Team GB’s gold medal rush begins at Paris 2024 Olympics

The Standard

Great Britain’s gold rush begins with our first victory of Paris 2024 as Ros Canter, Tom McEwen and Laura Collett triumph in equestrian team eventing at the Château de Versailles.

Tom Daley earlier scooped a remarkable fifth Olympic diving medal as he took silver alongside Noah Williams in men’s synchronised 10m platform final.

It came after Adam Peaty narrowly missed out on the top podium spot to retain his title by a cruel 0.02 seconds in the men’s 100m breaststroke, and settled for joint silver.

For more on Monday’s Paris successes, The Standard podcast is joined by reporter Robert Dex, who’s been covering developments.

In part two, in her first major speech as chancellor, Rachel Reeves identifies a £20 billion black hole in government spending as she seeks to pin the blame for future tax rises on Tory profligacy.

Reeves’s spending cut targets include more empty public buildings sell-offs, plus slashing government investment in some road-building projects - and there’s concerns about the future of central London’s High Speed 2 rail link.

We have policy analysis, plus the latest on the Conservative leadership race, with Evening Standard political editor Nicholas Cecil.

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