US star Simone Biles makes highly anticipated Olympics entrance as UK’s ………. eyes third gold ..See More Story

The United States will launch their bid for a fifth successive men’s basketball title against Serbia, who can call upon three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic.

But there are serious questions over Rafael Nadal’s participation in the tennis singles at Roland Garros after he teamed up with Carlos Alcaraz to win their men’s doubles opener.

Nadal is still listed to face Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics on Sunday, with Novak Djokovic lying in wait, but the 14-time French Open champion, who has a thigh injury, said: “I don’t know if I am going to play tomorrow or not.”

After rain marred Friday’s opening ceremony and the first full day of action on Saturday, organisers will be heartened by a forecast of sunny and dry weather for day two.

Biles, who won four golds at the 2016 Rio Olympics, withdrew from multiple events at the Tokyo Games as she battled the disorientating condition that gymnasts call “twisties”.

She still went home with a silver and bronze and won plaudits by talking openly about mental health struggles.

After taking two years out, Biles made a triumphant comeback at the US Classics last year. That was followed up by four world titles to take her tally to an astonishing 23.

The United States team are eager to take the pressure off Biles, 27.

Women’s team technical leader Chellsie Memmel said Biles must not feel they are “relying” on her.

“I don’t say, ‘You are keeping us all together, we’re relying on you and you alone’,” Memmel said on the eve of the Games.

US gymnastics superstar Simone Biles, who skipped the Opening Ceremony on Friday to rest, will make her first highly anticipated appearance at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. In swimming, British defending champion Adam Peaty is hoping to beat China’s world champion Qin Haiyang in the 100m breaststroke and emulate Michael Phelps by winning a third straight gold medal. France’s Leon Marchand is favourite for gold in the men’s 400m individual medley.