The Paris Olympics are heading into the final straight and Team Ireland still has some medal hopes.
Swimmer Daniel Wiffen and sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke are competing in their final events on Friday and both could add to Ireland's record medal haul.
Here's the schedule for the Irish athletes on Friday.
Swimming
Olympic 800m freestyle champion and 1,500m freestyle bronze medallist Daniel Wiffen takes on the gruelling marathon swim early on Friday morning.
Wiffen, who has never competed in an international open water race, will set another piece of Irish history as he becomes Ireland’s first ever competitor in marathon swimming at an Olympic Games.
The 10km route will be on a 1.67km loop (six loops) in the River Seine, the original venue for the swimming competition at the Games in 1924, between the Pont Alexandre III (where the boats started out for opening ceremony), and the Pont de l’Alma.
The beginning of each loop will be easier as the 31 swimmers entered will have the current on their side, but the return more arduous, as competitors battle against the tide.
The race kicks off at 6.30am Irish time and is expected to take just under two hours to complete.
Athletics
Rhasidat Adeleke will be the first Irish woman to contest an Olympic 400m final on Friday night at the Stade de France in Paris.
The 21-year-old from Tallaght takes to the track at 7pm Irish time aiming to be in the mix, but the task ahead will be far from straightforward, with a particularly high calibre field vying for podium places.
Amongst them are reigning world champion and Tokyo silver medallist Marileidy Paulino (Dominican Republic) who won the second semi-final on Wednesday night by a distance.
The morning session on Friday also features several Irish athletes, with two featuring in individual semi-finals.
Sarah Lavin from Limerick goes in the second of the three semi-finals in the 100m hurdles, with only the top two in each making the final, along with two non-automatic time qualifying spots across the three races.
Despite a brilliant run in his heat, Mark English also may need to significantly lower his national record to make a final in the men’s 800m. He goes in the first of three semi-finals with only the first two booking a place in the final, along with two non-automatic time qualifying spots across the three races.
The women’s 4x400m relay team will race in heat two of their event on Friday morning.
Meanwhile Kate O’Connor will be in action in the heptathlon in both sessions. In the morning she competes in the long jump and her strongest event, the javelin throw, while her Olympic campaign concludes with the gruelling 800m finale event.
Golf
Stephanie Meadow and Leona Maguire will be hopeful of a significant change in fortunes when they take on round three of the individual singles at Le Golf National on Friday; a course that has not been kind to the Irish pair at these Olympic Games.
Track cycling
The Irish pairing of Alice Sharpe and Lara Gillespie will race against 14 teams in the always spectacular and highly entertaining Madison event on Friday afternoon.
The Madison is a relay event race in pairs like a tag team with one rider competing while the other recovers by riding slowly around the top of the track, before the changeover via a ‘hand sling’ from their team-mate.
It’s a 120 lap, 30km points race with a sprint every 10 laps and the potential to make big points gains by lapping the main group.
