Six medals were won by Team GB on Monday in the disciplines of diving, canoe slalom, mountain biking, and swimming.
The first gold came as GB defended the team eventing title they won at the delayed Tokyo Games in 2021, according to BBC.
That was followed by Tom Pidcock overcoming a puncture and a partisan Parisian crowd to pull off a miraculous comeback and top the podium in the men’s mountain biking.
There was also joy for Adam Burgess, who took silver in men’s canoe slalom singles, and for Tom Daley as the British diver claimed his fifth Olympic medal.
Competing in his fifth and possibly last Games, Daley and Noah Williams won silver in the synchronised 10m platform.
In the evening there was more silver in the pool as Matt Richards came agonisingly close to winning in a magnificent swim in the men’s 200m freestyle.
But there was disappointment in the men’s team gymnastics final, as the British team finished fourth having been pipped to a medal by the USA, and in the women’s rugby sevens where GB lost 17-7 to the American team.
GB’s dreadful run in the boxing ring continued too, as men’s +92kg medal hope Delicious Orie lost his opening-round bout – all four fights involving British athletes so far have been defeats.
Elsewhere on Monday, Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal in their 60th and potentially final meeting in men’s tennis singles – as GB’s Dan Evans was also eliminated – while triathlon swimming training was again cancelled because of pollution in the River Seine.
