Top five stories from day 15 at the Paris Olympics

The penultimate time of nan Paris Olympics is successful afloat plaything pinch 39 golden medals up for grabs - nan highest full connected a azygous time astatine nan Games since 2000.

In nan men's marathon, Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola group a caller Olympic grounds pinch Great Britain's Emile Cairess finishing conscionable extracurricular nan badge places.

It's was a mixed commencement to nan time for Team GB, pinch Erin McNeice missing retired connected a athletics climbing badge but taekwondo brace Caden Cunningham and Rebecca McGowan qualifying for their respective quarter-finals.

Elsewhere, Serbia hit Germany to triumph men's hoops bronze, while New Zealand's Lisa Carrington - already her country's astir dressed up Olympian of each clip - won different canoeing gold.

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Tamirat Tola kicked disconnected Saturday's badge unreserved successful nan men's marathon, crossing nan statement successful an Olympic grounds clip of 2 hours six minutes 26 seconds to unafraid Ethiopia's first golden of nan Games.

The 32-year-old vanished 21 seconds successful beforehand of Belgium's Bashir Abdi, pinch Kenya's Benson Kipruto 13 seconds further backmost successful third.

It is Tola's first Olympic gold, adding to nan 10,000m bronze he won astatine Rio 2016, and his 2022 World Championship marathon title.

Great Britain's Emile Cairess was successful badge contention astatine 1 point, holding 2nd position aft astir 30km, but faded during nan second portion of nan title earlier fighting backmost to declare fourth.

Cairess' clip of 2:07:29, which was 29 seconds down bronze medallist Kipruto, was Team GB's champion Olympic marathon decorativeness for 20 years.

Kenyan awesome Eliud Kipchoge's effort astatine winning an unprecedented hat-trick of Olympic marathon titles ended successful disappointment arsenic he did not decorativeness nan race.

Inspired by Briton Toby Roberts' athletics climbing gold successful nan men's boulder and lead last connected Thursday, compatriot Erin McNeice had nan chance to reflector his occurrence successful nan women's event.

It was not to be, however, arsenic she came 5th to miss retired connected a medal.

Watched connected by Roberts, McNeice - nicknamed McBeast - put herself successful badge contention aft a beardown showing successful nan boulder portion of nan event, earlier coming up short successful nan lead climb.

Slovenia's Janja Garnbret took gold, successful beforehand of American Brooke Raboutou and Austria's Jessica Pilz.

Team GB's taekwondo athletes Caden Cunningham and Rebecca McGowan reached nan quarter-finals.

Cunningham hit Niger's Abdoul Issoufou successful his men's +80kg first-round contest, while McGowan thrashed Fiji's Venice Traill without conceding a constituent successful her women's +67kg match.

The brace will beryllium hoping to triumph Britain's first taekwondo medals of nan Paris Olympics aft Jade Jones suffered a first-round defeat earlier this week and Bradly Sinden pulled retired of his bronze-medal lucifer pinch injury.

The quarter-finals were group to statesman astatine 13:30 BST.

NBA prima Nikola Jokic starred arsenic Serbia hit Germany 93-83 to triumph bronze successful nan men's basketball.

The three-time Most Valuable Player joint-top scored for Serbia pinch 19 points alongside Vasilije Mimic.

It is nan nation's 2nd Olympic badge successful nan arena pursuing their metallic astatine Rio 2016.

The golden badge lucifer takes spot astatine 20:30 BST arsenic nan USA return connected France successful a mouth-watering tie.

A star-studded USA side, featuring LeBron James and Steph Curry, are seeking their 5th successive Olympic men's golden successful nan event, against France broadside led by NBA Rookie of nan Year Victor Wenbanyama.

New Zealand's Lisa Carrington conscionable cannot beryllium stopped successful nan canoe sprint.

The 35-year-old, who is New Zealand's astir dressed up Olympian of each time, won her 3rd golden successful Paris arsenic she won nan women's kayak azygous 500m last successful a Games-best clip of 1 infinitesimal 47.36 seconds.

Carrington, who won her first badge astatine London 2012, took her tally to nine, which includes 8 golds and 1 bronze.

Hungary's Tamara Csipes took metallic successful nan arena pinch Denmark's Emma Jorgensen winning bronze.