Key events
Women’s golf: All, or certainly many, eyes are on Nelly Korda at Le Golf National. She has dropped a shot early doors, though, and is one over par through three holes.
Men’s handball: Spain 17-20 Egypt after 48min.
Josh Kerr speaks to the BBC after last night’s silver medal in the men’s 1500m: “I was just trying to stay as close as possible … I could feel like we were really rolling, it was unrelenting pace.
“He [Cole Hocker] is a fantastic athlete … we could feel there were some guys still there and it wasn’t just us [Kerr and Jakob Ingebritsen].
“It was a great move for him, but it took the sting out of my legs a little bit, I was just trying to get to the finish line as fast as I could.
“You shake everyone’s hand, you move on, and you try and get better from it.”
Tomorrow night at the Stade de France, it’ll be McLaughlin-Levrone v Bol in the women’s 400m hurdles final. Not to be missed.
In skateboarding, the men’s park final is coming up this afternoon, with the BBC coverage beginning at 4.30pm. A little later there is track cycling – including men’s and women’s team pursuit. The men’s 400m final will feature in the athletics this evening.
The men’s 800m heats will be coming up a bit later at the Stade de France, which is nice.
Men’s diving: In the men’s 3m springboard semi-final, Team GB’s Jack Laugher is currently placed eighth after two dives, having scored 86.70 and 87.50.
Yona Knight-Wisdom of Jamaica leads the way at the top of the standings.
Jonathan Liew
A humble statement, on behalf of the media and the entire athletics establishment. In light of the surprising events at the Stade de France on Tuesday, we wish to make a few minor clarifying amendments to some of the coverage you may have seen over the last 12 months.
For example, when we described the Olympic men’s 1500m final as a head-to-head showdown between Josh Kerr and Jakob Ingebrigtsen we should of course have pointed out these two men would end up finishing second and fourth. When we thrust microphones in front of Kerr and Ingebrigtsen and asked them to take pot shots at each other, we in fact misspoke when we actually meant to be asking them both to trash talk Cole Hocker.
Men’s high jump: Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy takes out 2.20m after whipping up the crowd before his jump at the Stade de France. For some reason, he pulls a disgusted face after successfully completing the jump. What a showman!
He’s the bloke who lost his wedding ring in the river during the opening ceremony.
“It will remain forever in city of love,” he said.
Full results for the inaugural Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay can be seen here.
As stated it’s gold for Spain, silver for Ecuador and bronze for Australia.
Women’s golf: Celine Borge (Norway) leads at Le Golf National. She’s flown out of the blocks, so to speak, and is two-under par after three holes.
Women’s 100m hurdles: The American-born British runner, Cindy Sember, is through, running 12.72sec in her heat. “I think I’m ready for a medal,” she tells the BBC.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (Puerto Rico), Pia Skrzyszowska (Poland) are also qualified after the heats, and now Nadine Visser (Netherlands), Masai Russell (USA) and Cyrena Samba-Mayela (France) are also through after the heats.
Men’s handball: Spain 8-12 Egypt at half time in the quarter-final in Lille. Ali Zein of Egypt just executed a fantastic dinked penalty shot on the stroke of half time. He feinted to go low and hard and then popped it over the goalie’s head. The handball equivalent of a Panenka.
Gold for Spain in the Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay
Perez brings it home for the Spanish team after 42km in this inaugural event. That was a dominant performance from the 28-year-old who won silver in the individual 20km event. Ecuador silver, 51sec down, Australia bronze, 1min 07sec behind.
Organisers will no doubt regard this new event as a roaring success. It was a really high quality race and very entertaining.
There really is … quite a lot of sport happening at the Paris Olympics today. You can check out our live schedule here. (Sympathy for live-bloggers optional.)
Women’s 100m hurdles heats: Tobi Amusan wins in 12.49sec. Alaysha Johnson of the USA second in 12.61sec, Janeek Brown (Jamaica) third in 12.84. The top three qualify.
Kieran Pender
It’s Serbia vs Australia redux at the basketball this morning at Bercy Arena. On Tuesday, the Serbian men’s team overcame the Australian Boomers in over-time to win through to the semi-finals. But today is another day and the Australian women, the Opals, will be hoping to get revenge. The Aussies started slowly at this tournament but showed plenty of grit to progress through to the knock-out round, overcoming home nation France in a must-win clash last Sunday. Keep an eye on Lauren Jackson – the legendary basketballer, 43, is back at the Games after first retiring before the 2016 Rio Olympics due to injuries. Talk about longevity.
Men’s handball: Spain 8-9 Egypt after 26min. A classic encounter appears to be developing.
Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay: It’s 40sec now for Perez up front. Montag is in bronze medal position for Australia, more than 30sec down on Morejon of Ecuador.
Women’s golf: Yin Ruoning of China has obviously been in the drink at the first. She’s pictured chipping out of the drop zone and hits a fantastic shot that pitches beyond the hole and spins back to within a couple of feet. That is why she’s in the side.
Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay: Correction, the overall race distance is 42.195km, or 26.2 miles in old money.
Tom Daley Tokyo content over there on the official Olympics X feed:
Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay: Spain remain in control as the race moves into its final 2.5km. (It’s 40km in total: four legs of 10km).
Maria Perez of Spain leads by 32sec and it would appear to be an insurmountable lead. A brilliant performance by Perez because the gap was only a handful of seconds when the fourth leg began.
Women’s canoe sprint: Gazso (Hungary) and Wood (Australia) place first and second in heat two and progress to the semi-finals. Wang (China) and Peters (Belgium) follow suit in heat three.
Men’s handball: Spain 6-8 Egypt after 20 minutes in the quarter-final. This is end to end stuff.
Women’s golf: Charley Hull of Team GB hits a stunning second shot at the first after an indifferent drive. A brilliant hit with a fairway wood with the ball nestled on the edge of the fairway, carrying the water and leaving a very long putt for birdie.
Women’s golf: Maria Fassi of Mexico drains a magical chip at the first to move one under par. Meanwhile, back on the tee, the world No 1 Nelly Korda is getting ready to tee off. She receives a warm round of applause from the fans gathered around the tee.
Men’s handball: Spain 5-4 Egypt is a latest score from Lille after 14min of the first half.
I snaffled a ticket for the handball at the Copperbox back in 2012, which was nice. France v Croatia if I remember correctly.
Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay: Perez of Spain continues to lead Ecuador’s Morejon on the fourth and final leg. They’ve been racing for 2hr 16min now. Perez has 13sec.
Women’s taekwondo: The 49kg competition has begun. Oumaima El Bouchti (Morocco) has already beaten Ana da Costa da Silva Pinto Belo (East Timor) 2-0.
Men’s handball: Egypt have just taken the lead against Spain after seven minutes of their quarter-final.
Women’s canoe sprint: The Women’s K1 500m heats have now begun at Vaires-sur-Marne. Aimee Fisher (NZ) and Brenda Rojas (Argentina) place first and second respectively in the first heat and qualify for the semi-finals.
Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay: Pintado has pulled a couple of seconds clear of Martin. He’s also just been yellow-carded by a judge. He seems to be sailing close to the wind, to employ an entirely inappropriate metaphor.
Now Martin of Spain has overtaken Pintado! The race time has ticked past two hours. The fourth leg will be contested by women athletes. Martin of Spain tags to Maria Perez, Pintado to Glenda Morejon.
