Reaction as Great Britain win six medals on day three of the Paris Games

Gold medal events: 14

Artistic gymnastics (women’s team final), fencing (women’s epee team), judo (women’s -63kg, men’s -81 kg), rugby sevens (women’s), shooting (mixed team 10m air pistol, men’s trap), surfing (men’s and women’s), swimming (women’s 100m back, men’s 800m free, men’s 4x200m free relay), table tennis (mixed doubles), triathlon (men’s individual).

Highlights

Organisers are confident the men’s triathlon will go ahead from 07:00 BST despite pollution concerns in the River Seine – a final decision will be made in the hours beforehand. Competitors start from the Pont Alexandre III bridge in view of the Eiffel Tower, swim 1,500m in the Seine then run up a set of steps to start the 40km bike course, which includes some cobbled stretches. Lastly, there is a 10km run.

It promises to be a spectacular and challenging event, even by Olympic triathlon standards, and GB’s Alex Yee will hope to be at the front of the action in the men’s event. Yee won Olympic silver in a pulsating Tokyo contest three years ago. Norwegian Kristian Blummenfelt, who pulled past Yee to win gold that day, is back but has since moved up to Ironman distance then back down again, and it remains to be seen if he will master that transition.

Women’s team gymnastics is one of the Olympics’ worldwide blockbuster events. The United States will expect one of its largest TV audiences of the Games for Simone Biles and compatriots in Tuesday’s final, which begins at 17:15. Becky Downie, back in the British team for a third Olympics, is tasked with helping to steer GB towards a podium finish. The women’s team event is intensely competitive right now, and any of six or seven nations could take a medal, with the absence of Russian athletes also opening up the contest.

There is lots going on in swimming’s evening session. Team GB have a real chance of gold in the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay, having won the Olympic title in Tokyo and the world title in 2023. Tom Dean, James Guy, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott are all veterans of both victories and are in the line-up. The relay starts at 20:59. The women’s 100m backstroke at 19:57 is expected to feature Australia’s Kaylee McKeown, a three-time champion in Tokyo, against the likes of American Regan Smith and Canada’s Kylie Masse.