PARIS — The Olympics has entered its final week at the Paris Games with the city seeing a buzz of activity across venues including athletics, football, wrestling, artistic swimming, sailing, skateboarding and many more. As many as 15 medals will be up for grabs on Tuesday , with a third being awarded in athletics. KERR V INGEBRIGTSEN Britain’s Josh Kerr hopes to unseat reigning champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway in the men’s 1,500 meters final.
The rivals have been feuding since Kerr denied Ingebrigtsen the world title last year in Budapest, with the two trading barbs ever since. They were matched up in the semi-finals , with Ingebrigtsen crossing first although both coasted through the finish line. Medals will also be awarded in women’s hammer throw, men’s long jump, women’s 3,000 steeplechase and women’s 200.
SOCCER SEMIS Four leading women’s teams aim for a place in the final . In Marseille, world champions Spain meet Brazil, who shocked France in the quarter-finals, while four-times gold medalists the United States face 2016 champions Germany in Lyon. FIVE GOLDS Cuban great Mijain Lopez, 41, will hope to become the first-ever athlete to win five golds in the same Olympic event when he begins his campaign in the men’s Greco-Roman 130kg category.
World champion Zholaman Sharshenbekov will bid to become Kyrgyzstan’s first-ever Olympic gold medalist in the 60kg. American Amit Elor is among a new generation pushing for Olympic glory in the women’s 68kg.