2024 Paris Olympic Games day 9: Five things you missed while you were sleeping

From the tennis to the swimming to the kayak cross it was an emotional day at the 2024 Paris Games with tears all around. Here are five things you missed while you were sleeping.

From the tennis to the swimming to the kayak cross it was an emotional day at the 2024 Paris Games with tears all around.

Here are five things you missed while you were sleeping.

Djokovic brought to tears by gold medal win

Novak Djokovic has won slam after slam and never shed a tear.

But at Roland Garros on Sunday, the Serbian tennis legend couldn’t contain his emotions after beating Carlos Alcaraz in two sets to claim the Paris Olympics gold medal for the men’s singles competition.

A stunned Djokovic dropped to his knees as the final point was won before running to family and breaking down in tears.

With his knee heavily strapped, Djokovic scrapped and fought his way thorugh the entire match as Alcaraz pushed both sets to tiebreaks he would ultimately lose.

Twent-four grand slam titles, seven tour finals and now an Olympic gold medal.

Aussie Meg Harris can’t hide shock of silver medal swim

Meg Harris has pulled off a shock silver medal in the women’s 50m freestyle as Swede Sarah Sjostrom completed the 50-100m freestyle double.Harris was simply stunned when she turned to look at the result, her time of 23.97s a huge personal best and silver medal result for Australia.

Sjostrom won gold in 23.71s with China’s Zhang Yufei taking the bronze medal in 24.20s.Her and teammate Shayna Jack enjoyed an emotional hug on pool deck post-race to celebrate the achievement.

Jack finished eighth in 24.39s after a huge week where she made the final of both the 50 and 100m freestyle.

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What has happened to the Jamaican sprint queens?

The Jamaican empire is crumbling in Paris. Falling apart at the seams.

Less than 24 hours after legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was a shock withdrawal from the semifinals of the 100 metres, Shericka Jackson — one of the stars of the Sprint series on Netflix — withdrew from the heats of the 200 metres.

Three years ago in Tokyo, the Jamaican women produced a clean sweep in the 100 metres. The past four golds in the women’s 100m have all been won by Jamaicans. You can throw in the 200m as well — in Tokyo, Elaine Thompson-Herah defended the gold she won in Rio.

Yet there is every chance they will leave Paris with nothing in the women’s sprints. A big fat duck egg. The greatest sprinting nation on earth is on the rocks.

Crude boxing note fuels Olympics gender time bomb

The Bulgarian boxing camp has savaged the IOC and paraded a hand-written sign of protest to the world amid calls for an XY athlete to be kicked out of the Olympics if documents show she is a biological male.

Bulgaria’s fury at losing to Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-Ting came as a second intersex boxer, Algeria’s Imane Khelif, was sensationally accused of being a man by her upcoming Thai opponent.

The biggest issue of the Paris Games – the gender-eligibility powderkeg – took another political twist on Sunday when the Bulgarian team challenged the IOC to prove Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-Ting is a woman.

’Gutted’ Jess Fox wiped from kayak cross, sister makes finals

Jess Fox’s bid for a historic treble of Olympic titles has ended after she was knocked out in the heats of the kayak cross.

But younger sister Noemie’s run remains alive after she won the heat that both sisters were drawn in.

Fox was behind the eight ball from the start and in third for the most the race, with just the top two progressing.

But she gave herself every chance, heading into the last upstream gate in a direct battle with Spain’s Maialen Chourraut but was unable to get around cleanly, eventually trailing home in fourth and last place.

Fox and younger sister Noemie were drawn in the same heat after both progressed through preliminary rounds on Sunday morning.

It was the worst-case scenario for the pair, who had hoped not to meet until the pointy end of the competition.

Originally published as 2024 Paris Olympic Games day 9: Five things you missed while you were sleeping