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All competitions with the participation of Latvians will be broadcast live by the television channel LTV7.
At 13:00, Graudiņa and Samoilova, who are seeded ninth in the tournament, will play their match in group D, meeting the Paraguayan pair Juliana Poletti/Mišela Valiente (21st).
In the first round on Monday, the Latvians lost 0-2 (15:21, 14:21) to the Swiss Esme Bebner and Zoe Verger-Depre (16th), while the Paraguayan lost to the Canadian duo Melissa Human-Paredes/Brandi Wilkerson (4th), who were superior with 2-0 (21:16, 21:12).
The Latvians will play with the Canadian duet on Sunday.
Graudiņa and Samoilova will compete in the second Olympic Games in a row. In 2021, they won the fourth place.
At 15:44, Seebolds will start in the final of the BMX freestyle “park” discipline.
The debutant of the Olympic Games qualified for the final with the ninth best result in the qualification competition of 12 athletes with a two-race average of 84.94 points, and was the last to enter the final.
The best result of 91.21 points was achieved by the British athlete Kieren Riley. American Marcus Christopher was second with an average of 89.84 points, and Australian Olympic champion Logan Martin was third with 89.39 points.
American Justin Dowell, French Antony Jean Jean, Japanese Rimu Nakamura, Argentine Jose Torres-Gil and Brazilian Gustav Batista de Oliveira will also compete in the final.
BMX freestyle debuted in the Olympic Games program in 2021 in Tokyo, and Sēbolds is the first representative of Latvia in the Olympic Games in this sport.
Finally, at 19:35 Latvian time, in the 3×3 basketball tournament, the Olympic champion Latvian national team will play a match with the Netherlands, in which Zigmārs Raimo, Francis Lācis, Kārlis Lasmanis and Nauris Miezis play.
In the first match on Tuesday, the Latvians beat Lithuania 21:14, while the Netherlands beat China 21:16.
The recent battles with the Dutch have been fierce. Three years ago, in the match of the group tournament, Latvia beat the Netherlands with 22:18. In the 2022 World Cup group match, the Dutch won with 21:19, but in the quarter-finals of last year’s World Cup, the Latvians won with 19:18.
Teams from eight countries – the USA, France, China, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Serbia – are participating in the 3×3 basketball tournament in Paris.
In the first stage, a round-robin tournament is played from July 30 to August 4, with each team competing against each other. The two best teams will qualify for the semi-finals, while the 3rd-6th place winners will play the quarter-final matches on the evening of August 4. Semi-finals and finals will be held on August 5.
Today, 20 sets of medals will be distributed in rowing, BMX freestyle, figure jumping, judo, shot put, swimming, rowing slalom, fencing, surfing, triathlon and gymnastics.
The Olympic Games will take place in the French capital until August 11, and not only in the French capital, but also in 16 other places, including the French overseas territory of French Polynesia. The Games program includes 32 sports and 329 sets of medals will be distributed.
At the Paris Games, Latvia will be represented by 29 athletes in 14 sports: 3×3 basketball, BMX supercross and freestyle, show jumping, equestrian sports, mountain biking, shooting, modern pentathlon, swimming, beach volleyball, weightlifting, road cycling, tennis and athletics.
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