to australia in the final of the men's pursuit, in the latter stages of the race. and no nadal at the us open, the 22 time grand slam champion says he's not 100% following his exit from both singles and doubles at the olympics. hello there — and welcome along to the programme. it's billed as one of the highlights of the track at the olympics — the men's 400 metres final has had some big names take gold over the years — michaeljohnson, wayde van niekerk and 2012 champion kirani james. britain's matt hudson—smith was so close to joining them on wednesday — having come into the event with the fastest time

this year, he was pipped to the line, in a thrilling finale which saw american quincy hall take the gold. hudson—smith was bidding to become the first british winner of the race since eric liddell100 years ago, also in paris ,and looked to be about to realise that ambition. but the american, hall, somehow found another gear to snatch the gold. soufiane el bakkali retained his 3000m steeplechase crown. the moroccan is the first man since volmari iso—hollo in 1932 to successfully defend a title in the race. kenneth rooks of the united states took silver, with kenya's abraham kibiwot winning the bronze medal. at the velodrome, great britain's men have won team pursut silver, in a pulsating final in paris. coming up — the moment ethan hayter ,who was leading the gb train, came out of his saddle in the closing 200 metres and almost lost control of his bike, handing the australians victory. hayter and team mates dan bigham, charlie tanfield and ethan vernon were pipped to gold by australia,

who triumphed in this event for the first time since the 2004 games. moments later, great britain's women picked up bronze in the same discipline. elinor barker, josie knight, anna morris and jess roberts beat italy to continue gb�*s run of reaching the women's team pursuit podium at every olympics since it was introduced in 2012. andy macdonald's skateboarding olympic debut at the age of 51 ended in the park heats, but he called it "an experience of a lifetime". he's considered a legend of the sport, and had the crowd on its feet after all three of his runs. but his best run put him 18th out of 22 — the gold eventually won by australia's keegan palmer — but great memories made for mcdonald. it was the experience of a lifetime. it really was just so enjoyable, so much fun and energy. the crowd got behind me because i'm the old guy, i guess. i don't know. it was surprising, actually. the crowd from the get—go, my very first run i was like, oh, all right. my dad taught me early on in my career, acknowledge the crowd, because i would always be like all right, here we go. when they cheer for you,

acknowledge them. and it worked. the first round of the women's golf is done at le golf national in paris. great britain's charley hull had a day to forget. she put her first tee shot straight into the water, and then missed her putt to record a double bogey. things didn't improve — she finished her round nine over par. gb�*s georgia hall is two over. home favourite celine boutier leads the way on seven under with world number one nelly korda finishing with an even par 72. ireland's kellie harrington said "there are no more mountain's to climb" as she announced her retirment from boxing after winning back to back golds. the 34—year—old ends her career as a two—time olympic champion and a world and european champion. she beat china's wenlu yang to successfully defend the lightweight title she won in tokyo — and said afterwards

it was time to move on with the rest of her life. the next chapter is going to be my life chapter and who knows what that is going to be but i can't wait. i can't wait to just live my life, not that i'm not living my life, what are you talking about? but to not be looking at the scales every morning. after concerns had been raised about the water quality in the river seine. the women's triathlon gold medal winner — cassandra beaugrande — says she's competed in worse conditions. familiarisation events had to be cancelled five times, and the men's triathlon also had to be postponed. the mixed triathlon took place as scheduled on monday but a day later, pollution levels were deemed unsafe. despite the issues, beuagrand won france's first ever triathlon medal, and says she was always confident the race would go ahead.

when they ask us those questions i say we have swim in worse than that river i don't think it was that great. no one was actually sick about it, so we race the year before for the test event and no one was sick after that, so i knew there was very i was really he's surely the fairy tale story of paris 202a. leon marchand enjoyed a golden week in the pool — winning four gold medals on his olympic debut — and at a home games too. the 22—year—old is arguably the biggest break—out athlete — 12 days ago he had 200,000 followers on instagram — he's now up to 1.2 million. he's been refecting on his life changing olympic games: i feel the pressure before, ifeel the pressure before, of course. i think it was really tough for me because i could

feel the pressure in my shoulders. it was a lot the first day. ifeel shoulders. it was a lot the first day. i feel more relaxed after that. first day. i feel more relaxed afterthat. i first day. i feel more relaxed after that. i did an amazing before and i was just trying to enjoy the rest of the week. it was my favourite event, that is where people were waiting for me to do something. so, yeah, definitely felt the pressure. i really did well with it, i think, so it is kind of crazy because everyone is comparing me to mark spates, those guys are legends. so i feel very proud just hearing that. i don't think i realised what i did last week. i think it will take a lot of time just really proud of myself and all the support. it was an amazing week and i'm so happy. it's been crazy. i didn't realise because i was really focused on my race, 1a events that was alive, in the last two days, it's been amazing. i don't know, just going around paris to see people going crazy. it's not

easy for me to be a shy person and at first. so i've got to get used to it. and this week is the most, i guess, famous week for me. it will be better in the future. it's been pretty helpful for me. in the future. it's been pretty helpfulfor me. i'm also in the future. it's been pretty helpful for me. i'm also trying to enjoy it, so in between. tennis — and we saw rafa nadal at paris 2024, but with the final grand slam of the year, the us open, due to start at the end of the month — the spaniard has announced he won't be playing. speaking on social media, the four time champion said "i will miss those electric and special night sessions in nyc at ashe, but i don't think i would be able to give my 100% this time." concerns about his fitness were raised a week ago after his participation in the olympics for spain ended with a quarterfinal loss in doubles alongside carlos alcaraz. that followed a second—round loss in singles to rival novak djokovic. he's also said that 2024 may well be his last season on the pro circuit.

the england under—21s manager lee carsley is likely to take interim charge of england's senior team when they play their nations league matches against the republic of ireland and finland next month. that's as the fa continues its search for a long term replacement for gareth southgate who left his role last month. our football reporter alex howell is following the story for us: is just over three weeks since gareth southgate resigned from being the senior england team manager after defeat to spain and the euro final, and there's just that amount of time just over three weeks until england need to name their next squad for the nations league game against finland and the republic of ireland, so there isn't actually much time logistically to get a new manager in place, and if we look at what the fa has done historically, they have actually looked internally before you have stewart's peers and even gareth southgate, they got the role from the under 21 �*s in the stepping up. it fits

into st george's park ethos. young players have a path and so do coaches as well. you also look at what he did last summer with that england under 21 side he won the european championships. they paid really, really good football other hand, exciting football. in a number of those players have stepped up to the squad in that time. you have players like jared brathwaite, levi coldwell, adam walton, even though he played one game to made his debut for the girls and so do coaches as well. you also look at what he did last summer with that england under 21 side he won the european championships. they paid really, really good football other hand, exciting football. in a number of those players have stepped up to the squad that time. he of players like jared brathwaite, levi caldwell, adam walton, even though he played one gamejust made his debut for the girls and" palmer as well who played more of a wall and hobbies and scoring the final. so you will lot of the squad having them and also just being around st george's park. just

and also just being around st george's park.— and also just being around st george's park. just enough time to recap our— george's park. just enough time to recap our tap _ george's park. just enough time to recap our top story. _ america's quincy hall edged the men's 400 metres final to take gold, just ahead of great britain's matt hudson—smith. let's have a look at how that affects the medal table. britain sitting in fifth place on 12 golds, 17 silvers and 20 bronze medals. the united states topping the standings, in front of china and australia with the host nation france just behind them on golds. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.com/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello. for many parts of the country, i think wednesday was a pretty cloudy day, the best of any sunshine across scotland and northern ireland. there were a few passing showers here, whereas further southwards across parts of england and wales really limited to just glimpses of sunshine.

it was pretty cloudy for much of the day. looking out in the atlantic, we've got another area of low pressure that's set to bring some damp weather in initially thursday morning, as this warm front spreads its way in. mind you, we have got some drizzle around at the moment. ahead of that feature across wales and western areas of england are not patchy drizzle for the south east. we've got some showers for the north west of scotland, but the skies continue to clear in east scotland and north east england, so it's here where we're going to have the brightest start to the day on thursday with a fair bit of morning, sunshine, any sunshine for you staying there in southeast england? short—lived. it's going to turn quite cloudy, but staying on the bright side, the damp and drizzly weather for wales and western england replaced by more general outbreaks of rain through the day, the rain heavy as it swings across northern ireland into scotland, northern england and north wales. top temperatures running into the low 20s now through thursday night that we'll see that rain band continue its way northwards and eastwards, the rain turning heavy for a time in northern scotland before clearing out

of the way, and there may well be a hang back of cloud still bits and pieces of rain left over into friday morning before this front finally pulls out of the way. then we get this little ridge of high pressure starting to build from the west, and that means an improving weather. picture rain clearing away. then from eastern england. many of us will have fine spells of sunshine developing through the day. ok, there'll be a few showers for west scotland, an odd one for northern ireland, north wales, but for many during the afternoon on friday it will be dry with sunny spells, temperatures widely into the 20s and getting warmer across east anglia and south east england with temperatures into the mid 20s. a warming trend because the jet stream is going to change as warm air gets brought northwards by tropical storm debby, colder air comes out of canada. it changes the shape of the jet stream. the jet stream gets more wiggly through the weekend. the significance of that is we get underneath this ridge and that makes it get a lot warmer, if not hotter,

particularly across parts of england and wales, where temperatures will push into the low 30s. the short blast of heat, though not everywhere. the will, i think, be some heavy rain to come across the north and west of the uk. that's the latest.

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