France is the reigning Olympic champions and will be buoyed by home support. They’ve also won the 2022 and 2024 Nations League

This is perhaps more in question than any time in recent history as some of the best players in the world are from other countries.

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There, they came up against China who had overcome Brazil, winning 3-2 in the shock of the tournament.

The greatest difficulty and flight went to Gao Lei, but his execution let him down so he could only finish bronze.

Kenny lost his first race in the semi but rebounded to qualify where he’d come up against teammate Callum Skinner.

Just as impressive in the bottom half of the draw was Li Xiaoxia and Ai Fukuhara neither of whom dropped a set in making the quarter finals

Russia were absolutely dominant in this event, proving their status as pre-event favourites to be correct. They led in both

In the semi-finals, the Netherlands beat Germany after an epic 14-shot penalty shootout. Great Britain joined them in the final

The ranking round saw Kim Woo-Jin (South Korea) set a world record of 700 including 52 10s. Despite this, Kim was upset in the second round

France continues their good run through the tournament, beating Argentina 3-0 in the semi-final.

Xueying continued the pattern by then going into first with a 56.635. Her compatriot was the only one who could possibly beat her

The second race between the Dutch riders saw swings and Lavreysen managed to edge Hoogland on the line to send it to a third race.

Calderano went two sets up only for Ovtcharov to win four straight. In the bottom quarter, Ma Long (China) came through

Kolesnichenko/Romashina (Russia) led qualification by over three points. They scored over 97 points in both the free and technical

In the qualification, it was a joint world record set by Wei Meng (China) with a brilliant 124 ahead of Diana Bacosi (Italy).

Britain slowly began to close the gap whilst Italy also began to claw time back on Romania in the battle for bronze.

The opening games saw a big upset as France beat the United States 83-76 behind a big Evan Fournier game.