Paris Olympics 2024 day 10 as it happened: Silver for Robinson after Vaast stuns in surfing final; Noemie Fox wins kayak cross

That’s where we’ll leave our live coverage of day 10 in Paris.

Just the two medals for Australia - an emotional gold for Noemie Fox, who got one up on her sister Jess, and an unlucky silver for Jack Robinson in the surfing. There’ll be more on that to come, by the way, from our resident surfing expert Dan Walsh, who is mere moments away from filing his report on the action in Tahiti.

Taking the green and gold-coloured glasses off, though, and we witnessed one hell of a performance earlier this morning from the great Mondo Duplantis, who broke his own world record in front of 70,000 people chanting his name. Rock star areas. Won’t forget those scenes in a hurry.

Don’t despair, though. The end of one live blog marks the start of another, so if you want, you can roll into our day 11 coverage right here. Paris will soon begin waking up and there’ll be a whole lot more action for our reporters to rip into.

Stay tuned. Thanks for reading.

The American sprint coach to the defending Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse has been ejected from Paris 2024 over a sexual and emotional abuse lawsuit.

Rana Reider, who also trains former 100m champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs, is understood to have had his access to the Games withdrawn by Canada. The 54-year-old was absent at the Stade de France on Tuesday as De Grasse eased through his opening heat, qualifying in second place.

Rana Reider (right) with American triple-jumper Christian Taylor in 2019.Credit: Getty

The elite coach had previously been sanctioned safeguarding by US Safesport over an alleged relationship that “presented a power imbalance” with one of his athletes. Reider, who also coached British athletes Adam Gemili and Daryll Neita before they left him, underwent a period of probation, although his lawyer said that Reider “was not found in violation of any other sexual misconduct claims” made against him at the time.

In 2022, Reider was denied accreditation to the World Championships in Eugene amid multiple sexual misconduct allegations against him. He was unable to gain accreditation through both the United States team and one other national team. However, he was found within the grounds before an evening session, and police intervened.

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The International Boxing Association (IBA) claimed during a farcical press conference in Paris on Tuesday morning (AEST) that two independent sex chromosome tests prompted the disqualification of two women from the 2023 World Championships.

The IBA warned “people could die” as it addressed an angry media mob in the centre of Paris about its decision to ban Imane Khelif and Chinese Taipei boxer Lin Yu-ting over failed gender-eligibility tests – a decision that has not been upheld by the International Olympic Committee.

From left: Lin Yu-ting, Imane Khelif and Angela Carini.Credit: Stephen Kiprillis

Both boxers have progressed through to the semi-finals of their respective female boxing weight divisions and have received the backing of the IOC, which described the IBA’s testing and procedural methodology as “flawed” and “illegitimate”.

That prompted IBA bosses to call a press conference on Monday afternoon – which started 90 minutes later than scheduled and descended into chaos amid technical errors, language barriers and raised tempers – to try and shed light on the situation surrounding the two fighters.

Read the full story from Michael Chammas here.

Brazil’s Bruna Alexandre smashes and chops just like the other table tennis players at the Paris Olympics but when serving she uses the paddle in her left hand to throw the ball high.

That move, which now seems easy and natural, was what a seven-year-old Alexandre once struggled with the most as a one-armed girl who wanted to play the sport.

Bruna Alexandre serves at the 2020 Paralympics. She will also compete at the Paralympics in Paris.Credit: Getty

On Monday, she made history as the first Brazilian and only the third athlete to compete in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, following South African runner Oscar Pistorius and Polish table tennis player Natalia Partyka.

Alexandre’s first Olympic journey was cut short by an unfortunate draw, with Brazil on Monday facing the world’s top South Korean team in the first round, but she managed to put up two good performances in losing her doubles and singles matches.

“It wasn’t the result I was hoping for, but we’re very satisfied with what we achieved,” said 29-year-old Alexandre after Brazil lost 3-1.

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And that’s all she wrote. Oh, it’s a cruel beast, this surfing game. Jack Robinson is left staring at the horizon forlornly with just one wave for the Olympic final and has to settle for a silver medal.

The gold goes to local favourite Kauli Vaast, representing France, and deservedly so with a 9.5-point ride that wins the final almost as soon as it starts. Incredible, frustrating, mystifying and magic stuff all in one.

Kauli Vaast celebrates Olympic gold in Tahiti.Credit: AP

Vaast prevails easily in the end: 17.67 to 7.83. We’ll have the women’s gold medal heat shortly as well; Hawaiian reigning world champion Caroline Marks is up against Brazilian veteran Tatiana Weston-Webb.

And time’s ticking down now in the same way Jack Robinson’s semi-final heat turned on Brazilian Gabriel Medina, our eventual bronze medallist.

If anyone can pull out the nine or even 10-point ride needed to turn this final, it’s Robinson. He did exactly that with a late, high-scoring ride to claim the 2023 Tahiti Pro on this wave, keeping his season alive with a stirring win in the process. But right now, the odds and surfing Gods are very much in Kauli Vaast’s favour.

A slow start to the heat with the Pacific Ocean tossing up sweet nothing for the first seven minutes and both Jack Robinson and Kauli Vaast passing on the first peak we see come through onto the Teahupo’o reef.

Vaast takes off on the first wave - and it’s an absolute screamer. That could be the final right there. Incredible ride, incredibly deep and that will score very well.

Given the scarcity of waves and the fact Vaast follows up with another barrel a minute later, I daresay he’s got one hand on the gold medal already.

Robinson had a handy ride in between and he does now hold priority, but he’s very much behind the eight-ball.

And that’s now confirmed. Vaast with a 9.5-point score, and an 8.17 to follow up. 17.67 is a nigh unbeatable score already. He’s demolished that. Even though Robinson has done well with a 7.83 as well, this will require a comeback of Lazarus proportions.

Surfers are in the water at Teahupo’o - Australian world No. 3 and 2023 Tahiti Pro winner Jack Robinson, and Tahitian local and renowned wildcard Kauli Vaast.

Jack Robinson is one heat away from an Olympic gold medal.Credit: Getty Images

They’ve got 35 minutes in a winner-takes-all/gold shoot-out with four-to-six foot barrels surging through and conditions improving as the swell picks up.

They’ll shuffle around the line-up to start and determine wave priority with the first ride, a critical tactical element of these one-on-one heats that could go a long way to deciding our gold medallist.

Here we go.

At eight o’clock on a warm Monday night in the Olympic city, Australia’s medal winners thus far stepped onto a luxury restaurant boat on the River Seine as the guest of mining heiress Gina Rinehart.

Australia’s richest person, who pours millions of dollars of sponsorship into swimming, rowing and volleyball as well as the AOC, has also been Australia’s biggest fangirl at these Games.

Golden boots, golden ticket.Credit: Zoe Samios

Her cruise was just another example of her generosity — but it came with a couple of requests.

Beforehand, athletes were asked to wear a pair of gold boots from Rossi, the South Australian shoe company Rinehart acquired last year, as well as shirts bearing the AOC emblem and her cattle empire’s clothing brand, S. Kidman.

Read the latest instalment of Webster in Paris in full here.

So, let’s build up this surfing gold medal bout as the Teahupo’o swell does the same - some genuinely tasty barrels ploughing through in the bronze medal heats as Brazil’s Gabriel Medina and Frenchwoman Johanne Defay claimed respective third place finishes.

Australian Jack Robinson is one of the best in the world and has been for the past three years - placing in the top five despite injury battles including a bout of long-term appendicitis that he surfed throughout much of 2022 with.

He’s been on the radar of surfing types from the age of 12 - dubbed the potential “Phar Lap of Australian surfing” by his own dad Trevor and “the next Kelly Slater”, pressure he understandably struggled with at times growing up.

He eventually took charge of his own career and management and is now on the verge of a gold medal at Teahupo’o, a wave he knows well and claimed a thrilling championship win at last year.

In his way, local boy Kauli Vaast - arguably the only surfer in this event who knows this wave better than Robinson. Vaast is 22, a Tahitian favourite and first surfed ‘the place of skulls’ at the age of eight.

He’s also got several screws loose given the six to eight metre rides that populate his Instagram and YouTube packages. He’s also been known to catch his dinner mid-surf, so there’s that.

Robinson is the favourite with the bookies, but only just, and this one could go either way. They’ll hit the water at 10:15am AEST, with the women’s final between Hawaiian Caroline Marks and Brazilian Tatiana Weston-Webb afterwards.