Paris Olympics day 13: China boxing gold as USA escape basketball upset – as it happened
- Luo Shifang breaks two Olympic records to take gold in weightlifting, where there is also gold for Indonesia to add to its climbing triumph
There are days at the Olympics when it feels as though you either need seven televisions, a time machine, or multiple versions of yourself to keep up – this is one of those days.
From diving to weightlifting, hurdling to basketball, there was a dizzying amount of sport on offer, so much so that a Hong Kong athlete even made a rare appearance.
The men’s 200m final meant the row over doping wasn’t going away any time soon, with USA sprinter Erriyon Knighton competing despite failing a drugs test.
He was cleared because he apparently ate some contaminated meat – where have we heard that before? Needless to say, one side is making hay, but at least it didn’t take nearly three years and a media investigation to make it public.
Day 13 promised to be anything but quiet, and it delivered. Stay with us for continued live coverage from Paris.
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Reporting by Mike Chan and Paul McNamara in Paris, and Josh Ball, Ira Gorawara, Meredith Chen, Sylvia Ma, Angeline Jiang, Lars Hamer, Andrew Richardson and Tom Bell in Hong Kong
