Athletics: USA, Botswana excel in 4x400m relays (2024)

Track cycling: Italy win women's Madison gold

A big attack fromItaly to lap the field in thewomen's Madison track cycling final is enough to get them the gold!

They earn 17 sprint points, but coupled with the 20 they got for going a lap up, they finish the 120-lap race on 37 points.

Great Britain win silver on 31 points, all from sprints, whileNetherlands – who also lapped the field – win bronze on 28.

Athletics: Looking forward to the men's marathon

Tomorrow morning, of course, we'll have themen's marathon – for the first time, taking place before the women's marathon, which follows on Sunday morning.

Eliud Kipchoge is favourite to win a third straight title. But there will be a tinge of sadness as world record holderKelvin Kiptum, who died in a car crash in February, would have been a huge challenger to his crown.

Football: Spain extend lead

Make it 3-1!

Álex Baena silences the Parc des Princes again as he scores from a direct free kick from distance.

Pick that one out.

Football: Spain ahead as López bags second

It's 2-1… to Spain!

Fermín López has struck again for his second goal of this final.

Are Spain on their way to a first title in 32 years?

Football: France take early lead in gold-medal match but pegged back by Spain

Over at theParc des Princes, there were celebrations in the stands as hosts France had an early lead in the men's football final against Spain.

With luminaries likeDidier Deschamps andYouri Djorkaeff as well as former FIA PresidentJean Todt in the stands, the hosts led throughEnzo Millot.

But Spain have just levelled throughFermín López.

1-1 after 18 minutes.

Volleyball: Team USA win men's bronze

In the men's volleyball bronze medal match,USA have just sealed a three-set win overItaly to win their first medal in the event since also taking bronze eight years ago.

USA win 25-23, 30-28, 26-24.

Golf: New Zealand's Lydia Ko, Swiss Metraux in joint-lead after three rounds

Thewomen's golf competition is reaching an exciting end, and for the third time in three days we have a new leader.

New Zealand'sLydia Ko, who already has silver and bronze from the last two Olympic Games, will hit the course tomorrow in the lead in search of her first gold medal.

Ko shot a four-under 68 to move to nine-under overall, two shots clear of USA'sRose Zhang andJapan'sYamash*ta Miyu, and tied with halfway leaderMorgane Metraux of Switzerland. Metraux had been one-over for the day until an eagle on the 18th saw her sign for a one-under 71.

Also in the hunt areNelly Korda and first-round leaderCéline Boutier, tied for seventh at four-under.

Rhythmic gymnastics: Darja Varfolomeev wins individual all-around

All over in theindividual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics, whereDarja Varfolomeev has utterly dominated the competition to win gold.

The German topped the scores on three of the four apparatus – hoop, ball, and clubs – and was second on ribbon, for a total of 142.850 points.

Bulgaria'sBoryana Kaleyn took silver on 140.600, with Italy'sSofia Raffaeli winning bronze on 136.300.

Table tennis: People's Republic of China win men's team gold

Wang Chuqin drops two games to Kristian Karlsson but then absolutely dominates the fifth and deciding game in this third match of the gold-medal tie.

The Chinese star brings up eight gold medal points and converts at the first time of asking, his second gold medal point overall, andWang,Fan Zhendong, andMa Long have gold.

China beat Sweden 3-0.

It is Ma's sixth career Olympic gold medal from six events entered (teams in 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024; singles in 2016 and 2020), extending his record as the most successful paddler in Olympic Games history.

Weightlifting: Karlos Nasar breaks men's 89kg world record en route to gold

Gold in themen's 89kg weightlifting has gone to Bulgaria'sKarlos Nasar.

Nasar lifted 180kg in the snatch and a world record clean and jerk of 224kg for a total of 404kg, also a new world record.

Yeison López of Colombia took silver on 390kg andAntonino Pizzolato of Italy bronze on 384kg.

Football: Germany win women's bronze!

A HUGE moment in the match!

Spain have a chance to level the scores after Lucia Garcia is fouled by Janina Minge in the box in the last minute of extra time!

Up steps Alexia Putellas for the world champions...but her penalty is saved!

Ann-Katrin Berger dives to her left and gets a big hand to the ball, but there's still a few seconds left - no the referee has blown for full-time! Germany win bronze!

The German players swarm Berger in celebration, while the Spanish team console Putellas. What an incredible ending to this game.

Table tennis: People's Republic of China take 2-0 lead

Fan Zhendong, the men's singles Olympic champion, is taken to five games in this second rubber of the table tennismen's team gold medal match against Sweden.

But the Chinese world number two holds offTruls Möregårdh in a repeat of that singles final to put a second point on the board for his team.

Sweden need to win the next singles rubber to keep this tie alive.

Football: Germany take the lead

Breakthrough!

Spain goalkeeper Cata Coll brings down Giulia Gwinn inside the box, and the defender steps up to convert the spot kick and give Germany a 1-0 lead with 25 minutes to go!

Diving: Chen Yiwen wins women's 3m springboard gold

As expected, thePeople's Republic of China have won anotherdiving gold, this one in thewomen's 3m springboard thanks toChen Yiwen.

Chen scored 376.00 from her five dives to win by over 30 points from the silver medallist.

But what is perhaps surprising is the identity of that silver medallist – not Chen's teammate and synchro partnerChang Yani, but rather Australia'sMaddison Keeney.

Chang had a bad first dive that scored over 25 points fewer than Keeney, and although Chang was consistently second throughout the four remaining dives was not able to overcome that deficit.

Keeney took silver on 343.10, while Chang won bronze with 318.75 points.

Hockey: Argentina win women's bronze

There was nothing to seperate the two sides after 60 minutes of regular play, with the score 2-2 at full-time.

So, we had to head to the dreaded penalty shoot-out to decide a winner.

Ultimately, it was Argentina who proved more decisive, scoring with three of their four shots, while Belgium's attempts (apart from a lone goal by Justine Rasir) were poor and easily saved by Cristina Cosentino in Las Leonas' goal.

Argentina win the shoot-out 3-1, and with it the bronze! Their players and fans celebrate wildly, while there are tears among the Belgians. Such are the harsh outcomes of a penalty shoot-out.

Modern pentathlon: Olympic records set in men's semi-finals

For the first time at an Olympic Games, we have semi-finals inmodern pentathlon to determine our finalists.

Another change is a shorter Laser Run segment, down to 3km from 3.2km.

It means we've seen both the Olympic record for the Laser Run and for Overall Points re-written today.

Czechia'sMartin Vlach scored 713 points in the Laser Run with a time of 9:47.46, compared to his Tokyo 2020 Olympic record of 670 points for the longer distance.

And Egypt'sAhmed Elgendy, who won semi-final A, scored 1516 points to break Joe Choong's Olympic record of 1482 – although defending champion Choong will compete in semi-final B this evening.

Football: Spain 0-0 Germany midway through first half

In the women's bronze medal match, there's nothing to seperate world champions Spain from Rio 2016 gold medallists Germany after 30 minutes of play.

To be fair, this hasn't exactly been a performance to set the world alight, with only two shots on target between the two sides.

Let's hope for more action as the match progresses!

Sailing: Valentin Bontus (AUT) wins men's kite gold

Bontus leads Pianozzi at the second of four marks here in the third race of this men's kite final.

Vodisek has already crashed out of this race while Maeder is not particularly in it.

Remember, this final is over if Bontus wins. Pianozzi has to win to keep the final alive. Bontus has kept his big 23m kite, while the other three went to smaller kites.

Bontus still leads through the third mark and is on course for gold here! One last leg and a turn towards the finish for the Austrian.

But he keeps his cool to win the race – he's won all three races of the final – andtake gold for Austria!

Slovenia'sToni Vodisek takes silver.

Singapore'sMax Maeder wins bronze. At 17, Maeder becomes the youngest Olympic medallist in sailing since 15-year-old Michael Schoettle for USA in 1952.

Track cycling: World and Olympic records broken in women's sprint qualifying

The crowd inside the National Velodrome are getting their money's worth today, as the Olympic record for the women's 200m flying start has been broken a staggering six timesin sprint qualifying, with the world record also falling two times.

With the metaphorical flames from the athlete's wheels now extinguished, it's Lea Friedrich (GER) who leads the 24 fastest qualifiers into the next round with a top time of 10.029.

The full list of world and Olympic records from the women's sprint qualifying session is as follows:

Women's 200m flying start
WR
Lea Friedrich (GER) - 10.029
Ellesse Andrews (NZL) - 10.108
OR
Lea Friedrich - 10.029
Ellesse Andrews - 10.108
Mathilde Gros (FRA) - 10.182
Sato Mina (JPN) - 10.257
Hetty van de Wouw (NED) - 10.263
Shaane Fulton (NZL) - 10.281

Sailing: Bontus moves within one win of gold

Valentin Bontus has got both race wins in the two final races we've had so far!

The Austrian dominates thanks to his upwind legs, and that moves him to two race wins level withToni Vodisek.

Singapore'sMax Maeder sits third overall with one race win, and Italy'sRiccardo Pianosi fourth.

Maeder or Pianosi need to win the next race to keep this final alive.

The third race is due to begin at 3:13pm.

Sailing: Men's kite final to resume

It's time for themen's kite final as we pick up where we left off yesterday.

First to three race wins takes gold, and Slovenia'sToni Vodisek has two automatic wins from the opening series. But he cannot win this race 2 of the final as a discretionary penalty has been imposed on him.

Austria's Valentin Bontus and Singapore'sMax Maeder each have a win.

And Italy's Riccardo Pianosi has no wins right now.

A maximum of five races today. Winds are 12 knots, blowing from 252°.

Hockey: Belgium leading Argentina in women's bronze medal

Midway through the second quarter Belgium are hanging on to a 1-0 lead courtesy of Emma Puvrez, who found the back of the Argentina goal in the eighth minute.

Las Leonas have since been on the attack, and now they score! A wonderful shot into the top right corner from Agustina Gorzelany evens the contest.

Game on!

Canoe sprint: Martin f*cksa (CZE) wins men's canoe single 1000m gold!

Woosh! That is fast from f*cksa, the world champion in the 1000m.

The 31-year-old paddles his way over the line in 3:43.16....and that's an Olympic best! A great effort from f*cksa, who wins gold ahead of Tokyo 2020 champion Isaquias Queiroz (BRA) in second and Serghei Tarnovschi (MDA) in third.

🥇Martin f*cksa (CZE): 3:43.16 OB
🥈Isaquias Queiroz (BRA): 3:44.33
🥉Serghei Tarnovschi (MDA): 3:44.68

Canoe sprint: Germany win men's kayak double 500m gold!

This event is back on the Olympic programme for the first time since Beijing 2008, and it's the German pair of Jacob Schopf/Max Lemke who win gold just ahead of Bence Nadas/Sandor Totka of Hungary.

The world champions led from the start but were challenged by the Hungarian pair throughout the race. Ultimately, though, the Germans had enough left in the tank and the pair add another gold to the one they won in the men's four competition earlier this week.

🥇Germany: 1:26.87
🥈Hungary: 1:27.15
🥉Australia: 1:27.29

Canoe sprint: New Zealand win women's kayak double 500m gold!

Never in doubt!

Lisa Carrington and Alicia Hoskin lead from start to finish, crossing the line in a time of 1:37.28 to claim gold. The victory is the seventh for Carrington in Olympic competition, meaning she is now just one short of eight-time Olympic champion Birgit Fischer.

Now, there are two Hungarian boats in this race, and the first (Tamara Csipes/Alida Dora Gazo) claims silver. But there's nothing to decide between Germany and the second Hungarian boat in third as they both finish with a time of 1:39.46 - meaning they will both be awarded the bronze!

🥇New Zealand: 1:37.28
🥈Hungary: 1:39.39
🥉Germany: 1:39.46
🥉Hungary: 1:39.46