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Daley joined forces with Matty Lee to grab 10m synchro glory but after injury dashed the 26-year-old’s hopes of defending his title, Daley will now be accompanied by new partner Noah Williams in France.

Self-confessed Olympic nut Daley – now competing at his fifth Games since Beijing after bagging three bronze medals in London, Rio and Tokyo – was approached about being part of the Eurosport and Discovery+TV team before his high-profile decision to make a shock comeback.

“Everyone’s beatable,” says Emily Campbell, and that is a bolder statement than it might first sound. Campbell is the only female Olympic medallist in the history of British weightlifting after winning silver in Tokyo three years ago. But her conqueror there was the Chinese phenomenon Li Wenwen, a 24-stone colossus of furious strength, and they clash again in Paris.

At 24, Li is already twice a world champion and holds world records in both snatch and clean & jerk. At her best competing with Li is a bit like trying to outrun peak Usain Bolt. Li showed some weakness at last year’s World Championships and pulled out with an elbow injury, but she appears back to full strength this season.

Campbell is undeterred. “Nothing’s a given. If there’s an opportunity for me to win that gold on the day, you know that my team will put it on the bar and I will give it my best crack. Hopefully I’ll stand up with it.”

Daryll Neita is embracing her new ‘Miss Momentum’ moniker as she targets a first individual Olympic medal amidst a golden era for women’s sprinting.

Neita, 27, won 4x100m relay bronze at both the Rio and Tokyo Games and is in excellent form in the build-up to her third Olympics, with 2024 Diamond League victories in two distances and 200m silver at June’s European Championships, where she missed out on the title by just 0.01 seconds.

The second-fastest woman in British history may not yet command the same household-name recognition of the country’s quickest, Dina Asher-Smith, but Neita is optimistic this could be the summer that catapults her into a new echelon of public consciousness – and perhaps onto the Paris podium.

Double Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones has escaped sanction after being found to have committed a no-fault doping violation following her failure to provide a urine sample in December last year.

The UK Anti-Doping Agency (Ukad) confirmed that on the basis of “very exceptional circumstances” relating to confidential medical records, Jones bears “no fault or negligence for her refusal or failure to submit to her sample collection”.

The ruling means the 31-year-old is able to pursue her quest for a third Olympic medal as part of a four-strong Great Britain taekwondo team in Paris later this month.

Keely Hodgkinson really should have won her first world 800 metres title last summer. That’s what the numbers said, and athletics is nothing if not a numbers game.

With her main rival, America’s Olympic champion Athing Mu, struggling for form, fitness and fire after the upheaval of turning professional, Hodgkinson lined up in the final last August as the fastest in the field that year. The race was hers to lose. And lose she did, outsprinted down the home straight by Kenya’s Mary Moraa.

More on Hodgkinson’s chances – and GB’s other athletics stars:

The mayor of Paris has taken a swim in the River Seine in a bid to prove that the waters are clean enough to host open-swimming events during the Olympic Games – which start in less than two weeks.

Wearing a full-body wetsuit, Anne Hidalgo plunged into the river near Notre Dame cathedral alongside Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet and the top government official for the Paris region, Marc Guillaume.

French president Emmanuel Macron had also been planning to take a dip in the Seine. But apparently the fallout from the snap election he called last month has kept him busy.

Ms Hidalgo followed in the footsteps of French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera, who swam in the Seine last weekend also wearing a full-body suit.

The country’s strict laws state that employees must have a minimum of 11 hours between shifts. That means Logan will not be allowed to present events both early in the day and then later that evening, as planned.

Broadcasters are reportedly concerned that employees could be stopped from working if the rules are not followed.

“Because of the French working directive, we are not allowed to do the morning session and the evening session,” said Logan. “They are really strict about it apparently. It’s not just a kind of box-ticking exercise. It’s quite a change for all of us because we are used to these really early sessions in the morning.”

Logan started her presenting shifts early in the morning at the recent World Indoor Championships and worked long hours until 11pm. That will not be possible in Paris.

Just announced – the ParalympicsGB cycling squad:

• James Ball piloted by Steffan Lloyd – MB 1,000m time-trial, MB individual pursuit
• Steve Bate piloted by Chris Latham – MB individual pursuit, MB road race, MB time-trial
• Neil Fachie piloted by Matt Rotherham – MB 1,000m time-trial, MB individual pursuit

• Matt Robertson – C2 individual pursuit, C2 time-trail, C1-3 road race

• Fin Graham – C1-3 1,000m time-trial, C3 individual pursuit, mixed team sprint, C3 time-trial, C1-3 road race
• Jaco van Gass – C1-3 1,000m time-trial, C3 individual pursuit, C3 time-trial, C1-3 road race
• Ben Watson – C3 time-trial, C1-3 road race

• Archie Atkinson – C4 individual pursuit, C4-5 1,000m time-trial, C4 time-trial, C4-5 road race
• Jody Cundy – C4-5 1,000m time-trial, mixed team sprint

• Blaine Hunt – C5 individual pursuit, C4-5 1,000m time-trial, C4-5 road race

• Lora Fachie piloted by Corrine Hall – WB 1,000m time-trial, WB individual pursuit, WB time-trial, WB road race
• Lizzi Jordan piloted by Danni Khan – WB 1,000m time-trial, WB individual pursuit, WB time-trial, WB road race
• Sophie Unwin piloted by Jenny Holl – WB 1,000m time-trial, WB individual pursuit, WB time-trial, WB road race

• Fran Brown – C1-3 time-trial, C1-3 road race, C1-3 time-trial

• Daphne Schrager – C1-3 individual pursuit, C1-3 road race, C1-3 time-trial

• Kadeena Cox – C4-5 time-trial, mixed team sprint

• Dame Sarah Storey – C5 time-trial, C4-5 road race

The unfortunate Olympian in question is 19-year-old Japanese gymnast Shoko Miyata, who was due to represent the Japanese women’s gymnastics team as its captain at her first Olympics. She won a bronze medal for the balance beam at the 2022 World Championships, and hopes were high for the team to secure a podium place, and with it their first medal since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Unfortunately, Miyata was forced to withdraw from the squad after she was found to be lighting up in her spare time – a violation of the team’s code of conduct.

Sure, smoking doesn’t go hand in hand with the lifestyle of an Olympic sportsperson. But it’s a world away from using sports enhancing drugs, behaving in an unacceptable way, or being involved in corruption – all much more understandably ban-worthy offences.