One of the stories of the Games could, potentially, materialise over the next 24 hours.
Two-time Olympic champion, Helen Glover, who has had three children since winning her last Olympic gold medal in 2016, goes in the final of the women’s pair, alongside Scot, Polly Swann, who took time out of training last year to work as a doctor at the height of the pandemic. The duo will go for gold at 1:30am tomorrow.
In the pool, if he managed to navigate the 200m backstroke semi-finals overnight, Ross Murdoch will go in the final of the 200m breaststroke at 2:44am, the event in which he won Commonwealth gold in 2014. He could be joined by fellow Brit, James Wilby.
Following on from his silver medal in the 200m freestyle, Duncan Scott will race in the heats of the 200m individual medley at 12:12pm.
The medals will be decided in the men’s rugby 7s, with the final four consisting of New Zealand, GB, Argentina and Fiji. 2016 silver medallists, GB, are hoping to go one better than their last outing, with the bronze medal play-off at 9:30am and the final at 10am.
The women’s rugby 7s begins in the early hours of tomorrow morning, with one Scot in the squad, Hannah Smith. GB begin their campaign against the side representing the Russian Olympic Committee at 3am.
The men’s all-around gymnastics final begins at 11:15am today while 3x3 basketball, which is making its Olympic debut at these Games, will see the gold medals decided from 12:45pm today.
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