2024-07-27 10:11:25
Sports ambitions at a high level before the XXXIII Olympic Games in Paris prevail in the Latvian delegation, even though it is numerically smaller in the summer games since the restoration of national independence. Latvians will participate in 11 different sports, and more than half of them our leading athletes are among the leaders in the world on a daily basis, so they are ready to compete for high places in the capital of France, where the most ambitious sports forum of the four years will be opened on Friday with a magnificent parade – it will take place until the 11th. for August.
Evaluating the prospects of Latvian athletes in Paris, the view first lingers on the sports games. Although half of the members of the previous Tokyo Games champions have changed, the Latvian 3×3 basketball team is rightfully considered one of the tournament’s main favorites this summer as well. Chances of randomness are also minimized, as all eight teams will play a round-robin tournament before the Olympic awards are handed out in the quarter-finals and semi-finals.
Coincidence or the draw is much more important in tennis, where Alyona Ostapenko has come to her third matches as the 11th racket in the world. The status and experience of the pretended tennis player, once already triumphing in the famous ones Roland Garros on the courts, where the Olympic tournament will also take place, allows us to hope for a better result than in Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro, where the woman from Riga had to accept a loss in the first round. Alona will start the tournament on Saturday or Sunday against Colombian Maria Osorio (84th place in the world ranking). You have to win six games to win a medal.
Three years ago in Tokyo, Tina Graudiņa and Anastasija Samoilova had to accept the so-called “wooden medal” in the sport, who hope to be higher than fourth place on the beach volleyball courts at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. It is true that the sportswomen have not hidden that the great competition and the format of the elimination tournament in the Olympic tournament can lead to various developments.
Among individual athletes, weightlifter Ritvars Suharevs, shooters Agate Rašmane and Lauris Strautmanis, cyclists Toms Skujiņš (road) and Mārtiņš Blūms (MTB) have previously won high places in their disciplines, as well as several track and field athletes, among whom the javelin faction is usually the most widely represented.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will start on Friday at 20.30, broadcast live on LTV channels.
Starts of Latvian Olympians in Paris
Saturday, July 27
- 10.00 Rashmane and Strautmanis 10 m air pistol qualification
- 13.00-00.00 Ostapenko 1st round
Sunday, July 28
- 10.30 Rashmane and Strautmanis 10 m air pistol final*
Monday, July 29
- 10.15 Rašmane/Strautmanis 10 m air pistol for mixed teams qualification
- 13.00-00.00 Ostapenko Round 2*
- 15.00 Bloom mountain biking cross
- 18.00 at Graudiņa/Samoilova beach against Switzerland
Tuesday, July 30
- 10.30 Rashmane/Strautmanis 10 m air pistol for mixed teams final*
- 12.00 Bobrovs 200 m breaststroke qualification
- 13.00-00.00 Ostapenko Round 3*
- 14.25 Seebolds BMX freestyle qualification
- 19.35 3×3 basketball against Lithuania 21.30
- Bobrov 200 m breaststroke 1/2 final*
Wednesday, July 31
- 13.00 at Graudiņa/Samoilova beach against Paraguay
- 13.00–00.00 Ostapenko 1/4 final*
- 14.10 Seebolds BMX freestyle final*
- 19.35 3×3 basketball against the Netherlands
- 21.30 Bobrov 200 m breaststroke final*
Thursday, August 1
- 11.35 3×3 basketball against China
- 13.00–00.00 Ostapenko 1/2 final*
- 21.00 Krügers and Stūriška in BMX cycling 1/4 final and race of hope
- 00.05 3×3 basketball against USA
Friday, August 2
- 10.30 Rashmane 25 m pistol qualification
- 12.00 Maļuka 200 m complex qualification
- 13.00 Ostapenko for bronze*
- 15.05 3×3 basketball against France
- 18.40 Caune 5000 m qualification
- 20.00 Lasmane triple jump qualification
- 20.05 3×3 basketball against Serbia
- 21.00 Krieger and Stūriška in BMX cycling 1/2 final and final*
- 21.30 Maļuka 200 m complex 1/2 final*
Saturday, August 3
- 10.30 Rashmane 25 m pistol final*
- 11.00 Pole vault qualification
- 12.00 Skujins group trip
- 13.00 Ostapenko for gold*
- 18.00 at Graudiņa/Samoilova beach against Canada
- 20.00 Lasmane triple jump final*
- 21.30 Maļuka 200 m medley final*
Sunday, August 4
- 10.00–00.00 Graudiņa/Samoilova 1/16 final*
- 15.00 Carbonari group trip
- 19.00 3×3 basketball against Poland
- 22.30 3×3 basketball 1/4 final*
Monday, August 5
- 10.00–00.00 Graudiņa/Samoilova 1/16 final*
- 10.45 Patrick’s show jumping preliminaries from 10 m
- 11.00 Vaičule 400 m 1st round
- 15.00 Neretnieks jumping qualification
- 16.00 Patrick’s show jumping 1/2 final from 10 m*
- 19.00 or 20.00 3×3 basketball 1/2 final*
- 19.30 Left pole vault final*
- 19.30 Caune 5000 m final*
- 22.30 3×3 basketball for bronze*
- 23.30 3×3 basketball for gold*
Tuesday, August 6
- 11.00 Neretnieks showjumping final*
- 11.00 Chakšs and Gailums javelin qualification
- 11.00 Vaičule 400 m preliminary race
- 16.00 Patrick’s show jumping final from 10 m*
- 18.00–00.00 Graudiņa/Samoilova 1/4 final*
Wednesday, August 7
- 11.00 Mūze-Sirmā and Sietiņa javelin qualification
- 18.00–00.00 Graudiņa/Samoilova 1/4 final*
- 19.30 Vaičule 400 m 1/2 final*
Thursday, August 8
- 12.00 Shvetsov in modern pentathlon fencing
- 18.00 or 22.00 Graudiņa/Samoilova 1/2 final*
- 20.00 Chakšs and Gailums javelin final*
- 20.30 Suharev in weightlifting up to 73 kg
Friday, August 9
- 14.00 Shvetsov in modern pentathlon 1/2 final
- 22.00 Graudiņa/Samoilova for bronze or gold*
Saturday, August 10
- 18.30 Shvetsov in modern pentathlon final*
- 19.30 Mūze-Sirmā and Sietiņa javelin final*
(* if qualified, Latvian time)
2024-07-27 10:11:25