Paris 2024 Olympics day four: swimming, rowing, sailing and more – live

Hello everyone and welcome to the live broadcast of the fourth official competition day of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.

Day three saw Britain come alive at these Games with Tom Pidcock and the equestrian team securing gold medals, along with silvers in diving, canoe slalom and men’s 200m freestyle, as well as bronze in individual jumping. There was more joy for the hosts too, with France celebrating a string of silver medals, along with golds in fencing and canoe slalom.

It was an evening full of exciting finals in the pool, more skateboarding fun for Japan and the presentation of one of the most emotional medals of the 2024 Olympic Games: bronze for Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan.

What can we expect today?

Medal Events

• Triathlon – individual men (from 8:00)

• Shooting – 10m air pistol mixed team (from 9:30)

• Table tennis – mixed doubles (from 2:30 PM)

• Shooting – men’s kick (from 15:30)

• Judo – men 81kg / women 63kg (from 16:00)

• Gymnastics – women’s team (18:15)

• Fencing – Women’s Defensive Team (19:30)

• Rugby Sevens – Women (19:45)

• Swimming – Women’s 100m Backstroke / Men’s 800m Freestyle & 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay (20:56)

• Surfing – men & women (03:34 Wednesday)

  *(All times mentioned are local times in Paris)

Simon Burnton’s Daily Guide

Swimming: Women’s 100m Backstroke
Australian backstroke queen Kaylee McKeown is gunning for six gold medals in Paris – twice as many as she won in Tokyo – and she could win her first today, in the 100m final in the evening session. McKeown broke her own world record last October and is the hot favourite; the 200m backstroke and 200m medley doubles on Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be a much tougher test.

Surfing: Gold Medal Competition for Men and Women
The Olympic organizers chose to hold the surfing competition at Teahupo’o – roughly translated as “wall of skulls,” though it has been nicknamed The End of the Road – in Tahiti, with athletes staying on a cruise ship moored off the coast after locals objected to plans to build housing for them (they failed to stop a judges’ tower being built into the reef). The appeal is somewhat surfer.com described as “without a doubt one of the heaviest, scariest, most dangerous left reef waves in the world”.

Other must-see moments include: Simone Biles participate in the gymnastics team finals (6:15 p.m.) and a spectacular afternoon on Court Suzanne Lenglen where Rafael Nadal is ranked third in men’s doubles, followed by Andy Murraywhich could well be the final competitive appearance of the retiring great.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten something of note for you in this brief round-up, so please let me know what’s on your agenda by emailing [email protected] or, if you’re still rummaging through the post-Twitter bin, find me at X @jphowcroft.

The first few hours of my blog will be here in Australia, then I will hand over to Martin Belam in the UK.