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Tokyo 2020 Paralympics day 7: road cycling, athletics, basketball and more – live!

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Road cycling: Sarah Storey eclipsed all competition to win her second gold medal in the C5 time trial on Tuesday morning. In doing so she also drew level with the swimmer Mike Kenny as the most successful British Paralympian of all time.

The Dame finished a minute and a half clear of teammate Crystal Lane-Wright and, at points, was catching the tail of the men’s race at the Fuji International Speedway circuit, so dominant was her performance. That is standard for Storey, who spoke afterwards of the “single-mindedness” that has brought her 16 gold medals to this point and the prospect of another, a record-breaking 17th, in two days’ time.




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Athletics: Another Aussie success on Tuesday morning for James Turner, who won the men’s 400m (T36). Turner finished well ahead in 52.80 seconds, pushing himself so close to the limit he required medical attention afterwards (all was fine).

“I’m quite emotional right now,” he said. “A lot of work has been done by a lot of people to get me here. The last 50 of a 400 is always hard – the heat and the effort. My muscles started tightening up, I started losing control of them, but I was able to hold it together with my training.”

James Turner

 A spent James Turner at the Olympic Stadium. Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP




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Bit to catch up on from this morning, with Australian Darren Hicks adding a Paralympic road cycling gold to track silver medal. He was pretty emotional afterwards but managed to articulate a message for his wife Carys who was watching on back at home.

“Sorry I stressed you out babe, but we got there,” he told the Seven Network. “I think I’ll be excited later, but for now it’s relief. I’ve worked so hard for this and wanted it for so long… I’m just so happy.

“The warmup was perfect, I’ve never had my heart rate so low. My leg felt perfect. I just Went out and executed the plan. Just let it all loose on the third. It worked out brilliant.”




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Preamble

Emma Kemp

Hello and welcome to day seven of the Tokyo Paralympics. Tokyo is again hot and humid, and again there are a stack of medals to be won. Here are a few highlights coming our way, courtesy of my colleague Martin Belam.

All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for Wolverhampton, 13 hours for New York and 16 hours for San Francisco.

If you only watch one thing: 8am and 1.30pm Road cycling – already done is the morning of time trial racing at the same F1 circuit that was used as the venue for the Olympics, where 12 gold medals awarded (more on that soon). A second session starts at 1.30pm, featuring another seven races.

  • 9am Archery – a long day of competition in the Yumenoshima Final Field, with the final of the men’s individual compound coming at 1.35pm and the final of the women’s individual W1 contest at 8.42pm
  • 9am Wheelchair basketball – the women’s competition reaches the knockout stage. A disappointed Australia squad have alrady beaten Algeria 71-32 in the 9th/10th place play-off, and then it is onto the quarter-finals. Canada are midway through their match against a misfiring US outfit, followed by unbeaten Germany v Spain. It’s then a tough ask for the British women. They qualified for the next stage despite winning only one of their pool matches, and Great Britain are up against an unbeaten China. The Netherlands against the hosts Japan completes the quartet, with matches running all through the day.
  • 9.30am and 7pm Athletics – two sessions as usual, 24 medals to be one. From 7.52pm to 8.56pm there’s an incredible set of women’s finals, including three varieties of 100m, a 200m, a 400m and the T54 1500m
  • 9.30 Shooting – another day at the Asaka Shooting Range features the women’s 10m pistol SH1 final at noon (Iran’s Sareh Javanmardi won gold), and the men’s 10m pistol SH1 final at 2.30pm
  • 10am and 4.30pm Table tennis – if you like quarter-finals, have I got news for you. There’s 33 table tennis quarter-finals on Tuesday. Yes, I know 33 is a weirdly specific and uneven number, but I’ve counted three times. Thirty-three.
  • 10.45am and 4pm Boccia – there’s almost a whole day’s worth of individual quarter-final contests in the boccia to, and then by 5.15pm we are at the semi-final stage
  • 1.15pm Goalball – the men’s contest has reached – you guessed it – the quarter-final stage. The opening match sees the hosts Japan against China, then 2016 silver medallists the USA face Ukraine at 3pm, defending champions Lithuania take on Belgium at 5.45, and Rio bronze medallists Brazil will play Turkey at 7.30pm.
  • 5pm Swimming – the evening session features 14 finals again today, and ends with the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay 49 points final

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source: theguardian.com