Belgium lead People's Rep. of China, Germany vs Japan all square (2024)

Kevin Durant perfect at half-time as USA lead Serbia

Team USA has a58-49 half-time lead over Serbia.

That's mostly thanks toKevin Durant. KD has 21 points and is 8-from-8 in field goals.

Rafa Nadal sets up Novak Djokovic second-round clash

Rafael Nadal vsNovak Djokovic is on.

The Spaniard beatsMarton Fucsovics of Hungary 6-1 4-6 6-4 in a close tussle, especially bearing in mind he is wearing heavy strapping on a previous injury.

But we'll get the dream tie in the second round the draw teased us with.

What an unbelievable match!

KD joint-top scorer for Team USA after first quarter against Serbia

One quarter done and dusted, and Team USA has overcome a 2-10 start to lead 25-20 after the opening 10 minutes.

Kevin Durant, returning from injury, andDevin Booker have six points each.

Team USA wobbly in basketball opener

After a wobbly start which sawSerbia run out to an early lead in the men's basketball clash in Lille, theUSA has gotten its act together.

A 12-2 run helped them claw back an early deficit and it's 20-20 with just under two minutes left in the first quarter.

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot announces she will retire from mountain bike to focus on road

Wow. After winning gold earlier in thewomen's mountain bike race, Olympic and world championPauline Ferrand-Prévot tells the post-race press conference she will leave the discipline at the end of the year to focus on the road.

She will take a few weeks to decide on which road trade team she will join to focus on the women's Tour de France, she said.

The Frenchwoman added of her preparations for these Olympic Games:

“I was like a robot for a couple of months now, in my own bubble, didn’t talk to anyone, I just practiced, ate and slept. Now, the emotion is [here], all the emotion that I kept for months, I think I’m gonna cry for a while.

“I don’t have any words, I was in my bubble and now everyone is cheering my name, I win, I see my family crying, it's all unbelievable emotions.

“I wanted to be exactly what I was today, it can sound pretentious but I really wanted to do that race, to act like a robot. I didn’t hear anything, not the time, not the public, I was so focus on myself. I had to do it.”

Team sports round up (4:45pm, Day 2)

Let's get you up to speed with the team sports results from today.

Men's basketball

• South Sudan 90-79 Puerto Rico

Women's basketball

• Spain 90-89 People's Republic of China

Equestrian - Eventing, standings after cross-country

1. Great Britain 82.50
2. France 87.20
3. Japan 93.80

Women's handball

• Brazil 24-25 Hungary
• Rep. of Korea 23-30 Slovenia
• Sweden 31-28 Germany

Women's hockey

• Belgium 2-1 China
• Australia 2-1 South Africa
• Germany 2-0 Japan
• Great Britain 1-2 Spain

Women's rugby sevens

• Ireland 12-21 Great Britain
• Australia 34-5 South Africa

Women's volleyball

• Italy 3-1 Dominican Republic
• Poland 3-1 Japan

Men's water polo

• Australia 5-9 Spain
• Serbia 16-15 Japan
• Italy 12-8 USA

Ricarda Funk leads qualifiers for women's K-1 slalom final

The semi-finals are done in the women's K-1 slalom, and Germany'sRicarda Funk is the fastest qualifier.

Her run wasn't perfect, picking up two penalty seconds on Gate 17 of 23 along the course, but it was quick – she finished in 97.31 seconds, for a total time of 99.31.

Guess who's back for USA Basketball today

The U.S. men's basketball team faces Serbia at 5:15pm in Lille, andKD is due to be available.

Favourites continue smooth progress in badminton on Day 2

Over at thePorte de la Chapelle Arena, more badminton group stage action has been taking place today.

There have been no surprises today, withTai Tzu-Ying (TPE),P.V. Sindhu (IND),Chen Qingchen / Jia Yifan (CHN),Liang Weikeng / Wang Chang (CHN),Lee Zii Jia (MAS),Li Shifeng (CHN),andAnthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA) all triumphing.

Meanwhile, defending women's singles championChen Yufei (CHN) was forced to a third game, but still beat Germany'sYvonne Li.

Yoshizawa Coco tops women's street skateboarding prelims, Rayssa Leal seventh

Over atLa Concorde Urban Park, after yesterday's postponement of the men's street event, the women are having better luck under the bright Parisian sunshine.

Japan'sYoshizawa Coco is the top qualifier for this evening's final, scoring 258.92 points from her best run plus best two tricks.

Tokyo 2020 silver medallistRayssa Leal of Brazil scored 241.43 and qualified in seventh.

The qualifiers are: Yoshizawa,Liz Akama (JPN),Cui Chenxi (CHN),Chloe Covell (AUS),Nakayama Funa (JPN),Paige Heyn (USA), Leal, andPoe Pinson (USA), who scraped into the final with her last trick.

"I didn't really expect to make it, but it's crazy that I did," Pinson tells Olympics.com. "I feel like the past two years I've just dealt with so much injury and stuff, I'm just really happy to able to skate and it's also crazy to be here, I never thought I'd go to the Olympics, it's wild."

Finally, at her fourth Olympic Games, Ferrand-Prévot (FRA) has the gold!

The Frenchwoman has won five cross-country gold medals at the world championships (2015, 2019-20, and 2022-23), and was world champion in the road race in 2014, but had yet to earn an Olympic medal...until today!

Her compatriot Loana Lecomte, who won silver in this event at the 2023 world championships, suffered a nasty fall midway through the race that put her out of contention. Puck Pieterse (NED), another medal favourite, had a tyre puncture that also dropped her down to fourth.

2022 world bronze medallist Haley Batten (USA) took advantage of the chaos ahead to burst through and earn silver, while Rio 2016 champion Jenny Rissveds (SWE)wins bronze.

🥇Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA): 1:26:02
🥈Haley Batten (USA): 1:28:59
🥉Jenny Rissveds (SWE): 1:29:04

Women's kayak slalom semis begin

Over at theVaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, thewomen's kayak single (K-1) slalom semi-finals are underway.

Twenty-two kayakers qualified from yesterday's heats, and will be aiming to complete the course as one of the fastest 12 without accruing too many penalty seconds (for example, for missing a gate).

Australia'sJessica Fox was the top qualifier from heats and will start 22nd and last.

A result from the water polo earlier in the day to catch you up on:

Two-time defending men's Olympic champions Serbia survive against Japan, winning 16-15! A crucial goal from Dusan Mandic with just over a minute to go giving Serbia the win.

Great Britain's quartet of Helen Glover (two-time gold medallist in the women's pair), Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave, and Rebecca Shorten are through to the final of the women's four after posting the fastest time in the heats: 6:42.57.

They'll be joined by 2023 world champions theNetherlands (6:43.71), 2023 runners-upRomania (6:44.55), andNew Zealand (6:45.44).

Should be a fantastic final! That will be on Thursday (1 August) morning.

The other game in Pool B has just wrapped up - Spain beat Great Britain 2-1 through goals from Laura Barrios and Lola Riera

Another result to bring you from the women's hockey competition.

Australia have beaten South Africa 2-1 in women's Pool B.

South Africa had initially taken the lead through Kayla de Waal in the 14th minutes, but Australia responded two minutes later through Stephanie Kershaw to tie things up before Tatum Stewart scored what would be the winning goal from a penalty corner late in the third quarter.

Another big shock in the day's action following on from Abe's (JPN) loss in the judo - this time in table tennis.

Women's singles 9th seed Jeon Jihee (KOR) lost in straight games 4-0 to Portugal's Fu Yu, with the latter ranked 80th in the world. Jeon, by comparison, is ranked 14th.

There were straightforward wins for both men's and women's world no. 1 players, with Wang Chuqin (CHN) beating Slovakia's Yang Wang 4-1 and Sun Yingsha (CHN) beating Brazil's Giulia Takahashi 4-0.

Cameron Norrie (GBR) has withdrawn from the men's singles competition at Paris 2024 due to injury.

He will be replaced by Petros Tsitsipa (GRE).

Subdivision 2 of the women's qualification has just finished, and as you might have guessed, Simone Biles and the USA are through as top qualifiers.

The quintent of Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee, and Hezly Rivera earned the top score in all but one of the four apparatus (the People's Rep. of China earned the high score in the uneven bars) to finish with a combined mark of 172.296, which puts them through to the team final on Tuesday.

I mentioned earlier that South Sudan were making their Olympic debut in men's basketball here at Paris 2024 - well, they've just proved that they're not simply here to make up the numbers.

Behind 19 points from Carlik Jones (SSD), the Bright Stars take down Puerto Rico 90-79 for their first Olympic win!

An incredible performance from South Sudan, whose basketball federation only came into being in 2011.

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The first of the four is tonight at 6pm Paris time, featuring three-time Olympic champion Aly Raismanand five-time Olympic championNadia Comăneci - the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games.

Simone Biles - pretty good at gymnastics.

That's an obvious understatement as Biles completes her two attempts on vault, including her Biles II vault - the Yurchenko double pike.

Despite a big step backwards after landing, Biles receives another big score: 15.800. And with that, she also becomes the first woman to land the vault in Olympic competition! Incredible.

Snoop Dogg - in attendance - approves.

A quick break from the women's gymnastics to let you know about some final scores in team sports 👇

Hockey - women's Pool A
Germany 2-0 Japan

Handball - women's Group A
Rep. of Korea 23-30 Slovenia

Volleyball - women’s Pool C
Italy 3-1 Dominican Republic

Over at Chateauroux, the women's 10m air pistol final has just wrapped - and Oh (KOR) has just set an Olympic record to win gold!

The 2023 world cup champion in this event scores 243.2 to claim victory ahead of her compatriot Kim Yeji (KOR). It's the first ever gold medal for Korea in this event.

There's history made for India, too: Manu Bhaker (IND) has just won her nation's first ever Olympic medal in women's shooting, and India's first medal of Paris 2024!

🥇Oh Ye Jin (KOR): 243.2 OR
🥈Kim Yeji (KOR): 241.3
🥉Manu Bhaker (IND): 221.7