The BBC do a good day-by-day for when it all gets a bit overwhelming:
Day 1 - Saturday 27 July - 13 gold medals
Gold medal events:
Diving (women's synchro 3m springboard),
fencing(women's epee, men's sabre),
judo (women's -48kg, men's -60kg),
road cycling (men's and women's individual time trial),
rugby sevens (men's),
shooting (mixed team 10m air rifle),
swimming (men's 400m free, women's 400m free, women's 4x100m free relay, men's 4x100m free relay).
Highlights
Road cycling’s time trial is a chance for
Josh Tarling to get Team GB’s Olympics off to a flying start. The 20-year-old won the
European title last year and is considered a contender in the men’s event, which for the first time at an Olympics uses the same course as the women’s, taking in sections of forest alongside Paris monuments like the Louvre and Eiffel Tower. The women’s time trial featuring GB’s
Anna Henderson, a European silver medallist, starts at 13:30 with the men’s event at 15:34.
In the
swimming, Saturday night brings a hotly anticipated three or even four-way contest in the women’s 400m freestyle (19:55). US legend
Katie Ledecky lost to Australia’s
Ariarne Titmus in 2021 and Titmus won last year’s world title, too, while Canadian 17-year-old
Summer McIntosh is the world record-holder. New Zealand’s
Erika Fairweather is also expected to do well. The Brits have a shot at a medal in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay (20:37).
Adam Peaty will be competing in the 100m breaststroke heats (10:00).
GB divers Yasmin Harper and
Scarlett Mew Jensen go in the women’s 3m synchro from 10:00. They won world silver in 2023 behind China.
Men’s
rugby sevens is already on its final day. France will be hoping
Antoine Dupont, who skipped the Six Nations to prepare for this, can lead the hosts to a famous title at the Stade de France. The final is at 18:45.
Brit watch
At the Palace of Versailles, Team GB begin their defence of the Olympic
team eventing crown. Saturday is the dressage stage of eventing (from 08:30), which is followed by cross-country and finally showjumping. Tokyo champions
Tom McEwen and
Laura Collett are back in the line-up this time around, joined by European champion
Ros Canter.
The first
hockey match of Paris 2024 features
Team GB’s men versus Spain (09:00). Spain are ranked eighth in the world. Team GB’s squad is predominantly English, and England are currently the world’s number two nation behind the Netherlands in men’s hockey.
Ireland’s men face
Belgium at 09:30.
Gymnastics begins with men’s qualifying. Team GB are in subdivision one of three, starting at 10:00. Qualifying is what decides who makes the team final, all-around final and individual finals later in the Games.
Max Whitlock, now 31, has a stated aim of becoming the first gymnast to win a medal on the same apparatus (in his case, the pommel horse) in four successive Olympics.
But a game against China tomorrow and Canada the day after.
