DAY TEN of the Olympics is here – and things are heating up across Paris with Team GB picking up another three medals but Simone Biles failing to grab her eighth and ninth.
Team GB picked up a brilliant gold medal in the women’s team sprint inside the velodrome, with Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane setting a new world record in all THREE of their races.
Earlier, the Brits had agonisingly missed out on mixed triathlon gold in the first medal event of the day, finishing in third place, while Kimberley Woods (bronze) and Joe Clarke (silver) both brought home medals in the kayak cross. Later tonight, Keeley Hodgkinson will aim to go one better than she did in Tokyo as she vies for 800m gold.
Elsewhere, gymnastics legend Simone Biles failed to win gold in her final two events of the games, coming fifth in the beam final after a fall and winning silver in the floor event.
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Cycling – women’s team sprint finals
Germany have taken bronze at the expense of the Netherlands.
The Germans won by 0.29 seconds.
Close battle, not a million miles off that world record set earlier by Team GB.
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Men’s 3000m steeplechase round 3
Lamecha Girmin of Ethiopia has finished in top spot.
Kenneth Rooks of Team USA was second, with Simon Kiprop Koech of Kenya in third place.
Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui finished fourth, with Jean-Simon Desgagnes of Canada in fifth.
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Football – men’s semi-finals match
Spain have finally found an equaliser against Morocco.
Fermin Lopez with the goal after 66 minutes.
Now we wait to see if either side can find a winner or whether this game will be heading to extra-time.
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Men’s 3000m steeplechase round 2
Mohamed Tindouft of Morocco finishes in first place.
Samuel Firewu of Ethiopia finishes in second, with Abraham Kibiwot of Kenya in third.
Ryuji Miura of Japan finished in fourth place.
News from the first race, where Kenya’s Amos Serem was nudged the wrong side of the water jump and had to go back to repeat it.
He has been awarded a place in the final after missing out as a result of the coming together.
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Football – men’s semi-final match
With 60 minutes gone, Morocco still lead from that Soufiane Rahimi penalty in the first half.
Spain are trying their best to find an equaliser but the Africans are doing well to defend their lead.
Still a long time to go, they will have to survive numerous onslaughts from the Spanish if they hope to make it to the final.
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Men’s 3000m steeplechase round 1
Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco finishes in first spot with a time of 8:17.90.
Leonard Chemutai of Uganda finishes in second place, Getnet Wale of Ethiopa in third spot.
Daniel Arce of Spain finishes in fourth place.
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View from SunSport’s Joshua Jones in Paris
Hilariously the email notification from the Olympics to notify me of a new world record in the women’s team sprint has come through…
But since then it has been broken not once but TWICE.
Thrilling stuff!
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View from SunSport’s Joshua Jones in Paris
Team GB are into the gold medal final.
And they do so in style with a FOURTH new world record of the night.
They cross in 45.338 to book their spot against New Zealand with a silver guaranteed.
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Track cycling – women’s team sprint
World records are tumbling at regular intervals now.
Germany held one for a matter of minutes until New Zealand go and better it with a time of 25.348 seconds.
Team GB are next up against Canada to see if they can put some pressure on the countries at the top.
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View from SunSport’s Joshua Jones in Paris
There goes that world record.
Germany go around in 45.377.
And in the next race, it goes again for the third time tonight as New Zealand clock a 45.348.
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View from SunSport’s Joshua Jones in Paris
Now here we go with the proper racing in the women’s team sprint – one team starting on the far side, one team on the near side.
I am imaging a split screen for those watching on TV.
In the first heat, the Netherlands pip China but that does not rule the Chinese out of gold just yet – they just need the other six teams to all go slower.
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Team GB eliminated in hockey
The women’s team have lost their quarter-final match.
Netherlands proved to be too strong for them as the Dutch ran out 3-1 winners.
Team GB had done well to come back from an early goal but Netherlands dominated the final quarter.
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View from SunSport’s Joshua Jones in Paris
Right that’s the men’s team pursuit qualifying all done and dusted.
Eight of the ten nations are through to tomorrow’s first round, including GB who were second behind the Aussies.
But it’s time to wave goodbye to Germany and Japan. Au revoir.
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Football – men’s semi-final match
There could be a surprise on the cards in this one.
Morocco have taken the lead thanks to Soufiane Rahimi penalty in the 36th minute.
Plenty of time for Spain to find an equaliser but it is first blood to the underdogs for this tie.
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Hockey – women’s quarter-final match
Netherlands have taken the lead once again, this time thanks to Luna Noa Fokke.
Her goal came in the dying moments of the second quarter.
The third quarter remained scoreless and Team GB now have the final quarter to try and find an equaliser.
Update – Netherlands have just added a third through Luna Noa Fokke to probably seal their semi-final place.
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3×3 Basketball – women’s semi-final
Team USA were denied a place in the final by Spain.
The Spaniards triumphed by a score of 18-16.
To make the defeat even more painful for the Americans, the game was level at the end of normal time and went into overtime.
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Cycling – men’s team pursuit
Australia have knocked Team GB off top spot.
They bettered Great Britain’s time by 3/100th’s of a second.
Denmark are next up, hoping to better the Australian’s time.
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Cycling – men’s team pursuit
Team GB still sit top of the qualifying table.
France came close but were over two seconds behind and sit in second spot.
Seven teams have been now, with three still to ride.
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View from SunSport’s Joshua Jones in Paris
First cries of “Alles Les Bleus” inside the Velodrome as the French come out to their saddles to set their qualifying time.
But before they get underway, a bit of a blunder for Thomas Denis.
The rider, wearing his cleats, takes a tumble on the super-steep banking. Whoops!
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Women’s hockey quarter-finals
Hannah French has just equalised for Team GB against Netherlands.
It took Great Britain 20 minutes to find the back of the net.
The match is finely poised now with the score at 1-1.
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View from SunSport’s Joshua Jones in Paris
Time for some more Brits!
In the qualifications for the men’s team pursuit we have Ethan Hayter, Oliver Wood, Daniel Bigham and Ethan Vernon.
And they go round the 250m track 16 times to complete their 4km in 3:43.241 – just a second outside of the world record.
That’s the quickest time so far by four seconds.
We are flying!
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Cycling – man’s team pursuit
Team GB went fourth in the event and immediately beat the leading time.
They knocked just under 4 seconds off the time set by Belgium.
Canada currently lie in third place, with Germany in fourth.
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Team USA thrives in gymnastics
Jordan Childs claimed a bronze medal in the women’s floor exercise final.
She finished behind teammate Simone Biles who grabbed silver.
Rebeca Andrade of Brazil beat them both to the gold medal.
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View from SunSport’s Joshua Jones in Paris
It is absolutely baking in the velodrome tonight, I am literally sweating at my desk.
Turns out the arena must be kept at 28C – for scientific reasons to do with the actual cycling.
Spare a thought for us journos, though!
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Women’s hockey quarter-finals
It has not been a good start for Team GB.
They have fallen behind against the Netherlands early on.
The only positive is that there is plenty of time left for Great Britain to find a way back into this game.
