Olympics 2024 LIVE: Simone Biles returns to gymnastics before Andy Murray and Adam Peaty in Team GB action

Simone Biles returns to Olympic action after a troubling time at Tokyo 2020, the place she suffered from ‘the twisties’.

The American famous person takes half in the ladies’s qualification in inventive gymnastics, the place she is a scorching favorite after making her return final yr following a hiatus from the game to concentrate on her psychological well being.

Adam Peaty bids to make historical past, hoping to be part of Michael Phelps as the one males to three-peat in a person Olympic occasion. He faces a troublesome problem in the 100m breaststroke ultimate with China’s Qin Haiyang a formidable swimmer after successful the 50m, 100m and 200m world titles final yr. Find out what else is occurring as we speak in Paris under:

There she is. A mighty roar from the group as Simone Biles makes her approach out alongside the remainder of the United States’ gymnasts with girls’s qualification set to resume. There’s a number of stars on present in the stands, too: Snoop Dogg, Tom Cruise, Ariana Grande and Anna Wintour have additionally acquired their arms on a prized ticket as one other American icon makes her Olympic return.

Onto the ladies’s 100m breastroke then, and the 16 quickest from the heats qualify to the semifinals.

Great Britain’s Angharad Evans will hope for a superb efficiency right here, she’s in lane 5, alongside the USA’s Lily King.

And the Briton closes nicely in the ultimate 50m, however she’s edged out into fourth, King successful in 1:06.10.

Less than three-tenths between the highest 4, so Evans shall be inspired by that swim.

Dutch seashore volleyball participant Steven van de Velde, a convicted baby rapist, was greeted by some boos on his Olympic debut in Paris.

“I’ve got the job done there,” Richards tells the BBC. “I’m very proud of that end result. We’re safely by way of to the semi later and we’ll see how we do once more tonight.

“I used to be simply racing the race, doing what I wanted to do that morning. I’ve acquired a heavy schedule this week so it’s all about making an attempt to handle that load throughout the week. I did what I wanted to do. I’d be mendacity if I stated it was simple however I’m proud of the end result.”

Leon Marchand is off in the boys’s 400m IM.

Butterfly first up and the French swimmer is simply behind Daiya Seto of Japan after 50m.

Max Litchfield in lane three, proper subsequent to the Frenchman, and the Briton is tucked in third behind Marchand and Seto after 100m right here.

And it is a storming swim from Litchfield after 300m as the boys flip to freestyle. Marchand is gone, however Litchfield has caught Seto and is powering residence.

That hole is narrowing now to Marchand, glorious from the Briton, he’s acquired 5 hundredths on Marchand in the ultimate 50m, however it’s an excessive amount of to overcome, the Frenchman successful in 4:08.30. Seto third and Clareburt fourth.

An enormous second now as the boys’s 400m IM begins, Leon Marchand in warmth two.

Carson Foster is the quickest in warmth one, with an entry time of 4:06.56. The crowd is basically into this one, too.

Duncan Scott and Matt Richards safely by way of in the boys’s 200m heats.

The crowd roars as Foster coasts residence in , the Americans on their toes for this one. Matsushita of Japan is second and Razzetti third.

This place has come alive, Marchand marches out, what a noise for the French hero.

A reminder, the 16 quickest from the heats qualify to the semifinals, the remaining shall be eradicated.

The lengthy, languid fashion of David Popovici right here, the favorite in the boys’s 200m freestyle, permitting the Romanian to glide to first in 1:45.65.

That was a speedy warmth although, with Belgium’s Lucas Henveaux nicking second proper out in lane eight.

Sunwoo Hwang third and Luke Hobson fourth, Australia’s Thomas Neill is fifth. They are all by way of to the semi-finals, not like China’s Pan Zhanle – an actual contender in the 100 free – and Ji Xinjie. Chris Guiliano of the United States additionally misses out. Team GB’s Matt Richards and Duncan Scott safely by way of and with extra in the tank, you’d recommend.

A little bit of historical past in the boys’s basketball, with South Sudan out on courtroom for his or her opening sport in opposition to Puerto Rico. Former Team GB star and NBA stalwart Luol Deng is a part of the teaching workers for the land of his start and has helped rapidly forge a really gifted, very tall workforce who pushed the United States shut in a warm-up encounter forward of the Games. It’s solely seven years since South Sudan performed their first official sport, the African nation being essentially the most just lately declared sovereign state.

Matt Richards, in lane 4, in a detailed warmth right here, with Woomin Kim main on the half-way level.

A frantic sprint for residence, and Australia’s Giuliano takes it in 1:46.15.

Richards with second for Great Britain, and Katsuhiro Matsumoto with third. All three males extraordinarily shut on the wall there.

The crowd roaring every man again on the ultimate lap right here, Duncan Scott now, in lane 5, with Lukas Maertens to his left at half-way narrowly forward.

A storming ultimate size from Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys in 1:45.91, who was closing in 1.75m/s, with Scott settling for third, behind Maertens in second.