Chinese takeaway

British diving star Tom Daley was dethroned as Olympic champion yesterday but took an emotional silver medal with partner Noah Williams in the synchronized 10m platform behind Lian Junjie and Yang Hao as China went top of the medals table early on Day Three of the Paris Games.

It was a fifth medal in five Olympics for 30-year-old Daley, who won gold with Matty Lee in the same event at the Tokyo Games three years ago.

Lian, 23, and Yang, 26, who have won at the last three world championships, established their dominance with their first dive and never looked like giving up the lead. They finished with a score of 490.35, ahead of Daley and Williams on 463.44, and Canada's Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray on 422.13.

Daley made his Olympic debut as a 14-year-old at the 2008 Beijing Games and won his first Olympic medal with a bronze at the 2012 London Games. He took another bronze in Rio, then another at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics before finally winning gold in the men's synchronized 10m platform event at those Games.

In shooting, China's Sheng Lihao claimed his second gold in Paris by winning the men's 10-meter air rifle event, while South Korea's Ban Hyo Jin claimed the women's gold.

Sheng, 19, won with an Olympic record aggregate of 252.2 to finish ahead of Sweden's Victor Lindgren, who scored 251.4 to take the silver medal.

Sheng was part of the Chinese duo who won the mixed team gold on Saturday.

Meanwhile, British eventing riders Ros Canter, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen won team gold in the show-jumping final.

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