Today at Paris 2024 – 3 August

Here’s your daily brief for the handball action at the 2024 Summer Olympics and it’s the final preliminary round games for the women at the Arena Paris Sud.

The schedule

09:00 – Hungary vs Netherlands
11:00 – Spain vs France
14:00 – Brazil vs Angola
16:00 – Slovenia vs Sweden
19:00 – Norway vs Germany
21:00 – Denmark vs South Korea

What’s at stake?

It’s all happening today, final group placements and the final two quarter-final spots up for grabs. Read the details in our explainer here.

I haven’t got all day

It’s got to be the direct battle for the final quarter-final place in group B between Brazil and Angola. It’s great that at least one non-European side will break into the knockouts, but who will it be?

Around the rings

Road cycling and Paris go hand-in-hand, so it would be rude not to check out the men’s road race today. The course concludes with three laps of cobbled climb before a downhill stretch and a sprint towards the Trocadero, which should guarantee some drama.