DAY 11 PREVIEW
​AUGUST 6-7

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​​Paris Preview hosted by Adam Peacock - Now Streaming
​​Experts: Shane Heal, Craig Foster, Stuart O'Grady, Jamie Dwyer and Elise Kellond-Knight with Louise Bawden and Billy Miller in Paris.
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​Highlights & expert opinions from today's shows:

Olympic Gold Medallist Nova Peris previews the Women's 200m Final where the fastest woman in the world, 100m victor Julien Alfred will go head-to-head with the favourite, American Gabby Thomas. Young Aussie Torrie Lewis fell short dropping out in the Semi-Finals.
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"Alfred is an exceptional runner. I think the confidence that she is full of after winning the 100m will help her. She was very smooth and very comfortable, switched off there at the end [of the Semi] and still ran a comfortable time. Gabby Thomas is the hot favourite but I believe it will be between the two of them and it will come down to the last couple of steps. They both have beautiful long strides. I predict a Gabby Thomas Gold."
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​Torrie [Lewis] is 19-years-old; the Australian Record Holder. She will grow from this and this isn't the last we will see from her in Paris, she will come back in the Women's 4 x 100m Relay. They have broken the Australian Record three-times this year. It was a tough [Semi-Final] for her. The Women's 200 is phenomenal right now. She is in an era of incredible 200m runners."

Nova Peris on the Women's Pole Vault and the drama that ensued in the preliminaries with one of the favourites Molly Caudery not going through in the Automatic Qualifier.

"There were tears of devastation for her [Molly Caudery]. All athletes, every person who goes there, you train for it, you dream it. It’s every four years, the Olympics, you must give the process the due respect it deserves. There are all these external factors that come into play. I cannot believe Molly Caudery. Listening to her, she was confident, she clears 4.55 comfortably in training but it isn’t training, it is the biggest sporting stage in the world and that is sport. This is a fundamental mistake of your sporting career.”

Nova Peris on Jessica Hull kicking off her Olympic campaign in the Women's 1500m Heats with the favourite, Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, going for Gold after double controversy in the 5000m that saw her disqualified and then re-instated for Silver.

"The last few months has been phenomenal; I am so happy for Jess [Hull]. Sometimes in athletics you just make a breakthrough, and when you make a breakthrough it’s like that feeling sinks into your body and it’s like ‘ah damn it, that’s how I do it’. She comes into this ranked number three in the world, she comes off running a time that places her fifth of all time in the world for the 1500m, but not only that, after that she broke the world 2000m record, which is not an Olympic event, however the confidence is there for her now."
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​"She’s up against Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, who has just run two rounds of the 5km leaving everything out there, the controversy of being disqualified and then re-instated, that’s mentally draining. Now she [Faith] must back up and run three rounds of the 1500m. It’s a tactical race and Jessica Hull is very well placed to get through the rounds and do what she does and just get out and keep running those personal bests."

Olympian and five-time World Hockey Player of the Year Jamie Dwyer on the Hockeyroos heartbreaking Quarter Final loss against China.
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"When you go into big events, Olympics etc, when you lose at your best, I think it feels much better than when you lose when you’re not at your best and haven’t performed well. The Hockeyroos performed well and there were a lot of players that stood up. It just didn’t work out for this game."
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​"Some big bad calls, I think, from the video referee… I don’t want to blame the umpires, but I was a little bit angry last night watching the game with the video referrals. It was just inconsistent. All you want is consistency. That one that hit the Chinese thigh was an absolute howler from the video ref which I’m disappointed at. It doesn’t mean we would have won. I am not sure if the review would have changed the result but at the Olympic Games, which happen every four years, those decisions need to be spot on and that one was off. It was disappointing for the Hockeyroos, but I think they can hold their head up high."

Four-time Olympian Shane Heal previews the Boomers Quarter-Final against powerhouse Serbia who are currently ranked fourth in the world with the reigning NBA MVP Nikola Jokić in the side.
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"The Boomers need to start playing together. What the opposition is doing is they’re clogging the floor; we don’t have a lot of three-point shooters. Jock Landale has been outstanding as has Josh Giddey, and Dyson Daniels has really stepped up from his last campaign and is not just the best defender in the Boomers but one of the better defenders in the whole competition. They have to find a way offensively to play together. When they’re not running, they’re finding it difficult in the half court. I think we’re trying to play too quick, it’s like run at all costs, the decision making is leading to bad shots and turnovers. We're now one win, two losses and coming up against one of the powerhouse nations."
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​"It is a huge game. Nikola Jokić, the reigning NBA MVP is in there so it will be a big ask, but if the Boomers finally find some form they’ll be able to get it done. We certainly don’t have the superstars of Serbia with Bogdan Bogdanoviċ, who is averaging 19 points a game, and Jokić who is not just a great scorer, he can rebound and he’s a great passer. This Serbian team is better than the Greek team we lost to. I think our chances are smaller but we’re still in there. If we win we get top four which would be a great result - for both of our teams."

Shane Heal on the Opals chances of breaking through the Quarter-Finals on the women's side of the Basketball competition.

"The first couple of games they looked pretty ordinary. They looked disjointed, they weren’t together, didn’t play as hard as we normally see them play. A lot of turnovers and poor decision making but against France they came out, a massive crowd that were all behind the French who were the favourites, and the Opals really came out strong. They started to look after the ball, some big shots made from big time veterans, and it was a great win. You’re only as good as your last game so now they’ll take that momentum into the Quarters.

Three-time Olympian Louise Bawden on Australia's Beach Volleyball Women's Pair, Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy hitting the court for the Quarter-Finals.

"The Swiss are an interesting young up-and-coming pairing. Not a pairing you can take lightly, they’ve been taking a few scalps along the way this year on the way to the Olympics and catching a few medals on the world tour so they will be a tough ask, but I think we can definitely take care of them here. Beach Volleyball is a game of errors so your error rate plays a really big role in your ability to win any match, so if you are not absolutely on top of what you are doing and making sure you are executing it doesn’t matter who is on the other side, you can kill yourself in the match. It’s the Olympic Games, everyone is here because they are very good, so you have to take care of your own game."
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​"If I was to give a tip, I'd say they [Aussies] might really roll them. I'd love to see them kick into next gear. They have been getting better and better through this tournament and every match. I know what they have in them and I know that if they bring that in their next game they will be impossible to stop."

Stuart O'Grady on the Australian Men's Team Sprint trio coming up against China in the Track Cycling Quarter-Finals.

"This is probably one of our best chances of getting a medal and the guys didn’t disappoint [in the Heats], they rocketed out of the start gate. It’s one lap, you have three riders going absolutely all-in, 750m one lap each, 64km an hour average with a standing start is mind blowing. You just must beat the competitors on the other side of the track, that’s the main thing at this stage. Just keep winning. It’s not complicated but as we go on it becomes more complicated. The two fastest Quarter-Finals winners go for Gold and then the next two go for Bronze. It will be what happens on the day. It comes down to split-seconds. There are so many layers to these events. You have teammates, you have to be taking off while also thinking about the guys behind you."

London 2012 Olympian Billy Miller on the Women's Water Polo Team as they go into the Quarter-Finals stage tonight.

"The Stingers have had a fantastic start to their campaign, undefeated the whole way through. Not only that they have had some close games where they’ve had some draws and had to pull themselves out of a few pickles and the girls are stepping up when it counts. They’re scoring goals when it counts and their defence has been absolutely unbelievable, keeping most teams to a sub eight or around eight goals which is the standard of any national team who want to win that Gold Medal."
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​"There’s no doubting the girls are on a massive high. They seem to be gelling really well together, winning helps that, and they will take that confidence into the Quarters."

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DAY 11: AUGUST 6-7

Sailing
​10:45pm AEST: Men's Dinghy Final
​- Aussie to watch: Matt Wearn
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​Cycling - Track
​3:55am AEST: Men's Team Sprint Finals
​- Aussies to watch: Matthew Richardson, Matthew Glaetzer & Leigh Hoffman
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​Athletics - LIVE in 4K
​3:57am AEST - Women's Hammer Throw Final
​4:15am AEST - Men's Long Jump Final
​4:50am AEST - Men's 1500m Final ​
​5:14am AEST - Women's 3000m Steeplechase Final
​5:40am AEST: Women's 200m Final
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​Skateboarding
​8:30pm AEST: Women's Park Prelims
​1:30am AEST: Women's Park Final
​- Aussies to watch: Arisa Trew & Ruby Trew (no relation)

Diving
​11:00pm AEST - Women's 10m Platform Final
​- Aussie to watch: Melissa Wu & Ellie Cole

Equestrian
​6:00pm AEST: Jumping Individual Final
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DAY 11: AUGUST 6-7
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​Basketball ​
​Men's Quarter-Finals:
​7:00pm AEST - Germany v Greece
​10:30pm AEST - Australia v Serbia
​2:00am AEST - France v Canada
​5:30am AEST - Brazil v USA
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​Beach Volleyball
​5:00am AEST: Women's Quarter-Finals
​Australia v Switzerland
​- Aussies to watch: Mariafe Artacho del Solar & Taliqua Clancy
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​Canoe Sprint
​5:30pm AEST: Men's Kayak Four 500m Heats > Quarter-Finals
​- Aussies to watch: Riley Fitzsimmons, Pierre van der Westhuyzen, Jackson Collins & Noah Havard
​6:00pm AEST: Women's Kayak Four 500m Heats > Quarter-Finals
​- Aussies to watch: Ella Beere, Aly Bull, Alexandra Clarke & Yale Steinepreis
​6:30pm AEST: Men's Double 500m Heats > Quarter-Finals
​Aussies to watch: Max Brown & Grant Clancy
​7:00pm AEST: Women's Double 500m Heats > Quarter-Finals
​7:30pm AEST: Men's Kayak Double 500m Heats > Quarter-Finals
​- Aussies to watch: Hamish Legarth & Kurtis Imrie
​8:10pm AEST: Women's Kayak Double 500m Heats > Quarter-Finals
​- Aussies to watch: Lisa Carrington & Alicia Hoskin
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​Water Polo
​Women's Quarter-Finals
​10:00pm AEST: Canada v Spain
​11:35pm AEST: Netherlands v Italy
​3:00am AEST: Australia v Greece
​4:35am AEST: Hungary v USA

Diving
​6:00pm AEST: Men's 3m Springboard Preliminary
​- Aussie to watch: Kurtis Mathews

Athletics - 1500m
​6:05pm AEST: Women's Round 1
​- Aussies to watch: Georgia Griffith, Linden Hall & Jessica Hull

Athletics - Javelin Throw
​6:20pm AEST: Men's Qualifications - Group A
​7:50pm AEST: Men's Qualifications - Group B
​- Aussie to watch: Cameron McEntyre
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​Athletics - 110m Hurdles
​6:50pm AEST: Men's Repechage Round
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​Athletics - Long Jump ​
​7:15pm AEST: Women's Qualification
​- Aussie to watch: Brooke Buschkuehl
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​Athletics - 400m
​7:20pm AEST: Women's Repechage Round
​3:35am AEST: Men's Semi-Final
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​Athletics - 400m Hurdles
​4:07am AEST: Women's Semi-Finals

Athletics - 200m
​8:30pm AEST: Men's Repechage Round
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​Artistic Swimming ​
​3:30am AEST: Team Free Routine
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​Cycling - Track
​1:30am AEST: Women's Team Pursuit Qualifying
​2:59am AEST: Men's Team Sprint First Round
​3:14am AEST: Men's Team Pursuit First Round
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​Sport Climbing
​6:00pm AEST: Women's Boulder & Lead, Semi-Final Boulder
​9:00pm AEST: Men's Speed, Qualification Seeding
​9:35pm AEST: Men's Speed, Qualification Elimination Heats
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​Handball
​5:30pm AEST: Women's Quarter-Final
​9:30pm AEST: Women's Quarter-Final
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​Table Tennis
​6:00pm AEST: Men's Team, Women's Team
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