Paris 2024 Olympics day 14: Imane Khelif secures boxing glory, Thiam beats Johnson-Thompson to heptathlon gold – live | Paris Olympic Games 2024

Ismaël Bennacer, the Algeria and Milan midfielder, has been one of the first to congratulate Khelif on her gold, tweeting: “Congratulations to our Olympic champion Imane Khelif. Despite the hatred, misinformation and relentlessness, she remained mentally strong to win the gold medal and honour Algeria.”

Women’s weightlifting: Speaking of medals for Team USA, Olivia Reeves secured gold in the women’s 71kg division earlier. Here’s the full report.

We’ve got another update from Beau Dure, this time on the medal rivalry between the USA and China:

With two days left, the USA and China each have 33 gold medals.

The USA are in the finals of men’s basketball, women’s soccer, women’s volleyball and the Games’ last event, women’s basketball. They have very good chances in the 4x400m relays. Other gold medals can come in men’s breaking, women’s omnium track cycling, women’s 200m single canoe, women’s 100m hurdles and two men’s wrestling classes. They’re not out of it in women’s golf, and they have a chance in the men’s high jump.

China are favored in women’s team table tennis, men’s platform diving and women’s 81kg weightlifting. They’re 50-50 in women’s middleweight boxing and duet artistic swimming. They have good chances in women’s 200m single canoe (the most notable USA v China showdown), men’s breaking, group rhythmic gymnastics, and men’s 102kg weightlifting.

So the USA could end up in the mid-40s but would more likely be around 39, and they have a floor around 35. China’s ceiling is lower at 42, but their floor is 36 or 37.

Falling short in the gold medal count because of breaking and basketball, two quintessentially US pastimes, would certainly sting.

Imane Khelif wins gold in the women’s 66kg boxing

Women’s boxing: Khelif throws some crunching punches, but none of them land. Yang catches her with a southpaw jab. Yang continues to come forward, probing without landing the necessary blows. Yang gambles on a knockout shot but fails to catch Khelif squarely, and the bell goes …

Women’s boxing: Yang looks to up the tempo, but Khelif catches her as she comes forward. The pair trade blows, leaving Yang temporarily off balance before she replies with some solid combinations. Khelif is called up for holding before Yang roars forwards with a sharp right jab. All five judges again give the round to Khelif.

Women’s boxing: Yang gets a flurry of punches away early on in the first round, forcing Khelif back. Yang, a southpaw, looks faster on her feet. She catches Khelif with a southpaw left, ducking, diving and shifting her weight nimbly. Both fighters swipe at each other at close quarters, Khelif landing some big punches, before the bell goes, with the judges unanimously giving the round to Khelif.

Women’s boxing: Khelif and Yang are out in the ring, the former in red and the latter in blue. Both get a noisy reception from the crowd.

Lazizbek Mullojonov wins gold in men’s 92kg boxing

Men’s boxing: In the meantime, we’re into the third round of the men’s 92kg final between Azerbaijan’s Loren Alfonso and Uzbekistan’s Lazizbek Mullojonov. Alfonso needs a knockout …

Women’s boxing: It’s almost time for Imane Khelif to take on Yang Liu in the gold medal bout in the 66kg category.

Well, well, well. It’s me… again. Is this how the relay is meant to work? I feel like we’re stretching the metaphor a bit thin now.

Handing that pesky baton back to Will Magee … don’t drop it Will.

But better news from Team GB’s relay camp. It could have been better, it could have been worse. All in all, it was a pretty impressive run from GB’s relay teams as they clinched silver and bronze in Paris. Dina Asher-Smith basked in a “phenomenal run” from the women’s 4x100m team and I’m certainly not going to argue…

A man who knows a thing about winning Olympic medals … the four-time Olympic champion Carl Lewis has called on USA Track and Field to ‘blow up the system’ after another debacle for the men’s 4x100m relay team.

The US men extended their relay drought to 20 years without a medal in the relay tonight in Paris, after they were disqualified for an illegal pass.

Taekwondo: Tunisia’s Firas Katoussi wins gold in men’s -80kg

Tunisia’s Firas Katoussi has just become his country’s first Olympic champion in taekwondo after beating Iran’s Mehran Barkhordari 2-0 in the men’s -80kg gold medal contest. Earlier Hungary’s Viviana Marton struck gold in the women’s -67kg … Olympic champion at 18!

Boxing: Muydinkhujaev and Wu clinch gold in men’s 71kg and women’s 50kg

Boxing at the tennis update: the first two finals at Roland Garros have finished with Uzbekistan’s Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev sealing a 5-0 victory against Mexico’s Marco Alonso Verde to win the men’s 71kg class.

China’s Wu Yu then took a 4-1 split decision over Turkey’s Buse Naz Cakiroglu in the women’s 50kg final.

Taekwondo: Viviana Marton wins women’s -67kg gold

At the Grand Palais, Viviana Marton has become the women’s -67kg Olympic champion at the age of just 18. She beat Serbian Aleksandra Perisic 2-0 in straight rounds.

If you missed it … Ewan Murray was on hand to deliver some golden news about Toby ‘The Terminator” Roberts. He’s young so … he’ll be back.

Table tennis: China are closing in on a sweep after cruising to gold in the men’s team event. They brushed aside Sweden 3-0. Ma Long and the world No 1 Wang Chuqin beat Anton Kallberg and Kristian Karlsson 8-11, 11-4, 11-3, 6-11, 11-7.

Fan Zhendong then saw off Truls Moregard 10-12, 11-8, 11-9, 11-13, 11-5 before Wang clinched gold with a victory over Kristian Karlsson 11-9, 11-5, 10-12, 10-12, 11-2.

Women’s hockey: The Netherlands survived a scare to beat China 3-1 in a penalty shootout following a 1-1 draw in regulation to retain their women’s title, giving the Dutch the hockey double after the earlier men’s triumph. Goalkeeper Anne Veenendaal stopped Ma Ning’s penalty to secure the win and hand the Dutch a fifth title. The Dutch women have dominated hockey since first fielding a women’s team in 1984, missing out on a medal only once in 1992.

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Men’s 400m hurdles: Warholm made a flying start but when it came down to the final 150m, Benjamin burst clear and the Olympic champion had to settle for silver.

Brazil’s Alison dos Santos takes the bronze medal.

Rai Benjamin wins 400m hurdles gold

World record holder and defending champion Karsten Warholm was the fastest qualifier and is the favourite

Men’s 400m hurdles: home favourite Clément Ducos gets quite an ovation

Men’s 400m hurdles: all eyes back on the track for the final event of the evening

Women’s heptathlon: A reminder that Katarina Johnson-Thompson had to settle for silver but far from being downbeat, she’s just told the BBC: “I can’t even describe the words but I’m just so relieved and so happy that I have an Olympic medal to add to my collection. It was the only one I didn’t have and it’s been so hard getting back to this point.”

Thanks Will. Amazing moment for Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet. Gold in the 5,000 metres in Paris, followed up by 10,000m gold. Extraordinary.

Right, that’s yer lot from me. There’s still plenty more to come tonight, however, so I’ll hand over to Mark Dobson for the next stretch.

Beatrice Chebet wins women’s 10,000m gold

Women’s 10,000m: Chebet pulls ahead in the last lap! But wait! Italy’s Nadia Battocletti is roaring forward!

Women’s 10,000m: Team USA’s Parker Valby briefly takes the lead, but falls back almost immediately.

Women’s 10,000m: Kipkemboi gets out in front with four laps to go, with Rengeruk and Chebet close behind.

Women’s 10,000m: Kenya’s other runner, Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, is helping to up the pressure alongside Kipkemboi and Chebet.

Women’s 10,000m: Ethiopia’s Tsigie Gebreselama puts herself in the mix at the front, pushing ahead of Kipkemboi and Chebet. Seven laps to go.

Women’s 10,000m: Margaret Kipkemboi, Chebet’s Kenya teammate, makes a move, upping the pace at the front as Chebet holds firm just behind her.

Women’s 10,000m: Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet is going strong near the front, with Australia’s Lauren Ryan pushing into the lead.

Women’s 10,000m: Kazakhstan’s Daisy Jepkemei is now out in front, with Goshima dropping back.

The women’s 10,000m is well under way. Japan’s Rino Goshima is out in front with 16 laps to go, but the group is still tightly packed.

Barney Ronay has tried to make sense of the gleeful chaos in the men’s football final. Here’s his report from the Parc des Princes.

In the women’s shot put, Germany’s Yemisi Ogunleye has taken gold with a thumping 20m throw. New Zealand’s Maddi Wesche earns silver, with China’s Song Jiayuan claiming bronze.