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BRIT WATCH

To round up the rest of the best of British action quickly, then…

Jason Kenny will aim to win yet another Olympic gold medal by defending his track cycling’s men’s sprint title. Katy Marchant is in the women’s keirin first round.

Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre will win medals in the 470 sailing class while Luke Patience and Chris Grube go in the men’s equivalent.

Ben Whittaker battles Cuba’s Arlen Lopez for gold in boxing’s men’s light-heavyweight division at 07:35. 

Super-heavyweight Frazer Clarke goes in his semi-final against Bakhodir Jalolov of Uzbekistan.

In the Olympic Stadium,  Nick Miller is in the hammer and Lizzie Bird the 3,000m steeplechase.

Ben Maher, Scott Brash and Harry Charles go in the individual showjumping while Shauna Coxsey will look for the first gold in the women’s combined event of the climbing. 

HOCKEY STARTED

Team GB’s hockey semi-final against the Netherlands is underway.

The Brits won gold at Rio 2016, beating the Dutch in the final.

It remains 0-0 with five minutes to go in the first half…

AND REPEAT

Sky has gone for her second run – and delivered the goods once again, then finished off with a cheeky kickflip.

This time she goes even better with a 57.40 score.

Brown still has another heats run to go but will be in the final later – can she produce another special performance in the final?

WOW WOW WOW

Talk about delivering under pressure.

All of the talk ahead of the skateboarding debut at the Olympics has been about Sky Brown.

And the 13-year-old proved exactly why with that stunning first run.

She showed not a shred of nerves to throw a staggering 55.26 – complete with some unique tricks and serious air time.

That is the best score of the entire field so far and that infectious smile is quite rightly out from the teenage Brit.

Wow.

GOLF GETS GOING

American sisters Nelly and Jessica Korda are among the top names in the field for the women’s golf, which starts with round one right now.

Nelly is the No1-ranked player in the world so will expect to be in with a chance of a medal. 

She won the 2021 Women’s PGA earlier this year.

Meanwhile, their brother Sebastian was victorious against Vasek Pospisil in their Citi Open tennis match in Washington DC on Tuesday afternoon.

Melissa Reid and Jodi Ewart Shadoff are in action for GB. 

‘MAKES A DIFFERENCE’

Alice Dearing has given an emotional interview after finishing the 10km swim.

The 24-year-old from Birmingham – who finished 19th – became the first black female swimmer to represent Team GB in an Olympic swimming event.

She said: “I really hope it makes a difference and people look at this (me) and think it’s possible for anyone out there.

“It’s tough, it’s hard but if you want to learn to swim 25m or go to swim in the Olympics I want people to know that it’s open and available to everybody and just go and give it your best shot.

“It’s only three years until Paris I’ve got a lot more to give and learn, this is my first Olympics, I’m definitely not done.

“I’ll go home, take my time get over it and then come back stronger next year and the year after.”

COLIN LOVES IT

Colin Jackson is a big fan of what KJT produced in her 100m hurdles.

He said: “That is a great start from Kat. The key factor with that is the smile at the end.

“She’s in a better place, potentially, than she’d even expected herself to be in.

“It was a very competitive race. When you feel someone right behind you, it gives you that extra push.

“Kat’s performance was outstanding, one of the best hurdles I’ve ever seen her do.”

Next up is the high jump in an hour…

AND HERE IT IS

Watch her stunning effort below.

It was a pretty flawless display over the hurdles from the 28-year-old world champ.

PICTURES SPEAK A THOUSAND WORDS

These series of photos capture KJT’s 100m hurdles perfectly.

The run.

The win.

The smile.

The relief.

Her Olympic dream is well and truly on…

PERFECT START

It is the perfect start for Johnson-Thompson who smashes a brilliant 13.27 seconds to win her 100m hurdles.

And out comes a beaming smile after crossing the line.

A rare outpouring of emotion from the Brit before her game face is switched back on.

It is heartbreak for Cuba’s Yorgelis Rodriguez who pulls up injured and is carried off in tears.

That could be her Olympic dream over five seconds after it started.

Nafi Thiam went through third in 13.54 seconds.

KJT TIME

Here she is!

British heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson is out to get her campaign underway.

She starts in lane seven for the 100m hurdles…

DUTCH TROUBLE

Team GB’s women go up against the Netherlands in the hockey semi-finals.

It is a repeat of the gold medal match from five years ago which the Brits famously won. 

The Dutch won their pool stage meeting 1-0.

Kick-off is at 2.30am. 

SKATEBOARDERS SET

The first round of the women’s park skateboarding has just started.

The average age across the entire field is just 19.5 – with Brit Bombette Martin getting the event underway with a 14.40 score in the first of three runs.

Sky Brown goes last in heat three.

The top eight qualifiers will progress to the final at 4.30am.

KJT UNDERWAY

Katarina Johnson-Thompson begins her heptathlon campaign at 1.35am UK time with the 100m hurdles.

The high jump, shot put and 200m follow on the first day of action in the seven-event challenge. 

Britain’s KJT has only competed twice in 2021 as she recovers from injuries and goes up against Rio winner Nafi Thiam of Belgium. 

GOLD FOR BRAZIL

Ana Marcela Cunha has won the marathon swimming in Tokyo Bay in a thrilling race.

The green-haired Brazilian touched home in 1:59.30, pipping Sharon van Rouwendaal by less than a second at the end of the two-hour 10km effort.

Alice Dearing did so well for around two-thirds of the contest but slipped approximately four-and-a-half metres behind the front pack of seven.

The race started at 6.30am but the water temperature was a record 30C, making this one of the most physically demanding events in the entire Games.

I’m tired just watching…!

SKY THE LIMIT

Today’s the day for Sky Brown to make her Olympics debut.

The 13-year-old will become Team GB’s youngest summer athlete of all time when she competes in the skateboarding’s park contest.

She picked up a bronze in the world champs aged 11 – behind two Japanese stars who will be looking for more glory today. 

MAN OF WAR

Norway’s Karsten Warholm, who put in arguably THE performance of the Olympics so far, has thanked his fellow competitors on his Instagram.

The 400m hurdler smashed his own world record to record the first ever sub-46sec one lap hurdles run with 45.94sec.

In fact, the second placed runner Rai Benjamin of the United States and Brazilian Alison dos Santos all set the fastest three times EVER in that final.

Before 2021, Kevin Young had held the world record since 1992 with 46.72sec.

Either way, gentleman that Warholm is, he left this classy message for his one-lap barrier hoppers.

THE RACE IS HOTTING UP

The open water marathon swim is 1hr 26min in and American Ashley Twitchell is setting the pace and has decided not to take on liquids on every lap.

France’s Lara Grangeon is trailing in her wake.

In fact, one interested party appears to be this fish that just jumped out of the water in slow motion on telly.

Unbelievably, the water temperature is just under 30C, which is nearly as warm as a bath.

MARATHON SWIM UNDERWAY

The women are on lap three of seven in the swimming.

Britain’s Alice Dearing is currently in 18th place, 18sec behind the leader.

One of the issues with the Odaiba Marine Park has been the water temperatures, which are basically tropical.

That means the swimmers have to get to get their fluids in every lap and coaches have been chucking the odd ice cube in there to make sure they can cool their body temperatures down.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4

Here’s what’s coming up tomorrow:

Artistic Swimming

• 11.30am Duet Free Routine Final

Athletics

• 1am – Men’s Decathlon 100m 
• 1.05am – Men’s Javelin Throw Qualification 
• 1.35am – Women’s Heptathlon 100m Hurdles
• 1.55am – Men’s Decathlon Long Jump
• 2.35am – Women’s Heptathlon High Jump
• 3am – Men’s 110m Hurdles Semi-finals
• 3.30am – Women’s 400m Hurdles Final
• 3.40am – Men’s Decathlon Shot Put
• 10.30am – Men’s Decathlon High Jump
• 11am – Women’s 1500m Semi-finals
• 11.05am – Women’s Heptathlon Shot Put
• 11.30am – Women’s 400m Semi-Final 1
• 12pm – Women’s 3000m Steeplechase Final
• 12.15pm – Men’s Hammer Throw Final
• 12.30pm – Women’s Heptathlon 200m
• 1.05pm – Men’s 800m Final
• 1.30pm – Men’s Decathlon 400m 
• 1.55pm – Men’s 200m Final

Baseball/Softball

• 8am – Baseball Round 2 Repechage
• 11am – Baseball Semi-final

Basketball

• 2am – Women’s Quarterfinal

Beach Volleyball

• TBC – Men’s Quarter-finals

Boxing

• 6am – Women’s Fly (48-51kg) Semi-finals
• 6.30am – Women’s Welter (64-69kg) Semi-finals
• 7.03am – Men’s Super Heavy (+91kg) Semi-finals
• 7.35am – Men’s Super Heavy (+91kg) Semi-finals

Canoe Sprint

• 1.30am – Women’s Kayak Single 200m Semi-finals
• 2.05am – Women’s Canoe Single 200m Heats
• 2.40am – Women’s Kayak Single 500m Heats
• 3.22am – Men’s Kayak Double 1000m Heats
• 4.08am – Men’s Kayak Single 200m Quarter-finals
• 4.29am – Women’s Canoe Single 200m Quarter-finals
• 5.18am – Men’s Kayak Double 1000m Quarter-finals

Cycling Track

• 7.30am – Men’s Sprint Qualifying
• 8.10am – Women’s Keirin First Round – Heats
• 8.35am – Men’s Sprint 1/32 Finals – Heats
• 9.11am – Women’s Keirin Repechages – Heats
• 9.31am – Men’s Sprint 1/32 Finals Repechages – Heats
• 9.45am – Men’s Team Pursuit Finals 7-8
• 9.52am – Men’s Team Pursuit Finals 5-6
• 9.59am – Men’s Team Pursuit Finals – Bronze
• 10.06am – Men’s Team Pursuit Finals – Gold
• 10.13am – Men’s Sprint 1/16 Finals – Heats
• 10.47am – Men’s Sprint Repechages

Diving

• 7am – Women’s 10m Platform Preliminary

Equestrian

• 11am – Jumping Individual Final

Golf

• 11.30pm (Aug 3) – Women’s Individual Stroke Play Round 1

Handball

• 1.30am – Women’s Quarter-finals

Hockey

• 2.30am – Women’s Semi-final
• 11am – Women’s Semi-final

Marathon Swimming

• 10.30pm (Aug 3) – Women’s 10k

Sailing

• 6.33am – Men’s Two Person Dinghy – 470 – Medal Race
• 7.33am – Women’s Two Person Dinghy – 470 – Medal Race

Skateboarding

• 1am – Women’s Park Prelims Heats
• 8.30am – Women’s Park Final

Sport Climbing

• 9am – Women’s Combined, Speed Qualification
• 10am – Women’s Combined, Bouldering Qualification
• 1.10pm – Women’s Combined, Lead Qualification

Table Tennis

• 2am – Women’s Team Quarter-finals; Men’s Team Quarter-finals
• 6.30am – Women’s Team Quarter-finals; Men’s Team Quarter-finals
• 11.30am – Women’s Team Semi-finals

Volleyball

• From 1am – Women’s Quarter-finals

Water Polo

• From 6am – Men’s Quarter-finals

Weightlifting

• 5.50am – Men’s +109kg Group B
• 1150am – Men’s +109kg Group A Medal

Wrestling

• 3am – MGR 67kg/87kg, WFS 62kg Repechages
• 3.30am – MFS 57kg/86kg, WFS 57kg 1/8 Finals, QF
• From 10.15am – Men’s Freestyle 57kg Semi-finals; Men’s Freestyle 86kg Semi-finals; Women’s Freestyle 57kg Semi-finals; Men’s Greco-Roman 67kg Bronze Medal Match; Men’s Greco-Roman 67kg Final; Men’s Greco-Roman 87kg Bronze Medal Match; Men’s Greco-Roman 87kg Final; Women’s Freestyle 62kg Bronze Medal Match; Women’s Freestyle 62kg Final

TEAM GB LEGEND

Team GB cycling legend, triple Olympic gold medallist and seven-time world champion Ed Clancy has retired.

NEED FOR SPEED

The designer of the running track at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium has admitted the surface is giving athletes a “one or two per cent” advantage.

The Tokyo Olympic Games has seen a number of world and Olympic track records smashed over the past couple of days.

The most recent example being Norway’s Karsten Warholm smashing his own 400m hurdles world record.

Warholm annihilated his own record by more than 0.7 seconds on Tuesday, clocking in a time of 45.94 seconds.

Funnily enough Team USA’s Rai Benjamin – who came second – also broke Warholm’s previous world record with a time of 46.17.

Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah smashed Olympic records in the 100m hurdles and 100m respectively. 

Although watching athletes smash world and Olympic records is fun, it has, however, raised some questions about the track.

GOING FOR GOLD

China lead the medals table after day 11!

JASON KENNY REACTS

Team GB’s men’s cyclists had to settle for silver and Jason Kenny became the team’s most-decorated Olympian by winning an eighth honour.

Kenny said: “We did the same thing we always do.

“We came and emptied the tanks. We did our best ride I think. We pretty much nailed it in the first round and then we rolled the dice and went after the win.

“It didn’t go our way but they were better than us, simple as that. We knew we had to get better in the past few years, we have improved a lot and made a reasonable step but it was not enough”

LAURA KENNY REACTS

Team GB settled for silver in the women’s team pursuit after losing the final to Germany.

Laura Kenny said: “As an athlete, you want to win everything.

“I don’t think it’s any harder for me than it is anyone else taking silver. We set our hearts on gold, we wanted to win gold, so yeah we are going to feel disappointed.

“I glimpsed at my phone and so many people are saying: ‘You should be really proud of silver’, and I am really proud of silver, I just do feel a bit disappointed…

“[Germany] were phenomenal, you can’t take anything away from them. That is incredible, that’s going to be a record that stands for a long time I think”