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Great Britain miss out on a golden moment once again.

It was so, so close in the men's 400m final but Matthew Hudson-Smith is still celebrating a silver medal in Paris tonight.

In the cycling, it was silver for Ethan Hayter, Dan Bigham, Charlie Tanfield and Ethan Vernon in the men’s team pursuit and a bronze for Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris and Jess Roberts in the women's event.

Day 12 of the Olympics is done and GB say goodnight with 12 golds, 17 silvers and 20 bronze medals.

And this is where we bid you farewell, too.

Come back and join us on Thursday for more Games excitement from 06:30 BST.

Bonne nuit!

Gold medal events: 25

Athletics (women's long jump, men's javelin throw, men's 200m, women's 400m hurdles, men's 110m hurdles), boxing (women's 54kg, men's 51kg), canoe sprint (men's C2 500m, men's K4 500m, women's K4 500m), diving (men's 3m springboard), hockey (men's), sailing (men's and women's kite medal series), sport climbing (men's speed), swimming (women's 10km marathon), taekwondo (men's 68kg, women's 57kg), track cycling (men's omnium medal, women's keirin), weightlifting (women's 59kg, men's 73kg), wrestling (men's Greco-Roman 67kg, men's Greco-Roman 87kg, women's freestyle 53kg).

Highlights

Two-time Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones is hunting a third gold medal from 08:10, with the gold-medal contest at 20:39. Jones won in London and Rio but suffered a shock early exit in Tokyo. Her build-up to Paris has not been perfect, not least a doping case where she avoided a ban over a refused test because of “very exceptional circumstances”. No taekwondo athlete has won three Olympic golds.

World champion Bradly Sinden will be looking to upgrade his Tokyo silver in the men’s taekwondo’s -68kg category.

In the athletics, GB's Katarina Johnson-Thompson begins her heptathlon quest at 09:05 with the 100m hurdles.

Later, US sprint sensation Noah Lyles will headline the evening session as he goes in the men's 200m final at 19:30.

Jack Laugher is back in the men’s diving 3m springboard. The final starts at 14:00. Laugher has silver and bronze in this event from the past two Olympics.

In the velodrome, GB’s Ollie Wood and Ethan Hayter both have the experience needed to contend for a medal in the men’s omnium, with Hayter winning the world title in 2021 and 2022. France’s Benjamin Thomas also has multiple world titles to his name and will be targeting this event, which runs over four events starting at 16:00. The women’s keirin could feature double European silver medallist Emma Finucane for GB (from 16:18).

The men’s hockey final takes place at 18:00 between Germany and the Netherlands.

We'll let Matt Hudson-Smith have the last word before we close the shutters on another day of competition in Paris.

Park Tae-joon sealed gold for South Korea in the men's -58kg category with victory against Azerbaijan's Gashim Magomedov, who had to withdraw due to injury in round two.

The 20-year-old, who is the reigning world champion in the lighter -54kg class, beat Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist Jang Jun to book his spot in Paris and he made full use of his opportunity.

Tunisia's Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi and France's Cyrian Ravet won bronze medals. In the women's -49kg weight class, Thailand's Panipak Wongpattanakit beat China's Guo Qing 2-1 in an enthralling encounter.

Wongpattanakit, who won bronze in in 2016 and gold in 2020, won the opening round but Guo struck back to take the second.

After two successful video appeals, Wongpattanakit claimed the third to defend her title. The bronze medals went to Croatia's Lena Stojkovic and Mobina Nematzadeh of Iran.

Harry Poole
BBC Sport in Paris

The women's 400m hurdles final on Thursday promises to be incredible when Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and world champion Femke Bol go head-to-head at the Stade de France.

But the men's race is certainly not one to miss either.

The event's three current heavyweights are world record holder Karsten Warholm, American Rai Benjamin and Brazil's Alison Dos Santos.

They are the only three men to run under 47 seconds this year and the trio will line up in the final having made it through tonight's semi-finals.

The final takes place on Friday at 20:45 BST

A few more thoughts from Matt Hudson-Smith, speaking to the BBC, following his silver medal in the men's 400m final.

On the race: "I set up exactly the way my coach told me to. We knew it was going to come down to the last 50 metres. I genuinely thought I had it. He had another gear. I hit the gear a little bit too late and as it came up he had one step on me and that's it.

"It is just the start really. Time to build. I'm healthy. My time is going to come, it is only a matter of time."

On whether he knew Quincy Hall was closing in on him:"No. I thought I cleared the field and I kept trying to speed up because I knew someone was going to come. I didn't know who.

"I wasn't trying to ease up this time, I was trying to run for the line. He got me on the line but it happens."

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It has been a great night for China in Paris Arena 6 with two weightlifting gold medals added to their tally and two new Olympic records set.

In the men's 61kg, Li Fabin, who also won gold at Tokyo 2020, lifted a new Olympic record 143kg in the snatch and 167kg in the clean and jerk for an overall score of 310kg.

Theerapong Silachai of Thailand took silver with American Hampton Morris winning bronze.

In the women's 49kg category, China's Hou Zhihui defended the gold she won in Tokyo with a combined score of 206kg, including an Olympic record 117kg in the clean and jerk.

Romania's Mihaela Cambei had an overall pull of 205kg and had to settle for silver, while Thailand's Surodchana Khambao won bronze.

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Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting secured a place in Saturday’s featherweight Olympic final amid the ongoing controversy over her eligibility.

Lin and welterweight Imane Khelif are competing in Paris despite being disqualified from last year's World Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA) after reportedly failing gender eligibility tests.

Khelif secured her place in her division’s final on Tuesday and Lin, 28, followed with another comprehensive, unanimous decision victory as she overcame Turkey’s Esra Yildiz Kahraman.

Afterwards in the Turkish 27-year-old made the same "X" sign with two fingers as Lin's previous opponent Svetlana Staneva. It came after Kahraman held the ropes open for Lin to exit the ring.

She then returned to the centre and made the "X" symbol with two of her fingers, turning around to present it to all areas of the crowd. Staneva's "X" was reportedly said to have symbolised female XX chromosomes.

Afterwards Kahraman did not speak to the media so BBC Sport could not ask her the meaning of the gesture.

Lin will meet Tokyo silver medallist Nesthy Petecio of the Philippines or 20-year-old Pole Julia Atena Szeremeta in the biggest bout of her career on Saturday night.

Despite a huge gulf in terms of experience, Nigeria, who had only won one match at an Olympic Games prior to Paris 2024, are making nine-time Olympic champions USA work for a place in the final.

We're just into the second quarter and D’Tigress' Ezinne Kalu is keeping them in touching distance with a game-high 10 points to her name.

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Team GB's Matt Hudson-Smith speaking to BBC TV after winning men's 400m silver: "It is crazy. Sometimes the journey is better than the outcome, and it has been one hell of a journey and I am just grateful.

"I came away with an Olympic silver, not many people in the world cans say that. My time has come in so I am happy and grateful. This is just the start."

On emotions in the lap of honour: "I saw my family. I didn't even know that they were here. It was a bit of a shock really. I hate them watching me as well. My Mum and my Dad don't really watch me because they hate it, just as much as I hate them watching me. It is crazy that they came, it has been a hell of a journey man."

Andrew Cotter
Commentator on BBC TV

The drama and the danger of the steeplechase. An astonishing race, a very strange race. Soufiane El Bakkali is the champion again, back to back Olympic champion.

When Ethiopians went out so hard and then brought it back, others came into it. The American Kenny Rooks knew he was in with a shout and my did he go for it, and he was rewarded with a silver medal.

Katharine Merry
Olympic 400m bronze medallist on BBC Radio 5 Live

Everybody in the West Midlands is proud of him.

Wolverhampton is proud of him.

The whole of Team GB are proud of him as well.

It was an outstanding race, he could not have done anymore.

"Sometimes the journey is better than the outcome," Matt Hudson-Smith tells the BBC.

The silver medallist also says he didn't know his family were inside the Stade de France to watch him.

"My time is going to come," he adds.

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We're talking about Matthew Hudson-Smith's disappointment this evening but put it in some context.

He's just run the fifth fastest time ever!

43.03 - Wayde van Niekerk - 1992

43.18 - Michael Johnson - 1999

43.29 - Butch Reynolds - 1964

43.40 - Quincy Hall - 2024

43.44 - Matthew Hudson-Smith - 2024

How brutal that the fourth fastest happened to come in the same race.

Russell, Liam - you might want to cover your eyes.

Watch how Great Britain's Matt Hudson-Smith just missed out on the gold medal in the men's 400m final.

All those Chariots of Fire/Vangelis entries have gone in the bin.