Defending champions Romania have the lead at the halfway stage but Great Britain are still there, half a boat length back in second.

New Zealand are closing the gap in third and France are still there, too.

Alistair Watkins
BBC Sport in Paris

For Becky Wilde just making the final is remarkable after she had surgery on her forearms in September.

“When I actually think back, it’s unbelievable,” she said.

“If you’d have told me I’d have made an Olympic final after that, I’d never have believed you. It’s always a dream but to have actually done it, it’s still sinking in.

Strong start from Team GB.

Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde lead the way - just - from Romania after 500m.

1500m to go...

Dame Katherine Grainger
Olympic rowing gold medalist on BBC TV

Britain come here from the global view with no real expectation. They've also come in after dominating their race, which just no one expected, they could be the surprise package.

The six boats are on the start line... and away they go!

Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde are in lane two for Great Britain.

Alistair Watkins
BBC Sport in Paris

The start line is 2,000m away to my right - so far away I can't actually see it.

The big screens help spectators in the huge stands near the finish keep up with the early action but you can tell when the crews are coming as a wall of noise gradually sweeps across the Var-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.

It takes just over six minutes of gruelling effort to reach the finish line and potential glory.

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"Most days it's just absolute carnage to be honest, it really is getting through the days - you can plan a perfect day and it very rarely happens."

Helen Glover's words will strike a chord with thousands of parents with young children, although few of them will be aiming for an Olympic medal this morning.

The 37-year-old is competing at her fourth Olympic Games in Paris having twice retired, only to come back each time thanks to the lure of the five rings.

Now Cornwall's Glover, who has a five-year-old son and four-year-old twins (a boy and a girl) with husband and TV naturalist Steve Backshall, is hoping to add to the pairs gold medals she won at London 2012 and in Rio four years later - but she knows it will not be easy.

"Every Olympics has has been a really different goal and motivation for me," she told BBC Radio Cornwall.

"The first Olympics winning gold was the absolute dream, and then in Rio to sustain that and back that up with another gold was what drove me.

"Then I left the sport, I had four years off, retired, started a family, had three children and then coming back in that final year was almost more of a statement, saying 'I can do this, anyone can do this after having kids'.

"Now this one is a little bit more about I've shown that it can be done, now let's do it as well as possible."

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BBC One

It's almost time, people.

It is under 10 minutes until Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde go in the women's double sculls final and from there, as you can see below, the finals come thick and fast.

Team GB have a chance of three medals in the next hour or so and you can watch it all unfold on BBC One...

Two laps to go and China's Yang Jiayu's lead is cut to 15 seconds.

Can Spain's Maria Perez in second do an Alex Yee?

Alistair Watkins
BBC Sport in Paris

Results in Tokyo three years ago were extremely disappointing for the British rowing team but this year is already very different.

After failing to win a gold in Japan, the GB women’s quadruple scullers won a dramatic gold on Wednesday to get the British team off to a flying start in Paris.

Today they have boats in three finals and Helen Glover's women’s four have an outstanding chance of striking gold.

The men’s coxless four of Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson qualified second for their final.

Before that, Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, another mother, and Becky Wilde have a chance in the women’s doubles sculls final.

Meanwhile, Daire Lynch and Philip Doyle from Northern Ireland are bidding for a medal in the men’s double sculls final.

Here’s the schedule for the finals:

10:18 BST – women’s double sculls final

10:30 BST – men’s double sculls final

10:50 BST – women’s four

11:10 BST – men’s four

Great Britain's double Olympic gold medallist Alistair Brownlee speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live about Alex Yee's win in the triathlon: “I shouted at him ‘Go on. Just keep focused, keep pushing, anything can happen.’ I was amazed as anyone to see him surge past him.

"I think Hayden looked like he was starting to struggle in those last few kilometres.

"In the final few hundred metres it starts all going wrong. At that point, the tides turned and it’s one of those moments in sport where it’s not just physical, it’s the mental as well and I think at that point Hayden was racing for second."

Wayne watching in Bahrain

Liam, Sydney, Australia

• Ecuador claimed their first medal of Paris 2024 when Brian Pinato won the men's 20km walk.
• The women's 20km walk got underway at 08:50 BST and should finish around 10:20.
• British archer Bryony Pitman loses in the last 16 of the women's individual to China’s Li Jiaman.
• Judoka Emma Reid is beaten by golden point in her opening bout of the -78kg division.
• It could be a golden morning for GB at the rowing with Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Rebecca Wilde in the women's double sculls at 10:18 and Helen Glover in action in the women's four at 10:50.

BBC One

If you want to watch the golf now then head over to BBC One.

The golf will then be switched over to the Red Button and iPlayer once the rowing starts shortly.

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BBC iPlayer

Coming up on the Red Button and iPlayer is coverage from the first round of the golf at 11:00 BST and then the first half of Great Britain's men's hockey match against France in pool A.

Alistair Watkins
BBC Sport in Paris

It's a beautiful day here at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium where Great Britain's Helen Glover will bid to win her third Olympic gold medal later.

What a moment it could be if the mum-of-three and her team-mates Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten can hold off their rivals to cross the finish line first.

Ding, ding! A first birdie of the day for Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood, as he moves to one under par through three holes at Le Golf National. He's joined by world number one Scottie Scheffler of the USA. They are two off the lead of three under held by Chile's Joaquin Niemann.

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Now you can see why the men's and women's 20km walks were delayed this morning.

Look at this!

Dennis, Cambridge

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