Paris 2024: Everything you need to know ahead of Day 2 at the Olympics
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France claimed its first gold medal of Paris 2024 as Antoine Dupont loosened Fiji’s stranglehold on Olympic sevens rugby.
Fiji, gold medallists at Rio 2016 and Tokyo three years ago, had won 17 straight matches at the Games, but that record finally fell as a Dupont-led Les Blues roared to a 28-7 victory.
Ireland finished sixth after losing 17-7 to New Zealand in the fifth-place playoff at the Stade de France.
Meanwhile, NBA phenom Victor Wenbanyama announced himself on the Olympic stage.
Rhys McClenaghan coasted into the Olympic final of the men’s pommel horse after a composed performance at Arena Bercy in Paris on Saturday night, the two-time world champion netting a score of 15.200 to top the standings in qualification.
Elsewhere, Fifteen years after his first appearance for Ireland, Ryan Mullen made his Olympic debut in the Men’s Cycling Individual Time Trial finishing an outstanding twelfth place; notably Ireland’s best ever result in the event.
The head coach of the Canada women’s football team, Bev Priestman, and two other officials have been banned by Fifa for a year after a spying scandal.
Prior to this, Priestman was sent home from the Olympics after it emerged she was "highly likely" to have been aware of two alleged incidents in which drones were used to spy on opposition teams.
9.30am start Equestrian – Eventing Cross Country – team and individual, Sarah Ennis, Susie Berry, Austin O’Connor
9.40am Rowing, Women’s Pair (W2-), Fiona Murtagh & Aifric Keogh (heat2/3)
10am Rowing, Men’s Pair (M2-), Ross Corrigan & Nathan Timoney (heat 3/3)
10.16am Boxing, Men’s 71kg, Prelims (Rd of 32), Aidan Walsh V Traore (FRA)
10.27am Swimming, Women’s 100m Breaststroke, Mona McSharry (heat 5/5)
10.30am Rowing, Women’s Lightweight Double Sculls (LW2x), Margaret Cremen & Aoife Casey (heat 1/3)
11.20am Rowing, Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls (LM2x), Paul O’Donovan & Fintan McCarthy (heat 3/3)
11.40am Women’s Four, Emily Hegarty, Natalie Long, Eimear Lambe & Imogen Magner (heat 2/2)
2.30pm Women’s Rugby Sevens, Pool B, Ireland V Great Britain
2.45pm Sailing, Men’s Skiff, races 1,2&3, Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove
4.22pm Boxing, Women’s 66kg, Grainne Walsh V Anna Luca Hamori (HUN)
6pm Women’s Rugby Sevens, Pool B, Ireland v South Africa
7.16pm Boxing, Men’s 92kg, Prelims (Rd of 32), Jack Marley V Mateusz Bereznicki (POL)
8.10pm Women’s 100m Breaststroke semi-finals, Mona McSharry *Dependant on progression
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SWIMMING: Between 2014 and 2020 Adam Peaty won every available global gold in the 100m breaststroke and broke the world record five times.
But after Tokyo he stepped away from the pool, citing mental health issues. He returned last October, with his eyes on this day. His key rival could be Qin Haiyang, China’s breaststroke king.
MEN'S BASKETBALL: The United States have won 16 of the 20 men’s basketball golds, including the last four, and with LeBron James in an all-star side are inevitable favourites for another.
James’s notable teammates include Stephen Curry, who remarkably is playing his first Olympics. They get their tournament underway against a Serbia side that has in its ranks this year’s NBA MVP in Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets.
Sharon Ní Chonchúir met the medical team keeping Team Ireland healthy in Paris.
Brendan O'Brien spoke to several Irish Olympians about how they prepare mentally for competition.