Paris 2024 Olympics: Team GB preview, highlights, athletes to watch, schedule for 4 August

The date of 4 August was coined Super Saturday at London 2012, but could it be Super Sunday for Great Britain on Day 9 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024?

Becky Downie will attempt to win a longed-for Olympic medal on the uneven bars final at the artistic gymnastics at the Bercy Arena while 2023 vault world champion and Olympic debutant Jake Jarman will attempt to replicate that feat with a matching Olympic gold, to add to his floor bronze from Saturday, 3 August. Look out for his renowned, amazed facial expression if he lands well.

Zharnel Hughes and new find Louie Hinchcliffe, who became first European runner to win the men's 100m at the NCAA championships in the United States and is coached by nine-time Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis, will line up in the men's 100m semi-final, and hopefully for the pair, the final later that evening.

Soon-to-be superstar Noah Lyles of Team USA, Jamaica's new sensation Kishane Thompson and world silver medallist Letsile Tebogo of Botswana will likely be their main rivals.

Former world number one in women's skeet Amber Rutter targets shooting gold at Paris 2024 just three months after giving birth.

The final round of the men's golf begins with Tommy Fleetwood vying for a podium place, while Lizzie Deignan competes in women's road cycling at her fourth Olympic Games. Lottie Fry, Becky Moody and now seven-time Olympian Carl Hester could challenge in the individual equestrian dressage, buoyant after claiming team bronze on Saturday, 3 August.

And that just marks the beginning of an action-packed day for Team GB in Paris, with Matthew Hudson-Smith also looking to get his Olympic athletics campaign underway in style in the men's 400m.

Read on to discover Team GB’s highlights on Day 9 of Paris 2024.

• Olympic Games Paris 2024 schedule

British athletes to watch on 4 August: Becky Downie, Jake Jarman, Zharnel Hughes and Amber Rutter

It's been quite the journey for British artistic gymnast Downie, who first competed at an Olympic Games at Beijing 2008. A best result of fifth in the team all-around at Rio 2016, Downie missed out on Tokyo 2020 and the history-making bronze secured by the women's squad in Japan.

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But now she's back, and the 2019 world uneven bars silver medallist is eyeing a longed-for Olympic medal to likely close out her career, looking to the heavens and her beloved late brother Josh should she do so.

Compatriot Jarman will be going for gold in the vault, although newcomer to the team Harry Hepworth could also challenge.

Amateur pilot and professional athlete Hughes is looking to compete in the men's 100m semi-final, and hopefully final, in what will be a showstopping conclusion to the evening at the Stade de France.

Hughes, who became the first British man to win a men's 100m medal at a world championships in 20 years, securing bronze in Budapest in 2023, will want to put to bed the devastating false start in the final at Tokyo 2020, which saw him leave the track before he could race.

Rutter is also hoping to overcome disappointment in regards the Games in Japan. The night before the sport shooter's flight to Tokyo and a positive COVID test kept the then-world number one from competing. This time Rutter has an extra supporter in her corner, with baby Tommy, born in April.

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Paris 2024 schedule highlights for Team GB on 4 August

All times listed in British Summer Time

Becky Downie in the women’s uneven bars final

14:40

Jake Jarman and Harry Hepworth in the men’s vault final

15:24

Zharnel Hughes and Louie Hinchcliffe in the men’s 100m

19:05 semi-final / 20:50 final

Amber Rutter in women’s skeet shooting

From 08:30 qualification / From 14:30 final