Paris 2024 Olympics Diary - Nick Westby's Weekend Preview
Nick Westby looks ahead to the weekend’s action with the start of the athletics programme, including Sheffield's Louis Hinchliffe in the 100m, plus he looks back at a remarkable first week in Paris including gold medals for Tom Pidcock and Georgie Brayshaw
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00:00Looking ahead to the weekend here in Paris, we've got the Blue Ribbon Athletics event
00:12with Sheffield sprint sensation Louis Hinchliffe hoping to light up the Stade de France in
00:16the 100 metres, that's one of the highlights of the weekend.
00:20As is cycling's road races, we've got Yorkshire's Tom Pidcock going for glory in the men's race
00:24on Saturday and Lizzie Daignan from Otley on Sunday having won a silver medal back in
00:31London 2012, 12 years ago.
00:33We've also got two gymnastics finals for our Leeds Gymnastics stars Harry Hepworth and
00:38Luke Whitehouse at the Bursit Arena on Saturday and Sunday.
00:42It's going to be another action-packed weekend at Paris 2024.
00:46It's been a fantastic week here in Paris, we've had some superb medals already for Tom
00:52Pidcock in the mountain bike on Monday at Ellencourt Hill, Georgie Brayshaw over at
00:56the rowing won a gold in the last stroke of the women's quad skulls, that was quite the
01:00occasion and some of the highlights of the week have been at the swimming at the La Defence
01:04Arena where Léon Marchand, the poster boy of the Olympics has won three gold medals
01:09for the host nation, although one of those did come at the expense of Max Litchfield
01:13the Pontefract swimmer who unfortunately finished fourth for a third Olympic Games in a row.
01:19Away from the Olympics we've got rugby league, football and cricket as the big summer sports
01:23continue and that's all in this weekend's Yorkshire Post Sports Weekend Edition.
01:28You have yourself a fantastic weekend, if you can, watch a bit of this amazing Olympics
01:32on television.