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Gold medal events:
Athletics (women's marathon), basketball (women's), handball (men's), modern pentathlon (women's), track cycling (men's keirin, women's sprint, women's omnium), volleyball (women's), water polo (men's), weightlifting (women's +81kg), wrestling (men's freestyle 65kg, men's freestyle 97kg, women's freestyle 76kg).
Highlights
The final day of the Games brings three more gold medals to be won in the velodrome if Team GB are looking for a late boost.
Option one: the women's sprint (final from 11:45). While you have to go back to Victoria Pendleton in 2008 to find the last Briton who took gold in this event, GB's Emma Finucane is the defending world champion.
Option two: the men's keirin (final at 12:32), an event beloved first by Sir Chris Hoy with gold in 2008 and 2012, then by Sir Jason Kenny with gold in 2016 and 2021. Imagine adding your name to that list. That's the task ahead of GB’s Commonwealth silver medallist Jack Carlin and Hamish Turnbull, but the likes of the Netherlands’ Harrie Lavreysen could be hard to defeat.
Option three: the women's omnium (decided at 12:56). This is the final event in the velodrome at Paris 2024 and presents one last opportunity for GB, but perhaps even more of an opportunity for US rider Jennifer Valente, the defending world and Olympic champion.
Emily Campbell took Britain's first medal in women's Olympic weightlifting with silver in Tokyo. She has since added world silver and has won four successive European titles. Her +81kg category begins at 10:30, with China's Li Wenwen the favourite for gold.
The Paris 2024 closing ceremony is due to begin at 19:00. This time, we are back in the traditional stadium setting as the Stade de France hosts the world's athletes for a final goodbye. The show you will see performed during the closing ceremony is titled Records, although not too much has been given away by its creators. This also marks the handover to Los Angeles 2028 for the next Olympics and to the Paris 2024 Paralympics, which begin on Wednesday, 28 August.
Brit watch
Rose Harvey, Calli Hauger-Thackery and Clara Evans - a late replacement for the injured Charlotte Purdue - are the British athletes in the women's marathon, which starts at 07:00. The name to watch is Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa.
World watch
If the United States beat France in Sunday's gold medal match (14:30), it will be the nation's eighth consecutive Olympic women's basketball title, the record for any Olympic team sport.
Women’s volleyball concludes with the gold-medal match at 12:00. The US, who beat Brazil and Serbia to gold in 2021, face recently dominant Italy.
The men's water polo final is at 13:00. Hungary won this event three times in a row from 2000 to 2008 but have not been in a final since and will face the USA for bronze in Paris, with the final to be contested by Serbia and Croatia.
