The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is officially under way after yesterday’s opening ceremony when Naomi Osaka lit the flame in the National Stadium, signifying the start of the Games. In reality they have been going for a few days now with football and softball competitions getting going early to fit in the fixtures, but the schedule is now jam-packed with events.
Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz won a thrilling men’s cycling road race in front of a few thousand fans at the Fuji International Speedway track on the outskirts of Tokyo. Belgium’s Wout van Aert won a bunch sprint for silver ahead of Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia, who took bronze. Britain’s Geraint Thomas abandoned the race after an early crash.
Elsewhere the Games’ youngest competitor, Hend Zaza, represented Syria in the table tennis and took pride in defeat. The 12-year-old prodigy beat someone four times her age to get here and her journey to success in a country torn by war for much of her life is undoubtedly one of the stories of the Olympics. From a British perspective Polly Swann and Helen Glover are competing in the rowing heats, Seonaid McIntosh is in action on the shooting range and Andy Murray will step on to court in the men’s tennis doubles alongside Joe Salisbury. Follow all the latest news, updates and results below.
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Is Brazil vs Ivory Coast on TV? Kick-off time, channel and how to watch Tokyo 2020 fixture
When is the game?
The match kicks off at 9:30am BST on Sunday 25 July at the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama.
Where can I watch it?
The game can be streamed live on the Eurosport player and discovery plus. It is not being shown on UK TV channels.
What is the team news?
Andre Jardine probably won’t be tempted to make too many changes after his Brazil side put in an effervescent showing against Germany, even allowing for the sloppy concession of two second-half goals. Paulinho or Malcolm may be pushing for a start in attack, with Claudinho perhaps the player most likely to be replaced after Matheus Cunha and Richarlison put in exceptional displays.
Ivory Coast have to make one change to their bench at least, as Aboubacar Doumbia was sent-off in the closing stages of the win over Saudi Arabia and will be suspended as a result. They are unlikely to rotate heavily though, knowing they’ll need a result either here or against Germany to make the knockouts.
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Sunday’s events and start times
Another packed day of sport at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is scheduled on Sunday.
Andy Murray and Naomi Osaka will both be in action on the tennis court, Jade Jones will attempt to become the first woman in British history to win Olympic gold in three different Games in the -57kg taekwondo category, surfing will make it’s Olympic debut, USA’s popular men’s team will take to the basketball court, the women’s cycling road race will be staged on the outskirts of Tokyo, and Simone Biles will make her first appearance of these Games.
Here is the full event schedule:
Tokyo Olympics 2020 schedule: Sunday’s events and start times
Andy Murray and Naomi Osaka will both be in action on the tennis court
Team USA ends day 1 of Summer Olympics without a medal for the first time since 1972
Day one of the Tokyo Olympics has ended without Team USA winning a medal for the first time in a Summer Olympics since the 1972 games in Munich, Germany – 49 years ago.
Team USA competed in five of seven medal events on Saturday. China’s Yang Qian won the first gold medal of the day when she beat the competition in the women’s 10m air rifle final.
Mary Tucker of the US, a favourite to win the event, came in sixth place.
The US archery mixed team made up of Brady Ellison and Mackenzie Brown, on top of the world rankings, were beat by Indonesia in the first round, 5-4.
The other medal events that included Team USA were fencing, cycling, and weightlifting.
China has the most medals after the first day with four.
China’s Yang Qian won the first gold medal of the day when she beat the competition in the women’s 10m air rifle final.
When is Jade Jones competing in taekwondo for Team GB?
One of Great Britain’s legitimate medal hopes at the Tokyo Olympics takes to the stage over the weekend, with Jade Jones competing in the women’s taekwondo event.
Jones has enormous pedigree in the world of her sport, it’s fair to say – she won gold at the Youth Olympic Games in 2010, before doing the same on the senior stage at London 2012.
At Rio in 2016 Jones won a second Olympic gold medal and she will now be attempting to make it three in a row, the first British woman to do so if successful in Japan, as well as the first taekwondo fighter to ever claim three Olympic titles.
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Which category is Jones competing in?
Jade’s weight category is the Women’s -57kg.
When is the event?
Sunday 25 July, with the first qualification contest starting at 2am BST.
Which round will Jones compete from?
Jade Jones enters the competition from the round of 16, which starts from 2:28am.
Her fight is 3:52am and will be against the winner of the qualification contest.
The quarter-finals start from 6:12am, while the semi-finals are shortly after 8:04 am and repechages from 11am.
Should Jones go the distance once more, the gold medal contest will be at 1:30pm.
Nyjah Huston: Who is Team USA’s star skateboarder at Tokyo Olympics ?
He is one of the world’s most high-profile skateboarders with more than 4.7m followers on Instagram.
Californian Nyjah Huston is being tipped for crossover stardom when he competes in the first ever Olympic Games skateboarding competition, in the Mens’s Street category.
The 26-year-old is the highest paid skateboarder in the world and has a string of sponsorship deals with the likes of Nike, Monster Energy, Mountain Dew and Doritos.
Huston grew up in Northern California in a home-schooled Rastafarian family that was strictly vegan, with a Black father and a white mother.
His father, Adeyemi was a skateboarder, and in 2005 the family bought a 15,000sq-ft skatepark near their home in Davis, California.
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Simone Biles: Who is the US gymnast competing at Tokyo 2020 Olympics and when does she compete?
She is arguably the most dynamic gymnast of all time and is set to bring down the curtain on her glittering Olympic career in Tokyo.
Simone Biles may stand at only 4ft 8 tall, but the 24-year-old is one of world sport’s biggest stars.
She won four Olympic gold medals at Rio in 2016 in the team event, the individual all-around, the vault, and the floor exercise, as well as a bronze medal in the balance beam.
And in doing so, she set an American record for the most gold medals in women’s gymnastics at a single games.
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Who is gymnast Simone Biles competing at Tokyo 2020 Olympics?
Simone Biles: Who is the US gymnast competing at Tokyo 2020 Olympics?
When is Simone Biles competing at Tokyo 2020?
Simone Biles enters Tokyo 2020 with a real chance of taking home five gold medals.
The American won four gold medals at the last Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, taking victory in the individual all-around, floor and vault competitions, as well as earning gold as part of the triumphant USA team.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest gymnasts of all time, Biles has a remarkable 19 gold medals from five appearances at the World Championships, and four skills named after her – two on the floor, one on the balance beam and a double-twisting vault.
Biles is aiming to become the first woman to defend her all-around gold medal since 1968 in Japan, and is also regarded as the favourite to take victory in the vault, floor and balance beam at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre.
The USA are likely to defend their team competition crown, which will be Biles’ first chance at gold. The women’s team final is due to start at 11.45am BST on Tuesday 27 July.
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Olympic gymnast shares her daily food routine
Simone Biles has revealed what she typically eats in a day as she gears up for competing in the Tokyo Olympics.
Speaking to Women’s Health, the 23-year-old gold medal gymnast, who has won a total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals for the US gymnastics team, explained that she doesn’t track calories or monitor what she eats in any particular way.
“I eat what I feel good with and try not to overeat or stuff myself because I’m always at the gym,” she said before expanding on why she chooses not to track her food.
“For gymnasts, in particular, [tracking] can lead to health problems and eating issues, so I just eat what I know I can and should,” she said.
For a pre-workout breakfast, Biles said she usually has a “quick bite” in the morning, either oatmeal or fruit.
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First Lady Jill Biden cheers on Team USA in swimming, 3×3 basketball, and football
First Lady Jill Biden spent her Saturday supporting Team USA, crisscrossing Tokyo to attend swimming, 3×3 basketball, and football.
Team USA swimmers greeted Dr Biden by chanting her name in the arena from across the pool.
She also spoke to the US women’s 3×3 basketball team, who beat France 17-10 and Mongolia 21-9 on the opening day of the new Olympic sport.
She then attended the US women’s football team’s 6-1 win against New Zealand.
The Americans made a forceful comeback after losing their first game to Sweden, 3-0.
Tokyo 2020: Team GB Boxer Karriss Artingstall wins but Peter McGrail eliminated
British featherweight Karriss Artingstall made an encouraging start to her Olympic campaign with a comfortable opening victory over Keamogetse Kenosi but Peter McGrail was eliminated in his first round bout.
Macclesfield-born Artingstall, a gunner in the British Army and a bronze medallist at the 2019 World Championships, proved too classy for her Botswanan opponent, who struggled with her headguard on several occasions.
Artingstall was given the nod by all five judges in every round, with four scores of 30-27 and one of 30-26, as she eased into the last-16 of the 57kg category at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo
“It’s not my best performance at all, I wouldn’t even rate it over a six (out of 10), but I (have) just done what I had to do,” said Artingstall after she booked a second round clash against third seed Jucielen Romeu of Brazil.
“Seeds mean nothing to me, it’s just a number at the end of the day. I have never come across her myself so I don’t know what to expect. But as long as I am in there on my A game, I am a nightmare for anyone to beat.
“I’ll warm up throughout the tournament, and you’ll definitely see better performances from me.”
Kurt Walker overcame a cut to his right eyebrow in the corresponding men’s division following a savage left hook in the third round by Spain’s Jose Quiles, but the Irishman was awarded a unanimous decision win earlier on Saturday.
“I thought I had done enough. I was dominant in the first and third rounds. In the second he gave his all but then he had nothing left for the third,” said Walker. “I had to dig deep, but that’s a great first fight for me.”
Walker next faces top seed and reigning world champion Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov of Uzbekistan.
“He’s got two arms and two legs like myself so it doesn’t bother me,” added Walker. “If you want to be the best then you have to beat the best. I’m fighting at the Olympics which is more than I thought I’d be doing last year, so I’m happy.”
However, British rival McGrail fell at the first hurdle, the Merseysider dropping a unanimous decision to veteran Thai Chatchai-Decha Butdee, who also competed at London 2012 and Rio 2016.
Tokyo 2020: Thomas focused on time trial after abandoning road race due to crash
Geraint Thomas immediately switched his focus to Wednesday’s Olympic time trial after being forced to abandon the road race following a crash as Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz stormed to victory.
The Yates twins were Britain’s only finishers after Thomas and Tao Geoghegan Hart were caught in a crash around 70km into the race – with Geoghegan Hart losing his front wheel in a storm drain in the centre of the road to bring down Thomas behind him.
Thomas landed hard on his right side – having dislocated the same shoulder during the Tour de France – and knowing his race was effectively over the Welshman pulled out on their first passage of the finish line, still with 60km to go, to turn attention towards Wednesday’s time trial.
“I’m feeling beaten up but not too bad,” said Thomas – whose medal hopes in Rio were dashed by a late crash five years ago. “I’ve definitely felt worse. The muscles and everything went into spasm almost.
“It was a freak thing, Tao slipped on the metal ridge in the middle of the road and I had nowhere to go, I just went straight down.
“It’s disappointing after all the hard work and sacrifice, especially after the Tour and everything that happened there, but we live to fight another day and I’ll try to rest up now to give Wednesday one last go.”
Tokyo 2020: Team GB football boss Hege Riise praises team spirit after win over Japan
Hege Riise praised Team GB’s unity after in-form striker Ellen White struck again to book their spot in the last eight at the Olympics.
The Manchester City striker grabbed her third goal in two games to seal a cagey 1-0 win over hosts Japan in Group E.
Team GB dominated the second half but were forced to be patient against an organised Japan team.
They sit top of Group E with six points, ahead of Canada who also beat Chile 2-1 on Saturday. Team GB play Canada for the right to finish top in Kashima on Tuesday.
Riise said: “In the first half, we didn’t look like ourselves, we didn’t have the speed of play we wanted. We came out as a different team with an attitude and togetherness and we all committed to the last 45 minutes.
“In the second half we changed formation a little bit and controlled it much better.
“We are all happy, it puts us in a good position and we’re able to rest players and recover well. The connections between the players will get better and better each game.
“We were surprised Japan made changes but they had momentum in the first half.”
Hege Riise lauds Team GB’s ‘togetherness’ in win over Japan to reach last eight
Team GB go through with a game to spare
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