Tom and Livvy

Dame Denise Lewis
Sydney 2000 Olympic heptathlon gold medallist on BBC TV

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is sitting pretty. I can't overestimate how hard she has worked on being in the right headspace.

Being injury free has helped. She has been here before.

She has got her spring back and this is a key event.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is on the edge of the track getting a pep talk with her coach. The chat ends with a confident high five.

I think she is ready.

Image source, Getty Images

Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson's combined heptathlon total currently stands at 4,055 points, with Thiam on 4,007 and Hall at 3,956.

Here's what would happen if all three matched their personal bests from here…

Long jump (from 09:05 BST)

Johnson-Thompson PB: 6.93m (1,202 points)

Thiam PB: 6.86m (1,187 points)

Hall PB: 6.74m (1,141)

Javelin- (from 10:23 BST)

Johnson-Thompson PB: 46.14m (822 points)

Thiam PB: 59.32m (1,065 points)

Hall PB: 45.75m (815 points)

800m (19:25 BST)

Johnson-Thompson PB: 2:05.63 (1,064 points)

Thiam PB: 2:11.79 (961 points)

Hall PB: 2:02.97 (1,110 points)

Totals

1. Thiam: 7,220
2. Johnson-Thompson: 7,143
3. Hall: 7,022

BBC Radio 5 Live

Journalist Ben Bloom speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live: "You are quite often only as strong as your weakest event in the heptathlon. I think the javelin is Johnson-Thompson's weakest event but the long jump is one that she needs to overcome too.

"She has no-scored in the long jump before. Let's hope that doesn't happen again, and she plays it safe to get one on the board before pushing more."

Image source, Getty Images

Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

There's a lot of Belgium flags in the Stade du France crowd today.

Nafi Thiam is the two-time Olympic champion in this event and, like KJT, has had her own injury struggles in the past few years.

She missed last year's World Championships with an Achilles tendon problem, and only returned to competition in June this year.

It was some return as well - she won her third straight European Championship title with a Championship record points haul to boot.

Image source, get

Lots going on in Paris this morning, let's have a look at what's coming up in the next few hours:

• Britain's Kyle Kothari and Noah Williams are about to get under way in the men's 10m platform preliminary round.
• Katarina Johnson-Thompson continues her women’s heptathlon bid in the long jump from 09:05 BST.
• At 09:15 BST Team GB's Toby Roberts and Hamish McArthur compete in the sport climbing men's boulder and lead final.
• New Zealand's Lisa Carrington - seeking a seventh Olympic gold - competes in the women’s K2 500m semi-finals from 09:50 BST.
• The track cycling continues from 13:00 BST with a number of Team GB athletes in action.
• And later on...breaking makes its Olympic debut (from 15:00) - find out more as street dance comes to Paris in our guide.

Jazmin Sawyers
European indoor long jump champion on BBC Radio 5 Live

It was such a joy to watch Kat [Johnson-Thompson] have such a good time and also everything come together on day one. This long jump is very important.

Kat and Nafi [Thiam] are both in a similar position. If one of them can pull away in the long jump that would be so significant.

It is a big deep breath for everybody. What [Johnson-Thompson] is doing, is putting herself in contention for a medal. She has had such bad luck in the Olympics before.

She is one of my training partners and I am just so proud.

Harry Poole
BBC Sport in Paris

Katarina Johnson-Thompson called her second global heptathlon triumph in Budapest last year "the best day of my life", having completed a remarkable turnaround in her career.

Following the maiden global success in 2019, Johnson-Thompson overcame a career-threatening Achilles rupture only to suffer injury heartbreak in the 200m at the Tokyo Olympics.

Last year, in the absence of the injured Thiam, she took world gold ahead of Hall to set herself up perfectly for the chance in Paris to at last claim an Olympic medal.

Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

The big race has already taken place this morning - the little electric cars that collect the equipment have had a zoom up and down the track.

BBC Radio 5 Live

Journalist Ben Bloom speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live: "She is in as good a place mentally and physically as she has been since she won the world title.

"So many times she has come into a competition on the back of disturbed build-up but it hasn't happened this time.

"She has shown exactly what peaking for the big stage is, when your body allows it."

Image source, Getty Images

Four events down. Three to go. Will Katarina Johnson-Thompson retain her lead?

Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

So, heptathlon.

Four of the seven events happened yesterday - and after those, it's Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson who is top of the standings. She's 48 points in front of two-time defending champion Nafi Thiam, and 99 clear of Anna Hall in third.

This morning is the long jump - KJT is in the second group to go, along with Thiam and GB's Jade O'Dowda - and the javelin.

It concludes this evening at 19:25 BST, with the 800m.

Paul

Image source, Getty Images

Team GB's Kyle Kothari will make his Olympic debut shortly when he takes to the 10m diving platform (from 09:00).

After a series of career-threatening injuries, Kothari feels like he has already won by getting to Paris.

He had an operation in 2019 for a ruptured left achilles, and then the same injury on the other foot in 2021 - six months before the last Games in Tokyo.

Kothari says he started exploring life outside of sport, but receiving an offer to work full-time made him realise he couldn’t leave the sport just yet.

"Especially when I knew if I could stay injury-free, I knew how good I could be.

"If I didn't give it a go, I'd be cheating myself later down the line."

Read more about Kothari's story here.

Shauna Coxsey
Former Team GB climber on BBC Radio 5 Live

Erin McNeice yesterday, absolutely stormer for her. She is having the time of her life at the moment and has so much potential and so much ahead of herself.

But before that, we have today's action. The atmosphere at the event is brilliant.

We have got a stellar line-up. Toby Roberts sitting in second position and Hamish McCarthur squeaking through in eighth.

Erin McNeice gained plaudits yesterday for her brilliant performance in the women's boulder and lead, with fellow Britons Toby Roberts and Hamish McCarthur taking part in the men's final today.

Ahead of the event, which starts at 09:15 BST with the boulder section, here's what you need to look out for:

Boulder

• 100 points are available, and climbers will be awarded five points for making it past zone one, 10 points for reaching zone two, and 25 points for completing the circuit.
• Penalties of 0.1 points are applied if a climbers fails to reach a scoring point at the first attempt.

Image source, Getty Images

Lead

• Also 100 points available.
• Climbers earn points on the last 40 moves of the route, with four points awarded for their last 10 moves.
• Three points are awarded for moves 20 to 30, two points for moves 10 to 20, and one point for moves zero to 10.

Image source, Getty Images

Jade Jones' bid for Olympic history ended in another early defeat in the taekwondo -57kg first round in Paris.

South Korea's Kim Yujin took gold in that event while Uzbekistan’s Ulugbek Rashitov defended his men's -68kg taekwondo title.

British diver Jack Laugher said he "let emotion get the better" of him as he missed out on the medals in the 3m springboard final.

The Netherlands won their first men's hockey Olympic gold medal in 24 years by beating Germany on penalties in a thrilling final.

And Morocco won bronze in the Olympic men's football with a thumping 6-0 victory over Egypt.

Shauna Coxsey
Former Team GB climber on BBC Radio 5 Live

I competed in Tokyo and the enormity of the pressure at that lead climb.

They have never tried the route they climb on and you get one attempt. The focus that they have.

It's all go, all focus. Toby Roberts is someone who can fight harder than anyone I have ever seen. He wanted to be in that final and did just that.

This line-up is crazy strong.

Image source, Getty Images

We're under an hour away from Great Britain's Hamish McArthur and Toby Roberts taking on the men's boulder and lead final.

For McArthur, it was a huge success qualifying for the final wheres Roberts may have eyes on a medal.