2024 Paris Olympics LIVE: Adam Peaty and Katie Boulter both in action for Team GB as the first medals of the Games are to be awarded as USA’s Katie Ledecky can become the most successful female swimmer of all time

Who better to hear from than a man who won five gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games?

Sir Steve Redgrave has his finger on the pulse in Paris. From the mood inside Team GB House, to our best medal hopes for today, he delivers an exclusive preview for the action.

He also reflects on Friday night’s opening ceremony, which ivided opinion to say the least…

Do read the below article and watch Redgrave give his thoughts.

The Olympic eventing dressage gets underway at 8.30am BST today, but the sport has been rocked by the scandal surrounding Charlotte Dujardin in recent days.

Major sponsors have cut ties with her after a video emerged of her whipping a horse, released by a whistleblower.

Now, Mail Sport can reveal damining comments made by Alicia Dickinson, the dressage trainer who has denied being that whistleblower, about abuse at the top of the sport.

A bit later, we’ll be bringing you an exclusive video preview of today’s action with Sir Steve Redgrave, and he’ll be delivering his verdict on who our best hopes of scooping up a medal are today.

He sets a target of six medals for Team GB today and says the team’s headquarters are ‘buzzing’ with anticipation.

Hello and welcome to Mail Sport’s live coverage of the first Saturday of the Olympics!

We’ve got a jam-packed schedule for today and by the end of it, some athletes will be going to bed with a gold medal by their side.

There are plenty of British medal hopes, so stay with us. More on those in a moment.