There are 27 gold medals up for grabs on day eight of the Olympics as Great Britain look to extend their record start to Paris 2024 on what could be a super Saturday.
The women’s 100m final is the pick of the late action where Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita hoping to challenge the might of the USA’s Sha’Carri Richardson and Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price.
Before then, Simone Biles is back in action and goes for her third gold of the Games in the vault final, while Max Whitlock bids for a historic third consecutive gold on pommel horse and Jake Jarman targets a medal on the floor.
Fresh off his stunning victory in the mountain bike, Tom Pidcock features in the men’s cycling road race. It’s also the final day of rowing and Great Britain will be contenders in the men’s and women’s eights.
And the swimming is set to produce another night of drama with Katie Ledecky looking to continue her dominance of the 800m free and Great Britain able to field a strong side in the mixed 4x100m medley relay – especially if Adam Peaty has sufficiently recovered from Covid to be selected.
Follow all the action, latest results and medals from Paris 2024 in our live blog below.
Olympics 2024: Women’s hockey
Away from the rowing lake, Team GB’s women’s hockey side are struggling against Argentina. The game is into the third quarter and they trail 2-0.
GB have already qualified for the quarter-finals and this is their final pool-stage match but defeat would guarantee that they finish fourth, meaning they’ll face the winners of the other pool in the quarter-finals and would be big underdogs.
Luke Baker3 August 2024 10:03
Olympics 2024: Women’s eight – TEAM GB TAKE BRONZE
That’s Team GB’s 28th medal of the Games so far…can the men’s go one, or even two places better later on? Find out around 10.10am.
But for the women’s team of Heidi Long, Roan McKellar, Holly Dunford, Emily Ford, Lauren Irwin, Eve Stewart, Hattie Taylor, Annie Campbell-Orde and Henry Fieldman (cox), it’s a well-earned bronze.
It wasn’t far from silver at all either – Canada finished in 2:58.18 and GB in 2:58.78!
Chris Wilson3 August 2024 10:02
Olympics 2024: Women’s eight – TEAM GB TAKE BRONZE
And it’s the first medal of the day for Team GB as the women’s eight team takes bronze!
Gold for Romania, which never really looked in any doubt from around the 850m mark. Canada take silver after a late surge to fend off GB.
Chris Wilson3 August 2024 09:58
Olympics 2024: Women’s eight
With 500m left, Romania have a 2.2s lead, with Team GB still in third but being hunted by the USA. This will be tight for the silver and bronze, but it looks like gold is assured for Romania…
Chris Wilson3 August 2024 09:57
Olympics 2024: Women’s eight
Team GB are in third, 0.6s behind Canada, as we pass the 500m mark. Romania are in third just 0.05s behind the Canadians.
But Romania have reversed that lead and are really beginning to pull ahead as we get to the 1km mark, and they sit over a second ahead of Canada now.
GB still in the bronze medal place!
Chris Wilson3 August 2024 09:55
Olympics 2024: Women’s eight
The buzzer goes and one of the blue-riband rowing events has begun!
Just for reference, Team GB got the second fastest qualifying time, behind Romania. Although that often doesn’t mean a lot come the final.
But it is indeed Romania who have got off to the fastest start, pulling slightly ahead early on.
Chris Wilson3 August 2024 09:52
Olympics 2024: Rowing
The Netherlands’ Karolien Florijn has won the women’s single sculls final, and we’re abut to get underway in the women’s eight too.
Chris Wilson3 August 2024 09:49
Olympics 2024: Men’s road race
The men’s road race begins at 10am, with GB’s Tom Pidcock having swapped the mountain bike for a road bike as he looks for a second gold of the Games.
He’ll face tough competition though, from the likes of Mathieu van der Poel, Remco Evenepoel and Wout van Aert.
Chris Wilson3 August 2024 09:46
We’re just under 10 minutes from the final of the women’s eight now.
The GB team of Heidi Long, Roan McKellar, Holly Dunford, Emily Ford, Lauren Irwin, Eve Stewart, Hattie Taylor, Annie Campbell-Orde and Henry Fieldman (cox) are looking for just their second Olympic medal at this event.
Team GB didn’t even make the final at Tokyo 2020, finishing fifth in the repechage, though they finished top of their heat this time round.
Chris Wilson3 August 2024 09:42
Bryony Page bounced back like no other to claim trampolining Olympic gold
No one does bouncing back quite like Great Britain’s first-ever Olympic trampolining champion.
And all those ups and downs were made worthwhile inside the Arena Bercy as she completed her Olympic set in style.
The 33-year-old, who won silver on debut in Rio and bronze in Tokyo, produced a dazzling display and sunk to her knees when it was revealed her routine had taken her to the summit.
Chris Wilson3 August 2024 09:37
