Paralympics 2020 LIVE updates Australias boccia bronze breakthrough controversial DNS rulings in shot put
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There are nearly eight billion people in the world. The second tallest of them all is an Iranian man in Tokyo spending most of his time sitting on a Paralympic volleyball court.
Meet Morteza Mehrzad, whose sitting volleyball team will play in their semi-final against Bosnia Herzegovina on Thursday.
Mehrzad is a whopping 246 centimetres tall, equivalent to eight feet one inch.
Read more about his incredible story here.
Australia para-table tennis star Ma Lin, who has one of the best backstories of the Australian team, has defeated Nigeria’s Tajudeen Agunbiade in a thrilling five-match game to secure his team a spot in the gold medal match.
The men’s class 9-10 team will now take on China for the gold on September 3 at 7.30pm AEST.
We will see the Aussie women’s team face China in their semi-final at 8:30pm AEST tonight.
Just spoke to our man on the ground Tom Decent to get a sense as to when Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson will be in the gold medal mixed quad doubles match - which at the moment is TBC.
The Aussie duo are scheduled in as the fifth match of the day on centre court at the Ariake Tennis park. They’re up against the Netherlands pairing of Niels Vink and Sam Schroder.
At the moment, the first match of the day, the men’s singles quarter-final between Japan and France, is currently underway.
After that, there is the men’s singles quarter-final, the women’s doubles semi-final and the quad doubles bronze medal match before Alcott and Davidson will take to the court.
Tom is estimating between 5.30pm-7.30pm, but we will hopefully be able to bring you a more accurate estimation closer to the match.
The Belles’ Tokyo 2020 campaign is over after being defeated by Turkey 10-6 in the women’s goalball quarter-finals.
It was an incredible achievement regardless for the Belles, given Australia’s women’s goalball team have not even won a game at the Paralympics since Atlanta in 1996.
They also had to fundraise their own way to the Games with no funding.
Read more about their effort in the story below.
Hi all, Sarah Keoghan here. I’ll be taking over from Scott Spits to take you through this afternoon’s and this evening’s coverage.
Lots going on today across the rest of the day in the track, pool and court.
The goalball has just begun - Australia is up against Turkey in the quarter-final.
It’s such an awesome event so if you haven’t checked it out yet - definitely switch it on.
Steve Waugh was watching Daniel Michel’s match from Sydney and loved what he saw. On a handful of occasions, the former Test captain has popped down to watch the youngster train at Cronulla library, where there is an adjoining council room that he uses. They live in the same neighbourhood.
READ MORE on the relationship between boccia star Michel and the former Australian cricket captain.
The standing shot-put event at the Tokyo Paralympics was shrouded in controversy after three athletes, including Australia’s Todd Hodgetts, were officially categorised as ‘did not start’ after it was deemed they were late to the athletes’ call room before competition on Tuesday night.
Ukraine, represented by Maksym Koval who eventually won the gold medal, protested the apparent absence of the three athletes when they were called up.
While it was determined the three athletes - Hodgetts, Malaysia’s Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli and Ecuador’s Jordi Patricio Congo Villalba - were not present “in the call room at the relevant time as published in the ... schedule†they were allowed to compete under protest.
In competition, Zolkefli smashed the world record with a throw of 17.94m, but it didn’t count.
World Para Athletics heard a counter-protest issued by the Malaysian contingent, with support from Australia and Ecuador, but dismissed it, deciding the DNS classifications should stand.
“The athletes were allowed to compete under protest while the referee considered all the evidence as to why the athletes were late to the call room,†it said in a statement.
“Having considered the evidence, the referee determined that there was no justifiable reason for the athletes’ failure to report to the call room on time.
“The athletes appealed this decision to the jury of appeal, who gave the teams the opportunity to present all the relevant information before making its final decision. The jury of appeal upheld the referee’s decision and confirmed the athletes’ results as DNS.â€
The dramatic events at the track on Tuesday night did not appear to impact the schedule.
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