Today, July 31, the fifth day of competition will take place in Paris. 20 sets of prizes will be drawn. Unfortunately, we have to admit again that so far the Russian athletes have no chance of winning medals, but the tennis players are slowly getting closer to them: they are fighting to reach the quarter-finals!
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Safiullin knows how to defeat Alcaraz
Wow, how we cheered for the pair of Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schneider in the tennis doubles tournament the day before! These girls have nothing to lose. They have already been eliminated from the singles tournament, which means that they will play in pairs for the full money. The Russians did not even have time to play properly, but in the first round they beat their opponents in the tie-break.
Now they need to beat the experienced Canadian tennis players Gabriela Dabrowski and Leila Fernandez. There was hardly any time to rest, but this is the path to the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games. It is never easy.
The match with Mirra and Diana will start no earlier than 16:00 Moscow time. And that’s good: it won’t burn as much.
And it will be especially difficult for Roman Safiullin. His opponent was the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the third player in the world. Carlitos recently celebrated success here at Roland Garros. And I have not forgotten that feeling of victory.
Roman Safiullin
Photo: Alexander Safonov, “Championship”
However, there is one thing! The tennis players have faced each other in a head-to-head competition only once. This happened a year ago and then it was Safiullin who won.
Roman, maybe it’s worth playing a double? The most important match for our tennis player will start no earlier than 14:30 on the Suzanne Lenglen court.
How Safiullín approached Alcaraz. It was great!
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Well, the third “our” tennis match of the day: Daniil Medvedev against Felix Auger-Aliassime, which will start no earlier than 16:00 Moscow time. The Russian has beaten the Canadian many times. I would like to believe that this will happen on the field as well. The main thing is not to try to throw hats at him.
Marchand, are you God?
Perhaps the biggest star of French sport at these Olympic Games is swimmer Léon Marchand. He has already won gold in the 400m individual medley, but he can finally establish himself as the king of swimming if he comes first in two finals at once: the 200m breaststroke and the 200m butterfly.
If he wins both distances, he will become the Frenchman with the most titles in the group. His eminent predecessors Yannick Agnel and Alain Bernard each have two Olympic gold medals. And never before at the Olympic Games has “La Marseillaise” been performed three times in honour of a French swimmer.
Leon should have enough time to prepare between finals.
21:37. 200 m butterfly. Men; 23:31. 200 m breaststroke. Men.
In front of his home crowd, Marchand set an Olympic record:
Frenchman Marchand is the king of the Olympic pool! He also beat Phelps’ record!
Last chance for Ledecky
The first Olympic Games without gold could be in the career of American champion Katie Ledecky. She won in London, Rio, Tokyo, but so far there is only one bronze in her collection from Paris.
The American is unlikely to be happy with this arrangement. Katie may therefore have her last chance to become the first in Paris. And this is a 1500m freestyle swim.
Katie Ledecky at the 2024 Olympics
Photo: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Former Russian Anastasia Kirpichnikova also has a good chance at this distance. The Frenchwoman has now proved this for the third time in the preliminary rounds. She may please the Parisian public in the final.
The evening will conclude in swimming (at 23:39) with the men’s 100m freestyle final. And the main characters here are world record holder Pan Janle (China) and David Popovich (Romania). The Romanian has already won gold in Paris, but the Chinese have not yet achieved their reward. Perhaps we are witnessing the emergence of a long-term rivalry between two talented athletes. Both are 19 years old and are already fighting at the main start.
A year ago, Popovich was completely out of shape. But now there is no stopping him:
“There is no magic.” Romanian swimming genius fails at world championships
Let’s watch some cool volleyball
In volleyball, the day will start with the clash between Poland and Brazil at 10:00. The former have not won the Olympic Games for 48 long years, and in the last five they have stopped at the quarter-finals. Nikola Grbic’s team has already started the Olympic tournament successfully. However, they now need to beat the Brazilians, who have also failed to win gold in the last major competitions. In Tokyo, the Brazilian team failed to make it to the final.
By the way, in the first match of the 2024 Games, Bernardo Resende’s team failed, losing to the Italians 1:3. You can’t lose anymore.
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