Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix bid for a Team GB medal off the high board later is the consquential diving action of the day for the Brits, but it’s been a good start for teammates Jack Laugher and Jordan Houlden over at the Aquatics Centre, the pair springing into action off the 3m board and third and fourth in the preliminary round.

As ever, stopping the Chinese divers looks beyond them, but Laugher particularly looked very tidy as he presses for a third individual Olympic medal – the semi-final is tomorrow before the final on Thursday afternoon.

Tokyo silver medallist Laura Muir saw herself comfortably through to the women’s 1500 metres semi-final after finishing second in her heat at Stade de France.

The Scottish athlete was the first Briton in action on the track on Tuesday morning and needed to land in the top six to book her spot.

She accomplished that in 3:58.91, seven one hundredths of a second behind Ethiopia’s heat winner Gudaf Tsegay.

Imane Khelif has called for an end to bullying as the boxer guaranteed herself an Olympic meda amid the ongoing eligibility row.

Khelif faces Thailand‘s Janjaem Suwannapheng in the 66kg semi-final on Tuesday (6 August).

She has been in the spotlight since her opening bout match with Angela Carini on 1 August. Carini quit just 46 seconds into her round-of-16 bout with Khelif, after the Algerian landed one significant punch.

Last year, Khelif was disqualified from the women’s World Championships in New Delhi for failing a gender eligibility test

Speaking to the press, Khelif said: “I send a message to all the people of the world to uphold the Olympic principles, according to the Olympic Charter, to refrain from bullying all athletes because this thing has effects, massive effects. It can destroy people.”

Adam Peaty has claimed that athletes at Paris 2024 have found worms in their food at the Olympic Village as he insisted the offering “isn’t good enough”.

The 24-year-old, who admitted she was in “the best shape of her life” decided to enter the event at 4.55m which was 0.35m higher than the other athletes but was eliminated on her third vault after clipping the bar, at the Stade de France.

“It’s honestly heartbreaking. Not the experience I was hoping for and I am so sorry for everyone back home,” said Caudery.

“I wish I could have done better, but I am going to try to learn from this and I will take everything I can from it. I felt great, I’m in the best shape of my life. I didn’t feel too nervous – I love a big crowd. I don’t know why, but it wasn’t my day.”

Great Britain’s long-awaited return to the women’s team sprint battle at an Olympic Games ended with gold as Emma Finucane, Katy Marchant and Sophie Capewell broke the world record three times on a perfect night.

After failing to even qualify in this event since London 2012, Team GB set a new benchmark in every round, the last of them a time of 45.186 seconds which saw them beat New Zealand by five tenths of a second to claim Britain’s first ever Olympic women’s team sprint medal.

“It doesn’t get much better than that,” said Marchant, the 31-year-old who flew the women’s sprint flag alone for Britain in Rio and Tokyo.

“It means everything. It just shows the hard work we’ve put in. I always believed there was reward for hard work, we’ve just come together as a team and put so much work into learning how to deliver on the day and we were able to do that today.”

After that bizarre saunter in the sunshine yesterday, it is a mild surprise that Shaunae Miller-Uibo does take the start line for the repechage. The two-time Olympic 400m champion welcomed her first child last year and her preparations for Paris were heavily disrupted by injury, which shows in the final 100 metres of her repechage run as the Bahamian eases up and simply strides home in last. Her title defence is over, which is a real shame, though it is great that Miller-Uibo managed to make it to these Games. And there may yet be another Olympic cycle in the 30-year-old.

Gabby Scott of Puerto Rico enjoys a rather better outing, securing a new national record and a place in the semi-finals .

Sir Chris Hoy, one of Britain’s greatest ever Olympians, revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer in February with the six-time gold medallist stating he is “optimistic, positive and surrounded by love”.

He travelled to Paris for the 2024 Olympics and worked as a pundit at the Velodrome as part of the BBC’s team during the Games.

By the time Noah Lyles started the Olympic 100m final, he was already last. Lyles took 0.178 sec to react to the gun. That might sound quick but in a sport measured in thousandths of a second, he had just given up 0.07 to one his biggest rivals, fellow American Fred Kerley.

The man Lyles most feared, Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson, was just as sluggish, reacting in 0.176. Yet Thompson is the fastest man this year for a reason. He is a 100m specialist with power and a long stride, and he emerged from his drive phase at 30m with the lead.

By contrast, and despite being the 100m world champion, Lyles is a 200m runner by trade. His strength is in his top speed but he takes a little while to get there, and his slow start has sometimes been an Achilles heel. At 30m he was still dead last, eighth out of eight.

Now then, here’s Scott Brash and his horse Jefferson. A clear run will see he in the jump off for the medals.

The back legs of Jefferson clip the rail on the second part of the double which has proven to be a testing fence today. It was the same fence that Ben Maher took out in his run.

Is that Team GB’s medal chance gone? Yes. Brash finishes in fourth place for now as Stephan De Freitas Barcha holds the quickest time with one penalty fault.

The Brazilian is in the bronze medal position and Great Britain’s chances of winning a medal in the showjumping final are over.