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Team GB will hope to cross the 60-medal barrier at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, with only days of action left at the Games. Caden Cunningham will be eyeing taekwondo success after reaching the quarter-finals, while Kate French and Kerenza Bryson are well-placed in the women’s modern pentathlon.

There is more diving to enjoy, with Noah Williams and Kyle Kothari are looking to reach the men’s 10m platform final and Erin McNeice attempts to add another climbing medal to Great Britain’s collection. Later today, the focus shifts back to the velodrome, before the final night of athletics action takes centre stage.

On a dramatic day 14, Katarina Johnson-Thompson took the silver medal in her duel with Nafi Thiam for heptathlon glory, while Toby Roberts has won a historic first sport climbing gold medal for Team GB. GB won medals in both the 4x100m relay finals. Jack Carlin controversially took bronze and GB taking silver in the women’s madison. Follow all the latest news, results, updates and medals from the Olympics live below, with expert analysis from Standard Sport’s Matt Majendie and Malik Ouzia in Paris.

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58 seconds ago

Men's marathon

About four kilometres to go, doesn’t look like Emile Cairess will snatch a medal.

He has dropped off in these closing stages, he’s in about sixth now. Still been a superb run.

Tamirat Tola is clear at the front and it doesn’t look like anyone is going to catch him, his lead is around 25 seconds.

14 minutes ago

Matt Majendie in Paris

Men’s marathon

Emile Cairess has been billed in some quarters as the next Mo Farah in terms of British marathon running and he's in great shape lying second currently in this marathon.

His training partner Phil Sesemann is a bit further down the pack.

The pair run together with Sesemann's dogs, named Kipchoge and Haile. The former, Eliud Kipchoge, is struggling on what is a tough, tough course.

22 minutes ago

Taekwondo - men’s 80kg round of 16

Cunningham vs Issoufou

A 0-0 round! Fair to say it was a bit scrappy.

We have a review to see if Cunningham crosses out of the contest area before the end of the round. He did not.

Instead it comes down to the number of registered hits... and Cunningham comes out on top!

He wins the round and wins the bout. Through to the quarter-finals.

27 minutes ago

Taekwondo - men’s 80kg round of 16

Cunningham vs Issoufou

It’s Issoufou who edges in front in the early stages with a hooking kick to the head, but a brilliant shot from Cunningham and he’s 5-3 up.

Issoufou lands to the trunk, it’s very tight heading into the final ten seconds.

Cunningham drops a point as he falls to the ground, but he can afford to. He takes the opening round 6-5.

29 minutes ago

Taekwondo - men’s 80kg round of 16

Cunningham vs Issoufou

And there’s no time to waste, we’re straight into the fun.

Caden Cunningham of Great Britain is just about to start his taekwondo campaign, Abdoul Razak Issoufou of Niger his opponent.

No medal for the British taekwondo team yet in Paris - going to be a long day for Cunningham if he changes that!

32 minutes ago

Good morning!

Hello and welcome to our coverage of the Paris Olympics on Day 15!

Just two days to go of these Games, but plenty of medals still to be won.

Team GB took their tally to 57 last night, and there are lots of chances to come today, including in taekwondo, the modern pentathlon, cycling and athletics tonight.

Stay with us throughout the day to keep up to date with everything going on!

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10 hours ago

Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins heptathlon silver as Nafi Thiam secures golden hat-trick

Katarina Johnson-Thompson had simply pleaded for a chance; at a fourth Olympic Games, she finally got one.

In the final event of seven in a sport that is a numbers game at its most basic, she simply had to finish eight-and-a-half seconds ahead of the defending Olympic champion Nafi Thiam in the 800metres for gold.

After an unlucky 13th at London 2012 and injury heartache in both Brazil and Tokyo, briefly an athlete who has experienced virtually every twist and turn of a rollercoaster career suggested she might pull off the biggest high at what will surely be her last Olympics.

Such a result would leave the Belgian with gold by 30 points, and so it played out.

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Katarina Johnson-Thompson claimed her first Olympic medal with a silver in the heptathlon (Martin Rickett/PA)

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10 hours ago

Team GB claim medals in both 4x100m relays

Great Britain added relay silver and bronze to their Olympic Games athletics haul on the penultimate night of track and field action at the Stade de France.

The women’s 4x100m quartet upgraded their bronze medals from Rio and Tokyo to silver, Team GB’s best performance in the event since 1956, as Sha’Carri Richardson’s flying anchor leg took the USA to gold.

The men, meanwhile, claimed bronze behind Canada and South Africa, as favourites USA were disqualified after a botched first changeover.

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10 hours ago

Toby Roberts wins historic sport climbing gold

It began with weightlifting and a chap called Launceston Elliott on the second morning of the first ever modern Olympics, in Athens in 1896.

It’s rumbled through all sorts since, some familiar - athletics, swimming, cycling - and some lost - polo, tug-of-war, rackets, Jeu de paume (look it up).

Here in Paris, though, was something altogether new, as Toby Roberts claimed Great Britain’s first ever Olympic medal in climbing, the 44th sport to contribute to the nation’s tally across Summer and Winter Games.

And he did so in dramatic style, surging from third at the midway stage of the men’s boulder and lead final to take gold in a competition that went down to the very last climb.

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Toby Roberts said his victory in Paris ‘definitely hasn’t sunk in’ yet (Peter Byrne/PA)

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10 hours ago

Jack Carlin narrowly avoids DQ to win bronze while Team GB secure women's madison silver

Jack Carlin won an eventful individual sprint bronze for Great Britain, edging out Dutchman Jeffrey Hoogland in a deciding race that had to be restarted after the pair collided.

Carlin was already racing on a warning after his tetchy quarter-final with Kaiya Ota on Thursday, and raised his hand in apology after veering up the track and into Hoogland.

The commissaires decided there was no need for any punishment and the race was restarted, with Carlin having the power to hold off Hoogland down the straight to take his second medal of the week after team sprint silver.

Earlier on, Elinor Barker and Neah Evans won Olympic silver for Team GB in the women's Madison.

A big late charge from Barker saw Britain win the last of the 12 sprints in the 120-lap race and move above the Netherlands as Italy's Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini celebrated gold.