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Men’s BMX Freestyle: We’re three riders into the competition and just like in the women’s competition, the standard is little short of breathtaking.
Not one of our nine finallists has put a foot wrong yet and three of the opening four have scored in the 90s. Each rider gdets two runs and the highest single score wins. Argentina’s Jose Torres Gil is the early clubhouse leader and Kieran Reilly goes last of the nine.
Men’s BMX Freestyle is under way: And Great Britain’s Kieran Reilly is the hot favourite to win it. By a considerable distance, he was best of the qualifiers yesterday.
Kieran Pender
Women’s BMX Freestyle: Australian rider Natalya Diehm won bronze in the women’s BMX freestyle in sweltering Parisian conditions in the shadow of the Luxor Obelisk.
Diehm posted a score of 88.80 in her first ride, the first full run of the final after France’s Laury Perez crashed at the start of her opener. Diehm then faced an anxious wait as the rest of the field competed, only China’s Deng Yawen bettering the Australian’s score in the first round and American Perris Benegas in the second (only a rider’s best single score counts). Diehm’s second run, an 87.70, was not enough to change her position.
Australia’s Natalya Diehm took gold in the women’s BMX Freestyle. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
Jack Snape
Men’s triathlon: Matt Hauser’s seventh place finish in the men’s triathlon earlier was the best Olympic finish for an Australian man since 2004.
The 26-year-old left the River Seine swim leg in third and was among the leading pack in the cycling. Although he fell leading into the second transition, he recovered in the run and finished 44 seconds behind winner Alex Yee from Team GB.
“I really wanted a medal, and I knew I was capable of that on my day, it just wasn’t my day today,” said Hauser, who was the best placed of Australia’s four triathletes in action across the men’s and women’s events on Wednesday.
The group has been taking antibiotics in a bid to combat the risk of swimming in the Seine, and is now preparing for the mixed relay on Monday.
Cas dismiss Canada points deduction appeal
Women’s football: To the surprise of precisely nobody, including – one imagines – themselves, Canada have had their somewhat ludicrous appeal against a six points deduction imposed for using a drone to spy on a rival’s training session dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The reigning champions have won their first two matchers to get back to zero points and could still qualify for the knockout stages if they beat Colombia in their final group game.
Fifa docked Canada six points and banned their British coach Bev Priestman from all football-related activities for a year after Canadian staff were spotted flying a drone over a New Zealand training session ahead of the opening match between the two nations.