China's title defence is over!

They were leading, but the Netherlands go into the green as the bell rings and the Dutch get the job done.

They will definitely get to race for a medal. We'll have to wait and see what colour.

First up, the Netherlands v China.

The Dutch were the fourth fastest in qualifying, while China were fifth.

Remember, it's the first across the finish line after three laps.

Off they go...

Tom Brown
BBC Sport Wales in Paris

You know it's a big deal when you get the matching t-shirts printed.

But then again, it's not every day your oldest daughter becomes an Olympian.

Rory and Susie Finucane have hired a camper van and driven the whole family over from Carmarthen to Paris.

All worth it, as they're now watching Emma compete at an Olympic Games.

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The British team of Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane go in the fourth and final heat against Canada.

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Two of Great Britain's greatest Olympic cyclists have backed Emma Finucane to win up to three gold medals at the Paris Games.

Sir Chris Hoy and Laura Kenny won 13 Olympic medals between them - 11 golds and two silvers - during glittering careers.

“The one star you’ve got to keep an eye out for is Emma Finucane," Hoy, who won seven golds and a silver, told the BBC.

“She burst on to the scene at the World Championships last year, she won the women’s sprint.

"Team GB are favourites for the team sprint in Paris and she could even win the women’s keirin. She could be a triple Olympic champion and it’s her first Olympics.

Kenny, who won six golds and a silver, says Finucane "is just unreal at the minute".

"I keep saying it and then I keep I keep thinking ‘don't say it because you just put pressure on her’, but honestly she could be the first female to win three gold medals at a single Olympics, and she's only 21," Kenny added.

Tom Brown
BBC Sport Wales in Paris

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It is rare for there to be so much anticipation for a 21-year-old’s Olympic debut.

But Emma Finucane is no ordinary 21-year-old.

The track cyclist is already world champion in the women’s sprint. The youngest British woman to win it - and only the third after Victoria Pendleton and Becky James.

They went on to do special things at the Olympics - and, as the track cycling programme begins in Paris, hopes are high for Finucane.

Over the next seven days she is targeting the women’s team sprint, the individual sprint and the keirin. Three events; three Olympic golds up for grabs.

So how has she arrived in Paris as one of Team GB’s ones to watch?

Read more about Finucane here.

Mark B: GB are plucky but the Dutch look like they’re another couple of levels up. This was always going to be a tough ask.

Tom Brown
BBC Sport Wales in Paris

It was seriously impressive from Great Britain in the qualifying round.

A world record, of course, although they were behind New Zealand's time after two of their three laps.

That's when Emma Finucane took over and posted the fastest final lap of the day to secure that world record - and leapfrog New Zealand.

That is why the 21-year-old is so highly rated.

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The sailing programme continued to suffer with the Marseille conditions on Monday, with the men's and mixed dinghy failing to stage a race and the women's dinghy and both events in the kite also losing races from the day's schedule.

• GB's Hannah Snellgrove finished 32nd in the day's only race in the women's dinghy. She sits in 12th in the standings and will not progress to the 10-boat medal race.
• However with today's races cancelled, compatriot Michael Beckett moves forward to the medal race in the men's dinghy, sitting in fourth overall.
• Eleanor Aldridge finished fourth in the one race women's kite race that did get underway, her worst result of her five outings so far, and currently sits second in the standings. Meanwhile Connor Bainbridge took fifth in his race and sits in fourth overall.
• The mixed multihull managed to complete all three of its scheduled races, with GB's John Gimson and Anna Burnet recording a fifth and two fourths. They sit one place out of the medal positions in the standings.
• The mixed dinghy will resume its programme tomorrow, with GB's Vita Heathcote and Chris Grube 11th overall.

Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

And that, I'm afraid, could be that for GB...

Maria Verschoor has set up a fine third goal for the Netherlands, driving into the circle and seeing Luna Fokke there to put home the rebound from Maddie Pritchard's initial save.

It is so, so loud at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium as the Dutch fans do their best to spur on their team in the closing stages.

Victoria Pendleton
Olympic cycling gold medalist on BBC Radio 5 Live

Great Britain have a chance of winning a medal tonight in the women's team sprint. It's been the strongest chance they have had ever.

I'm really confident they are going to be up there in the rankings in the first qualifying. It is such a quick event, it will be a blink of an eye between teams.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Paris

The women's team sprint first round will be getting under way from 17:55 BST.

New world record holders Great Britain are in the fourth and final heat against Canada, who recorded the slowest time in qualifying.

The winners of the four heats will go into the medal races, based on their times. The two fastest will go head-to-head for gold.

Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

There's one quarter left for Great Britain to try and keep themselves in this Olympic Games.

They've defended valiantly, seeing off shot after shot from the Dutch, who shot high and wide and at everywhere, really, but the back of the net.

Another 15 minutes and that could be it for GB's hockey hopes in Paris.

That didn't go to plan for Italy. They go into fourth.

So, Australia are the team to beat. Round one of the men's team pursuit gets under way on Tuesday.

It was looking so good for Denmark, but their pace slows with two laps to go.

They slot into third place, behind Australia and Great Britain.

Here go the reigning Olympic champions Italy. What have they got in their locker?

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Joe Clarke won the silver in the kayak cross, and spoke to BBC Sport on whether everything went according to plan: "Absolutely not. You’ve seen Noah Hegge from Germany came straight into my lane so I couldn’t get the great starts I’ve been having through all the rounds. A bit bittersweet in some ways but if you asked me in five minutes, I wouldn’t be at all.

"I came here for gold. I’ve got silver, which I’ve very proud of. What a Games.

"I was catching Finn [Butcher] from New Zealand up but I was making the decision on the last up-shoot and try and take gold. We’d seen Kimberley [Woods] in the previous round do that and lose her position and I thought I’d try and set up a silver and get that.

"I came here as a bit of redemption for missing Tokyo and I’ve certainly put that to bed. I owe it all to my family and my wife especially."

Team GB's Kimberley Woods speaking to BBC after winning bronze in the Women's kayak cross final: "It is a little bit bittersweet because I was trying to go for that gold and I felt like I was in a really strong place. But to come away with two bronze medals, no one has ever done that before, especially in Britain, so I am really proud of myself.

"I was present throughout every single run, the crowd were amazing, and then having Joe [Clarke] run down straight after and win a medal too was amazing. I am just so proud of myself and so proud of the team."

On her mental health journey: "Everyone knows about my mental health journey. Now thankfully I can use this platform for whatever I want to use it for. Hopefully people will now go and listen to my story and go and get the help that they need.

"It is all thanks to my team behind me, Team GB, National Lottery, everyone here in the crowd, you guys behind the screens... This is what we do it for. To help to inspire as many people as we can at home."

Denmark are up next.

They were the silver medallists in Tokyo, behind Italy, while they also finished second at the European Championships in January, losing to Great Britain.

Just over 1,000m gone and they're only a hundredth of a second behind Australia.