Team GB's Anna Henderson is guaranteed a medal!

She beats France's Juliette Labous into the lead and with only Australia's Grace Brown and American Chloe Dygert to come.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport at Stade de France

Well, that escalated quickly.

France turn on the style in the second half against South Africa - the hosts are into the gold medal match!

Rayan Rebbadj goes over the try-line again before Jordan Sepho adds a late fourth to spark jubilant scenes.

The French players form a huddle behind the dugouts and po-go in celebration.

The 70,000 fans around them sing French rock song 'Allumer le feu' - which means 'Light the Fire'.

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Chris Boardman
Olympic cycling champion on BBC TV

The change of surface on to these cobbles, that's the problem.

Chloe Dygert didn't anticipate the change onto those very smooth cobbles halfway round the corner.

She probably only lost 10 seconds. She really banged her head and lost her glasses but Dygert gets straight back up.

Tom Varndell
Former England and Leicester wing on BBC Radio 5 Live

Fair play to South Africa, huge effort from them in the first half but there's so much talent in this French side.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport at Stade de France

Ah. Moments after Dupont arrives, South Africa take the lead. Tristan Leyds goes over to poop the party.

Not for long. France's Varian Pasquet, another replacement, finds a gap and shows incredible clarity of thought to check his run with the line looming.

Instead he looks inside and finds Rayan Rebbadj on his shoulder to dive over the line.

Rebbadj boots the extras and the Stade de France goes WILD!

American Chloe Dygert was looking strong but has also just suffered a nasty fall while going around a corner which has slowed her down significantly.

Meanwhile Belgium's Lotte Kopecky has pipped Kim Cadzow for first place.

GB's Anna Henderson was quickest through the 22km mark but Australia's Grace Brown soon overtook that. They were two of the last three to get going so it could come down to the wire!

Harry Poole
BBC Sport in Paris

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Team GB's Laura Collett set a new Olympic record with her leading score in the eventing dressage today.

The 2020 team gold medallist and horse London 52 have been a class above so far, with team-mate Ros Canter among the 20 riders still to head out in the rain at Versailles.

"That horse is one in a million. He loves a crowd. He is an absolute show-off. Its a huge team effort just to get here, let alone do a performance like that," Collett said.

On the disruption in the build-up to the Games, after British team-mate Charlotte Dujardin's withdrawal and subsequent provisional suspension, she added:

"It has been devastating news the last week but we are here to a job. We have been very good at drawing a line under it. We just want to show everyone what our horses mean to us.

"It has been devastating for the whole horse world. For us, our job here is to come out and show the world what the horses mean to us and how much of a partnership we have."

Tom Varndell
Former England and Leicester wing on BBC Radio 5 Live

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This is what the Olympic Games are about. France have put on a hell of a show and the crowd are so excited for this game.

A few years ago South Africa were the best sevens team in the world.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport at Stade de France

Here he is!

Antoine Dupont - poster boy of the sevens and darling of the French rugby fans - enters proceedings shortly after the restart.

The stadium roars in unity and believe the mercurial scrum-half will prove the difference here.

Chris Boardman
Olympic cycling champion on BBC TV

Time is everything. Most of it is not to put too much emphasis on the corners.

There aren't enough of them to worry about. Getting it good enough is probably the safe middle ground to go for.

It depends if you want to go for broke.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Paris

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Anna Henderson went through the first checkpoint in the fastest time of the day.

That time has since been pipped by Australia's Grace Brown and Chloe Dygert of the US, but that's still a very promising start from the Brit!

Tom Varndell
Former England and Leicester wing on BBC Radio 5 Live

It's very cagey, no team wants to make mistakes and it's wet out there. It takes one moment. Need some magic and then a team has scored but it is very cagey out there.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport at Stade de France

You can barely hear yourself think in the Stade de France! Exactly the kind of atmosphere we want.

French fans are heartily chanting 'Allez Les Bleus', singing rousing renditions of La Marseillaise and thumping the side of the metallic stands with their hands.

Not been quite the sensational start that the players made against Argentina in the quarter-finals, but they are on the front foot and making South Africa graft defensively.

Slippery ball-handling is making things even more fast and furious than usual.

South Africa swing back momentum as we close in on half-time and now it is the hosts' turn to dig in.

The French fans are relieved to go in level in the end, before singing along to a spot of Joe Dassin's chanson at the break.

Those standings have changed already!

New Zealand's Kim Cadzow has whizzed around the road in a time of 41 minutes and 46 seconds, while Germany's Mieke Kroeger is 42 seconds behind her in second place.

Eugenia Bujak drops down to third.

British cyclist Hayley Simmonds speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live: "Given Taylor Knibb actually came off her bike three times, her time is incredible. She'll be really interesting to watch because she's also doing the triathlon in these Games."

American Taylor Knibb had a really tough time out on the road with several crashes, one of which resulted in needing to swap bikes.

Despite all that, she fought through to finish and is currently in third place - an agonising three milliseconds slower than second-placed Marta Lach. Eugenia Bujak is currently the fastest finisher.

All 35 riders have now left the ramp though, so expect these standings to change pretty quickly from now on.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport at Stade de France

Not hanging onto leads has been a common theme for Ireland this week.

It looked to be going the same way as a 7-0 lead against the United States was wiped out and turned into a 14-7 deficit.

But two late tries by Zac Ward and Mark Roche - the second coming just moments after the hooter - puts Ireland into the fifth-placed match against New Zealand.

Next up? France!!

'Allez Les Bleus' reverberates around the 70,000 capacity crowd as we quickly count down to the first semi-final of the day between the hosts and South Africa.

Antoine Dupont starts on the bench again...

More rain news.

Organisers are confident the triathlon events will take place as scheduled on Tuesday even though the wet weather might lead to Sunday's training session being cancelled due to concerns over the water quality in the Seine.

The river's water quality was one of the big concerns in the build-up to the Games. Swimming in the Seine was banned for a century because of the water quality, with tests in June still showing levels of E.coli above the upper limits imposed by sports federations.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo swam in the river on 17 July to try to prove it was safe, but the heavy rain may mean it poses a risk to athletes.

"The rain that has fallen on Paris over the last 24 hours is likely to impact the quality of the water in the Seine over the next 24 to 36 hours," organisers said in a statement to Reuters.

"Depending on current water quality levels and the conditions expected over the next 24 hours, it is possible that the familiarisation [athlete training] may be cancelled."

A decision on whether the training will be held will be made at 03:00 BST on Sunday, with the weather forecast set to improve over the next few days.

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Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport at Stade de France

What would the Parisian fashionistas make of this type of headwear?

Chanel, Dior et al will be spinning in their haute couture graves.

Comedy hats are the must-have accessory at the Stade de France...

Gallic roosters, curly wigs, rockstar mullets... you name it.

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