Tokyo Olympics LIVE updates: Opals’ Olympic campaign is over, sailing gold for Australia

A better dive from Western Australia’s Nikita Hains has her on the cusp of the qualification spots in the women’s 10-metre platform preliminary stage. An armstand back double somersault 1 and 1/2 twist dive netted Hains a score of 73.90, placing her 20th after three of five rounds. The top 18 divers advance to the semi-finals tomorrow morning ahead of a final tomorrow afternoon. Veteran Australian diver Melissa Wu scored a 63.00 and is fourth overall, and is set to qualify comfortably.

Kaarle McCulloch has missed out on automatic entry to the quarter-finals of the women’s keirin, with only the first two from each heat progressing straight through. McCulloch finished fourth. But she will have another chance, going into the repechages. Those will be run after 6pm AEST and have not yet been drawn.

It would be tempting to say this has been a game five years in the making for the Boomers, that all roads from the smouldering remains of Rio have now converged ahead of their semi-final at the Olympic basketball tournament.

In another era, this may have rung true. Making the semi-finals for the fifth time and wandering into a foregone conclusion against the USA might have seemed like a good week at the office. Then, they could regroup to focus on the real goal, a lesser medal to break their Olympic drought.

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Swedish golfer Madelene Sagstrom has set the early pace as Australians Minjee Lee and Hannah Green endured roller-coaster first rounds to stay in medal contention at the women’s Olympic individual stroke play in Tokyo.

Sagstrom defied sweltering heat to fire a blemish-free five-under-par 66 and claim a one-stroke lead over American world No.1 Nelly Korda and India’s Aditi Ashok on Wednesday.

Korea’s defending Olympic champion Ingbee Park and New Zealand’s resurgent former world No.1 Lydia Ko also stalked the leaders in oppressive conditions, making hydration stations, ice packs and wet towels the order of the day.

But it was Sagstrom who stayed the coolest, five birdies in her first 10 holes doing the trick at the Kasumigaseki Country Club.

Lee and Green both returned even-par 71s to be five shots off the pace in a share of 23rd position.

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The women’s keirin heats are about to begin. Australian Kaarle McCulloch will be up in the fifth and final heat. The first two riders in each heat advance to the quarter-finals, all other riders will go into to the repechages. There are six riders in each heat.

In the aftermath of the defeat to Sweden in the semi-final of the Tokyo Olympics, there was no hiding the disappointment among the Matildas. They felt aggrieved to have lost 1-0, especially given Sam Kerr had scored what appeared to have been a legitimate goal, which was ruled out controversially.

However painful that loss, it has now become a source of motivation for the players, who are determined to leave Japan with a medal. They face the champions of the past two World Cups, the USA, on Thursday night and are hell-bent on claiming one more scalp to clinch a first-ever Games medal.

“I also think there is still a disappointment not to play for a gold medal but that disappointment has now turned into determination to leave with a medal,” Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson said. “We have unfinished business here. We want to leave this tournament with a win and we want to leave this tournament with a medal.”

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Australian diver Melissa Wu is in fourth spot after two rounds of the women’s 10-metre platform preliminary stage.

Wu is on 139.4 points and poised to advance to Thursday’s semi-finals.

Compatriot Nikita Hains, however, faces an uphill battle to advance. Her score of 97.2 has left her in 25th spot. Only the top 18 advance.