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Gold medal events: 20
Artistic gymnastics (men's parallel bars, women's balance beam, men's horizontal bar, women's floor), athletics (men's pole vault, women's discus throw, women's 5,000m, women's 800m), badminton (women's singles, men's singles), basketball 3x3 (men's and women's), canoe slalom (men's and women's kayak cross), shooting (men's 25m rapid fire pistol, mixed team skeet), surfing (men's and women's), track cycling (women's team sprint), triathlon (mixed team relay).
Highlights
In a fast and dazzling Tokyo 800m final, Keely Hodgkinson delivered a sensational Olympic silver medal in a time that broke a British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995. Three years later, can she go one better? Athing Mu, who took gold in Tokyo, will not be in Paris after falling during US Olympic trials, but Kenyan world champion Mary Moraa will. The final starts at 20:47.
When mixed team triathlon (starts 07:00) was introduced to the Olympics in Tokyo, the GB team of Jonny Brownlee, Jess Learmonth, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee won it. This time around, France and Germany are likely to be major medal threats.
Action starts at the Velodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, just west of Paris. Track cycling’s opening day includes the women’s team sprint (from 16:00, final 18:59), where GB have qualified a team for the first time since London 2012. Sophie Capewell helped GB to world silver in the event last year. Her dad, Nigel, recorded fourth-place finishes in Paralympic track cycling at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000.
Kayak cross reaches a climax with the women’s final at 15:55 and men’s final at 16:00. GB’s Joe Clarke has back-to-back world titles in this event, which is new to the Olympics and features paddlers racing each other along the rapids. Clarke’s team-mate Kimberley Woods also won world gold last year. France are likely to be a big factor in both events.
Could this be the last time you see Simone Biles in action? The beam final (11:38) and women's floor final (13:23) take place on artistic gymnastics’ last day at Paris 2024, which is 27-year-old Biles’ third Olympic Games. The beam final could see the baton passed to the next generation, since Hezly Rivera – at 16, the youngest athlete on the US team – won this event at US Olympic trials.
Brit watch
Sport climbing, which made its debut at the Tokyo Olympics, returns from 09:00 with more medals this time around. What was one combined event in Tokyo is now two competitions in Paris. The first is boulder and lead, where climbers work to solve short but complex climbs in bouldering then go for maximum height in lead climbing, all of which is done in set time windows. The second is speed climbing, which is against the clock.
The change in format opens up new avenues for competitors like GB’s 19-year-old Toby Roberts, already multiple times a champion in boulder and lead climbing at World Cup level.
Hockey’s women’s quarter-finals run throughout the day, with GB up against the Netherlands (16:30).
World watch
Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis keeps on setting pole vault world records. His latest was 6.24m in April this year, and you can expect him to entertain the Paris crowd while trying to better that in his final from 18:00. France’s Renaud Lavillenie will not be there to rival him – the London 2012 champion has struggled after hamstring surgery and did not hit the qualifying height of 5.82m.
Elsewhere on the track, the first round of the men’s 400m hurdles (09:05) is a chance to see Norway’s Karsten Warholm, the Tokyo champion, and biggest rivals Rai Benjamin of the US, who has the better form coming into Paris, and Brazil’s Alison dos Santos.
3x3 basketball reaches a climax with the women’s final at 21:05 and the men’s final at 21:35.
Badminton concludes with the women’s singles final at 09:55 and men’s singles final after 15:40. Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen was the only European to win an Olympic badminton title in Tokyo three years ago and could go all the way again in Paris. He faces Thailand's Kunlavut Vitidsarn for the gold medal.
Football’s men’s semi-finals take place at 17:00 (Morocco v Spain) and 20:00 (France v Egypt).
Expert knowledge
Artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronised swimming, begins at 18:30 with the team technical routine. This is one of the few instances in which a major change to a sport will result in precisely nothing different for anyone watching.
A rule change allowed men to take part in the team event for the first time in Olympic history, but – perhaps partly because the change took place only 18 months ago – no men actually qualified, so this will still be an all-female event. “This should have been a landmark moment for the sport,” governing body World Aquatics said, promising to work harder to help male athletes succeed.
Forty-five-year-old Bill May was the only male artistic swimmer with a realistic chance of selection, but the US left him out of their team. Before that, May had said no men at the Games would represent “a slap in the face”. US selectors said they had to pick the strongest line-up.
Artistic gymnastics (men's parallel bars, women's balance beam, men's horizontal bar, women's floor), athletics (men's pole vault, women's discus throw, women's 5,000m, women's 800m), badminton (women's singles, men's singles), basketball 3x3 (men's and women's), canoe slalom (men's and women's kayak cross), shooting (men's 25m rapid fire pistol, mixed team skeet), surfing (men's and women's), track cycling (women's team sprint), triathlon (mixed team relay).
Highlights
In a fast and dazzling Tokyo 800m final, Keely Hodgkinson delivered a sensational Olympic silver medal in a time that broke a British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995. Three years later, can she go one better? Athing Mu, who took gold in Tokyo, will not be in Paris after falling during US Olympic trials, but Kenyan world champion Mary Moraa will. The final starts at 20:47.
When mixed team triathlon (starts 07:00) was introduced to the Olympics in Tokyo, the GB team of Jonny Brownlee, Jess Learmonth, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee won it. This time around, France and Germany are likely to be major medal threats.
Action starts at the Velodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, just west of Paris. Track cycling’s opening day includes the women’s team sprint (from 16:00, final 18:59), where GB have qualified a team for the first time since London 2012. Sophie Capewell helped GB to world silver in the event last year. Her dad, Nigel, recorded fourth-place finishes in Paralympic track cycling at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000.
Kayak cross reaches a climax with the women’s final at 15:55 and men’s final at 16:00. GB’s Joe Clarke has back-to-back world titles in this event, which is new to the Olympics and features paddlers racing each other along the rapids. Clarke’s team-mate Kimberley Woods also won world gold last year. France are likely to be a big factor in both events.
Could this be the last time you see Simone Biles in action? The beam final (11:38) and women's floor final (13:23) take place on artistic gymnastics’ last day at Paris 2024, which is 27-year-old Biles’ third Olympic Games. The beam final could see the baton passed to the next generation, since Hezly Rivera – at 16, the youngest athlete on the US team – won this event at US Olympic trials.
Brit watch
Sport climbing, which made its debut at the Tokyo Olympics, returns from 09:00 with more medals this time around. What was one combined event in Tokyo is now two competitions in Paris. The first is boulder and lead, where climbers work to solve short but complex climbs in bouldering then go for maximum height in lead climbing, all of which is done in set time windows. The second is speed climbing, which is against the clock.
The change in format opens up new avenues for competitors like GB’s 19-year-old Toby Roberts, already multiple times a champion in boulder and lead climbing at World Cup level.
Hockey’s women’s quarter-finals run throughout the day, with GB up against the Netherlands (16:30).
World watch
Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis keeps on setting pole vault world records. His latest was 6.24m in April this year, and you can expect him to entertain the Paris crowd while trying to better that in his final from 18:00. France’s Renaud Lavillenie will not be there to rival him – the London 2012 champion has struggled after hamstring surgery and did not hit the qualifying height of 5.82m.
Elsewhere on the track, the first round of the men’s 400m hurdles (09:05) is a chance to see Norway’s Karsten Warholm, the Tokyo champion, and biggest rivals Rai Benjamin of the US, who has the better form coming into Paris, and Brazil’s Alison dos Santos.
3x3 basketball reaches a climax with the women’s final at 21:05 and the men’s final at 21:35.
Badminton concludes with the women’s singles final at 09:55 and men’s singles final after 15:40. Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen was the only European to win an Olympic badminton title in Tokyo three years ago and could go all the way again in Paris. He faces Thailand's Kunlavut Vitidsarn for the gold medal.
Football’s men’s semi-finals take place at 17:00 (Morocco v Spain) and 20:00 (France v Egypt).
Expert knowledge
Artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronised swimming, begins at 18:30 with the team technical routine. This is one of the few instances in which a major change to a sport will result in precisely nothing different for anyone watching.
A rule change allowed men to take part in the team event for the first time in Olympic history, but – perhaps partly because the change took place only 18 months ago – no men actually qualified, so this will still be an all-female event. “This should have been a landmark moment for the sport,” governing body World Aquatics said, promising to work harder to help male athletes succeed.
Forty-five-year-old Bill May was the only male artistic swimmer with a realistic chance of selection, but the US left him out of their team. Before that, May had said no men at the Games would represent “a slap in the face”. US selectors said they had to pick the strongest line-up.
