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5 Aug, 9 tweets, 2 min read

OLYMPICS PREVIEW THREAD - DAY 14

Only three days left but some of my favourite events over the next few days and an extremely tight medal race to settle...

A quiet night - just the bronze medal women's hockey match between GB and India at 2.30am for anyone on the night shift. But a busy morning.

At 6am Lauren Price goes in her boxing semi-final looking to get to the Sunday final that is one of the last events of the game. She is favourite for gold.

Then at 7.30am the cycling stars up again with Katy Marchant first up in the sprint qualifying. She was so unlucky to be knocked out of the keirin after a Dutch rider smashed into her. Then Jack Carlin in the sprint SFs (8.52am, final 10am).

At 9.15am we have Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald going in the Madison - my favourite race - where a pair of racers repeatedly slingslot each other into the race while the other takes the opportunity to rest at the top of the track. It's properly, joyously, mental.

Before the athletics starts we have the culimination of another brilliant event - the modern pentathlon. This is an event based on the required skills for a Victorian prisoner of way to escape - swimming, fencing, horseriding, shooting and running.

The shooting and running have been combined into a very exciting "laser race" with the competitors going in a staggered start based on points from previous rounds (think: posh Gladiators). That is 11.30am tomorrow for the women and Kate French goes for GB with a good chance.

Then, from 12.30pm, what promises to be a better athletics session for GB with 5 track finals. We have athletes in all of them (men's 5k; women's 400m, women's 1500m; and both 4x100 relays). Laura Muir in the 1500m and the relay teams the best chance of medals.

Alongside all of that we have Tom Daley looking to qualify for the 10m individual from 7am with his lovely new cardigan. And the showjumping team looking to qualify for their final (11am). Going to be a big morning.

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