PARIS OLYMPICS 2024: What you need to know right now
Updates triathlon, adds gold medals, Biles, athletics, kayak cross
PARIS, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Simone Biles goes for Olympic titles eight and nine in the balance beam and floor exercise finals on the last day of artistic gymnastics competition at the Paris Games on Monday.
Meanwhile, Germany won the triathlon mixed relay gold medal.
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.
LAST CHANCE TO CATCH BILES IN ACTION
Artistic gymnastics marks its final day with the spotlight on two women's events – the balance beam and floor exercise finals featuring American Simone Biles .
Already the most decorated gymnast in history, Biles is the favourite on floor but not a shoe-in on beam, the apparatus where a mere centimetre of misjudgement can separate a medallist from last place.
SEINE BACK IN FOCUS
Germany won the Olympic triathlonmixed relay, which went ahead asplanned in Paris on Monday.
Training sessions in the river were cancelled on Sunday, while Belgium pulled out of the race after one of their athletes, Claire Michel, fell ill, the Belgian Olympic Committee said. Michel competed in last Wednesday's women's triathlon.
HASSAN ON TRACK FOR WOMEN'S 5,000 METRES DEFENCE
The Netherlands' Sifan Hassan defends her Olympic title in the 5,000 metres final, part of an audacious and gruelling Paris schedule that also includes the 10,000 and the marathon later in the programme.
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.
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.
Medina, already a superstar back home, shot to new levels of international fame a week ago when a photograph of him kicking off a wave - seemingly levitating a metre above the water, arm extended and finger pointing to the sky - went global.
LYLES BY A WHISKER
After all the talk and all the hype, Noah Lyles delivered when it mattered most when he won a superlative Olympic 100 metres final by five thousandths of a second to give the United States the title for the first time in 20 years.
In one of the most competitive finals of all time, there was a blanket finish, with the stadium scoreboard initially flashing a photo finish for the first seven athletes.
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.
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Compiled by Ingrid Melander, Rachel Armstrong; Editing by Peter Rutherford
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