What to watch Thursday night, Friday morning at the Tokyo Olympics

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The highest U.S. seashore volleyball duo seems to safe a gold medal, the U.S. girls’s basketball group can e-book a spot within the last, and Allyson Felix races the 400m yet one more time. Here is what to look at on Day 14 of the Tokyo Olympics.

Primetime on NBC

Thursday night time’s Olympic protection on NBC might be highlighted by a stay gold medal match in seashore volleyball that includes April Ross and Alix Klineman. Viewers may tune in to see protection from observe & subject, skateboarding and diving.

NBC Primetime: Aug. 5

  • Begin Time: 8 p.m. ET
  • TV Channel: NBC
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Ladies’s Golf

After capturing a 62 on Thursday, U.S. golfer Nelly Kodra now holds a four-stroke lead after two rounds of play within the girls’s golf competitors. The rest of the event is a bit up within the air in the meanwhile, as considerations over each the warmth in Tokyo and an impending tropical storm imply that the event may very well be reduce from 72 holes to 54 holes. For Spherical 3, the sector might be cut up up with one group beginning on the first gap and the opposite group beginning on the tenth.

Ladies’s Golf: Spherical 3

  • Begin Time: 6:30 p.m. ET
  • TV Channel: Golf Channel
  • Reside Streams:

Ladies’s Seashore Volleyball

The “A-Crew” of April Ross and Alix Klineman is one win away from a gold medal. They will play Australian duo Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Photo voltaic within the girls’s last. Though Ross and Klineman would be the favorites, the Aussies have already pulled one main upset on this event by knocking out one of many world’s high groups (Canada’s Pavan/Melissa)within the quarterfinals.

Ladies’s Bronze Match
Graudina/Kravcenoka (LAT) vs. Verge-Depre, A./Heidrich (SUI)

  • Begin Time: 9 p.m. ET
  • TV Channel: CNBC
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Ladies’s Gold Medal Match
April/Alix (USA) vs Artacho Del Photo voltaic/Clancy (AUS)

  • Begin Time: 10:30 p.m. ET
  • TV Channel: NBC
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Soccer

A dominant Swedish girls’s soccer group seeks an Olympic title 5 years after dropping the gold medal match towards Germany in Rio and taking dwelling silver. This time, they will meet Canada, the group that gained its semifinal 1-0, dropping the U.S. into the bronze medal match it gained over Australia. 

Afterward, Mexico and host nation Japan sq. off for the bronze medal within the males’s event. 

Ladies’s Gold Medal Match
Sweden vs Canada

  • Begin Time: 9:45 p.m. ET
  • Channel: USA
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Males’s Bronze Medal Match
Mexico vs Japan

  • Begin Time: 7 a.m. ET
  • Channel: NBCSN
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Ladies’s Volleyball

Spots within the gold medal match for ladies’s volleyball are on the road. The US, which remains to be coping with accidents to 2 key gamers, goes towards Serbia within the first semifinal. If the U.S. wins that match, they’d play the winner of Brazil vs. South Korea within the last.

Semifinal: Serbia vs. United States

  • Begin Time: 12 a.m. ET
  • TV Channel: CNBC
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Semifinal: Brazil vs. South Korea

  • Begin Time: 8 a.m. ET
  • TV Channel: USA
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Ladies’s Basketball

The U.S. performs Serbia in a girls’s basketball semifinal matchup that might ship it to the gold medal sport. Breanna Stewart has been big for Crew USA all through the event and contributed 23 factors and 5 rebounds within the group’s quarterfinal win over Australia.

Semifinal: United States vs. Serbia

  • Begin Time: 12:40 a.m. ET
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Semifinal: Japan vs. France

  • Begin Time: 7 a.m. ET
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Monitor Biking

Medals in two occasions are on the road in observe biking: the boys’s dash and the ladies’s Madison, in its first Olympic look.

A Madison race is a relay-style race that requires each pace and endurance. Groups are made up of two cyclists, and just one athlete from every group could journey at one time. Teammates full a “handsling” alternate (the place each individuals grip arms and the lead rider pushes the contemporary rider again into the competitors) when switching lively bikes. Factors are awarded for sprints and lapping opponents. 

Finals: Ladies’s Madison, Males’s Dash

  • Begin Time: 2:30 a.m. ET
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Monitor and Discipline

Motion on the observe begins to wind down, and there’ll solely be one session of observe & subject occasions on Day 14. After two males’s 4×400 relay heats, the ladies’s javelin throw last might be contested, the boys’s 5000m last will set off, and medals are on the road within the girls’s 400m and 1500m. Among the many distinguished People racing for medals might be Allyson Felix within the girls’s 400m.

The 4x100m relay finals will shut out the session. The U.S. girls made their last, however the males didn’t advance out of their warmth after a surprising sixth-place finish.

Monitor Finals

  • Begin Time: 6:50 a.m. ET
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Discipline Last

  • Ladies’s Javelin Throw (7:50 a.m. ET / Watch)

Sport Climbing

Sport climbing’s first Olympics involves a detailed with the ladies’s mixed last. Throughout the qualifying spherical, American Brooke Raboutou earned the second-highest rating in bouldering, which helped her advance to the ultimate regardless of decrease scores in lead (eighth place) and pace (twelfth place).

In sport climbing, athletes compete in a trio of disciplines: pace, bouldering and lead. To get an total rating, their placings in every self-discipline are transformed into factors and multiplied collectively. The bottom total rating wins. 

Ladies’s Mixed Last

  • Begin Time: 4:30 a.m. ET
  • Reside Stream: Watch

Equestrian

Jessica Springsteen and the U.S. leaping squad head into the group qualifier seeking to proper the ship after a disappointing particular person occasion. All three riders downed the identical difficult oxer and did not make the ultimate. 

In Rio, the People gained silver in group present leaping, however solely return two riders (Kent Farrington and reserve McClain Ward) and 0 horses from that group. Laura Kraut is again 12 years after her final Olympic look when she was a part of the group gold-winning U.S. squad alongside Ward in Beijing. 

Competitors from the Europeans is all the time fierce in equestrian occasions, however count on some noise from a Swedish group filled with energy. All three Swedish riders went clear within the particular person qualifier and last to make the jump-off, together with newly minted back-to-back silver medalist Peder Fredricson

Crew Present Leaping Qualifier

  • Begin Time: 6 a.m. ET
  • Reside Stream: Watch

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