Paris Olympics: Top five stories from day 15 of the 2024 Games (2024)

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10 August 2024, 13:38 BST

The penultimate day of the Paris Olympics is in full swing with 39 gold medals up for grabs - the highest total on a single day at the Games since 2000.

Noah Williams won Great Britain's first medal of the day - and his second of the Games - with bronze in the men's 10m platform final.

In the men's marathon, Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola set a new Olympic record with Team GB's Emile Cairess finishing just outside the medal places.

Erin McNeice missed out on a sport climbing medal for Team GB but Caden Cunningham reached the semi-finals of the men's taekwondo +80kg.

Elsewhere, Serbia beat Germany to win men's basketball bronze, while New Zealand's Lisa Carrington - already her country's most decorated Olympian of all time - won another canoeing gold.

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One week after winning his first Olympic medal with silver in the men's synchronized 10m platform alongside Tom Daley, Noah Williams has another to add to his collection.

The 24-year-old won bronze in the men's 10m platform final, improving significantly as the competition progressed.

He qualified for the final in 12th, before capitalising on the mistakes of others in the final, scoring 94.35 on his final dive to secure his place in the top three.

China's Cao Yuan won gold with Japan's Rikuto Tamai taking silver.

Cao's victory means China have won all eight diving medals on offer at the 2024 Games, completing an Olympic clean sweep in the diving for the first time.

Tamirat Tola kicked off Saturday's medal rush in the men's marathon, crossing the line in an Olympic record time of two hours six minutes 26 seconds to secure Ethiopia's first gold of the Games.

The 32-year-old finished 21 seconds in front of Belgium's Bashir Abdi, with Kenya's Benson Kipruto 13 seconds further back in third.

It is Tola's first Olympic gold, adding to the 10,000m bronze he won at Rio 2016, and his 2022 World Championship marathon title.

Great Britain's Emile Cairess was in medal contention at one point, holding second position after around 30km, but faded during the latter part of the race before fighting back to claim fourth.

Cairess' time of 2:07:29, which was 29 seconds behind bronze medallist Kipruto, was Team GB's best Olympic marathon finish for 20 years.

Kenyan great Eliud Kipchoge's attempt at winning an unprecedented hat-trick of Olympic marathon titles ended in disappointment as he did not finish the race.

Inspired by Briton Toby Roberts' sport climbing gold in the men's boulder and lead final on Friday, compatriot Erin McNeice had the chance to mirror his success in the women's event.

It was not to be, however, as she came fifth to miss out on a medal.

Watched on by Roberts, McNeice - nicknamed McBeast - put herself in medal contention after a strong showing in the boulder part of the event, before coming up short in the lead climb.

Slovenia's Janja Garnbret took gold, in front of American Brooke Raboutou and Austria's Jessica Pilz.

Team GB's Caden Cunningham will compete for a taekwondo medal after reaching the semi-finals of the men's +80kg.

Cunningham beat Niger's Abdoul Issoufou in the first round and Cuba's Rafael Alba in the quarter-finals with his semi-final contest set for 15:36 BST.

He will be hoping to win Britain's first taekwondo medal of the Paris Olympics after Jade Jones suffered a first-round defeat earlier this week and Bradly Sinden pulled out of his bronze-medal match with injury.

Fellow Briton Rebecca McGowan lost her women's +67kg quarter-final to Uzbekistan's Svetlana Osipova but will go into the repechage and may still be able to win the bronze medal.

NBA star Nikola Jokic starred as Serbia beat Germany 93-83 to win bronze in the men's basketball.

The three-time Most Valuable Player joint-top scored for Serbia with 19 points alongside Vasilije Mimic.

It is the nation's second Olympic medal in the event following their silver at Rio 2016.

The gold medal match takes place at 20:30 BST as the USA take on France in a mouth-watering tie.

A star-studded USA side, featuring LeBron James and Steph Curry, are seeking their fifth successive Olympic men's gold in the event, against a France side led by NBA Rookie of the Year Victor Wenbanyama.

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