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Britons Caden Cunningham reached the taekwondo semi-finals on his Olympic debut but compatriot Rebecca McGowan lost in the quarter-finals.

Cunningham, hailed as the future of the sport by two-time GB bronze medallist Bianca Walkden, came through a cagey fight against Cuba's Rafael Alba to win 2-1.

It had been 0-0 in the last round of the best-of-three fight, but Cunningham picked up four points in the final 10 seconds to secure victory.

He will face Cheick Cisse of the Ivory Coast from 15:36 BST for a shot at the gold-medal match.

McGowan, also making her Olympic debut, was outclassed 2-0 by Svetlana Osipova of Uzbekistan in the women's +67kg.

Great Britain have won a taekwondo medal at every Olympics since Athens in 2004, but have struggled in Paris.

Favourite Bradly Sinden had to withdraw injured before his men's -68kg bronze medal match, while two-time gold medallist Jade Jones suffered another early defeat in the women's -57kg.

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Erin McNeice narrowly missed out on Team GB's second climbing medal in as many days as she finished fifth in the women's boulder and lead final.

A day after Toby Roberts won gold in the equivalent men's event, 20-year-old McNeice was fourth after the boulder section of the competition.

She was second to climb the wall in the lead element and set a competitive target of 127.6 points by making it two thirds of the way up the wall.

But McNeice was knocked off top spot by Japan's Ai Mori, who scored an impressive 96.1 points by almost completing the climb, and American Brooke Raboutou, Austrian Jessica Pilz and Slovenia's Janja Garnbret also passed her score.

Garnbret, who won gold when climbing made its Olympic debut in Tokyo three years ago, won again with a score of 168.5.

Raboutou took silver and Pilz bronze.

Garnbret's second Olympic title adds to her eight World Championships golds and 41 World Cup wins, all by the age of 25.

McNeice has never won a major medal but a fifth-placed finish at her debut Olympics caps a breakout year which included two bronzes at qualifying events.

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Great Britain's Noah Williams and Kyle Kothari reached the final of the 10m platform diving competition at the Paris Olympics.

Williams, seeking to add to the silver he won earlier in the Games alongside Tom Daley in the 10m synchro event, scraped into the final in 12th place, just 0.25 ahead of the next competitor - Italy's Riccardo Giovannini, who did not make the cut.

Kothari, appearing in his first Olympics, qualified in sixth place after recovering from a low-scoring second dive.

The final is at 14:00 BST on Saturday.

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Great Britain's Kerenza Bryson and Kate French have made it through to Sunday's modern pentathlon final.

Bryson finished as the top qualifier in her semi-final with 1402 points, one above Italy's Elena Micheli and Alice Sotero.

French, who won gold in Tokyo three years ago and took a break from the sport in 2023, was three points further back in fifth.

The current European champion, Bryson got off to a perfect start with a clear run in the show jumping with a maximum 300 points.

The British pair were the top two in the fencing bonus round, while Bryson was first across the finish line in the laser run.

The final gets under way at 10:00 BST on Sunday, the final day of the Paris Olympics.

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British duo Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe are fourth in the artistic swimming competition following their opening technical routine on Friday.

Second-last to perform, the Bristol-based pair scored 264.0282 and are half a point outside the medal positions.

Shortman told ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport: "We are going to fight to the death. We really want a medal. We are going to put our heart into it and leave it all in the pool."

"The swim felt good," Thorpe added. "It was amazing having a crowd."

All 18 duets will return on Saturday to perform a free routine, with medals to be decided by a collective score.

GB’s best finish at an Olympics in the sport was fourth, 40 years ago in Los Angeles.

Shortman and Thorpe and Kate have high hopes they can find the routine needed to match their silver medal at the World Championships in Doha earlier this year.

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Great Britain's Joe Choong has qualified for the final of the men's modern pentathlon at the Paris Olympics.

The reigning Olympic champion finished eighth in his semi-final after the showjumping, fencing bonus round, 200m freestyle swim and laser run, with the top nine qualifying for Saturday's final.

It was an improved performance from Choong, who struggled in the opening round of the competition and said the disappointment of his girlfriend, and fellow pentathlete, Olivia Green not being selected for the Games impacted him.

It is the first time there have been semi-finals to determine the finalists at the Games and there was a new Olympic record set by overall leader Egypt's Ahmed Elgendy - scoring 1,516 points to break Choong's Olympic record of 1,482.

Choong finished 17th overall, but points are not carried over to the final.

Team GB team-mate Charles Brown came up just short of qualifying and would require others to pull out of the final to have a chance of participating.