A metal horse appears in the ceremony (2024)

Finally, at her fourth Olympic Games, Ferrand-Prévot (FRA) has the gold!

The Frenchwoman has won five cross-country gold medals at the world championships (2015, 2019-20, and 2022-23), and was world champion in the road race in 2014, but had yet to earn an Olympic medal...until today!

Her compatriot Loana Lecomte, who won silver in this event at the 2023 world championships, suffered a nasty fall midway through the race that put her out of contention. Puck Pieterse (NED), another medal favourite, had a tyre puncture that also dropped her down to fourth.

2022 world bronze medallist Haley Batten (USA) took advantage of the chaos ahead to burst through and earn silver, while Rio 2016 champion Jenny Rissveds (SWE)wins bronze.

🥇Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA): 1:26:02
🥈Haley Batten (USA): 1:28:59
🥉Jenny Rissveds (SWE): 1:29:04

Women's kayak slalom semis begin

Over at theVaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, thewomen's kayak single (K-1) slalom semi-finals are underway.

Twenty-two kayakers qualified from yesterday's heats, and will be aiming to complete the course as one of the fastest 12 without accruing too many penalty seconds (for example, for missing a gate).

Australia'sJessica Fox was the top qualifier from heats and will start 22nd and last.

A result from the water polo earlier in the day to catch you up on:

Two-time defending men's Olympic champions Serbia survive against Japan, winning 16-15! A crucial goal from Dusan Mandic with just over a minute to go giving Serbia the win.

Great Britain's quartet of Helen Glover (two-time gold medallist in the women's pari), Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave, and Rebecca Shorten are through to the final of the women's four after posting the fastest time in the heats: 6:42.57.

They'll be joined by 2023 world champions theNetherlands (6:43.71), 2023 runners-upRomania (6:44.55), andNew Zealand (6:45.44).

Should be a fantastic final! That will be on Thursday (1 August) morning.

The other game in Pool B has just wrapped up - Spain beat Great Britain 2-1 through goals from Laura Barrios and Lola Riera

Another result to bring you from the women's hockey competition.

Australia have beaten South Africa 2-1 in women's Pool B.

South Africa had initially taken the lead through Kayla de Waal in the 14th minutes, but Australia responded two minutes later through Stephanie Kershaw to tie things up before Tatum Stewart scored what would be the winning goal from a penalty corner late in the third quarter.

Another big shock in the day's action following on from Abe's (JPN) loss in the judo - this time in table tennis.

Women's singles 9th seed Jeon Jihee (KOR) lost in straight games 4-0 to Portugal's Fu Yu, with the latter ranked 80th in the world. Jeon, by comparison, is ranked 14th.

There were straightforward wins for both men's and women's world no. 1 players, with Wang Chuqin (CHN) beating Slovakia's Yang Wang 4-1 and Sun Yingsha (CHN) beating Brazil's Giulia Takahashi 4-0.

Cameron Norrie (GBR) has withdrawn from the men's singles competition at Paris 2024 due to injury.

He will be replaced by Petros Tsitsipa (GRE).

Subdivision 2 of the women's qualification has just finished, and as you might have guessed, Simone Biles and the USA are through as top qualifiers.

The quintent of Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee, and Hezly Rivera earned the top score in all but one of the four apparatus (the People's Rep. of China earned the high score in the uneven bars) to finish with a combined mark of 172.296, which puts them through to the team final on Tuesday.

I mentioned earlier that South Sudan were making their Olympic debut in men's basketball here at Paris 2024 - well, they've just proved that they're not simply here to make up the numbers.

Behind 19 points from Carlik Jones (SSD), the Bright Stars take down Puerto Rico 90-79 for their first Olympic win!

An incredible performance from South Sudan, whose basketball federation only came into being in 2011.

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The first of the four is tonight at 6pm Paris time, featuring three-time Olympic champion Aly Raismanand five-time Olympic championNadia Comăneci - the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games.

Simone Biles - pretty good at gymnastics.

That's an obvious understatement as Biles completes her two attempts on vault, including her Biles II vault - the Yurchenko double pike.

Despite a big step backwards after landing, Biles receives another big score: 15.800. And with that, she also becomes the first woman to land the vault in Olympic competition! Incredible.

Snoop Dog - in attendance - approves.

A quick break from the women's gymnastics to let you know about some final scores in team sports 👇

Hockey - women's Pool A
Germany 2-0 Japan

Handball - women's Group A
Rep. of Korea 23-30 Slovenia

Volleyball - women’s Pool C
Italy 3-1 Dominican Republic

Over at Chateauroux, the women's 10m air pistol final has just wrapped - and Oh (KOR) has just set an Olympic record to win gold!

The 2023 world cup champion in this event scores 243.2 to claim victory ahead of her compatriot Kim Yeji (KOR). It's the first ever gold medal for Korea in this event.

There's history made for India, too: Manu Bhaker (IND) has just won her nation's first ever Olympic medal in women's shooting, and India's first medal of Paris 2024!

🥇Oh Ye Jin (KOR): 243.2 OR
🥈Kim Yeji (KOR): 241.3
🥉Manu Bhaker (IND): 221.7

Biles (USA) isn't done - far from it.

After that unbelieavble beam routine, she's now up on the floor - where two moves are actually named after her (that's just how good she is).

A slight step over the line after one landing won't betoocostly, such is the difficuilty of the moves she's producing as she launches herself through the air.

Another monster score: 14.600.

One of the big names of Paris 2024 - Simone Biles - makes her return to Olympic action today, and she has justsmashedher beam routine in women's qualifying.

The four-time Olympic gold medallist didn't suffer a single wobble on the appartus and nailed the landing with the smallest of hops. It's a massive score: 14.733!

The crowd goes absolutely nuts!

One of France's big medal hopes in the swimming has just won his heat in the men's 400m individual medley in a time of 4:08.30, and the noise insideLa Défense Arenawas deafening - and this was just a heat!

Every time the Frenchman's head went above the water in the breastroke leg of the race, the crowd serenaded him with cheers of "Allez!".

Marchand - the world record holder and 2023 world champion in this event - will compete in the final at 20:30 CET this evening.

Belgium have won their game against People's Rep. of China, 2-1.

Ballenghien's (BEL) opener was cancelled out by Chen Yang (CHN), before Charlotte Englebert (BEL) score the winner with five minutes left.

In the other game in women's Group A, Germany lead Japan 1-0 through Charlotte Stapenhorst (GER).

Tokyo 2020 women's -52kg champion Abe Uta (JPN), who hasn't lost on the world judo tour since 2019, is out!

Diyora Keldiyorova (UZB) wins by ippon in the elimination round of 16 - a huge upset!

Over at Invalides - another spectacular venue of these Games - the women's team 1/8 elimination round has just finished, meaning the quarter-final bracket is now set.

The Rep. of Korea - who have won gold in this event atall nineOlympic Games where it has been on the Olympic programme - face Chinese Taipei.

Reigning world championsGermanytake on Mexico, while theNetherlandsfaceIndia.

Indonesia, who upset Korea at the world championships in 2023, take on the People's Republic of China.

The Bright Stars have just taken to the court in the men's Group C contest against Puerto Rico at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille, meaning they are now competing in a Olympicbasketball tournament for the first time in history! It's an amazing achievement for the African nation, especially when you consider they only played their first official game in 2017 (an 87-76 loss to Egypt).

Puerto Rico are back on the Olympic hardwood for the first time since Athens 2004.

You can find out more about South Sudan in our preview below 👇

Hungary get their first win at Paris 2024 thanks to Petra Simon, who finds the back of the net with just five seconds left in the match!

The result means Brazil, Netherlands, France and Hungary all sit on 2 points in women's Group B - though the Netherlands and France have played one game less. Angola and Spain, the other two teams in the group, remain winless.

Two hockey games are ongoing over at Yves-du-Manoir in women's Pool A.

Beglium have just taken the lead against the People's Rep. of China courtesy of striker Ambre Ballenghien.

Germany vs Japan has just started.

The first medals of Day 2 have been won, and it's Xie Yu (CHN) whois now an Olympic champion!

The 2024 World Cup champion in this event clinches the gold medal by just .9 points ahead of Federico Maldini (ITA).

This is the first tile for the People's Republic of China in this event since Beijing 2008.

🥇Xie Yu (CHN): 240.9
🥈Federico Maldini (ITA): 240.0
🥉Paola Monna (ITA): 218.6