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1 Aug, 8 tweets, 2 min read
OLYMPIC PREVIEW THREAD DAY 10

As we move into the second week the GB focused action moves later in the morning (thank god I'm exhausted). Relatively quiet day on the medal front tomorrow before a potentially very big day on Tuesday.
Tomorrow's best chances are in the eventing which comes to its conclusion with the team showjumping at 9am and the individual at 12.45pm. GB sit top of the team competition and Oliver Townend / Laura Collett / Tom McEwen in 1st, 3rd and 6th place individually.
We also have a good chance in the men's skiff medal race at 7.33am where Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell currently lie in 2nd place. Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey sit 5th for the women's skiff medal race at 6.33am, having lost a good position from earlier in the week.
Emily Campbell will have the last opportunity to win a weightlifting medal for GB in the 87+ category. Laurel Hubbard will be the first transwoman to compete in the games in the same event.
The Gadirova twins are back in the floor final (9.57am). With no Simone Biles it's pretty open and Jessica qualified with the 3rd highest scores of those competing. Rebecca Andrade, today's vault champion will be competing too.
The track cycling finally starts. No medal chances on day 1 but the women's and men's pursuit teams (7.30am + 9am) will be going in qualifying. Have to be top 4 to have a medal chance. Women's team final is 10.09am but we didn't qualify for that. (We're in all 11 other events).
In the athletics there are no Brits in any finals. In Dina Asher-Smith's absence Beth Dobbin will be hoping to feature in the 200m SFs but that's about it. The 800m final with three GB women is on Tuesday.
Most interesting final is women's 5k (1.40pm) where Sifan Hassan will go for the first part of an unprecedented 1500m/5k/10k treble.

Correction re: Laurel Hubbard being the first transwoman to compete. Also that final is at 11.50am.

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Not a huge amount to catch-up on overnight but lots coming up in the next few hours...
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