The two American runners have upped the pace to try and get the pack to go faster - who is going to put their foot down on the gas and take this 10,000m final by the scruff of the neck?

Fotyen Tesfay of Ethiopia is up there but it's Margaret Kipkemboi who leads...

Great Britain's Megan Keith is being closed down by the lead pack. She looks up at the screen and promptly moves to the side, safely out of the way to be lapped. The pack then has to run past an athlete who needs medical attention.

Lewis Coombes
BBC Sport at the Aquatics Centre

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British duet Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe are fourth following their opening technical routine this evening.

Second-last to perform, the Bristol-based pair scored 264.0282 and half a point outside the medal positions.

Afterwards, Shortman told BBC Sport: "We are going to fight to the death. We really want a medal. We are going to put our heart into it and leave it all in the pool."

"The swim felt good," Thorpe added. "It was amazing having a crowd!"

All 18 duets will return tomorrow to each perform a free routine, with medals to be decided by a collective score.

GB’s best finish at an Olympics in the sport was fourth, forty years ago in Los Angeles.

Shortman and Thorpe and Kate have high hopes they can find the routine needed to match their silver medal at the World Championships in Doha earlier this year.

James FitzGerald
BBC News reporter in Paris

You won't be surprised to read that this Parisian fan park cleared out pretty quickly after Les Bleus were defeated in the men's gold-medal football match.

For Theo and Anouk, watching on the big screen, the result is a disappointment, but doesn't matter too much in the context of the Games as a whole.

Anouk salutes all the "amazing" medals the host nation has won - including silver in tonight's football match - while Theo is quick to rave about the achievements of swimming hero Léon Marchand.

For Anouk, the Games have proven a good break from France's political issues. After the Olympics, it's "back to war", she jokes.

The clock is ticking towards 18 minutes and Margaret Kipkemboi is setting the pace from the head of the field, but Tsigie Gebreselama of Ethiopia is just creeping up on the Kenyan's shoulder.

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You can't say it wasn't coming...

Netherlands' pressure finally tells and they get an equaliser with less than 10 minutes remaining in this gold medal match.

China had been resolute in their defence but the Dutch were awarded a penalty corner and they took advantage with Yibbi Yansen sweeping home the goal to make it 1-1.

Will their be a winning goal or could we be heading for a shootout?

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Danny

Who will win breaking's first medals?published at 20:13 British Summer Time 9 August

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Breaking - b-girls medal matches

Sonia Oxley
BBC Sport in Paris

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The breaking has taken on a new dimension under the lights, which is really adding to the party atmosphere here at La Concorde.

We're about to get into the medal battles...

Lithuania's Nicka will take on Japan's Ami for the gold medal, while China's 671 will face Netherlands' India for the bronze.

Who will the first Olympic breaking champion?

The penultimate event at the Stade de France is the women's 10,000m final. The field is running closely together at the 10-minute mark, with Japan's Rino Goshima leading the early way.

Great Britain's Eilish McColgan is just hanging on the outside towards the middle of the pack.

Netherlands pushed and pushed in that third quarter, taking more penalty corners, shooting wide and forcing the Chinese goalkeeper into important saves, but they still couldn't find an equalising goal.

Not many people would have had China in this position going into the final quarter of the gold medal match but they have put in an impressive display against the world number one nation.

Can they see it out to take a historic gold?

Less than 15 minutes to go...

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Individual all-around final

Germany’s Darja Varfolomeev won Olympic gold in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around final.

Varfolomeev topped the rotations in hoop (36.300), ball (36.500) and clubs (36.350) and came second in the ribbon (33.700) to score a total of 142.850 points.

Bulgaria’s Boryana Kaleyn won the silver with 140.600 points and Sofia Raffaeli, the Italian who won a silver medal at the 2023 World Championships, took the bronze medal with 136.300 points.

Having made her senior debut in 2022, Varfolomeev earned her first world title in the clubs before becoming the youngest gymnast to achieve the feat of a clean sweep of four apparatus finals and the all-around title at the 2023 World Championships.

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Allison Curbishley
Former GB 400m runner on BBC Radio 5 Live

The one who will be really trying to look after herself is Sifan Hassan. She has already done the 5000m, getting onto the podium but she has the marathon in two days.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson possibly has the best social media bio of all the Olympic athletes in Paris. It reads: "Chronically indecisive so I've adopted two surnames and the heptathlon".

Elsewhere in the heptathlon, Team GB's Jade O'Dowda finished 10th overall, while Ireland's Kate O'Connor was 14th.

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Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Paris

There’s a real sense of excitement building at Roland Garros for tonight’s boxing.

I clearly didn’t get the memo about arriving with a flag draped over my shoulders.

It’s a sea of green, white and red with Mexico and Algeria fans everywhere.

The Mexicans are here for Marco Verde who is up first in the first of four gold medal bouts tonight.

The last fight features Algerian Imane Khelif, who is going for gold amid all of the controversy around her participation.

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The women's basketball semi-final between France and Belgium is under way with a spot in the final against the all-conquering USA the prize. We'll keep you updated on that one through the evening.

Allison Curbishley
Former GB 400m runner on BBC Radio 5 Live

I think it's the race walk. Are you sure this is the 10,000m? This is absolutely pedestrian and all this is telling you is no-one wants to put in any injection of pace or be the pacemaker here.

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BBC iPlayer

While athletics continues on BBC One, you can watch the women's hockey final on iPlayer, where China have a shock lead against the Netherlands.

• You know the sound when you drop the 2p machine at the seaside? That's actually the sound of GB racking up the medals in Paris.
• Katarina Johnson-Thompson took silver in the heptathlon - narrowly failing to overhaul Nafi Thiam despite a personal-best run in the 800m. Read the report here.
• In a wonderful 15 minutes from 18:30 to 18:45, GB won silver in the women's 4x100m relay, then the men's 4x100m team took bronze - which was sandwiched by a bronze medal for cyclist Jack Carlin in the men's team sprint.

• Earlier, Team GB won their 14th gold medal of the Games when climber Toby Roberts scaled the heights to win the boulder and lead event.
• And it was silver for GB pair Elinor Barker and Neah Evans in the women's madison after a thrilling finish.
• GB's Max Burgin is into Saturday's men's 800m final but Ben Pattison and Elliot Giles miss out. Cindy Sember failed to finish in the women's 100m hurdles semi-final.
• Britain's 4x400m men's and women's teams are into their respective finals.
• Hector Pardoe came sixth in the men's marathon swimming, with Toby Robinson 14th.
• Divers Yasmin Harper and Grace Reid finished fifth and 10th in the 3m springboard final.

Absolute scenes at the Parc des Princes - although not those the home nation were hoping for - as Spain's winning run at international football tournaments continues:

• 2023 Women's World Cup
• Euro 2024
• 2024 Olympics

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And off they go...