PARIS OLYMPICS 2024: What you need to know right now
Updates gymnastics, athletics, adds boxing, climbing
PARIS, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Simone Biles won silver on Monday in the floor exercise final, after missing out on a medal in the balance beam event on the last day of artistic gymnastics competition at the Paris Games.
Laura Lindemann won a thrilling sprint finish to give Germany gold in the Olympic triathlon mixed relay, out-kicking the United States and Britain after highly-fancied France were scuppered by a bike crash on the first of four legs.
In total, 20 gold medals are up for grabs on Monday, including in 3x3 basketball, surfing, badminton and shooting.
Here's what you need to know about the Olympics on Monday.
SILVER FOR BILES
Biles, already the most decorated gymnast in history, placed second in the women's floor exercise final, behind Brazil's Rebeca Andrade .
Biles was fifth in the women's gymnastics balance beam event, won by Italian Alice D'Amato.
China's Zou Jingyuan handily beat his rivals to retain the Olympic parallel bars title, picking up his third medal of the Paris Games and giving his country a second gymnastics title.
Japan'sShinnosuke Oka won his third gold medal of the Paris Games with a powerful and precise routine on horizontal bar in a final rife with mistakes.
TRIATHLON
Germany won the Olympic triathlon mixed relay.
There was a photo-finish for second place, initially announced for Britain and then switched to the United States, though neither team were aware of the change until they were lining up in the wrong places for the medal presentation.
France finished fourth.
Australia's triathletes have been taking medicines to combat E.coli for a month, the team doctor said, amid concerns over pollution levels in the river Seine.
ATHLETICS
Norway's Karsten Warholm cruised through his 400 metres hurdles heat, setting himself on a collision course with key rivals Rai Benjamin of the United States and Brazilian Alison dos Santos in his Olympic title defence.
Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic opened her assault on the Olympic women's 400 metres title, clocking the quickest time of Monday morning's preliminary round in near-perfect conditions at Stade de France.
Britain's Zharnel Hugheshas withdrawn from the men's 200 metres due to hamstring tightness that will require 48 hours of monitoring, British Athletics said.
The world record is always under threat when Armand Duplantis steps into an arena and fans will hope to watch the Swedish Olympic champion pole vaulter make history again in the men's final.
BOXING GENDER DISPUTE
The two female boxers at the heart of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympics will stay in the competition for as long as they keep winning because they meet alleligibility criteria, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday.
The two were disqualified from the 2023 World Championships after a sex chromosome test ruled both of them ineligible , the International Boxing Association said on Monday.
The boxing competition at Paris 2024 is taking place under IOC rules after the Olympic body stripped the IBA of its status as the global governing organisation for the sport.
BADMINTON GOLD FOR SOUTH KOREA
South Korea's An Se-young beat He Bingjiao of China to capture the badminton women's singles gold medal at the Port de La Chapelle Arena.
CLIMBING
Polish speed climber Aleksandra Miroslaw beat her own world record twice in the women's speed climbing qualification round.
SURFING FOR GOLD
Gabriel Medina goes into the Games' finals on Monday as favourite to win gold as the Brazilian looks to add surfing's rarest prize to his glittering career and to a viral Olympic moment earlier in the competition.
KAYAK CROSS OLYMPIC DEBUT
The first ever medals in kayak cross will be handed out at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, with the quarter-finals, semis and finals all taking place on Monday afternoon.
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Compiled by Ingrid Melander and Rachel Armstrong; Editing by Peter Rutherford and Ken Ferris
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