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Michael Jones

Today at the Olympics: Saturday’s schedule and highlights including Laura Muir and Max Burgin

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As the Paris 2024 Olympics comes to a close, the final day of what has been a monumental year for the Games should deliver its fair share of breathtaking moments.

Kicking things off on Sunday will be the eagerly anticipated women’s marathon, with Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa looking to further cement her greatness after setting a new world record with a staggering time of 2:11:58 at the 2023 Berlin Marathon.

Joining her in the race will be Sifan Hassan, looking to complete an audacious treble, and Great Britain trio Calli Hauger-Thackery, Rose Harvey and Clara Evans, who received a late invitation to Paris after the injury to Charlotte Purdue.

The endurance events will be coming in thick and fast, as the women’s final of the Modern Pentathlon will get underway at 10:40am, with Kate French and Kerenza Bryson hoping to add to Team GB’s medal tally.

There is Men's Keirin, as well as the Women's Omnium in track cycling, with Emma Finucane, Jack Carlin and Hamish Turnbull among the riders in action. France play the USA in the women’s basketball gold medal game.

Emily Campbell won Great Britain their first medal in women’s weightlifting when she won silver in Tokyo and will be in action as she competes in the Women’s +81kg division.

Then there will be the Closing Ceremony, starting at 8pm BST, which will bring the Olympics to its natural conclusion.

Team GB watch

All times BST

Clara Evans - women’s marathon final (from 7am)

Neah Evans - track cycling, women’s omnium scratch race (from 10am)

Emma Finucane - track cycling, women’s sprint semi-final (from 10:22am)

Jack Carlin - track cycling, men’s keirin quarter-finals (from 10:29am)

Kate French and Kerenza Bryson - women’s modern pentathlon final (from 10:40am)

Emily Campbell - weightlifting - women’s +81kg (from 10:30am)

Day 16 (Sunday August 11) - 13 gold medal events

Athletics

  • 7am-10.15am: Women’s marathon: final

Basketball

  • 10.30am-12.30pm: Women’s bronze-medal game
  • 2.30pm-5pm: Women’s gold-medal game

Cycling (track)

  • 10am-1.15pm: Men’s keirin: quarter-finals, semi-finals, medal finals; women’s sprint: semis-finals, medal finals; women’s omnium: medal final

Handball

  • 8am-10am: Men’s bronze-medal game
  • 12.30pm-3pm: Men’s gold-medal game

Modern pentathlon

  • 10am-12.30pm: Women’s final

Volleyball

  • 12pm-2.45pm: Women’s gold-medal game

Water polo

  • 8am-11am: Men’s bronze-medal game
  • 1pm-2.50pm: Men’s gold-medal game

Weightlifting

  • 10.30am-1pm: Women’s: +81kg final

Wrestling

  • 10am-1.30pm: Men’s freestyle 65kg, men’s freestyle 97kg, women’s freestyle 76kg: repechage and medal finals

Ceremony

8pm (TBC): Closing ceremony

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