Olympics 2024 betting tips: Daily medal schedule, key events and best bets for the Paris Games

The 2024 Olympics is taking place from July 26 to August 11 in the French capital city of Paris, who last hosted the Games way back in 1900, and there's be over 10,500 athletes from 206 nations battling it out for 329 medals across 45 different sports.

This guide will be updated each day with a selection of best bets while we'll also pick out the big events and British medal hopes to keep your eyes on during the two weeks of sporting theatre.

Today's Olympics tips: Saturday August 10

Georgia Bell to win gold at 80/1 and 8/1 to win a medal in 1500m (Final on August 10)

At the start of the year, few people had heard of Georgia Bell but after finishing fourth in the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March she took a sabbatical from full-time work in a bid to qualify for the Olympics at the age of 30. She has subsequently run 1.56 for the 800 metres (the third fastest time in the world this year) and 3.56 for the 1500 (the second fastest woman in British history) and having breezed through the opening round on Tuesday morning, some firms are still willing to offer around 66/1 about her taking home a shock gold medal and 15/2 (Paddy Power) for her to win a medal. Heavy odds-on favourite Faith Kipyegon of Kenya, aiming for a third successive title, has already had to run two rounds of the 5,000 metres and it may eventually take its toll when we reach the final on August 10.

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Olympics Daily Schedule

Saturday August 10: Medal events

39 golds available in the following events

• Artistic swimming: Duet free routine (medal final)
• Athletics: M marathon final; M high jump final; M 800m final; W javelin throw final; W 100m hurdles final; M 5000m final; W 1500m final; M 4x400m relay final; W 4x400m relay final
• Basketball: M bronze-medal game; M gold-medal game
• Beach volleyball: M or W medal finals (2 matches)
• Boxing: W 57kg, W 75kg, M 57kg, M +92kg final
• Breaking: M ind. final
• Canoe sprint: M C1 1000m, M K1 1000m, W K1 500m semis and finals
• Diving: M 10m platform final
• Football: W gold-medal game
• Golf: W golf round 4 (medal final)
• Handball: W bronze-medal game; W gold-medal game
• Modern pentathlon: M final
• Rhythmic gymnastics: Group all-around final
• Sport climbing: W boulder/lead medal final
• Table tennis: W team bronze medal final; W team gold medal final
• Taekwondo: M +80kg, W +67kg repechage rounds and medal finals
• Track cycling: M Madison final
• Volleyball: M gold-medal game; W bronze-medal game
• Water polo: W bronze-medal game; W gold-medal game
• Weightlifting: M 102kg final; W 81kg final; M +102kg final
• Wrestling: M freestyle 74kg, M freestyle 125kg, W freestyle 62kg medal finals

By Ella Toney

A staggering 39 golds are up for grabs on the penultimate day of the Games.

The day will begin on the streets of the capital with the men’s marathon as three Brits will battle it out against the world’s best.

Philip Sesemann became a 2:08 man at the Seville Marathon to secure his spot at Paris, while both Mahamed Mahamed and Emile Cairess qualified after impressive shows of endurance at the London Marathon this year.

Cairess stormed to third in London with a new personal best of 2:06:46 making him the second-fastest British marathon runner of all time. The Olympic men’s record is 2:06:32.

On the track it's a big night with Laura Muir looking to upgrade her 2020 silver in the women's 1500m.

Great Britain will also be hoping to be involved in the two 4x400m relay finals, having won bronze in both the men's and women's events at last year's World Championships in Budapest.

Away from athletics, weightlifting is set to showcase the talents of the world’s strongest man, Lasha Talakhadze, in the men’s 102kg category.

The Georgian boasts an impressive medal collection, with 16 golds across the Olympics, World and European Championships. Talakhadze will be looking to defend his title, after winning gold at both Rio and Tokyo.

There’s no Team GB in women's football but can the USA - coached by former Chelsea boss Emma Hayes - bounce back from their miserable FIFA World Cup performance to win a title they've won four times in six editions? The women's final is today at the Parc de Prince, and they'll still be among the favourites to feature.

At Le Bourget, the home of the climbing, Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret will look to defend her Olympic title whilst young Frenchwoman Oriane Bertone will seek to shine for the host nation.

Keep an eye on the pool, or rather the air above the pool, where British duo Noah Williams and Kyle Kothari will compete in the 10m platform preliminaries with the aim of reaching the final later in the day.

Kothari has defied all odds to get to Paris, with the Londoner missing both Rio and Tokyo due to ruptured Achilles injuries. Williams will have also competed in the men’s 10m synchro earlier in the Games, alongside Tom Daley.

And on the taekwondo mat, Caden Cunningham and Rebecca McGowan go for glory. Heavyweight Cunningham, 21, won European gold earlier this year while McGowan - who edged out two-time Olympic bronze medallist Bianca Cook (nee Walkden) for selection - has won World Championship silver and bronze in this cycle.

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Britain's Isabelle Thorpe and Kate Shortman will compete in the artistic swimming, an event where Team GB have never won a medal.

In Tokyo, Thorpe and Shortman finished 14th but two years later soared to duet free routine bronze at the 2023 European Games. They further underlined their podium potential with silver at the recent World Championships.

Star of the day

The women’s golf competition concludes on day 15 and Nelly Korda is expected to be among the frontrunners after a remarkable 2024. She became the first player in 19 years to win five consecutive LPGA events, a run which included her second career major.

Best Brit

Modern pentathlete Joe Choong will be looking to retain his crown after snatching gold at Tokyo, an achievement not done since Russia's Andrey Moiseyev in 2008.

The 29-year-old already seems to have won it all, with medals of all colours at both world and European championship level.

Watch every moment of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 live only on discovery+, the streaming home of the Olympics.

How to watch the Olympics on TV or stream online

The BBC is the official Olympic television broadcaster in the UK and will broadcast the action on BBC 1 & 2 as well as the BBC Sport website and iPlayer. Eurosport will also broadcast some of the Games — online and on TV.

Sunday August 11: Medal events

13 golds available in the following events

• Athletics: W marathon final
• Basketball: W bronze-medal game; W gold-medal game
• Handball: M bronze-medal game; M gold-medal game
• Modern pentathlon: W final
• Track cycling: M keirin quarters, semis, medal finals, W sprint semis, medal finals, W omnium (medal final)
• Volleyball: W gold-medal game
• Water polo: M bronze-medal game; M gold-medal game
• Weightlifting: W +81kg final
• Wrestling: M freestyle 65kg, M freestyle 97kg, W freestyle 76kg repechage and medal finals
• Closing Ceremony

By James Reid

The curtain comes down on Paris 2024 with Sunday’s closing ceremony, but there will still be plenty of sport on offer before the torch is handed over to Los Angeles at the Stade de France.

Thirteen gold medals are on offer on the final day of action, and there will be no lie-ins for those looking to cram in their final dose of Olympic action for another four years as the women’s marathon gets underway at 7am UK time.

The Paris Games is inverting tradition with the women’s marathon closing out the athletic programme for the first time in Olympic history, and it won’t be one to miss.

Tigst Assefa will look to add Olympic gold to the world record she set last September but faces stiff competition from a star-studded line-up that includes Tokyo medallists Peres Jepchirchir and Brigid Kosgei plus the alarmingly talented Sifan Hassan.

Jepchirchir will bid to become the first woman to successfully defend the Olympic title and arrives off the back of setting a new women's world record at the London Marathon in April.

The gold medal should be wrapped up by 9.30am, but there’s no time to catch a breath, with bronze medals to be decided in men’s handball and water polo from 8am before the gold medal matches in the afternoon.

Great Britain have not medalled in water polo since 1920, with the sport dominated by Eastern European nations in recent times, while there has never been a British handball medal, with no signs of the record changing in either sport this summer.

However, those looking to roar on Team GB can turn their attention to the velodrome, where there are much greater British hopes of the podium.

Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Jason Kenny were the past four Olympic champions in the men’s keirin, but with both now retired the mantle transfers to Jack Carlin and Hamish Turnbull to extend the record to five.

The women’s sprint title is also up for grabs, with Emma Finucane, Sophie Capewell and Katy Marchant all hoping to become the first British champion since Victoria Pendleton in 2008.

Elsewhere, weightlifter Emily Campbell goes in the +81kg women’s category where she will look to upgrade her silver medal from Tokyo.

That was won in the +87kg category which has been reduced to +81kg for Paris, but Campbell will still need to beat the formidable defending champion and world and Olympic record holder Li Wenwen to win gold.

The other major medal chance for Team GB may lie in the women’s modern pentathlon final, where Kerenza Bryson will look to add an Olympic medal to the World Championship bronze she earned in 2023.

Sunday also sees three freestyle wrestling gold medal bouts but for a final bit of stardust, look no further than the Bercy Arena, where the USA women's basketball team will likely be out for their eighth straight Olympic gold.

They boast one of the most dominant Olympic records in history, with just three losses to their name since the sport’s introduction in 1976 and are unbeaten since 1992.

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Weightlifter Emily Campbell has promised big things this summer. The 30-year-old only started the sport in 2016 but won silver in Tokyo and now has eyes on gold. Campbell is also famous for her eye-catching hairstyles and says she has something ‘extraordinary’ up her sleeve for Paris.

Star of the day

Set your alarms bright and early for the women’s marathon at 7am. A stacked line-up headed by world record holder Tigst Assefa makes it the perfect start to the final day, with the Ethiopian looking to surpass the blistering 2:11.53 she recorded at the Berlin Marathon.

Best Brit

Emma Finucane has been the fastest woman on two wheels in the world over the past year and will look to add Olympic gold to the world sprint title she won last summer. The 21-year-old from Carmarthen is making her Olympic debut but could become one of the stars of the Games.