Olympics 2024 LIVE: Matt Richards wins stunning silver in swimming as Tom Pidcock takes mountain bike gold

The eyes of the world had been on Simone Biles once more. Three years after the “twisties” of Tokyo, the best gymnast of all time returned to proceed her outstanding Olympics story.

Except, Biles doesn’t simply proceed: the American creates and innovates, pushing the boundaries of her sport to new limits. The 27-year-old’s return to the Olympics was not simply spectacular however groundbreaking, touchdown two of her signature abilities. It was on the vault – the equipment that led to her dramatic withdrawal from particular person occasions in Tokyo – the place Biles unleashed the Biles II, changing into the primary girl to land the Yurchenko double-pike on the Olympics.

But Biles dominated the qualifying occasion on Sunday as she dazzled a star-studded crowd in Paris, setting the very best scores on the ground and vault routines regardless of competing with a closely strapped ankle.

Summer McIntosh ripped her hat off and started celebrating, punching the air, pointing to her household and breaking into the smile that’s going to turn out to be endlessly entwined with the Olympic Games over the subsequent decade. As she did so, absorbing the second, she barely appeared to note that a few of her rivals in the 400m medley closing had been nonetheless ending the race.

The 17-year-old might nicely be the subsequent phenomenon of Olympic sport, a determine to rival Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps in reputation. She is already the current and way forward for swimming, and this dominant efficiency, profitable her first Olympic gold medal, was simply the beginning with three extra particular person occasions to return.

Alex Yee hopes he can encourage the subsequent era of triathletes together with his performances in Paris as he takes over the mantle from the Brownlee brothers.

For the primary time in 20 years, the identify Brownlee is not going to characteristic in the British Olympic group, with Alistair now concentrating on different challenges and Jonny having missed out on choice.

Between them, the Yorkshire siblings received 5 Olympic medals, with Alistair the one triathlete to win two golds, in London and Rio, and Jonny having received particular person bronze and silver, then gold in Tokyo three years in the past as a part of the group relay.

Anchoring that group was Yee, who was the person silver medallist in Japan and goes into the Games as one among Britain’s finest hopes for gold.

Swimming coaching for the triathlon was cancelled for the second day in a row due to considerations over water high quality however organisers stay assured Tuesday’s males’s race will go forward as scheduled.

Heavy rain can result in elevated ranges of the dangerous micro organism E.coli in the Seine regardless of greater than a billion euros spent on cleansing up the river in preparation for the Games.

Peaty narrowly missed out on an historic gold in the 100 metres breaststroke, denied a treble by simply two hundredths of a second as Nicolo Martinenghi bought the contact to take victory.

Speaking afterwards, the 29-year-old instructed that he had woken up with a barely scratchy throat, and his signs worsened in the hours after profitable silver.

Hollie Pearne-Webb insists Team GB’s girls’s hockey stars will use their turbulent Tokyo expertise to assist them bounce again and ‘create history’ after a gradual begin on the Olympics.

Captain Pearne-Webb’s facet adopted up their slim 2-1 defeat in opposition to Spain with a 4-0 thrashing in opposition to Australia to go away them with an uphill battle to advance from Pool B in Paris.

Much of Versaille’s gilded grandeur was made through the 1789 French Revolution however it was Great Britain who snatched the gold from underneath French noses at their Olympics.

Laura Collett praised her prince of a horse as he delivered one other Olympic group title – and particular person bronze – in the backyard of France’s well-known Sun King at Paris 2024.

There are 191 out LGBTQ athletes in Paris and 11 who’re a part of Team GB, however Gilmour is the one shuttler amongst that quantity.

Tom Daley gazed up after finishing the set of Olympic medals with a superb silver alongside Noah Williams in the lads’s synchronised 10m platform. But then got here a shock; a juice cup launched from above in his path. It was his lovable son Phoenix, revelling in his father’s newest wonderful Olympic second, tossing down his cup in pure pleasure as reporters scattered.