The athletes are being announced to the crowd.

We have three Americans, two from Zimbabwe, one from the Dominican Republic and one from Botswana.

Noah Lyles is milking the applause. Slapping the track and hyping up the already excited Stade de France.

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Former head of British Athletics Christian Malcom speaks about 100m gold medallist Noah Lyles before the American is set to race in the 200m final: "I think Noah Lyles is trying to replace Usain Bolt and bring the excitement back to athletics but the one thing about Noah, which we seen in the 100m is that the more pressure, the more tension the more he likes to rise to the occasion."

American Kenny Bednarek will be hoping to upgrade to Olympic gold. The 25-year-old clinched silver at the Tokyo Games.

He qualified for tonight's final with a time of 20.00s, setting a faster time than favourite and fellow American Lyles.

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USA sprinter Erriyon Knighton, 20, won his semi final in 20.09s.

In Tokyo he narrowly missed out on the medals after finishing in fourth.

He has continued his rise and became a world 200m silver medalist last year.

three years on from Tokyo, will he make the podium this time around?

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Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo set the fastest time in qualifying with an impressive 19.96s, beating Lyles in his semi-final.

The 21-year-old is a world 100m silver and 200m bronze medallist.

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London 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion on BBC Radio 5 Live

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I don't think anyone can bet against Lyles after the 100m.

He pulled it out of the hat in the final so I think no one can bet against him. He is so confident, so talented, and taking part in his best event which is the 200m.

Britain's Ethan Hayter finished down in eighth at the end of the men's omnium competition. At one stage he had been fifth and only two points away from the bronze-medal position after two of the 10 sprints in the final race.

Benjamin Thomas took gold for France, with Portugal's Iuri Leitao getting silver and Belgium's Fabio van den Bossche earning bronze.

Noah Lyles could make history tonight. He has the chance to become the first man since Usain Bolt to complete an Olympic sprint double.

The American clinched 100m gold by 0.005 seconds on Sunday.

In his 200m semi-final he finished second to Letsile Tebogo from Botswana, clocking 20:08s.

Can he clinch another gold? Who can stop him?

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The men's javelin final gets under way at 19:25 BST and features reigning Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra of India.

Chopra says the javelin "changed everything" for him after he was bullied at school for being overweight. Fast forward to Tokyo 2020 and the 26-year-old secured the gold medal with a throw of 87.58 metres.

His season-best is 88.36m, while his personal-best throw is 89.94m.

If you want to try and emulate Chopra's training routine, you'll need to add bending backwards like a bow whilst holding a weighted ball and gradually lowering yourself to your knees until the ball is half an inch off the ground to your workout regime.

Standing in the way of Chopra retaining his Games title is Czech athlete Jakub Vadlejch, who is ranked number one in the world.

We wondered if Jack Carlin was going to be penalised after going shoulder to shoulder in his deciding race with Japan's Kaiya Ota (see 18:33 BST).

Well, Carlin has been given a warning but the result still stands and he advances to the semi-finals, where he will face Dutch racer Harrie Lavreysen, who helped the Netherlands win team gold.

That semi-final takes place at 13:41 BST on Friday and the winner of that one will have a guaranteed silver medal.

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Those mega shot put efforts for Nafi Thiam has moved the Tokyo 2020 champion up into first place with a combined points total of 3070. World champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson is now second, but the GB star is only 50 points behind her Belgian rival.

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Some disappointing news to bring you from Team GB...

Great Britain's Bradly Sinden has pulled out of his bronze medal match in the men's -68kg taekwondo.

In an announcement on social media from Team GB, they said: "Due to an injury sustained in his quarter-final earlier today, Bradly Sinden is sadly unable to compete for bronze in the men’s -68kg taekwondo competition this evening."

Sinden, who won silver in Tokyo, lost to Jordan's Zaid Kareem earlier on Thursday and was due to fight China's Yushuai Liang shortly.

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BBC Sport in Paris

The Stade de France is a sea of orange this evening.

It is another packed session of athletics at this atmospheric stadium, and this is the one those from the Netherlands just had to get tickets for.

Later, Dutch star Femke Bol will contest the women's 400m hurdles final against defending champion and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in one of the most exciting showdowns of the entire programme.

Together they have recorded 17 of the 20 fastest times in history. It really could be a race for the ages.

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World Athletics have posted a tantalising stat before the women's 400m hurdles final at 20:20 BST.

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, external, they say: "17 out of the 20 fastest 400m hurdles performances in history have been set by Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Femke Bol."

The two athletes go head-to-head at the Stade de France in Paris, with USA's McLaughlin-Levrone aiming to defend her Olympic title and Bol of the Netherlands the reigning world champion.

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An ice baths then early to bed for Laura Muir and Georgia Bell.

Great Britain have two athletes taking part in Saturday's final for the women's 1500m final.

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Olympic cycling gold medalist on BBC Radio 5 Live

The crowd are on their feet. They are jumping up and down, applauding, whistling and clapping. What a momentous occasion for France in the velodrome.

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HUGEEEE from Katarina Johnson-Thompson!

She is absolutely delighted with that, letting out a huge cheer as she lands a massive personal best of 14.44m, moments after Nafi Thiam equals her personal best with 15.54.

That adds half a metre on to her previous personal best of 13.92m, set in May 2023.

As it stands, Johnson-Thomspon is second overall, but as this is one of her weaker events it is just about putting in a solid performance to stay in touch - and she has absolutely done that.

"Aaaarrrggghhh! shrieks Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

And with good reason, as she's just thrown 14.44m with her third attempt, after registering 12.65m with her second. That's a personal best for the 31-year-old.

Johnson-Thompson was under pressure for a second, having just witnessed Nafi Thiam throw a whopping 15.54m with her final go - also a personal best for the Belgian.

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