It has been a good day for Scottish rowers Sholto Carnegie and Rowan McKellar.
Carnegie, 29, is in Team GB's men's eight and 30-year-old McKellar in the women's equivalent.
Both of their crews came first in their respective heats on Monday morning, securing automatic qualification for the finals later in the week.
They will fancy their chances of contending for a medal if they maintain their early form.
Tyrone Smith
BBC Sport Scotland in Paris
Image source, Getty ImagesScotland's Katie Shanahan marked her Olympic debut by booking her place in Monday evening's 400m individual medley final.
The 20-year-old finished fourth in her heat, with her time of four minutes 40.40 seconds good enough to secure her passage.
There was however disappointment for another Scot, Kathleen Dawson, in the 100m backstroke as she failed to make the semi-finals.
Shanahan said: "I am really excited. I am really happy going into the final and hopefully I can put down my best performance and think if can get a personal best (PB) I would be happy.
"I know the field in there is really strong so I'm just going to see what I can do."
Shanahan was cautious about her chances of getting onto the podium, and is instead focusing on producing her fastest-ever time rather than thinking about a medal.
She added: "Never say never, I think Summer [McIntosh] is definitely going to be winning it, and I think the top two is definitely open for anybody in that field.
"I am not really going in looking for a medal, that is not something I would ever go in saying but if I can get a PB and see how close I can get to being in the medals I will be happy."
Dawson, 26, finished fifth in her heat but her time of one minute 00.69 seconds was not good enough to take her to the semi-finals.
She said: "It is disappointing to have come away with the time I swam - I don't think that was an accurate representation of where I feel I am right now.
"I walked out and I was so happy to be there and I still am happy to have gone out and experienced what just happened because I didn't have a crowd in Tokyo.
"I really enjoyed that it is just a shame to come away with the time that I did."
Stephen Couse
BBC Sport Scotland in Paris
Image source, Getty ImagesTeam GB's Kirsty Gilmour got her Olympic badminton campaign under way with a comfortable two-set win over Azerbaijan's Keisha Fatimah Azzahra.
The Scot admitted afterwards she still feels nerves despite it being her third appearance at the Games, but that was not evident from her performance as she romped to a 21-13 21-11 victory.
"We hit the ground running and all the things I planned to do I managed to do, so I'm pretty happy," she said.
"We've had a lot of challenges in the preparation for this, mentally and how to pitch ourselves. We've worked through a lot of the emotions that might come up here in training, kind of on purpose and kind of accidentally.
"In that way I feel quite prepared as well, I feel like I'm able to get clarity through those horrible patches. Mentally I feel pretty prepared and physically good too."
He Bingjiao is the Scot's next opponent in the pool stage and she beat Gilmour in two sets at the Indonesia Open when they met last month.
Victory for Gilmour would see her progress from the group stage for the first time at the Olympics, but she admits it will be "a real challenge".
"I didn't have a great performance when we last played," the 30-year-old added. "I had a low energy day, so was fighting my way through that.
"We've had some really close matches in the past - I've taken a few wins and she's won more recently.
"I'm just really looking forward to it and looking at it as a really positive opportunity to show off and play some good badminton."
Welshman Rupert Shipperley scored a late equaliser for Great Britain to finish with a 2-2 draw against South Africa in their pool match.
South Africa were ahead for most of the game, but a succession of penalty corners in the final quarter saved Great Britain.
Great Britain now turn their focus to facing world number 1 ranked Netherlands on Tuesday 30th July - 1145 BST.
Image source, Getty ImagesMatt Richards has reached his first individual Olympic final.
The 21-year-old finished fourth in his 200m freestyle semi-final. He qualified seventh-fastest for the final, which takes place at 1940 BST on Monday night.
Great Britain's gymnasts, including Cardiff teenager Ruby Evans, have waited a good nine hours before confirmation came through that they have qualified for the women's team final.
This will be held at the Bercy Arena on Tuesday evening.
Team GB women’s rugby 7s were defeated by a strong Australian side 36-5 in their second match of the day.
Australia were dominant across both halves against the squad including Wales’ Jaz Joyce-Butchers.
Great Britain are now third in their pool and will need a win against South Africa on Monday in their final pool match of the competition, which takes place at 1300 BST.
Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport Senior Journalist in Paris
Image source, PA MediaTeam GB's Evie Richards was the 2021 world champion
Team GB mountain biker Evie Richards finished fifth as French favourite Pauline Ferrand-Prevot won a long-awaited cross-country Olympic gold.
On the former quarry site of Elancourt Hill, the highest point in the Paris region, 2021 world champion Richards finished 25 seconds shy of the podium.
It came just three months after the 27-year-old suffered a concussion in a crash during April's World Cup in Brazil, only getting back on her bike in early June.
Fellow Team GB rider Ella Maclean-Howell finished 23rd on her Olympic debut - 12 years after being inspired to take up the sport by the London 2012 Games.
For Ferrand-Prevot, gold on home soil marked the perfect ending to her mountain bike career.
The 32-year-old is set to retire from the discipline at the end of the year in order to switch her focus to the road.
A five-time cross-country world champion and therefore the most successful female athlete in the sport, Olympic success had eluded her across three previous Games.
But in front of a crowd dominated by the Tricolore, Ferrand-Prevot crossed the line in one hour 26.02 minutes to fill the gap in her palmares, almost three minutes before silver medallist Haley Batten of the United States. Jenny Rissveds of Sweden took bronze.
Ferrand-Prevot's French team-mate Loana Lecomte had looked set to be on the podium too but a heavy crash ended her race prematurely.
