviva (Guinea), 11.99 for Sesay (Sierra Leone), 12.01 for Meredova (Turkmenistan), and 12.02 for Tugade (Guam).

Paris: 10:55 a.m. Long Jump in the Men’s Decathlon There will be two groups competing simultaneously. In 7.76m, Leo Nueugebauer leads Group B, which is a great result considering that he left a lot on the line. while the A group is led by Harrison Williams with 7.42m. Heath Baldwin misses on his first shot.

Sander Skotheim of Norway breaks the 8-meter barrier with an 8.03 time, but Neugebauer comes close with a 7.98 time to finish second in this event.

After two events, Warner is ahead of Neugebauer in the standings.

Paris: 11:10 a.m. Men’s 1500m Quarter-Finals

One of the most expected occasions of the Paris games starts now. Since Brian Komen, the winner of the Doha DL, has yet to demonstrate his tactical finesse, the first heat will provide many answers. There will be no time qualifiers, but there will be a “repechage” round as a second chance for the top six finishers in each heat.

Komen leads at 400m in 1:00.5, setting up for an exceptionally strategic race. Kerr and Nuguse are solid middle of the pack.

Narve Nordas attempts to take this, coming through 800m in 2:01.1. The entire field is still separated by one second.

Robert Farken of Germany comes through 1200m in 2:55.9, yet it’s Josh Kerr who takes it toward the end in 3:35.83, an agreeable presentation for him. As he fights for a qualifying spot, Yared Nuguse frightens the American audience, but he eventually makes it, placing fifth in 3:36.56. Brian Komen, Narve Nordas, Anass Essayi, and Farken, who was rewarded for leading at 1200 meters, round out the other qualifiers. Nuguse would have fallen outside the top six and been forced to fight in the repechage round if he had finished more than one tenth slower. This year’s debutant Komen had an impressive campaign.

The subsequent intensity highlights American decoration trust Cole Hocker, who beat Nuguse at the Olympic preliminaries, and 2019 winner Timmy Cheruiyot.

Stewart McSweyn of Australia holds the lead in the 400 meters with a time of 1:00.5, but Hocker is close behind. Chreruiyot was fourth.

At 800 meters, McSweyn still holds the lead, and Hocker appears to be somewhat constrained on the rail with 400 meters remaining. Hocker almost appears to be going backwards because there are so many competitors running around him.

Hocker moves wide with 150 to go, and he times it impeccably to complete second and Q. The five qualifiers are Ermias Girma 3:35.21, Hocker, Pietro Arese, Niels Laros, Cheruiyot, and Isaac Nader.

The man who can beat Jakob Ingebigtsen is in Heat 3 of the 1500, as is Hobbs Kessler, who impressed with a 1:43 time at the Trials 800 and demonstrated that he can rely on a kick when things get tactical.

In a sign of self-assurance, Jakob allows the field to pass him in the first 100 meters, running effortlessly from behind. Out of the three, this is the slowest heat.

It’s 2:01.36 at the 800, Jakob climbs within. At the time of the bell, 2:56, Kessler is in a good spot on the shoulder of Samuel Tefera, the World Indoor Champion.

Ingebrigtsen rises to a high qualifying position from 11th. Both Diamond League champion Azeddine Habz, who tied up, and Australian Trials champion Adam Spencer will have to rely on the repechage.

Stefan Nillessen, Kessler, Ingebrigtsen, Reynold Cheruiyot, Neil Gourley, and Tefera are the Qs for the third heat in a time of 3:36.77.