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Some rowing finals are coming up in the next 40 minutes. The men’s pairs final features duos from Canada, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Denmark and Spain. Team GB’s Helen Glover and Polly Swann go in the women’s pairs final – they’re up against Canada, Greece, NZ, ROC and Spain.
There are also medals up for grabs in the lightweight double sculls. The women’s final pits the USA and Team GB against France, Italy, the Netherlands and Romania. The men’s final features Ireland, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Uruguay and Belgium.
As well as being an incredibly difficult sport, gymnastics is also dangerous - you don’t want to land on your neck after flying off a vault or somersaulting off a beam. And that’s another reason Simone Biles knew this week was not the time to compete. Our gymnastics correspondent Tumaini Carayol has more:
During her late-night press conference on Tuesday, Biles explained that she also had “twisties”, a word for a mental block in which gymnasts lose their spatial awareness in the middle of complex skills. It is a well-known, terrifying and dangerous sensation for gymnasts.
Among many others, Aleah Finnegan, a gymnast on the USA national team, was prompted to speak about the subject on Twitter. “I’ve had the twisties since I was 11,” she wrote. “I cannot imagine the fear of having it happen to you during competition. They have very limited equipment and mats in Tokyo to help something like this get fixed let alone within a day. You have absolutely no control over your body and what it does.”
Related: Simone Biles’ twisties: mental block which puts gymnasts at serious risk
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