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Hello everybody and welcome to live coverage of the second official day of competition of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.
The Games exploded into life yesterday with China shooting and diving their way to the first two gold medals of the fortnight, and France’s rugby sevens outfit securing what will prove – even at this early stage – one of the most popular triumphs of the Olympics. But day two begins with Australia topping the medal table after an extraordinary run of success, especially in the pool.
Shooting – men’s & women’s 10m air pistol (from 9:30)
Mountain Bike – women’s cross country (from 14:10)
Judo – men 66kg / women 52kg (from 16:00)
Archery – women’s team (from 16:48)
Skateboarding – women’s street (from 17:00)
Canoe Slalom – women’s kayak single (from 17:45)
Swimming (from 20:30) – men’s 400m IM / women’s 100m butterfly / men’s 100m breaststroke.
Fencing (from 20:50) – women’s individual foil / men’s individual epee.
*(All times listed are Paris local)
Swimming
Between 2014 and 2020 Team GB’s Adam Peaty won every available global gold in the 100m breaststroke – including at two Olympics, two Commonwealth Games and three world championships – and broke the world record five times. But after Tokyo he stepped away from the pool, citing mental health issues. He returned last October, with his eyes on this day. His key rival will be Qin Haiyang, China’s breaststroke king, who in the 2023 world championships completed a treble of 50m, 100m and 200m.
Men’s basketball
The United States have won 16 of the 20 men’s basketball golds, including the last four, and with LeBron James in an all-star side are inevitable favourites for another. James’s notable teammates include Stephen Curry, a four-time NBA champion, two-time NBA MVP, and by a massive margin the NBA’s all-time three-point leader, who remarkably is playing his first Olympics at 36. Today they get their tournament under way against a Serbia side that has in its ranks this year’s NBA MVP in Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets.
Women’s street skateboarding
Japan won four of the six women’s skateboarding medals in Tokyo, including both golds, and in the street discipline have five of the world’s current top seven (in park they have four of the top six). But Brazil’s world No 3, Rayssa Leal, has high hopes. Nicknamed Fadinha (little fairy – after her first viral video, of her attempting and eventually nailing a heelflip in a fairy costume aged seven), Leal won silver in Tokyo aged 13, has got better since, and will be out to sprinkle some magic at La Concorde.
