Paris 2024 delivered a thrilling first couple of days of the Olympics, with Monday bringing the first full week and looking set to deliver a truly enormous programme of events.
Monday’s highlights and stars to watch
Tom Daley will be an early one to watch with the final of the men’s 10m synchronised diving alongside 24-year-old Noah Williams, while in the gymnastic, Team GB – featuring Max Whitlock – will try to win a medal in the men’s team event (from 4.30pm).
Tom Pidcock is then another with gold-medal potential in the men’s cross-country mountain biking (starts 1.10pm). Pidcock stormed to victory in Tokyo after the favourite, Mathieu van der Poel, crashed early in the race. This time Van der Poel is saving himself for the road race, which leaves Pidcock as the man to beat. Two weeks after pulling out of the Tour de France with Covid, can he defend his Olympic title?
In swimming, Britain have both their men in the 200m freestyle final (7.43pm) after Duncan Scott and Matt Richards made it through their semi-finals, and they go up against the big favourite David Popovici of Romania. China’s Tang Qianting takes on America’s Lilly King in a stacked field in the women’s 100m breaststrokefinal (8.32pm).
The first medal the gymnastics will be awarded in the men’s all-around team final (4:30pm), with the Team GB side led by Whitlock, Joe Fraser and Jake Jarman qualifying third overall behind Japan and China. And there will be plenty more tennis to watch too, including a mouth-watering clash between Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal.
Team GB today (all times BST)
Medal final in bold
7:30am Badminton - women’s singles group (Kirsty Gilmour)
8:30am Shooting - trap men’s qualification (John Coward-Holley, Nathan Hales)
8:30am Archery - men’s elimination (GB v Chinese Taipei)
10am Diving - men’s synchronised 10m platform final (Tom Daley and Noah Williams)
9am Judo - women’s 57kg elimination (Lele Nairne, 11th on mat 1)
11:15am Sailing - women’s skiff (Freya Black and Saskia Tidey)
12pm Table tennis - men’s singles (Liam Pitchford)
1pm Rugby sevens - women’s Pool B (GB vs South Africa)
1:05pm Sailing - men’s skiff (James Peters and Fynn Sterritt)
1:10pm Cycling - men’s mountain bike cross country (Thomas Pidcock and Charlie Aldridge)
2:30pm Canoe slalom - men’s single semifinal (Adam Burgess)
2:43pm Sailing - women’s windsurfing (Emma Wilson)
3:01pm Sailing - men’s windsurfing (Sam Sills)
4pm Hockey - women’s Pool B (GB v Australia)
4pm Tennis - men’s singles (Dan Evans)
4:30pm Gymnastics - men’s team final
6:30pm Badminton - men’s doubles Group A (GB v Canada)
8:20pm Boxing - men’s +92kg round of 16 (Delicious Orie)
Paris 2024 Day 3 (Monday 29 July) schedule in full (all times BST)
Archery
Artistic gymnastics
Badminton
Basketball
Beach volleyball
Boxing
Canoe slalom
Cycling (mountain bike)
Diving
Equestrian
Fencing
Handball
Hockey
Judo
Rowing
Rugby sevens
Sailing
Shooting
Surfing
Swimming
Table tennis
Tennis
Volleyball
Water polo