Team GB

Stephen Couse
BBC Sport Scotland in Paris

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Team 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.

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Matt 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

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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.

Great Britain remain top of the team eventing standings after the cross country despite a jumping penalty against Ros Canter drastically reducing their lead.

Team GB are looking to defend their Olympic title for the first time since 1972 and looked well placed to do so after a flawless run from Tom McEwen on JL Dublin.

That was followed by Laura Collett suffering only a 0.8 penalty on London 52, and while that saw her drop to second in the individual standings - 0.5 behind Germany's Michael Jung - the British team were some way clear of their nearest rivals.

However, Canter was then given 15 jumping penalties to drop from sixth to 24th in the individual and cut Great Britain's lead to 4.7 over France.

On Sunday evening, British Equestrian confirmed that Canter's penalties stood following a review.

Nigel Ringland
BBC Sport NI Senior Journalist in Paris

Two-time Olympic champion Helen Glover and her Great Britain team-mates Rebecca Shorten, Sam Redgrave and Esme Booth are through to Thursday’s women's four final after a comfortable win in their heat.

They pulled clear early on and kept the rest of the field, led by New Zealand, at bay.

After winning Olympic gold in London and Rio but finishing fourth in Tokyo, Glover now has the opportunity for a third Games title.

The men’s four - Oliver Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson - finished second in their heat but also progress directly to the final.

Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George reaffirmed their favourites tag in the men’s pair by winning their heat to qualify for the semi-finals, were they will be joined by Nathan Timoney and Ross Corrigan. The duo, from Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, were third in their heat, rowing for Team Ireland.

Another Team GB boat who are heavy favourites for gold are the women’s lightweight double of Emily Craig and Imogen Grant.

Beaten by the narrowest of margins into fourth place in Tokyo they haven’t been beaten since and that record remained intact as they reached the semi-finals.

The women’s pair of Rebecca Edwards and Chloe Brew were fourth in their heat and will be back on Monday to race the repechage.

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By Lewis Coombes

BBC Sport in Chateauroux

Britain's Seonaid McIntosh missed out on qualification for the women's 10m air rifle final after her rifle malfunctioned during the warm-up.

Her father Donald, who is her coach, set about fixing the gun, armed with a tool box, with minutes until the competition’s start.

McIntosh scored 624.5 after her 60 shots, finishing 37th and did not progress to tomorrow’s final.

Hyojin Ban from South Korea top scored with 634.5, a new Olympic qualifying record.

McIntosh told BBC Sport: “It’s not been my day. Immediately I knew there was something wrong. The two sights weren’t lining up.

“We bought a spare gun for situations like this. So we ran and got that gun. A lot of thoughts all at once.. “How do we fix it? How fast can I fix it? While trying to stay calm and not get phased by it.”

The issue is understood to have been related to the gun’s barrel, which was completely replaced.

While the rest of the field started the competition, Seonaid was a delayed entry allowed additional time for practice, before eventually re-joining the field.

The 28-year-old showed great composure under the additional pressure, clearly seen to be relying on breathing techniques to stay calm.

She added: “I’m disappointed by the result. But I did work really hard and had to work extra hard because of all the big problems at the start. I did my best and that’s all I can really ask of myself, I guess.

“I had a look at the sight afterwards and there’s a big crack in it. I’m thinking when it’s gone into the armoury it’s fallen over or something.

“I’ll be a bit more cautious with my 50m gun, maybe take the sights off at night-time and things and make sure everything is packed safely.

“At least it’s this time and not my last competition.”

McIntosh returns next week for her favoured event – 50m rifle three positions – in which she is world number one.

Jess Anderson
BBC Sport journalist in Paris

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Great Britain's women missed out on a place in the team archery quarter-finals after a straight-sets defeat by Germany in the opening round.

The trio of Penny Healey, Bryony Pitman and Megan Havers lost 6-0 in the best-of-four elimination round.

Healey, who was inspired to take up archery after watching the Disney film 'Brave', looked in strong form as she found the middle target three times.

But the German trio of Katharina Bauer, Michelle Kroppen and Charline Schwarz, who won gold at last year's world championships, hit six 10s to sweep past the British team.

Healey was shortlisted for BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year following a 2023 season in which she claimed two European golds and will compete in the individual event on Thursday.

Havers, the youngest archer at the Paris Games at 16-years-old, will also compete in the singles along with Pitman, who made it to the third round of the event in Tokyo three years ago.