Britain’s Noah Williams snatched a bronze medal within the males’s 10m platform ultimate on the penultimate day of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The 24-year-old produced a superb comeback to problem for a podium place in the direction of the top of the competitors.
Williams was fourth going into the fourth spherical, however some over-rotation prompted him to drop right down to fifth.
Nevertheless, he delivered a superb response with scores of 93.60 and 94.35 on his ultimate two dives to say the bronze.
“I don’t think it’s sunk in. It’s literally a dream. I know I said that last time in the synchro but winning an individual medal is on a whole other level. It must not have sunk in because I’m nowhere near as emotional as last time,” mentioned Williams.
Williams’ team-mate Kyle Kothari needed to accept an Eleventh-placed end.
In the meantime, fourth seed Caden Cunningham made it via to the boys’s +80kg ultimate of the taekwondo and is assured a medal at Grand Palais after upsetting Cheick Cisse within the semi-finals.
The 21-year-old from Huddersfield edged the decision by way of unscored registrations – the variety of punches landed which are too gentle to attain – after ending tied with the Ivory Coast veteran.
Cunningham’s win was candy revenge for the British squad towards an opponent who famously beat Lutalo Muhammad to gold within the ultimate second of their Olympic ultimate in Rio in 2016.
Muhammad watched from the stands as Cunningham seized management of the competition with a dominant opening spherical, just for Cisse to degree after a cagey second during which each fighters had been penalised for non-combat.
A 3-point head kick with half a minute on the clock put Cunningham answerable for the ultimate spherical and though Cisse fought again to degree, there was to be no final-second heartbreak for the Briton.
Rebecca McGowan was crushed by Uzbekistan’s Svetlana Osipova within the quarter-finals of the ladies’s +67kg, however will get one other shot on the repechage for bronze after Osipova subsequently reached the ultimate.
Jokic leads Serbia to Olympic bronze
Nikola Jokic grabbed the fifth triple-double in Olympic historical past as Serbia beat Germany 93-83 to win the boys’s basketball bronze medal.
Jokic completed with 19 factors, 12 rebounds and 11 assists to assist Serbia declare their first medal since successful silver in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Serbia bounced again after practically upsetting four-time defending gold medallists USA within the semi-finals.
Jokic joined Sasha Belov of the previous Soviet Union, america’ LeBron James (twice) and Slovenia’s Luka Doncic as the one gamers with Olympic triple-doubles.
Paris go muffin loopy for Christiansen
The Norwegian swimmer who has gone viral for his obsession with the chocolate muffins within the Olympic village remains to be mulling over how he may capitalise on his new-found fame.
Henrik Christiansen, higher often called ‘muffin man’, remains to be flabbergasted by the diploma to which his social media following has exploded over the course of those Video games, ever since he began documenting his love for the “11 out of 10” candy treats in Paris.
4 of his TikToks have attracted greater than 10 million views – the most well-liked video nearing practically twice that at 17.8 million.
Christiansen, 27, mentioned: “I believe three weeks in the past I had 3,000 followers on TikTok, now I am at virtually half 1,000,000. So it has been unreal. You by no means actually suppose it’ll occur. You see different individuals blowing up like that and then you definately suppose it is by no means going to occur to you, however right here I’m.
“I think as professional athletes we are definitely in the entertainment industry, so we kind of need to produce content by doing the sport and also being on social media. We need to produce content that other people want to watch.
“That is how we will earn cash, so if I am now capable of earn extra money from doing my sport and with the ability to proceed doing that for longer, I’d love that. I nonetheless should see but. Presently I have never dived an excessive amount of into it, however hopefully I could make somewhat bit by doing it.”
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