Summary

  • Six medals for Great Britain on a faantastic day three

  • Golds for Tom Pidcock in the mountain biking and GB's eventing team

  • Tom Daley & Noah Williams win silver in 10m synchro diving and Adam Burgess takes superb canoe slalom silver

  • Matt Richards wins silver in 200m freestyle in the pool - and is just 0.02 off a gold medal

  • Laura Collett adds individual eventing bronze

  1. Live Nowpublished at 07:48 British Summer Time 29 July

    Badminton - women's singles group stage

    The live stream is up and running.

    Team GB's Kirsty Gilmour is in action in the women's singles badminton group stage, playing Azerbaijan's Keisha Fatimah Azzahra.

    You can watch by pressing play at the top of this page.

  2. gymnastics

    Team GB gymnasts qualify for women's team finalpublished at 07:45 British Summer Time 29 July

    Women's team final

    Great Britain also overcame a few early jitters to qualify for the women's team final.

    Becky Downie's brilliant performance on bars was a highlight of Team GB's women's gymnastics qualification performances on Sunday morning.

    A long nine-hour wait followed so that all the subdivisions could be completed before it was confirmed that they had qualified for the final.

    The final will take place at Bercy Arena from 17:15 BST on Tuesday evening, while Team GB's men compete today from 16:30.

  3. Biles impresses on Olympic gymnastics returnpublished at 07:40 British Summer Time 29 July

    Artistic gymnastics - women's qualification

    One of the most anticipated performances of the day - and possibly the entire Games - was the arrival of gymnastics icon Simone Biles.

    Biles dazzled on her Olympics return, as the world's most decorated gymnast showed she was back to her best three years after suffering the 'twisties' last time around.

    The American pulled out of several events at the Tokyo Games and many wondered if she would compete again, but after a two-year break she set her sights on Paris.

    An acrobatic beam routine came before an energetic floor programme that featured one of the five skills named after her. Then she delivered her big Biles II vault, but decided not to attempt the new skill she is planning on uneven bars.

    She scored a total of 59.566 to top the all-around standings after all five sub-divisions.

    Read the full report here.

  4. swimming

    Scott, Evans and Morgan reach finalspublished at 07:36 British Summer Time 29 July

    While Adam Peaty got Team GB's first swimming medal, the team still have plenty of hopes as Duncan Scott, Matt Richards and Oliver Morgan reached their respective finals.

    Angharad Evans and Ireland's Mona McSharry also reached the women's 100m breaststroke final.

  5. swimming

    France's Marchand wins 400m medley gold in Olympic record timepublished at 07:30 British Summer Time 29 July

    Men's 400m medley final

    Back in the pool, for the host nation it was all about swimmer Leon Marchand, one of the Games' poster boys.

    Marchand delighted a raucous home crowd by setting a new Olympic record to dominate the 400m individual medley and win gold at his home Games.

    The first of what the rising star hopes will be four individual golds in Paris was secured by a margin of 5.67 seconds over Japan's Tomoyuki Matsushita in second, with the USA's Carson Foster third at the La Defense Arena.

    Great Britain's Max Litchfield finished fourth in the event for a third Olympics in a row, but set a new British record of four minutes 8.85 seconds.

    Marchand, 22, has been one of the poster boys in the build-up to these Games and was roared home by the partisan crowd.

    He finished just outside his own world record time but beat the Olympic best, previously set by American great Michael Phelps at the Beijing Games in 2008.

    Read the full report here

  6. hockey

    GB men's hockey team rescue draw with South Africapublished at 07:25 British Summer Time 29 July

    Great Britain 2-2 South Africa

    Britain celebrateImage source, Getty Images

    Great Britain's men twice came from behind to rescue a point against South Africa in the hockey pool stages at the Olympic Games.

    Welshman Rupert Shipperley equalised with just two minutes left on the clock for it to finish 2-2 at Yves-du-Manoir Stadium.

    Britain, captained by Northern Ireland's David Ames, are aiming to secure their first men's hockey Olympic medal since winning gold in 1988.

    Read the full match report here

  7. rugby sevens

    GB sevens team outclassed by ruthless Australiapublished at 07:20 British Summer Time 29 July

    Alistair Watkins
    BBC Sport in Paris

    Maddison Levi goes over for an Australia tryImage source, Getty Images

    Great Britain's women will need to beat South Africa on Monday to guarantee their place in the Olympic sevens quarter-finals following a humbling 36-5 defeat by Australia.

    GB took the lead after England's Six Nations star Ellie Kildunne broke through Australia's defence and Heather Cowell ended up going over for a try.

    But from there on it was all Australia as the 2016 Olympic champions ran in six tries in a standout performance.

    GB play South Africa later today at 13:30 BST.

    Read the full report here

  8. Heartbreak for Eccles & Gilespublished at 07:15 British Summer Time 29 July

    While the Olympics naturally provides us with moments of joy and lifetime achievements, moments of heartbreak also come with the territory.

    For Rosie Eccles and Chelsie Giles, yesterday was brutal. Welsh boxer Eccles suffered a split-decision loss to Poland's Aneta Rygielska which left her and the commentary team stunned, while Giles was left in tears as she was dealt a surprise exit after a golden score defeat by Brazil's Larissa Pimenta.

    Both gave emotional interviews after their disappointments, which you can see below.

  9. canoeing (slalom)

    GB's Woods wins Olympic kayak single bronzepublished at 07:10 British Summer Time 29 July

    Canoe slalom - women’s kayak single final

    Great Britain’s Kimberley Woods added to Team GB's medal tally as she clinched Olympic bronze in a dramatic women’s kayak single (K1) final at the Vaires-Sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.

    The 28-year-old qualified third-fastest with an impressive semi-final performance and produced another clean run in the final, clocking 98.94 seconds to clinch her first Olympic medal.

    Woods, third from last to start, moved into second behind Australia's gold medal winner Jessica Fox but was pushed down into bronze by Poland’s Klaudia Zwolinska.

  10. tennis

    Nadal beats Fucsovics to set up Djokovic matchpublished at 07:05 British Summer Time 29 July

    Tennis - men's singles

    And if that tennis drama wasn't enough, we've got the small matter of Rafael Nadal v Novak Djokovic today.

    They play at around 11:00 BST, so for now, watch the best shots from Rafael Nadal's 6-1 4-6 6-4 victory over Hungary's Marton Fucsovics.

  11. tennis

    Murray delays retirement with extraordinary Olympics winpublished at 07:00 British Summer Time 29 July

    Tennis - men's doubles

    Before Peaty's heroics, Andy Murray had us on the edge of our seats in an absolute rollercoaster of a doubles match with his partner Dan Evans.

    Murray delayed his retirement as a scarcely believable escape act saw the British tennis great and Dan Evans save five match points to win their Olympics men's doubles opener.

    The duo were trailing 9-4 in the final tie-break but somehow managed to come back for an astonishing last-gasp victory.

    Murray, 37, confirmed last week that the Paris Games would be his final event before retiring from the sport he loves.

    His storied career looked to be heading to an end before a remarkable recovery saw the British pair win 2-6 7-6 (7-5) 11-9 against Japan's Taro Daniel and Kei Nishikori.

  12. 'In my heart I've already won'published at 06:55 British Summer Time 29 July

    It was an emotional moment for Peaty, who was cheered on in the crowd by friends and family including his young son George.

    The three-time Olympic gold medallist gave an emotional interview after winning his medal. He seemed truly happy to just be competing, let alone getting on the podium, after a change in mindset following some difficult years after the last Games in 2021.

  13. swimming

    Peaty misses gold by 0.02 secondspublished at 06:50 British Summer Time 29 July

    Men's 100m breaststroke final

    Let's start our recap of yesterday. There was plenty of hype for Adam Peaty and the race certainly delivered with a tense finish.

    A tearful Adam Peaty had to settle for Olympic silver as Italy's Nicolo Martinenghi snatched a shock gold in the 100m breaststroke final in Paris.

    Peaty, 29, was looking good with 25m to go but was pipped by 0.02 seconds and finished in a tie for second with American Nic Fink.

    The Briton was bidding to become only the second man, after the great American Michael Phelps, to win the same swimming event at three consecutive Olympics.

    Silver still caps a remarkable achievement for Peaty who took a break from the sport after issues with alcoholism and his mental health since his last gold in Tokyo.

    "I am not crying because I have come second. I am crying because of how much it took to get here," Peaty told the BBC.

    Read the full report here

  14. Medal table after day twopublished at 06:45 British Summer Time 29 July

    This is what the medal table looked like after day two.

    Great Britain are 13th after Kimberley Woods and Adam Peaty added a bronze and silver respectively.

    Olympics medal table. Japan in first, Australia second, US third, France fourth and South Korea fifth. GB are 13th
  15. What else is on Monday?published at 06:40 British Summer Time 29 July

    Max WhitlockImage source, Getty Images

    Also on Monday is the men’s team gymnastics final (from 16:30) where GB have a shot at the podium. China and Japan have looked a class apart in recent years, but the Brits were third at the 2022 world championships and narrowly beaten into fourth by the US a year later. Max Whitlock was in the team that won bronze at London 2012 and has since had to endure back-to-back fourth-place Olympic finishes in this event.

    Eventing reaches its last day of action, concluding with showjumping from 10:00. Will GB be able to take back-to-back titles? The British are fielding an extraordinarily strong team but jumping is one of those sports where a first tiny error can rapidly become a catastrophe. Anything could happen, no matter how the dressage and cross-country set things up.

  16. What is coming up on Monday?published at 06:35 British Summer Time 29 July

    Tom Daley and Noah WilliamsImage source, PA Media
    Image caption,

    Tom Daley (left) and Noah Williams

    Day 3 - Monday 29 July - 19 gold medals

    Gold medal events:

    Archery (men's team), artistic gymnastics (men's team), canoe slalom (men's C1), diving (men's synchro 10m platform), equestrian (eventing jumping team, eventing jumping individual), fencing (men foil, women sabre), judo (W -57kg, M -73kg), mountain bike (men's cross-country), shooting (men's and women's 10m air rifle), skateboard (men's street), swimming (women's 400m individual medley, men's 200m free, men's 100m back, women's 100m breaststroke, women's 200m free).

    Highlights

    Tom Daley, now 30, is back for his fifth Olympic Games representing Team GB. He is paired with 24-year-old Noah Williams in the men’s 10m synchro, an event in which Daley won a dramatic Tokyo gold alongside Matty Lee. Daley and Williams are top-ranked coming into Paris 2024 but the rankings do not fully account for the threat from China, whose pairing of Lian Junjie and Hao Yang have won the past three world titles. The final starts at 10:00.

    In swimming, GB’s line-up for the men’s 200m freestyle is so strong that Tom Dean, who won Olympic gold in Tokyo, does not make the start list. Instead, Team GB will look to 2023 world champion Matt Richards and Tokyo silver medallist Duncan Scott. Watch out for Romania’s David Popovici, who is a second faster than anyone else this year heading into the event (final starts 19:43).

    Tom Pidcock is in the middle of an exhausting 2024. He arrives at the Paris Olympics immediately after Covid forced him out of the Tour de France, and then he will compete not just in road cycling but also in mountain biking’s cross-country event, which starts at 13:10. Pidcock’s electric performance to win this event three years ago was a British highlight in Tokyo, and he says defending that title is his priority.

  17. Welcomepublished at 06:30 British Summer Time 29 July

    Good morning and welcome to our day three coverage after plenty of late drama last night!

    From Great Britain's perspective we had more (!) Andy Murray drama, an emotional silver medal for Adam Peaty and a bronze medal for Kimberley Woods in the women’s kayak single.

    We'll be recapping yesterday's events and looking ahead to what's coming up later today.