Olympics LIVE: Keely Hodgkinson eyes 800m gold as Team GB break world record in cycling sprint

Big news from the women’s 5000m final as Faith Kipyegon has been disqualified after a small coming together with Gudaf Tsegay.

That means that Sifan Hassan takes silver and Italy’s Nadia Battocletti wins bronze!

You’d expect some sort of counter from Kenya though.

In the women’s discus final, the USA’s Valerie Allman is currently in the lead after a throw of 69.50m as we enter round three.

In the men’s pole vault final, Sweden’s Armand Duplantis is in the lead, having cleared 6m.

We’re into the last lap in the women’s 5000m, with Faith Kipyegon and Beatrice Chebet in the lead! It’s an all-out battle between the two down the final straight, but Chebet has enough in the engine to take the win in the last 100m or so!

Chebet wins in 14:28.56, with Kipyegon in second at 14:29.60.

The Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan finishes with the bronze medal.

Deep in winter training last November, Keely Hodgkinson was “absolutely flying” in training when she first felt a niggle in her knee. It quickly worsened, with tests revealing a torn ligament which, given the importance of the year ahead, was an understandable concern.

It was a concern in the medium term because it ruled her out of winning what would have been a first global title at the Glasgow World Indoor Championships, where there were hopes she could challenge the 800 metres world record. It was a concern in the longer term because it meant she missed a host of important training sessions during weeks spent recuperating away from the track. And it was an immediate concern because the only way she could keep fit was doing things like cross training and work in the swimming pool.

“She hates that because the chlorine messes her hair up and she’s always very conscious about that,” explains her coach Trevor Painter.

The women’s 800m final is less than half an hour away, so let’s recap how British hope Keely Hodgkinson got there.

British gold medal favourite Keely Hodgkinson cruised through to Monday’s women’s Olympic 800m final after finishing fastest of all the semi-finalists at Stade de France.

The Tokyo 2020 silver medallist laid down one minute 56.86 seconds in the last of the three semis, quicker than a personal best for Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma who was second of the overall 24-woman  field in 1:57.47.

The final semi-final contains GB’s Daryll Neita, who is hoping to lay down a marker as a medal contender. She finished fourth in the women’s 100m final.

She gets a great start, taking the lead into the home straight, but she is overtaken by Brittany Brown, who finishes in 22.12s.

The Brit makes the final after finishing second with a time of 22.24s.

A great start for Asher-Smith in the first 50 or so, but Gabby Thomas goes through the gears and eventually comes home in 21.86s. Plenty of room to ease up once more.

Asher-Smith takes second and will make the final too! She ran 22.31s.

The second semi-final features GB’s Dina Asher-Smith, fresh off the back of a disappointing failure to qualify for the 100m final.

It also features the USA’s Gabby Thomas, who – along with Julien Alfred – is the favourite for the 200m title.

Thomas is the quickest woman in the world over 200m in 2024.

The first semi-final in the women’s 200m is underway, and it’s won by 100m champion Julien Alfred in a time of 21.98s. She had plenty of time to ease up at the end.

Favour Ofili of Nigeria comes in at second, with Team GB’s Bianca Williams is fourth.

The top two from each semi-final qualify automatically, with the next two fastest from across the others also securing a spot.

And here’s a reminder of the other big story of the day.

She’s human after all. Simone Biles settled for fifth in the beam final in Paris, before returning to deliver a mesmeric floor routine to claim a silver medal in what could be her final ever appearance at the Olympics.

A captivated audience locked in on Biles’ final two performances of these enthralling Games, with the American superstar initially tumbling off the perilous beam to miss out on a medal. But the gutsy Biles would return, with her trademark tumbling enough for an 11th Olympic medal behind only Brazil’s brilliant Rebeca Andrade in the floor final.

The American superstar had earlier turned away with a grimace after learning her beam score, 13.100, which included a 0.3 penalty. And it proved to be a challenging afternoon following redemption and a third Olympic gold after her statement performance in the vault on Saturday. But the beam provided a telling reminder that gymnastics is a sport of fine margins as Alice D’Amato claimed a famous gold for Italy.