Here are the main events of the day of Saturday July 31, the Olympic “Super Saturday” with the climax of the women’s 100 meters final.
The day started with a beautiful bronze medal won in a mixed relay triathlon by the French delegation (Vincent Luis, Cassandre Beaugrand, Dorian Coninx and Léonie Périault), the first Olympic medal in the history of the discipline for France and the 14th French medal since the start of the Olympic Games. Great Britain gets gold, the United States gets silver.
Charline Picon, Olympic champion in 2016, won the silver medal in RS: X windsurfing. Despite her victory in the final regatta, the Charentaise was beaten in the general classification for gold by the Chinese Lu Yunxiu, the Briton Emma Wilson completing the podium. Thomas Goyard imitated it a few minutes later by also winning silver in the same discipline. Despite a disqualification in the final round for having anticipated the start, the Caledonian finished second behind the Dutchman Kiran Badloe, the Chinese Bi Kun completing the podium.
Les Bleues also won silver in rugby sevens. They lost in the final against New Zealand (26-12).
The day continued in apotheosis with the gold medal won in judo in the mixed team event. Clarisse Agbégnénou, Teddy Riner and their teammates beat the Japanese in the final on their land.
French sabers Cécilia Berder, Manon Brunet, Sara Balzer and Charlotte Lembach became Olympic vice-champions, beaten by Russia competing under neutral flag 45 to 41.
The basketball players, already assured of finishing first in their group, won a third victory in a row at the expense of Iran (79-62), Saturday in Saitama. Victorious against Italy (45-39), the sabers of the France team are qualified in the final. The handball players on the other hand complicated the task. Beaten by the Russians 28-27, they no longer have the right to make mistakes to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Olympic tournament.
Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah won her second consecutive gold medal in the 100m, with the second fastest time in history in 10 sec 61 (wind -0.6 m / s). She beat her compatriots Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.74), titled on the straight in 2008 and 2012, and Shericka Jackson (10.76), for a Jamaican hat-trick. The Ivorian Marie-Josée Ta Lou finished again at the foot of the podium.
Poland won the first mixed 4x400m relay title ahead of the Dominican Republic. Karol Zalewski, Natalia Kaczmarek, Justyna Swiety-Ersetic and Kajetan Duszynski inaugurate the prize list of the discipline. Their last torchbearer was the strongest in the final straight, where the Dutch torchbearer broke down, going from first to 4th place.
Swimming records were numerous. The American Caeleb Dressel won his third gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics by winning the 100m butterfly, with a new world record (49 sec 45). The British were crowned Olympic champions in the 4x100m mixed medley relay, breaking the world record held by the Chinese.
US gymnastics superstar Simone Biles, who forfeited the all-around final, is forfeited again for Sunday’s finals on vault and uneven bars.
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