Thread by @Samfr

OLYMPIC LIVE THREAD - DAY 13

Only one medal overnight for GB with Liam Heath getting a bronze (medal 49) in the 200m sprint canoe. Galal Yafai also just won his SF so will have a shot a fly boxing gold in a few days.

In the athletics Dina was back in the relay and the British women broke the national record in the 4x100 to qualify comfortably for the final. Andrew Pozzi was 7th in the 110h and shockingly Grant Holloway didn't win - US still haven't won a men's track gold medal.

Currently diving going on with two Brits but neither look likely to challenge for the medals. I'm about to start watching the new design omnium which is 4 endurance races in 1 day. Annoyingly Aus won two surprise golds overnight so we need one of our own....

The new Omnium is 4 endurance races in one day:

1. Scratch race (first round wins)
2. Tempo (a point for every lap)
3. Elimination (last place eliminated every 2nd lap)
4. Points (points sprint every 10 laps plus points for win).

Matt Walls goes for GB and got 3rd at worlds.

Just seen the 4x100 men's heats went too. GB qualified for final and somehow the US men didn't qualify in what looks like a blanket finish across the whole field in their heat. Not sure what happened.

There we go. US men have a shocker.

https://twitter.com/jen725/status/1423172239546060800

Excellent ride by Matt Walls to win the scratch race. Tempo is next. Looks like a real medal chance.

Jack Carlin through to the men's sprint QFs comfortably. Jason Kenny into the repecharge. He's just not quite got the form in these games. Don't see him being able to add to his medal total.

Disaster for Katy Marchant in the keirin as the Dutch rider just took her out in a big crash. She'd looked so good. How frustrating.

BBC just said Sky Brown wants to do the skateboarding and surfing at the Paris Olympics w/o noting that the surfing will be 10,000 miles away in Tahiti which is going to make that tricky...

Jason Kenny through to the sprint QFs in the repecharge but he'll be up against one of the Dutch next and I can't see him winning that.

This is ridiculous. The highest diving score I've ever seen from a 14 year old. She was almost 100 points ahead of the bronze placed athlete.

https://twitter.com/fina1908/status/1423181898260500480

Matt Walls 3rd in the tempo race. Top three - Walls, van Schip of Holland and Thomas of France - are all on 76 points and have some daylight ahead of the rest of the field.

Matt Walls gets second in the elimination race. He leads into the points race, which is the final omnium event, but everything can change in that race.

Jack Carlin through to the sprint SFs tomorrow. He'll be up against one of the Dutch. Should be a cracker. Kenny out as expected. Just doesn't have the legs this time. I think we'll see him retiring after this week.

GOLD for Matt Walls - number 16 for GB and medal 50. What a brilliant points race ride. Got a lap early and controlled the race. Superb.

Holly Bradshaw going in the pole vault final in 15 mins. Only two women in the field have gone higher than her this season. Then women's 4x400 heats, GB in heat 2, and men's 1500m heats with two GB Jakes and a Josh trying to get into the final.

Australia playing Belgium in the men's hockey final. I suddenly find myself a passionate Belgian hockey fan.

GB women qualify for the 4x400 final. Looks like the three medals will be US, Jamaica and Poland though.

That was great from Jake Wightman to win the first 1500m SF. In the final and looking good. Holly Bradshaw one of only three women clear at 4.70 so far. She's sitting 2nd going into 4.80.

And Josh Kerr + Jake Heyward both qualify for the final too. Another middle distance final with three Brits. First time since 1984. A couple of the big favourites out too. Medals up for grabs.

COME ON BELGIUM

https://twitter.com/the_real_osg/status/1423242655320977409

Gold for Belgium! Every little helps in the race for fourth place.

Holly Bradshaw still sitting in 2nd place in the PV and has cleared 4.85. Still 4 women in it though.

YES! Holly Bradshaw has a medal. That is so wonderful. She's been 6th and 5th at the last two Olympics. She's been 7th, 6th and 4th at the worlds. Always so close and no medal until now.

It's bronze for Bradshaw. Medal 51 for GB and equal with Beijing with two more guaranteed and 3 more days of competition.

Meanwhile San Marino have won another medal in the Wrestling. Takes them above Bulgaria and Nigeria in the medal table. They had five competitors in Tokyo and three have won medals. One medal for every 10k people in the country. They could almost have a day each with them.

For context to match San Marino's per capita medals rate, China would need to win 130,000 medals.

US men have an absolute howler of an track tournament

https://twitter.com/ChrisChavez/status/1423253832272949252

Steven Gardiner won the 400m - great gold for the Bahamas. The medal table couldn't be much tighter heading into the last three days.

Wrapping up Day 13. GB now have 16 gold and 51 medals. Compared to previous games at this point:

Rio: 22 golds and 56 medals
London: 25 golds and 52 medals
Beijing: 17 golds and 42 medals

With three days left GB team Tokyo 2020 have drawn level with Beijing and are guaranteed to go fourth on the all time list. Don't think they can quite catch London or Rio (or London 1908 of course).

https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1420009266581213185

Anyway will be back later with the Day 14 preview including two of my very favourite events - the madison and the modern pentathlon - both the women's versions tomorrow. Plus sprint cycling finals and a great night (lunchtime) of athletics.

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