Ah, the blissful dawn chorus of the Hong Kong taxi driver as they go honking and revving their way around the city, not the greatest sound wake up to. But then you get us dropping into your inbox, with a quick recap of the night’s action to peruse alongside your milk tea or semi-skimmed decaf, half-caf thing. And all of sudden everything seems better, right? Anyway, while you were sleeping, this is what was happening in Paris.
The men’s 1,500-metres was supposed to be a straight shootout between between Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Josh Kerr, somebody forgot to tell Cole Hocker. The American came out of nowhere to pass Kerr on the outside and win in an Olympic record 3 minutes, 27.65 seconds.
Kerr took silver in a national record 3:27.79, while another American, Yared Nuguse, ran a personal best 3:27.80 for bronze.
Ingebrigtsen, the defending champion, finished fourth in 3:28.24. There was more American gold in the women’s 200m, with Gabby Thomas, the bronze medallist from Tokyo, winning in 21.
83 seconds. Julien Alfred added silver to her 100m title in a time of 22.08, Thomas’ compatriot Brittany Brown takes third in 22.
20. At some point the Olympics is going to realise that much like highly ranked fencers don’t need to start at the very beginning of a tournament, the USA should probably just appear in the semi-finals of the men’s basketball. The NBA All-Stars swept aside Brazil 122-87 in their last eight encounter, and now face a test against a Serbian side boasting tw.