Paris 2024 Olympics day nine: athletics, tennis, golf, dressage and more – live

There’s so much coming up today, it’s that most fantastic point of the Olympics where we have some swimming and athletics crossover, which is always chaotically amazing. You can check out the live schedule to get all the latest updates and times in your timezone.

For the Australians amongst us, there are quite a few Australians in action too. You can read all about it and find the times of the events in this great guide.

Hello everyone and welcome to the live broadcast of the ninth official competition day of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.

I hope you’ve all enjoyed it so far. Here in Australia there are a lot of late nights and early mornings, but Australian sports fans are used to the lack of sleep due to sports.

Day eight was action packed, with probably the biggest news of the day being the huge surprise of St Lucia’s Julien Alfred taking gold in the women’s 100m ahead of Sha’carri Richardson. Elsewhere on the track, Dutch runner Femke Bol came out of nowhere to lead her team to victory in the 4x400m mixed relay. There was more magic from Simone Biles, as the star gymnast took her seventh gold medal, and in the pool, Katie Ledecky got the better of Ariarne Titmus to win her fourth consecutive 800m gold. Snoop Dogg stole the show in the equestrian (words I never in my wildest dreams could have typed) and Remco Evenepoel took gold for Belgium in the men’s cycling event.

So that’s the whirlwind tour, but we’ll be diving into it more in the next few hours and very soon I’ll be going over the schedule for day nine and what you can expect and look forward to throughout the day! I’ll be your host for the next three hours or so, so sit back, relax and let’s do some Olympics!