Japan vs Great Britain LIVE: Tokyo 2020 final score, result and reaction as Team GB reach quarter-finals

Chase Kalisz powered to victory in the men’s 400m medley a short while ago, earning the first gold medal for Team USA. He completed the race in 4 minutes and 9.42 seconds and was closely followed by compatriot Jay Litherland, who was 0.86 seconds behind, winning silver for the team. Brendon Smith of Australia claimed the bronze. “It means the world. This is the last thing that I really wanted to accomplish in my swimming career,” said Kalisz.

“It was something that was a dream of mine for as long as I could remember. I can’t believe it.”

Great Britain are through to the knockout stages of the Olympics women’s football competition with a game to spare after a 1-0 victory over hosts Japan.

It was a professional display in a contest they bossed, though not with outright control. Similar to their 2-0 victory over Chile, they won the most important passages and, again, it was Ellen White’s name on the scoresheet.

A near-post flick on in the 74^th minute settled this tie: White’s 13^th in her last 14 internationals, for England and Team GB. That her three goals have come from just five shots says as much about her effectiveness in front of goal as it does of how her team have not quite been at their creative best. Nevertheless, the first part of the job is done.

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He wasn’t the first to emerge from the dive start but by the time they’d reached half a length of Tokyo’s Olympic pool, Adam Peaty was in the lead. He reached the turn in 26.81secs with the gap intact and swam away from the rest on the way home to glide into the 100m breaststroke semi-finals, recording the eighth fastest time in history in the process. The other seven are all his too, of course.

Peaty looked up at the giant board at the other end of the pool and gave a confident nod when 57.56secs appeared, as if he was telling the screen it had done a satisfactory job rather than the other way round. He hauled himself out of the pool and walked away with a little swagger, which is only natural when you can bend an entire Olympic event to your will.

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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are underway in the men’s and women’s football tournaments.

There has already been an upset with the USA women suffering a heavy defeat to Sweden in their opener.

Team GB enjoyed a fine start over Chile, with Ellen White’s double enough to earn a comfortable 2-0 win in Sapporo.

While the men’s favourite, Brazil, defending their gold from Rio 2016, swept Germany aside to kick things off in Japan.

Here is the schedule for both tournaments, kick-off times and TV information:

Naomi Osaka will enter the Olympic Games on Sunday, playing the second game on the Centre Court at the Ariake Tennis Park against Saisai Zheng of China.

The first Centre Court game will start at 11am local time – 10pm ET, with the approximate start time for the Osaka game being around 12am ET.

Andy Murray faces off against Felix Auger Aliassime of Canada at around 2am ET – 7am BST.

US skateboard star Nyjah Huston takes part in the Olympic debut of the sport he has dominated for years. The qualifying event starts at 8pm ET.

Simone Biles of the US women’s gymnastics team will enter the games at around 2:10am ET as the US takes part in the qualifying stage. The US is in the third of five subdivisions. Subdivision 1 starts at 9pm ET.

Surfing is also making its debut as an Olympic sport – the event has a start time of 6pm ET, but is subject to change.

Russia was banned from the Tokyo Olympics in December 2019 after the notorious doping scandal, which rocked the sporting world.

The initial ban of four years was reduced to two years in 2020, it still ensured no official Russian team present at the Olympic Games in Japan or the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Nonetheless, Russian athletes are still at Tokyo 2020 due to the establishment of the ROC.

Here’s everything you need to know about the ROC and the background behind Russia’s ban:

Why was Russia banned?

Russia were found guilty of running a state-sponsored doping scheme, which included Russian officials tampering with data provided by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency.

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While fans have been barred from the Olympics because of the Covid-19 pandemic, some sections in various arenas in Tokyo have been opened for spectators – other athletes.

Seating areas have been reserved by several national Olympic committees, allowing some athletes to attend other events.

On Saturday night local time, members of Team USA, Australia, and Germany could be seen cheering on the swimmers at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

Members of the US women’s gymnastics team also showed up to cheer on their male counterparts.

The delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have arrived with a spectacular opening ceremony in Tokyo featuring an impressive Parade of Nations for those competing.

There are 206 National Olympic Committees involved at the Games, including the IOC Refugee Olympic Team, which will send an expanded 29-athlete group to these Games after the team debuted at Rio 2016.

The USA is due to have the largest contingent competing having topped the medal table at Rio 2016, with 613 Americans set to compete. Hosts Japan have 552 athletes entered.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, there are a number of nations with just two athletes among the 11,326 scheduled to compete in Tokyo. They are: Andorra, Bermuda, Brunei, the Central African Republic, Dominica, Lesotho, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Nauru, Somalia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Sudan, Tuvalu.

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If one of the great features of the Olympics is the stories of the athletes who have given so much to get there, then there can be few more remarkable tales than that of Hend Zaza.

The Syrian is set to be the youngest competitor at Tokyo 2020 having earned table tennis qualification for the Olympics by winning the West Asia qualifying tournament last year at only 11 years old.

In the final of that tournament, Zaza beat Mariana Sahakian, nearly four times her age, of Lebanon, and has now won Syrian national titles in all four categories in which she is eligible, including the senior title, having started playing at the age of five.

“I have very rarely seen a player at this age play with such joy and train with such intensity as Zaza,” said Eva Jeler, an experienced former national German table tennis coach.

“She never walked to pick up the ball – she ran. While of course her technique needed and still needs improvement, her determination, resilience and will to play and win are (almost) a guarantee for future success.”

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How do you play three-on-three basketball?

Teams consist of three players and one substitute. The first team to 21 points wins, or, should the mark fail to be achieved after ten minutes, victory is awarded to whichever team is ahead. If the score is tied after ten minutes, overtime begins, with the first team to score two points or get to 21 (whichever comes first) winning the game.

The court is condensed, too, about half the size of a traditional basketball court at 11 metres long and 15 metres wide. It is divided into two areas by a semicircle around the single hoop and net.

Each game will begin with a coin toss, with the winner deciding who takes the first possession. There is a twelve-second shot clock for each possession. Players must take the ball back to around the semicircle after claiming a rebound, while possession switches after every made basket.

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