Not the best ride from Germany, who come in behind GB and New Zealand.

China set off next, but it's a false start! They're slow to start in their second attempt and they slot into fifth with a time of 46.458.

That's the qualification round done and dusted, with GB's trio on top.

BBC One

It's Great Britain against the Netherlands for you on BBC One right now in the women's hockey quarter-final. Cyling coming up shortly on iPlayer.

Victoria Pendleton
Olympic cycling gold medalist on BBC Radio 5 Live

Teams wouldn't hold anything back in the first qualification round because it is important to get the easiest seeding as possible to try and move effortlessly through to the final.

Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

Great Britain's men had an absolutely heartbreaking loss yesterday, losing to 10-man India in a shootout after having control for much of the game.

The women will be desperate to avoid the same result today. And they can always draw on that astonishing Rio final - they saw off the Netherlands in a dramatic shootout then to claim their first Olympic gold.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Paris

The women's team sprint is the only medal event at the velodrome tonight. For the first time in many years, Team GB have a superb chance.

In February, Emma Finucane, Katy Marchant and Sophie Capewell topped the podium at the Track Nations Cup in Adelaide - 4,095 days after a British women's team sprint squad last won a gold medal. That’s more than 11 years.

Such had been GB's lack of success in women’s sprinting, they did not even qualify for the team sprint at the Rio or Tokyo Olympics, while individual medals started to dry up after 2016. By 2019, the squad had had enough and made a pact - they wanted to "change the narrative".

So that’s what they’ve done. Finucane, Marchant and Capewell come into these Games leading the team sprint world rankings.

Read here to find out how they’ve done it.

A second bronze of the Games for GB's Kimberley Woods today, following her medal in the kayak single final last week. And she looks pretty happy!

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Jess Anderson
BBC Sport in Paris

Hmmm.. wonder what’s going on here?

The Aquatics Centre is positioned right next to the Stade de France so leaving the diving I felt like I was fighting the tide somewhat with thousands of athletics fans heading over to the stadium to get in their seats.

People are looking at me strangely as if to say ‘you’re going the wrong way’.

Fair enough.

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Chris Boardman
Olympic cycling champion on BBC TV

I think they will be delighted with that.

You just have a sense at the Olympic Games you need world records just to get on the podium here – they’ve delivered a really clean ride.

Victoria Pendleton
Olympic cycling gold medalist on BBC Radio 5 Live

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Emma Finucane will be a star to watch.

This team has just got faster and faster. They spend hours and hours practising their start.

New world record of 45.472.

Very good performance, the technique worked very well, the start was explosive. They looked very cool, calm and collected.

Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

Great Britain's women have taken a medal home from the past three Olympic Games.

There was bronze at London 2012, that memorable gold in Rio 2016 that delayed the evening news thanks to a dramatic shootout, and bronze in Tokyo three years ago.

They've had a tricky build-up - they finished fourth in their pool here in Paris, with two wins and three losses - but you do just never know...

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Chris Boardman
Olympic cycling champion on BBC TV

Getting three riders that gel well together and are at the top of their game at the same moment is a very tricky thing to do.

It is much an art as it is coaching and physical prowess.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Paris

WORLD RECORD.

I repeat, WORLD RECORD, in qualifying. 45.472.

That's how you lay your marker.

Emma Finucane brings up the final lap and sends Team GB into the lead with a time of 45.472 seconds - a new world record!

Germany and China are up next.

Here we go then, we're going to see just how good the GB team are.

New Zealand are the ones to beat so far in qualification, crossing the line in 45.593 seconds.

Off go Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane...

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Paris

The biggest challengers to GB’s Emma Finucane, Sophie Capewell and Katy Marchant are likely to be Germany and China.

Germany are the world champions, while China are the defending Olympic champions.

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There are eight teams in both the men's and the women's events, but this is the first Olympics to feature three-women teams, having previously had two riders.

Apart from the qualifying round, teams race against each other, starting on opposite sides of the track.

The race, which starts with the teams on opposite sides of the track, takes place over three laps and each rider must lead for a lap.

So, the first rider leads for the first lap and then leaves the track, allowing the second-placed rider to lead and so on... leaving just one rider for the final lap.

The qualifying round, which gets under way very shortly, is used to seed the teams.

Laura Kenny
Five time Olympic gold medal track and road cyclist on BBC TV

I think you might see British Cycling of old. I’ve got a semi-wild prediction of how many gold they’re going to take. I think they could top London and Rio’s medal count. I am going eight gold medals.

Emma Finucane is absolutely unbelievable. I think she is a complete athlete as far as I’m concerned. I think you may see three gold medals.

I think she could be the first female to win three gold medals at a single Olympics and if she doesn’t I think either Katy Marchant or Sophie Capewell will win the event that she doesn’t win.

But across the board that women’s sprint team is in the best shape I have ever seen it.

It [the keirin] is pretty unpredictable and it is where we tend to see the crashes and that is why I think Emma is not world champion in that event, because she crashed out at the worlds.

The team sprint for me they’re favourites. They didn’t win in worlds but they are so close and they’ve actually built the team slightly different now.

They’ve got Katy Marchant in one, and she’s an absolute rocket off the start line now.

Then you’ve got Sophie that glues the thing together and Emma.

Qasa Alom
BBC Sport in Paris

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix through to the Women’s 10m platform final at Paris 2024. She says she’s excited that her whole family (including grandmother) will be coming out to watch her tomorrow and that she was “diving with angels” today.

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Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

I walked through a sea of supporters decked out in orange for tonight's hockey quarter-final at Stade Yves-du-Manoir, which may be my favourite venue.

Great Britain's women are in action tonight against the Netherlands, who have won pretty much everything there is to win.

They're the top-ranked side, defending Olympic champions and went through the pool stages unbeaten.

It's going to be a tough task for GB - lose tonight and that's their Olympics done.

BBC One

After the drama of the kayak cross finals, we've got track cycling coming up shortly on BBC One, and at 16:30 BST it will switch to Team GB v Netherlands in the hockey.

Over on iPlayer, it's currently skeet shooting and then the track cycling will be on there from 16.30.