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Pole vault: Five jumpers clear 5.70 on their first attempt in the pole, and Thiago Braz from Braz(il) gets it on his second. Armand Duplantis, the Swedish fave, doesn’t bother and conserves his strength. He’ll jump when it’s worth his while.

Boxing: Kári Tulinius emails in. “Hello Geoff, Finland’s Mira Potkonen will become the oldest boxer ever to win a medal at the Olympics, after beating Turkey’s Esta Yildiz in the Women’s Lightweight category. At forty, she’s over the age limit, but got special dispensation because of the year’s delay. She was already somewhat unexpectedly a bronze medalist at Rio 2016, making this achievement even more astounding. And she has a real chance of getting through to the final, too.”

Never too old to throw a few haymakers.

Volleyball: Argentina defeats Italy in an epic to go into the semi-finals, three sets to two. The inventors of Fernet are undone by the principal consumers of Fernet.

Athletics: Lavillenie with a baller move, comes in for his first jump and sails over 5.70. Apparently he has an ankle injury? Hence keeping his jumping to a minimum. He looks pretty pumped.

Athletics: Right then. Men’s pole vault final, anyone? They’re going for gold. A field of 14 competitors, and bad news for Australia early, because Kurtis Marschall has bombed out in straight sets. Three misses at his first height of 5.55 metres. He kept making it over the bar and then clipping it with his torso on the way down. Renaud Lavillenie of France passed up that first jump, and everyone else cleared it.

The team in gold will be playing for gold. Clinical on penalties, scoring four from four past Guillermo Ochoa, while Mexico miss their first two and struggle from there. It’s 4-1 in the end.

Gymnastics: Hashimoto Daiki takes it with a score of 15.066. Japan have had such a good Games, that momentum of a home team surging with them. Tin Srbic of Croatia gets silver, Nikita Nagorrny bronze for Russia.

An excellent effort too by Tyson Bull. Australia doesn’t get a lot of gymnasts into Olympic finals, so getting there and coming fifth is a big achievement.

Hockey: Men’s semi, Australia take the lead 2-1 over Germany. Blake Govers puts in the second.

Football: Going to penalties in the semi between Mexico and Brazil. It’s been an ordinary match through 12o goalless minutes.

Boxing: Defence up, going in, and McCormack is throwing what he can. But Iglesias is good enough to deny him the chance to get any combos going. Standing and slugging, McCormack, with a minute to go. Goes in with a few late swings, and Iglesias tags him one more time for good measure just before the final bell.

Third round goes to McCormack 4-1. But it’s a unanimous decision overall: gold for Cuba!

Boxing: Iglesias snags him with a hard left hand, and McCormack trips over his feet and hits the deck. He looks a little rattled, and ends up in a long clinch with Iglesias, then another. Just trying to buy time for breath? In real trouble here, McCormack, does little with the round aside from skip and sometimes tackle Iglesias into the ropes. Gets a couple of shots in right at the end of the round, including one good one into the body.

The round goes unilaterally to the Cuban.

Boxing: McCormack lands a couple of left-hand jabs in the early exchanges, drawing huge cheers from the crowd. He does the attacking through the first minute or so, then Iglesias goes on the offensive towards the end of the round, McCormack trying to stay out of reach. The judges score the round 4-1 for Iglesias.

Pat McCormack is up right now in the men’s welterweight division against Roniel Iglesias of… Cuba.

Boxing: Cuba forever. Why is Cuba so good at boxing and long jump and not much else, Olympically? Julio la Cruz wins through to the heavyweight gold bout, over Abner Texeira of Brazil.

Basketball: France beat Italy 84-75 in the men’s quarters. The Italy-Argentina volleyball game is in its fifth set. Did you know how long volleyball games went before this Olympics? They’re like Test cricket.

Hockey: First quarter of the semi-final between Australia and Germany men, and it’s 1-1. Brand for Australia, Windfeder for Germany.

Boxing: Australia’s Harry Garside wins through to a lightweight semi-final too, beating Kazakhstan’s Zakir Safiullin. That’s a bronze in the bag with the chance to go higher.

Here’s our other coverage on the women’s beam, in case this page wasn’t thorough enough.

Great Britain snags a medal in the men’s flyweight over Cuba’s Yosbany Veitia. “Great scrap,” is the pithy summary from my colleague Daniel Harris. He’s into the gold bout.

Football: Looks like we’re heading for extra time in the men’s Mexico-Brazil semi. Into injury time and it’s still 0-0.

Quarter finals: France is up by 6 points against Italy in the basketball, fourth quarter. Denmark beat Norway in the handball, and it’s two sets to one in favour of Argentina in the volleyball.

One and two for China, like they did in the men’s rings competition last night. The balance beam produces. Chenchen Guan finally cracks a smile as she is directed to look up at the scores. She has been impassive throughout, but realises eventually that she’s a gold medallist. Tang set the early standard.

Biles matches her result from Rio four years ago with bronze, after a few absurdly intense days for the American champion. It’s remarkable that she got herself right for tonight, and was still able to perform as she did. It was notable too that the dismount for Biles didn’t involve any twists, the thing she’s been having trouble with. It was a straight double-back pike, meaning it went in a straight line throughout. The hampered Elsabeth Black comes in fourth, also a commendable result.

Gymnastics: Final competitor on the beam! Chinese national champion at 16 years of age. Guan has a slight stumble though on her early aerial work which is a round-off layout, and looks hesitant through a couple of the connections thereafter, stuttering after a handspring front. High degree of difficulty though at 6.600, with a couple of complex series, and then a perfect dismount. That should be in the medals, and Biles beams while giving the teenager a big hug…

It’s gold. Yes, it is. 14.633, although her execution score isn’t as high as her teammate Tang’s, that difficulty multiplier takes her to the top.

Gymnastics: Flavia Saraiva is up seventh for Brazil, an excellent competitor… and she stumbles too! Nearly falls early in her routine after a back layout. Again a slip down the side, and has to put her hands down to save herself. That all but rules her out of a medal already, and she looks deflated as she has another balance check, then a dismount landing that isn’t very clean.

Saraiva scores 13.133. Tang and Biles are the two guaranteed medallists, with Chenchen Guan next to attempt to join them.

Gymnastics: Nobody has got through completely cleanly so far. Vladislava Urazova produces a dramatic end to her routine but had a three little hesitations or balance checks through the middle. The Russian scores 12.733. Tang is guaranteed a medal, with two gymnasts to come.

Gymnastics: Another little side-slip from the fifth gymnast, Ashikara Urawara, who also stays on and finishes her routine well. A lot of style in the dismont. It feels so cruel, this sport, just looking for tiny errors in astonishing human achievements. Her execution score is 7.833, meaning a final score of 13.733 and fifth place so far.

Gymnastics: Sunisa Lee follows Biles, her USA teammate. Winner of the gold at the all-around, such a special moment that was. She does an ambitious series of layouts… but stumbles! Almost loses balance off the side of the beam completely. She recovers it and stays on, but that will hurt her with deductions. Had to throw her back leg right up above head height to counterbalance and stay on the beam after her other foot had nearly slipped off the side. Afterwards, though, she’s still smiling under the mask. She’s done her best and had a wonderful Games.

13.866 places her fourth.

Gymnastics: Simone Biles up third, and she gets such an ovation. The beam is her least preferred event of the four where she regularly contends: vault and floor are where she exceeds everyone else, meaning the all-around can be almost a formality when she’s able to compete. But she puts together an outstanding routine tonight. Smooth as you like, only the one slight twitch for balance in her whole routine. She looks fluent and confident, but the huge embrace with her teammate afterwards tells you how much pressure she has been under, and how nervous they have felt for her.

Her score comes through as 14.000. Second place with five gymnasts to come.

Gymnastics: Xijing Tang of China is up second on the beam. Extremely graceful performance, with a bold mount and a perfect dismount. Scores a very strong 14.233.

Around the grounds: Men’s volleyball quarters, one set apeice between Italy and Argentina. Men’s basketball quarters, Italy and France 42-43 in the second quarter. Men’s handball quarters, Denmark lead Norway 23-19.

Gymnastics: Elsabeth Black of Canada is first up on the beam. She hurt her ankle in training a few days ago, had to withdraw from the all-around final, and is obviously struggling to even stay up there on the beam. But is determined to get through a routine. She scores a modest 13.866, but finishing it is what she really wanted. Does that bravely.

Football: The men’s semi-final as well. Nothing to report so far, 0-0 between Brazil and Mexico in the second half.