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.