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- Kieran Davies, Digital Journalist
THE Paris 2024 Olympics is now well underway and Team GB have won their first gold medals of the games in equestrian and mountain biking.
Elsewhere, Tom Daley has won silver in the 10m diving synchro with his partner Noah Williams as China scooped gold.
In the tennis old rivals Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal faced each other in the second round but the former came out on top with ease 6-1, 6-4.
Team GB star Matt Richards missed out on claiming gold by 0.02 seconds in the men's 200m freestyle.
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24 minutes agoBy Kieran Davies
Another exciting day of Olympics action
It has been a good day for Team GB today, picking up their first and second gold medals of Paris 2024.
Team USA is one gold medal ahead with a tally of three so far.
With plenty of events to come, everyone will be looking forward to another day of must-watch action in Paris tomorrow.
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31 minutes agoBy Kieran Davies
Japan set the bar in gymnastics
Despite Team GB being disappointed with finishing in fourth place, credit has to be given to the Japanese team today.
Their performances in the artistic gymnastics were phenomenal to take the gold medal away from China.
Team USA fought hard also but Japan were deserved winners.
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39 minutes agoBy Kieran Davies
Irish pride in pool is back
Mona McSharry of Team Ireland celebrates her bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke.
It is the first time Ireland have won a medal in the pool since 1996.
She will get a hero's welcome when she arrives home, that is for sure.
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48 minutes agoBy Kieran Davies
Brit boxer sees judges kill dream
Delicious Orie is the latest Team GB boxer to be on the end of a veery questionable judges' card.
He was convinced he had beaten Armenia’s Davit Chaloyan after dominating all three rounds.
However, the judges scored it 3-2 in favour of the Armenian.
Orie fell to his knees in tears with the decision.
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55 minutes agoBy Kieran Davies
Canada shock hosts
In the women's rugby sevens quarter-final, Canada beat France to break the hosts' hearts late on.
The Canadians got a try late on in the game to secure a 19-14 victory.
They head into the semi-finals with New Zealand and USA, with Australia playing Ireland in the other quarter-final shortly.
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Today, 21:15By Kieran Davies
France celebrate final in style
Manon Apithy-Brunet won gold in the Fencing Women’s Sabre Individual Gold Medal Bout.
She defeated teammate Sara Balzer in the final and the pair celebrated together.
This is what we like to see.
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Today, 21:05By Kieran Davies
Aussie sets new Olympic record
Mollie O'Callaghan has set a new Olympic record in winning the women's 200m freestyle final.
Worldd record holder Ariarne Titmus finished in second place, claiming the silver medal.
Siobhan Bernadette Haughey took the bronze medal for Hong Kong.
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Today, 20:59By Kieran Davies
McSharry makes Ireland proud
Mona McSharry clinched a bronze medal in the final of the women's 100m breaststroke final.
It is the first time Ireland have won a medal in the pool since 1996.
In a highly competitive field, she swam a perfectly timed race to take third spot.
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Today, 20:52By Kieran Davies
Team GB crash out of women's rugby sevens
Great Britain lost in the quarter-finals of the women's rugby sevens this evening.
Team USA won the match 17-7 to move onto the semi-finals.
Team GB had led the match 7-5 but the Americans turned the game around to gain a comfortable victory.
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Today, 20:41By Kieran Davies
Women's 100m breaststroke final result
Tatjana Smith from South Africa wins gold, coming through late on to take the victory in the last five metres.
Qianting Tang led the race for 95 of the 100m of the final but had to settle for the silver medal.
Mona McSharry took the bronze medal for Ireland.
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Today, 20:38By Kieran Davies
Team USA win bronze in fencing
Nick Itkin defeated Kazuki Iimura in the men's foil individual bronze medal bout.
The American sealed his medal with a 15-12 victory.
It all adds to the medal haul of Team USA.
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Today, 20:34By Kieran Davies
Men's 100m backstroke final result
Italy's Thomas Ceccon came through late to win Olympic gold.
Team USA's Ryan Murphy led for a lot of the race but ended up in third place.
China's Jiayu Xu took the silver medal.
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Today, 20:21By Kieran Davies
Kiwis storm through to semis
New Zealand made easy work of China in the quarter-finals of the women's rugby sevens.
The Kiwis came out 55-5 winners.
As ever, New Zealand will take some beating.
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Today, 20:14By Kieran Davies
Women’s 100m backstroke semi-final 2
Kaylee McKeown gets the first place finish with a strong swim.
She pipped Team USA's Katharine Berkoff who finished second.
Iona Anderson of Australia finished third, with Emma Terebo of France finishing fourth.
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Today, 20:07By Kieran Davies
Women's 100m backstroke semi-final 1
Regan Smith blew away the field, showing why she is the current world-record holder.
Kylie Masse finished in second place with teammate Ingrid Wilm finishing in third spot.
Beryl Gastaldello of France finished in fourth place to give the home fans something to celebrate.
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Today, 19:59By Kieran Davies
Richards upbeat after silver medal
Despite being so close to winning gold, Team GB's Matthew Richards reflected on the final:
"I can't be too disappointedwith that. It's my first individualevent at the Olympic games, so to walk away from that with a silver medal is fantastic. Obviously 0.02 seconds off goal is excruciatinglyfrustrating, but if anything it has added more fire to my belly. Myself and Duncan - second andfourth - I'm gutted for him, if anyone deserves a medal, it's him.
"It fuels me on for the rest of this week, I've got the 100m starting tomorrow.
"I thought I had got it, but it wasn't my best finish, it didn't feel bad, but I did feel like I had done enough, but the time says differently. It's not a sport where it's up for debate, it's black and white.
"I'm 21, I've got a long time to go in this sport, I want another 10 years before I even worry about hanging my goggles up. It's all good learning and we will take that forward into the rest of the week."
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Today, 19:49By Kieran Davies
Richards takes silver for Team GB
Matthew Richards put in an amazing performance in the 200m freestyle final, losing by 2/100th's of a second.
David Popovici came through to take gold, timing his finish to perfection to become the first Romanian man to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
Luke Hobson of Team USA finished in the bronze medal position with Team GB's Duncan Scott finishing in fourth place.
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Today, 19:43By Kieran Davies
Men's 200m freestyle final
Another chance for Team GB to try and get their hands on some medals.
Duncan Scott and Matthew Richards are the two to watch for British fans.
Luke Hobson will be flying the flag for Team USA.
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Today, 19:40By Kieran Davies
Women's 400m individual medley final results
17-year-old Summer McIntosh took gold with a sublime performance.
She led Katie Grimes for the whole race and American just could not close the gap, having to settle for a silver medal.
The pair were a long way ahead of the rest of the field.
Freya Constance Gilbert was in third place with two laps to go but Emma Weyant came through to take bronze for Team USA.
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Today, 19:33By Kieran Davies
Day of drama for Team GB so far
One of the highlights of today for British athletics' fans has to be the performance by Tom Pidco*ck.
The finale to his race was like something from F1.
He took the gold, taking a chance on one section which paid off massively despite the two riders almost coming together.
Watch defining moment that allowed Tom Pidco*ck to defy all odds and win Paris 2024 Olympics gold
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Today, 19:27By Dave Kidd
View from SunSport's Dave Kidd in Paris
MAX WHITLOCK missed out on a seventh Olympic medal as Britain were edged into fourth place in the gymnastics team final.
Three-time gold medalist Whitlock came out of retirement for the Paris Games and nailed his opening pommel-horse routine as Team GB led after the first rotation of the eight-team final.
That best score of the day suggested Whitlock, 41, could bag a third individual pommel-horse gold on Saturday.
But despite a superb rings performance from 20-year-old Olympic rookie Harry Hepworth, Luke Whitehouse made a mess of his vault to leave the Brits up against it for a place on the podium.
Yorkshireman Hepworth was Britain’s star, scoring highly on the vault and the floor, but the United States pipped Team GB - who also included Jake Jarman and ‘Smokin’ Joe Fraser - to bronze by just 2.3 points.
Japan snatched gold away from China right at the death, when Weide Su twice fell off the horizontal bar, leaving the Chinese gymnast inconsolable.
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Today, 19:21By Kieran Davies
Women's 400m individual medley final
We are just under ten minutes away from the final now.
Team USA has some interest with Emma Weyant and Katie Grimes competing.
For Team GB, fans will be hoping Freya Constance Colbert and Katie Shanahan can get amongst the medals.
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Today, 19:12By Kieran Davies
Artistic gymnastics huge finale
Going into the final bar event, China needed 15.26 to steal the gold from rivals Japan.
Despite his brilliant display, his score was not enough and Japan took the gold medal.
China took the silver medal and Team USA took the bronze.
Great Britain finished in fourth place.
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Today, 19:06By Kieran Davies
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world
Reo Inaba of Japan is having a good time on the waves in the surfing.
Filipe Toledo has it all to do as he trails his Japanese opponent.
As it stands, Inaba has a total of 6.00 whereas Toledo has a total of 2.40.
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Today, 19:00By Kieran Davies
Team GB struggling in artistic gymnastics
Great Britain are currently in fifth position with not much time left.
Canada have come from nowhere to get themselves into gold medal position.
Japan lie in second position with Team USA in third.
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