Paris 2024 Live Blog - Olympic Live Updates & Breaking News (2024)

Athletics: Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GBR) leads heptathlon after two events

The high jump event in the heptathlon is the last bit of action for the morning session of athletics at the Stade de France, and Johnson-Thompson and defending Olympic champion Nafi Thiam (BEL) decided to put on a show for the crowd as they both cleared the 1.92m mark to set up a mini showdown at 1.95m.

Alas, despite someveryclose attempts, neither woman was able to clear the bar so it's Johnson-Thompson who leads the heptathlon after two events courtesy of finishing ahead of Thiam in the 100m hurdles.

Athletics: 4x100m relay finals preview

We brought you the full list of the men's 4x100m qualifiers for the finals, so it's only right we do the same for the women!

1. USA: 41.94
2. Great Britain: 42.03
3. France: 42.13
4. Germany: 42.15
5. Jamaica: 42.35
6. Switzerland: 42.38
7. Canada: 42.50
8. Netherlands: 42.64

You can find out everything you need to know about the finals for the relays below!

Sailing: Austria win mixed dinghy gold!

In this new medal event for Paris 2024, the Austrian boat of Lara Vadlau and Lukas Maehr win gold!

The duo only finish seventh in the medal race (out of 10 boats), but it's enough for them to finish on top of the podium overall.

Silver goes to Okada Keiju and Yoshioka Miho of Japan, who finished third in the medal race; Anton Dahlberg and Lovisa Karlsson (SWE) win bronze.

🥇Austria
🥈Japan
🥉Sweden

Athletics: USA also cruise through to men's 4x100m realy final, Jamaica miss out

Smooth as you like from the USA quartet, who dominate their heat and are the fastest of the day with a time of 37.47.

Big cheers in the Stade de France from the home crowd as the French team also qualify in 38.34.

There's a big shock though as Jamaica, bronze medallists at the 2023 world championships, fail to make it through! A poor changeover for the final 100m ultimately costs them as they finish fourth in their heat - and their time of 38.45 isn't enough to see through to the final.

The full qualifiers for Friday's final are as follows:

1. USA: 37.47
2. South Africa: 37.94
3. Great Britain: 38.04
4. Japan: 38.06
5. Italy: 38.07
6. People's Rep. of China: 38.24
7. France: 38.34
8. Canada: 38.39

Athletics: USA lead top qualifiers in women's 4x100m relay

Theyalmost bungled the final changeover, but the 2023 world champions have posted the fastest time in qualifying with a 41.94 mark.

Great Britain (42.03) and hosts France are also through (42.13) in second and third respectively, while defending Olympic champions Jamaica qualify fifth-fastest in a season-best 42.35.

Rhythmic gymnastics: Individual all-around qualification

One of the most visually specatcular events of the Olympics has just started at La Chapelle Arena - rhythmic gymnastics.

Find out more about this wonderful sport in our explainer article below!

Table Tennis: People's Rep. of China take 1-0 lead against France

Well, I thought we were in for a close match in the men's pair portion of this team semi-final clash, but Ma and Wang (CHN) eased to a 13-11, 11-5, 11-2 win to put China on the board first.

We're in to match 2 now between men's singles champion Fan Zhendong and bronze medallist Felix Lebrun, with the former already two games up.

As a reminder, the semi-final is a best-of-five format, so if Fan does beat Lebrun China will need just one more match win to progress to the final.

Athletics: First event of women's heptathlon

The morning's athletics session has started at the Stade de France with the first event of the heptathlon: the 100m hurdles.

Annik Kaelin (SUI) has blitzed through with a personal best time of 12.87. Taliyah Brooks (USA) is second in 13.00 with Belgium's Noor Vidts third in 13.10.

Two-time defending Olympic champion Nafi Thiam (BEL) is 16th after this first event, with world number one Anna Hall (USA) seventh.

The high jump is next in about 30 minutes.

Table tennis: People's Rep. of China take first game vs France in men's team semi-final

China have won all four Olympic Games titles in the men's team event since it was introduced at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, but they're in an early battle here in the semi-finals against the French pair of Alexis Lebrun and Simon Gauzy,who have forced them all the way in this first game - though it is the Chinese pair of Ma Long and Wang Chuqin who take it 13-11.

France finished second to China at the world championships earlier this year, and it looks like we're in for another great battle with a packed house inside South Paris Arena 4.

Marathon swimming: Sharon van Rouwendaal (NED) wins women's gold!

After a monumental two hour swim in the River Seine, Van Rouwendaal breaks away from Johnson and Taddeucci in the final straight to come home and smack the time board with vigour - she is an Olympic champion for a second time!

After winning gold in this event at Rio 2016, she is now the first athlete ever to win two Olympic gold medals in marathon swimming and three medals total in that discipline of aquatics (gold in 2016, silver in Tokyo 2020, gold in Paris 2024).

Johnson's silver is the best result for an Australian athlete in marathon swimming, while Taddeucci earns a well-deserved bronze.

🥇Sharon Van Rouwendaal (NED): 2:03:34.2
🥈Moesha Johnson (AUS): 2:03:39.7
🥉Ginevra Taddeucci (ITA): 2:03:42.8

Golf: Second round of women's individual competition underway

At Le Golf National, the first group of players are teeing off for the second round of the women's golf.

France's Celine Boutier has a three-shot lead after a seven-under 65 in the first round. Ashleigh Buhai (RSA), despite playing with a broken toe that has forced the South African to cut a hole in her shoes so she can swing without pain, is Boutier's closest challenger three shots behind.

Marathon swimming: Two laps to go

The battle for gold looks like it's going to be between Van Rouwendaal and Johnson, who are now eight seconds clear of Ginevra Taddeucci (ITA) in third.

There are two laps to go (just under four kilometres), but the pair look very strong out in front.

Marathon swimming: Six kilometres to go as lead group emerges

Two-time Olympic medallist and two-time world champion Sharon van Rouwendaal (NED) has battled her way into first place with roughly six kilometres to go, leading a group of three other women who are all within two seconds of her.

What's happening on Day 13 at Paris 2024?

There are a total of 27 gold medal events on Day 13, Thursday 8 August. Here are our top picks of the day:

Team sports reach exciting end, world record watch

Themen's basketball competition reaches the semi-final stage (5:30pm, 9pm), while themen's footballbronze medallists will be decided (5pm) and themen's hockey tournament concludes (2pm, 7pm).

Will the world record fall inmen's speed climbing as that competition comes to an end (12:28pm)?Samuel Watson's already lowered his own mark of 4.79s down to 4.75s. But Watson himself posted a training video of him completing the 15m-high wall even quicker than that leading up to the Games. That time could certainly fall again.

Athletics: Lyles, McLaughlin-Levrone, Chopra in action

Noah Lyleswill aim to complete the second leg of a potential treble on 8 August as themen's 200m final(8:30pm) takes place. The U.S. national record holder has made no secret of the fact he wants to take downUsain Bolt's world record, and his personal best is just 0.12 seconds away from Bolt's mark.

Meanwhile, Indiawill be targeting a second athletics Olympic gold medal as defending championNeeraj Chopragoes in themen's javelin throw final(8:25pm). In Tokyo, Chopra became India's first individual Olympic champion since 2008 and the first in track and field. However, competition will be fierce as ever from the likes ofJakub Vadlejch, while Germany will have Julian Weber.

And then there's Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the woman seemingly no one can beat. Having set a new world record (pending ratification) of 50.65 at the U.S. Trials, and with no-one else close, she is the runaway favourite in thewomen's 400m hurdles final (9:25pm), but don't count outFemke Bol, the only other woman to have run under 51 seconds.

Sailing: Singapore could win historic medal

The small Southeast Asian island state of Singapore has only had one Olympic champion in history, when Joseph Schoolingwon swimming gold at Rio 2016. That could change on Day 13 at theMarseille Marina, as sailing gets set to crown its firstkiteboarding champions in this new event (from 3:40pm if conditions allow).

That's thanks to Max Maeder, the 17-year-old who is already two-time reigning world champion despite his young age, in addition to silver in 2022 and three Youth World Championships titles. He also won gold at theAsian Games last year to add to a growing list of achievements.

Medal events

Athletics (track and field)
20:00:W long jump final;20:25:M javelin throw final;20:30:M 200m final;21:25:W 400m hurdles final;21:45:M 110m hurdles final

Boxing
21:30–22:01:M 57kg semi-finals;22:02–22:33:W 75kg semi-finals(losing semi-finalists win bronze);22:34–22:50:M 51kg final;22:51–23:06:W 54kg final

Canoe sprint
13:30–13:40:M C-2 500m final A;13:40–13:50:W K-4 500m final A;13:50–14:00:M K-4 500m final A

Cycling (track)
19:11–19:17:W keirin final;19:27–20:00:M omnium points race

Diving
15:00–16:40:M 3m springboard final

Football
17:00–20:00:M bronze medal match

Hockey
14:00–15:45:M bronze medal match;19:00–20:45:M gold medal match

Marathon swimming
07:30–10:00:W 10km open water
Subject to water quality conditions.

Sailing
11:43–12:10: Mixed two-person dinghy medal race;12:18–12:38: Mixed multihull medal race; 15:40–16:10:M kiteboarding final;16:37–17:07: W kiteboarding final

Sport climbing
12:54–13:00:M speed finals

Taekwondo
20:19–21:33:M -68kg medal contests;20:35–21:52:W -57kg medal contests

Weightlifting
15:00–17:08:W 59kg;19:30–21:38:M 73kg

Wrestling
19:30–20:05:M Greco-Roman 67kg medal finals;20:05–20:40:M Greco-Roman 87kg medal finals;20:50–21:25:W freestyle 53kg final

Full daily schedulehere.

Marathon swimming: Women's 10km race live

Good Morning and welcome to Day 13 of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games!

We'vealready got sporting action taking place this morning, and it's in the Seine, where the women's 10km marathon swim race is ongoing.

We're very early in the race - about 1km down or so - and at the moment Moesha Johnson (AUS) is leading proceedings.

There's a big tangle of bodies behind her, and the athletes are having to contend with a strong current (not to mention getting kicked in the face every now and then).

Marathon swimming is a highly tactical affair, so we will see who has the best strategy to win gold!

Table tennis: Sweden stun Japan to reach men's team final

Wow! The table tennis men's team semi-final between Sweden and Japan has somehow come down to the last game of the last match in the tie.

Japan, the favourites to win this tie, won the first two matches – including a win forHarimoto Tomokazu against individual silver medallistTruls Möregårdh – but dropped the next two singles rubbers as the Swedes forced a deciding match.

Harimoto stepped up again and won the first two games of the decider, butAnton Kallberg managed to take the next two, before coming from behind in the fifth and deciding game of the fifth and deciding match to seal victory.

It means Sweden progress to the final to face either hot favourites People's Republic of China, or hosts France, who play tomorrow morning, and Möregårdh is guaranteed to win a second medal.

Handball: Denmark, Slovenia reach semis

After France's earlier shock elimination to Germany, we had two further men's handball quarter-finals to complete the semi-final lineups.

Denmark narrowly beat Sweden 32-31, whileSlovenia eliminated Norway 33-28 in what was the largest margin of victory among the four quarter-finals, with the other three all decided by a single goal.

The two winners from the evening's matches will face off in the semi-finals.

Basketball: France, USA reach women's semi-finals

Just as in the men's basketball event, the hostsFrance and favouritesUSA are each through to the semi-finals inwomen's basketball after comfortable wins this evening.

France defeated Germany 84-71, while USA beat Nigeria 88-74.A'ja Wilson top-scored for the U.S. with 20 points, adding 11 rebounds.

The hosts play Belgium while the U.S. face Australia's Opals in the last four on Friday.

Boxing: Oleksandr Khyzhniak wins men's 80kg gold

It's another split decision in the second boxing final of the day at Roland-Garros.

This one goes the way of Ukraine'sOleksandr Khyzhniak, the Tokyo silver medallist in the 75kg, who beats Kazakhstan'sNurbek Oralbay 3-2.

The two judges for Oralbay scored it 29-28, while Khyzhniak picked up two 30-27 cards and one 29-28.

Boxing: Erislandy Álvarez wins men's 63.5kg gold, beating home hope Sofiane Oumiha

Cuba's traditionally strong boxing squad will not leave Paris without gold, afterErislandy Álvarez narrowly won his men's 63.5kg final against France'sSofiane Oumiha, much to the disappointment of the home fans.

Álvarez won three of the judges' cards, 30-27, 29-28, and 29-28, while Oumiha took the other two 29-28, in a 3-2 split decision.

Sailing: Low winds wreak havoc on races, medals to be awarded on Thursday

We had four medal races scheduled in Marseille today in thesailing competitions, but in the end only two – the women's and men's dinghy medal races, themselves already postponed from Tuesday – could be completed before low winds ended hopes of any further sailing for the day.

The same lack of winds also forced the cancellation of the remaining opening series races in the men's kite and women's kite events, with just seven and six races in the opening series completed (just enough to hold a medal series under the rules).

It means four medals are due to be awarded tomorrow in sailing, with Friday the last potential reserve day – otherwise the opening series standings will decide medals.

Here are how things stand:

Mixed multihull, overall net points ahead of medal race

1. Tita/Banti (ITA), 27
2. Majdalani/Bosco (ARG), 41
3. Gimson/Burnet (GBR), 47
4. Wilkinson/Dawson (NZL), 47

Only these four teams remain in the medal hunt, with none of the top three teams being able to finish on more than 69 points after the medal race and the fifth-place team currently sitting on 70 points. The medal race will be scored using the low-points system, with points doubled for each finishing position (2 points for finishing first, 4 for second, etc).

Mixed dinghy, overall net points ahead of medal race

1. Vadlau/Mähr (AUT), 24
2. Xammar Hernández/Brugman Cabot (ESP), 31
3. Okada/Yoshioka (JPN), 35
4. Dahlberg/Karlsson (SWE), 39
5. Costa/João (POR), 49
6. Mermod/Siegenthaler (SUI), 52
7. Lecointre/Mion (FRA), 54

Only these seven teams remain in the medal hunt, with none of the top three teams being able to finish on more than 57 points after the medal race and the eighth-place team currently sitting on 57 points (and will score at least 2 points in the medal race). The medal race will be scored using the low-points system, with points doubled for each finishing position (2 points for finishing first, 4 for second, etc).

Men's kite, standings after opening series and qualification information

1. Toni Vodisek (SVK), qualified for final with 2 automatic wins
2. Max Maeder (SGP), qualified for final with 1 automatic win
3. Riccardo Pianosi (ITA), qualified for semi-final A with 2 automatic wins
4. Valentin Bontus (AUT), qualified for semi-final B with 2 automatic wins
5. Jannis Maus (GER), qualified for semi-final B with 1 automatic win
6. Axel Mazella (FRA), qualified for semi-final A with 1 automatic win
7. Bruno Lobo (BRA), semi-final A
8. Connor Bainbridge (GBR), semi-final B
9. Markus Edegran (USA), semi-final B
10. Huang Qibin (CHN), semi-final A

Each semi-final will be run over multiple races until a sailor reaches three wins (including automatic wins), and that sailor will qualify for the final. The final will be run over multiple races until a sailor reaches three wins (including automatic wins), with the remaining boats ranked based on the number of wins during the final.

Women's kite, standings after opening series and qualification information

1. Lauriane Nolot (FRA), qualified for final with 2 automatic wins
2. Eleanor Aldridge (GBR), qualified for final with 1 automatic win
3. Daniela Moroz (USA), qualified for semi-final A with 2 automatic wins
4. Annelous Lammerts (NED), qualified for semi-final B with 2 automatic wins
5. Leonie Meyer (GER), qualified for semi-final B with 1 automatic win
6. Elena Lengwiler (SUI), qualified for semi-final A with 1 automatic win
7. Breiana Whitehead (AUS), semi-final A
8. Maggie Pescetto (ITA), semi-final B
9. Julia Damasiewicz (POL), semi-final B
10. Gal Zukerman (ISR), semi-final A

Each semi-final will be run over multiple races until a sailor reaches three wins (including automatic wins), and that sailor will qualify for the final. The final will be run over multiple races until a sailor reaches three wins (including automatic wins), with the remaining boats ranked based on the number of wins during the final.

Beach volleyball: Semi-final matchups at Eiffel Tower Stadium set

We now know the four pairs left in both the women's and men's beach volleyball draws after the last quarter-finals today.

On the women's side of things, Switzerland's Tanja Hüberli/Nina Brunner take on Canada'sMelissa Humana-Paredes/Brandie Wilkerson whileAna Patricia Ramos/Eduarda Lisboa of Brazil face Australia'sMariafe Artacho del Solar/Taliqua Clancy.

And in the men's draw, Qatar'sCherif Younousse/Ahmed Tijan will play Sweden'sDavid Ahman/Jonatan Hellvig while German duoNils Ehlers/Clemens Wickler come up against Norwegian pairAnders Mol/Christian Sørum.

Boxing: Bronzes for Tiafack, Aboudou Moindze in men's +92kg

Another two boxing bronzes to confirm, after themen's +92kg semi-finals.

Germany'sNelvie Raman Tiafack and France'sDjamili-Dini Aboudou Moindze will both wear bronze medals around their necks at the victory ceremony after each falling to a 5-0 unanimous decision in their respective semi-finals.

Water polo: USA, Hungary reach men's semis after shoot-out wins

There was drama in both evening men's water polo quarter-finals as both matches were tied in regulation time and went to a shoot-out.

USA reached the last four at an Olympic Games for the first time since Beijing 2008 after overcoming Australia 11-10 (7-7 in regulation), and are joined byHungary who beat Italy 12-10 (9-9 in regulation).

Earlier in the day, defending champions Serbia beat Greece 12-11 in a repeat of the Tokyo 2020 final, whileCroatia knocked out Spain 10-8.

Serbia will face USA while Hungary play Croatia on Friday.

Finals set in women's hockey, men's volleyball

Earlier this evening, thePeople's Republic of China booked their spot in the women's hockey final againstNetherlands by defeatingBelgium in a shoot-out.

The Belgians had equalised in the last minute of regulation time to make it 1-1, and taken a 2-0 lead in the shoot-out, but eventually fell 2-3 to China.

Belgium will play Argentina for bronze.

Meanwhile,Poland reached their first men's volleyball gold medal match since 1976 after beatingUSA 3-2.

That was despite their libero, Pawel Zatorski, suffering an injury in the third set with no replacement available.

They will face hostsFrance in the final after the defending champions beat Italy 3-0 in the other semi-final.