Tokyo Paralympics 2020 day 10: road cycling concludes, goalball finals and more – live! | Sport

Wheelchair tennis: The lads’s doubles gold medal match between Nice Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid and Stephane Houdet and Nicholas Peifer of France has simply gotten underway. I’ll carry you updates from centre courtroom all through the match.

Goalball: Japan wins 6-1. The hosts are bronze medallists. Touching scenes, as the entire workforce rushes off the bench to embrace the three gamers who had been on courtroom on the ultimate whistle. Brazil are additionally heartily applauded by the group.

Desk tennis: China have claimed gold within the males’s groups (lessons six and 7) occasion, profitable two matches to Nice Britain’s zero. It was a reasonably complete win for the Chinese language pair of Yan Shuo and Liao Keli in the long run, solely dropping one recreation. However William Bayley and Paul Karabardak can maintain their heads up excessive after a terrific run to the ultimate.

Goalball: Protected to say it’s curtains on this girls’s bronze medal match between Japan and Brazil. Japan leads 6-0, with three minutes to play.

Staying with Donohoe, he’s given an emotional interview post-race, revealing that he was using for his good friend Will, who died by suicide two months in the past.

He mentioned on Australian broadcaster Channel Seven:

At the moment wasn’t my day. I imply, you’ll be able to’t management it. I like racing and that is it. I spent the final lap preventing again tears. This race for my mate Will.

I’ve been holding it collectively as much as the Video games. I wished to dedicate this one to him, and to my housemates again residence.

An extremely powerful day on the monitor for Donohoe, however he leaves with silver from the person pursuit and bronze within the time trial.

Highway biking: The lads’s C4-5 roadrace has been run and one. Like yesterday, the climate on the Fuji speedway is atrocious, and like yesterday, there have been loads of collisions and falls. Gold right here went to France’s Kevin le Cunff, forward of Yehor Ukrdementyev of Ukraine and Daniel Nedabraham of the Netherlands. Australia’s Alistair Donohoe fell twice within the slip, however battled on bravely to complete fifth. It was extra unhealthy luck for Donohoe after a crash within the latter levels of the identical occasion in Rio robbed him of gold.

Goalball: Good distance again for Brazil from right here. Kakehata Eiko’s shot, exhausting and with loads of bounce, carves a path proper between two outstretched Brazilians defenders. It’s 5-0 Japan. On the stroke of half-time, Brazil give away one other penalty, nevertheless it’s well-saved. And that’s the break.

Goalball: Bother for Brazil. Victoria Amorim provides away an extended ball penalty, which suggests she’s left to defend the subsequent Japanese shot with out her teammates. The Brazil camp are usually not comfortable in any respect with that call. And, no, there is no such thing as a VAR right here. Japan’s star participant Norika Hagiwara launches a skidding shot to Amorim’s proper. Amorim stretches out to her proper, however is simply too late, and the ball thunders into the web. 4-0 Japan.

Goalball: After that housekeeping, let’s get into the reside sport (which is why you’re right here, in any case!). First, we’ll go to the goalball. Japan and Brazil are battling it out for bronze. Devoted weblog readers will know the hosts had a heartbreaking loss to Rio gold medallists Turkey yesterday. Japan have began brightly at present, and with 4 minutes to play within the first half, they’ve a 3-0 lead.

A fast have a look at the medal tally.

China are miles forward, with a whopping 77 gold medals.

A formidable efficiency from Nice Britain, whose 37 gold medals has them in second place.

After that it’s (not) Russia on 32 gold, the USA on 28 gold, Ukraine on 21, Brazil and the Netherlands (each 19) and Australia (18).

Rounding out the highest 10 is Italy, who’ve received 13, and shock packets Azerbaijan on 11 gold.

Nice Britain have additionally remained dominant on day 10, already profitable gold at Tokyo Stadium and at Sea Forest Waterway.

Emma Wiggs claimed gold within the girls’s VL2 canoe dash, whereas Jeanette Chippington took bronze in the identical occasion. Within the males’s KL3 canoe dash, Robert Oliver additionally received bronze.

Over on the nationwide stadium, Owen Miller took the gold within the 1500 T20, a terrific feat in his first Paralympics. Jonathan Broom-Edwards soared to a season’s finest within the T64 excessive leap – which was additionally ok for gold.

Australian readers shall be happy to realize it’s been a really robust to day 10 motion in Tokyo for the inexperienced and gold.

Within the Males’s KL2 canoe dash, Curtis McGrath defended his title from Rio in a intently fought race. It was a powerful triumph for McGrath, whose legs had been amputated in a mine blast whereas her served with the Australian defence forces in Afghanistan. Additionally on the water, Susan Siepel took silver within the girls’s VL2 canoe dash.

Australia continued its unprecedented success in desk tennis, with one other silver, after developing brief within the gold medal ultimate within the girls’s groups occasion.

And on the Fuji speedway, bicycle owner Paige Greco added to her gold medal from the velodrome and highway time trial bronze with one other bronze within the highway race C1-3.

I’ll wrap up what’s occurred thus far in at present’s motion shortly, however first, right here’s a have a look at day 9 in a shocking assortment of pictures.