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British duo Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe are fourth in the artistic swimming competition following their opening technical routine on Friday.

Second-last to perform, the Bristol-based pair scored 264.0282 and are half a point outside the medal positions.

Shortman told BBC Sport: "We are going to fight to the death. We really want a medal. We are going to put our heart into it and leave it all in the pool."

"The swim felt good," Thorpe added. "It was amazing having a crowd."

All 18 duets will return on Saturday to perform a free routine, with medals to be decided by a collective score.

GB’s best finish at an Olympics in the sport was fourth, 40 years ago in Los Angeles.

Shortman and Thorpe and Kate have high hopes they can find the routine needed to match their silver medal at the World Championships in Doha earlier this year.

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Great Britain's Joe Choong has qualified for the final of the men's modern pentathlon at the Paris Olympics.

The reigning Olympic champion finished eighth in his semi-final after the showjumping, fencing bonus round, 200m freestyle swim and laser run, with the top nine qualifying for Saturday's final.

It was an improved performance from Choong, who struggled in the opening round of the competition and said the disappointment of his girlfriend, and fellow pentathlete, Olivia Green not being selected for the Games impacted him.

It is the first time there have been semi-finals to determine the finalists at the Games and there was a new Olympic record set by overall leader Egypt's Ahmed Elgendy - scoring 1,516 points to break Choong's Olympic record of 1,482.

Choong finished 17th overall, but points are not carried over to the final.

Team GB team-mate Charles Brown came up just short of qualifying and would require others to pull out of the final to have a chance of participating.

Double Olympic gold medallist Jade Jones has spoke of her devastation after exiting the Paris Games in the first round of women's -57kg taekwondo.

Jones was beaten by North Macedonia's Miljana Reljikj in a third round tie-breaker .

The 31-year-old from Flint had set her sights on becoming the first three-time Olympic champion in the sport's history.

"I’m absolutely devastated," she told BBC Sport Wales after the bout.

"I clawed my way back to have this chance to be at my fourth Olympics, but it always comes down to the day and I didn’t have the balls and courage that it took today.

"I’m really proud of myself for having the courage to try and do something that no one has done and it’s tough, it’s mentally tough, that’s why no one has done it before.

"The more you win, the harder it gets, the more expectation and pressure. When you’re a kid you’ve got nothing to lose and you just fight.

"I’m gutted for me, my coach, my family that I didn’t show what I’ve worked so hard for, didn’t show what I was capable of in my body and mind, but it’s sport and it’s life, I couldn’t do it."

Jones' Olympic build-up had been overshadowed by the controversy of a missed drugs tests, but she was later cleared by the UK Anti-Doping Agency.

"The preparation was tough, but I was really grateful they looked into it the way they did," she added.

"The drug test came on dehydration day, I was losing the weight and kind of not in the right frame of mind.

"I got confused with it all, so I’m just so lucky that they looked into it and saw nothing was wrong and it all got sorted. It was stressful."

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Great Britain's Joe Choong says he is "sorry" after a disappointing start to the defence of his Olympics modern pentathlon title.

The 29-year-old won gold in Tokyo and there were hopes he could repeat that feat again in Paris.

But he now looks to be out of contention after finishing 29th out of 36 in the fencing ranking round.

"I’m really disappointed with that. I came here with high hopes," Choong told BBC Sport.

"I've had a tough year with some injuries but thought I was in good physical condition, but I really struggled out there."

The top three positions are occupied by Ukraine's Oleksandr Tovkai, Egypt's Ahmed Elgendy and Pavels Svecovs of Latvia.

Choong has previously spoken of his disappointment in girlfriend, and fellow pentathlete, Olivia Green not being selected for the Games and feels this has had an impact on his performance.

"I think one of the problems is there's not been any clarity on that decision-making process. We've not been able to have any sort of reasonable explanation," he added.

"It's really hard to compete well, especially when things start to go badly, and you'’re not generally happy with the set-up.

"I'm just so gutted. I felt a lot of pressure to do it for Liv, for myself, it's felt like a bit of an uphill battle and I'm just really disappointed.

"I'm so sorry for everyone back home - I really hoped I could go and win another medal. I definitely have it in me, but I've just not done it today."