Olympics 2024 LIVE: Team GB in gymnastics action before Simone Biles returns as triathlon practice cancelled

Simone Biles returns to Olympic action after a troubling time at Tokyo 2020, where she suffered from ‘the twisties’.

The American superstar takes part in the women’s qualification in artistic gymnastics, where she is a hot favourite after making her return last year following a hiatus from the sport to focus on her mental health.

Adam Peaty bids to make history, hoping to join Michael Phelps as the only men to three-peat in an individual Olympic event. He faces a tough challenge in the 100m breaststroke final with China’s Qin Haiyang a formidable swimmer after winning the 50m, 100m and 200m world titles last year. Find out what else is going on today in Paris below:

After three of four rotations, Team GB are behind Romania in qualifying for the team final.

Georgia-Mae Fenton is second in the overall indivdual standings, with Alice Kinsella down in fifth and with some work to do on the final floor routine.

Becky Downie looks in a great position to qualifying for the uneven bars final already.

And of course, these early standings are quite hard to read because there are so many more athletes to come.

Final stretch and while Germany have pulled back, it’s still Serbia who are going to comfortably cross the line first here. Italy, meanwhile, have disappeared without a trace. Serbia, Germany, China in third and Italy a very distant fourth – they are out.

Nicolo Carucci and Matteo Sartori looking extremely dispondant – by all accounts quite a lot more was expected of them.

Straight away we are underway again – this time the men’s double sculls repechage.

China, Italy, Serbia and Germany fighting this time for a semi-final spot; once more three of the four will go throughand although we still have most of the 2km to go still, Germany are already falling somewhat behind. Serbia are streaking away in the opening quarter, opening up a gap of over 7 metres.

Here we go then, the final few hundred metres – three of the four will be in the semis, one will go home after this race.

At the moment it’s Lithuania who are the laggards and they’ve a lot of work to do.

Placing in this race counts towards your lane in the semis and…Norway and Italy cross almost simultaneously, photo finish required there. Norway had some great momentum right at the end so may have snared second. Confirmation comes through soon after – they edged out Italy by 0.02 seconds.

Netherlands comfortably in front through and they are very much through to the semis of the women’s double sculls.

That’s incredible from Rebecca Downie. The Team GB gymnast is clearly emotional after landing an impressive routine on the uneven bars. There is a long wait before the 32-year-old’s score is announced…. and it’s BIG! A 14.666 for Downie, whose return to the Olympics is bigger than gymnastics.

In 2020, Downie and younger sister Ellie spoke out about “cruel”, “ingrained” and “completely normalised” abusive issues in the sport. The Whyte Review, published in 2022, found systemic evidence of physical and emotional abuse within gymnastics in Britain.

Ellie retired from the sport aged just 23 to prioritise her mental health but her older sibling returned to the sport, determined to bow out on her own terms, and was selected to her third Olympics for Paris. It’s an incredible story, and that’s an impressive start.

A quick glance across to the water now where there’s around 1,300m to go in the rowing repechage, Netherlands, Italy, Norway and Lithauania all fighting for a semi-final spot.

Lisa Scheenaar and Martine Veldhuis leading the way for the Dutch right now but there’s under one second separating the front three right now.

If you need a reminder of the repechage, what it is and how it came about for each sport: here’s your link!

Good morning from the Bercy Arena in Paris, where we have qualification in the women’s gymnastics for the individual all-round, team all-around and apparatus finals.

The session works like this: there are five sessions, or sub-divisions, with athletes taking turns to rotate around the four apparatus. Team scores are collected. The top eight teams reach the team all-around while the top 24 athletes make it through to the individual all-around. Then, the top eight athletes on each apparatus qualify for those finals, which are held later in the Olympics.

First up, we have Great Britain in the opening session, before Simone Biles and the USA are in action in the second sub-division from 10:40am.

Team GB are represented by Alice Kinsella, Ruby Evans, Abigail Martin and Georgia-May Fenton. They started off with the vault are now onto the uneven bars. followed by the balance beam and finally the floor.

Evans scored a 14.200 on the vault, the higest so far, but Kinsella slipped slightly ot he uneven bars and could only score 11.900. Scores are awarded by judges based on difficulty and execution.

“You can’t explain this moment until you’re on the podium watching the flag go up,” says Caeleb Dressel after winning the 4x100m freestyle alongside Jack Alexy, Hunter Armstrong and Chris Giuliano.

“(For) Hunter (ARMSTRONG) (it) actually happened before the flag went up. It was really emotional for me seeing that. I remember how it was for me, my first gold. I lost it.”

The 2024 Olympic Games is underway in Paris, where the United States are once again favourites to top the medal table at the end of the 17-day festival of sport.

The USA have finished on top of the table at 18 of the 29 summer Olympics, including the very first in Athens in 1896, and six of the past seven stretching back to America’s home Games in Atlanta in 1996.