There are medals to be won on the road and in the pool as Team GB search for their first opening day Olympic gold medal since Sydney 2000.
With a total of 14 golds up for grabs on Day One of Paris 2024, here are the Team GB highlights to watch out for.
Road Cycling: Time Trial
Josh Tarling will be contesting the road cycling men’s time trial from 16:32 CET, with the 20-year-old aiming to add to his world bronze and European gold earned in the past year.
Tarling arrives in Paris in great form and pulled no punches as to his ambitions on Saturday.
“To win it,” he said. “It is determined on how hard you can go and as long as I get everything out of myself, that is good. But I want to win it.
“There’s no pressure on me, I can’t control it. I have done everything I can. As long as I am happy with my ride, I am happy.”
He will be preceded by Anna Henderson, who will take part in the road cycling women’s time trial from 14:30.
She is making her debut at the Olympic Games, having switched from skiing to cycling as a teenager after breaking her leg.
The 25-year-old has already clinched time trial silver medals at the European Championships and Commonwealth Games.
Swimming
The first swimming medals will be handed out on Day One with finals in the men’s 400m freestyle, women’s 4x100m freestyle and men’s 4x100m freestyle.
Kieran Bird will be aiming to reach the men’s 400m freestyle final, while there could also be British representation in the latter stages of the relay events.
Meanwhile, three-time Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty gets his campaign underway with the heats and semi-finals of the 100m breaststroke.
The morning session at La Defense Arena gets underway at 11:00 with the evening session starting at 20:30.
Diving: 3m Synchro
Over at the Aquatics Centre, Team GB’s divers get underway as the pairing of Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen join forces again in the 3m synchro.
Mew Jensen, 22, was one of the youngest British athletes at Tokyo, and since she and Harper teamed up last year, they’ve won silver and bronze at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships respectively.
The duo take to the springboard from 11:00, with the final expected to be wrapped up by noon.
Shooting – Air Rifle
The first medal of the 2024 Olympic Games will actually be won 230km south of Paris, at the Châteauroux Shooting Centre.
Seonaid McIntosh, Britain’s most successful female rifle shooter of all-time, teams up with Britain’s first Olympic male rifle shooter since London 2012, Mike Bargeron, in the 10m air rifle mixed team event.
The Scot, 28, finished 12th in the women’s 10m event in 2020 and has a range of World Cup medals to her name, including a 10m mixed team gold in Cairo earlier this year.
The qualifying round starts at 9:00, with the final taking place between 10:30 and 11:30.
Team GB will also open their campaigns in men’s hockey and gymnastics, as well as the eventing, which sees the dressage stage get underway.
With thanks to Team GB
