Olympics 2024 LIVE: Tom Pidcock comeback wins mountain bike gold as Rafael Nadal beaten by Novak Djokovic

Adam Peaty began feeling unwell on Sunday, ahead of his Men’s 100m Breaststroke final. In the hours after the final, his symptoms became worse and he was tested for COVID early on Monday morning. He tested positive at that point.

He is hopeful to be back in competition for the relay events later in the swimming programme. As in any case of illness, the situation is being managed appropriately, with all usual precautions being taken to keep the wider delegation healthy.

Jasmin Joyce has another! There are just 16 seconds left on the clock when she touched down and that has seen Great Britain through and into the quarter-finals.

Great Britain 26-17 South Africa, and they will play the United States this evening.

Former medal winning gymnast Louis Smith spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast and claimed that Team GB’s men have a good chance of taking bronze in this evening’s final.

He said: “I hope there is the possibility of a bronze medal today in the men’s team event. We picked up a historic team bronze in London 2012 and we have just missed out in the last two Olympic Games trying to get that bronze medal back again.

“Jake Jarman, Max Whitlock, Luke Whitehouse, Harry Hepworth and Joe Fraser are the boys who are going to go out today.

“Judging by their qualification event they are in the shape of their life, they look incredible, such good team morale, they are out there smiling and fist pumping so they are up for it and it just looks like a very competent team.

“You’ve got Joe who is in his peak and Max has maintained his peak. He is 31 years old now. With the likes of Harry, Jake and Luke, they are the young ones of the team but they are still very capable.

“You just get filled with confidence when you watch them so I’m really excited to see how they perform. All to play for for that bronze medal.”

At the start of the second half, Britain have a breakthrough! They go into a 14-2 lead, the ball was kicked and spilled a number of times before the try came.

Norman-Bell, who scored the British try at the start of the second half, has just been shown a yellow card for two minutes for pulling a player’s hair.

South Africa pull ahead almost immediately after, making the most of the numerical advantage. But they cannot score the conversion, and with three and a half minutes to go it’s 14-17 in favour of South Africa.

Britain have a try, Joyce, in her third Olympic games was the player to touch the ball down, again the conversion is missed so it’s close, but crucially the try-scorers are back to full-strength.

South Africa have just scored their first try and taken a 7-0 lead over Great Britain and won a penalty.

Great Britain had been camped inside their own 22 and spilled the ball just as they were trying to make their way up the pitch.

But South Africa have a second try after winning the ball back from that British mistake. It was a missed conversion.

In the final move before the half-time break, Britain have their first attack and first try of the game! That could be so important going into the second half, unlike South Africa, Team GB secure the conversion.

It’s 12-7 to the Spingboks at half time.

Three hundred and twenty-eight other gold medals will be handed out at these Paris Games, and surely none will be won as dramatically as this. Tom Pidcock lost the race to a puncture, won it back, then lost it again to the determined Frenchman Victor Koretzky before pulling off a do-or-die overtake around a tree to defend his Olympic title.

It was a superhuman display of racing. On the third of eight 4.4km laps, Pidcock was forced to stand still for half a minute while a frazzled mechanic changed his punctured front tyre and rivals whizzed by. He lost 36 seconds in all but soon began picking them off, one by one. Koretzky had watched Pidcock’s race dismantle firsthand as he took the lead, so what must he have thought when he turned a hairpin four laps and 40 minutes later to see Pidcock reincarnated?

Pidcock also spoke to BBC Sport after defending his Olympic title saying: “It wasn’t easy. I knew that Victor was going to be fast in the last lap even if I couldn’t get rid of him.

“I knew it was going to be a big fight, and he left a gap and I had to take it. That’s racing. I know people might view it differently but sport is about not giving up. It is a shame that the French were booing me but you know.”

On the puncture he added: “You are all used to things going well so even my mechanic wasn’t ready for it. He did a super fast change in the end, my bike was perfect apart from my mistake of puncturing.

“I can’t thank everyone enough. From being on tour and then Covid too, everyone was around me and we trained perfectly for this.”

Tom Pidcock, who turns 25 tomorrow, defended his gold medal from Tokyo in dramatic style. He was in the lead when he suffered a puncture halfway through the race and dropped 40 seconds behind in ninth.

Pidcock then pipped French rider Victor Koretzky in the final lap after the two broke clear of the field.

“The Olympics is so special and you need to never give up,” he said, “It wasn’t easy, I’m keeping my glasses on for a reason. The Olympics is so special, you never give up, you need to give everything.

“I can’t thank everyone enough. Everyone around me has helped me train perfectly.”

Solid as you like from Adam Burgess in the C1 canoe slalom up in Vaires-sur-Marne, a controlled semi-final run ensuring safe progress through. He’s fourth fastest into the final, which begins in about an hour.

The National Olympic Nautical Stadium is positively hopping, though, with home home Nicolas Gestin producing a scintillating performance to top the times by almost four seconds.