Olympics 2024: Workforce GB win biking and diving medals on day one in Paris as Adam Peaty continues threepeat bid

Workforce GB received their first opening-day Olympic medals in 20 years as they took silver and bronze on the primary day of Paris 2024.

Divers Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen bought Nice Britain up and working with a bronze medal – through dramatic circumstances – within the ladies’s 3m synchronised springboard.

The pair took benefit of a final-round slip from the Australia pair to turned the primary British ladies to win an Olympic medal in diving since Elizabeth Ferris received bronze within the 10m platform in Rome in 1960, with the success the primary opening-day medal for Workforce GB because the 2004 video games in Athens.

Bicycle owner Anna Henderson adopted up with silver within the ladies’s time trial, the place a number of riders crashed within the treacherous circumstances, because the Hemel Hempstead-born rider stored her cool to assert second behind Australian Grace Brown.

Early medals for Workforce GB

Henderson clocked a time of 41 minutes 10.7 seconds over the 32.4km course by means of the centre of Paris, one minute 31 seconds down on Brown’s gold medal-winning trip.

Chloe Dygert was amongst these to hit the deck and that proved important as she misplaced the 15-second benefit she had held over Henderson on the first intermediate time examine and got here house 9 tenths of a second off the Brit’s time.

“I didn’t realise how slippery it was out there until I was on the course,” Henderson stated. “I thought I could lose a whole Olympic Games on one corner here, so really take control and gain all of the time in the straights.”

Mew Jensen admitted it was “crazy” to have secured Workforce GB’s first medal of Paris 2024, having plummeted down the scoreboard into sixth after scoring 63.90 within the third spherical.

Workforce GB scored 71.10 within the subsequent effort to claw their means again into fourth place and added a stable 70.68 within the fifth spherical, earlier than a dramatic twist of occasions noticed Anabelle Smith slip on the diving board throughout her take-off and go away Australia in need of the required complete for bronze.

“I don’t think I can quite believe it,” Mew Jensen stated. “I’m super proud of Yas, super proud of myself and super proud of the team. We’ve worked insanely hard and couldn’t have come out with a better outcome, so really happy.”

Peaty stays on the right track for historic threepeat

Adam Peaty stays on the right track for a historic third Olympic title within the males’s 100 metres breaststroke as he arrange a tantalising showdown in opposition to Qin Haiyang in Sunday’s closing.

Each received their respective semi-finals however it’s Peaty who has the psychological higher hand after clocking 58.86 seconds, which was 0.07 secs faster than his Chinese language rival at La Protection Area.

The 29-year-old is looking for to turn out to be simply the second male swimmer after Michael Phelps to win Olympic gold at three successive Video games, having triumphed at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, whereas compatriot James Wilby was unable to affix him within the closing after ending 0.11s exterior the highest eight qualifying instances.

Peaty’s efficiency took the sting out of a disappointing night time within the pool for Workforce GB as the boys’s and ladies’s 4x100m freestyle relay groups completed exterior the rostrum positions.

Matt Richards, Jacob Whittle, Tom Dean and Duncan Scott completed fifth for the boys, 2.33s behind the winners United States, whereas Anna Hopkin, Eva Okaro, Lucy Hope and Freya Anderson got here in seventh, 6.33 behind gold medallists Australia.

Which different Brits have been in motion?

Max Whitlock was one among a record-breaking variety of eight British male gymnasts to seal their locations in particular person finals, with Jake Jarman and Luke Whitehouse by means of on flooring, Harry Hepworth on rings, Hepworth and Jarman on vault, and Jarman and Joe Fraser within the all-around.

The respective successes of Hepworth and Jarman additionally imply will probably be the primary time in historical past that Nice Britain has been represented in both a vault or rings closing on the Olympics.

Nice Britain’s males’s hockey gamers romped to a 4-0 Pool A win over Spain as they opened their bid for Olympic hockey gold in some model, with Gareth Furlong scoring twice and Nick Park and Rupert Shipperley finishing the scoring.

Josh Tarling completed in fourth within the males’s time trial, simply two seconds off a medal, following an early puncture.

In equestrian, it was a record-breaking day for Workforce GB’s eventers, as Laura Collett and her horse London 52 made the bottom particular person Olympic rating within the eventing dressage with 17.50. Workforce GB scored 66.70 total, which can be an Olympic report.

Badminton gamers Ben Lane and Sean Vendy misplaced their opening males’s doubles match to Malaysia, whereas boxer Charley Davison was knocked out through cut up determination in her spherical of 32 bantamweight conflict.

What else occurred on day one?

Antoine Dupont described France’s Olympic rugby sevens gold as “sensational and unbelievable”, along with his match-winning contribution seeing Les Blues combat again from an early deficit to assert a 28-7 success and inflict Fiji’s first defeat in Olympic competitors.

Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz launched their blockbuster partnership in model with victory over sixth seeds Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni at Roland Garros, claiming a 7-6 (4) 6-4 first-round victory within the males’s doubles.

Nadal nonetheless had strapping on his proper thigh and it stays to be seen whether or not the 14-time French Open champion will contest his scheduled singles match in opposition to Marton Fucsovics on Sunday, with the Spaniard admitting he was not sure whether or not he would function.

Novak Djokovic criticised Olympic entry guidelines after a one-sided victory over Matthew Ebden within the opening spherical at a wet Roland Garros, having taken simply 53 minutes to defeat the Australian alternate 6-0 6-1.

“I really don’t understand the rules, they’re really not logical for me,” Djokovic stated. “I don’t think it’s a good image for the sport, to be honest. There were a lot of singles players that had plenty of time, that were alternates, that could have been called to come.”

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