2024 Paris Olympics LIVE: Team GB’s George Mills WILL compete in men’s 1500m final

We are just a couple of heats away from seeing British rider Jack Carlin, who was part of the team sprint trio to win silver yesterday.

He goes up against Canada’s Tyler Rorke, which is by no means an easy race.

These riders really don’t hang about, do they?

Matthew Richardson of Australia makes light work of Sirmanese cyclist Jaïr Tjon En Fa.

I mean, it’s not a surprise. The Aussie briefly held the world record this morning before it was broken not long after.

He is certainly one of the favourites for gold.

Now the excitement ramps up a bit.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a bit of team pursuit, but there isn’t any event for exciting than the sprint.

Two riders against each other playing a bit of cat and mouse before an all-out sprint to the line.

Winners go through, while the losers face a repechage. The action is just enthralling.

Great Britain have two riders in the heats, Jack Carlin and Hamish Turnbull.

Can they make it through?

Great Britain are in the hunt for bronze as they beat Italy’s time by a monster two seconds. That’s a lot.

With the time they have posted, you’d expect a bronze medal has their name on it, right?

Well, it’s the Olympics – anything can happen.

Now that is what you call a demolition.

New Zealand tore up the track and they pulled away from the European Champions Italy with ease.

For a while they were on world record pace, but they seemed to back off on the last lap.

That record is there for the taking in the final.

Chris Boardman, Olympic cycling champion, speaking on BBC Two:

When I saw the team from America go slower at the start, I thought that was the opportunity to go for it, but they tidied up so much. When it was so close and I saw the tyre going, it was close. Great to watch. Both teams were hugely faster than yesterday, that’s a lot to ask. It’s huge.

It’s a waiting game now for Great Britain.

Their time of 4.04.908 seconds should be enough for the bronze medal race, but you just never know.

They will be eagerly watching this race between New Zealand and Italy. The Kiwis are currently flying.

I bet the nerves in the GB camp are jangling, right now.

Oh my word, this is so, so close!

Great Britain are suddenly catching the US, they are reeling them in. But is it too late?

It is. USA take the race by just a quarter of a second. They qualify for the gold medal race.

I really thought Britain had done it for a second, but it just wasn’t to be.

Thanks, Luke. You have steered the ship excellently.

I am straight into the action with the women’s team pursuit and after 1750m, USA are just three-tenths of a second ahead of Great Britain.

It’s ridiculously tight, I can’t call it.

Britain have work to do, but they aren’t out of it just yet.

French skater Vincent Matheron took his rage out on his helmet after falling off his board.

Not sure he’s directing the blame in the right direction there.

And now, I’m handing you over to Harry Bamforth for the women’s team pursuit race and the rest of the afternoon.

Hold your horses – and your bikes – because we have more Team GB action up shortly.

Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris, and Jessica Roberts will be up against the USA in the women’s team pursuit first round.

Love him, roll your eyes at him. Whatever you think of IShowSpeed, it would seem he’s here to stay on our screens for the time being. Enough footballers seem happy enough having him around.

Now Polish Olympic sprinting star Ewa Swoboda Swoboda has called him out after he claimed that ‘nobody in the world’ could beat him in a race.

Wouldn’t put it past him to say yes…

This is the fastest we’ve ever seen somebody ride a bike in human history. Let that sink in. Nobody has ever ridden a bike faster than this.

By the end, she had a couple of bike lengths on the pack.

Only Lea Friedrich could get anywhere near her, closing down at the end.

Third-placed Taky Marie-Divine Kouame was 0.631 seconds back! Rapid from Finucane.

We’ll bring you her result shortly. Part of Team GB’s world record-breaking sprint trio on Monday. Can she add another gold in the keirin? Heats now.

Hugo Hay has revealed what he told George Mills amid their furious confrontation after their men’s 1500m heat.

Mills, the son of former England footballer Danny, squared up to Hay, who he felt caused a mass collision on the final straight of the race.

There’s not many holes left to turn her day around.

Charley Hull is rock bottom of the standing as she’s eight over par after 13 holes.

All going wrong for the Kettering native. She provides plenty of entertainment value and has done so well in her career but things just haven’t worked out for her today.

Gutting for Katy Marchant. Round the final bend, she looked out of her women’s keirin heat and like she might come fourth, forced into the outside lane.

Then she turned on the afterburners and suddenly surged alongside the leading pack, leading to a dramatic photo-finish.

Not enough, though. She comes third behind Ellesse Andrews and Mathilde Gros.

She’ll get another chance in the repechage round, but if you miss out on that, you’re out for good.

Team GB darling Emma Ficucane up later in heat five.

Not sure when it will be getting underway and no official announcement has been made, but the race is not underway and has been delayed as per the Olympics app.

We’ve got Michael Bennett in contention for whenever it gets underway.

Easy enough for the British duo.

They come fifth and seventh respectively to stand themselves in great stead for the competition going forward.

Meanwhile, Harrie Lavreysen stuns the crowd as he sets a world-record time of 9.088s. Fantastic. His average speed? A ridiculous 79.225 km/h.

Australia’s Matthew Richardson must be feeling aggrieved – he’d set the a world record himself just moments before!

Sky Brown had this message for fans after hoovering up her second bronze Olympic medal at the age of 16. Some going.

The skateboarding is crazy, right? An 11-year-old was competing yesterday. 11! I think at that age, the big rage in my primary school were finger-sized skateboards called Tech Decks. We weren’t brave enough for the real thing.

Small businesses in Paris have benefited from a 26 per cent hike in sales, according to Visa.

France has seen the biggest up-tick from American travellers (up 64 per cent), followed by German and Spanish tourists.

It’s great when the Games can have a positive impact on the local community.

Great story for Elliot Giles if you’re unfamiliar.

It was a huge blow last Thursday when Jake Wightman – the 2022 world 1500m champion set to represent Team GB in the 800m – had to pull out of the Olympics.

In stepped Elliot Giles brilliantly today, and he’s now in the semi-finals.

Second-time Olympian Reeve Walcott-Nolan has made it through to the women’s 150mm semi-finals after finishing second in her repecharge heat with a time of 4:06:73.

Some don’t like the format, but she’ll be glad to have had the second chance.

Plenty to whet the appetite over the next couple of hours:

• Andrew Macdonald in the men’s park skateboarding prelims – aged 51!
• Eleanor Aldridge and Connor Bainbridge in the women’s and men’s kiteboarding
• Reeve Walcott-Nolan in the women’s 1500m repechage round (last chance)
• Hamish Turnbull and Jack Carlin in the men’s track cycling sprint qualifying – both having been part of our team sprint silver
• Michael Beckett in the men’s dinghy medal race
• Emma Finucane and Katy marchant in the women’s cycling track keirin first round
• Team GB in the women’s cycling track team pursuit (Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris, and Jessica Roberts)
• John Gimson and Anna Burnet in the mixed multihull medal race

An outspoken Olympics favourite admitting they were ‘outsmarted’ by their rival and that their ‘big mouth’ let them down? Unheard of.

Team GB’s Charley Hull is just not finding her groove at Le Golf National as she is now five over par after nine holes.

Norway’s Celine Borge is the dominant figure of the day and leads the pack three under par.

Long way back for the Brit.

A trio of triumphs for the men’s athletics as we have all three of our contenders into the 800m semis.

Frenchman Corentin Le Clezio finished with a thunderous charge but Burgin held him off to deny the crowd their desires. Voila.

No trouble for Ben Pattison, who tops his heat with a time of 1:45:56.

A fearsome opponent to have on your side.

WWE wrestler Sami Zayn has leapt to the defence of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif.

Find out what he said in an expletive-filled, insult-crammed tweet here.

Now at his third Olympics and it’s a cruise through the heat for Elliot Giles, who comes second in his group with a time of 1:45:93.

Great work from the man who was only called up days ago as a late replacement for Jake Wightman.

All his raging was not in vain. George Mills is going to be one of 20 – yes, TWENTY – runners in the 5000m final.

If you’re not up to speed on the men’s 800m, make sure to read below in our blog.

In short: Mills got tripped up and was incensed about it, but he has now been granted access to the sfinal by the looks of it.

What doesn’t knock you out of the Olympics makes you stronger.

This is the first Olympics for kiteboarding and today we could see Team GB take home some medals in the women’s and men’s disciplines.

Eleanor Aldridge and Connor Bainbridge are our hopes on the water at Marseille Marina.

Back-to-back good news posts. Treating you today.

Jack Laugher and Jordan Houlden are into the final after finishing third (467.05 points) and fifth (445.55 points).

Still, my point stands from before. Jack Laugher might well be an Olympian diver, but in that brief frame, he looks absolutely terrified to be one. I won’t budge on this.

Toby Roberts came second in the men’s boulder semi-final, with Hamish McArthur eighth. That’s enough for a place in Friday’s final.

They’ve got the lead semi-final later, and their scores in that will be added to those from this morning, but top eight is all you need overall so it’s a good start for the two.

McArthur said: ‘I can’t complain at all, I had a great time out there and I loved every minute.

‘I felt like I performed really well, I felt unbelievably close to getting more tops.

“The round was really hard. I feel I have more to give but it’s so hard in this sport to give everything.’

Things have gone from bad to middling to terrible for Charley Hull, who is now four over par and almost at the bottom of the pack.

You can read about her nightmare start – and why she thinks a smoking ban is damaging her prospects.

Three British chaps in the heats for the men’s 800m and we’ll bring you their results shortly.

Ben Pattison, Elliot Giles, and Max Burgin need to finish in the top three of eight in their respective ehats to automatically qualify for the semi-final, with the rest going into the repechage round (a ‘last-chance saloon’ to you and me).

Read more about George Mills’ explosive clash with Hugo Hay here.

Looks like George Mills has calmed down a bit as he gave a composed interview to BBC Sport, but inside he is simmering. He’s blaming Hugo Hay for his fall.

‘It’s pretty clear. I got stepped out on as I was about to kick in the home straight. French lad took me down.

‘Probably not allowed what to say (what I said to him after). I haven’t spoken to anyone yet but they’ll put an appeal in I hope.

‘It was perfect a qualifier for mne. I was just biding my time to hit the home straight, and then bang, hit the deck.

‘I don’t mind it when it’s messy, I even managed to hurdle a fall. Then someone has just put my foot down on the home straight.’

As it stands, all three Brits are out of the 1500m after the heats.

The worst nightmare of every hurdler – taking a tumble in front of the world’s eyes.

Unlucky, Michelle Jenneke.

No surprises there for the world champion as he storms through the pack to dominate his heat.

My word, what is going on in the men’s 5000m?

First the multi-tumble in the first heat, now a wandering camera operator almost knocking into the runners, just meandering about the inside lanes of the track. Some of the runners looked vexed at that and understandably so.

A notable absentee from today’s picture feed so far – Snoop Dogg.

He’s been ubiquitous at the Games and Mail Sport released an article yesterday detailing his reported earnings, which consist of some mind-blowing numbers that would take a lot of fingers to count to.

Here he is at the basketball yesterday to tide you over.

Great Britain’s George Mills caught up in that. Mayhem. So many flailing limbs, I’m half-surprised I didn’t end up in the tangle.

No rest for Norwegian sensation Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Well, 14 hours, but it’s not much after last night’s 1500m, where he lost his Olympic title. He’s the world champion for the 5000m.

Britain’s Sam Atkin hoping to claim a scalp in this second men’s 5000m heat.

And oh, it’s a calamity in the men’s 5000m as four runners collide and stumble over each other in the final straight! Mo Ahmed had fallen ahead of the final lap.

The judges will shortly decide each athlete’s fate – just because you’ve fallen doesn’t necessarily mean you’re out if you weren’t responsible.

Narve Gilje Nordas confirmed as winner. A nervous wait.

But with Patrick Dever having crossed the line 13th and Mills 18th, it doesn’t look overly promising.

Three pars in a row for Charley Hull and that’s stopped the rot after a double bogey to start.

She’s joint-25th as we speak, with fellow Brit Georgia Hall only teeing off at 11.17am.

One of the most laughable episodes of the Games for me – Serena Williams kicking off about not being admitted to a rooftop restaurant despite it being fully booked, her subsequently shaming them on social media, and then staff admitting they didn’t even recognise her.

Not that it would matter if they did, right? If it’s booked out, it’s booked out. Go somewhere else. McDonald’s is never far away.

The French have been super passionate this year – surprise, surprise – and Jacob Gressier is the latest to feel the warm embrace of the crowd at the Stade de France. Big cheers for him on the start line.

George Mills (pictured) and Patrick Dever are up in the first heat for the men’s 5000m.

The world record time for this is 12:35.36, so you’ll probably have to wait at least that long to know the result, but bear with us…

They’ve got to finish in the top eight to qualify.

Be careful who you badmouth when you’re stuck in traffic on the way to work on Friday. You might just be behind an Olympian.

And if you notice someone leaping around the office, well, they probably are an Olympian.

Jacob Fincham-Dukes came fifth in the long jump last night at the Stade de France but there is little time to soak up the emotions after that result.

He’s back to the grind on Friday. Now imagine what he could do if he didn’t have to work full-time.

Ben Pattison didn’t think he’d get his shot at the Olympics when he was told surgeons would have to brun off part of his heart in 2020.

Against all the odds, here he is, via a bronze medal in the 800m in Budapest’s World Championships last year.

Only Seb Coe has covered the distance faster.

You can see him in action from 10.55am in the first round of the men’s 100m. What a story.

I promise he isn’t as terrified of climbing as he looks here.

Twenty-two-year-old Yorkshire man Hamish McArthur has brought a 14-strong contingent of fans out to his event today and is currently sat third as he grapples for a place in the final. He only found out he was coming in June – how far can we go?

We also have Toby Roberts in this event and he places seventh so far, with the top eight making the final.

Nobody paid attention to Cole Hocker last night. Not until he doused the supposed 1500m duopoly with cold water.

Josh Kerr was meant to be the golden boy, and in the end, silver is nothing to be ashamed of. He ran a superb race and is now a two-time Olympic medalist. But it’s his rivalry with Norwegian foe Jakob Ingebrigtsen that many thought would light up the final.

Now, on the comfort of the Eurosport sofa, Kerr has opened up on their rivalry – and revealed there is ‘real beef’ and what makes him ‘sting’.

Sign me up for the speedwalking. At the pace I overtake the dawdlers on the streets of London, I’d have a medal in the bag.

Spain claim the first gold of the day, and I would say they did it at a canter, but that would be too fast.

Maria Perez and Alvaro Martin are seen here celebrating their marathon race walk mixed relay triumph. You’ll never sing that.

Here is Cindy Sember’s run from before, by the way. Any budding hurdle-clearers, take note.

After a slow start, the Michigan-born athlete found her groove.

Having come fourth in the 100m hurdles in Rio in 2016, she’s back with a vengeance.

Plenty to be optimistic about in the men’s 3m springboard diving.

After two attempts, Jack Laugher places fifth and Jordan Houlden (pictured) is seventh. Three contestants have even dived three times, so of course they’ll have a points advantage. The top 12 qualify for the final so it’s plain sailing so far.

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix was left in tears after finishing sixth in the 10-metre platform and bravely admitted that three years ago she ‘did not want to be alive’.

She is already a hero to so many, as her father, celebrity chef Fred Sirieix, pointed out – and a bronze medalist alongside Lois Toulson.

Now she has shared an emotional message won Instagram. It’s a long way, and very heartfelt.

There’s an eclectic mix up for us this morning, sweeping across turf, pool, and track. The line-up through to 11am looks something like this.

• Women’s golf – Charley Hull and Georgia Hall
• Men’s 3m diving springboard semi-final – Jack Laugher and Jordan Houlden
• Men’s boulder and lead semi-final – Hamish McArthur and Toby Roberts
• Men’s 5000m round one – Sam Atkin, Patrick Dever, and George Mills
• Men’s 800m round one – Max Burgin, Elliot Giles, and Ben Pattison

Feeling lost in the morass of events? Let Sir Steve Redgrave be your guiding light.

In the latest instalment of his Olympics Breakfast Briefing, which has become its own institution over the last fortnight, Redgrave reflects on another day of highs and lows for Team GB and previews the action waiting for us today.

Cindy Sember has come second in her women’s 100m hurdles heat with a time of 12.72s. A positive start to the day as she’s into the semis. .

‘It felt pretty good. I have a lot more in the tank but it was good to get the nerves and jitters out. I’m blessed to be here and I’m happy and healthy,’ she told BBC Sport.

‘I’m ready for a medal. I’m capable. With God’s grace I’ll be alright.’

Hello and welcome to Mail Sport’s live blog of day 12 of the Olympics.

We’ve got a few medal hopes up today – culminating with Matthew Hudson-Smith in tonight’s men’s 400m final – and we’ll be bringing you all the action and reaction right here on Mail Sport.