Follow along with the official Olympic Games Paris 2024 live blog to keep up with all the action from 24 July to 11 August, including full details on every event, live results and medallists, and athlete reactions straight from the competition.
Key Moments
Marks (USA) opens Womens Surfing with a bang
Caroline Marks from the United States just put on a show in the first heat of of the first round of Womens Surfing. Casual and calculated, Marks (USA) is the reigning World Champion and it showed as soon as the action began with an early 8.5 wave score. But that was just the lemon next to the pie. Before the heat was over, Marks air dropped into a double-overhead beast of a wave, pulled into the barrel, and came out with the spit for one of the day's highest scores yet, a 9.43.
Marks' combined heat score of 17.93 easily secured her advancement to Round 3 but that isn't to say that she was the only surfer showing off in the first womens heat of the day. Sarah Baum (RSA) charged multiple big barrel sections en route to a seond place showing and a total heat score of 8.47. While third place finisher, Yolanda Hopkins (PDR) surfed fearlessly on her way to a 7.0 total heat score. More than once, her heavy drops earned groans of concern from spectators on the beach.
An underwater view of Caroline Marks (USA) setting up a barrel in Round 1
Yolanda Hopkins (POR) makes her way back to the lineup after a heavy ride in her Round 1 heat
Reo (JPN) moves on to Round 3 with strong showing
Sporting a silver helmet and riding a red board, Japan's Inaba Reo just surfed his way into Round 3. Surfing with composure and using strong wave selection as a slight cheese breeze picked up and ruffled wave faces, Reo won his heat earning a 7.33 along the way to total score of 12.76.
Second place went to Leonardo Fioravanti (ITA) with a total score of 8.87 while Rio Waida (INA) was the third place finisher with a combined score of 5.74.
Inaba Reo (JPN) feels the joy of victory in his Round 1 heat
Surprises headline Day 1 of boxing
A quick look at today's boxing action, where French women's 60kg favourite Estelle Mossely was eliminated in the round of 32 in a 4-0 points decision by the judges.
USA's Jajaira Gonzalez took four of the cards, while the fifth judge declared it a draw.
Great Britain's Charley Davison was also knocked out in the women's 54kg, losing a split 3-2 decision to Türkiye's Hatice Akbas.
Colapinto (USA) advances from Round 1
In rising surf, the current #2 surfer in the world, Team USA's Griffin Colapinto just advanced from Heat 7 in Round 1 of Mens Surfing. And he did so with near perfect techincal tube riding that included a 9.53 single wave score, the highest one wave score so far in today's competition.
The regular foot, with a combined score of 17.03, bested Tahitian local and French surfer Kauli Vaast who put together one of the longest tube rides of the comp so far earning a 7.80 on the ride. Vaast (FRA) had a total heat score of 13.63 while third place finisher, Lucca Mesinas (PER), had a heat total of 11.10.
Kauli Vaast (FRA) threads the needle on one of the longest barrels of the day
Griffin Colapinto (USA) waits for a wave in the midst of winning his Round 1 heat
Zhang takes round one in match-up against Hashimoto
Over in the artistic gymnastics, Zhang Boheng is the top individual qualifier for the men's all-around final.
The Chinese gymnast scored 88.597, leading his People's Republic of China teammates to top the team standings, too.
Meanwhile, defending champ Hashimoto Daiki fell on high bar and placed third in qualification.
Meanwhile, Jake Jarman and Joe Fraser finished fifth and sixth overall for Great Britain respectively, while there's likely to be an intriguing contest in the pommel horse final with Rhys McClenaghan of Ireland, Stephen Nedoroscik of USA, and two-time reigning champ Max Whitlock of Great Britain qualifying one-two-three.
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Athlete reactions from Day 1
Now, let's hear from some of the athletes who've won medals on Day 1.
Let's start with the individual time trial, and hear from gold medallist Grace Brown of Australia:
"It means so much. The same as for many athletes, I (have) had to make a lot of sacrifices. A big team behind me putting a lot of work and belief in me. Being away from Australia a lot of the year, being away from my family, that's given me the impetus to work really hard and make it all worth it.
"Because it was wet, we had to go a bit slower through the corners and that helped me take some little breaks along the way. I didn't really know that a lot of my competitors were crashing.
"So it sounds like I was lucky to stay upright in the end. Sometimes that is just bad luck, or luck to me this time. So I'm glad that was the case for me. And I'm sorry for my competitors."
Her men's counterpart champion, Remco Evenepoel, who won gold after finishing third at the Tour de France:
"It means a lot. Every four years we have a chance to win this one, so it was the last championship to achieve in my career, in time trial. It's incredible to win this after an amazing Tour. It's one of the most beautiful moments in my life.
"We will see (about the road race), I think it's a completely different race. I'm not the only leader in my team, we have multiple cards to play. We have a very strong team, there are strong riders in other teams. We'll have to see how it'll go, but first I'll enjoy this one and we still have one week to think about how to win this race."
Paulin Riva, France's men's rugby sevens captain:
"It's huge. Never ever would I have imagined playing at the Stade de France, twice in front of 70,000 people. It's incredible to win this final, after everything we told each other, making that dream come true is just unbelievable.
"Now I just need to realize what's happened. It's been so long we are thinking about it, taht we've been working for it and finally we get paid back for it, we got the results for this work."
Lukas Märtens, Germany's first swimming Olympic champion in 36 years:
"I was overwhelmed. I stopped, looked at the scoreboard and thought, 'nah, that can't be right.' That was anything but foreseeable, after this season and after all the exertion, even if all the performances beforehand were good.
"The goal was definitely a medal. If it had been bronze, it would have been OK. I was thinking about gold, and now it's actually come true."
Ariarne Titmus, on racing against Katie Ledecky and Summer McIntosh in the women's 400m freestyle which she won:
"I’m just happy to get the result for myself, and I'm so honoured to be part of the race and be alongside legends like Katie. I look up to her so much as an athlete, and it is certainly not a rivalry beyond the races. I really respect her as a person. Her longevity in the sport. It’s nice to catch up and have a chat.
"It’s fun racing the best in the world. It gets the best out of me; it gets the best out of them. I really hope all the hype lived up to the expectation. I really hope that I put on a good show tonight and everyone enjoyed it."
Kerber knocks out Osaka
Over in the tennis, a heavyweight clash in the first round of the women's singles has gone the way of Angelique Kerber.
The German is sublime in a straight-sets 7-5 6-3 win over Naomi Osaka, who committed too many unforced errors.
Florence (USA) goes big in Heat 6
Goodness, what a heat!
2x World Champion John John Florence of Team USA just put on an absolute tube riding clinic in his Round 1 heat posting both the highest wave score and the highest heat total of the day so far.
In sync from the start, Florence (USA) scored a handful of high scoring waves inlcuding a 9.33 that elicited hoots and hollers of approval from spectators as well as his fellow competitors. To earn the score, Florence dropped into the biggest wave of the day that we've seen thus far, riding behind the foam ball with grace, and exiting the tube only after it had already spit into the channel. Backing up that score with a 8.00, Florence won the heat with a combined 17.33.
Not to be out done, Mexico's Alan Cleland Quinonez found his way out of a pair of deep barrels for a combined score of 14.14. Third place went to Spain's Andy Criere but he too put on a show with one of the best waves of the day, an 8.50 earned for standing tall and true in a deep and dangerous tube.
John John Florence (USA) paddles out on his way to earning the highest heat total and highest single wave score of the day so far.
John John Florence (USA) riding deep in the barrel on the way to the day's highest heat score
Editor's Pick
A round-up of the day's team sports scores
Let's take a look at the other team sports that have been played today, and catch you up on all the results from those matches.
Men's basketball
- Australia 92 Spain 80
- Germany 97 Japan 77
- France 78 Brazil 66
- Greece vs Canada is 60-68 after three quarters
Equestrian - Eventing, standings after dressage
- Great Britain 66.70
- Germany 74.10
- France 81.20
Men's football
- Argentina 3 Iraq 1
- Dominican Republic 1 Spain 3
- Ukraine 2 Morocco 1
- Uzbekistan 0 Egypt 1
- New Zealand 1 USA 4
- Israel 2 Paraguay 4
- France vs Guinea is 0-0 in the second half
- Japan vs Mali is 1-0 in the second half
Men's handball
- Spain 25 Slovenia 22
- Hungary 32 Egypt 35
- Croatia 30 Japan 29
- Norway 36 Argentina 31
- Germany 30 Sweden 27
- Denmark 37 France 29
Men's hockey
- Great Britain 4 Spain 0
- Netherlands 5 South Africa 3
- Belgium 2 Ireland 0
- Australia 1 Argentina 0
- Germany 8 France 2
- India 3 New Zealand 2
Women's hockey
- Argentina 4 USA 1
- Netherlands 6 France 2
Men's volleyball
- Japan 2 Germany 3
- Italy 3 Brazil 1
- Poland 3 Egypt 0
- USA 3 Argentina 0
- Argentina 4 USA 1
Women's water polo
- Netherlands 10 Hungary 8
- Greece 6 USA 15
- Spain 15 France 6
- Australia 7 People's Republic of China 5
- Fencing
Medal Moment
Oh Sanguk takes men's sabre gold after show of sportsmanship
Tunisia's Fares Ferjani has been holding off Oh Sanguk of Republic of Korea on match point in this men's sabre fencing final for a while.
At 14-8, he trips over himself and falls backwards; Oh declines to score and instead offers his hand to help his opponent up. Great sportsmanship!
From 14-5, Ferjani has got this back to 14-11! Can he keep it going?
But finally, Oh gets the winning point, celebrates with a big grin, and Ferjani is quick to offer his congratulations.
Great scenes.
Earlier, Luigi Samele of Italy won bronze.
And with that, the medal events of Day 1 have concluded. But action is still going on!