Paris Olympics, day 13: Everything you need to know

Irish Heptathlete Kate O'Connor is in action today.

TIME TO SHINE: Heptathlete Kate O'Connor during the Team Ireland Paris 2024 team announcement for Athletics. Pic: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

What you might have missed yesterday 

We don't think you missed Rhasidat Adeleke qualifying for the Olympic final, but here's a quick reminder. 

Adeleke finished second in her 400m semi-final at the Stade de France in Paris on Wednesday evening, the 21-year-old Dubliner clocking 49.95 behind 2019 world champion Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain (49.08).

Drawn in lane eight, Adeleke got off to a strong start, just as she did in her heat, and was swiftly closing down the stagger on Jamaica’s Junelle Bromfield in the lane outside her.

She passed Bromfield down the back straight and hit the final bend in close contention with Naser, but was no match for the 2019 world champion down the home straight and tied up over the last 50m.

By finishing second, Adeleke secured one of two automatic spots in Friday’s final, with Norway’s Henriette Jaeger third in 50.17.

Adeleke becomes the first Irish athlete ever to make an Olympic final in a flat sprint event, and the first Irishwoman ever to reach an Olympic sprint final. The final takes place at 7pm Irish time on Friday.

Meanwhile, Jack Woolley’s Olympic medal hopes are over – for 2024 – after the Tallaght man lost a brilliantly entertaining and savagely close repechage match to Spain’s Adrian Vicente Yunta at the Grand Palais in the centre of the French capital.

Elsewhere, there was progression for both Mark English and Sarah Lavin. 

Both Irish athletes turned in hugely impressive displays at the Stade de France to their Olympic campaigns in Paris yesterday morning, finishing second in their respective heats and advancing to the semi-finals with ease.

Who else is making headlines

Noah Lyles took one step closer to his dream of achieving an individual Olympic sprint double in Paris after securing his spot in the 200 metres final at the Stade de France.

The American claimed 100 metres gold by five one-thousandths of a second on Sunday night, and needed to finish in the top two from semi-final heat two to automatically book his place in Thursday night’s showdown.

American Quincy Hall pipped Great Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith to take gold in the men’s 400 metres final.

The GB athlete was leading into the closing stages when Hall found another gear to snatch gold in a personal-best 43.40.

Meanwhile, Australian Olympic hockey player Tom Craig is in custody in Paris after allegedly trying to buy cocaine on the streets of the French capital on Tuesday night.

Your Irish schedule

(All times Irish) 

9.05am: Athletics, Women’s Heptathlon, 100m hurdles, Kate O’Connor 

9.22am: Golf, Women’s Individual, Round 2, Stephanie Meadow, Leona Maguire 

10.05am: Heptathlon, High Jump, Kate O’Connor 

6.35pm: Heptathlon, Shot Put, Kate O’Connor 

7.55pm: Heptathlon, 200m, Kate O’Connor