LIVE Paris 2024 Olympics LIVE: Team GB's Ben Pattison is in 800m semi-final action and Breaking makes it's Olympics debut before Imane Khelif competes in boxing gold medal match later this evening By Harry Bamforth Published: 09:01 BST, 9 August 2024 | Updated: 09:07 BST, 9 August 2024 e-mail View comments Advertisement 08:07 Pardoe finishes sixth in 10km swim If you're only just getting up, you have already missed some action. The river Seine played host to the men's 10km marathon swimming this morning with two Brits in action. One of them was Hector Pardoe who was looking for redemption following his exit from the Tokyo race three years ago.
And he performed brilliantly. After a grueling battle, Pardoe finished in sixth place in one of the most entertaining open water races in some time. Meanwhile, Toby Robinson of Great Britain finished down in 14th.
It was a great advert for marathon swimming. If you managed to catch any of it, it surely made you smile. I won't be wanting to get into a dirty river any time soon, though.
08:05 Eventful morning at the Stade de France The Stade de France track is going to take a beating today. As the 'Hardest Geezer' (Russ Cook) says, there will be a lot of ones and twos slamming into it. Doing the slamming will be several British athletes.
.. Katarina Johnson-Thompson continues her bid for gold in the heptathlon this morning with the long jump and javelin events before the 800m finale tonight.
Not to forget that Ben Pattison, Elliot Giles, a.