Victory for the Netherlands as they pull away to beat Australia 66-55 in the men’s wheelchair basketball. That wraps up for our coverage for today, but we’ll be back with plenty more from Paris tomorrow.

At the end of quarter three, Netherlands lead 44-40. While we wind down our live coverage, catch up with the best pictures from day one in Paris.

The Netherlands starting to edge ahead in this final men’s wheelchair basketball match of the day, leading 40-35 and dominating the third quarter, 12-5.

Neither team finding their shooting touch right now. It’s 1-0 Australia in this quarter after three minutes of play, for a 31-30 score.

Handing off for the big finish today – see you all tomorrow.

The second half is underway. Interesting that this is continuing so long after every other event for the day is done.

Good ball movement from the Netherlands, and we’re tied at 30.

Halftime: Australia 30-28 Netherlands

The favored Australians just can’t get away. Tied 24-24, Australia clamped down on defense and scored six straight points in a two-minute span. But after a timeout, the Netherlands allowed nothing else in the last 1:49 of the half and chipped away for a two-point deficit at the half.

Australia could easily be behind here – the Netherlands have converted only two of eight free throws.

Mendel van den Orth has half of the Netherlands’ points, along with five rebounds and three assists. Bill Latham leads Australia with eight points.

Big win in taekwondo …

Khudadadi was evacuated from Afghanistan just before the Tokyo Paralympics and was able to compete.

Here’s her story:

The Netherlands just continue to make things difficult for Australia.

Big 3-pointer for Shaun Morris at one end, then Mendel Op den Orth answers for the Netherlands with a basket and a free throw.

Op den Orth then snags a defensive rebound, misses at the other end, claims an offensive rebound, then scores to put the Netherlands back out in front 20-19.

The next Australian possession ends early with a steal. By Op den Orth.

My mistake – we apparently have two badminton matches still going.

Australia rattle off the last five points of the first quarter to lead 16-12.

And just like that, the Netherlands have rattled off six straight points to take a 12-11 lead over Australia.

We’re now officially down to two live events – this and the last boccia matchup of the day.

Epic alert: A men’s doubles quarterfinal has just ended, with Germany’s second-seeded duo of Valentin Baus and Thomas Schmidberger rallying after dropping the first two games 6-11 and 12-14 to win the last three 11-9, 11-9 and 12-10.

Included in that last game – a rally lasting 57 strokes. Please check your highlight provider of choice to check that out.

Back in basketball, Australia’s offense has awakened with a couple of fast-break points and a 3-pointer. They lead 11-6.

Mongolia’s Surenjav Ulambayar has won gold in the the women’s taekwondo 52kg class with a 5-2 win over Iranian teenager Zahra Ramini.

A bit sloppy in the early going for Australia, and the Netherlands work it inside for a short shot and a 2-0 lead.

Australia took gold in this event in 1996 and 2008, then silver in 2012, but they’ve missed the podium the last two times out. They did, though, win the world championship in 2010 and 2014, and they took bronze in 2018.

The Netherlands won in 1992 and took fourth in the last world championships in 2022.

The last event of the day is about to start – Australia taking on the Netherlands in men’s wheelchair basketball.

Mongolia’s Surenjav Ulambayer is up 5-0 against Iran’s Zahra Rahimi in the last taekwondo bout of the evening, with a gold medal at stake. Rahimi is only 15 years old.

If you’re channel-hopping, you can also check out boccia, badminton and table tennis.

Israel’s Asaf Yasur has just held off Turkey’s Ali Can Ozcan to win gold in taekwondo. Ozcan cut the lead to 13-12 with 47 seconds left, but a bunch of penalties against Ozcan and one body kick from Yasur bloated the final score to 19-12.

The venue for taekwondo will look familiar to those who watched the Olympics earlier this month – the majestic Grand Palais.

In table tennis, GB’s Joshua Stacey and Bly Twomey have just advanced past Poland’s Patryk Chojnowski and Katarzyna Marszal in the XD17 mixed doubles. In doubles, the number is the combined classification for the two athletes.

Stacey and Twomey have had busy days. Stacey won a men’s doubles match with Aaron McKibbin in addition to his two wins with Twomey. Meanwhile, Twomey played two women’s doubles matches and took bronze with Felicity Packard.

As mentioned earlier but worth repeating – Twomey is 14 years old. She made her international debut less than 18 months ago. Stacey is a whole decade older and is still just 24.

Here comes Kearney … the Team GB swimmer cuts roughly a second off the lead in the third 50 meters, now trailing by 0.32 seconds.

The women’s 200m freestyle S5 is underway …

Ukraine’s Iryna Poida has a 1.15-second edge over Kearney at the 50m mark.

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Women’s 100m butterfly S13 is off …

Italy’s Carlotta Gilli leads at the halfway point. The US swimmers have work to do.

Here’s where things get confusing – we’re about to have a women’s 50m freestyle S10 race featuring some S9 swimmers, including new world record-holder Christie Raleigh-Crossley of the USA.

Their time (27.28) was faster than the S10 world record held by Canada’s Aurelie Rivard, who is also in this final.

A quick reminder of Paralympic classifications:

In swimming, the numbers 1 through 10 are for physical impairment. The greater the number, the less severe the impairment.

Classes 11 through 13 are for visual impairment – again, the greater the number, the less impaired their vision is.

They’ve just had the medal ceremony for Team GB’s Poppy Maskill, who was literally bouncing for joy during the national anthem. Beautiful moment.

The finals are running behind schedule. Next up: men’s 50m freestyle S10, with Australians Thomas Gallagher and Rowan Crothers contending.

The swimming finals will keep coming up quickly for the next 70 minutes or so, but let’s take a quick peek elsewhere …

Table tennis: Germany’s Thomas Bruechle and Sandra Mikolaschek have swept Team GB’s Thomas Matthews and Megan Shackleton in the XD7 mixed doubles.

Wheelchair rugby: France 53, Denmark 51 final.

Hello all! Hope you’ve enjoyed the competition so far today.

The USA have not yet won a medal in these Games, but that may be about to change – Ellie Marks is about to enter the pool for the 50m freestyle.

That, then is me. But fear not! Beau Dure is here to coax you through until the day’s end. Peace out.

And they’re away!

We’re about to watch the final of the men’s 50m breaststroke SB3 final. “SB3 is for breaststroke swimmers with co-ordination affected to a low degree in the upper-trunk and arms,” says LEXI, “with the rest of the trunk and legs highly affected, and those with a the absence of limbs. These swimmers maintain good body position solely using their arms and upper body. Most will breathe alternately to keep their head low and bring their hips closer to the surface. Swimmers must show intent to move symmetrically even if their arms and legs are not of even length.”

We’re watching a rerun of Poppy Maskill’s world-record swim; lucky us. It really is perfection, the race Lakeisha Patterson and Will Ellard tried to swim, executed. In fairness, Ellard is 18 and Patterson race was four times as long, but still: she measured the distance and what she could do to it, then went out and made it real.

Back to the table tennis, I’ve just remembered my dad telling me that when he was a kid, so around the time of the dinosaurs, he wrote in to World of Sport asking for more of it. Must be in the genes.

Also going on:

Also going on, for those of you with doctorates in theoretical physics.

In the time it took for me to type that, China went 6-5 in front, and this is slipping away from Pickard and Twomey.

So far, so good; they lead 4-2. I’ve always wondered why we don’t see more table tennis on telly because it’s game so many of us can play a bit – if we’re old enough to have grown up in the era of youth clubs. And as I type that, I remember Barry Hearn telling me he was trying to do something with it but in the ping-pong sphere, ping-pong being played with harder bats, making the rallies shorter. That was a fair few years ago now, so I guess it didn’t work out, and if Bazza can’t blow up a sport, you have to suspect no one else can either.

We’re down to one channel now, C4 having cut to news. And China have taken over in the table tennis, winning the third set 11-3; can GB reverse the momentum?

Goodness me what a performance that was! Maskill was first to show when they came up after the start and took it on from there. It was obvious from halfway that she was going to do it, and do it faster than anyone had ever done it before; brilliant behaviour.

Maskill takes it out fast and the world record is under threat! Chan comes back at her, but she’s not going to get there!

But now we’ve got the S14 women’s 100m butterfly, with three repping for GB: Louise Fiddes, Olivia Newman-Baronious and Poppy Maskill.

Back to the WD14 table tennis semi, GB won the first set but China have just taken the second. It’s tense.

Ellard tried to take it from the front and he got so, so close – over 90m, he wins that, and I’m sure a minor tactical tweak wins him it over 100m. But not this time; he’ll be back, though, and I’m certain he’ll get a gold before he’s done.

Hillhouse is going to catch Ellard! He’s got just enough water left!

It’s still Ellard but Bandeira and Hillhouse come back at him!

And we’re off, Ellard away quickly and leading at the turn! Go on Will!

Will Ellard gets himself stripped, and he looks confident; I guess he’s 18.

And here come our competitors while, in the table tennis, GB lead China 10-5.

The S14 classification, germane to our next race, is for athletes with an “intellectual impairment, which typically leads to the athletes having difficulties with regards to pattern recognition, sequencing, and memory, or having a slower reaction time, which impact on sport performance in general.”

Also going on: GB take on China in the semis of the WD14 table tennis. Bly Twomey, who partners Felicity Pickard, is just 14. 14!

We are, though, getting the men’s 100m butterfly S14 final, due off in nine minutes. Going for GB are Cameron Vearnacombe and 18-year-old William Ellard, the European Open champion.

I guess we’re not getting that women’s 100m back S2 final, so let me let you know that Pin Xiu Yip of Singapore took gold, Haidee Aceves Perez of Mexico bronze, and Angela Procida of Italy bronze.

In the men’s wheelchair basketball, France lead Denmark 31-20 with 6.25 left in the third. The atmosphere is lively.

Er, if they show us it – it was due off eight minutes ago.

Next in the pool: the women’s S2 100m backstroke final.

Dos Santos Araujo of Brazil turns in front, his lead a decent one, and he’ll take some catching.

Into the water they get and off they go…

And here it comes, the competitors emerging with their helpers. it’ll have to go some to beat those first two races, but that’s what we do.

Next in the pool: the men’s S2 100m backstroke.

I dunno, maybe Patterson reasoned that to be Konkoly she needed to go hard from the gun, but surely she’d have had a better chance giving it 100m to get going then kicking and looking to hang on.

Patterson leads by 0.3 at 350m but Konkoly is going to catch her!

Patterson leads by 2.2. But it’s a proper scrap for bronze – there are five of them challenging – and Konkoly of Hungary is gaining on the leader!

Patterson leads by a way at 100m, from Pauli of France from Mecic of Croatia. Already, it feels like the Aussie against the clock.

And we’re off, Patterson in front early.

Going for GB is Toni Shaw, but the favourite is Lakeisha Patterson of Australia.

Next up, the women’s S9 4oom free final.

Didier closes, the crowd shrieking and febrile! Didier goes past barlaam! He’s timed this perfectly! Can he ignite the Games for the hosts?!

Didier goes past Hodge into second but at 300m Barlaam still leads. This is going to be a finish!

At 150m it’s still Barlaam by around 0.7s and at halfway he’s extended that to 1.26; Didier holds third.

Barlaam of Italy leads at 100m, Hodge of Australia just behind.

And we’re off, the first swimming event of the Games under way.

The crowd go wild as Didier the local favourite, comes out, and we’re read to go, the arena jumping.

We’re away from the velodrome now and at the pool. Off shortly, it’s the men’s S9 400m freestyle final…

Back in the basketball, USA lead Spain 58-52 with 4.30 left in the fourth.

Bate says the Dutch have been the best bike for the last three years – GB beat them once, on this track, because they crashed. He and Latham worked nine months for that race, went quicker than they expected, and still lost, so no complaints.

Bangma is only 26, so there’s no reason to think he won’t be back in LA, going for a fourth gold in a row. Bate and Latham recorded their best-ever time and lost by a distance, which tells us just how good the dutch lads are.

The lead is 2.919 at the bell, and the Netherlands are cruising home, leading from gun to tape.

Gosh, at 3ooom the Dutch lead is 2.2s and it’s hard to see how Bate and Latham sort this with just four laps to go.

Just before halfway, the Dutch lead by 1.365; if GB are going to challenge here they need to step on it, because they’re losing 0.5s or so every lap.

Bate won this race in 2016 but the Dutch pair took gold in Tokyo and they lead after two laps; at 750m the gap is 0.7ish.

Our pairs approach their bikes, tension amping up. The Dutch were quicker in qualifying, but this is about racing not pursuit, and here we go! Sixteen laps for gold!

We’re back in the velodrome preparing for the men’s B individual pursuit final, Bate and Latham going for Paralympics GB. Can they beat Bangma and Bos of the Netherlands to win the team’s first gold?

Back to the men’s wheelchair basketball, USA now lead Spain 42-34 with 2.49 to go in the third.

Now under way:

China, China, top of the league!

Back to Cox, the verdict is that she wobbled but there was no mechanical issue – I guess, in a sense that’s bad news, but the tentative good news is that she’ll probably be available for the team event in three days’ time.

Coming up at 4.13: Steve Bate and his pilot, Chris Latham, go in the gold-medal match of the men’s B 4000m pursuit

“It’s just incredible,” says Daphne. A year ago, after an injury, she didn’t even think she’d be here, but she broke a world record, is happy with her process, proud of herself and her coach, and knows how lucky she is to be competing.

Asked about Kadeena, she says her mate got her into cycling and they’re really close; she was hoping for a podium picture together, but she’s got her family with her and she’s going “ride the high”. You do just that!

Wang is beside herself with joy, while Schrager looks disappointed but warmly congratulates the champ; she’ll be back.

Gosh, Wang leads by over six second now, and this is over. Schrager will do well to avoid being overtaken here.

Wang’s lead is up to 3.9s at 1125m and that’s a lot for Schrager to claw back – but Wang has gone out so quickly so you never know.

Wang leads by a couple of seconds early doors, but there’s plenty of time for Schrager to catch her…

It’s 12 laps of the track, Schrager taking on Wang Xiaomei of China. Wang was slightly quicker in qualifying, but there’s so little between these two…

Daphne is ready…

In the men’s wheelchair basketball, USA lead Spain 26-25 with 3.25 to go in the second.

Oh and this is lovely, from the British Cycling site:

My first experience on the road was, honestly, dreadful. I fell off five times before I even got out of the car park! But I had people around me, like Steve Cramshaw, a talent academy coach who was there to help. Despite the rough start, I kept coming back, determined to improve. The Covid-19 lockdown ended up being a blessing because it gave me time to improve my skills, like clipping in and out of the pedals—a skill that Kadeena Cox, another incredible para athlete, helped me master.

Coming up, though: Daphne Schrager goes in the C1-3 individual pursuit final.

We’ve still not seen an interview with Our Kadeena, which I guess tells us how she’s feeling. If someone that gregarious and natural on screen doesn’t want to talk, we can be almost certain she’s going through it.

I can’t lie, I’m still reeling – Kadeena Cox is a hero, and watching her heartbroken like this is sore – she’s still sat on the floor mourning, and it’s so out of character it’s even harder to watch than otherwise. But sport being sport and life being life, we’re eyes down for another final, the men’s C3 3000m.

Turns out the issue was not deemed to be a mechanical one, which is why Cox didn’t go again – though it remains to be seen if she’s also hurt. She is, though, back in the team sprint on Sunday, so let’s hope she’s ready to compete.

That was an insane ride from Groot, a worthy champ. But as we cut from her celebrations to Cox, we see her sat alone, legs crossed, crying her life out. And this is sport, I’m afraid– she’s won four golds over two Games, but her cup is not full because that’s not how these superhumans work. This’ll stick with her for evermore and she knows it, but with time, she’ll be proud of what she’s done; she is immortal and eternal.

Goodness us, Groot is absolutely destroying this, inside the fastest time by over a second at halfway.

The issue, our comms think, was mechanical, but in the meantime Caroline Groot, fastest in qualifying, takes to the track. I’m not sure Cox will be able to race after her because the advantage of going last thanks to setting the fastest time is part of the competition.

Glass half-full: the wobble out of the gate was a big hindrance, and when she goes again, she’ll hopefully manage to avoid one. In interview, she said she sometimes gets a bit shaky as a consequence of her MS and hoped her body could refrain for the duration of the competition; I’m not sure if this was that, but it was something, and as Cox departs the track, she looks tearful, my sense that she’ll not be returning.

Here comes Kadeena…

Oooh, Patouillet is outside the leader at halfway but she’s an endurance rider so you’d expect her to come on strong at the end … and she does! She leads with 36.7 so, with two riders to come, has guaranteed herself a bronze medal at worst.

It’s Marie Patouillet, the local favourite, to go next…

Next to go, Kate O’Brien of Canada, looking to better Li’s time, and she’s almost half a second inside it after the first lap. And she sets a new fastest time of 36.873. One more rider, then it’s Cox…

The time trial final is under way, Nicole Murray of NZ setting an opening time of 37.425, but as I type, Li Xiaoui of China betters it with 37.187.

I’ve no idea what’ll happen if she wins, but I’m in bits already.

“How did you feel the first time you picked up a gold medal?” asks Joe Wicks, interviewing Cox for Channel 4; “Oh, I cried like a baby,” she replies, before explaining that cycling is a pretty middle-class endeavour and she wants to “change the face” of it. She’s awesome.

Cox’s C4-5 classification is to include people with lower limb impairments or issues with lower limb functionality; Cox, who competed as an able-bodied athlete when she was younger, has MS.

Ah, and we now cross to the velodrome where Cox will contest the first gold medal of the Games. It’s hot outside but it’s roasting in there, because the higher the temperature, the faster the track.

It’s been a long schlep for her to get here, as recorded in Tanya Aldred’s piece to which I linked earlier.

The 33-year-old, who ripped up the record book by winning gold in Rio on the athletics track and in the velodrome, tore a calf muscle last winter and then sustained an achilles injury. She recovered to successfully defend her C4 500m time trial title at the Para Cycling Track World Championships in March but picked up another calf tear in training six weeks ago.

Back to Kadeena Cox, here’s an older piece giving us an insight into her life.

Look who’s at the badminton! He looks about 30 years younger than at the end of the last football season.

Yup, USA saw off Canada 51-48 in the wheelchair rugby, but this is just the phoney war. There’s plenty of mileage in this tournament yet.

Back in the rugby, USA now lead Canada 51-47, with 26.8s to go; this is probably over as a contest, but Canada have sent a message.

And here he is, looking good to win a fourth consecutive gold.

Email! “ParalympicsGB’s David Smith – resplendent in his red and blue fauxhawk – overcame his opponent D’Oliveira 5-3 in their Boccia BC1 round-robin,” advises Chris Page. “Having raced into a 3-0 lead, D’Oliveira pegged him back to 3-2 before Smith extended his lead. Really tense stuff!!”

Thanks for that, would love to watch it but we’re limited by what’s being shown.

Coming up later is the final of the men’s B 4000m individual pursuit. Going for GB are Steve Bate and his pilot, Chris Latham – they face Tristan Bangma and Patrick Bos of Netherlands in the gold-medal match at 4.13pm.

Back to the wheelchair basketball, USA now lead Canada 42-39 with 4.56 left in the fourth. Tahis is shaping up to be a decent finish.

I love these so much. The first shot, in particular, is sensational.

The women’s wheelchair basketball is over and it’s been a good start for GB, who walloped Spain 69-34. But can they improve on their seventh-placed finish from Tokyo?

Talking of world records, this morning Daphne Schrager obliterated her own in in the C3 cycling, but Wang Xiaomei of China beat even that; the pair go head-to-head in the final a couple of hours from now.

Cox’s final is up at 2.50pm BST – she qualified for it in second place, but Caroline Groot of the Netherlands, who was fastest, set a new world record in the process.

Earlier today, by the way, GB men dealt Germany a right tousing, beating them 76-55 in their first Group A game.

Back to the basketball, GB women are giving Spain a right going-over, up 66-33 in the fourth quarter.

Wheelchair rugby, of course, began life as “Murderball” – a name it shares with a game we played as kids. Two teams, two goals, one ball: get it into the other side’s however you’re able to.

Earlier today, GB began their defence of the mixed wheelchair rugby competition, beating Australia – the world no 1 side – 58-55. It’d be no great surprise to see these two meet again for the gold, but USA will have something to say about that.

Also going on:

In the wheelchair basketball, GB women lead their pool match against Spain 48-25 in the third quarter; in the men’s, USA lead Canada 16-14 in the second.

Some morning images from around Paris …