Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

Olympic champ Ulugbek Rashitov, who edged Bradly Sinden in the Tokyo final three years ago, has just made a dominant start to his gold medal defence.

He's beaten Hong Kong's Lo Wai Fung 2-0 but that doesn't quite tell the whole story - he was utterly dominant, winning the first round 12-0 and the second 9-2.

Some statement to start your Games with...

Flexibility at its finestpublished at 09:54 British Summer Time 8 August

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Rhythmic gymnastics

Meanwhile over at La Chapelle Arena, the individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics is under way.

Plenty of shapes and moves being thrown. The highest degree of flexibility is required.

If you've a ball and a hoop knocking about, one to try at home?

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BBC Sounds

Second seed Bradly Sinden, from Doncaster, spoke to BBC local radio before heading out to Paris for his taekwondo medal bid.

Hear more on Paris: Grassroots to Glory.

Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

GB's Bradly Sinden will begin his bid for Olympic glory very shortly when he takes on Kevin Kassman in the men's -68kg.

You may remember Sinden won silver in Tokyo three years ago - but he had the gold medal within his grasp.

He had a 28-26 lead going into the final seconds but his opponent, Uzbekistan's Ulugbek Rashitov, timed his kicks to perfection to nab gold and leave Sinden with silver.

He's used that as motivation over the past three years - and it's worth remembering GB have never had a men's Olympic gold medallist in taekwondo...

France's Celine Boutier has teed off for her second round and she hold a one shot lead from Canada's Morgane Metraux.

Great Britain's Georgia Hall has also started and made par on the first. She's currently nine shots off the lead.

GB's Charley Hull needs a miraculous round after finishing round one on nine-over-par. She gets under way at 10:44 BST.

Keep up-to-date with the latest leaderboard here.

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Paris

Edinburgh diver Grace Reid is competing at her third Olympics here. She didn't make it out of the prelims in Tokyo, something which has motivated her to going.

A better dive in the second round has nudged her up into the qualification places in 10th.

Yasmin Harper is a place better off in ninth. So far so good from the Britons.

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BBC One

There's women's golf on BBC One right now, with taekwondo and athletics to come, including the men's and women's 4x100m relay first round from 10:10 BST.

You can follow the diving on the second channel by using 'watch and listen' tab at top of the page (UK users only).

Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Paris

Right. Taekwondo. Here's how it works.

There's three rounds, all of which last two minutes. The scores are reset at the end of every round. Whoever wins two rounds winds.

There are two legal scoring areas - the body and the head, hence why the athletes wear what looks like huge padded coats around themselves.

Sensors is the head and body gear - and pleasingly, the socks - tot up the the kicks. Punches are scored by the judges.

The crucial one to remember: no hits below the waist.

Great Britain's Bradly Sinden will begin his push for a medal in the men's 68kg taekwondo this morning.

Sinden won silver in Tokyo and is hoping to go one better three years later.

He will take on Papua New Guinea's Kevin Kassman in the round of 16 at 09:59 BST.

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Swiss Anna Kaelin leads the heptathlon after round one, but Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson is only 79 points behind in eighth place.

Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson was second in her heat, and is eighth overall, after round one of the heptathlon - the 100m hurdles.

Heat three is by far the fastest with Annik Kaelin of Switzerland flying through to win in a personal best time of 12.87.

Taliyah Brooks, one of three Team USA athletes in this heat, is second in 13.00 with Belgium's Noor Vidts third in 13.10.

World number one Anna Hall finished sixth in 13.36. The American, one of Katarina Johnson-Thompson's big challengers for the title, just has the edge over her after one event...

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport in Paris

Yasmin Harper and Grace Reid have made solid enough starts to this 3m springboard semi-final.

Harper, who won bronze in the synchronised event with Scarlett Mew Jensen, is in eighth after the first of five rounds.

Grace Reid sits in 13th so will have to improve to qualify in the top 12.

The big surprise is that China's Chang Yani, one of the syncro gold medalists, is down in 17th after the first round.

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A slight delay before the second heat because Germany's Sophie Weissenberg clips a hurdle in her warm-up and goes down.

Unfortunately, Weissenberg, who is ranked ninth in the world, is not going to be able to race. Terrible luck and her competition is over before it had even begun.

Heat two does eventually start and Netherlands' Emma Oosterwegel takes it in a season's best 13.41, just ahead of Germany's Carolin Schaeffer.

Defending champion Nafi Thiam of Belgium was fifth in 13.56.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport at the Stade de France

Probably worth a little reminder, for the casuals out there, what exactly goes down in the heptathlon.

As the name suggests, there are seven events.

Four today and three tomorrow. Today we have two in the morning and two in the evening, tomorrow we have two in the morning and the conclusion later on.

Here's the plan (all times BST):

Thurs - 09:05: 100m hurdles

10:05: High jump

18:35: Shot put

19:35: 200m

Fri - 09:05: Long jump

10:20: Javelin throw A

11:30: Javelin throw B

19:15: 800m

Great Britain's Yasmin Harper and Grace Reid are currently in women's 3m springboard semi-final action as they both look to book their place in the final.

The best 12 out of the 18 divers will qualify.

We'll update you on their progress throughout.

Colin Jackson
Two-time world 110m hurdles champion on BBC TV

You want to have a real confident start to these seven events. It takes a solid seven events to get that medal. Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be happy with a season's best. It always helps when you arrive and achieve something you haven't so far this season.

A great start.

Allison Curbishley
Former GB 400m runner on BBC Radio 5 Live

Exactly what we were hoping for this morning. Johnson-Thompson came out firing.

As we know, in the Heptathlon, it's about all of the events and not just the one. She will then head across to the high jump area which is one of her strongest events.

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Solid start for Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

She is safely over the barriers to finish second in a season's best of 13.40, behind Poland's Adriana Sulek-Schubert in 13.32.

Jade O'Dowda was third, also clocking a season's best, in 13.53.

Ireland's Kate O'Connor came seventh in 14.08.

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Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
London 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion on BBC TV

You get a good sense of where everyone is at after the hurdles. The heptathlon is all about speed.