The first full day of Olympic action takes place on August 6. Sportsmail has put together a guide to the seven to follow throughout the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games in Brazil.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has not improved her heptathlon personal best since 2014. Senior figures in British Athletics would like her to part company with long-time coach Mike Holmes and leave Liverpool.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson registered a season-best throw of 41.72 metres but it was only good enough for 20th place as her heptathlon hopes took a hit on Sunday afternoon.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT THE LONDON STADIUM: Johnson-Thompson, there was a degree of redemption, considering it was this discipline that wrecked her chances in the heptathlon.

Sometimes the opposition is just too good. For that reason alone, Katarina Johnson-Thompson will reflect on the silver linings of her trip to Berlin instead of celebrating a golden hat-trick.

It says something about her complex psychology that Katarina Johnson-Thompson arrived to a headliner's billing in an Austrian mountain town on Friday and found it all rather strange.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Katarina Johnson-Thompson is talking about recognition and the time it can take for some folk to see what is so clear to others.

EXCLUSIVE BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: The heated marketing row that casts a shadow over Team GB's preparations for the Tokyo Olympics is expected to be resolved next week.

Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Greece's Katerina Stefanidi said athletes felt forced to continue training despite the health risks because Olympic chiefs say the Games will still go ahead.

Nicki Minaj dropped a music video for her new song Megatron, after promoting the track on social media for weeks.

Nicki Minaj has revealed she obtained a marriage license with her boyfriend, Kenneth Petty.

Nicki Minaj showed off her curvaceous figure in a set of sultry Instagram photos. The rapper and singer wore a body contouring brown Fendi dress and also posed with ex-con boyfriend Kenneth Petty.

Payne's scheduled appearance at the Jeddah World Fest has sparked fury among activists angry at Saudi Arabia's criminalisation of gays, and jailing of women's rights activists.

On Sunday, Nicki Minaj announced her new collaboration alongside luxury label Fendi in a new Instagram video. The rapper-turned-designer, 36, served a fierce look as she struck a few poses.

Dupri said he was simply adding on to an ongoing discussion in regards to the image and content of contemporary female rap artists.

Nicki Minaj suggested she was pregnant and engaged to her boyfriend Kenneth Petty on a track released Friday. He's a registered sex offender and pleased guilty to manslaughter in 2006.

Nicki Minaj has obtained a marriage license with boyfriend Kenneth Petty.

The rapper, 36, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj, is said to want to be known as Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, according to TMZ.

Nicki Minaj and fiancé Kenneth Petty are officially walking down the aisle. The Super Bass rapper divulged on her Queen Radio show on Monday that she and Petty are set to wed in 'about 80 days'

Nicki Minaj put on a sizzling display to celebrate the release of her Hot Girl Summer music video, on Tuesday. The Barbie Dreams hitmaker shared videos to Instagram in a plunging white dress.

Barbies everywhere were shook on Thursday, when their queen Nicki Minaj tweeted that she was leaving her music career behind. On Friday, the rapper backtracked and issued an apology.

The rapper posed in a hot pink swimsuit as well as a low-cut silver dress as she was admired by both men and women for the October issue of Elle magazine.

Nicki Minaj has revealed she could marry her convict fiancé Kenneth Petty in the next week.

The rapper, 36, exchanged vows with Petty in front of 'several family members' at a private Los Angeles home on Monday, TMZ reports.

Nicki Minaj's fans-The Barbz-are known for quickly jumping to conclusions on social media. And Wednesday night the 36-year-old got her fans worked up when she tweeted 'expecting a'

Nicki Minaj's brother Jelani Maraj was sentenced to 25 years-to-life in a New York court Monday, following his 2017 conviction for raping an 11-year-old child while her mother was at work.

The 37-year-old singer showcased her curvy figure in a skin-tight top with matching bottoms while heading into Mr. Jones with new hubby, Kenneth 'Zoo' Petty.

Nicki Minaj's husband Kenneth Petty has finally registered as a sex offender in California and the charges stemming from his prior failure to do so.

Wendy Williams added fuel to her feud with rapper Nicki Minaj during a taping of her talk show on Tuesday by taunting her about the rapper's 'sex offender' husband.

Nicki Minaj's husband Kenneth Petty may have had to register as a sex offender, but he still wants to be able to use the Internet.

Nicki Minaj's husband, Kenneth Petty, will now be able to legally surf the internet as part of the conditions of his pre-trial release.

Nicki Minaj set her fanbase and Twitter in general ablaze on Thursday, when she responded to multiple fans asking her rather pointed questions about being pregnant.

The CSKA Moscow legend played in a trial game with Chelsea during the early days of his career. Avram Grant was in charge of the Blues at the time and was not convinced by the Russian midfielder.

Former Chelsea man Branislav Ivanovic may well have ambitions to become a coach one day, and unintentionally took to the big screen in Zenit St Petersburg's recent match to show off his tactics.

The actress, 43, teased that Linda could be killed off during the BBC soap's 35th anniversary special as one of Albert Square's residents meet their fate in the deadly episode.

She has been a permanent fixture on EastEnders as the lovable Sharon Mitchell for 35 years and during this time has endured her fair share of scandals and forbidden love. 

The BBC soap will mark its 35th Anniversary next week with a dramatic run of episodes, and one character will be killed off as a boat party on the River Thames takes a tragic turn.

Scott Mitchell, 56, revealed that watching EastEnders helps battle the neurodegenerative disease Barbara Windsor was diagnosed with six years ago.

Hertfordshire-born Shona McGarty, 28, told Fabulous Magazine her break-up was amicable and that she didn't want to make a public announcement when things fizzled out last year.

Insiders say Maisie, 18, and Zack, 21, went public with their blossoming romance at the soap's 35th anniversary wrap party in east London on Saturday.

Many viewers took to Twitter to poke fun at the hilarious transformation, after the character was recast for the seventh time with newcomer Dayle Hudson.

Former EastEnders star Carol Harrison has lashed out at producers of the show and accused them of making her feel 'suicidal' amid a clash over 'sexist and ageist scripts'.

The actress, 57, told her 191,000 Twitter followers she was shocked at the 'nastiness' of comments directed at her after she revealed daughter Maia, 23, had been privately educated.

Speaking on Loose Women on Wednesday, Carol told how she loved playing the role at first but 'didn't like the way women at that age were being represented'.

The pair were both skeptical at first but Jay soon realised he was excited at the prospect of becoming a father following a chat with Billy Mitchell.

Emmerdale newcomer Mark Womack has revealed his soap star wife Samantha 'takes the mick' out of his line-learning style.

Former EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa, 27, sent fans wild as she hinted her character Lauren Branning could return to Albert Square.

She split up with her fiancé back in January after an 18 month engagement. And EastEnders' Shona McGarty was seen for the first time without her engagement ring

The extended studio - based mere feet away from the old set - includes a brand new Queen Vic pub, railway line and block of flats to replicate the soap's original set, and is thought to cost £87m.

The Barry Evans star, 54, performs in the new track called Braindead (Heroin Kills) by Italian DJ Piero Pirupa, which laments and shows the downfall of drug use.