Olympics 2024 – Day two: Paris schedule, latest results, July 28 events and start times, Team GB medal hopes | Olympics News
There are 13 gold medals up for grabs on day two at the Olympics Games. We look at where those medals will be won and which Brits will be in action on Sunday.
Team GB athletes and medal hopes
Adam Peaty is searching for a historic third consecutive men’s 100m breaststroke Olympic title, with the final due to start at 8.44pm and one of three swimming gold medals up for grabs on day two.
Former world champion Evie Richards heads the Team GB hopes in the women’s cross-country mountain bike event, while Chelsie Giles is among the medal hopefuls in the women’s judo 52kg class.
We’ve put our Olympic correspondents Geraint Hughes and Miriam Walker Khan to the test with quite possibly one of the weirdest Olympic quiz’s ever.
Team GB women’s archery team contains former world No 1s Penny Healey and Bryony Pitman, along with teenager Megan Havers, with the event beginning at 8.30am and the gold medal match at 4.11pm.
Two-time Olympic rowing champion Helen Glover begins her fourth games in the women’s four alongside Rebecca Shorten, Esme Booth and Sam Redgrave, with the heats starting at 11.30am.
Two-time gold medallist Helen Glover says she wants to showcase how women can return to sport after having children and insists she’s now a better athlete because of her motherhood experience.
Welsh welterweight Rosie Eccles is in last-32 action at 11.52am and heavyweight Pat Brown begins his games in the evening, with the pair part of a six-strong contingent representing Team GB in boxing.
Andy Murray and Dan Evans are in men’s doubles tennis action, with the British pair the last scheduled match of the day as they face Taro Daniel and Kei Nishikori, while Evans, Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie and Katie Boulter all begin their campaigns in the singles.
Watch an extended interview with Andy Murray as he prepares for his final ever tennis tournament. He explains his decision to retire, what he will do next and why the Olympics was the perfect place to say farewell.
Kimberley Woods features in canoe slalom’s K1 event, with teenager Anna Hursey – the first Welsh table tennis player to go to an Olympics – facing Manika Batra in her first match of the Games.
Team GB’s women’s rugby sevens side have group matches against Ireland (2.30pm) and Australia (6.30pm), with the women hockey players facing Spain at 12.15pm ahead of the men facing South Africa in their pool at 7.15pm.
When will gold medals be won on Sunday?
0830 Shooting – 10m Air Pistol men’s Final (Brit involved: Michael Bargeron)
Team GB Chef de Mission Mark England explains what life is like inside the Olympic Village, including why there is no junk food and what it’s like to sleep on a cardboard bed!
1100 Shooting – 10m Air Pistol women’s Final (Brit involved: Seonaid McIntosh)
1310 Cycling Mountain Bike – women’s Cross Country (Brits involved: Evie Richards and Ella Maclean-Howell)
1500 Judo – men’s 66kg final
1600 Skateboarding – women’s street final
1611 Archery – women’s team gold medal match
1645 Canoe Slalom – women’s kayak singles (Brit involved: Kimberley Woods)
1930 Swimming – men’s 400m individual medley
1940 Swimming – women’s 100m butterfly
2044 Swimming – men’s 100m breaststroke final (Brit involved: Adam Peaty)
Adam Peaty says winning a third individual gold medal would be his greatest achievement and he’s hinted that this year’s games could be his last.
2045 Fencing – women’s foil individual
2115 Fencing – men’s epee individual final
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