Olympics 2024 LIVE: Women’s marathon updates including Tigist Assefa before Emma Finucane in track cycling

It’s bad news for Hellen Obiri… She drops off. One of the big four. Now seven seconds back from the main pack.

So it’s Salpete, Trofimova, Jepchirchir, Assefa, Lindwurm, Hassan, Chesang and a few others at 27km.

Obiri with a surge, she clings on to the back of the pack. Alemu, fourth in London this year, now struggling and looks to have run her race.

Team GB watch: Calli Hauger-Thackery is 41st and +1:10, Clara Evans is 49th and +1:39 to the leaders, while Rose Harvey is down in 82nd and +6:05 to the leaders.

The steepest hill is just ahead, this is where the men’s race was won and lost from Tola.

This group has gone through 25km now and Salpete leads by a second in 1:26:34.

We’ll await the next split at 20km, but Jessica Stenson is pushing on about 10m clear of the chasing pack after 18km.

The Australian is exposing herself here, a strange tactic perhaps before the half-way stage.

Julien is now about 10m off the back, the women, including Jepchirchir and Obiri, take a look around while sharing their drinks.

Kejeta of Germany has stepped off, she’s walking, a real shame after going with the lead pack.

As the Paris 2024 Olympics comes to a close, the final day of what has been a monumental year for the Games should deliver its fair share of breathtaking moments.

Kicking things off on Sunday will be the eagerly anticipated women’s marathon, with Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa looking to further cement her greatness after setting a new world record with a staggering time of 2:11:58 at the 2023 Berlin Marathon.

The endurance events will be coming in thick and fast, as the women’s final of the Modern Pentathlon will get underway at 10:40am, with Kate French and Kerenza Bryson hoping to add to Team GB’s medal tally.

There is Men’s Keirin, as well as the Women’s Omnium in track cycling, with Emma Finucane, Jack Carlin and Hamish Turnbull among the riders in action. France play the USA in the women’s basketball gold medal game.

Emily Campbell won Great Britain their first medal in women’s weightlifting when she won silver in Tokyo and will be in action as she competes in the Women’s +81kg division.

Then there will be the Closing Ceremony, starting at 8pm BST, which will bring the Olympics to its natural conclusion.

We’re approaching the half-way point in the women’s marathon.

Out in front is Melody Julien of France, she hits one of those fiendishly hard hills after 55 minutes.

Sifan Hassan is in the chasing pack, pinned to the very back and looking to be dragged along in her third event of the Games.

Hellen Obiri, Peres Jepchirchir, Megertu Alemu, Tigst Assefa al up near the top and just .second behind a huge pack.

We’ve hit 15km and the temperature is rising in Paris as the leaders push on at the front of the course. We’ve hit the big hill that could decide this race and played a big part in yesterday’s men’s marathon.

Hellen Obiri, Peres Jepchrichir, and of course Tigst Assefa are all in the leading pack, as is Sifan Hassan. But this hill could be about to split them!

Lin Yu Ting, one of the boxers at the centre of a gender eligibility row, was crowned Olympic champion after beating Julia Szeremeta in the women’s 57kg final.

The Chinese Taipei boxer beat the Polish fighter by unanimous decision in the contest’s showpiece at Roland Garros.

The Kenyan was dropped in the first half of the race, but pushed on to the 31km before stepping off the course with further physical pain in his waist.

Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola won gold, despite not initially being on the team to participate. He thrived as a late replacement for Sisay Lemma to claim gold and set a new Olympic record on the challenging Paris course in a time of 2:06:26.

“That’s nuts,” Emile Cairess remarked after finishing fourth in the men’s marathon at the Paris Olympics. He was not talking about his own performance, but instead the new champion and gold medallist Tamirat Tola and, specifically, the Ethiopian’s scorching splits. The 32-year-old stormed home on a sweltering day in Paris, clocking 2:06:26 thanks to a staggering second half of 61:35 to clinch a new Olympic record.

Belgium’s Bashir Abdi and Kenya’s Benson Kipruto won silver and bronze respectively. But Tola’s 21-second victory was made even more impressive given the stifling conditions and a course with some venom thanks to several punishing hills. The race was effectively over after 35km when Tola clocked a stunning 5km split of 14:02, which is six seconds faster than the first heat of the men’s 5000m round one this week.

The course’s total elevation was 1,430 feet – significantly more than Boston (891 feet) or New York (945 feet). It did for a fading Eliud Kipchoge, the two-time defending Olympic champion could be seen walking at times before eventually stepping off the course at 31km.