2024 Olympics in Paris medal count updates: who has won more? Tally by country on August 8

China win men's canoe double 500m gold!

The Chinese pair of Ji Bowen and Liu Hao took an early lead and held onto it throughout the race, finishing in 1 minute and 39.48 seconds to claim the gold medal.

The Italian team of Gabriele Casadei and Carlo Tacchini secured the silver medal, while Joan Antoni Moreno and Diego Dominguez from Spain won the bronze.

Italy win mixed multihull gold!

Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti have become back-to-back Olympic champions! The Italians knew that they essentially needed to have a clean showing and not finish too low in the medal race to take the gold, and that's exactly what they did, finishing second to claim the title.

The silver medal goes to the Argentinian crew of Mateo Majdalani and Eugenia Bosco, while Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson won New Zealand its first medal in this event with a bronze.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Indonesia win's men's Speed gold

Veddriq Leonardo, the 2023 overall World Cup Speed champion, has now become an Olympic gold medallist!

The 27-year-old set a personal best of 4.75 seconds, narrowly edging out Wu Peng (CHN) in the final (4.77 seconds). In the bronze medal matchup, Sam Watson (USA) set a new world record with a remarkable time of 4.74 seconds, securing his place on the podium.

Mijain Lopez - the Olympic Excellence!

The Austrian Mixed Dinghy Olympic champions

Austria win mixed dinghy gold!

In the new medal event for Paris 2024, the Austrian boat helmed by Lara Vadlau and crewed by Lukas Maehr won the gold medal! Despite finishing only seventh in the medal race out of 10 boats, it was enough for them to clinch the top spot on the podium overall.

Okada Keiju and Yoshioka Miho of Japan, who finished third in the medal race, won the silver medal, while Anton Dahlberg and Lovisa Karlsson of Sweden won the bronze.

14 years of surfing dreams

What a fabulous post here from the Olympics social media team, highlighting the journey of a recent gold medal winner.

A few days ago, 22-year-old Kauli Vaast won the surfing competition which took place in Teahupo’o, Tahiti. And the fairytale has been a long time in the making.

Women's 4x100m relay hots up

It wasn't the smoothest of qualifiers for Team USA in the women's 4x100m but they came through a somewhat dodgy baton change to post the fastest time.

Team GB could well be the biggest threat to the US for gold while France and Germany may also be in the mix.

Women's heptathlon underway

The seven-sport event for the women is off to an impressive start with Adrianna Sulek-Schubert winning her 100m hurdles heat in a time of 13.32.

As European Athletics reminds us, the 25-year-old Polish athlete is a very recent new mother.

In the other heat, Annik Kaelin (SUI) hit a PB of 12.87, with Taliyah Brooks (USA) second with 13.00 and Belgium's Noor Vidts third with 13.10. 

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What is the mascot at the 2024 Olympics in Paris? Meaning, designer and how to pronounce

I mentioned the mascot for the 2024 Olympics in Paris earlier, as 'it' was handing out weightlifting advice, but how much do you about Phryge?

The red, white and blue character was unveiled at the end of 2022 and, as you would expect, everything about it is rather French.

Van Rouwendaal takes women's marathon swimming gold

The first gold medal of the day goes to the Netherlands'  Sharon van Rouwendaal in the Seine.

With a time of 2:03:34.2 she adds to her gold in Rio 2016 and silver in Tokyo 2020. Incredible!

Silver here went to Australia's Moesha Johnson in 2:03:39.7 (bumping up the country's total in third place on the medal's table above) and bronze to Italy's Ginevra Taddeucci 2:03:42.8.

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Women’s golf tournament at the 2024 Olympics in Paris: Round 2 Thursday tee times and featured groups

As well as the long swims in the Seine, action is also getting underway at Le Golf National. The women's individual golf competition begins its second round with France's Celine Boutier leading by three shots lead after she carded a seven-under 65 yesterday.

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Usain Bolt concerned about his 200m world record at 2024 Olympics in Paris

Talking of those confident gents that rarely miss a bus, we had a little chat ahead of the Paris Olympic sprints with the world record holder in both the 100m and 200m. The one and only Usain Bolt.

He had plenty to say, including talking about his mentor, Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo and more, but the initial focus was on the races. His 100m WR is still in tact, as he predicted, but he's less confident about today's 200m...

Lyles back for more

That 200m final (at 14:30p.m. ET) will see Noah Lyles line up with ambitions of following up his 100m gold with another... and the relay also ahead for a golden treble.

Could he really break Usain Bolt's 200m world record? He believes he can, but these sprinters are rarely talking down their abilities.

Weightlifting tips

Our Paris 2024 mascot has some advice for those lifting weights later today in search of a medal.

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Team USA got its first Olympic medal in Artistic Swimming in 20 years and this is how it happened

In case you missed it yesterday, with the help of a Michael Jackson-inspired routine that has since gone viral, USA Artistic Swimming was able to make it to the finals at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris where it clinched its first medal in the event since the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

The team secured a silver medal.

Marathon swimming has morning focus

The River Seine (which has had some controversy over its rather dirty nature) has all our attention this morning. Well, it's more about the brave swimmers within it that we're keeping an eye on.

Long distance race medals will be the first confirmed of the day.

Figure skaters pick up medals

Just look at their faces.

Thursday's medal events

I mentioned there were plenty of medal events (we are getting close to the end of these Games, I'm afraid) so here they all are laid out for you:

All times shown are Eastern Time (ET), which is six hours behind local time in Paris:

Athletics (track and field)

14:00: Women's long jump final

14:25: Men's javelin throw final

14:30: Men's 200m final

15:25: Women's 400m hurdles final

15:45: Men's 110m hurdles final

Boxing

15:30–16:01: Men's 57kg semi-finals

16:02–16:33: Women's 75kg semi-finals (losing semi-finalists win bronze)

16:34–16:50: Men's 51kg final

16:51–17:06: Women's 54kg final

Canoe sprint

07:30–07:40: Men's C-2 500m final A

07:40–07:50: Women's K-4 500m final A

07:50–08:00: Men's K-4 500m final A

Cycling (track)

13:11–13:17: Women's keirin final

13:27–14:00: Men's omnium points race

Diving

09:00–10:40: Men's 3m springboard final

Football

11:00–14:00: Men's bronze medal match

Hockey

08:00–09:45: Men's bronze medal match

13:00–14:45: Men's gold medal match

Marathon swimming

01:30–04:00: Women's 10km open water (Subject to water quality conditions)

Sailing

05:43–06:10: Mixed two-person dinghy medal race

06:18–06:38: Mixed multihull medal race

09:40–10:10: Men's kiteboarding final

10:37–11:07: Women's kiteboarding final

Sport climbing

06:54–07:00: Men's speed finals

Taekwondo

14:19–15:33: Men's -68kg medal contests

14:35–15:52: Women's -57kg medal contests

Weightlifting

09:00–11:08: Women's 59kg

13:30–15:38: Men's 73kg

Wrestling

13:30–14:05: Men's Greco-Roman 67kg medal finals

14:05–14:40: Men's Greco-Roman 87kg medal finals

14:50–15:25: Women's freestyle 53kg final

Welcome to Paris Olympics Day 13

Hello once again and I hope that you're ready for yet another day of incredible action.

Given that they don't come around as often as some other competitions, I'd almost forgotten just how intense the Olympic Games can be. Every day lines up another bunch of amazing athletes taking their abilities to the next level. Loving it!

So to today, Thursday, August 8, and we have 27 gold medal events! 27!!

So, let's get our coverage back on track (sorry!) as we kick off another day.