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Great Britain's Ben Lane and Sean Vendy are out of the men's doubles badminton after losing to China's top seeds Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang in three games.

Having lost their opening match on Saturday, the Brits needed to win to maintain any chance of qualifying from Group A.

A close first game ended 21-18 in favour of the Chinese pair before Lane and Vendy stormed back to take the second 21-13.

But Liang and Wang stepped it up in the third, showing far more aggression, and a pinpoint smash from the former sealed a 21-14 triumph.

That ensures the Chinese duo will progress to the next round, while Lane and Vendy will exit after their final group match against Canada's Adam Dong and Nyl Yakura on Monday evening.

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Great Britain's Kimberley Woods has qualified for the women's kayak singles semi-final at the Olympics.

The 28-year-old recorded a time of 97.31 seconds in the first heat, and 95.95 in the second to finish 12th overall.

Australia's Jessica Fox, regarded as the greatest female slalom paddler of all time, topped qualifying after recording the fastest time of the session at 92.18 seconds.

Poland's Klaudia Zwolinska finished in second with Camille Prigent of France in third.

Woods finished last in the K1 final at Tokyo 2020, after receiving 56 penalties, and was captured on camera in a burst of tears.

Since then she has entered the top 10 in the discipline for the first time in her career.

The semi-final takes place on Sunday 28 July at 14:30 BST.

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Laura Collett set an Olympic record on London 52 to help Great Britain top the standings after the dressage phase of the eventing competition.

Collett and London 52, who the 34-year-old has described as "the horse of a lifetime”, smashed the record for lowest dressage score with 17.5 penalties in a superb performance to move into gold medal position.

The record had been held by American David O'Connor, who scored 19.3 at Sydney 2000.

British team-mates Ros Canter and Tom McEwan placed sixth and 11th respectively to leave Team GB top of the team competition with a combined 66.70 penalties, which is also an Olympic record.

Germany ended the opening day second, with 74.10 penalties, ahead of New Zealand on 83.00.

Canter, on Lordships Graffalo, received 23.40 penalties while McEwan topped the early leaderboard with 25.80 penalties.

Cross-country, the second of the three disciplines in eventing, takes place on Saturday at Versailles, where the equestrian competition is taking place against the spectacular backdrop of the palace.

Collett, helped the British team win its first eventing team gold in 49 years at Tokyo 2020 alongside McEwen and Oliver Townend - doing so on London 52.

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Great Britain's Adam Burgess qualified for the men's canoe singles semi-final.

The 32-year-old had the second fastest time of 90.87 seconds in heat one, and had a clean second run to cross the line in 95.08 seconds.

Burgess finished fourth at the Tokyo 2020 Games and missed out on a medal by 0.16 seconds.

France's Nicolas Gestin finished in first, with Croatia's Matika Marinic in third.

The semi-final takes place on Monday 29 July at 14:30 BST.

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Great Britain lead the early team standings in men's gymnastics qualifying at the Paris Olympics after strong performances across the board.

With two sub-divisions still to compete on Saturday - including a session featuring gold-medal favourites Japan and China - Great Britain are on top with 256.561.

They are 3.332 ahead of the United States, who won team bronze at the last World Championships.

The top eight teams will qualify for Monday's final at Bercy Arena.

Saturday's event also serves as qualifying for the all-around and individual apparatus finals and Great Britain's gymnasts have put themselves in good positions for these too, including Max Whitlock, who is chasing a record fourth consecutive Olympic pommel horse medal.

Jake Jarman leads the all-around standings, just 0.231 ahead of team-mate Joe Fraser, and is also top of the floor standings after a huge routine that scored 14.966.

The top 24 gymnasts qualify for the all-around final and two gymnasts per country can qualify.

It was an excellent team performance from Great Britain, with 20-year-old Harry Hepworth leading the vault standings and a strong performances from Luke Whitehouse on floor. The top eight on each apparatus qualify for the finals.

All three British crews progressed from their sculls heats on the opening morning of the rowing events at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.

In the women’s quadruple sculls, the British quartet of Lola Anderson, Georgie Brayshaw, Lauren Henry and Hannah Scott lived up to their billing as favourites, with the current world champions winning their heat to qualify for final A.

Team GB's Tom Barras - the only remaining member of the British boat that took silver in Tokyo - Graeme Thomas and debutants Callum Dixon and Matt Haywood are also into final A after finishing second behind reigning world and Olympic champions the Netherlands in the men’s quadruple sculls heats.

Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and debutant Becky Wilde finished second in their heat in the women’s double sculls to qualify for the semi-finals.

Ireland’s duo of Philip Doyle and Daire Lynch also won their heat to reach the semi-finals of the men’s double sculls.