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It’s a big day for the Australians in Paris, with the women’s rugby sevens team taking on Canada in a monster semi-final (midnight AEST). The winner will play the winner of the other semi-final (NZ vs USA) for gold at 3.45am, following the bronze medal match at 3am AEST.

Elsewhere, flag bearer Jessica Fox will be hoping to add to her gold medal in kayaking (K-1) when she defends her gold medal in the C-1 (canoe) class in two heats at 11pm and 1:10am AEST.

As always there is plenty of action in the pool, we will keep a separate live blog for all the action.

The Boomers will be hoping for two wins out of two games when they take on a tough Canadian team at 9:30 p.m. We’ll be reporting on that in a separate live blog too!

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Later at 3.45am, our men’s hockey team, the Aussie Kookaburras, will take on Belgium in their third group stage match, after winning two games so far. It’s a top match in Group B and one to watch, as Belgium also won their first two games.

Furthermore, Belgium defeated Australia in a dramatic penalty shootout in the gold medal match in Tokyo, and the Aussies lost both games against the European giants earlier this year – including another penalty shootout with heartbreaking effect.

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There’s an all-Aussie showdown in surfing, with Ethan Ewing taking on Jack Robinson in the quarter-finals at 3am, with the winner potentially going on to medal contention later in the morning. And women’s surfing is also expected to resume after the third round was postponed yesterday.

There is bad news for triathlon fans – and Australian duo Matthew Hauser and Luke Willian. The men’s triathlon, which was due to start at 4pm AEST, has been postponed by a day due to poor water quality in the Seine.

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FULL AUSSIE PROGRAM

3×3 basketball

02:00: Women’s pool round: Australia against Canada

Badminton

22:50 hrs: Women’s doubles: Angela Yu and Setyana Mapasa against Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa

Basketball

9:30pm: Men – Group A: Australia Baby Boomers against Canada

Beach Volleybal

5:00 PM: Men’s Preliminary Round – Pool C: Thomas Hodges and Zachary Schubert versus Michal Bryl and Bartosz Losiak

Boxing

7:32pm: Preliminary Round Men 51kg – Round of 16: Yusuf Chothia against Rafael Lozano Serrano

00.18 hrs: Preliminary rounds 80 kg men – R16: Callum Peters vs Nurbek Oralbay

01.06 am: Preliminary rounds 54 kg women – R16: Tiana Echegaray against Hatice Akbas

Canoe slalom

23:00 hrs, 01:10 hrs: Women’s Canoe Individual Series: Jessica Vos

00:00 hrs, 02:10 hrs: Individual series kayaking for men: Timothy Andersen

Cycling BMX freestyle

21:25 hrs: Women’s Park Qualification: Natalja Diehm

23:11 hrs: Men’s Park Qualification: Logan Martin

Rider

19:00: Dressage Grand Prix Team and Individual Qualification Day 1: Jayden Brown (7:47 p.m.)

Hockey

03.45 am: Men – Pool B: Australia vs Belgium

Judo

6:00pm: Women -63kg Elimination Round of 32: Katharina Haecker to Lucy Renshall

Rowing

5:30 PM: Women’s Single Scull Quarter Finals: Tara Rigney

6:50 PM: Women’s double sculls semi-finals: Amanda Bateman And Harriet Hudson

7:30 PM Four women’s repechages: Olympia Aldersey, Jean Mitchell, Lily Alton and Molly Goodman

Rugby Sevens

00:00 hrs: Women’s semi-final: Australia against Canada

03:00: Women’s Bronze Medal Match: possible Australia

03:45 am: Women’s Gold Medal Race: potential australia

The sailing

20:05 hrs: Women’s skiff: Olivia Price And Evie Haseldine

8:13 PM: Men’s Windsurfing: Grae Morris

10.35 am: Men’s single sculls: Jim Colley And Shaun Connor

To shoot

5:00 PM: Men’s pedaling qualification: James Willett, Mitchell Iles

5:00 PM: Women’s Trap Qualification: Catherine Skinner, Penny Smith

Surf

03:00: Men’s Quarter Finals: Ethan Ewing vs. Jack Robinson

The semi-finals will take place at 7:48 and 8:24, the bronze medal match at 10:12 and the gold medal match at 11:34.

Women’s surfing R3 was postponed yesterday without any announcement of the new competition schedule. We will update this as soon as it is known.

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Swimming

Heated

7:00 PM: Men’s 200m Butterfly Heats: Matthew Temple

7:15pm: Men’s 100m Freestyle Heats: Kyle Chalmers, William Yang

19:44: Women’s 1500m Freestyle Heats: Lani Pallister, Moesha Johnson

20:39 hrs: Women’s 100m Freestyle Heats: Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack

20:51 hrs: 200m breaststroke men heats: Zac Stubblety-Cook, Joshua Yong

21:08 hrs: 4x200m Freestyle Relay Men’s Series: Australia

Final

04.30am: Men’s 100m Freestyle Semi-Finals: Kyle Chalmers, William Yang (TBC)

04.42 am: Semi-finals Men’s 200m Butterfly: Matthew Tempel (tbc)

04.56 am: Women’s 100m Backstroke Final: Kaylee McKeown, Iona Anderson

05.02 am: Men’s 800m Freestyle Final: Elijah Winnington

05.25am: Women’s 100m Freestyle Semi-Finals: Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack (to be confirmed)

05.47 am: Semi-finals 200m breaststroke men: Zac Stubblety-Cook, Joshua Yong (tbc)

06.01 am: Final Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay: Australia (tbc)

Tennis

8:00 PM: Second round men’s singles: Alexei Popyrin vs. Stan Wawrinka

9:30 PM: Women’s Doubles First Round: Ajla Tomljanovic and Olivia Gadecki against Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider

9:30 PM: Mixed Doubles First Round: Matthew Ebden and John Peers against Pablo Carreno Busta and Marcel Granollers

Triathlon

4:00 PM: Individual Men: Matthew Hauser, Luke Willian — POSTPONED

Water polo

6:30 PM: Men’s Preliminary Round – Group B: Australia against Serbia