Simone Biles LIVE: Gymnastics icon returns to Olympics 2024 searching extra gold medals

The eye turns again to the gymnastics now at Paris 2024.

After a headline-making sixth gold medal for Simone Biles on Thursday evening, she’ll go for one more gold within the ladies’s vault remaining from 3.20pm.

To start with, now we have the boys’s ground remaining, through which GB’s Jake Jarman certified high, at 2.30pm BST.

And at 4.16pm BST, now we have the boys’s pommel remaining, the place Max Whitlock is bidding for a fourth straight medal (and a 3rd straight gold).

Within the tennis, the boys’s doubles remaining has gone to a tie-break third set between the US pairing of Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram and the Australian duo of John Friends and Matthew Ebden. After an early break, the Aussies raced into an 8-4 lead, and although the US clawed it again to 9-8, it wasn’t sufficient because the Australian pair broke the US serve to take gold at 10-8.

The ladies’s singles remaining, between Zheng of China and Croatia’s Vekic, will likely be up quickly, as will the boys’s bronze medal match between Auger-Aliassime and Musetti.

Extra on this later, forward of Imane Khelif’s bout at 4.22pm BST, however for now…

The president of the Worldwide Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, has criticised the “hate speech” whipped up in response to the boxing gender controversy at Paris 2024, as he defended the IOC’s choice to permit Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif to struggle on the Video games.

The pair had been disqualified from final yr’s boxing World Championships for failing to fulfill gender eligibility standards.

On Thursday, Algeria’s Khelif received her bout in simply 46 seconds, with opponent Angela Carini saying afterwards that she had “by no means felt a punch like this”. Taiwanese fighter Lin additionally received her ladies’s featherweight (-57kg) struggle on Friday with a unanimous choice victory over Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova.

Thirty-seven athletes are representing the Refugee Olympic Staff (EOR) in Paris on the Olympic Video games – and hopes are excessive that the group may win its first medal.

Paris 2024 would be the third time the Refugee Olympic Staff will compete on the Video games, with 24 males and 13 ladies, all of whom maintain refugee standing of their host nations, set to compete throughout 12 sports activities in France.

The Refugee Olympic Staff was created as an emblem of hope and to focus on the plight of refugees worldwide. There are round 120 million individuals globally who’ve been pressured to flee their houses attributable to conflict, persecution or oppression, a determine that has nearly doubled because the Rio Video games eight years in the past.

On the opening morning of the boys’s 100m on the Stade de France, Noah Lyles was in his aspect because the world’s eyes fell on him. Carrying a crown of white beads and together with his fingernails painted with the flag of the USA, Lyles exudes primary character vitality and anticipated to win comfortably, like he does in each race.

Hinchliffe carried on his breakthrough yr with a formidable show on his Olympics debut, clocking 9.98 seconds. Crushed by Lyles in London final month in his remaining race earlier than the Olympics, Hinchliffe was not shy to confess he sought revenge and declared there will likely be extra to return in his bid to achieve Sunday evening’s remaining.

“It was good to get him again after London, it was a superb feeling,” he mentioned. “I feel the strain, the atmosphere will carry extra out of me.”

The 2024 Olympic Video games is underway in Paris, the place the USA are as soon as once more favourites to high the medal desk on the finish of the 17-day pageant of sport.

The USA have completed on high of the desk at 18 of the 29 summer season Olympics, together with the very first in Athens in 1896, and 6 of the previous seven stretching again to America’s dwelling Video games in Atlanta in 1996. China punctured that streak in Beijing in 2008, and are proving stiff competitors once more after ending one in need of America’s 39 golds in Tokyo three years in the past. Hosts Japan completed third final time forward of Nice Britain in fourth.

Within the golf, Tommy Fleetwood has taken an outright lead at Le Golf Nationwide, shifting to 12-under by means of 4 holes (and one-under for the day).

That lead pack has been joined by Spain’s Jon Rahm, who’s two-under for the day now.

Schauffele has stayed on -11, however Matsuyama has dropped two pictures to maneuver to -9. Belgium’s Thomas Detry can be within the combine at -10, whereas Rory McIlroy is down at -7.

Wilson has began properly, main on the first mark and nearly retaining her lead across the second too.

However regardless of a assured begin, she slips again into third place and swiftly there’s numerous distance to make up.

And she or he finishes in third, taking dwelling a bronze medal behind Italy’s Marta Maggetti in first and Israel’s Sharon Kantor in second.

Add to this a bronze and gold within the ladies’s and males’s eights respectively…

Emily Craig and Imogen Grant shook off their disappointment of Toyko to win gold within the ladies’s light-weight double sculls as Staff GB added a silver from the rowing males’s pair and a diving bronze, received by Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding within the 3m synchro, on Friday morning.

Rower Helen Glover was denied a historic third gold medal and needed to accept silver within the ladies’s 4 on Thurday morning nevertheless it was certainly one of three rowing medals for Staff GB as Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Rebecca Wilde claimed bronze within the ladies’s double sculls and the boys’s 4 completed third of their remaining.

A reminder of the remainder of the occasions all through at this time:

10am-6pm: Males’s and girls’s windsurfing: medal sequence; Males’s, ladies’s and blended dinghy in crusing 🥇

10am-7pm: Males’s, ladies’s and blended dinghy; blended multihull in crusing

11am-6pm: Males’s singles: bronze medal remaining; ladies’s singles, males’s doubles: gold medal finals in tennis 🥇

11.45am-9.30pm: Girls’s pool stage matches in hockey

12.30pm-3pm: Girls’s singles: medal finals in desk tennis 🥇

2pm-4.30pm: Girls’s doubles: medal matches in badminton

2pm-11pm: Girls’s quarter-finals (4 matches) in soccer

2.30pm-4.55pm: Girls’s 50kg, ladies’s 66kg, males’s 57kg, males’s 71kg: quarter-finals; ladies’s 60kg: semi-finals in boxing

3pm-6pm: Blended group: medal rounds in Judo 🥇

3pm-6pm: Males’s and girls’s prelims or fortunate loser spherical (3 matches) in seashore volleyball

3.30pm: Dressage group remaining anticipated to complete

4.15pm-6pm: Males’s/ladies’s (1 match) in basketball

5.15pm: Anticipated end time of the boys’s street race 🥇

6.10pm: Males’s decathlon: javelin A

6.15pm: Males’s 1500m: repechage

6.35pm: Males’s shot put: remaining 🥇

6.50pm: Girls’s 100m: semis

7pm-9.25pm: Girls’s 50kg, ladies’s 66kg, males’s 57kg, males’s 71kg: quarter-finals; ladies’s 60kg: semi-finals in boxing

7.10pm: Males’s decathlon: javelin B

7.20pm: Girls’s triple leap: remaining 🥇

7.30pm-9.30pm: Males’s 100m fly: remaining; ladies’s 50m free: semi-finals; ladies’s 200m particular person medley: remaining, ladies 800m free: remaining, blended 4x100m medley relay: remaining in swimming 🥇

7.55pm: Blended 4x400m relay: remaining 🥇

8pm-9.45pm: Males’s/ladies’s (1 match) in basketball

8pm-11pm: Males’s and girls’s fortunate loser spherical (3 matches) in seashore volleyball

8.20pm: Girls’s 100m: remaining 🥇

8.45pm: Males’s decathlon: 1500m remaining 🥇