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Reaction after a thrilling day 13 at the Paris Olympics

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Athletics (women’s 4x100m relay, women’s shot put, men’s 4x100m relay, women’s 400m, men’s triple jump, women’s heptathlon, women’s 10,000m, men’s 400m hurdles).

Beach volleyball (men’s bronze medal).

Boxing (women’s 50kg, women’s 66kg, men’s 71kg, men’s 92kg).

Breaking (women’s individual).

Canoe sprint (men’s K2 500m, women’s C1 200m, women’s C2 500m, women’s K2 500m).

Diving (women’s 3m springboard).

Football (women’s bronze medal; men’s gold medal).

Hockey (women’s bronze and gold medals).

Rhythmic gymnastics (individual all-around).

Sport climbing (men’s boulder/lead).

Swimming (men’s 10km marathon).

Table tennis (men’s).

Taekwondo (men’s 80kg, women’s 67kg).

Track cycling (men’s sprint medal, women’s Madison).

Weightlifting (men’s 89kg, women’s 71kg).

Wrestling (men’s freestyle 57kg, men’s freestyle 86kg, women’s freestyle 57kg).

Highlights

Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s heptathlon comes to an end with the 800m (19:15). She leads after four events and heads to Paris as the world champion, where she is up against Belgium’s Nafi Thiam, herself searching for a remarkable third consecutive heptathlon Olympic title.

The men’s 4x100m relay final (18:45) is almost always the scene of triumph and disaster on a grand scale. GB were fourth in last year’s world final, which was won by the US. Dina Asher-Smith is expected to lead the GB women’s sprint relay team in their final at 18:30.

Track cycling on Friday includes the women’s madison (final at 17:09), British duo Neah Evans and Elinor Barker won world gold last year. The men’s sprint (from 13:41) offers one of the most captivating tactical events in cycling, where contenders can almost end up at a standstill in a bid to catch the other off-guard before racing to the line. GB’s Jack Carlin has Olympic and world bronze in the event.

The women’s hockey final is at 19:00. The Netherlands reached their sixth successive Olympic women’s hockey final with a 3-0 thrashing of Argentina. They will face China, who beat Belgium in a shootout, in the gold-medal decider.

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