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Josh Ball

Siobhan Haughey is on everyone’s watch list for day 5 at the Paris Olympics, but seeing as she’s not racing until 2.30am on Thursday (Hong Kong Time), we thought you might be interested in what’s happening before then.
The River Seine is now magically clean enough for swimming, having not been 24 hours ago, so there is triathlon to look forward to, and the latest event in China’s inevitable march to diving domination is also coming up.
If that doesn’t tickle your fancy, then how about some BMX, or a gentle little game of tennis?
All of which should tell you we’re in for another chaotic day of sport from the French capital, so here are five things to keep an eye out for.


Triathlon
The clean bill of health given to the River Seine means the men’s and women’s races will both take place on Wednesday.
Hong Kong’s Jason Ng Tai-long goes in the men’s race at 4.45pm (Hong Kong Time), where his main aim will be to better the 33rd position that Oscar Coggins managed at the Tokyo Olympics.
Before that, the women’s race is at 2pm, with Lin Xinyu China’s only representative.
Rowing

Hong Kong’s Chiu Hin-chun has reached the C/D semi-finals of the men’s single sculls
Scheduled for 3.54pm, the top three rowers in each of the two C/D semi-finals will reach the C final, which determines places 13 to 18, on Saturday.
The D final will rank rowers from 19 to 24. The city’s rowers have never finished inside the top 24 at the Olympics.
Diving

Is gold inevitable? Do they eat snails in France? You’d expect both answers to be the same here.
The last stop on China’s inexorable march to diving domination is the women’s synchronised 10m platform and the appearance of social media and Tokyo Olympics darling Quan Hongchan.
Quan dropped into the country’s consciousness three years ago as a talented teenager, and little has changed in the years since then.
She and partner Sun Jiaqi will be summersaulting and tucking their way to glory from 5pm.
Tennis

We’re at the quarter-final stage of the women’s tournament, and it’s hard to get away from the feeling that everyone is playing for the right to lose to four-time French Open champion Iga Swiatek in the final.
Sport though is never that simple, and China’s Zheng Qinwen has a respectable record on clay. Whether the grueling three hours needed to overcome American 11th seed Emma Navarro 6-7, 7-6, 6-1 on Tuesday has an impact remains to be seen.
“I never fought so hard like this,” Zheng said. “I spent the most effort, most mental strength and most physical.”
Zheng takes on Angelique Kerber, the 36-year-old German who has won three grand slam titles and used to be ranked No 1. She beat 2021 US Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez of Canada 6-4, 6-3 to become the oldest women’s quarter-finalist since tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988. Kerber has said the Paris Games will be the final tournament of her career.
BMX freestyle
The women’s park final happens at 7.10pm, and China had a strong showing in the qualification round, with Deng Yawen and Sun Jiaqi finishing second and third respectively.
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Obviously, the Hong Kong swimming sensation is in action later, but there is plenty happening between now and then in the French capital


Obviously, the Hong Kong swimming sensation is in action later, but there is plenty happening between now and then in the French capital.
