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Olympics 2020 day two: women’s road race, gymnastics, tennis and more – live!

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01:09

Kieran Pender

We are just over an hour away from the first medal races at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. The men’s 400m individual medley is up first – Australia’s Brendon Smith was an unexpected fastest qualifier last night in the heats, but he will face tough competition in lanes three and five from American Chase Kalisz, who won silver at the event in Rio, and Kiwi Lewis Clareburt.

The women’s 100m butterfly semi-finals will be enthralling – Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström, Australia’s Emma McKeon, the USA’s Torri Huske and China’s Yufei Zhang are all gold medal contenders.

That will be followed by three individual medal races: the men’s 400m freestyle (keep an eye out for Aussie Elijah Winnington), the women’s 400m IM (American Emma Weyant is favourite) and the men’s 100m breaststroke (Britain’s Adam Peaty will win at a canter).

A big morning in the pool will wrap up with the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay, where it would be remarkable if anyone can top the world-record holding Australians.




01:07

USA’s Jagger Eaton pulls off a back 180 and it’s good enough for him to move into second place in his heat behind France’s Vincent Milou.




00:59

Some guy called Tony Hawk is co-commentating on the skateboarding. I guess he never made it on the big stage and had to fall back on TV work. France’s Vincent Milou nails a nice trick on the rail to take the lead – but remember it’s early days in heat one. Plenty more action to come – the top eight from the three heats go through to the final.

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Jagger Eaton in early action at the skate park

 Jagger Eaton in early action at the skate park. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

The skateboarding is now underway. Nyjah Huston is yet to skate but another American, Jagger Eaton, leads the pack so far.




00:38

The spectacularly talented Nyjah Huston is in action today and is favourite to become the first Olympic skateboarding champion. He’s had quite the journey to get here too. Multiple X Games titles? Check! Guest star slots alongside The Rock? Check! VERY nice clifftop mansion? Check! Waffle tattoos? Check! Growing up in a “mini cult”? CHECK! You can read more about Nyjah (and skateboarding’s debut) below:

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00:26

In case you missed it, South Korean TV coverage of the opening ceremony was NOT received well:




00:20

We have results in the surfing. Italo Ferreira of Brazil has won heat one and advances to round three along with Japan’s Hiroto Ohhara. Leonardo Fioravanti and Leandro Usuna of Italy and Argentina respectively came third and fourth and will duke it out in the second round. There was a Japanese win in heat two, where Kanoa Igarashi finished ahead of Miguel Tudela of Peru. Igarashi has some pedigree: he won the Corona Bali Protected Keramas 2019, beating Kelly Slater (yep, that one) along the way.




00:12

Key events for Sunday 25 July

Martin Belam

The surfing has started. There are medals on offer in archery, artistic gymnastics, road cycling, diving, fencing, judo, shooting, skateboarding, swimming, taekwondo and weightlifting.

All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for Manchester, thirteen hours for New York and seventeen hours for San Francisco. We’ll all get the hang of this eventually.

🌟 If you only watch one thing: 11.00am Tennis – the precise start time will depend on how long Australia’s Ashleigh Barty takes with Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo, but, fresh from lighting the Olympic cauldron, Naomi Osaka plays China’s Saisai Zheng second on centre court at the Ariake Tennis Park.

  • 9.30am Archery – the first match-up is Great Britain v Italy in a quarter-final eliminator in the women’s team competition. By 4.40pm we will have reached the final. 🥇
  • 10.30am–12.20pm Swimming – the morning swimming session features finals of the men’s 400m individual medley, 400m freestyle final, the women’s 400m individual medley and the women’s 4×100m freestyle relay. Australia will fancy their chances in the latter. 🥇
  • 9.00am-9.15pm Fencing – a day of bouts finishes with the women’s individual foil and men’s individual epée finals. 🥇
  • 10am Artistic gymnastics – it is the women’s qualification morning.
  • 11am-7.50pm Judo – by the end of the session, we will know who the Olympic champions are in the women’s -52kg category and the men’s -66kg .🥇
  • 3pm Diving – it is the women’s synchronised 3m springboard tournament. 🥇
  • 1pm Road cycling – Sunday means it is the women’s race, and Dutch riders Annemiek van Vleuten and Marianne Vos are heavily tipped. You might recall that van Vleuten ended up in hospital after an absolutely horrific crash while leading the same event at Rio in 2016. 🥇
  • 10am-9.45pm Taekwondo – Team GB’s Jade Jones will be going for a third gold in the 57kg category. Her first bout is at 11.52am and the final, should she reach it, is at 9.30pm.
  • You can find our full interactive events schedule here.

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Preamble

Hello and welcome to another day’s action from Tokyo*. China took an early lead in the medal table yesterday as the usual table-toppers the US – get this – failed to win a medal on day one of the Summer Games for the first time since 1972 (OK, they didn’t win one on day one in 1980 either but they weren’t there so that’s a good excuse).

Anyway, lots of great stuff coming up. Surfing makes it debut while the first ever Olympic skateboarding champion will be crowned early this afternoon (Japanese time). There are 18 gold medals in total up for grabs today and we’ll be here for all of them. Meanwhile you can check out today’s schedule, medal table and results below:

* actual writer may not be in Tokyo

source: theguardian.com