What is happening on day 10 at the Olympics?
Rhasidat Adeleke will be in the 400m heats while the individual showjumping begins
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Day 10 in Paris finally sees one of Team Ireland's biggest stars make her Olympic bow.
Rhasidat Adeleke, 21, is considered a real medal hope in the women's 400m and will be in heat six when the competition gets underway at 11:05 BST.
A silver medallist at the European championships in Rome two months ago when posting a time of 49.07, Adeleke followed that with victory in the Monaco Diamond League meet in July.
Having helping Ireland to a historic 4x400m mixed relay gold in Rome, and also contributed to their silver medal in the women's 4x400m, Adeleke has so far been focussed on her individual event in Paris where her main rivals for podium places figure to be Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic, Jamaica's Nickisha Pryce and Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek.
Sharlene Mawdsley and Sophie Becker are also involved in the Monday morning heats.
Daniel Coyle back in the saddle
With the team event already in the books, Monday marks the beginning of the individual qualifiers in showjumping at 13:00 BST.
Riding on Legacy, Ardmore's Daniel Coyle will take confidence from jumping double clear in the team event where Ireland finished seventh.
Shane Sweetnam and Cian O’Connor will also be back at Versailles having competed in the team event during the first week of the Games.
Elsewhere for Team Ireland on Monday, Eve McMahon (11:15 BST) and Finn Lynch (13:45 BST) continue in their dinghy series races, with the latter aiming to stay in 10th place and advance to Tuesday's medal race, while diver Ciara McGing is in action in the 10m platform (09:00 BST).