South Korea's Lim Si-hyeon smashes archery world record • FRANCE 24 English

well as we've been mentioning the opening ceremony takes place tomorrow of course but France has already been competing in the rugby sevens where they recorded their first loss earlier on today Leo mcguin joins me in the studio tell us all about it yeah France who are considered one of the favorites for gold before the tournament started but they suffered a bit of a setback earlier on today at the stad of France as they were beaten 1912 by Fiji perhaps not much of a surprise considering the fijians won Gold in rugby sevens in both 16 and 2021 and they will be confident of making it three in a row France have failed to impress so far in their home Olympics with a 1212 draw against the USA that loss earlier this afternoon was a real setback and speaking yesterday actually Antoine dupon said that the team need to raise their levels or they risk being knocked out sooner rather than later well today's results mean that France will play Argentina in the quarterfinals new will be taking on South Africa Ireland face off against defending Champions Fiji and Australia play against the United States France's match kicks off in just over an hour's time well the games haven't even officially started we've already had our first world record shiun Lim delivered an emphatic statement on Thursday that she is the woman to beat in Paris the 21-year-old shot a world an olympic record of 69 four in the women's individual ranking round at the espad desan valid breaking the previous record of 692 Lim leads a young Korean Squad bidding for a 10th individual gold medal and 10th consecutive women's team gold the Korean women are undefeated in the Olympic team event since it was introduced at the 1988 games well sticking with South Korea an Australian swimming coach is in hot water for his comments promoting a top Korean swimmer over his own country's athletes Michael palfrey who is part of the Australian coaching staff in Paris has also worked with men's 400 meter freestyle world champion Kim Wu Min during an interview on Tuesday palfrey told Korean media he hoped Kim would medal ahead of his Australian opponents palfrey was quoted as saying about Kim I really hope he can win but ultimately I really hope he swims well later adding go career a comment which has not been well received by his team his act was UN Australian Mick is very Australian Mick is a is a committed coach who works very very hard he's been committed to the to the sport for a long time and as athletes he he he spoke and he's he he made he made an error and he he owns that error and and and and I told him I I don't I don't appreciate it and I don't think anyone up here appreciates what he said um it was it was was an un Australian comment um but does that mean that he's you know Unworthy of you know looking after the three athletes he's coached for the last three years to this point who rely on him to prepare him prepare them for the performance that's what I've got to weigh up staying in the pool and Leo Marshon is France's big home hope he will be favorite in the 400 meter medley after shattering Michael phelps's 15-year-old record last last year the 22-year-old trained by phelps's Old Coach is under huge pressure to live up to expectations and must raise his game after having a slightly disappointing year to date the five-time world champion will also be heavy favorite in the 200 meter medley and 200 met butterfly as he bids to send the home fans wild speaking at a press conference Maron spoke about handling the pressure at such a young age it's a lot it's not easy for me to manage I'm only 22 I'm due back home for the Olympic Games in Paris so obviously it's a lot I think I've prepared myself mentally and I'm managing to handle the pressure well for the moment anyway I know it's going to get worse in the next few days before my first race journalists from around the world have been following athletes as they prepare for the games as part of our four corners of the World Series today it's the fourth and final episode following Colombian race Walker Ida aralo in this episode our team in Boga tell us more about race walking it's been a few days since a dare has slapped well the Olympic 20 km race walk begins in 20day time but he still hasn't recovered from a stress fracture to the sacrum an injury from March that had him on crutches you can see a fairly large fracture in the left sacral wing by strain I mean a mechanical strain as a percentage of the burden accumulates in the body Adair has assured his physio he's on track for Paris 2024 but with his years of experience he also knows that pushing yourself can be dangerous it's what the past has taught me I had an injury we accelerated the healing process to get to the competition and then I got injured again decision made it's time for him to break the news at this point I would like to inform you all that we've taken the decision not to take part in the Paris 2024 Olympics it was a difficult decision but the most sensible one given the time I have left to prepare Colombian media were quick on the uptake and the News spread quickly Adair is the only Colombian athlete withdrawing from the Olympic Games but he says he feels liberated and can now reflect on his next steps we're only thinking about the future we have the world Athletics Championship in Tokyo next year and it's clear that the main and most important objective will be the next Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028 the important thing is to have a goal and my goal has always been to take part in the Olympics and win a medal for my country yes it's a difficult sport a hard sport where you have to do extraordinary things to get those great results but it's my passion whilst st's love for race walking remains true it won't be taking him to Paris this time around his sights now remain firmly on his next Olympic shot in Los Angeles four years away and just a note make sure to join us tomorrow quarter 6 Paris time we'll have our special opening show ahead of the opening ceremony hour and 50 minutes with the one and only James V so make sure you tune in I can't wait you'll be there James will be there what a show what what more could you ask for right well that's it from us thanks so much for watching and do stay tuned there's penal to come