Tokyo Olympics LIVE: Laura Muir through heats; 200m sprints get underway; Laurel Hubbard in action

Nice Britain’s eventers took an excellent gold medal within the workforce competitors in Tokyo. The trio of Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen prevailed within the closing showjumping spherical after going into the day with a close to impregnable lead of 17.9 penalties. Despite the fact that that was lower to 13.9 on the finish of the night time, it was nonetheless sufficient for glory. McEwen was first up within the showjumping, and produced a transparent spherical to get the workforce off to the right begin.

As anticipated, an American triumphed within the ladies’s ground closing – it simply was not the one we thought it will be. With sizzling favorite Simone Biles sitting this out, because of ongoing psychological well being points, Phoenix’s Jade Carey made probably the most of her likelihood, delivering a faultless efficiency on the Ariake Gymnastics Centre. The 21-year-old was a tricky act to comply with. Subsequent up was Britain’s Jessica Gadirova. Who had certified in fifth place. After a slight early stumble, she recovered nicely, to attain 14.000.

Crew GB are nonetheless in with an opportunity of securing a gold medal within the males’s workforce pursuit after ending fourth in qualifying. The quartet of Ed Clancy, Ethan Hayter, Ollie Wooden and Ethan Vernon (backside proper) recorded a time of three:47.507, which is a British document, however they have been two and a half seconds behind world champions Denmark, who completed in prime spot with a time of three:45.014. With Italy in second and New Zealand in third, Britain took the fourth qualifying spot however they have been made to attend for affirmation of their development. Australia got the chance to race once more after Alex Porter (left) dramatically fell off his bike resulting from a handlebar failure earlier than Britain’s experience.

Djokovic has a behavior of dropping his mood in matches and was thrown out of final 12 months’s US Open after unintentionally hanging a line decide with a ball. Nadal admitted that the Serbian, who final month drew degree with him and Roger Federer on 20 grand slam triumphs, has an uncommon means of coping with his feelings on the court docket however put his outbursts all the way down to his aggressive nature.

Tom Daley has revealed he was making a canine sweater within the viral photograph of him knitting within the stands through the ladies’s diving closing on the Tokyo Olympics. The diver, 27, is contemporary off his first-ever Olympic gold medal within the males’s synchronised 10m platform final week, and determined to get out his needles and wool through the Girls’s 3m Springboard Remaining on the weekend.

Laurel Hubbard, 43, who gender transitioned in 2012, was competing within the 87kg+ class however didn’t document a single legitimate Snatch elevate in Tokyo (pictured: earlier than the occasion, left; and failing on her third and closing try, proper). Hubbard’s look on the Video games has been mired in controversy – not least as a result of she was well-backed to choose up a medal right this moment. She overbalanced on her opening weight of 120kg on Monday night time, taking the bar behind her shoulders. Hubbard’s second effort of 125kg was dominated invalid on a majority resolution by the referees. The third try was virtually a repeat of the primary, ruling Hubbard out of medal competition. She made a parting salute and put her fingers collectively in prayer as she left the stage at Tokyo’s Worldwide Discussion board. Chinese language woman-mountain Lie Wenwen broke an Olympic world document by lifting 140kg in the identical occasion and appears set for Gold. Regardless of her failure, Hubbard has made historical past and there are various who really feel that her participation units a precedent that can injury ladies’s sport. She certified for the Video games after the Worldwide Olympic Committee modified its guidelines to permit ladies to compete if their testosterone ranges are under a sure threshold. Ro Edge, of Save Girls’s Sports activities Australasia, instructed Radio 4 this morning: ‘I feel it will be actually naive and ignorant to suppose that individuals won’t make the most of these guidelines to realize a aggressive benefit.

British swimmer Adam Peaty has been dismayed by a few of the response to his announcement that he’s set to spend a month away from the pool so as to prioritise his psychological well being. Peaty received two golds and a silver at Tokyo 2020, together with retaining his males’s 100 metres breaststroke title, as Crew GB claimed a document eight swimming medals, eclipsing their earlier better of seven on the 1908 Video games. The 26-year-old from Uttoxeter identified that the following three years main into Paris 2024 might be a ‘conflict of attrition’ with World and European Championships and the Commonwealth Video games all to come back in 2022.

Crew GB stay on the right track to retain their gold medal within the ladies’s biking workforce pursuit after qualifying for the primary spherical by going second quickest.  Germany set a surprising tempo early on in qualifying after breaking the world document by almost three seconds with a time of 4:07.307. The workforce of Laura Kenny, Katie Archibald, Elinor Baker and Josie Knight set off on a wonderful tempo to attempt to eclipse Germany’s time however  regardless of beginning brightly, struggled late on earlier than ending second, with 4 groups advancing from eight in a bid to land a gold medal. 

Pamela Ware was making her Olympics debut in Tokyo when she misstepped on her strategy to the springboard, inflicting her to plummet into the water along with her toes hitting the floor first. Ware was diving to e book her place within the three metre springboard closing however horribly miscued the leap with an issue of three.5.

An absence of wind noticed all crusing occasions on the Tokyo Olympics postponed on Monday. Six races have been scheduled at Enoshima Yacht Harbour however all have been delayed after which finally referred to as off for the day, with no prospect of situations enhancing. Medals had been resulting from be determined within the ladies’s and males’s 49er class, however these races will now be held on Tuesday, wind allowing.