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  1. GB's Cunningham into semi-finals but McGowan beatenpublished at 15:12 10 August

    Caden Cunningham and Rebecca McGowanImage source, Getty Images

    Britons Caden Cunningham reached the taekwondo semi-finals on his Olympic debut but compatriot Rebecca McGowan lost in the quarter-finals.

    Cunningham, hailed as the future of the sport by two-time GB bronze medallist Bianca Walkden, came through a cagey fight against Cuba's Rafael Alba to win 2-1.

    It had been 0-0 in the last round of the best-of-three fight, but Cunningham picked up four points in the final 10 seconds to secure victory.

    He will face Cheick Cisse of the Ivory Coast from 15:36 BST for a shot at the gold-medal match.

    McGowan, also making her Olympic debut, was outclassed 2-0 by Svetlana Osipova of Uzbekistan in the women's +67kg.

    Great Britain have won a taekwondo medal at every Olympics since Athens in 2004, but have struggled in Paris.

    Favourite Bradly Sinden had to withdraw injured before his men's -68kg bronze medal match, while two-time gold medallist Jade Jones suffered another early defeat in the women's -57kg.

  2. Briton McNeice finishes fifth in climbing finalpublished at 12:39 10 August

    Erin McNeice during climbing competitionImage source, Getty Images
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    McNeice, from Kent, was competing at her first Olympics

    Erin McNeice narrowly missed out on Team GB's second climbing medal in as many days as she finished fifth in the women's boulder and lead final.

    A day after Toby Roberts won gold in the equivalent men's event, 20-year-old McNeice was fourth after the boulder section of the competition.

    She was second to climb the wall in the lead element and set a competitive target of 127.6 points by making it two thirds of the way up the wall.

    But McNeice was knocked off top spot by Japan's Ai Mori, who scored an impressive 96.1 points by almost completing the climb, and American Brooke Raboutou, Austrian Jessica Pilz and Slovenia's Janja Garnbret also passed her score.

    Garnbret, who won gold when climbing made its Olympic debut in Tokyo three years ago, won again with a score of 168.5.

    Raboutou took silver and Pilz bronze.

    Garnbret's second Olympic title adds to her eight World Championships golds and 41 World Cup wins, all by the age of 25.

    McNeice has never won a major medal but a fifth-placed finish at her debut Olympics caps a breakout year which included two bronzes at qualifying events.