2024 Olympics Day 4 Recap: Women's rugby 7s makes history with silver as Team Canada secures 6th medal in Paris

While the watching experience and timing for the 2024 Paris Olympics isn't quite as challenging for Canadian viewers as it was for Tokyo 2020 or Beijing 2022, a good chunk of action during these Games happens when plenty of Canadians are fast asleep.

Whether you were crushing some zzz's, had family activities to partake in or just didn't have a chance to tune in, we have you covered throughout these Olympics from start to finish, with Team Canada currently sitting at six medals.

Here's what you may have missed on Day 4 of the Summer Games, including a silver for the women's rugby sevens team, another big win in men's basketball, and Ilya Kharun qualifying for the men's 200-metre butterfly final.

Canada secures best-ever finish in women's rugby sevens, claiming silver medal

The Canadian women's rugby sevens squad just pulled out its best-ever finish at the Olympics.

They lost 19-12 in the final to the top-ranked team from New Zealand, but claimed the silver medal in the process after dropping Australia in the semifinals earlier on Tuesday.

Chloe Daniels and Alysha Corrigan scored tries for Canada, who actually led 12-7 heading into halftime over the heavily favoured New Zealand squad. However, the All Blacks came out hard to start the second half, with Michaela Blyde scoring a try and Tyla King converting to put the Kiwi's up 14-12 before another late try sealed it for New Zealand.

It was an incredible overall effort from the Canadian side as, just one day after stunning host country France, the team upset Australia 21-12 in Tuesday morning's semifinal, booking a ticket to their first-ever Olympic final.

Charity Williams, Asia Hogan-Rochester and Piper Logan each scored tries for the Canadian squad in that contest, while captain Olivia Apps put home all three of her conversion attempts.

The powerhouse New Zealand team crushed Canada 33-7 in pool play on Sunday before the Canadian's put up a close fight in Tuesday's final.

Canada's medal count now sits at six — two of each colour — four days into Paris 2024.

Canada tops Australia in men's basketball

Three days after Canada defeated a Greek team led by Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Canadians got another one for the win column Tuesday morning with a 93-83 win over fifth-ranked Australia.

Sitting at 2-0 in the men's basketball tournament, Canada has virtually assured itself a berth into the medal rounds as it leads Group A with a 2-0 record. Canada can clinch a berth into the quarterfinal later today with a France win over Japan, and a Germany victory over Brazil.

Led by Toronto Raptors star RJ Barrett, who scored 24 points for the red and white, Canada outscored the Aussies by 14 points in the second half after trailing by two points at halftime. Barrett's 24 points were the most by a Canadian at the Olympics since Steve Nash scored 26 points against Yugoslavia back in 2000, the last time Canada's men's basketball team played at the Summer Games.

Basketball fans were quite impressed with Barrett's play after leading Team Canada to two-straight wins.

Canada wins 3-on-3 basketball opener over, you guessed it, Australia!

After big wins over Australia earlier Tuesday in men's basketball and women's rugby sevens, Canada made it a three-for-three day against the Aussies with a tournament-opening, 22-14 win in women's 3-on-3 basketball.

Twin sisters Michelle and Katherine Plouffe scored 18 of Canada's 22 points in the contest, with the latter dropping a game-high 10 points to go with three rebounds, while the former led Canada with five rebounds to go with eight points.

The Canadians got out to a quick 15-2 lead before cruising to victory.

“It is about defence. It was important for us to get stops and rebounds and just come out locked in on defence and that was the game plan there. A lead like that is huge. It was a testament to all the work we have done," Michelle Plouffe said post-game.

Canada finished 8-of-13 from the field and 4-of-11 from beyond the arc, while Australia shot just 5-of-16 from the floor and 1-of-6 from three-point range.

The Canadians face China next on Wednesday.

Canada misses podium with 5th place finish in women's artistic gymnastics final

The Canadian women's artistic gymnastics team tied its best-ever Olympic finish with a fifth-place showing in Paris on Tuesday.

The Canadian side, featuring Ellie Black, Cassie Lee, Aurelie Tran, Ava Stewart and Shallon Olsen put up a combined score of 162.432, while the Simone Biles-led Americans easily won gold with a score of 171.296.

Italy (165.494) claimed silver and Brazil (164.497) secured the bronze. Great Britain placed fourth — just ahead of Canada — with a combined 164.263 points.

Kylie Masse just misses out on bronze, Ilya Kharun moves on to 200-metre butterfly final

Canadian swimmer Kylie Masse missed the podium by just 0.32 seconds, finishing fourth in the women's 100-metre backstroke final with a time of 58.29s. Fellow Canuck Ingrid Wilm finished 6th.

Earlier in the day, London, Ontario's Maggie Mac Neil, who was set to swim in the women's 100-metre freestyle semifinal after claiming the 16th and final spot in Tuesday morning's heats, withdrew from the semifinals in order to focus on the team relays, according to multiple reports.

In the pool on the men's side, Canadian Ilya Kharun qualified for the men's 200-metre butterfly final with a time of 1:54.01, the third-fastest time in Tuesday's semifinals. He'll have a chance to swim for gold in his first-ever Olympic games Wednesday afternoon at 2:35 p.m. ET.

Fellow Canadian Josh Liendo, however, didn't fare as well in the men's 100-metre freestyle final, finishing 11th overall with a time of 48.06 and missing a chance to race for gold.

Auger-Aliassime advances to third round in men's singles tennis

Montreal native Felix Auger-Aliassime stormed into the third round of the men's singles tennis tournament with a dominating 6-0, 6-1 victory over Germany's Maximilian Marterer on Tuesday morning.

Auger-Aliassime needed just 63 minutes to knock Marterer out of the tournament as he won 10 straight games before Marterer won his only game of the match in the second set. Auger-Aliassime will be joining Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski later Tuesday for a first-round mixed doubles match against Britain's Joe Salisbury and Heather Watson.

Fellow Canadian Leylah Fernandez was eliminated from women's singles tennis competition earlier Tuesday after dropping a third-round match against Germany's Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-3.