What’s happening today at the Olympics: Skylar Park wins bronze in taekwondo; Maude Charron claims weightlifting silver

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Olympic highlights for Aug. 8

• Canadian Skylar Park won a bronze medal this afternoon in women’s 57-kg taekwondo with a 2-0 victory over Laetitia Aoun of Lebanon. She got the opportunity after winning a repechage against Turkish fighter Hatice Kubra Ilgan earlier in the day. Park fell 0-2 in the women’s quarterfinals to South Korea’s Kim Yu-Jin, who subsequently reached the final. Park’s bronze makes 21 total medals for Canada so far at the Games.
• Canadian flag-bearer Maude Charron claimed silver in the women’s under-59-kilogram weightlifting final, after a missed last attempt at a 132-kilogram clean-and-jerk dashed her hopes of claiming another gold. She won the women’s 65-kilogram event in Tokyo in a weight class that no longer exists.
• Canada’s women’s beach volleyball team is guaranteed its first-ever Olympic medal after beating Switzerland 2-1 in the semi-final to advance to the gold-medal match against the defending champions United States tomorrow. Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson already became the first Canadian women to secure a chance to play for an Olympic beach volleyball medal when they eliminated Spain in the quarter-finals.
• Andre De Grasse’s hopes for a medal in Paris are still alive after the men’s 4x100-metre relay team qualified for the final with a third-place finish in their heat this morning. The women’s team also qualified for tomorrow’s finals and set a new national record of 42.50 seconds in their heat.

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Here’s what happened today, Aug. 8, at the Olympics

• Athletics: Sick with COVID-19 and sapped of his famous finishing kick, American Noah Lyles had to settle for bronze in the men’s 200-metre sprint as Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo captured gold in an upset, and Kenneth Bednarek of the U.S. won silver. Tebogo’s gold-winning time was 19.46 seconds. Lyles, it was later revealed, tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday but chose to compete anyway. He later said he wouldn’t compete in the upcoming relays.
• Athletics: Canadian Sarah Mitton finished first in the women’s shot put qualifier with a throw of 19.77 metres, and will be the first Canadian woman to compete for a medal in the event at 1:37 p.m. ET tomorrow at Stade de France.
• Basketball: The United States faced Serbia in a men’s basketball semi-final and needed a fourth-quarter comeback from its roster of NBA superstars to secure its place in the final, where it will face host France on Saturday. Stephen Curry scored 36 points to pace the Americans to a 95-91 win. Reigning NBA MVP had 17 points and 11 assists in the loss. In the other semi-final, France upended the world championship gold medallists from Germany, 73-69.
• Golf: After round two of the women’s individual stroke competition, Brooke Henderson and Alena Sharp of Canada are part of a group of seven golfers tied for 29th in the field at three over par. Henderson shot a one-over round of 73 today, while Sharp fell down the leaderboard after her round of 76, or four over. Round three begins tomorrow morning at 3 a.m. ET.
• Athletics: Canada’s Savannah Sutherland missed the podium in the women’s 400-metre hurdles at Stade de France, finishing seventh in the final. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the U.S. set a new world record with a 50.37-second run for gold. Meanwhile, Canadian Michelle Harrison did not make the women’s 100-metre hurdles final after coming in 19th of 21 in the repechage heats this morning.
• Water polo: Canada’s women’s team lost in to Italy 10-5 in the classification round and will play for seventh place on Saturday at 3 a.m. ET.
• Open-water swimming: Canada’s only marathon swimmer in Paris, Emma Finlin, finished 23rd out of 24 competitors in the women’s 10-kilometre race final in the Seine River, but said she’s proud to have completed the race. On Wednesday, officials determined the long-polluted river was safe to swim in and allowed practices to begin. Gold medalist Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands even drank some of the water after winning Thursday’s race.
• Canoe sprint: The men’s and women’s kayak four sprint teams didn’t qualify for the 500-metre sprint finals after both finished last in their semi-finals.

What to watch for tomorrow, Aug. 9, at the Olympics

• Athletics: Canada will race in the men’s and women’s 4x100-metre relay finals beginning at 1:30 p.m. ET at Stade de France.
• Athletics: The women’s shot put final will start at 1:40 p.m. ET with Canadian Sarah Mitton looking for a medal.
• Boxing: Algeria’s Imane Khelif will face off with China’s Yang Liu for gold at 4:51 p.m. ET, in a tournament that has been overshadowed by a gender controversy surrounding Khelif and another female boxer, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan. Both boxers will be swinging for gold and an end to the speculation and abuse the uproar has brought in their final matches.

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