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Males’s triathlon: Wilde takes the bell with a giant lead. We’ve got 2.5km to go and Yee wants to provide one thing that may redefine particular as he’s 14 seconds behind.

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Males’s triathlon: Yee has minimize Wilde’s lead all the way down to 12 seconds from 15. The Brit must step up his pace much more if he’s to have any hope of gold.

Up to date at 06.20 EDT

Males’s triathlon: Wilde is giving off the impression of being unflustered on the entrance and would possibly even have extra to present if he actually desires to interrupt Yee quickly. The Brit nearly has the Kiwi in his sights however it’s a great distance again.

Males’s triathlon: Wilde is as much as a 15-second lead over Yee as they start the third lap of 4. Yee shall be hoping the chief has gone off too quickly and may reel him in. In worse information for Yee, he’s being chased down by two Frenchmen and a Canadian, who’re round eight seconds behind.

Alex Yee is dropping floor on chief Hayden Wilde. {Photograph}: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Photographs

Up to date at 06.21 EDT

Girls’s hockey: Nice Britain have secured a significant first win within the pool stage, defeating South Africa 2-1. They’re as much as fourth within the desk and face one other large match in opposition to USA tomorrow.

Males’s triathlon: Wilde has opened up a great nine-second lead over Yee on the second lap and is wanting snug. How can the Brit get again at him? The nice crowds on the Parisian streets are getting behind the athletes to make a cracking ambiance.

Girls’s diving: Workforce GB have gained a bronze within the pool. Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson’s podium place was unsure after a poor third spherical effort however they got here up with the products when it really mattered.

Males’s triathlon: There was an amazing second when the athletes transitioned from bikes to trainers, as Workforce GB’s Sam Dickinson began to get the group going by bigging up Yee.

New Zealand’s Wilde has chased down Yee and it seems prefer it might be an thrilling battle for the gold. Yee is completely happy to take a seat in second as they full the primary lap.

Males’s triathlon: Yee is out on the entrance and is opening up an honest hole already. He’s extremely sturdy on this ingredient and does a sooner 5km than Mo Farah.

Males’s triathlon: Because the race leaders dismount their bicycles and put together to embark on what ought to be an thrilling 10km race on foot, Will Unwin is right here to steal my thunder and name them residence after I did all of the exhausting work …

Males’s triathlon: The crowds are 10-deep on the Champs Elysees because the rivals pedal their means across the last lap of the 40km bike-ride. Nice Britain’s Alex Yee, the quickest man within the area over 10 kilometres on foot, is strictly the place he must be within the lead group of about 35 riders.

China gold, GB bronze in ladies’s 10m synchro diving

Girls’s diving: The Chinese language have gained, due to course they’ve as they’re unbelievable at this self-discipline. Nonetheless, there’s delight for Workforce GB’s Andrea Spendolini-Sireix and Lois Toulson, who hug one another with delight when an insufficiently respectable final effort from the People means they’re assured the bronze medal. North Korea take the silver.

Andrea Spendolini Sirieix and Lois Toulson take the bronze within the diving! {Photograph}: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Up to date at 05.57 EDT

Males’s triathlon: The lead group within the bike stage of the competition has mushroomed in dimension and appears about 35 riders sturdy with simply over one lap of the cycle to go.

Girls’s diving: With one spherical of dives left within the wopmen’s 10m synchro, Nice Britain’s ladies have all of it to do if they’re to win a medal. They’ve slid down the placings to fourth and wish to drag one thing extraordinarily particular out of the bag if they’re to make the rostrum.

However what’s this? They do precisely that, with Lois Toulson and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix scoring 77.76 to place themselves again into medal rivalry in second place. China are runaway leaders and have secured gold with 351.90 factors. It seems like silver and bronze shall be contested by Workforce GB, North Korea and Canada.

Up to date at 05.48 EDT

Girls’s hockey: Nice Britain are 2-1 up in opposition to South Africa courtesy of a tidy strike Hannah French within the third quarter.

Hannah French celebrates scoring the second aim for Nice Britain within the hockey! {Photograph}: Michael Reaves/Getty Photographs

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Males’s triathlon: Our lead group of 19 are working moderately nicely collectively on the entrance of the race, sustaining a 22-second hole between themselves and the chasers (which accommodates the reigning Olympic champion Kristian Blummenfelt) as they full their third lap of seven on the bikes.

Girls’s diving: Two rounds into the 10m synchro, it would come as no shock to anybody to be taught that the Chinese language duo already look residence and hosed with 111 factors. Andrea Spendolini-Sireix and Lois Toulsen are at present in second place with 97.20, with their Ukraine counterparts in third on 96 factors.

Males’s triathlon: The lead group is nineteen riders sturdy they usually have a spot of 24 seconds over the chasing pack on lap two of the bike race. A silver medallist at Tokyo, Workforce GB’s Alex Yee is within the lead group and shall be completely happy along with his efficiency thus far.

Desk tennis: Nice Britain’s Liam Pitchford has been crushed within the males’s singles, going out to Slovenian thirteenth seed, Darko Jorgic, who adfvances to the final 16 on the again of a 4-2 win.

Males’s triathlon: We’re 33 minutes into the race and our entrance group is about 16 riders sturdy they usually have a lead of about 20 seconds over the chasing pack.

The main pack go over the Pont Alexandre III within the males’s triathlon. {Photograph}: David Davies/PA

Up to date at 05.26 EDT

Males’s triathlon: Your six leaders: Alessio Crociani (Ita), Matthew Hauser (Aus), Henri Schoeman (RSA), Pierre Le Corre (Fra), Dorian Coninx (Fra), Alberto Gonzalez Garcia (Esp). And within the time it took me to analysis all that they’ve been joined by a number of extra, together with Alex Yee on his arresting pink bicycle.

Males’s triathlon: A lead group of six riders have opened a spot on the chasers however Alessio Crociani (Ita) is visibly pissed off at being pressured to do all of the work with 5 others aren’t ready to share the load on the entrance and do their flip.

Males’s triathlon: The race leaders have simply completed their 1,500m swim within the Seine and Crociani (Ita), Schoeman (RSA), Hauser (Aus) and Coninx are the primary 4 out of the water.

Alex Yee is again in 18th, 27 seconds behind because the rivals head to mount their bikes. With the solar out and the street dry, the circumstances for the boys’s cycle are much more forgiving than these the ladies needed to endure earlier this morning. The time on the clock is 24min 02sec.

Up to date at 05.10 EDT

Girls’s diving: The 10m synchro diving has simply began, with British duo Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulsen going first for Workforce GB. We’re obliged, by regulation, to say that Andrea is the daughter of Fred Sirieix, who I’m advised is a celeb maitre d’ on some TV courting present I’ve by no means seen. As a proud Frenchman, Fred can be working for the BBC at these Olympics and is poolside to look at his daughter in motion in the present day. He have to be bursting with satisfaction …

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson in the course of the ladies’s synchronised 10m platform last. {Photograph}: John Walton/PA

Up to date at 05.14 EDT

Girls’s hockey: It’s the tip of the primary quarter within the pool recreation between Nice Britain and South Africa and it’s the latter who lead by the one aim of the sport thus far, which was scored by Kayla De Waal.

Girls’s triathlon report: Early risers have been handled to an epic ladies’s triathlon – and an epic consequence for France and Paris as Cassandre Beaugrand secured victory. Not far behind was Britain’s Beth Potter, who took a gritty bronze medal in circumstances that have been brutal even by the requirements of this robust sport. Sean Ingle studies from the banks of the Seine …

Males’s triathlon: After Cassandre Beaugard’s extremely well-liked residence win within the ladies’s occasion earlier this morning, the boys’s begins in significantly hotter circumstances.

There are 55 rivals, with Britons Alex Yee and Sam Dickson amongst them. Due to the Seine’s currents, the ladies’s swim was brutal, whereas the biking coughed up loads of casualties too. Let’s see how their male counterparts fare as they dive off the pontoon and into the soiled drink …

Girls’s hockey: Workforce GB have simply began their newest pool match in opposition to South Africa at Yves-du-Manoir and whereas the competition just isn’t essentially must-win for the British ladies, it’s definitely could-do-with-one.

They’ve misplaced their first two video games of those Olympics and are at present backside of the six-team pool on aim distinction. Solely the highest 4 advance however Workforce GB have two matches remaining after this one. It’s scoreless between the edges within the early phases.

Tennis: Andy Murray and his doubles accomplice Dan Evans seemed to be on the way in which out of Paris 2024 however but once more the commendably cussed duo discovered a solution to win. Jonathan Liew studies from Roland Garros …

Andy Murray (left) and Dan Evans have fun beating Belgium’s Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen and qualify for the quarter-finals. {Photograph}: Julian Finney/Getty Photographs

Swimming: Duncan Scott gained the seventh Olympic medal of his profession as Workforce GB efficiently defended their 4x200m relay title, whereas Eire’s Daniel Wiffen was victorious within the 800m freestyle. Andy Bull studies from the París La Défense Area …

Eire’s Daniel Wiffin (centre) was a preferred winner of the boys’s 800m freestyle. {Photograph}: John Walton/PA

Girls’s gymnastics: The American dream performed out in a chunk of irresistible theatre to bury the recollections of the Damned Video games of Tokyo, writes Barney Ronay.

Simone Biles performs on the uneven bars because the USA ladies romp to victory within the ladies’s Creative Gymnnastics crew last. {Photograph}: Daniel A Anderson/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Catch-up: With a while to kill earlier than the boys’s triathlon begins at 9.45am (BST) and the ladies’s 10m synchronised diving begins at 10am (BST), now appears pretty much as good a time as any to flag up a few of our writers’ musings on occasions from final evening. Keep tuned …

Girls’s triathlon: Nice Britain’s Georgia Taylor-Brown finishes sixth, shaking palms with assorted members of the group on her means up the house straight. She appears completely happy sufficient along with her efficiency however it’s her Scottish teammate Beth Potter who takes the bronze medal.

“I used to be going for the gold however Cassandre and Julie have been simply too good for me in the present day,” she tells the BBC. “I’m so completely happy to be right here with the bronze medal. I did it for me however I additionally did it for everybody who has helped me up to now eight years.”

Beaugrand wins ladies’s triathlon, Potter bronze for GB

To rapturous applause from the house crowd, the 27-year-old from Paris turns into the primary ever French triathlete to win Olympic gold in a time of 1hr 54min 55sec. She’s adopted residence by Switzerland’s Julie Derron, with Workforce GB’s Beth Potter taking the bronze medal.

Cassandre Beaugrand wins gold for France! {Photograph}: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Photographs

Up to date at 06.01 EDT

Girls’s triathlon: France’s Cassandre Beaugrand ups the tempo and places important daylight between herself and Sweitzerland;’s Julie Derron. Beth Potter is within the bronze medal place for Britain and looking out over her shoulder to see how far behind her Emma Lombardi is. About ten metres, Beth.

Girls’s triathlon: Our 4 leaders take the bell and have 2.5km of this triathlon left to finish. That’s about eight minutes of racing in previous cash.

Girls’s triathlon: Our 4 leaders go the water station once more and drench themselves with chilly water as they proceed to go a gradual stream of tail-enders. Switzerland’s Julie Derron tries to place a long way between herself and the opposite three leaders however they’re not having it and instantly up the tempo. The race for all three medals is vast open and considered one of this quartet goes to overlook out and endure heartbreak. A reminder – they’re: Julie Derron (Sui), Emma Lombardi (Fra), Cassandre Beaugrand (Fra) and Beth Potter (GB).

Girls’s triathlon: A complete of 1hr 35min after diving into the Seine, our 4 leaders go a water station and you could possibly throw a blanket over them. Switzerland’s Julie Derron is making the tempo. Curiously, there seemed to be a mass false begin, when nicely over half the sector appeared to leap the gun whereas diving into the Seine. I don’t know if any of our 4 leaders benefitted from that.

It might be important because the swim appeared horrendous, what with the sturdy currents within the well-known river, and a number of rivals’ possibilities of successful a medal ended earlier than they’d even getting on their bikes.

Girls’s triathlon: Julie Derron (Sui), Emma Lombardi (Fra), Cassandre Beaugrand (Fra) and Beth Potter (GB) have opened a major hole on the remainder of the sector with 7.5km of the run to go. It seems like our three medallists will come from this quartet. Georgia Taylor-Brown has dropped off the tempo and won’t be making the rostrum this yr.

Who will come out on prime? {Photograph}: Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters

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Girls’s triathlon: Our 9 leaders have completed the cycle and are within the early phases of the 10km run that can determine our winner. They’re nicely over a minute away from the most effective of the remaining.

Girls’s triathlon: Taylor Knibb (USA) is main the chase group. Some readers could bear in mind her as the ladies who crashed no fewer than 4 instances in the course of the ladies’s Particular person Time Trial. Her lack of ability to remain upright didn’t appear to part her and after the Race of Fact she jokingly described herself as “most likely the worst bike handler on the market”.

Bermuda’s Flora Duffy leads the pack down the Champs Elysees in the course of the biking leg of the ladies’s triathlon. {Photograph}: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Photographs

Girls’s triathlon: Our 9 leaders take the bell to sign another five-kilometre lap of the cycle remaining forward of the run. The Paris 2024 organisers are usually not being significantly environment friendly with regards to telling how far behind the chasers are however it appears inconceivable that the winner is not going to come from this entrance group of 9 who’ve simply swung a proper off the Champs-Elysees. The hole appears to be at about 1min 18sec.

Girls’s triathlon: The street floor is extraordinarily greasy and numerous riders are dropping like flies. Within the lead group, German athlete Laura Lindemann is the most recent to go down, skidding on some cobbles and cracking her proper knee on the cobbles. She will get again on the bike and pedals away however is not within the lead group, which is now all the way down to 9 riders.

Good morning from London. And completely happy whatever-time-of-the-day it-is wherever you might be. It’s Barry Glendenning right here, choosing up the cudgels from Jonathan, as our lead group of 10 within the ladies’s triathlon are about to begin lap six of seven within the biking.

Our leaders: Derron (SUI), Lombardi (FRA), Kingma (NED), Lindemann (GER), Beaugrand (FRA), Duffy (BER), Taylor-Brown (GBR), Potter (BR), Spivey (USA), and Kuttor-Bragmayer (HUN). Again within the area, Workforce USA’s kirsten Kasper has simply hit the deck, touchdown closely on her bottom.

Though it appeared just like the jig was up for her, she remounted and set off once more, solely to return a cropper for a second time as she appeared over her shoulder upon listening to a race motorcycle coming upsides her.

Jonathan Howcroft

Whereas the triathletes sweat Seine sludge across the streets of Paris, I’m going to place my toes up and make a cup of tea. It’s over to Barry Glendenning for the conclusion of the race.

Now two-thirds of the way in which into this biking leg the main ten stay over one minute away from the chasing pack. Time-trial specialist Taylor Knibb (USA) is main the chasing group and her experience helps chip away on the deficit, however it’s a Sisyphean process.

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