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
Medal Moment
- Swimming
Tatjana Smith claims women's 100m breaststroke gold as McSharry wins bronze for Ireland
Moving straight on to the next final, the women's 100m breaststroke, with Olympic record holder Tatjana Smith (formerly Schoenmaker) the top qualifier.
World record holder Lilly King of the USA is in lane three, while young Irish starlet Mona McSharry is in lane five. People's Republic of China swimmer Tang Qianting is in lane six.
Those are the favourites for this race.
King gets one of the better starts but it's Tang who powers into the lead early. She's pulled out to the turn over half a second ahead of McSharry, a big split.
Is that too fast? She's holding on to that lead coming back on the last 50, and everyone is back in the picture as they approach the wall and Tatjana Smith comes in for the win!
Smith in 1:05.28 beats Tang, who's 0.26 seconds behind.
McSharry wins bronze for Ireland – their first swimming medal since Atlanta 1996.
Medal Moment
- Swimming
Thomas Ceccon puts in strong last 50 to win men's 100m backstroke
The next event, the third of five finals tonight, is the men's 100m backstroke final.
France have a home hope in this race, Yohann Ndoye-Brouard in lane three. Xu Jiayu of People's Republic of China is the top qualifier, while world record holder Thomas Ceccon of Italy is next to him in lane three.
Also in this race are USA's Ryan Murphy, the Rio 2016 champion and Olympic record holder, and world silver medallist Hugo González of Spain.
Into the pool they go for the start.
It's a super reaction time from Xu and Murphy. Xu leads at the halfway point from Murphy and Ceccon.
But Murphy has a great turn and underwater! Here comes Ceccon!
He's come from behind to add Olympic gold to his world record and world title in 52.00 seconds flat.
Xu takes silver in 52.32 and Murphy bronze in 52.39.
Summer McIntosh: "I'm still in shock"
We've just spoken to Olympic champion Summer McIntosh, still only 17 years old, after her win in the women's 400m individual medley.
"I'm still in a little bit of shock," she admitted. "Just three years ago I was 14 making my first Olympic team, now to be here, time flies and I'm just trying to enjoy the moment and soak it all up.
"There's a huge and very strong generations of swimmers coming up in multiple events. Katie [Grimes] is an incredible swimmer, she kind of does some of the same events I do, so it's pretty cool."
Heat winner Alonso Correa (PER) talks tube riding
Ever wonder what it is like inside a huge, spining cave of ocean water? Round 3 heat winner Alonso Correa from Peru offered this insight to surf reporter Ash Tulloch:
“Inside the barrel is a beautiful feeling. To see everything from the inside, it’s like being inside the ocean. Pure nature. You have to be 100% focused on that precious moment. I was having a lot of fun. This place is a paradise. You can see the mountains from the ocean. It’s very beautiful but not when you fall because it’s like a washing machine.”
What's it like in there? Inaba (JPN) in deep during Round 3
Patience pays off as Vaast (FRA) advances
Birthday boy and current world #2 Griffin Colapinto from the United States appeared poised to win his Round 3 heat against French surfer and Teahupo'o local Kauli Vaast after finding his was into and out of several big barrels. However, with only 6-minutes left in the heat and needing a second scoring wave, a patiently waiting Vaast (FRA) found one of the days biggest, most cavernous tubes yet and surfed it expertly to victory.
Vaast (FRA) pulls into a heat winning wave in Round 3
Medal Moment
- Swimming
David Popovici claims men's 200m free Olympic title
Okay, right on to the men's 200m freestyle final. David Popovici of Romania and Duncan Scott of Great Britain are in the middle lanes.
But it's Germany's Lukas Märtens, already a champion in the pool here, who takes the early lead.
Still Märtens at halfway from Matt Richards of GB and Popovici in third. Has he gone out too hard too early?
The German makes the turn for home still leading, but here comes the kick from everyone else!
Luke Hobson of USA in lane three has come from behind to hit the front. But wait, here comes Popovici!
It's David Popovici who wins! 1:44.72, from Richards (+0.02) and Hobson (+0.07).
Medal Moment
- Swimming
Summer McIntosh wins women's 400m IM
The first event of the night in the swimming pool at the La Défense Arena is the women's 400m individual medley final.
World record holder Summer McIntosh of Canada is off to a fast start and leads after the opening butterfly leg. On the backstroke, she opens up about a length on USA's Katie Grimes.
Onto the breaststroke with the two well ahead of the field, and McIntosh still clear of Grimes and extending her lead.
Freya Colbert of Great Britain sits third at the moment but it could all change. In fact, coming up to the 300m turn, Emma Weyant of USA is right on her tail!
This will be McIntosh's to lose from here, clearly.
And it is, comfortably. 4:27.71, ahead of Grimes in 4:33.40, and Weyant overtakes Colbert on the freestyle for bronze in 4:34.93!
Inaba Reo (JPN) moves on to quarter-finals in dangerous conditions
If you aren't watching Round 3 of Surfing right, it is time to tune in. Teahupo'o is showing off. Big time.
A growing west swell and favorable winds are making for dramatic and dangerous rides. Days like today are why surfers wear helmets and why water saftey professionals constantly patrol the lineup on their jet skis. Experts only need apply.
In Heat #2, Inaba Reo of Team Japan was able to advance to the quarter-finals with a combined two-wave score of 6.00, just squeezing by 2x World Champion and Round 2 standout Filipe Toledo from Brazil.
Though the scores don't neccesarily show it, the action was dramatic with both surfers enduring wicked wipeouts and breaking boards in the heavy conditions. When the swell comes out of the west like this at Teahupo'o, even the good waves can be hard to succesfully navigate. The barrels are big, round, and often leave you surfing over near dry reef exactly when you are trying to kickout.
Inaba (JPN) pulls into a beast of a wave in Round 3 of Men's Surfing
Joy and despair at the gymnastics arena
There are two very happy teams in this arena celebrating right now, Japan and the USA.
People's Republic of China have won silver, but they are distraught and just walking around after narrowly missing out.
Big cheers from Japanese and U.S. fans, too.
- Artistic Gymnastics
Medal Moment
Japan claim men's team gold after dramatic final
In the tussle for bronze, it's a clean routine from Stephen Nedoroscik, the former pommel horse world champion, who runs over to his teammates and they start jumping up and down in a big bear hug.
The crowd erupts into a "U-S-A" chant – 14.866 for Nedoroscik, that's at least bronze for the U.S.!
Back to the high bar where Su Weide has scored just an 11.600 after his two falls.
That's huge – it means Japan have overtaken the People's Republic of China with just one gymnast left to perform for each team.
And the Japanese have Hashimoto Daiki, the reigning Olympic champion on the horizontal bar.
Nearly sticks the landing, just a small single step back, and the Japanese fans in this arena are up on their feet and roaring! He gestures a "1" with his finger to the crowd, then asks them to quiet down as rival and friend Zhang Boheng prepares to go for China.
They share a handshake before Zhang's routine.
14.566 for Hashimoto, Zhang needs 13.465 to pull China ahead the U.S., and 15.266 to go ahead of Japan. He scored higher than that in qualifying.
Zhang is the only man still competing in this arena and has everyone's eyes on him. It's a pretty good routine but he takes a pretty big left foot step back on the dismount, and that could make all the difference.
He immediately goes over and hugs Hashimoto and the rest of the Japanese gymnasts.
Su Weide is just distraught as his teammates comfort him while waiting for Zhang's score. 14.733! That's gold for Japan!
They realise and jump for joy, before embracing each other in a circle. A comeback win!
- Japan 259.594
- People's Republic of China 259.062
- United States of America 257.793
Japan celebrate clinching gold
Su Weide falls twice on high bar
14.100 for Iliia Kovtun on floor closes the gap for Ukraine to the U.S., who have Brody Malone on the pommel horse now.
He seems pretty satisfied with his routine, letting out a big roar as he finishes the set. 13.700 for him.
Over on high bar, Xiao's score has been upped to 13.433 after a difficulty inquiry was submitted. Japan's Oka Shinnosuke follows that with a 14.433, and then Su Weide falls off high bar after a few worrisome moments! Is this the turning point?
And Su's off again! This could be huge!
Final rotation drama in men's team event
Sugino Takaaki likes his high bar routine!
It's mostly clean but for a slightly wobbly dismount. He pumps his firsts and gestures to the crowd to make more noise. Japan need to make up over three points to People's Republic of China, remember. 14.566 for him.
Xiao Ruoteng follows for China and it's a loose dismount, landing on his knee with a couple steps forward. 13.033 only. An opening for Japan?
Meanwhile, the battle for bronze is also a close one. Ukraine's first routine is from Nazar Chepurnyi, who struggles on his final pass and takes a big step while Paul Juda nails his pommel horse set, a well-executed routine with slightly lower difficulty. 13.366 for Chepurnyi and 13.900 for Juda means the U.S. pull further ahead.
Correa (PER) advances in first heat of the day
With a still rising sun casting a soft golden light over the lineup, Round #3 of Men's Surfing got under way in fine fashion this morning with rising west swell and pristine conditions- at least for now.
Within the first 3 minutes of Heat #1, there had already been 3 beautful barrels ridden, all of them bigger and more powerful than anything we have seen yet in the competition. If the wind cooperates, it is going to be a day to remember if you like watching world class surfers get barreled out of their minds.
Peru's Alonso Correa opened the scoring in his heat against South Africa's Jordy Smith by pulling into a standup tube straight from his takeoff. No bottom turn needed. For the effort, he earned a 4.83 before packing another, higher-scoring tube ride less than 60 seconds later. Smith (RSA) answered almost immediately with an air-drop to barrel that got him a 5.90.
But it was Alonso (PER) who advanced to the Quarter Finals thanks to his third wave of the heat, a sparkling, standup tube that he rode from behind the foam ball, driving across the reef to a flawless exit. It got him an 8.50 and the heat win.
Alonso Correa (PER) rides the foam ball during the first heat of Round 3
Zou scores 16.000 on parallel bars to help People's Republic of China extend team lead
There's nothing quite like a Zou Jingyuan routine on parallel bars.
He scores an impressive 16.000 for his routine, which is actually less than he got in qualifying.
It's still miles ahead of everyone else on the apparatus though.
Meanwhile, Team USA is doing its best to build up its score before reaching the pommel horse – Fred Richard scores a solid 14.466 on floor, which moves the U.S. ahead of Ukraine, but now behind Japan, whose strong parallel bars move them into second.
- China 219.296
- Japan 216.029
- USA 215.327
- Ukraine 213.529
- Great Britain 211.361
One rotation left.
People's Republic of China still hold lead after four rotations
After four rotations, China lead Ukraine by 0.433 points, 173.463 to 173.030.
USA sits third on 172.528.
But China are headed next to parallel bars, where they have arguably the best specialist on that apparatus, Zou Jingyuan, to help them increase that lead.
And Japan, back in fourth, are relying on lower scores from USA or Ukraine in the two remaining rotations.
The U.S. is on floor next, with pommel horse – probably the team's weakest apparatus – to finish.
Japan and People's Republic of China make headway on vault
The big scores are coming on the vault now with both China and Japan on that apparatus.
Hashimoto Daiki makes up for his earlier pommel horse error by scoring 14.900.
Meanwhile, over on parallel bars, Max Whitlock got a nice cheer, but he scores only 13.900, which is one of the lower totals on that apparatus today.
Halfway through the men's team artistic gymnastics final
We've had three rotations in the men's team final here in Bercy now, and as expected, People's Republic of China lead the way.
They're on 131.364, with USA sitting second on 130.163 and Great Britain third on 128.429.
Japan had another rough rotation on rings and are now back in fifth on 128.231.
- Judo
Medal Moment
Men's 73kg judo gold for Heydarov
Over at the Champ-de-Mars Arena, France have picked up another judo medal, but it's silver for Joan-Benjamin Gaba, to the slight disappointment of the home crowd.
Azerbaijan's Hidayat Heydarov gets a golden score ippon in a close bout to take the gold.
Adil Osmanov, representing Moldova, and Japan's Hashimoto Soichi claimed the bronze medals.
It is game ON for Surfing
Round 3 of both Men's and Women's Surfing has been called ON for today. The men will surf first with the first heat in the water within the hour.
Stay tuned for a full day of high-octane action live and direct from the South Pacific.
Medal Moment
- Skateboarding
Horigome retains men's street skateboarding title with last-trick heroics
Oh wow.
The defending champion in men's street skateboarding, Yuto Horigome of Japan, was sitting down in seventh before his final trick.
But he's absolutely nailed the 270 nollie bluntslide on the big hubba, his last chance to improve his score, receiving a massive 97.08 from the judges to catapult him into the lead on 281.14.
Only Jagger Eaton (281.04) and Nyjah Huston (279.38) can overtake him now.
But Huston bails on his last trick and will take bronze. Eaton can't do it either!
In dramatic fashion, Yuto Horigome is a two-time Olympic champion!
Yuto Horigome competes in the men's street skateboard final
On U.S. broadcaster NBC, analyst Ryan Sheckler says: "That final was the gnarliest final of competitive skateboarding that I’ve ever seen."
Advantage to the People's Republic of China in the men's team final?
Over on pommel horse, we've had the first misstep from one of the top two teams – China and Japan, who are favoured to take the top two steps of the podium between them.
It's Hashimoto Daiki, who comes off on pommel horse for Japan. Just 13.100 for him.
Advantage China?
- Judo
Medal Moment
Christa Deguchi wins historic judo gold for Canada
Canada had never won a judo gold medal at the Olympic Games. Until today.
Christa Deguchi and her Republic of Korea opponent Huh Mimi can't be separated in regulation time in the women's 57kg final, so they're off to golden score.
And in the golden score period, Huh picks up three shidos (warnings) – equivalent to an automatic ippon for her opponent, Deguchi, who can't quite believe it.
Bronzes went to Funakubo Haruka of Japan and home favourite Sarah Léonie Cysique.
Biles to compete all four apparatus in women's team final tomorrow
Meanwhile, some news to bring you regarding Simone Biles: she will do all four apparatus for the U.S. in tomorrow night's women's team final.
Paul Juda fired up on vault
USA's Paul Juda absolutely nails his Kasamatsu 1.5 vault, sticks the landing, and is fired up!
He goes running back down the side of the platform, high fiving all his teammates.
The crowd, which features a big contingent of U.S. fans, loved that too.
It's 14.666 for Juda and the U.S. – the highest score on vault so far today.
- Canoe Slalom
Medal Moment
France celebrate men's C-1 canoe slalom gold
Over in Vaires-sur-Marne, only one man can overtake Adam Burgess at the top now: the French top qualifier, Nicolas Gestin, who is getting strong home support.
His time to beat is 96.84, so no room for error!
This is a fast run and he has absolutely mastered the course! Gold for France! 91.36 seconds.
Burgess wins silver for Great Britain, and Slovakia win bronze through Matej Benus.