Paris Olympics live: Opals lose to Nigeria, Harry Garside's boxing ...

Okay basketball fans, it hasn't been a good night with the Opals going down.

BUT ... the Boomers will be back in action tomorrow night against Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Canada from 9:30pm AEST.

Both Australia and Canada opened their Olympic campaigns with wins over Spain and Greece respectively in Group A.

For the Aussies, veteran guard Matthew Dellavedova joined an exclusive club.

My ability to put the commentator's curse on players without speaking a word out loud remains in tactic as Novak Djokovic faces his first break point of the match and loses it straight after I said he was ready to power through the finish line.

Rafael Nadal still trails 2-4 in this second set, but he's got a little momentum, Djokovic is suddenly struggling in the heat, and the crowd is rallying behind the Spaniard.

The second set has looked much the same as the first, with Djokovic dictating terms and Nadal having to work so hard just to maintain parity.

He finally gets a game under his belt, but it's 4-1 and Djokovic looks ready to rattle off a couple more.

It's mighty hot out there, with both players wrapping towels filled with ice around their necks at the change of ends.

The Levi sisters combine to earn a key turnover deep inside their own 22 and Maddison Levi finishes at the other end. Australia are always so deadly on the turnover and Levi converts her own try.

Ireland reply through Amee Lee Murphy Crowe...or do they? The ref checks it with the video and she juuuust lost it before she put it down, courtesy of another sterling defensive effort from Maddison Levi. 

Ireland secure a turnover shortly thereafter though before Australia are pinged for a cynical offside and Tia Hinds goes to the bin. If Ireland can score here we could be set for a big finish.

Faith Nathan makes a superb tackle to shut down one Irish raid but in the end Eve Higgins uses the space around the middle to score under the posts. Siren sounds as the kick-off goes in the air, but Australia claim it, put it into touch and take the win 19-14.

The result ensures Australia will top their group - who they play in the quarter-finals is yet to be determined - it'll be the seventh-ranked side overall and we still have some pool matches to be played, but that game will be played at 06:30am Tuesday morning.

Faith Nathan opened the scoring inside the first 20 seconds for Australia after knifing straight through the middle of the Ireland defence from close to halfway.

Some sustained pressure and possession from Ireland paid off - they controlled the ball well and worked methodically for almost four minutes before Erin King offloads for Eve Higgins crashes over next to the posts and level us up.

But Australia reply right on halftime with some terrific, up-tempo footy that runs Ireland ragged until Teagan Levi makes the most of it and scores. Conversion is wide.

It ends 6-1 on the scorecard, but that first set had the feel of a much more tense set.

The sheer presence of Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic on centre court at Roland Garros is enough to get any sport fan salivating, and Nadal showed some flashes, but it was mostly a one-way street.

Both players are showing a lot of respect, applauding and giving each other the thumbs-up for brilliant play.

Shane O'Neill has finished last in his street skateboarding heat, putting the Australian out of medal contention.

The 34-year-old scored 107.50 in qualifying and he was ranked 10th after the second of four heats, with only the top eight progressing to the final round.

O'Neill only managed a score of 16.50 from his two runs during heat one and that cruelled his chances.

He managed 91.00 on one of his five tricks, but that was all he landed in that section of the six-skater heat.

Midway through qualifying, American Jagger Eaton, the Tokyo street bronze medallist, led with 274.88.

O'Neill has a massive online following and he had plenty of crowd support at the Olympic skate park.

His early elimination comes a day after 14-year-old compatriot Chloe Covell finished an emotional eighth in the women's street final.

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The rugby sevens program will continue with Australia taking on Ireland in their final pool match. That'll kick off in about ten minutes - it'll take an absolute boilover for the Aussies not to top their pool but, as we saw with the Opals earlier, strange things are happening today....

Earlier, Great Britain came from behind to down South Africa 26-17 which ensures Team GB will finish in the top two of the same group.

Down 0-3, Rafael Nadal fights off one break point, but looks like he's put a backhand long on a second.

As the umpire gets down from his seat to check the mark on the baseline, Djokovic wipes it out, effectively conceding the point. Maybe it was in anyway, but still classy.

Eventually the Serb gets the break for 4-0. He really does look a step above out there.

Djokovic has that strapping on his right knee, but Nadal's right thigh is very heavily strapped and he certainly looks slower out there.

FYI, overall there are 32 sports featured at these Olympic games, including one new one - Breaking, chosen for its popularity with young people.

Baseball and Softball have both been dropped from these games - as they were for London 2012 - but they returned for the Tokyo games and will do so again in LA in 2028. Karate is also coming back in 2028 after debuting as a sport in Tokyo. Lacrosse is also returning as a full part of the program for the first time since 1908, while flag football and squash will make their debut at the next Games.

Other cancelled Olympic events include Tug Of War (1900-1920), Golf (1900-1904 and 2016-present) and Cricket (returning 2028).

And if you’re curious, here’s how the IOC decides what sports to include at each games.

Look, we're not going to post every game of this match, but it's worth noting this first game went to 40-0 on Novak Djokovic's serve, before Rafael Nadal forced his way back to deuce — at one point forced into hitting two overheads in the same rally thanks to Djokovic's defence.

Djokovic draws first blood eventually, but the tension and excitement is surely unlike anything we've seen in the second round of the Olympics before.

Australian BMX star Logan Martin will launch his high-flying campaign with men's park qualification at Place de la Concorde from 11pm AEST tomorrow.

Martin is the defending Olympic champion, has won two world titles in the men's park event and is a six-time champion at the X Games.

So who is his main rival for GOLD in Paris?

Great Britain's Kieran Reilly is one of the favourites in the event, having won the BMX freestyle park at the 2023 world championships and also at last year's European Games.

The Brit is the first rider to perform a Triple Flair - three full backflips with a 180-degree rotation at the end!

The sporting world's eyes have shifted to Court Philippe Chatrier as Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic stand across the net from one another for the 60th time.

Nadal wins the toss and elects to receive.

The stands are full and 14-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal is sure to have the crowd on his side.

The eventing jumping team final, which doubles as the individual qualifier, is all wrapped up at Versailles with Great Britain retaining the gold they won in Tokyo ahead of France in silver and Japan in bronze.

Australia finished back in 15th but could have a better shot at the individual event with Christopher Burton, riding Shadow Man, qualifying second overall while Shane Rose, on Virgil, came in at 22.

That final will begin around 11:00pm AEST so stay tuned.

Right you are, Jed.

And the sailing competition has been delayed! It won't started for at least another 20 minutes.

Imagine running a full marathon… with no shoes… at the Olympics… in record time.

Abebe Bikila, a guard in the Ethiopian Emperor's army, only started running aged 24 in 1956.

He was little known outside Ethiopia when he lined up to compete in the Rome 1960 marathon as a late replacement for an injured teammate.

He ran barefoot because his favourite pair of shoes was ruined while training and the new ones gave him blisters.

Having tied for the lead for much of the course through Rome, he broke away in the last kilometre to win with a new record time of 2 hours, 15 minutes and 16 seconds, Africa’s first ever Olympic gold medallist.

Four years later, he went one better.

Apparently unaffected by having his appendix out six weeks before Tokyo 1964 - and wearing shoes this time - he broke his own record to finish in 2:12:11, the first ever to win two Olympic marathons.

East Germany’s Waldermar Cierpinski later matched Bikila’s record with marathon gold in 1976 and 1980, while this year Kenyan Eluid Kipchoge is aiming to become the first to do it three times on Saturday, August 10.

A man has been arrested at a railway site in Normandy, believed to be in connection to the arson attacks that targeted France's high-speed rail network over the weekend.

The attacks on safety equipment caused mass cancellations and delays in the hours before the Paris Olympics began.

French authorities say they believe far-left activist groups are behind the attacks, as police continue to investigate.

You can continue reading this story at the link below.

As world number one Iga Swiatek completes another dominant 6-1, 6-1 victory over France's Diane Parry, we prepare for an historic occasion at the home of the French Open.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal clashed for the first time at Roland Garros.

Eighteen years later, they'll meet for the 60th and perhaps final time tonight at that same location. (Nadal hasn't completely confirmed his retirement, but it feels imminent.)

The tennis gods have gifted us this match, with Nadal boasting one of the only accolades Djokovic doesn't have, Olympic gold medals times two.

They're next up on centre court.

Shane O'Neill is going to struggle to get out of the preliminaries in the men's street skateboarding event.

He's fifth of six skaters after the first heat with a score of 107.50 from his runs.

With 16 skaters to come and only the top eight qualifying for the final, O'Neill has to be hoping for some stacks. A lot of them.

As Mollie O'Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris prepared to collect Australia's fourth straight women's 4x100m freestyle relay gold medal, veteran sports commentator Bob Ballard remarked: "Well, the women just finishing off. You know [what] women are like, hanging around, you know, doing their makeup,"

The remark was enough for broadcaster Eurosport to take him off-air immediately.

"During a segment of Eurosport's coverage last night, commentator Bob Ballard made an inappropriate comment," it said.

"To that end, he has been removed from our commentary roster with immediate effect."