Paris 2024: what medals could Team GB win on day 7?

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The medals could keep on coming for Team GB today with key finals in the rowing, diving and more on the agenda. Tom George and Oliver Wynne-Griffith go in the men’s coxless pair this morning before Emily Craig and Imogen Grant target gold in the women’s lightweight double sculls.There is plenty more action in the pool, with Tom Dean and Duncan Scott tonight looking to deny home favourite Leon Marchand another gold in the me’s 200m individual medley final. There is also the men’s synchronised 3-metre springboard final to enjoy - Anthony Harding and Jack Laugher are the British hopes in that competition after Tom Daley and Noah Williams took silver in their 10m platform event.

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00:00Morning from day seven in Paris and it's actually a pretty frenetic one today

00:03from GB perspective. First kind of medal shout quite early this morning is Jack

00:08Norho with Anthony Harding in the three meter synchro diving competition. Now

00:13they're number two in the world behind the Chinese and the Chinese have been

00:16dominating the competition so you would think realistically looking at it the

00:20best they can hope for is silver. There's athletics getting underway, likes of

00:24Dina Asher-Smith, Keeley Hodgkinson in action today on the opening day of the

00:28track and then we're at the rowing with perhaps our best chance of gold all day

00:34which is Imogen Grant and Emily Craig going in the women's lightweight double

00:38skulls. There's also a chance of a medal for the men's pair in the same rowing

00:44regatta. Elsewhere, Bryony Page looking very strong in the trampolining and will

00:49have her eyes on gold and then looking towards the swimming pool this evening

00:53Duncan Scott and Tom Dean both qualified for 200m individual medley but

00:57they're up against the French superstar Léon Mochon and Ben Proud also goes in

01:01the 50m freestyle. There's the BMX as well where Beth Shriver is the

01:05defending champion in the in the racing and she won all three of her races

01:10yesterday looking very very good despite having come into this with a broken

01:14collarbone six, eight weeks out from the Games but looking strong for the gold.

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