The most gold medals on a single day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics so far will be handed out on an excellent looking day of sport on Sunday as we move deeper into the Games out in the Japanese capital.
It is one of the iconic nights of any Olympics on Sunday as we crown the fastest man in the world on the track. That is just one of the many highlights on what should be another brilliant day of sport at Tokyo 2020.
Gold Medal Events
- Artistic Gymnastics
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Cycling
- Diving
- Fencing
- Golf
- Sailing
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Weightlifting
Other Sports
There is so much going on at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Sunday including another day of action in the boxing ring as we head down towards the medal bouts. The quarter finals of the hockey is also on the agenda and then other sports such as handball, baseball, basketball, waterpolo, volleyball and beach volleyball all continue their progress.
Swimming
It is the final day of action inside the swimming pool in terms of racing on Sunday. There are five finals on a select session of action with the speedsters, the marathon men and the relays on the card. The two sprint finals should be very good even if there are strong favourites in both, while the marathon men’s race looks open but it is the Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay which catches my eye from a betting point of view.
USA are regarded the odds on favourite but for the second time in two mornings Caeleb Dressel will be coming into the final leg of a relay swim not long after exerting maximum effort in the 50m Freestyle. That might put them at a disadvantage and bring a full of belief British quartet right into the game. Great Britain have a massive advantage in these medley relays at the minute with Adam Peaty on the breaststroke. He can put the best part of a second into his rivals which is a massive thing. Duncan Scott is having a fine meet while James Guy hasn’t let anyone down in the relays so far in Tokyo. If Britain are on terms after the backstroke they might be the fresher of the two teams down the last three lengths and can pinch the pockets of the Americans in a race where the Americans are under pressure to deliver in, but won’t find it easy to deliver from the outside lane.
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Hockey
We had a winner in the hockey event on Saturday and we’re going back in for more in the men’s quarter finals on Sunday. From a domestic point of view the 50:50 clash between India and Great Britain in the last of the quarter finals will get the attention over here but my betting comes from the second match out onto the hockey field which sees a free scoring Australia going up against a Netherlands side who look up against it to me.
The Netherlands were the fourth placed side in Rio five years ago and since then have reached the final of the last two World Cups and were the European champions earlier in the year but they have suddenly started leaking a lot of goals and that has to be a concern against an Australian side who banged in 22 goals in their five pool matches, bettered only by Belgium who were in an easier group. Australia won their opening four matches very convincingly and I’m not going to read much into a draw with Spain last time out as they were already into the quarter finals by then. The confidence of the Dutch could be a little fragile here because they mysteriously surrendered a 2-0 lead to Great Britain in their penultimate pool match and then lost to Germany in their last one. Australia look like they mean business here and I think they win this by two or more goals.
Athletics
The headline attraction in the athletics on Sunday is the Men’s 100m where a really open field will compete in the semi-finals and then the final to determine who will follow Usain Bolt to be crowned the ‘fastest man in the world’. We saw an upset in the women’s event on Saturday and in terms of the pre-event favourite Trayvon Bromell, we could see another here, although so ordinary was he on Saturday in his heat that he needed a fastest loser spot to make the semi-final, he is no longer the favourite. That mantle belongs to Andre de Grasse, the bronze medallist behind Bolt and Justin Gatlin in Rio, neither of whom are on the start line here. The Canadian was the fastest in the heats and while I don’t read anything into that necessarily, a 9.91 time highlighted his prowess as a Championship performer. Interestingly in that heat he had the dangerous Fred Kerley in behind him. Those two meet again in a semi-final both should cruise through from and although Ronnie Baker, Akani Simbine and Lamont Jacobs are all dangers, they meet in the third semi-final and only two might progress. The stars might just be beginning to align for de Grasse to upgrade Rio bronze to Tokyo gold.
One of the more fascinating events of any athletics competition is the Men’s High Jump and quite often it steals the show for entertainment as well. We are in an elite generation of high jumpers and some of the major competitions in recent times have been epic. They have generally been won by Mutaz Essa Barshim, the 2019 world champion on that frenzied night in Doha. Barshim has only appeared four times this term due to various niggles and only scaled 2.30 this year. He’s done this before and won major titles but you sense he is more vulnerable now and it could be the time for the bronze medallist from Qatar to shine in Ilya Ivanyuk, the world ranked number one. He has scaled 2.37 this term and gone to 2.33 on three other occasions and they are the heights the winner will need to jump here. He won the Diamond League meetings in Doha and Rome this year. He bombed out early in Monaco but conditions were tough there. Maksim Nedasekau and JuVaughn Harrison are dangers, although the latter competing in the long jump on Saturday night puts me off backing him. Nedasekau leaped 2.37 in Hungary earlier in the month but that’s the only time he’s been beyond 2.30. If Barshim doesn’t win this title Ivanyuk is the man for me.
Tips
Back Great Britain to win Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay for a 2/10 stake at 4.50 with Coral
Back I.Ivanyuk to win Men’s High Jump for a 1/10 stake at 9.00 with Coral
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Back Australia (-1.5) to beat Netherlands for a 3/10 stake at 2.00 with 2.00 with Betfair
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Back A.de Grasse to win Men’s 100m for a 2/10 stake at 3.50 with Boylesports
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