BBC Scotland at the Olympics

Tyrone Smith
BBC Sport Scotland Senior Reporter in Paris

Grace Reid says she is frustrated she wasn't at her best in Friday's women's 3m springboard Olympic final - but says just being part of it was a "massive achievement".

After finishing seventh in the semi finals, the Scot finished 10th in the the final in Paris.

Reid, who was competing at her third Olympics, considered walking away from the sport after the last Games in Tokyo.

Despite today's disappointment, she says she has to appreciate how far she has come.

"It is funny how quickly you change the goalposts, three years ago I didn’t want to be on this earth and yet you want more and you want more," Reid told BBC Scotland.

"You make a semi, and then you make a final and you start moving the goalposts again and again.

"I am frustrated that I didn’t put together my best dives today because I know that is not my best, but I just gave everything I had.

"I’m trying really hard to hold my head high and know that being here and being in that final is a massive achievement and I am trying really hard not to just brush that aside."

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BBC Sport Scotland in Paris

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Scottish track cyclist Jack Carlin will race for sprint bronze at the Paris Olympics after being defeated by Dutch defending champion Harrie Lavreysen in his semi-final.

The imperious Lavreysen got the better of the Paisley man in straight rides despite Carlin's best efforts to unsettle the defending champion.

It means Carlin faces another Dutchman, Jeffrey Hoogland, around 17:00 BST for bronze, having picked up third spot in Tokyo.

The best of three races will claim a podium berth.

Carlin already has a silver medal from these Games from the team sprint.

Lavreysen races Australia's Matthew Richardson in the gold medal match-up.

Aberdeen's Neah Evans will then race in the madison alongside Elinor Barker, with the pair in with a good chance of securing a medal.

Tyrone Smith
BBC Sport Scotland Senior Reporter

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Sometimes in sport, it just feels like destiny is on your side.

From the outside looking in, tonight it felt like it was on Jack Carlin's side.

The Paisley cyclist enjoyed a dream Olympic debut three years ago - winning silver and bronze medals in the team and individual sprints.

Having already achieved the same in the team event this time round - people were rightly asking - could history be about to repeat itself again?

For a while on Thursday it didn't look like it was - after losing the first race of his quarter-final with Japan's Kaiya Ota, he then appeared to lose the second one.

However, an infringement by his opponent saved him, taking the quarter-final into a decider, which Carlin won.

Not the smooth passage through the Scot would have wanted, but through nevertheless.

And he will be hoping things will be a bit more stress free as he continues his quest to match, or better, his medal success of three years ago on Friday.

Tyrone Smith
BBC Sport Scotland Senior Reporter

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Laura Muir will go into the Olympic women's 1500m final "with an open mind" and has declared "anything can happen".

The Scot finished fourth in her semi-final on Thursday night, with the top six all progressing.

It means Muir will have the chance to better the silver medal she won over the distance at the last Olympic Games, but can she?

She said: "I am going to say anything can happen. In this event it is so unpredictable, when you have got the likes of Faith [Kipyegon, two-time Olympic champion], that makes it slightly more predictable.

"I am going to go out there and just run my best and that is all I can do.

"[I feel] really good, I mean I think the strength and depth is something we have never seen before in this event, so I am in a great spot and I am just going to go there with an open mind and see what happens."

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Scotland's Anna Burnet says it is "devastating" after she and English partner John Gimson had their hopes of an Olympic medal in the mixed multihull event crushed when they were disqualified in the final race.

Burnet and Gimson, Olympic silver medallists in Tokyo, are planning to get married after the Games and the 31-year Scot insisted "life will be great" despite the disappointment.

The pair were third heading into the double-points medal race, but they were judged to have crossed the line before the starting horn sounded and forced to retire while their competitors continued.

It means they received the maximum 22 points, which resulted in them moving down to fourth in the overall standings.

"In that moment, it's devastating," Burnet said. "It's a bad dream, but we can be proud of what we have done.

"There's no-one I'd rather be here with. We're so lucky we get to do this together. The highs and lows, we are riding it together.

"There is life and there is sport and, in this moment, I suppose life and sport are feeling a bit separate to us. The sport has been brutal, but life goes on. We will get married and life will be great."

Italy's Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti, who led going into the medal race, crossed the finish line in second to defend their Olympic title.

Mateo Majdalani and Eugenia Bosco of Argentina took silver, while New Zealand's Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson won bronze.

Tyrone Smith
BBC Sport Scotland Senior Reporter

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Three years after she considered walking away from the sport, Scottish diver Grace Reid says she is "proud" to have reached the 3m springboard final at the Paris Olympics.

Reid achieved a combined score of 290.05 from her five dives in Thursday's semi-final.

That was enough for her to finish 7th, with the top 12 progressing to Friday's final.

The Edinburgh diver, who is competing at her third games, contemplated walking away from the sport after the last one in Tokyo, where she finished 19th in the same event and sixth in the 3m synchro.

"It was a really dark place and I think the growth outside of the pool is massive, so I think to have achieved what I have done today, I am really proud of how I have achieved that," Reid said.

"But also I am so grateful for the people around me who have helped me go on this journey and stick with it even when it has been really difficult."

Reid thinks "nothing needs to be changed now" for the final.

"I am capable and I am worthy of being in that final and everyone starts from zero, so for me it is going out and showing my absolute best and I know, if I do that, I will be pleased with my performance," she adds.

"The best thing about the sport is anything can happen. We saw that in the semi-final, the prelim, and the most exciting thing is I have got just as good a chance as anyone."

There was frustration for Scotland's Anna Burnet and her partner John Gimson as the mixed multihull nacra sailing final was postponed due to weather conditions.

The Team GB pair had built up nice momentum having moved themselves up to third place after the 12 qualifying races.

The final has been rescheduled for 11:18 BST on Thursday off the Marseille coast as the pair look to upgrade their silver medals from Tokyo.

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Scottish track cyclist Jack Carlin is through to the quarter-finals of the men's sprint at the velodrome after a tight race in the round of 16.

Carlin, 27, edged out Nicholas Paul of Trinidad and Tobago in a photo finish to progress to the next round on Thursday night.

Before that the Paisley rider had defeated Colombian rider Cristian David Fontalvo Ortega having gone fifth fastest in qualifying.

Carlin has already picked up a silver medal in the team sprint, and took a bronze in the individual event in Tokyo.

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BBC Sport Scotland in Paris

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Grace Reid is "loving every second" of being at the Olympic after she progressed to the semi-finals of the 3m springboard.

The Scot advanced to Thursday's semi after finishing fifth in the preliminary round - three years after crashing out in 19th place in the opening round in Tokyo.

There was no hint of that here, with a composed Reid never looking like missing out on a place in the next phase with a score of 303.25.

"I'm really pleased; five consistent dives and more to come hopefully in the next couple of rounds," Reid told BBC Scotland.

"If I think about three years ago, the juxtaposition of where I was back then, it was a struggle waking up every day. This morning when I woke up I loved every second of it and I'm really enjoyed it.

"It's a massive testament to everyone around me who has helped me get back to this place mentally. The physical bit in some ways is a little easier - the brain took a little more convincing to come back and just enjoy it."

Scotland's Neil Gourley says he won't leave Paris with any regrets after finishing 10th in the Olympic 1500m final.

The Glasgow runner fell off the pace in the final 100m as American Cole Hocker edged out Scotland's Josh Kerr for gold.

Gourley, who was competing at his first Games, battled back from a winter of injury issues to make it to Paris.

"I'm a bit disappointed I couldn't hold on," he told BBC Scotland.

"I was never going to play for top eight or top six. I was trying to hold on and close strongly for a medal.

"I held on for as long as I could and paid for it in the home straight. But I don't regret that part of it. I'd rather blow up than finish strongly but wish I'd given it a better go.

"I won't leave here with regrets. I'm disappointed because I thought I'd finish higher. I felt it was the right time.

"But the event doesn't owe me anything and when the race is as hard as that, I just need to get better at holding on to it.

"A whole winter's work would probably have helped that but everybody has injury issues and I'm not going to dwell on that.

But I'm proud of how I fought and the injuries I've overcome to be here."

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Tyrone Smith
BBC Sport Scotland in Paris

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Scottish sailor Anna Burnet will have the chance to go for gold in tomorrow's mixed multihull medal race.

The 12 rounds of qualifying concluded on Tuesday with Burnet and partner John Gimson, finishing third with the top 10 progressing to the final, which starts at 13:43 BST on Wednesday.

The pair have two world titles to their name, and won silver in Tokyo, so it would certainly come as no surprise if they are able to get their hands on some more bling on the waters off Marseille.

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Great Britain were denied in their bid to return medals from every equestrian event at the Paris Olympics as Ben Maher and Scott Brash missed out in the showjumping individual final at Versailles.

The British pair, who combined with Harry Charles to win team gold last week, both knocked down the same fence early in their round.

With three riders going clear, England's Maher and Scotland's Brash missed out on the jump-off for the medals.

They finished in an eight-strong group with one error.

German Christian Kukuk went clear again in the jump-off to take gold, while Maikel van der Vleuten of the Netherlands won silver and Switzerland's Steve Guerdat bronze.

Charles pulled out shortly before the competition started because his horse, Romeo 88, was injured.

Team GB had never claimed medals in all six equestrian events at an Olympics. They still end the competition with five medals overall, two gold and three bronze.