Welcome to day six of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where a bronze medal for Jemima Montag in the 20km walk heralds the start of the Games’ transition from pool to track – although the Aussie women’s 4x200m relay team kept the medals coming. Read on to see what you missed overnight.
The big story | There are 32 sports in the Summer Olympics, but the marquee events are unquestionably the swimming and the athletics. The Games get a kind of rhythm from this: the first week is all about the pool, the second is all about the track. And with Jemima Montag’s determined and inspirational bronze medal in the 20km walk on day six, we are now striding from one into the other.
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