Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Paris

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You have probably heard commentators, pundits and swimmers calling the swimming pool at La Defense Arena "slow" over the last few days.

You'd be forgiven for wondering what they're going on about. Water is water right?

Well it has come up because the times have been pretty slow in this meet so far. There have no been any world records. Adam Peaty, for instance, did not get within a second of his time from the British championships in April and he's been on intense, altitude training camps since then.

So reckon this pool is slower because it's not the usual 3m depth. This temporary pool, built among scaffolding on what is usually a rugby pitch is only 2.2m deep.

"When you swim you create waves underwater and they go down to the bottom, bounce back and hit you," former British Olympian Mark Foster explained. "The more water there is the less disturbance."

I asked Team GB's silver medallist Matt Richards about it too.

"Personally I quite like it being a bit shallower," he said. "It stops me messing up my breakouts [the switch from an underwater stroke to regular stroke] like I usually do.

"It's the Olympic Games. It's rare you see really, really fast swimming. Often it's about the racing.

"No-one cares about times at the Olympics. It's about where you come on the podium. I don't care about the times. I am here for placement."

Steve Parry
Olympic bronze medal swimmer on BBC Radio 5 live

Everyone is talking about the speed of the pool in these games but it is not making one jot of difference to the racing. We have seen so many competitive races in the last few days.

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Paris

You can see Matt Richards is disappointed as he walks away after that. He knows it's not likely to be enough to reach the final.

He's got to put it all behind him for the relay later. He's got about 90 minutes to rest.

Matt Richards finishes sixth in the first semi-final.

That's going to make it very difficult to reach the final with only the top eight advancing.

He was 0.51 seconds behind winner Kyle Chalmers of Australia.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport at Roland Garros

The old man is back again. How will he pull up today? Murray's mobility is still an issue.

The 37-year-old only had back surgery a month or so ago, admitting after the epic opening win his body wasn't "feeling amazing". Evans isn't as fit as he'd hope either.

The junior partner - he's 34 - did his knee before Wimbledon and was in the wars in his first singles match on Sunday.

But he recovered to join Murray later for the doubles before losing his second singles match yesterday to Greek eighth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas.

"Andy has been resting all day so that's one good thing," laughed Evans.

What a start for Dan Evans and Andy Murray. They held off two break points in game one and then got the break of serve to 15 in game two, ending with a truly delightful lob from downtown from Evans, with it finding the corner perfectly.

Sam Smith
Former British number one on BBC Red Button

I expect Andy to start better [than in the first round].

He wasn’t sharp until the blood really got going in the match tie-break. We will see a better Team GB.

Steve Parry
Olympic bronze medal swimmer on BBC Radio 5 live

Matt Richards seems to work into the meet. He got better through the rounds on the 200m freestyle and I would expect him to do the same in the 100m freestyle tonight. It is extremely tall order for him to get in and around the medals with it being such a competitive race but I wouldn't put it past him. He surprises me at every turn.

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Paris

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Matt Richards said he was conserving energy this morning after his busy schedule.

It means he's back out in lane one again tonight. You'd say it's not ideal but he did get Olympic silver from that lane last night.

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Matt Richards missed out on Olympic gold by 0.02 seconds but took silver in a thrilling 200m freestyle final in Paris on Monday.

Out in lane one after qualifying seventh fastest, Richards, 21, came agonisingly close as Romania's rising star David Popovici, 19, touched first to win gold by a fingertip.

So close was the margin, Richards said he felt as though he had touched first but not applied enough pressure to the finishing touchpad for it to register initially.

"That's something I've got to work on and make sure it doesn't happen again," said Richards, who is from Worcestershire but represents Wales.

"I thought I had got it. The time says differently. It's not a sport where it's up for debate, it's black and white.

"I can't be too disappointed. Obviously two one hundredths off gold is excruciatingly frustrating. If anything it has added more fire to my belly.”

Richards only just made it through to the semi-finals.

He came fifth in his 100m freestyle heat and his time of 48.40 seconds was fractionally inside the slowest qualifying time of 48.41.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport at Roland Garros

Doubles has been the priority for both Murray and Evans at this Olympics.

Murray wants to go out in a blaze of glory and had to pull out of the singles because of his ongoing fitness issues.

Evans is more than content to be his wingman, repeatedly saying the doubles is also his focus.

The Maverick and Goose of British tennis.

"It's something I'll remember forever," says Evans. "But it'd be amazing if we went on to do something really special this week after that first win."

Annabel Croft
Former British number one on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds

There is so much riding on this match with it potentially being Andy Murray's last. However, as we have noticed over the last few months he is really clinging on isn't he? He does not really want to hang up his racquet.

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Paris

We're all set for another night at the swimming.

It's a big one for Team GB. Their men's freestyle relay team could, probably should, defend their Olympic title later.

This session is a big deal for the French too. Leon Marchand swims twice and they're represented in almost every race.

There are people giving out free red, white and blue hairspray and face paint to make the flag. There's even a drummer in the arena. What has already been a special atmosphere could be off the scale.

Great Britain's Dan Evans and Andy Murray survive an opening game scare, saving two break points to hold on to Evans' serve.

We've got another packed programme in the pool at Paris La Defense Arena.

There are three finals, including the men's 4x200m freestyle relay when will be looking to close the night with a medal.

Matt Richards, who took silver 200m freestyle last night, is looking to reach the 100m freestyle final, while Anna Hopkin features in the women's 100m freestyle semi-final.

• 19:30 - men's 100m freestyle semi-finals (Matt Richards SF1)
• 19:44 - men's 200m butterfly semi-finals
• 20:00 - women's 100m backstroke final
• 20:07 - men's 800m freestyle final
• 20:33 - women's 100m freestyle semi-finals (Anna Hopkin SF1)
• 20:59 - men's 200m breaststroke semi-finals
• 21:15 - men's 4x200m freestyle relay final (James Guy, Tom Dean, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott)

Beth Tweddle
London 2012 bronze medallist on BBC TV

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We knew it was going to be tough competition and it went down to the last routines, you could see what it meant to the gymnasts.

Absolutely disappointed for the British team, but they can hold their head high and they have done themselves really proud.

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Gymnastics - women's team final

Great Britain finish fourth, just 0.234 of a point behind Brazil in bronze.

But there is reason for great optimism because their routines were free of any major faults and that will give them great confidence going into the individual finals.

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Team GB's Kirsty Gilmour lost her second group match to China's He Bingjiao which knocks her out of the badminton women's singles.

30-year-old Gilmour is representing Team GB in her third Olympic games and has never reached the knockout stages.

The Scot pushed He close in the opening game losing 24-22 but, in the second game He, who is ranked eighth in the world comfortably won 21-8 to progress to the knockouts.

Gilmour will not progress to the next stage as only the winner of the round-robin group advances.

BBC One

Well, after that amazing display by Simone Biles and Team USA, it's almost time to head to the pool for tonight's swimming, where there are three gold medals up for grabs. Watch that live on BBC One, or flick to iPlayer to watch Andy Murray in doubles action.

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Gymnastics - women's team final

We'll have all the reaction from what has been a dramatic couple of hours in the women's team final.

It was tense, going right down to the final routine and the delight on the faces of those from the USA, Italy and Brazil tells a story.

A first-ever medal for Brazil with Rebeca Andrade leading the charge.

Remarkable.

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