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Swimming: Thomas Ceccon from Italy has qualified fastest for the semi-finals of the men’s 100m freestyle in the first event in a night of heats at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. American Caeleb Dressel qualified second, only two one-hundredths of a second off Ceccon. Defending champion Kyle Chalmers, from Australia, looked assured to qualify third fastest. Plenty more heat action tonight, including the first look at the men’s 800m freestyle, which is making its return to the Olympics after more than a century. The last time the event was included, it was the 880 yards. Australia’s Jack McLoughlin is among the favourites – who almost quit the sport last year to become an engineer.
Related: Silver linings as Jack McLoughlin swaps retirement for Olympic podium
An early take from our dressage correspondent: It seems Lottie Fry and Everdale have let the side down …
A shattering round so far. The wheels have come off here
Already talk in the press seats of a root and branch review of British dressage. Should we copy the German model?
Equestrianism: While business in other arenas that are more my field of expertise (a term I use very, very advisedly) has precluded me from giving it much of a mention so far, the team dressage is on today and features eight teams made up of three riders and horses – a toal of 24 routines. Team GB won gold in London 2012 and silver in Rio. This year they’re represented by Carl Hester who rides En Vogue, Charlotte Fry on Everdale and Charlotte Dujardin on her new mount Gio. Hester was first up for Team GB, who were second in the standings after his round. Charlotte Fry and Everdale are due out any minute now.
One of the stories of the Games!
Sensational! #RSAARG #bbcolympics #Rugby7s pic.twitter.com/GxWp9EcoRm
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Men’s rugby sevens: Defending champions Fiji have beaten Australia 19-0 to advance to the semi-finals. They’ll play Argentina in the final four, while Team GB will face New Zealand. Those semi-finals will take place in the early hours, at around 3am UK time.
Women’s gymnastics: Bryan Armen Graham has one of the best seats in the house for an event that’s always a Games highlight – the women’s team all around, starring the peerless individual superstar that is Simone Biles.
Related: Tokyo Olympic Games: women’s gymnastics team all-around – live!
Pure Argentinian passion!
Gaston Revol in floods of tears at the full-time whistle having been sent off in the first-half.
Emotional scenes all round. #Olympics pic.twitter.com/tsoNnG4Yss
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Women’s football: It’s finished USA 0-0 Australia and New Zealand 0-2 Sweden in the final Group G games. Sweden and the USA advance automatically but the Aussies have almost certainly done enough to go through with them.
Men’s rugby sevens: Australia v Fiji kick off in the last of the quarter-finals. They’ll do well to top the previous game in terms of entertainment but I wouldn’t rule it out.
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Men’s rugby sevens: Despite losing one man to an early red card, another to a serious knee injury and a third to a late yellow card, Argentina finish the game with five men on the pitch but somehow hang on to beat South Africa and advance to the semi-final. What a game!!! That is an astonishing win!!!
Men’s rugby sevens: There’s another Argentinian in tears, as one of their number limps off with what looks like a bad knee injury. Despite having been down to six men since early in the first half, his teammates bounce back to pull further clear of South Africa. They lead 19-7 with just 30 seconds to go.
Oh no! Argentina concede a converted penalty try and have a man sin-binned. They’re down to five men but lead by five points in the knockings.
Men’s tennis: Team GB’s Liam Broady has advanced to the third round of the men’s singles, seeing off Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 7-5, 3-6, 6-3.
Men’s boxing: Great Britain’s Cheavon Clarke has been eliminated by Brazil’s Abner Teixeira, who will go through to the quarter-final of the men’s heavyweight division.
Men’s rugby sevens: Six-man Argentina take the lead on the stroke of half-time!!!
Men’s rugby sevens: As Gaston Revol openly weeps in the dug-out following his entirely justified dismissal, his side restore parity. Interesting.
Men’s rugby sevens: Team GB will play New Zealand in their semi-final at 3am (BST), while South Africa currently lead Argentina 7-0 after four minutes. The Argentinians have just had Gaston Revol sent off for a dangerous high tackle, so that one suspects is very much that for them.
Related: Carissa Moore and Italo Ferreira claim surfing’s first Olympic gold medals
Men’s rugby sevens: Team GB overturn a 21-point half-time deficit to beat the USA and advance to the semi-finals on the back of a tremendous second-half performance. They rode their luck at times and benefitted from some questionable refereeing decisions but they’ll take it. They’ll face New Zealand next.
Men’s rugby sevens: We’re into the final 27 seconds, which on the face of it is not such a long time in rugby sevens. Team USA trail by five points and Team GB have just called a scrum just outside their own 22.
Men’s rugby sevens: Alex Davies scores under the posts for Team GB, who convert his try to go level at 21-21 with just over three minutes left. Also a lifetime in sevens rugby. And what’s this? Team GB pull clear with another try from Dan Norton. He fails to convert, so it’s Team GB 26-21 USA.
Men’s rugby sevens: Team USA have a man sin-binned and Team GB immediately capitalise. It’s 21-14 to the Americans with five minutes to go – a lifetime in sevens rugby. Tom Mitchell is about to come back on too.
Men’s rugby sevens: The loss of their talismanic skipper Tom Mitchell has hit Team GB hard. They trail the USA 21-7 at half-time.
Men’s rugby sevens: New Zealand have just beaten Canada 21-10 in the first quarter-final of the rugby sevens and now the game between Team GB and the USA has kicked off and moments after the game begins British captain Tom Mitchell is forced off with injury after shipping a bruising tackle.
Men’s surfing: After winning the first ever Olympic medal awarded in the history of surfing, Australia’s Owen Wright said he felt like he was “walking on a cloud”. Five and a half years ago, he couldn’t even walk, writes Kieran Pender. Read on …
Related: From devastating injury to Olympic medal, Australia’s Owen Wright makes surfing history
Women’s football: It’s half-time in the women’s group game between Australia and the USA and the deadlock remains unbroken. In Group G’s other match, Sweden lead New Zealand 2-0 at the break. Emma Kemp has the latest from the Ibaraki Kashima Stadium.
Related: USA v Australia: Tokyo Olympics women’s football – live!
Sailing: A tip of the hat to Irish sailors Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove, who kicked off their Olympic debut in the 49er class by winning their opening race this morning. Hailing, as I do, from the landlocked county of Offaly, I didn’t even know Ireland had a sailing team.
Our man at the dressage: Despite his regular ruminations on football, cricket and the general state of the sporting landscape, the spiritual home of Guardian chief sports correspondent has always been the dressage arena. Barney Ronay is at Tokyo’s Equestrian Park today and has sent some heartfelt dispatches from the front line.
Spain off first in the team dressage. Those who remember their wild, rabble-rousing display in Rio will be wary. Dressage doesn’t need a repeat of those scenes
As a reminder – as if anyone needed one – the routine ended with a flamenco-style flourish, leading to controversy in the judging booth and unrest in the stands between Spanish and German dressage “ultras”. Mercifully it was contained.
Swedish rider leaves the arena in tears after a disastrous round. Dressage is a cruel mistress
Men’s rugby sevens: Having won their opening two pool games without conceding a try, Team GB had their pants pulled down by reigning Olympic champions Fiji, who hammered them in diabolical conditions at the Tokyo Stadium. The Brits go through to the quarter-finals anyway, where they’ll face the USA at 10am (BST)|. First up, it’s New Zealand v Canada.
Related: Magic Monday: how the papers celebrated Team GB’s Olympic glory
Women’s taekwondo: I can’t imagine how she must be feeling but I still can’t get over that last-second Bianca Walkden semi-final defeat. She needs to regroup and get her head back in the game for her bronze-medal match at 1pm. Good luck to her.
Women’s K1 canoeing: Australia’s Jess Fox has won just about all there is to win in the slalom. She has claimed 10 world titles during her career, plus 13 junior/youth/U23 world championship titles. But she has never won Olympic gold.
In London Fox – the daughter of two Olympians – won silver. In Rio it was bronze. This afternoon, in Tokyo, it was to be bronze again. The third-placing today in the K1 category will be devastating for the 27-year-old. Having qualified fastest for the semi-finals, and then fastest for the finals, she was the paddler to beat. But – impeded by time penalties – beaten she was, by Ricarda Funk. Gold in the K1 will have to wait until Paris.
Tom Dean: The 21-year-old from Maidenhead won gold for Great Britain in the men’s 200m freestyle some hours ago. His mother invited what looks like several hundred of her closest friends around to the family homestead to watch him triumph on a big screen in her back garden. Here’s how they watched the closing stages of the race unfold …
THIS is what the @Olympics means!! Friends & family of @ClubMaidenhead swimmer @tomdean00 cheer the new 200m Freestyle #Olympics CHAMPION home! GOLD!!! GOLD!! GOLD!!! #Tokyo2020 @BBCSport #Swimming @BBCSouthNews pic.twitter.com/wBtpR7Yba1
“Tropical Storm you say dude? Bring it on!” – Gold Medal winner Italo Ferreira from Brazil pic.twitter.com/WF90Jt9YsY
Women’s football: Australia are about to take on Team USA in the final group game in what is a fairly must-win game for Sam Kerr and her fellow Matildas. They’re up against it and Emma Kemp has the latest …
Related: USA v Australia: Tokyo Olympics women’s football – live!
Women’s K1 canoeing: Fox has to settle for bronze. Ricarda Funk wins the gold for Germany while Maialen Chourraut takes silver for Spain. Team GB’s Kimberley Woods finished last of the 10 finalists.
Women’s K1 canoeing: Fox incurs a two-second penalty early doors. Ricarda Funk currently leads and looks good for the gold after another mistake by Fox.
Women’s K1 canoeing : Australia’s Jess Fox is currently contesting the final and is at the top of the course. She needs to complete the course in 105 seconds or fewer to win gold to add to the silve and bronze she’s already trousered at Rio and London. Here we go …
Surfing: The waves rolled into Tsurigasaki Beach and the curtain came down on a high-flying Games debut for surfing as Brazil’s Italo Ferreira claimed the sport’s first ever Olympic gold medal.
The spectacular Ferreira, who headed to Tokyo sandwiched between compatriots Gabriel Medina and Filipe Toledo in a Brazilian top three on the World Surf League rankings, dashed local hopes in the final with a convincing win over Kanoa Igarashi.
Boxing: There was some unpleasantness in the boxing ring at the Kokugikan Arena earlier, when Moroccan heavyweight Youness Baalla had a nibble on the ear of his Kiwi opponent David Nyika in round three. Baalla’s bite went unnoticed by the referee and Nyika avoided injury on his way to a 5-0 win.
Related: Mike Tyson moment: Moroccan boxer tries to bite New Zealand opponent’s ear in Olympic fight
Table-tennis: Table tennis player Jian Fang Lay has largely flown under the radar for the last … three decades, but has marked a milestone at these Games by becoming only the second Australian woman to compete at six Olympic Games alongside equestrian Mary Hanna who, at 66, is the oldest on the team.
Jian moved to Australia from Wenzhou in 1994, retired, then embarked on a second coming that has taken her further than predicted in Tokyo. The 48-year-old mother of two was drafted into the team late because of a withdrawal and had to win a preliminary match just to make the first round.
Bianca Walkden is gutted. The sweat-soaked Liverpudlian looks unbelievably forlorn and can’t believe her rotten luck but needs to put this defeat behind her to focus on her bronze medal match. Hats off to her Korean opponent, however, who won through to the final with an astonishing last-ditch effort.
Taekwondo: Disaster for Bianca Walkden, who loses in the final second of the final round. Lee Da-Bin advances to the final by the skin of her teeth with a headshot in the very last second of the third round. “I’m literally lost for words,” says Lutalo Muhammad in the BBC studios. “Lee Da-Bin did the only thing that she could have done to win and she executed it perfectly.”
Taekwondo: It’s 22-24 to Walkden with 04 seconds to go.
Taekwondo: We’re in the final round of the Walkden v Lee, with the Korean leading 19-14. Walkden needs to be careful, however, she’s racked up seven gam-jeoms (warning points) – another three and she’ll be disqualified. We’ve just had a very long break for a VAR intervention that cost Walkden two points.
Taekwondo: Handsome housewives favourite Lutalo Muhammad is on the BBC offering informed punditry, which can mean only one thing – there’s a Brit trying to kick and punch their way to glory in the taekwondo ring.
Who is it? It’s Bianca Walkden, who is in the middle of her +67kg semi-final against Korea’s Lee Da-Bin. It’s 14-10 to Walkden’s opponent at the moment.
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Kon’nichiwa everybody. If you’re just waking up in the United Kingdom or elsewhere in Europe, well … what time do you call this? The day is nearly over! While you were far away in the Land of Nod, the UK won another three medals in the Land of the Rising Sun and there could be more to come in the next few hours.
Team GB’s Tom Dean and his friend Duncan Scott recorded a one-two in the men’s 200m freestyle final, while Georgia Taylor-Brown survived a puncture in the bike leg of the women’s triathlon to finish second behind Bermuda’s Flora Duffy. The daughter of British parents, Duffy prompted scenes of unbridled jubilation in the island territory by winning their first ever gold medal.
Chinese pair Chen Yuxi and Zhang Jiaqi have won the women’s synchronised 10m platform. They are aged 15 and 17 respectively and were about as close to perfection as they might have hoped. An understated bow at the end is all they need to celebrate. The United States team of Jessica Parratto and Delaney Schnell moved quickly up the field to claim silver thanks to a strong back 2½ somersaults 1½ twist in their final dive. And Mexico’s Gabriela Agundez and Alejandra Orozco claimed bronze. British duo Eden Cheng and Lois Toulson recovered from a shaky start but finished seventh from a field of eight.
Bianca Walkden is preparing for her taekwondo women’s +67kg semi-final against 2019 world champion South Korean Lee Da-bin. Watch her in action in about 20 minutes.
We’ve had a Mike Tyson moment in the boxing. In the men’s heavyweight round of 16, Moroccan fighter Youness Baalla attempted to bite the ear of New Zealand’s David Nyika. Nyika won via unanimous decision and was comfortable throughout, but the bout was overshadowed by Baalla’s conduct in the final round.
“He didn’t get a full mouthful,” Kyika said afterwards. “Luckily he had his mouthguard in, and I was a bit sweaty. But come on man, this is the Olympics, get your shit together.”
Morocco’s Youness Baalla tried to bite the ear of New Zealand’s David Nyika!!! #Boxing #Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/N6LJIqjb6S
Meanwhile, the women’s mountain bike cross country has started. Rebecca McConnell is representing Australia, The US have Hayley Batten, Erin Huck and Kate Courtney and Team GB Evie Richards, who is currently in second Switzerland’s Jolanda Neff.
The women’s mountain bike race is underway with @bec_mcconnell looking for Australia’s first Olympic medal in the sport!
Watch LIVE: https://t.co/xTOlJttDXI#Tokyo2020 | #7Olympics pic.twitter.com/qJQagzc3jc
Fox is away in the kayak semi-final and my, those rapids are fast. So far it’s flawless. Many of the field struggled on this course but she is a picture of control. At first split Fox is already ahead of the pack. Same with the second. She finishes in 105.85, 3.33 seconds faster than her nearest competitor, Slovak Eliška Mintálová. The Australian qualifies first for the final. Team GB’s Kimberley Woods is there too, qualifying sixth.
Here’s that celebratory wave.
BRONZE FOR AUSTRALIA! @RealOwenWright DOES IT, defeating two-time world champion Gabriel Medina in a fantastic Bronze Medal match! #7Olympics | #Tokyo2020 | #Surfing pic.twitter.com/Z7LWo7S33x
Wright is out of the water now and the Australian contingent is at the shore to meet him. There’s a lot of congratulating going on. Now they’re in a huddle, Wright in the middle, for an “Aussie Aussie Aussie” situation.
This is pretty big for Australia. Medina was the form surfer coming into the Olympics.
All the Australian had to do was block Medina from the 5.98 score he needs, but the latter looks as if he can’t get back out the back. He’s ducking and diving. There are 30 seconds to go and he’s still paddling. Wright is in chase. He just needs to wait it out. And he jumps on a wave to celebrate!
Medina is somewhat frantically paddling away from Wright, who can use his priority to defence his score if he stays close. The Brazilian pops up on another wave, gets some serious air and then crashes. The wind might have had something to do with that. 1:40 on the clock.
The surf is soupy and decent waves are tough to come by. But come by one Medina does. It is a genuinely crap wave but he gives it a shot anyway, bounces along and turns it into a score of 6.00. That was class. Medina is still a smidge behind and needs 5.98 with just over three minutes on the clock.
Medina surfs his eighth wave of this match and it’s so-so. Nothing special but did the trick. It’s a 5.77. Wright replies with a more impressive ride. He floats along the top, dips and then rises again, before turning back on himself as the whitewash gets heavy. That was adjudged a 5.47, and I know I’m biased but it looked the better of the two. Wright has the priority now with a tick under eight minutes remaining and he’s still in front with a total 11.97 to Medina’s 11.20.
Medina has the right of way, meaning if both surfers go for the same wave Wright must stand down. The Brazilian double world champion is up and he has to egg himself forward to properly get onto the lip but once he’s there it’s go time, and he finds some nice air before coming unstuck. Wright is sitting on a total of 8.6 and Medina 6.53.
Owen Wright is up and away in his surfing bronze medal match against Gabriel Medina. Medina has been on two waves already for a total score of 1.77, so slow start.
American swim star Lilly King has criticised the media for allegedly distorting her words and said that her Australian rivals, who are currently equal with the United States in the swimming medal tally with three golds each, are “swimming just fine”.
King courted controversy before Tokyo 2020 when she expressed her belief that the American women could win every individual gold medal at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. With five individual medals race for the women held so far, the Australians have secured two golds, while the USA, Canada and Japan have one apiece.
Happens to the best of us.
Just did a cross with @abcnews and referred to Owen Wright as Owen Wilson. Sorry @RealOwenWright – I’m sure you’re a wonderful actor, but you’re also bloody good at surfing. Good luck today – we’re all watching.
It’s time to switch to the canoe slalom, where Australian Jess Fox is contesting the women’s kayak semi-finals and then, all going well, the final, as she hunts a full set of Olympic medals having won bronze and silver at past Games. The 27-year-old is 24th on the start order from a field of 24, so we have a little waiting to do before she’s up.
For the uninitiated, in the kayak, or K1, competitors sit in a cockpit and hold one paddle with a blade on each end.
There is some serious giant-killing going on in the women’s tennis singles and the Japanese star is the latest to go after losing in straight sets to Czech third-round opponent Marketa Vondrousova.
Naomi Osaka is OUT of the Olympic games.
Marketa Vondrousova wins 6-1, 6-4.
In the men’s hockey, Germany have just scored a fourth goal against Great Britain to make it 4-1 with about eight minutes to play in the fourth quarter. It’s some turnaround for the Germans, who lost 3-1 to Pool B leaders Belgium yesterday. Barring something incredible from the Brits, this will be their first loss after two early wins against South Africa and Canada.
For the musically inclined, Lydia Jacoby, the unheralded Alaskan 17-year-old who won gold in the women’s 100m breaststroke earlier today, is a singer and plays double bass. Here she is doing both with the Snow River String Band at the 2018 Anchorage Folk Festival.
Naomi Osaka in trouble!
Upset alert: Marketa Vondrousova takes the first set 6-1 against Naomi Osaka at the Olympics.
Sally Fitzgibbons has spoken to Seven about her quarter-final loss and says her “heart is shattered” after the most difficult defeat of her career.
“It hurts so bad … always remember being the first surfing Olympians. Hopefully just goes from strength to strength. Our sport’s here to stay. I am going to work really hard and hopefully see you all in 2024,” she said through tears. I hope all the young groms can pick up a board for the first time, go out there with a smile on their face and ride waves. It brings the most joy in life. Every day it puts a smile on my face.
“It hurts so bad… my heart is shattered.”
All of Australia loves you, @Sally_Fitz ❤️ pic.twitter.com/hSnPBXtRRg
Ferreira is through. Wright just couldn’t get on a wave at the end there and because the Brazilian had priority he kept edging closer and closer to his opponent as a means of stopping Wright from claiming a wave and therefore defending his lead. That’s all she wrote for the Australians in the surfing. Ferreira will face Japan’s fifth seed Igarashi Kanoa for the gold medal. Wright will face Brazil’s Gabriel Medina for bronze. Action get under way in a little over an hour.
This will go down to the wire. Wright is on a wave and makes a backhand turn, slides the tail and then throws that tail as he lands. He starts paddling immediately out the back because he is running out of time. Ferreira, meanwhile, just had to wait it out. One minute to go. Needs 6.7.
The Australian cheer squad loved that. They are hollering from their armchairs. It is WINDY out there and the surf a little messy. Wright seems to be eager to complete his waves consistently, while Ferreira is going big every time. Ferreira is back on for his 10th wave, looks to lose control just a little before recovering, to earn a score of 6.67. Wright is now on his sixth wave and scores a 6.47. The Australian is under pressure and needs 6.70 with five minutes to go.
Wright has just made a flat 6.00 via a first snap that set up the second with was a lovely back-hand vertical re-entry. It brings both competitors equal on 11.00 with just under 12 minutes to go.
If Wright wins this, he will contest the final against Kanoa Igarashi after the Japanese saw off Brazilian great Gabriel Medina in a thriller of a semi.
Hello! Let’s jump straight back into the surfing because Owen Wright is midway through his semi-final against Ítalo Ferreira. The Brazilian has just made some serious height but didn’t complete the move. Ferreira’s total is 11.00 and Wright needs 6.01 to take the lead with 18 minutes remaining.
Ok, now the pool’s over I can hand you on to Emma Kemp. Thanks for joining me today, enjoy the rest of the action.
Swimming: Kate Douglass (USA) wins the second semi-final of the women’s 200m IM. It’s a Great Britain 2-3 with Abbie Wood leading in Alicia Wilson.
The times mean Hosszu DOES sneak into the final in seventh place.
Surfing: The first men’s semi-final is absolutely unreal. Second seed Gabriel Medina (BRA) was flying, racking up 16.76 effortlessly. But just now fifth seed Igarashi Kanoa (JAP) found some incredible air to land a 9.33! He now leads with 17.00. Five minutes remaining.
Swimming: Alex Walsh (USA) wins the first women’s 200m IM semi from China’s Yiting Yu and Japan’s Jui Ohashi.
In her fifth Games, the Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu ended fifth and looks unlikely to reach the final.
Swimming: The last event in the pool tonight is the women’s 200m IM semis. In the first heat we have Hungarian legend Katinka Hosszu.
Shooting:
#CHN wins the inaugural 10m air pistol mixed team Olympic gold!#Shooting @ISSF_Shooting pic.twitter.com/A1eDdTSXZI
Rugby sevens: The men’s quarter-final line-up is now complete:
Surfing: The men’s semi-finals are underway. First up is Japanese fifth seed Igarashi Kanoa against Brazilian second seed Gabriel Medina.
In around half-an-hour from now it will be top-ranked Brazilian Italo Ferreira against Australian seventh seed Owen Wright.
Swimming: Hungary’s world record holder Kristóf Milák went out hard, kept going hard, and finished hard. He won by miles and will head to the final of the men’s 200m butterfly strong favourite. Leonardo de Deus (BRA) came in second, Federico Burdisso (ITA) third.
Milak’s 1.52.22 was nearly three seconds faster than any other semi-finalist.
Swimming: South Africa’s Chad Le Clos wins the first semi of the men’s 200m butterfly. He led from start to finish, but really tightened up in the final 40m, looking often to his left from lane eight. Tamás Kenderesi (HUN) came second, Honda Tomoru (JPN) third in a race that ended with seven swimmers separated by just 0.91 seconds.
Surfing: Sally Fitzgibbons is out, and Australia’s interest in the women’s surfing ends at the quarterfinal stage. Huge disappointment for Australian surfing with both Fitzgibbons and Stephanie Gilmore considered medal hopes before the Games.
Surfing: Fitzgibbons continues to trail Tsuzuki with just three minutes remaining.
Rugby Sevens: Good news for Australia with confirmation they have reached the quarter-finals as one of the best third-placed nations from the group phase. The bad news is they will face either New Zealand or Fiji at the start of the knockouts.
Surfing: Oh my. Fitzgibbons reclaimed the lead, only for Tsuzuki to snatch it straight back. The Australian is up against it with the Japanese ahead 13.27 v 11.67 with 13 minutes left in the heat.
Swimming: That’s the last of the medal events in the pool for this session. It was another belter of a morning.
There is only one 50-meter pool in the state of Alaska.
Lydia Jacoby is the first @usaswimming athlete from Alaska.
Now, she’s got a gold medal. #TokyoOlympics pic.twitter.com/vv6eeRMekM
Surfing: While that was going on, Australia’s Sally Fitzgibbons was overtaken in the fourth quarterfinal by Japan’s Amuro Tsuzuki. It’s currently 10.77 v 10.17 with 15 minutes of the heat remaining.
17-year-old Lydia Jacoby takes gold! The first Alaskan swimmer to win gold! Jacoby was in the mix throughout, alongside South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker (silver) and Team USA’s Lilly King (bronze).
Swimming: Andy Bull was poolside for a stunning 200m freestyle 1-2 for Team GB.
Related: Britain’s Tom Dean and Duncan Scott take Olympic gold and silver in men’s 200m free
Swimming: The next event in the pool is the women’s 100m breaststroke final. South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker is up against Team USA’s Lydia Jacoby and Lilly King.
Surfing: Australian TV is now broadcasting Sally Fitzgibbons’ QF on both terrestrial channels. She has established an early lead over her Japanese opponent in what looks like the Humberside coast of the North Sea. It’s pretty tight though.
Swimming: If you questioned my transcription of Kaylee McKeown’s interview from earlier, here’s proof:
Kaylee McKeown drops the F Bomb right next to the Seebohm #Swimming #Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/hj6P32uBVV
Surfing: Americans Caroline Marks and Carissa Moore are through to the semi-finals of the women’s surfing, alongside South Africa’s Bianca Buitendag.
Australia’s Sally Fitzgibbons is up next in the fourth quarterfinal against Japan’s Amuro Tsuzuki.
Swimming: Kieran Pender was poolside for Kaylee McKeown’s magnificent gold medal swim.
Related: Kaylee McKeown secures another gold as Australia’s Olympic swimming tally rises
Hockey:
FT | The @Kookaburras march on undefeated in Pool A and make it 17 goals in three games as they topple the Olympic Champions.
2-5 #ARGvAUS #Tokyo2020 #TokyoTogether
LIVE now on 7Plus: https://t.co/QFD9LVLbCJ pic.twitter.com/H4s5qMlHOF
It’s an ROC one-two! Evgeny Rylov pinches gold from Kliment Kolesnikov (ROC) by 0.02, just a shade outside the world record. Ryan Murphy (USA) the defending champion and world and Olympic record holder could only manage third.
Aussie Mitch Larkin came in seventh.
Swimming: Now onto the men’s 100m backstroke final…
Swimming: More gold. “What would you like to tell your mum and your sister?” Australian TV’s reporter asks Kaylee McKeown. “F*ck yeah!” McKeown replies. Bonza.
“It’s something I’ve always dreamed of,” she also said. “Thankfully I have a really good support team.”
Gold for the world record holder! Another stunning late run for gold. What an exciting meet this is becoming. Kylie Masse (CAN) took silver, Regan Smith (USA) bronze.
At the turn, previous world record holder Masse led from another previous world record holder Smith, but McKeown stormed past to touch first in a new Olympic record.
Rugby sevens: Big comeback from New Zealand. They ease into the quarter-finals. Australia have some maths to do.
FT | Unfortunately couldn’t sneak home. Now to the calculator for QFs…
AUS 12 v NZL 14
@7olympics @AUSOlympicTeam #TokyoTogether #Tokyo2020 #Aussie7s
Swimming: Stars galore next in the final of the women’s 100m backstroke. Australia’s recent world record breaker Kaylee McKeown, compatriot Emily Seebohm, previous world record holders Regan Smith (USA) and Kylie Masse (CAN), and considering their meet so far you can’t rule out Great Britain’s Kathleen Dawson.
One-two for Great Britain! Tom Dean touches ahead of Duncan Scott for a superb victory.
Hwang Sun-Woo (KOR) led for most of the race, but tightened in the final 25m to finish seventh. Fernando Scheffer (BRA) snuck in to claim bronze.
Australia’s hopes of landing a medal in the inaugural surfing comp are very much alive after Owen Wright stormed into the semi-finals, to be staged later today at Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach.
Wright – the brother of twice women’s world champion Tyler – moved into a final-four clash with Brazil’s Italo Ferreira in difficult conditions on Tuesday morning, which he managed to navigate with a little help from dry land.
Swimming: Onto the men’s 200m freestyle final…
Swimming: We’re in for a blockbuster 200m freestyle final. Katie Ledecky saw what Ariarne Titmus accomplished in her first semi and laid down a marker, leading from the front to win in 1.55.34. Barbora Seemanová (CZE) finished second, Italy’s incredible champion Federica Pellegrini powered home at the death to snatch third, beating out Maddy Wilson (AUS) and 14-year-old Summer McIntosh (CAN).
Wilson’s time was good enough to sneak into the final in eighth spot, but all eyes will be on another Titmus v Ledecky duel in the pool.
Rugby Sevens: Australia have taken a 12-0 lead over New Zealand approaching half-time in the Bledisloe-lite.
Swimming: Ariarne Titmus wins the first 200m freestyle semi in 1.54.82. The Australian was out slowly as Canada’s Penny Oleksiak took the first 50 in world record pace, but used all her 400m endurance to power home, pipping Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey on the line. Job done.
China’s Junzuan Yang came third, Oleksiak fourth.
Swimming: Ok, time for some swimming. Ariarne Titmus is in the arena ready to kick everything off with the first semi in the women’s 200m freestyle.
Surfing: South Africa’s Bianca Buitendag, Steph Gilmore’s conqueror, is through to the semi-finals after outpointing Portugal’s Yolanda Hopkins in the first quarterfinal.
American top seeds Caroline Marks and Carissa Moore are in the next two heats, followed by Australia’s Sally Fitzgibbons.
Israeli athletes next to Iranian athletes in the Olympics.
Islamic Republic of Iran wants Iranians to hate Israelis. But many ordinary Iranians & Israelis don’t care about politics.
Iranian athlete Vahid Sarlak, member of #United4Navid, together with the Israeli Olympic Team pic.twitter.com/uCHAbO2B2d
Argentina-watch: I have two screens on the go, both featuring the stylish powder blue and white of Argentina. It’s good news for Los Pumas in the rugby sevens, they are hammering Korea 35-0 and on track for direct qualification to the knockouts from Pool A. But it’s not so good in the men’s hockey where Australia have surged into a 4-1 lead nearing half-time.
After all the US vs Australia chat, we are set for a US-UK duel in the pool shortly in the first final of the morning session here in Tokyo, the men’s 200m freestyle.
Kieran Smith, a 21-year-old, Connecticut-born, 6ft5in student at the University of Florida, took the bronze in the 400m freestyle on Sunday – the race memorably won by the underdog Tunisian teenager, Ahmed Hafnaoui. Smith is looking to add another medal in the 200m. Not bad considering this meet is not only his first Olympics but also his Team USA debut.
Yesterday was all about the youthful takeover of the Games, typified by the women’s street skateboard featuring a podium with a combined age of just 42.
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Most people won’t have heard of her, but 48-year-old Jian Fang Lay made it through to the 3rd round in the table tennis today. BUT more impressively this is her 6th #olympics, equalling the most ever by an Australian female pic.twitter.com/RqRw5ZBiAg
Time for a baton change. Thanks Tom for a pacesetting lead off leg, and hello everybody from breezy Melbourne, Australia, on what is hopefully the final day of our latest Covid-related lockdown.
Time to train our focus again on the Tokyo Aquatics Centre where another gold rush awaits. Here’s what’s in store:
Fiji, the defending men’s rugby sevens champions, did not look great in their opening game against Japan but pulped a (usually) strong Great Britain team just now. Ben Harris scored GB’s only try as Fiji won 33-7.
Over at the men’s hockey, Argentina have taken an early lead against Australia. Leandro Tolini scored the opener from a penalty corner. Argentina 1-0 Australia.
Great Britain and Fiji, the defending champions, are playing in the men’s rugby sevens. Both teams have already qualified from their group so this is really about testing each other before the knockout stages. And it’s Fiji passing that test at the moment – they’re 19-0 up at halftime.
Another big morning of medal action awaits at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. First-up in just under an hour is the women’s 200m freestyle semi-final – round two of the Ariarne Titmus (Aus) v Katie Ledecky (USA) duel in the pool. Duncan Scott will then be Great Britain’s big medal hope of the morning, swimming from lane 4 in the men’s 200m freestyle final.
The most open final of the morning is the women’s 100m backstroke. The Olympic record has already been broken four times in qualifying for the final, by three different swimmers. There’s every chance the world record will fall in the final – with Kaylee McKeown (Aus), Kylie Masse (Canada), Regan Smith (USA) all in top form.
A result in the men’s rugby sevens. Canada have beaten the hosts, Japan, 36-12. Japan have lost all their games so far.
Sean Ingle was at at Odaiba Marine Park to witness a remarkable women’s triathlon. You can read his report here:
Related: Olympic triathlon: Duffy wins first gold for Bermuda as Britain’s Taylor-Brown gets silver
And Australia’s Owen Wright has won his surfing quarter-final. He will now face Italo Ferreira in the semis for a place in the final and a chance at gold. Japan’s Kanoa Igarashi and Brazil’s two-time world champ Gabriel Medina will compete in the other semi.
Australia’s Owen Wright is leading Lucca Mesinas of Peru 12.74-7.40 in their men’s surfing quarter-final. The winner will face Ítalo Ferreira of Brazil in the semi-final.
Flora Duffy’s gold medal was an amazing achievement in the triathlon, but Britain’s Georgia Taylor-Brown won silver after suffering a puncture (of her bike’s tyre, she was not punctured herself). She spoke to the BBC about her medal:
Anyone in the market for some breathtaking photos of very fit people doing breathtaking things? In a breathtaking fashion? That will take your breath away? Then look no further than our gallery of the best photos from day three:
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Flora Duffy, by the way, nearly gave up triathlon after the 2008 Games when she was lapped. She tells the BBC that today’s victory is an “incredible moment”. She is correct. Meanwhile, another Brazilian is through to the men’s surfing semi-finals: Italo Ferreira beat Japan’s Hiroto Ohhara.
One for our Australian readers (or anyone who likes Australian athletes). Here’s a handy guide to Aussies in action today at the Games:
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A few other finishers in the women’s triathlon: Britain’s Jessica Learmonth and Vicky Holland were ninth and 13th respectively, USA’s Summer Rappaport and Taylor Knibb 14th and 16th and Australia’s Emma Jeffcoat came home in 26th. NZ’s Nicole van der Kaay was 29th.
Just to recap: Bermuda’s only previous medal was in 1976: a bronze in boxing. Expect a lot of babies (boys and girls) to be called Flora in Bermuda in the coming years.
And Duffy passes the line as Olympic triathlon champion with a big grin on her face. The smallest nation to ever win an Olympic gold. She collapses to the ground with her hands over her face. She has the floor to herself for a while too as she has a huge lead over GB’s Taylor-Brown who wins silver. USA’s Zaferes wins bronze. A great silver for Taylor-Brown who suffered a puncture on the bike.
Duffy of Bermuda (population 72,000) now leads Taylor-Brown of Britain (population 66 million) and Zaferes (330 million) and is cruising towards her country’s first-ever gold.
It’s still very much Duffy’s race – and gold medal – to lose. She. Is. Not. Slowing. Down. Meanwhile, GB’s Taylor-Brown – who has recovered from that puncture on the bike – is about to catch USA’s Zaferes in silver. In fact, she just passed her. All three women are now on the last lap.
Duffy now has a 47-second lead over Zaferes with GB’s Taylor Brown five seconds back from the American. A first gold medal for Bermuda looks like a certainty! Germany’s Lindemann is another 30 seconds or so back in fourth.
The track has dried out at the triathlon and the runners are whistling round as the heat builds. Duffy continues to look comfortable out in front while USA’s Zaferes is looking a little heavy footed and GB’s Taylor-Brown looks she may be catching her for silver.
Some news from our man on the ground in Tokyo, Sean Ingle. Team GB say Georgia-Brown had a puncture, which explains why she slipped off at the end of the bike. She is already up to bronze on the run though. We’re at the end of lap one of the run and Duffy now has a 17 second lead over USA’s Zaferes in second.
And we have a break in the triathlon! Bermuda’s Flora Duffy has got some separation from USA’s Katie Zaferes. She looks pretty comfortable as she takes a decent lead. The British pair of Jessica Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown are in third and fourth.
Bermuda have never won an Olympic gold medal, but they have a very good chance now and Duffy recently set a personal best in the run. Their last (and only) Olympic medal came in 1976 in boxing – it was bronze.
Another result in the quarter-final of the men’s surfing. Two-time WSL World Champion Gabriel Medina of Brazil has beaten France’s Michel Bourez and is through to the semi-final.
GB’s Georgia Taylor-Brown looks like she’s been dropped by the leading pack in the triathlon and is now 20 seconds back as they transition to the running stage. So it’s now Jessica Learmonth (GBR), Flora Duffy (BER), Laura Lindemann (GER) and Katie Zaferes (USA) out front and with a big advantage over the rest of the field. Australia’s Emma Jeffcoat is back in ninth and it would take a miracle for her to end up in the medals today.
We’re on the final lap of the cycling in the women’s triathlon and it’s still the same group of five with a big lead over the field: Jessica Learmonth (GBR), Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR), Flora Duffy (BER), Laura Lindemann (GER) and Katie Zaferes (USA). Lindemann is the highest ranked of the leaders and is also a very good runner, so she’ll be slight favourite at the moment. But we saw the strongest runner, Alex Yee, beaten in the final stages yesterday, so form isn’t everything.
Hello and welcome to [checks calendar]day four of the Tokyo Games. Plenty coming up today, including a big day in the pool. In the next couple of hours we’ll have the conclusion of the women’s triathlon, the quarter-finals of the women’s and men’s surfing, Argentina v Australia in the men’s hockey and a smattering of handball, rugby sevens and beach volleyball.
My colleague Martin Belam has prepared a more exhaustive list of today’s action, which you can peruse at your leisure below:
