Volleyball: People's Rep. of China vs Türkiye in women's quarter-finals (2024)

Track cycling: Netherlands break men's team sprint world record

Roy van den Berg,Harrie Lavreysen, andJeffrey Hoogland have just broken their own men's team sprint world record!

The Dutch trio, facing off against Canada, clock a speedy 41.191 seconds, taking 0.034 seconds off their best mark from the 2020 World Championships in Berlin.

That qualifies them for the gold-medal race againstGreat Britain later tonight at 8:10pm.

Athletics: Duplantis receives gold medal

TheStade de France, as one, rises to presentArmand 'Mondo' Duplantis a standing ovation as he collects his men's pole vault gold medal from the legendarySergii Bubka.

It was a remarkable final last night!

Football: USWNT and Germany goalless at half-time

The firstwomen's football semi-final in Lyon is currently goalless at half-time, as theUnited States andGermany duke it out for a spot in the final at the Parc des Princes on 10 August.

Which team will break the deadlock first?

Basketball: France lead Canada at half-time

Huge roars greet France as the buzzer goes, with the French team leading 45-29.

Canada mounted a mini-comeback midway through the second quarter to bring themselves within 10, but have been unable to get any closer despite the best efforts of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (13 points).

Mathias Lessort (10 points) and Isaia Cordinier (13 points) have been sensational for France.

Basketball: France lead Canada after one quarter

This is INTENSE.

Every basket made by France - even a free-throw -is met with huge cheers from the crowd, andLes Bleushave ridden that wave of support to build a 23-10 lead.

It'sveryphysical on the court too, and the refs are letting them play. Does Canada have a response?

Skateboarding: Arisa Trew wins women's park gold on final run

Australia's 14-year-oldArisa Trew, who had been in third after the first two runs, throws down a massive third round including a big body varial 540that has her support staff erupting in joy!

Trew earns a massive 93.18 to shoot to the top of the standings with just five riders to go. Heili Sirvio of Finland can't get into the top three.

Sky Brown is next, riding with a dislocated shoulder. It's a great run! She is thrown up in the air by her dad. It's 92.31 and moves her ahead of Hiraki Cocona!

Japan'sKusaki Hinano falls on her last run and so won't be moving up the standings. Trew is guaranteed a medal.

Only Hiraki and USA'sBryce Wettstein can prevent that medal being gold.

But Wettstein, too, can't complete one of her tricks! So Trew and Brown are guaranteed medals!

All eyes on Hiraki. It's a clean run! It looks good and solid! The Japanese raises both arms in the air then goes over to get hugs from all her competitors.

92.63! She beats Brown for silver! Brown is standing right behind her and can barely look - they then hug, both with massive smiles on their faces.

Arisa Trew is Olympic champion – and the Australian also sports a wide grin as she hugs her fellow medallists.

She's the youngest Paris 2024 medallist so far these Olympic Games!

Basketball: France - Canada ready for tip

We've just had a powerful rendition ofLa Marseillaise following the Canadian anthem inside Bercy Arena, which is jammed full of French fans and a smattering of red for those supporting Canada.

With plenty of NBA talent on both sides, this should make for an epic game.

Here we go!

Skateboarding: Hiraki leads with one run left in women's park final

At La Concorde, Japan'sHiraki Cocona, the top skateboarder from this afternoon's qualifying session, leads the evening final after two runs.

Each of the eight finalists have three runs, with the best score counting – and Hiraki's 91.98 from her first attempt has herjust ahead of Great Britain'sSky Brown, who landed a 91.60 in the second run.

Basketball: Victor Wembanyama warms up ahead of France - Canada quarter-final

One of the biggest French stars - literally - has been preparing for Les Bleus' quarter-final clash against Canada, which is set to tip-off in about 15 minutes.

At 7-foot-4, Victor Wembanyama will need to have an impact on both sides of the ball if France are to get by the world bronze medallists.

Water polo: Spain to face Netherlands in semis

The first of our twowomen's water polo semi-final matches is set:Spain will take onNetherlands – the first time the Dutch women have reached this stage since Beijing 2008.

Spain comfortably beat Canada 18-8 in this morning's first quarter-final with four goals fromElena Ruiz, while the Netherlands have just beaten Italy 11-8.

Australia face Greece and Hungary take on USA in the other two quarter-finals.

Basketball: Serbia beat Australia in overtime

What. A. Game.

In the end, it's one of the best basketball players on earth who makes the difference.

In a sequence of about two minutes, Nikola Jokic produces a tough hookshot score, a key steal on Mills as he looked set to score, and a ridiculous fadeaway shot to effectively seal the game for the world silver medallists.

Australia has a chance to tie things yet again with a few seconds remaining, but a bad inboud pass from Josh Giddey is stolen and Serbia escape with the win, 95-90.

Serbia fans serenade their heroes as one, with more MVP chants for Jokic - well deserved.

Next up? Hosts France against 2023 world bronze medallists Canada.

Volleyball: Recap of first two quarter-finals

The first twowomen's volleyball semi-finalists are set.

Türkiye are one of the two teams after a brilliant five-set clash against People's Republic of China which saw the two teams not only split the first four sets equally 2-2, but also on points, 95-95, before Türkiye won the decider 15-12.

Brazil have also reached the last four after beatingDominican Republic 3-0 in straight sets.

Italy or Serbia await Türkiye, while Brazil will face USA or Poland, in the semi-finals.

Basketball: Serbia - Australia headed to overtime!

What a shot by Patty Mills!

Serbia are up two with about 8 seconds left, and Mills navigates his way to the top of the key and hits ahuge shot over Nikola Jokic to even the scores at 82 and send this game to overtime!

What a moment!

Handball: Denmark, France reach women's semi-finals

Over in handball, hosts and defending championsFrance are one step closer to another women's gold after beating Germany 26-23 at the Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille.

They will play either Hungary or Sweden in the semi-finals.

In the other half of the draw,Denmark beat Netherlands 29-25 this morning, and face Norway or Brazil next for a spot in the gold-medal match.

Skateboarding: Hiraki Cocona (JPN) leads top eight qualifiers into finals of women's park

That score from Hiraki in her second run (88.07) did end up being the best of all the athletes in the preliminaries, but the big news is that defending Olympic champion Yosozumi Sakura (JPN) doesn't make the cut; her opening run score of 79.70 is only good enough for 10th.

Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Sky Brown (GBR) is safely through with a score of 84.75 despite competing with a dislocated shoulder.

Diving: Quan Hongchan (CHN) retains women's 10m platform gold

After that first-dive perfect score,Quan Hongchan led from start to finish to win her second consecutive gold medal in thewomen's 10m platform!

She scored a total of 425.60 points and ranked first for four out of the five dives, with only her third-round dive ranking second among the 12 finalists.

Her Chinese teammateChen Yuxi took silver in a repeat of the top two steps of the podium from Tokyo 2020 on 420.70 points.

And Democratic People's Republic of Korea won their first Olympic medal in an individual diving event, asKim Mi Rae took bronze with a score of 372.10 points.

Hockey: Netherlands into men's final

The first men's hockey semi-final ended up being rather one-sided.

Thanks to goals from Jip Janssen, Thierry Brinkman, Thijs van Dam, and Duco Telgenkamp,Netherlands are into the men's final with a 4-0 win overSpain.

They will face eitherGermany orIndia in the gold-medal match, and this is the first time the Dutch have made the final in 12 years.

Basketball: Serbia lead with one quarter to go

We have a ball game!

Serbia - and Jokic - have woken up. That must have been some half-time team-talk from head coach Svetislav Pešić, because Serbia dominate the third quarter 25-11 to take a two-point lead over Australia heading into the fourth.

Jokic is up to 17 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists.

Sport climbing round-up as Olympic and world records smashed

We've had a lot of great action at the Le Bourget Climbing Venue with the Olympic record being broken no less than seven times and the world record twice!

First though was the Boulder semi-final of the women's Boulder & Lead, which saw defending world champion Janja Garnbret (SLO) achieve a massivescore of 99.6 to huge cheers from an adoring crowd. She will attempt to add a Paris 2024 gold to the combined gold she won at Tokyo 2020 on 10 August.

Then came the men's speed qualification (and qualification elimination), and this is where thingsreallygot spicy.

In the qualification seeding runs, the Olympic record was brokenseven times, with Veddriq Leonardo (INA) eventually setting the record at 4.79 seconds.

That time didn't stand for long, however, as Sam Watson (USA) would go even faster and set a new world record in the elimination heats - 4.75 - to the amazement of the crowd!

The full list of the Olympic record change from today's men's speed climbing is as follows:

Sam Watson (USA) - 4.75 WR, OR
Veddriq Leonardo (INA) - 4.79
Amir Maimuratov (KAZ) - 4.89
Sam Watson - 4.91
Veddriq Leonardo - 4.92
Wu Peng (CHN) - 5.07
Rahmad Adi Mulyono (INA) - 5.07

Diving: Quan opens final with perfect score

In thewomen's 10m platform diving final, one of the favourites from the People's Republic of China, Quan Hongchan, has had a remarkable start to her series of five dives.

Her forward 3.5 somersaults in the pike position (difficulty 3.0) received a perfect 10 across the board from all seven judges for a total score of 90.00 points.

Basketball: Australia lead Serbia at half-time

There are MVP chants going around the Bercy Arena from the Serbia fans as Nikola Jokic steps to the free-throw line, but in reality its been Australia point guard Patty Mills who has been unstoppable thus far, scoring 20 points on eight-of-eleven shooting from the field.

At one point Mills hit back-to-back contested threes that almost blew the roof off the stadium, and thanks to Mills Australia head into the break with a healthy 54-42 lead.

Nikola Jokic has been stuffing the stat sheet as you'd expect (11 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal), but he and his teammates will need a big second half if they are to progress to the semi-finals.

Badminton: Carolina Marín - "I will always be incredibly grateful" to He Bingjiao

After her devastating injury when leading in the women's singles badminton semi-final, Spain'sCarolina Marín – who has suffered two prior serious knee injuries – was forced to abandon the tournament.

Her semi-final opponent, People's Republic of China's He Bingjiao, went on to win silver – and carried a Team Spain Olympic pin with her onto the podium.

In a statement posted to Instagram today, Marín wrote in Spanish:

"On Sunday, I suffered one of the hardest moments of my life. A few days have passed but I will need more time to absorb it. I suppose life throws at us situations we don't want to go through and don't deserve, but we have to accept them and get through them the best we can.

"I want to point out one person: I wished He Bingjiao all the best in the final, because sportsmanship comes above everything. But the moment on the podium is one of the most beautiful gestures I've ever had anyone make towards me, and I will always be incredibly grateful to her."

Volleyball: Brazil beat Dominican Republic to advance to women's semi-finals

As expected, Brazil were able to claim that third set 25-17 to win the match 3-0 and progress to the semi-finals.

The other two quarter-finals to come today sees defending Olympic champions USA play Poland (17:00), with current world No.1 Italy taking on Serbia at 21:00.

Basketball: Australia - Serbia about to tip-off

The reception for three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokić - as you might expect - was suitably deafening inside Bercy Arena.

This should be another great game between Serbia (2023 world silver medallists) and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallists Australia.