It’s a packed Olympics schedule on day 14 of the Paris 2024 Games with Team GB keen to add to their medal collection.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson won her first Olympic medal in the heptathlon but had to settle for silver behind the now three-time reigning champion Nafi Thiam. Although Johnson-Thompson set a new personal best of 2:04:90, Thiam managed to keep her within the eight-second margin required to defend her title.
Great Britain’s Toby Roberts has won gold in the men’s boulder and lead competition, totalling 155.2 points in the two combined sections to beat Japanese favourite Sorato Anraku into second place. The 19-year-old was third after the boulder round at Le Bourget Climbing Venue but produced a brilliant lead climb for 92.1 points, and his gold was sealed when Anraku fell just under 10 points from Roberts’ mark.
Team GB’s Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita took to the track for the women’s 4x100m relay final and won silver medals, while Louie Hinchliffe and Zharnel Hughes led the men’s team to bronze. In the velodrome, Neah Evans and Elinor Barker secured a brilliant silver in the women’s madison, while Jack Carlin secured another bronze in the men’s sprint.
Follow all the action, latest results and medals from Paris 2024 in our live blog below.
Olympics 2024 – latest medals and results
- Today at the Olympics – day 14 highlights and Team GB stars to watch
- GOLD! Toby Roberts snags a superb climbing gold in the boulder and lead
- MEDAL! Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins heptathlon silver after final 800m race
- MEDAL! Team GB win bronze in men’s 4x100m relay after superb anchor leg from Zharnel Hughes
- MEDAL! Cyclist Jack Carlin win bronze in men’s sprint
- MEDAL! Dina Asher-Smith, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita take silver in women’s 4x100m relay
- MEDAL! Neah Evans and Elinor Barker combine for madison silver at the velodrome
- Noah Lyles says his Olympics have reached the ‘end’ after catching Covid
Every Team GB medal so far at the 2024 Paris Olympics
21:50
Harry Latham-Coyle
Team GB are enjoying a strong Paris 2024 Olympics as they push for a top-five place on the final medal table, with six more medals added today:
Kyle Kothari flying the flag for GB - but also for representation in Olympic diving
21:40
Harry Latham-Coyle
Kyle Kothari hopes his maiden Olympics appearance acts as inspiration for British Asians as he bids to make the 10m platform final.
The 26-year-old diver, who studied at Dr Challoner’s Grammar School in Amersham, made it through the preliminary stage in ninth position to make it through to Saturday’s semi-finals, with medals on the line later the same day.
As Toby Roberts strikes gold, climbing solves its biggest problem to find a home at the Olympics
21:30
Jamie Braidwood in Paris
Of the eight climbers huddled together at the bottom of the overhanging 15-metre wall in Paris, there was one who was there because he carried the dream of winning an Olympic medal.
For many, their journeys into the sport largely started because of a natural instinct rather than the buzz of competition. Great Britain’s Hamish McArthur, for example, could not stop clambering up trees or hanging off door frames as a child. Toby Roberts was not too dissimilar. He would attempt to escape his cot as a baby, before he topped his first wall at three years old, well before the point he knew what he was doing was a sport at all. Unencumbered by any sense of fear, he wanted to climb as high as he could, because that was the only direction he thought to go.
By the age of 12, Roberts and his father Tristan had already formed a plan. When sport climbing was introduced to the Olympics in 2016, Roberts and his father set their sights on winning gold in Paris. Eight years later, he stood as Britain’s first Olympic champion in sport climbing: mastering the combination of lead and boulder after displaying supreme skills across problem-solving, strength, agility and endurance. It was the fruition of a childhood dream and a long-term goal.
Thierry Henry denied triumphant homecoming as France beaten by gold medal winners Spain
21:20
Will Jennings in Paris
So the Crazy Ones were unable to emulate the Crazy Gang.
Exactly 36 years since Vinnie Jones, Dave Beasant, Lawrie Sanchez and co ripped up the rulebook to fire Bobby Gould’s Wimbledon to a storied FA Cup triumph, Thierry Henry’s France could not repeat the trick as they fell agonisingly short of grabbing an emotional Olympic gold medal in front of a packed-out Parc des Princes in Paris.
Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita left with one last Olympics regret despite Team GB relay silver
21:10
Jamie Braidwood at the Stade de France
At last, a medal in Paris for Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita, but did the Olympics gold that has evaded both slip through their grasp at a rain-soaked Stade de France?
As a lightning track was turned greasy by a sudden, dramatic downpour and the relay baton turned perilously slippy, Great Britain upgraded the bronze medal won in the women’s 4x100m final three years ago in Tokyo and turned it into silver. Sha’Carri Richardson roared to gold for the United States while shooting the most lingering of looks towards Neita as she crossed the line.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins Olympic silver after dramatic heptathlon finish
21:00
Jamie Braidwood at the Stade de France
After two days and seven events, only seconds could separate them. Katarina Johnson-Thompson ran the 800m of her life - the only problem was she pushed the greatest heptathlete of all time did so as well. Nafi Thiam completed the unprecedented hat-trick of Olympic titles in the heptathlon, collapsing across the line after chasing Johnson-Thompson down at the last. Thiam won gold by 36 points, or around two seconds.
Olympics 2024: Rai Benjamin beats Karsten Warholm to 400m hurdles gold!
20:50
Harry Latham-Coyle
At last, a golden moment for Rai Benjamin! So often the bridesmaid, now Benjamin is the bride, overturning Karsten Warholm with a brilliant final 150 metres, using his long strides to power over the hurdles away.
Warholm just didn’t have the stamina to stay with the American outside him. The Norwegian takes the silver; Alison dos Santos on the inside ensures the big three retain their places on the podium en masse. But it’s another American gold - they really are dominating this meet.
GOLD: Rai Benjamin (USA) 46.46secs
Silver: Karsten Warholm (Norway) 47.06secs
Bronze: Alison dos Santos (Brazil) 47.26secs
Olympics 2024: Athletics - men’s 400m hurdles
20:45
Harry Latham-Coyle
One last race of the evening at the Stade de France, and this could be an oh-so-sweet final course. The men’s 400m hurdles was one of the great events in Tokyo, Karsten Warholm, Alison dos Santos and Rai Benjamin producing a battle for the ages. Six of the eight finalists are back for more three years on - Warholm and Benjamin are favourites, but they’ll be wary both of Dos Santos and the very quick Kyron McMaster, a silver medallist in Budapest at the World Championships last year.
Here is your lane order:
2 Abderrahman Samba (Qatar)
3 Alison dos Santos (Brazil)
4 Rasmus Magi (Estonia)
5 Clement Ducos (France)
6 Kyron McMaster (British Virgin Islands)
7 Karsten Warholm (Norway)
8 Rai Benjamin (USA)
9 Roshawn Clarke (Jamaica)
Olympics 2024: Katarina Johnson-Thompson speaks to the BBC after heptathlon silver
20:38
Harry Latham-Coyle
“I’m so relieved, so happy that I’ve got an Olympic medal to add to my collection, it was the only one I didn’t have,” Johnson-Thompson says after narrowly missing out on gold. “It’s been so hard getting back to this point, so I am just so relieved. I’m a bit overwhelmed at the minute.
“In the lead-up to this Games, all I’ve been saying is that, obviously I wanted a medal, but I just wanted to have a chance when I took the line at the start of the 800. That’s what I had. It was a very far-off chance, an eight-second chance, but that’s what heptathlon is - getting to that point and seeing who has got it at the end. I can’t really complain. Nafi [Thiam] ran a PB and is one of, if not the, greatest of all time. I’m blessed to be put in a rivalry with one of the greatest of all-time. I got a personal best myself, which is all I can ask for.”
Olympics 2024: Athletics - Beatrice Chebet takes distance double!
20:32
Harry Latham-Coyle
A valiant effort from Italy’s Nadia Battocletti, pushing Beatrice Chebet right to the line, but the Kenyan would not be denied! A dream distance-running double from Chebet, adding the 10,000m title to 5,000m gold earlier in the Games and becoming the first Kenyan woman to win Olympic gold in the event.
And guess who got third? Why, it’s Sifan Hassan, of course, who will now rest up ahead of the marathon on Sunday. She loses her title from Tokyo having left too much gap to Chebet to close in the last lap.
GOLD: Beatrice Chebet (Kenya)
Silver: Nadia Battocletti (Italy)
Bronze: Sifan Hassan (Netherlands)
Olympics 2024: Athletics - women’s 10,000m
20:26
Harry Latham-Coyle
A stretcher has been brought out for that athlete, who I think is Alessia Zarbo of France. Let us hope she is okay.
Still no real move in earnest from any of the front group.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - women’s 10,000m
20:24
Harry Latham-Coyle
Five laps to go as we enter the final couple of kilometres, Parker Valby one of three Americans in a leading group of about 12. Impressive stuff from the youngster, who is just out of college.
Sifan Hassan lurks at the back of that leading group, as is her wont. There is a bit of concern for one of the runners, though, who is down receiving medical treatment on the track.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - Sifan Hassan out on track in 10,000m
20:19
Harry Latham-Coyle
A reminder that Sifan Hassan starts the marathon in, basically, 36 hours. It is truly bonkers what she is attempting.
Slipping back in the field is Great Britain’s Eilish McColgan, which was to be expected for someone who had knee surgery last year and is still working her way back towards full fitness. Nine laps to go, with everyone waiting for impetus.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - Sifan Hassan out on track in 10,000m
20:16
Harry Latham-Coyle
Still a pedestrian pace on the track, Beatrice Chebet happy to sit in the pack with the race playing into the 5,000m gold medallist’s hands.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - women’s shot put results
20:12
Harry Latham-Coyle
Already over and done with on a busy night of track and field is the women’s shot put, and there’s a gold medal for Germany’s Yemisi Ogunleye. A gospel singer in her spare time, Ogunleye hurls the shot a lovely round 20 metres, a distance no-one else in the field can match.
GOLD: Yemisi Ogunleye (Germany)
Silver: Maddison-Lee Wesche (New Zealand)
Bronze: Song Jiayuan (China)
Olympics 2024: Athletics - Sifan Hassan out on track in 10,000m
20:04
Harry Latham-Coyle
Back to the Stade de France, where the first few laps of the women’s 10,000m are done and dusted. The central story to this race is probably Sifan Hassan, the great Dutch distance runner who is attempting a bonkers treble in Paris. She already has a bronze in the 5000m in her pocket and is intending to challenge for the marathon crown on Sunday having won on debut in the distance in London last year.
It’s a truly stupid thing to try - but if anyone can pull off three medals in the three distance events, Hassan is probably that person. The pace is relatively slow so far in this 10k, which should suit a former world champion over 1500m.
Olympics 2024: Football - Spain complete golden summer with victory over France
19:59
Harry Latham-Coyle
It’s all over at the Parc des Princes, where Spain have completed a quite magnificent summer. Olympic gold follows Euro 2024 triumph in Germany for the next crop of Spanish starlets, two goals in extra-time enough to take a thrilling 5-3 victory and dash home dreams.
GOLD: Spain
Silver: France
Bronze: Morocco
Olympics 2024: Athletics
19:51
Harry Latham-Coyle
The heptathletes salute the crowd, gathered together on the track after two incredibly tough days of competition. It’s tenth for Team GB’s Jade O’Dowda on Olympic debut, and a word for Noor Vidts, a very impressive bronze medallist even if left in the shadow of her titanic teammate.
GOLD - Nafi Thiam (Bel) - 6880 points
SILVER - Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GB) - 6844 points
BRONZE - Noor Vidts (Bel) - 6707 points
Olympics 2024: Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins heptathlon SILVER as Nafi Thiam secures third title
19:44
Harry Latham-Coyle
A gap of 36 points, in the end, fine margins over seven events. There was some doubt if Katarina Johnson-Thompson could produce this sort of level after so many injury issues, but she’s pushed Nafi Thiam to the limit. An Olympic silver to add to her two world titles.
KJT HAS GOT SILVER!!
— Team GB (@TeamGB) August 9, 2024
An incredible heptathlon comes to an end with @JohnsonThompson securing her FIRST Olympic medal! pic.twitter.com/C7gf5cwmNn
Olympics 2024: Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins heptathlon SILVER!
19:38
Harry Latham-Coyle
An incredible effort from Katarina Johnson-Thompson, doing everything she could and more. A new personal best time of 2mins 4.90secc - but it is not quite enough!
Nafi Thiam is sprawled on the floor, the greatest heptathlete of all-time having gone to the well like she has never had to before. Her own PB of 2mins 10.62secs takes just about everything out of the extraordinary Belgian - and for a third Olympics in a row, it is a glorious gold!
GOLD: Nafi Thiam (Belgium)
Silver: Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Great Britain)
Bronze: Noor Vidts (Belgium)
Olympics 2024: Athletics - Katarina Johnson-Thompson chases gold heptathlon 800m
19:36
Harry Latham-Coyle
A steady enough start, Anna Hall moving to the front as she tries to force her way into the medals. Katarina Johnson-Thompson moves in behind her, happy to let her go and not pre-occupied with chasing. Nafi Thiam slots in behind her Belgian teammate Noor Vidts.
Johnson-Thompson is keeping plenty in the tank.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - heptathlon 800m
19:34
Harry Latham-Coyle
Out into the arena they come, Nafi Thiam looking full of running even after six evets. How does she play this?
Olympics 2024: Athletics - heptathlon 800m
19:31
Harry Latham-Coyle
Katarina Johnson-Thompson will have a rabbit of sorts to chase, Anna Hall of the United States the only women in the field quicker than the British heptathlete. And this is a quick track - the first three finishers in Heat A have all set personal bests. Great Britain’s Jade O’Dowda finishes fifth to briefly climb to the top of the standings with the bigger names still to run.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - heptathlon 800m
19:24
Harry Latham-Coyle
Even the great Jackie Joyner-Kersee didn’t manage three heptathlon golds in a row, a silver in Los Angeles upgraded at the next two Olympics - it would be a history-making achievement were Thiam to complete the job in the next few minutes.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - heptathlon 800m
19:22
Harry Latham-Coyle
If you flash back to that brilliant battle at the Doha Worlds in 2019, probably Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s crowning moment as an athlete so far, it was a eleven second margin between the pair as Johnson-Thompson surged to a new personal best. But Thiam ran 2mins 11.79secs on her way to gold at the European Championships in Rome in June - if she does that, a remarkable third consecutive crown will surely be secure.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - heptathlon 800m
19:20
Mike Jones
Katarina Johnson-Thompson enters the final event of the heptathlon eyeing a first medal at the Olympics. The Team GB star has been battling double-defending Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam at Stade de France.
The reigning world champion, who is searching for her first Olympic medal, had built a 48-point lead over the Belgian overnight heading into day two of the event.
And after reaching 6.40m in the long jump, just 0.01m short of Thiam, the 31-year-old retained first place before the javelin throw.
But after KJT only earned 773 points following a throw of 45.49m in Group A, Thiam produced a spectacular first throw and a huge season’s best of 54.04m, clocking up 939 points to snatch the lead of 121 points heading into tonight’s 800m.
That gap is roughly equivalent to eight seconds in the 800m, and if the athletes are running in the region of 62-63 seconds per lap, then that margin is approximately 40-45m.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - heptathlon 800m
19:19
Harry Latham-Coyle
Crikey. A dramatic night on the track already and we’ve still got that heptathlon denouement to come. Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Nafi Thiam will run in the second of two 800m heats - realistically, Johnson-Thompson may well have to PB here to snatch gold. She should be safe regardless in silver given the gap to Annik Kaelin and Noor Vidts below her, so she can give it a real crack and try to force Thiam into the red.
Olympics 2024: Football - men’s gold medal match into extra time
19:13
Harry Latham-Coyle
An extraordinary comeback from France at the Parc des Princes, striking twice late on to square affairs against Spain with Jean-Philippe Mateta converting calmly from the penalty spot. They very nearly nicked it in stoppage time, too, but we’re off to extra time in the gold medal match...
Olympics 2024: Marileidy Paulino takes commanding 400m gold in new Olympic record
19:08
Harry Latham-Coyle
Supreme running from Marileidy Paulino! Smooth as you like from the world champion, shattering the long-standing Olympic record of Marie-Jose Perec from Atlanta 1996.
Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain takes silver, while Rhasidat Adeleke is just run out for bronze by Poland’s Natalia Kaczmarek. And there’s an excellent fifth-placed finish for Amber Anning, and a new national record of 49.29secs.
GOLD: Marileidy Paulino (Dominican Republic)
Silver: Salwa Eid Naser (Bahrain)
Bronze: Natalia Kaczmarek (Poland)
Olympics 2024: Heptathlon
19:07
Mike Jones
Katarina Johnson-Thompson headlines the athletics action this evening as she goes head-to-head with Belgium’s Nafi Thiam for the heptathlon gold medal.
After six of the seven disciplines, KJT trails her opponent and will need to beat her by around 8 seconds in the 800m finale.
That race gets underway at 7.25pm.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - women’s 400m final
19:05
Harry Latham-Coyle
Hopes are high in Ireland that Rhasidat Adeleke might do something special. She hasn’t quite looked at her best so far in Paris, but the Tallaght product is developing all the time and her long-striding could be a threat if she paces it right.
Olympics 2024: Athletics - women’s 400m
19:03
Harry Latham-Coyle
This is probably one of the more open individual finals of the track programme, though Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser was flying in the semi-finals, and Marileidy Paulino is the reigning world champion.
Look out for Great Britain’s Amber Anning, already a mixed relay medallist at these Games. A final appearance is already a great result, but Anning is threatening Christine Ohuruogu’s British record and could yet sneak a medal.
Your line-up is...
2 Sada Williams (Barbados)
3 Henriette Jaeger (Norway)
4 Rhasidat Adeleke (Ireland)
5 Amber Anning (Great Britain)
6 Marileidy Paulino (Dominican Republic)
7 Natalia Kaczmarek (Poland)
8 Salwa Eid Naser (Bahrain)
9 Alexis Holmes (USA)
Olympics 2024: Athletics
19:00
Harry Latham-Coyle
What a year for young Louie Hinchcliffe, NCAA champion and now an Olympic medallist. Jeremiah Azu, he and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake gave Zharnel Hughes a chance - and Hughes made totally certain. Not that it matters, but the United States have been disqualified.
Right, no time for a pause on a busy night of finals. The women’s 400 metres is imminent.
Olympics 2024: Canada snatch shock Olympic GOLD in men’s 4x100m relay
18:53
Harry Latham-Coyle
A total disaster for the United States and Canada capitalise! They just had to get the baton round safely and solidly, but a nightmare of a changeover between Christian Coleman and Kenny Bednarek leaves them out of the running after a single leg!
Eventually they come home seventh, and it’s the vastly experienced Canadian quartet who seize the opportunity! Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse are Olympic champions ahead of South Africa and Great Britain.
A new African record for the South African quartet, and a first Olympic medal for Akani Simbine, so richly deserved. A corker of an anchor leg from Zharnel Hughes, the fastest in the field, allows Team GB to add a second relay medal of the night.
GOLD: Canada 37.50secs
Silver: South Africa 37.57secs
Bronze: Great Britain 37.61secs
Olympics 2024: Track cycling - men’s sprint
18:50
Mike Jones
Here we go!
Jack Carlin moves into the lead and slowly weaves down to the lower levels of the track. He’s followed astutely by Jeffrey Hoogland who waits to make his move.
Carlin, still slowly pedalling, moves up high at the end of the first lap before deciding to up the tempo.
Hoogland moves high, Carling sprints for the line from a long way out...
... Hoogland sweeps in behind him and is accelerating. He’s in the slipstream but Carlin has momentum and rounds the final bend in the lead. It’s a push but the Dutchman can’t get past and Carlin crosses the line to take the bronze!
Olympics 2024: Athletics - men’s 4x100m relay
18:49
Harry Latham-Coyle
Elsewhere, it feels wide open. Wouldn’t it be lovely if Akani Simbine could pinch a medal for South Africa after finishing fifth, fourth and fourth in the last three individual men’s Olympic 100m finals?
They are in the blocks...
Olympics 2024: Athletics - men’s 4x100m relay
18:47
Harry Latham-Coyle
There could be disqualification drama at the Stade de France, too, with race officials looking at those British changeovers closely before the result is confirmed. Switzerland have already been DQed. It may be a lane infringement for the Brits, which would see them keep their medal - we’ll confirm when totally certain.
But the men are out on track, 32 of the fastest sprinters in the world ready to battle for relay supremacy. No Jamaica, of course, after a disaster in the heats that left individual silver medallist Kishane Thompson with much too much to do on the anchor leg.
Italy are the defending champions after a shock triumph in Tokyo - but this is surely the United States’ all the way...
Here’s your lane line-up:
2 Italy
3 Japan
4 Great Britain
5 USA
6 France
7 South Africa
8 China
9 Canada
Olympics 2024: Track cycling - men’s sprint
18:47
Mike Jones
The Dutch team are arguing for a default but nothing comes from their protests. The race will be reset after Jeffrey Hoogland gets his bike fixed.
The bronze medal race is about to reset.
Olympics 2024: Track cycling - men’s sprint
18:43
Harry Latham-Coyle
A coming together between the two riders! Jack Carlin cuts across Jeffrey Hoogland and he’s already on a yellow card.
How will the race commissaires view this? Carlin’s hands are on his helmet, fearing the worst...
Olympics 2024: Track cycling - men’s sprint
18:41
Harry Latham-Coyle
We’ll be back au Stade in a moment, but let’s sprint away briefly to the velodrome and check in on Jack Carlin, chasing a medal against Jeffrey Hoogland. They are into a decider having split their opening two races in the battle for bronze...
Olympics 2024: United States take gold in women’s 4x100m relay as Great Britain secure silver!
18:36
Harry Latham-Coyle
Simply scintillating speed from Sha’Carri Richardson, who carries the baton home and takes the United States to yet another gold on the track! It wasn’t perfect from the Americans but 41.78secs is good enough.
It’s a valiant silver for the British four, Dina Asher-Smith getting out superbly but a couple of messy changeovers perhaps costing them a shot at matching the US quartet. Daryll Neita pips Rebekka Haase of Germany for silver, assuming the result stands...
Oh, it’s not good on second look for Team GB. They should be fine, but those final two handovers took an age, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita fumbling and fiddling and it taking an age for Neita to get into her stride. A silver medal is an excellent result - but was that an opportunity missed?
GOLD: United States 41.78secs
Silver: Great Britain 41.85secs
Bronze: Germany 41.97secs
Olympics 2024: Athletics - women’s 4x100m relay final
18:32
Harry Latham-Coyle
Here we go then. Conditions aren’t ideal at all, particularly with a baton to get round. Anything under 42 seconds might be enough for a medal...
Olympics 2024: Athletics - women’s 4x100m relay final
18:28
Harry Latham-Coyle
And to add a complicating factor, this lavender track is moistening under rainy skies at the Stade de France. Does that improve Team GB’s chances? Lane draw could be important, and an outside lane perhaps preferable.
Here’s how they line up:
2 Netherlands
3 Canada
4 Jamaica
5 USA
6 France
7 Germany
8 Great Britain
9 Switzerland
Olympics 2024: Athletics - 4x100m relays
18:26
Harry Latham-Coyle
That men’s final is at 6.47pm BST - the United States probably would have had Noah Lyles anchoring if not for his positive Covid test, so it is instead Fred Kerley that will bring them home. Kyree King is the less heralded name alongside rapid starter Christian Coleman and their best bender Kenny Bednarek, 200m silver medallist last night.
Up first, though, the women, with the United States firm favourites. They had a bit of a messy run in the heats, needing the pure speed of Gabby Thomas and Sha’Carri Richardson to bail them out after Thomas set off too soon awaiting a changeover.