Olympics 2024 LIVE: Simone Biles and Andy Murray return as Team GB eye rowing gold medals

Today at the Olympics: Thursday’s schedule as Simone Biles goes for individual gold at Paris 2024

The world’s eyes will be on Simone Biles once more today as the greatest gymnast of all time bids for her sixth Olympic gold medal in the sport’s most coveted event, the individual all–around final (5.15pm BST). Her biggest competition may well come from fellow American Suni Lee, who won gold in Biles’ absence in Tokyo and who impressed during the USA’s team win on Tuesday. And look out for Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who won silver in Tokyo and is the reigning Olympic champion on the vault.

Britain will hope to scoop at least one gold in the various rowing finals, with flagbearer Helen Glover competing in the women’s four (10.50am) before Team GB’s world champions go in the men’s four (11.10am).

Golf makes its first appearance of these Olympics with round one of the men’s competition (8am) at Le Golf National, featuring Rory McIlroy for Ireland. He goes up against American duo Scottie Scheffler and reigning Olympic champion Xander Schauffele, while Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick are the British pair.

American, Australia and Canada will face off in the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay (9.03pm) in the pool, after Canadian teenage star Summer McIntosh has bid for the women’s 200m fly title (7.30pm).

Golf is back on the Olympic stage this morning as the players tee off at Le Golf National where they’ll be playing the Albatros course, the same one as played in the 2018 Ryder Cup.

Team Europe won that tournament and Tommy Fleetwood triumphed in all four of his matches there six years. Fleetwood and 2022 US Open winner Matt Fitzpatrick are the two Team GB representatives with fellow Ryder Cup teammate Rory McIlroy competing for Ireland.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live Fitzpatrick said, “A major is number one in a golfers world. Outside of that you have got a few big events on the PGA tour and European tour that you target at the start of the calendar year, but when you have an Olympics that goes in with them.”

The action began at 8am with Fleetwood teeing off at 8:44am, McIlroy at 9:11am and Fitzpatrick at 11:06am.

Brian Daniel Pintado is the new Olympic champion!

He put on a spurt to separate himself from the other two challengers and crosses the line in 1:18:55. Caio Bonfim claims the silver with Alvaro Martin taking home the bronze.

Massimo Stano, the reigning Olympic champion, finishes just outside the medal spots in fourth.

There are four walkers in contention for the medals with just 2km to go. Caio Bonfim of Brazil is desperate for a medal but has collected two red cards and needs to be wary.

Massimo Stano keeps tripping up as he attempts to maintain the pace and looks to be in some discomfort. Ecudaor’s Brian Pintado and Spain’s Alvaro Martin seem to be the two most comfortable racers.

Stano dropped! By the 1km mark the reigning Olympic champion has fallen away meaning all that’s left is to decide the who wins which colour medal.

Pintado leads, Bonfim is second with Martin third heading into the final lap.

Italy’s Massimo Stano is the reigning Olympic champion have triumphed over 20km in Tokyo. He’s moved himself to the front of the race and seems on course to defend his title as the pace increases.

The walkers are now travelling at under four minutes per kilometre with the leading pack slowly dwindling. Two Spanish racers, Alvaro Martin and Paul McGrath, are right on his heels through the 16km mark.

One Team GB athlete to keep an eye out for is Britain’s Emma Wilson.

She tops the windsurfing table with two days left just ahead of Israel’s Sharon Kantor in second. Wilson seems well placed for a medal after winning seven of the 11 completed races but nothing can be taken for granted.

On Wednesday, the debut women’s windsurfing marathon was abandoned as wind faded and there are five races planned for today before the quarter-final, semi-final and final stages on Friday.

Should Wilson have a good outing today, and manage to finish top of the rankings, she will progress straight to the final and guarantee at least a silver medal.

The race is just starting to spread out as fatigue starts to hit the athletes. Mexico’s Jose Luis Doctor collected four red cards and has been disqualified from the race.

China’s Zhang Jun has retaken the lead and seems quite determined to push on. He passes the 13km mark in 52:18 with Callum Wilkinson of Great Britain beginning to drop further away.

He’s down in 24th but has fallen six seconds behind the leader which seems a decent margin to have to make up.

Rafael Nadal revealed he is unlikely to play the US Open as he dropped his strongest hint yet that his career could very soon be at an end.

Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz’s crowd-pleasing run in the men’s doubles at the Olympics came to an end with a 6-2 6-4 loss to American fourth seeds Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram.

The 14-time French Open champion gave a lingering wave to all sides of Court Philippe Chatrier, but it seems very likely not to be just Roland Garros that does not see Nadal on court again.

Asked whether he would head to the United States, where events building up to the US Open are already under way, the 38-year-old said: “It looks like not but I’m going to let you know soon. For me now, I can’t give you a clear answer, I need some time. But for me it looks difficult.”

Answering a question about his relationship with Alcaraz, meanwhile, Nadal cast even more doubt on his future.

“If my age will be 10 years less, we’re going to create a beautiful relationship on court and we’re going to share a lot of beautiful moments together,” he said.

“But that’s not going to happen. We’ll see if I keep playing the normal tour. But of course I will be supporting him from home and wishing him all the very best every single time. Even if I keep playing or not, I love tennis.”

Sweden’s Perseus Karlstrom has been the main leader throughout the first half of this race and is starting to increase the tempo as he tries to open up a lead ahead of a large chasing pack.

China’s Zhang Jun spent a bit of time in first but has dropped back to around fifth in an attempt to ease his pace and reserve some energy.

For Team GB, Callum Wilkinson is secure in the middle of the pack just a couple of seconds off the lead as the walkers reach the halfway stage.

The familiar tune of ‘La Marseillaise’ rung around Paris La Défense Arena as Léon Marchand raised his arm to give a massive fist pump.

‘Marchons, marchons…’, a quarter of an hour earlier, it was ‘Marchand, Marchand’.

The 22-year-old has now definitively established himself as the face of Paris 2024 by achieving one of the most remarkable performances in swimming history.

Over the course of two hours he made history by becoming the first person ever to win two individual swimming titles in a single session.