Top five stories from day 14 of Paris 2024

Teenage climber Toby Roberts added to Team GB's badge tally astatine Paris 2024 with a spectacular golden successful nan men's boulder and lead final.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is besides good placed to declare a badge successful nan heptathlon, but she will person to title an outstanding 800m later connected Friday to hit rival Nafissatou Thiam to nan gold.

Meanwhile, Hector Pardoe praised Paris 2024 organisers for cleaning up nan River Seine aft nan Briton came sixth successful nan men's 10km marathon swim.

Team GB's women and men made it safely done to Saturday's 4x400m relay finals, while Max Burgin reached nan men's 800m final.

Breaking, a style of thoroughfare dance, makes its Olympic debut connected Friday pinch a golden badge up for grabs successful nan women's event.

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Roberts was successful provisional first spot erstwhile Sorato Anraku, nan last climber and favourite, took to nan 15-metre wall.

But nan world metallic medallist from Japan, who only had to lucifer nan Briton, mislaid his grip and slipped adjacent nan apical to manus Roberts a melodramatic gold.

The 19-year-old, who improved his climbing connected a DIY wall built successful his dad's garden, had scored 92.1 points successful nan lead last to return his full to 155.2 - 9.8 points up of Anraku successful silver.

"I americium conscionable mislaid for words. To find retired that I had sewage nan golden successful that infinitesimal was genuinely incredible," Roberts told BBC Sport.

"I person been training for this infinitesimal my full life. To opportunity it hasn't sunk successful is an understatement. I ideate later it will beryllium a flood of emotions."

Johnson-Thompson headed into Friday pinch a constrictive lead of 48 points complete semipermanent rival Thiam, acknowledgment to season's-best performances successful nan 100m hurdles and precocious jump, and a personal-best successful nan changeable put.

The 31-year-old conceded conscionable 3 points from her lead successful nan agelong jump erstwhile nan Belgian registered a jump 1 centimetre further.

However, Thiam's superb capacity successful nan javelin, 1 of Johnson-Thompson's weaker events, hurled her to nan apical of nan standings pinch 5,942 points.

The two-time reigning Olympic champion's propulsion of 54.04m overshadowed Johnson-Thompson's season's champion of 45.49m.

Thiam will spell into nan last event, nan 800m astatine 19:25 BST, pinch a lead of 121 points, meaning nan Briton, who has ne'er won an Olympic medal, needs to tally astir 8 seconds faster to person a changeable astatine nan gold.

With pre-Games badge favourite Jake Wightman retired pinch a hamstring injury, it looked for illustration Team GB would beryllium without a typical successful nan men's 800m last aft Ben Pattison and Elliot Giles grounded to qualify.

However, Burgin, going successful nan past semi-final, pulled disconnected a individual champion of 1 infinitesimal 43.50 seconds to decorativeness 3rd and spell done arsenic 1 of nan 2 adjacent fastest.

"I don't really cognize what to say. It benignant of came retired of nowhere," said 22-year-old Burgin. "I wouldn't person believed it a period ago, I wouldn't person believed it a fewer weeks ago."

In nan women's 4x400m relay, Team GB's Laviai Nielson battled down nan location consecutive to transverse nan statement successful 2nd successful 3 minutes 24.72 seconds to suffice for Saturday's final.

Meanwhile, successful nan men's event, Charles Dobson held disconnected a precocious complaint by nan United States' Chris Bailey, who had a beardown anchor limb to decorativeness 3rd aft 16-year-old Quincy Wilson struggled successful nan opening lap.

There was disappointment for GB's Cindy Sember, who collapsed connected to nan way level successful her women's 100m hurdles semi-final aft clipping a obstruction pinch her trailing leg.

Britain's Hector Pardoe praised Paris 2024 organisers' attempts to cleanable nan River Seine and mounting a "good precedent for nan remainder of European nations to cleanable up nan rivers".

Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary upgraded his metallic from Tokyo and was joined connected nan men's 10km unfastened h2o swimming podium by compatriot David Betlehem, who took bronze, while Germany's Oliver Klemet won silver.

The h2o value of nan Seine has been a awesome talking constituent earlier and during Paris 2024, pinch nan men's triathlon postponed by a time and respective familiarisation training sessions cancelled because of nan debased h2o quality.

"There was a batch of negativity astir nan Seine earlier nan Olympics. At slightest they person tried; they person spent £1.2bn connected this clean-up task truthful bravo to them for doing it," Pardoe said.

"Imagine if we tin get swimmers swimming successful nan Thames, that would beryllium an astonishing experience. That shows why athletics is specified a bully point for change, we tin get things done pinch sport."

Breaking, nan Olympics' latest foray into municipality sports arsenic it hopes to prosecute younger audiences, gets nether measurement astatine Place de la Concorde, pinch nan women's b-girls title starting astatine 15:00 BST.

The style of thoroughfare dance, which originated successful 1970s New York, is characterised by acrobatic movements, speedy footwork and a hip-hop soundtrack.

With breaking near disconnected nan programme for LA 2028, it is simply a uncommon chance for nan dancers to execute connected nan Olympic stage.

Dancers will compete successful one-on-one battles consisting of 2 60-second propulsion downs (three successful nan knockout phase). Nine judges ballot astatine nan extremity of each conflict to determine nan winner.

The b-girls and b-boys will person marks for technique, vocabulary (the assortment of moves incorporated), execution, musicality and originality.

No British breakers will compete astatine nan Olympics pinch b-boy Kid Karam, b-boy Sunni and b-boy Sheku each finishing extracurricular nan qualification spots astatine nan Olympic Qualifier Series earlier this year.