Tokyo 2020 Olympics day-by-day information

It’s the Olympics we have all waited patiently for, so what higher approach to plan your two weeks than with our day-by-day information – all occasions BST.

Team GB named a squad of 376 athletes on 8 July – their largest ever for an abroad Games and with more women than men for the primary time at a summertime Games.

Sunday, 25 July – day two

Medal occasions: 18

Archery (ladies’s group), biking (ladies’s highway race), diving (ladies’s 3m synchro), fencing (ladies’s foil, males’s epee), judo (ladies’s -52kg, males’s -66kg), capturing (ladies’s 10m air pistol, males’s 10m air rifle), skateboarding (males’s avenue), swimming (males’s 400m medley, males’s 400m free, ladies’s 400m medley, ladies’s 4×100 free relay), taekwondo (ladies’s -57kg, males’s -68kg), weightlifting (males’s 61kg, males’s 67kg).

Highlights

Jade Jones goes for her third Olympic taekwondo title on Sunday. Expect the climax at about 13:00. Jones within the -57kg class and China’s Wu Jingyu within the -49kg class are every attempting to develop into the primary three-time Olympic taekwondo champions, in a sport that has been bumped up the Olympic schedule to the primary week due to its huge Asian viewers.

Meanwhile, Jones’ GB team-mate Bradly Sinden goes for Olympic taekwondo gold primary. The 22-year-old received a world title in his -68kg class in Manchester two years in the past.

Lizzie Deignan leads Team GB’s hopes within the ladies’s biking highway race (05:00-09:30), the place she’ll be racing with team-mate Anna Shackley. The Dutch group, led by Annemiek van Vleuten and 2012 Olympic champion Marianne Vos – each four-time Olympians – will take some stopping.

In the pool, regulate GB’s Max Litchfield, who goes within the males’s 400m particular person medley closing (02:30-04:20).

Brit watch

Chelsie Giles makes her Olympic debut in Tokyo competing in judo’s ladies’s -52kg (03:00-11:50). She has Grand Slam gold and silver below her belt this 12 months heading into the Olympic occasion.

In canoe slalom, Kimberley Woods (ladies’s K1) and Adam Burgess (males’s C1) have their heats from 05:00 to 08:45.

Archers Sarah Bettles, Naomi Folkard and Bryony Pitman go for girls’s group gold from 01:30 until 09:25, having received world bronze collectively two years in the past in an occasion usually dominated by Asian nations.

Sunday’s hockey schedule sees GB’s ladies play Germany at 01:30.

In diving, Grace Reid and Katherine Torrance are Britain’s contenders for 3m synchro gold.

World watch

Japan’s Naomi Osaka, who lit the Olympic cauldron at Friday’s opening ceremony, begins her marketing campaign for tennis gold towards China’s Zheng Saisai. The second seed can be enjoying her first match since withdrawing from the French Open due to psychological well being points.

One of the most important names on the earth of skateboarding, Nyjah Huston, is anticipated to star on the game’s Olympic debut within the males’s avenue contest (01:00-06:00). Huston, from the US, has 4 world titles and greater than a dozen X Games golds within the self-discipline.

Meanwhile, one of many largest names on the earth of sport will make her first look at Tokyo 2020. Simone Biles, probably the most embellished US gymnast of all time, will lead her group in ladies’s qualifying (02:00-14:00). So far, the 24-year-old has 4 Olympic titles and a bronze medal to her title. All 4 of Britain’s feminine creative gymnasts are making their Olympic debuts: Alice Kinsella, Amelie Morgan, and twin sisters Jennifer and Jessica Gadirova.

Don’t count on fireworks between China’s Sun Yang and Australia’s Mack Horton within the males’s 400m freestyle, after Horton referred to as Sun a “drug cheat” at Rio 2016 then refused to share a podium with him in 2019 – neither of them made it to Tokyo. Sun is serving a ban for breaking anti-doping guidelines whereas Horton did not make the Australian group within the occasion.

Caeleb Dressel can be continuously in comparison with Michael Phelps at these Olympics. With Phelps now out of the image, Dressel stands to develop into Team USA’s subsequent Olympic star within the pool. He received two relay golds at Rio 2016 and has added 13 world titles to his title since then. Tokyo’s swimming schedule runs in reverse formation – finals within the morning, heats for subsequent occasions within the night native time – so look ahead to Dressel within the males’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats at about 13:00.

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Surfing seems in Sunday’s schedule, however with an asterisk: all of it will depend on wave circumstances. Organisers have put 4 backup days within the calendar as the game makes its Olympic debut. All being effectively, Sunday will function the primary and second rounds of each the lads’s and ladies’s occasions. (No British surfers certified for Tokyo 2020.)

There are two forms of skateboarding on present at this 12 months’s Olympics: avenue and park. Street entails city options like stairs, rails, partitions, slopes and benches. Park makes use of a curved course to encourage mid-air tips.

Monday, 26 July – day three

Medal occasions: 21

Archery (males’s group), creative gymnastics (males’s group), canoe slalom (males’s C1), biking (males’s cross-country mountain bike), diving (males’s 10m synchro), fencing (ladies’s sabre, males’s foil), judo (ladies’s -57kg, males’s -73kg), capturing (ladies’s skeet, males’s skeet), skateboarding (ladies’s avenue), swimming (ladies’s 100m fly, males’s 100m breast, ladies’s 400m free, males’s 4x100m free relay), desk tennis (blended doubles), taekwondo (ladies’s -67kg, males’s -80kg), triathlon (males), weightlifting (ladies’s 55kg).

Highlights

Just after 03:00, Adam Peaty embarks on his mission to finish 5 years of whole domination within the males’s 100m breaststroke. He has set world document after world document and received two world titles since his gold medal at Rio 2016 – can he sew up Tokyo gold to go along with it?

It wasn’t to be for an additional of Team GB’s Rio 2016 champions. Alistair Brownlee was not chosen for the British triathlon group in Tokyo, however that creates a chance for youthful brother Jonny Brownlee, who has twice completed behind his brother on the rostrum, in London and Rio, and the gifted Alex Yee. The males’s triathlon really begins late on Sunday night UK time (22:30), ending simply earlier than 01:00 in a bid to beat Tokyo’s warmth by staging a morning race.

At the diving pool, Tom Daley begins his fourth Olympics. He’s paired with Olympic debutant Matty Lee within the males’s 10m synchro occasion, wherein Daley received bronze with Daniel Goodfellow in Rio 5 years in the past. The closing runs from 07:00 to 08:00.

Britain’s gymnasts completed fourth within the males’s group occasion in Rio, edged off the rostrum by Japan, Russia and China. Japan will hope to efficiently defend that title on Monday (11:00-14:10) however the occasion will not function the legendary Kohei Uchimura, who will seem at these Olympics as a person however is not within the squad for the group occasion.

The lone Team GB fencer at Tokyo 2020 is Marcus Mepstead. On Monday, he has an out of doors likelihood of a medal within the males’s foil occasion (01:00-08:20). Mepstead received world silver within the occasion two years in the past.

Brit watch

In taekwondo, Britain’s consultant within the ladies’s -67kg is Lauren Williams (02:00-14:30, two classes). Williams has two European titles to her title however was defeated by Croatia’s Matea Jelic on this 12 months’s European closing.

Adam Burgess will hope to be concerned within the first canoe slalom medal racing of Tokyo 2020. C1 class semi-finals start at 06:00 with medals determined nearer to 08:00.

Tom Pidcock can be aiming for gold within the males’s mountain bike cross nation (07:00-09:00). The 21-year-old, who has additionally shone on the highway this season, has recovered from a damaged collarbone.

There’s no Olympic soccer on Monday however rugby sevens kicks into gear with Britain’s males enjoying twice, first towards Canada after 01:00 then towards hosts Japan after 08:30. Team GB can be favourites in every of these video games. Overall, the likes of New Zealand, Fiji and South Africa can be hoping to win the match.

In hockey, Britain’s women and men are each in motion. The GB males play Canada at 03:45 and the ladies face South Africa at 10:30.

World watch

It’s not all Peaty within the pool. The ladies’s 400m freestyle closing, which follows instantly after Peaty’s closing at about 03:20, might ignite the Tokyo rivalry between Australia’s Ariarne Titmus and American nice Katie Ledecky. Titmus handed Ledecky her first defeat over this distance at a significant occasion within the 2019 World Championships. This shouldn’t be Ledecky’s signature occasion – which is over 800m – so Monday could also be Titmus’ greatest likelihood of victory.

Skateboarding strikes to the ladies’s avenue occasion (01:00-05:55), the place Brazilian five-time X Games champion Leticia Bufoni can be one of many largest names. If you are ready for Sky Brown, who’ll make her Team GB debut having barely turned 13, her park occasion would not happen till 4 August, although the road occasion has equally younger rivals from different nations.

Table tennis provides an Olympic blended doubles occasion for the primary time (medal matches 12:00-14:10). That could also be excellent news for China, winners of 28 out of 32 gold medals since desk tennis was launched to the Games in 1988. Sixteen groups will attempt to win the first-ever blended doubles gold, however Britain will not be amongst them.

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The course for the mountain bike cross-country occasion (males’s occasion 07:00-09:00) has been hailed as probably the most lovely, various and difficult ever created at an Olympics. Watch out for a shocking TV shot that reveals riders “jumping” over Mount Fuji utilizing a digicam mounted at simply the precise angle.

Tuesday, 27 July – day 4

Medal occasions: 22

Artistic gymnastics (ladies’s group), canoe slalom (ladies’s K1), biking (ladies’s cross-country mountain bike), diving (ladies’s 10m synchro), equestrian (dressage group), fencing (ladies’s group epee), judo (ladies’s -63kg, males’s -81kg), rowing (ladies’s quad sculls, males’s quad sculls), capturing (10m air rifle blended group, 10m air pistol blended group), softball, swimming (males’s 200m free, ladies’s 100m again, males’s 100m again, ladies’s 100m breast), taekwondo (ladies’s +67kg, males’s +80g), triathlon (ladies), weightlifting (ladies’s 59kg, ladies’s 64kg).

Highlights

Team GB head into the ladies’s triathlon (22:30 Monday to 01:00 Tuesday) with one of many world’s strongest line-ups: Rio bronze medallist Vicky Holland, 2020 world champion Georgia Taylor-Brown and 2019 world silver medallist Jess Learmonth. Bermuda’s Flora Duffy is prone to be one of many trio’s foremost rivals.

Bianca Walkden competes for Britain in taekwondo’s ladies’s +67kg class (02:00-14:30), having added two extra world titles to her title since taking bronze at Rio 2016. She additionally received European gold in April. Meanwhile, Mahama Cho beat Lutalo Muhammad to choice for Team GB within the males’s +80kg class, which additionally takes place on Tuesday.

Duncan Scott can be one among GB’s busiest swimmers, with six totally different occasions to his title in Tokyo. On Tuesday, he’ll hope to line up within the males’s 200m freestyle closing (02:45). He picked up world bronze within the occasion in 2019.

At Tokyo’s Ariake Gymnastics Centre, one of many Olympics’ largest TV audiences can be anticipated for the ladies’s group closing (11:45-14:10). There’s no query that the United States, led by Simone Biles, are the favourites. Can Britain, sixth on the final World Championships, make it into the ultimate and discover a approach to problem for a medal?

Brit watch

Team GB’s closing ladies’s soccer group recreation is towards Canada at 12:00. In a difficult group additionally that includes hosts Japan, it might be make-or-break for qualification from the group stage.

At 09:30, Britain’s dressage riders will hope to problem for medals within the group closing. The three-person group for Tokyo ranges from 54-year-old Carl Hester, competing at his sixth Olympics, to 25-year-old Charlotte Fry making her debut. Charlotte Dujardin, who turns 36 simply earlier than the Olympics, can be trying so as to add to her three Olympic titles.

Sarah Davies, who picked up a European silver medal in Moscow three months in the past, competes in weightlifting’s 64kg class from 11:50 to 14:00.

In diving, the ladies’s 10m synchro occasion (07:00-08:00) options GB’s Eden Cheng and Lois Toulson. They received the European title collectively in 2018, when Cheng was simply 15 years outdated.

The ladies’s K1 canoe slalom closing (06:00-09:00) might function GB’s Kimberley Woods.

Rowing reaches its first finals: the ladies’s and males’s quadruple sculls (00:30-04:00). Team GB has crews in every occasion who, whereas not main medal prospects, might be contenders in fields which can be pretty open.

In hockey, Britain’s males face Germany at 02:00, whereas in rugby sevens Team GB face Fiji earlier than the knockout video games start.

World watch

It will not simply be Brits watching the males’s 200m freestyle closing (02:45) with curiosity. Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto took world silver within the occasion in 2019 and the winner that day, China’s Sun, is serving a suspension throughout Tokyo 2020. That might clear a path for Matsumoto, who lowered his Japanese document earlier this 12 months, though Britain’s Scott has since gone quicker.

Later on Tuesday (1200-14:30), the hosts will hope to have involvement within the Olympic softball closing. Japan surprised the United States by successful the final Olympic softball closing 3-1 in 2008 – the US had received all three Olympic titles main as much as that.

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Zambia are the lowest-ranked group within the Olympic ladies’s soccer match at 104th, just under the likes of Tahiti and the Cook Islands. Having upset Cameroon to earn a spot at Tokyo 2020, the Copper Queens tackle Brazil (seventh on the earth) within the group stage at 12:30 on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Angola’s ladies’s handball group have maintained a formidable streak of appearances in a sport dominated by European nations. Tokyo is Angola’s seventh consecutive Olympic ladies’s handball look (they’re additionally the African champions having crushed Cameroon, who aren’t faring effectively on this part of the information, earlier this 12 months). They play Norway at 11:30.

Wednesday, 28 July – day 5

Medal occasions: 23

Artistic gymnastics (males’s all-around), basketball (ladies’s 3×3, males’s 3×3), biking (ladies’s time trial, males’s time trial), diving (males’s 3m synchro), equestrian (dressage particular person), fencing (males’s group sabre), judo (ladies’s -70kg, males’s -90kg), rowing (ladies’s double sculls, males’s double sculls, ladies’s 4, males’s 4), rugby sevens (males’s), browsing (ladies’s, males’s), swimming (ladies’s 200m free, males’s 200m fly, ladies’s 200m medley, ladies’s 1500m free, males’s 4x200m free), weightlifting (males’s 73kg).

Highlights

Britain’s males have received the Olympic coxless 4 contest on the previous 5 events. This time, the quartet of Sholto Carnegie, Oliver Cook, Rory Gibbs and Matthew Rossiter enter having positioned third on the previous two World Championships. But the boats forward of them modified every time, so the sphere might nonetheless be huge open. The race is scheduled for 02:10.

The males’s rugby sevens match reaches the medal matches (08:30-11:00). Team GB took silver 5 years in the past after shedding to Fiji within the 2016 Olympic closing, whereas Japan completed fourth. The hosts can be hoping to succeed in the rostrum this time round.

Road biking returns to the Fuji Speedway for the lads’s and ladies’s time trials (03:30-09:40). Geraint Thomas might be Britain’s greatest hope of a medal. He races alongside Tao Geoghegan Hart within the males’s occasion, whereas Anna Shackley competes for GB within the ladies’s occasion.

Jack Laugher and new companion Daniel Goodfellow will attempt to retain the lads’s 3m synchro diving title Laugher received with Chris Mears in Rio 5 years in the past. Laugher and Goodfellow have been silver medallists behind China on the 2019 world championships. Diving begins at 07:00.

Can a brand new horse carry GB’s Charlotte Dujardin to extra Olympic glory? Tokyo is her first Olympics with Mount St John Freestyle, aka Mrs Valegro. Dujardin can be trying to win a 3rd successive particular person dressage Olympic title (09:30-13:25).

Brit watch

At the pool, it is males’s 4x200m freestyle relay time. The closing is due off simply after 04:20. Britain, the 2017 world champions, completed fifth on the final world championships in 2019, however barely greater than a second cut up the highest 5 groups.

Gemma Howell, a 2018 European bronze medallist, competes on Wednesday within the ladies’s judo -70kg class (03:00-11:50).

In hockey, Britain’s ladies face India (02:00) adopted by Ireland towards Germany. India’s ladies knocked out the US in qualifying to succeed in the Olympic hockey match for less than the third time, after 1980 and 2016. England, the highest-ranked of the house nations, are fifth in hockey’s ladies’s world rankings, whereas India are ninth.

World watch

Team USA’s Katie Ledecky could discover herself in not one however two finals on Wednesday: the ladies’s 200m freestyle (02:42) and 1500m freestyle (03:51). The shorter of these distances might effectively be one other battle towards Australia’s Ariarne Titmus. Ledecky received the 200m in Rio and has three world titles over 1500m.

The males’s all-around gymnastics closing (11:15-14:10) was received by Japan’s Kohei Uchimura in 2016 however he is specializing in the person excessive bar contest this 12 months, which clears the way in which for a brand new champion. Max Whitlock was the bronze medallist for Team GB 5 years in the past however will not be taking over this occasion. Joe Fraser – making his Olympic debut this 12 months – was the highest-placed Briton on the final world championships, ending eighth. Russian Nikita Nagornyy, who received the all-around amongst three world titles in 2019, is a number one contender for gold.

With softball over, baseball begins. The opening recreation sees Japan host the Dominican Republic at 04:00. The 24-strong Dominican Republic baseball squad makes up nearly half of the nation’s Olympic group. It’s the primary time they’ve reached an Olympic baseball match since 1992, though the game wasn’t contested in London or Rio. Japan, which has a thriving home baseball scene, has solely as soon as reached the Olympic baseball closing, shedding to Cuba in 1996.

If the climate and waves have been type, this can be medal day in males’s and ladies’s browsing. Japan’s Kanoa Igarashi has a sentimental connection to the venue, Tsurigasaki Beach – it is the place his dad did a number of browsing, rising up, earlier than the household moved to the United States. Carissa Moore is taken into account a gold-medal contender for the US within the ladies’s occasion.

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3×3 basketball concludes on Wednesday. Though the US often locations nice emphasis on Olympic basketball – consider the Dream Team in 1992 – Team USA did not qualify for the lads’s contest, the primary time the US has ever missed out on an Olympic basketball occasion.

3×3 makes use of modified basketball guidelines. There are two groups of three individuals, one hoop, a 12-second shot clock, and the sport ends both after 10 minutes or when a group reaches 21 factors. You rating one level for making a basket, or two when you shoot efficiently from past the arc.

Thursday, 29 July – day six

Medal occasions: 17

Artistic gymnastics (ladies’s all-around), canoe slalom (ladies’s C1), fencing (ladies’s group foil), judo (ladies’s -78kg, males’s -100kg), rowing (males’s pair, ladies’s pair, males’s light-weight double sculls, ladies’s light-weight double sculls), capturing (ladies’s lure, males’s lure), swimming (males’s 800m free, males’s 200m breast, ladies’s 200m fly, males’s 100m free, ladies’s 4x200m free relay), desk tennis (ladies’s singles).

Highlights

Helen Glover might, after 4 years away from the game, return to the highest step of a rowing podium on Thursday if she and Polly Swann win the ladies’s pair (01:30). They’re this 12 months’s European champions, so it is undoubtedly achievable. Glover goes for her third Olympic title.

In a repeat of the Rio closing, Britain’s ladies’s hockey group play the Netherlands at 11:00. Team GB pulled off a shocking victory in 2016 with goalkeeper Maddie Hinch the penalty shoot-out hero. The Dutch, thought-about one of the best group on the earth this 12 months, will need revenge. (Coincidentally, Britain’s males additionally play the Netherlands in hockey on Thursday at 04:15, which might be a key group recreation.)

If she wins the ladies’s all-around closing (11:50-14:05), Simone Biles would develop into the primary girl in additional than half a century to retain that gymnastics title on the Olympics. Even for an athlete already thought-about the best her sport could have ever seen, that will be some achievement. It’s exhausting to see who stands in her manner.

GB’s Mallory Franklin, the 2017 world champion within the ladies’s C1 slalom canoe, will hope to go for gold within the occasion’s Olympic closing on the Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre (06:00-08:45).

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The males’s 200m breaststroke closing (02:45) might be a chance for Ross Murdoch and James Wilby, each have European medals within the occasion. It may, although, flip right into a celebration for the hosts if 20-year-old Shoma Sato, who has been smashing Japanese nationwide information this 12 months, maintains his type. Commonwealth champion Alys Thomas has a shot within the ladies’s 200m butterfly (03:27).

Beyond the ladies’s pair, look out for the GB light-weight ladies’s double scull on the rowing (02:10). Emily Craig and Imogen Grant have been the world bronze medallists in 2019.

At the capturing, lure finals day (01:00-08:55) sees three Brits in motion. Matthew Coward-Holley and Aaron Heading are within the males’s occasion, whereas Kirsty Hegarty is Team GB’s consultant within the ladies’s occasion. Coward-Holley is the 2019 world champion – the primary Briton to win a world title in a person Olympic shotgun self-discipline.

Women’s sevens begins (01:00-11:30) with GB dealing with the Russian Olympic Committee’s group, then New Zealand. Both can be robust video games however New Zealand, particularly, could also be exhausting to beat after a dominant 2020.

The mayhem that’s BMX racing begins on Thursday (02:00-04:00). Kye Whyte and 2017 junior world champion Beth Shriever are GB’s rivals.

World watch

Potential successor to Michael Phelps’ crown Caeleb Dressel must be again for the US within the 100m freestyle closing (03:35). Rio champion Kyle Chalmers, of Australia, has had damage hassle however delivered his quickest time in two years within the run-up to the Games.

Ireland have a medal hope in rowing’s males’s lightweight double sculls (01:50). Paul and Gary O’Donovan received the nation’s first-ever Olympic rowing medal by taking silver behind France within the occasion at Rio 2016. Paul is again for Tokyo 2020 with new companion Fintan McCarthy.

Women’s singles desk tennis typically means an all-Chinese closing, however nations can now solely enter two athletes every, so the bronze-medal match has taken on extra that means. In Rio, after that change took impact, it meant a medal for North Korea’s Kim Song-I – one among solely three North Korean medals that got here from sports activities aside from weightlifting. Ding Ning, China’s 2016 ladies’s singles champion, will not be returning for Tokyo 2020 however China nonetheless have the world primary and two heading into the occasion (medal video games 12:00-14:10).

In the previous, two of the 12 fencing occasions needed to miss out at every Olympics. In Rio, ladies’s group foil was a kind of left off the schedule. This 12 months, in a change, all 12 are on the listing and Thursday marks the return of girls’s group foil after 9 years (02:50-13:30). Italy are the reigning Olympic champions from 2012, whereas Russia are the world champions heading into the occasion.

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Thursday is day one among 4 for males’s Olympic golf at Kasumigaseki Country Club, 40 minutes north of Tokyo. The membership’s East Course was first designed in 1929 then overhauled 5 years in the past in preparation for the Olympics, primarily so as to add size to the course prepared for the world’s prime golfers. First-round play begins at 23:30 on Wednesday UK time, operating via until 08:00 on Thursday.

Friday, 30 July – day seven

Medal occasions: 21

Archery (ladies’s particular person), athletics (males’s 10,000m), badminton (blended doubles), canoe slalom (males’s K1), biking (ladies’s BMX racing, males’s BMX racing), fencing (males’s group epee), judo (ladies’s +78kg, males’s +100kg), rowing (ladies’s single sculls, males’s single sculls, ladies’s eight, males’s eight), capturing (ladies’s 25m pistol), swimming (ladies’s 200m breast, males’s 200m again, ladies’s 100m free, males’s 200m medley), desk tennis (males’s singles), tennis (males’s doubles), trampoline (ladies’s closing).

Highlights

Athletics begins in Tokyo with males’s excessive leap and discuss qualifying alongside the early rounds of the ladies’s 800m, males’s 400m hurdles, and ladies’s 100m – that means an opportunity to see GB’s world silver medallist Dina Asher-Smith in motion (03:40-04:30).

The closing day of rowing brings a chance for the British males’s eight to repeat their Rio efficiency, the place they capped off the week with an excellent gold medal. That might not be simple to copy: the Brits have been solely third on the 2019 world championships. Events get below manner at 00:45 and run till 02:55, together with Vicky Thornley within the ladies’s single sculls. The US might win a fourth consecutive gold within the ladies’s eight.

Women’s soccer reaches the quarter-final stage with video games at 09:00, 10:00, 11:00 and 12:00.

Trampoline was the supply of a shock British medal in 2016 when Bryony Page sprang into second place. This 12 months’s ladies’s occasion (05:00-07:30) sees Page, the primary Briton ever to win an Olympic trampoline medal, joined by Laura Gallagher.

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Athletics could also be below manner however there is not any Mo Farah – the London and Rio 10,000m champion will not seem within the occasion in Tokyo (12:40-13:10) after failing to hit the British choice time in June. Mark Scott and Sam Atkin have been chosen to run for Team GB.

Speaking of lacking Rio champions, Joe Clarke was not chosen for Tokyo 2020 so will not have the ability to defend his 2016 Olympic canoe slalom K1 title. Bradley Forbes-Cryans, a 2018 world champion alongside Clarke and Christopher Bowers within the K1 group occasion, races for GB as an alternative (06:00-09:00).

In swimming, British hopes on Friday embrace Luke Greenbank, a 2019 world bronze medallist within the males’s 200m backstroke (02:40) and Freya Anderson, who’ll be attempting to succeed in the ladies’s 100m freestyle closing (03:25).

Eventing begins with two days of particular person and group dressage (00:30-12:10). Laura Collett, Tom McEwen and Oliver Townend make up a British group hoping to alter issues after Team GB missed out on medals in 2016.

In judo, GB’s Sarah Adlington lastly makes her Olympic debut after near-misses for London and Rio. She competes within the ladies’s +78kg class (09:00-11:50) after being handed an entry via a continental quota place.

Pat McCormack, who misplaced a 2019 world title struggle by a cut up choice, will hope to be in motion as the lads’s welterweight division is amongst boxing occasions reaching their quarter-finals on Friday (03:00-12:10).

Women’s rugby sevens additionally reaches the quarter-finals after Britain play Kenya (01:00-11:30).

In hockey, GB’s males face Belgium at 13:15. Ireland’s ladies play India at 03:45.

Men’s golf enters its second spherical (23:30 Thursday to 08:00 Friday), that includes GB’s Paul Casey and Tommy Fleetwood. Fleetwood is a late alternative for Tyrrell Hatton, who withdrew in June.

World watch

Daiya Seto, the males’s 200m particular person medley world champion, will look to show that into an Olympic title on Friday (03:10) after a 12 months wherein his private life – and admission of an affair – has made headlines in his residence nation, Japan. He’ll count on to face Michael Andrew, who’s now the third-fastest American over the 200m medley distance after Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte.

BMX racing medals can be given out (02:00-04:20). GB’s Kye Whyte was fifth on the 2019 world championships. The US will, nevertheless, be trying to Connor Fields – the defending Olympic champion – to steer a sweep of the lads’s and ladies’s races. Colombian two-time Olympic gold medallist Mariana Pajon stands in the way in which of American Alise Willoughby within the ladies’s occasion.

The first tennis medals to be determined will are available in males’s doubles on Friday (04:00-12:00) whereas the lads’s singles occasion reaches the semi-final stage. The top-ranked males’s doubles pairing on the earth are Croatia’s Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic.

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China’s grasp on the badminton medal desk might be slipping. Mixed doubles pair Zheng Si Wei and Huang Ya Qiong are thought-about favourites to win Olympic gold in Tokyo, however Japan – which began making inroads into China’s dominance in 2016 – might problem them on residence soil via Watanabe Yuta and Higashino Arisa. Japan have been just one medal away from equalling China’s badminton success in Rio 5 years in the past. Meanwhile, GB’s Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith are thought-about doable contenders for a medal (01:00-13:30).

Saturday, 31 July – day eight

Medal occasions: 21

Archery (males’s particular person), athletics (males’s discus, blended 4x400m relay, ladies’s 100m), badminton (males’s doubles), fencing (ladies’s group sabre), judo (blended group), rugby sevens (ladies), crusing (ladies’s RS:X, males’s RS:X), capturing (lure blended group, ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions), swimming (males’s 100m fly, ladies’s 200m again, ladies’s 800m free, blended 4x100m medley relay), tennis (ladies’s singles), trampoline (males), triathlon (blended relay), weightlifting (males’s 81kg, males’s 96kg).

Highlights

Dina Asher-Smith can be hoping to line up for Britain within the closing of the ladies’s 100m (13:50), an occasion wherein she received world silver behind Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in 2019. Sha’Carri Richardson, quickest over 100m at US Olympic trials in June, will miss the race via a 30-day suspension related to cannabis use. Also be careful for the brand new 4x400m blended relay (13:35), the place the US are world champions and Britain completed fourth in 2019.

Triathlon’s blended relay makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo on Saturday (23:30 Friday till 01:30 Saturday UK time). Two males and two ladies on every group should in flip swim for 300m, cycle for eight kilometres, then run for 2 kilometres. The complete factor is over in lower than 90 minutes. GB have been third on the newest world championship.

The ladies’s singles closing might be an enormous second for host-nation hero Naomi Osaka if she makes it that far. Serena and Venus Williams are among the many names not competing within the Olympic match and that will make Osaka’s route simpler. Expect one among Japan’s largest moments at their residence Games if she reaches Saturday’s closing (04:00-12:00 alongside different matches).

Women’s sevens concludes on Saturday. Britain’s ladies have been fourth in Rio 5 years in the past, shedding to New Zealand then Canada as they narrowly missed the rostrum. There’s motion from 01:00 till 11:00.

Brit watch

It’s a giant day for blended relays. In the pool, the 4x100m blended medley relay guarantees to ship an exciting begin to the day at 03:35. Britain have been the 2019 world bronze medallists on this occasion, behind Australia and the United States. Ben Proud is prone to function for GB within the males’s 50m freestyle semi-finals simply beforehand.

In capturing, Seonaid McIntosh takes on an occasion the place she has demonstrated she will be able to win main worldwide titles: the ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions (04:00-09:10), the place rivals shoot whereas kneeling, then mendacity down, and eventually whereas standing. Meanwhile, the blended lure group occasion will function GB’s three lure shooters, who’ve the calibre to be medal contenders (01:00-06:50).

World watch

The males’s soccer match reaches the quarter-final stage with video games at 09:00, 10:00, 11:00 and 12:00.

Five years in the past, the lads’s discuss introduced a Harting-to-Harting second in Rio. For the primary time in Olympic historical past, one brother succeeded one other as champion of the identical occasion when Germany’s Christoph Harting received gold, 4 years after brother Robert Harting did the identical. Christoph has barely competed over the previous couple of years and his brother has retired, so there could also be a parting from Harting in 2021. The closing runs from 12:15 to 13:25.

Not eager to miss out on all of the blended motion, judo launches its blended group occasion on Saturday (03:00-11:50). This is new for Tokyo 2020 and entails groups of six athletes – your group has to win not less than 4-2 towards the opposite nation to progress. A 3-3 draw means a ‘golden rating’ contest to discover a winner.

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The first crusing medals of Tokyo 2020 are selected Saturday within the RS:X windsurfing class. Tom Squires is racing for GB within the males’s occasion. In the ladies’s racing, 22-year-old Emma Wilson should end fifth or larger to be one of the best Olympic windsurfer in her family. Her mum, Penny, completed sixth at Barcelona 1992 and seventh in Atlanta 4 years later.

Sunday, 1 August – day 9

Medal occasions: 25

Artistic gymnastics (males’s ground, ladies’s vault, males’s pommel horse, ladies’s uneven bars), athletics (ladies’s shot put, males’s excessive leap, ladies’s triple leap, males’s 100m), badminton (ladies’s singles), biking (ladies’s BMX freestyle, males’s BMX freestyle), diving (ladies’s 3m springboard), fencing (males’s group foil), golf (males), crusing (laser radial ladies, laser males), swimming (males’s 50m free, ladies’s 50m free, males’s 1500m free, ladies’s 4x100m medley relay, males’s 4x100m medley relay), tennis (males’s singles, ladies’s doubles, blended doubles), weightlifting (ladies’s 76kg).

Highlights

For the primary time since 2004, a males’s 100m closing (13:50) will happen on the Olympics with out Usain Bolt. Who will present the drama this time? The US has Noah Lyles although he could also be a good higher guess over 200m, the place he is the world champion. Canada’s Andre de Grasse completed third in Rio. Bolt himself thinks Trayvon Bromell, who received US Olympic trials, is the favorite. Zharnel Hughes is about to steer the British bid for a medal alongside Reece Prescod and Chijindu Ujah. Christian Coleman, the reigning world champion, is banned.

In gymnastics there are two finals the place Brits took gold 5 years in the past: the males’s ground (09:00) and males’s pommel horse (10:30), each received by Max Whitlock in 2016. Whitlock is the world champion on pommel horse, whereas Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan can be in Tokyo after successful world bronze in the identical occasion two years in the past. The ladies’s vault (09:45) is among the Olympics’ extra spectacular occasions – count on fireworks from Simone Biles.

Earlier within the day, count on the return of Adam Peaty as Britain attempt to flip their males’s 4x100m medley relay world title into an Olympic gold (03:30). Their nearest challengers in 2019 have been the United States and Russia. From 02:30 watch the 50m freestyle finals to see the world’s quickest sprinters in a one-length dash for glory, probably that includes GB’s Ben Proud and Anna Hopkin.

The males’s singles closing leads a packed day of tennis (04:00-12:00) with the ladies’s doubles and blended doubles finals additionally to come back.

It’s additionally the ultimate spherical of the males’s golf match (outcome anticipated round 08:00). Hideki Matsuyama, the primary Japanese participant to win the Masters, is a house favorite. Of the world’s prime 10, solely Dustin Johnson will not be enjoying in Tokyo.

Brit watch

The ladies’s shot put closing, starting at 02:35, will function Britain’s Sophie McKinna, who set a brand new indoor private greatest at first of this 12 months.

BMX freestyle (02:10-04:50) is new for Tokyo 2020. While you’ve got seen common BMX racing on the Olympics earlier than, the freestyle occasion focuses as an alternative on a minute-long collection of tips and expertise. GB’s Charlotte Worthington gave up a profession as a chef to coach full-time when freestyle was added to the Olympics, and she or he enters this occasion as a world bronze medallist. If 19-year-old two-time world champion Hannah Roberts wins for the US, she’ll be the primary teenage girl ever to take an Olympic biking title. GB’s males’s contender is Declan Brooks.

In crusing, the medal races happen in Laser and Laser Radial (04:00-10:00). GB’s representatives are Elliott Hanson (Laser) and Alison Young (Laser Radial), who’s attempting to enhance on an eighth-place end in Rio after she broke her ankle within the build-up to these Games.

Grace Reid dives for Britain as a 2018 European champion within the 3m springboard occasion (07:00) alongside team-mate Scarlett Mew Jensen.

Men’s hockey reaches the quarter-final stage.

World watch

Qatar have by no means received an Olympic title however that might change within the males’s excessive leap (11:10-13:00), the place the primary man ever to efficiently defend the excessive leap world title – Mutaz Barshim – will compete. Maksim Nedasekau, from Belarus, can be one among Barshim’s large rivals.

Colombia’s flagbearer, Caterine Ibarguen, will defend her Olympic triple leap title (12:20-1340) though by her personal admission she hasn’t had one of the best of build-ups. In a Latin American duel, she’s prone to be challenged by Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas, who has defeated Ibarguen to win the previous two world titles. The world document on this occasion, which has stood for greater than 1 / 4 of a century, might fall.

Greco-Roman wrestling begins on Sunday (from 03:00). Wrestlers contributed two of Cuba’s 5 gold medals at Rio 2016, together with one from Ismael Borrero within the males’s 60kg class, which leads off the Tokyo wrestling schedule. Borrero has reportedly recovered from Covid-19 to compete.

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Sea Forest Park, an island of reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay, ought to show a spectacular venue for the eventing cross-country stage – though the anticipated warmth has already had an affect. The cross-country will run early within the Tokyo morning (23:45 Saturday to 03:10 Sunday UK time) and over a shortened course to guard the well being of people and horses. It’s not the primary time that change has been made: Beijing 2008’s cross-country course was equally shortened.

Monday, 2 August – day 10

Medal occasions: 22

Artistic gymnastics (males’s rings, ladies’s ground, males’s vault), athletics (males’s lengthy leap, ladies’s 100m hurdles, ladies’s discus, males’s 3,000m steeplechase, ladies’s 5,000m), badminton (ladies’s doubles, males’s singles), biking (ladies’s group dash), equestrian (eventing group, eventing particular person), crusing (49er FX ladies, 49er males), capturing (males’s 25m speedy hearth pistol, males’s 50m rifle 3 positions), weightlifting (ladies’s 87kg, ladies’s +87kg), wrestling (ladies’s freestyle 76kg, males’s Greco-Roman 60kg, males’s Greco-Roman 130kg).

Highlights

Monday is day one inside Tokyo’s Izu Velodrome. Per week of monitor biking begins with qualifying within the group pursuits and the whole ladies’s group dash competitors (07:30-10:30). There’s no British illustration in that occasion, the place Germany and Australia are among the many favourites, however each GB pursuit groups can be in motion.

Eventing reaches its climax with the group and particular person gold medals being awarded (09:00-14:25). Britain are present holders of the group world title though solely Tom McEwen from that success is heading to Tokyo (Piggy March, additionally on the earth gold medal-winning group, is a Tokyo alternate for Team GB). McEwen can be joined within the group occasion by Oliver Townend and Laura Collett.

The large athletics occasion of the day is the ladies’s 5,000m (13:40-14:00). Eilish McColgan, who lately broke Paula Radcliffe’s British document, leads Team GB’s hopes alongside Jessica Judd and Amy-Eloise Markovc. Kenya’s Hellen Obiri received the previous two world titles however has by no means taken the 5,000m Olympic title.

Women’s soccer reaches the semi-final stage with video games at 09:00 and 12:00.

Brit watch

Monday’s crusing consists of medal races within the ladies’s 49er FX and males’s 49er (04:00-10:00). Saskia Tidey, who sailed for Ireland at Rio 2016, will as an alternative characterize GB at Tokyo 2020 alongside Charlotte Dobson within the 49er FX. GB’s 49er representatives are Stuart Bithell and Dylan Fletcher, the 2017 world champions.

Emily Campbell received weightlifting’s +87kg European title solely 4 months earlier than her Olympic occasion (11:50-14:00) so she reaches Tokyo in wonderful type.

Women’s hockey reaches the quarter-final stage, with video games ranging from 01:30 to 10:30.

In athletics heats, look ahead to Dina Asher-Smith within the 200m (02:30-03:20) and Laura Muir within the early phases of the 1500m (01:35-02:05).

World watch

The ladies’s 100m hurdles (03:50) gives an opportunity at redemption for Keni Harrison after a five-year wait. Harrison failed to achieve choice for Team USA at Rio 2016 regardless of happening to interrupt the world document simply days earlier than the Olympics. At Tokyo 2020, Harrison will lead the US problem and might count on competitors from Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who has set a few of the 12 months’s quickest occasions. Reiging world champion Nia Ali can be watching from residence together with her new child son (whose father is Canadian sprinter Andre de Grasse).

Two of gymnastics‘ showpiece occasions are staged on Monday. The males’s rings occasion (09:00) is among the Olympics’ defining photographs of energy as athletes carry out manoeuvres whereas suspending themselves from a set of rings. Greece’s Eleftherios Petrounias, the Rio 2016 gold medallist, might be the favorite however Ibrahim Colak is the reigning world champion after taking Turkey’s first gymnastics world title in 2019.

Meanwhile, the ladies’s ground occasion (09:45) is one other likelihood for a Simone Biles masterclass. GB’s Jessica Gadirova enters Tokyo 2020 as the brand new European champion.

Badminton concludes with the gold medal matches in ladies’s doubles and males’s singles (05:00-15:00). World primary and two-time world champion Kento Momota will hope to win the lads’s gold for hosts Japan within the face of stiff Chinese competitors. China’s double Olympic champion Lin Dan retired final 12 months, however Chen Long might emulate Lin in successful back-to-back titles if he provides a Tokyo victory to his Rio gold.

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Artistic swimming, previously generally known as synchronised swimming, begins on Monday (11:30-13:45). This and rhythmic gymnastics are the 2 Olympic sports activities wherein solely ladies compete. There’s a duet occasion with two athletes and a group occasion with eight. Swimmers are judged on technical and creative advantage and usually are not allowed to the touch the underside or sides of the pool. Russia have received each out there Olympic gold medal in creative swimming since Sydney 2000.

Tuesday, 3 August – day 11

Medal occasions: 22

Artistic gymnastics (males’s parallel bars, ladies’s beam, males’s horizontal bar), athletics (ladies’s lengthy leap, males’s 400m hurdles, males’s pole vault, ladies’s hammer throw, ladies’s 800m, ladies’s 200m), boxing (ladies’s feather, males’s welter), canoe dash (ladies’s K1 200m, males’s C2 1,000m, males’s K1 1,000m, ladies’s K2 500m), biking (ladies’s group pursuit, males’s group dash), diving (males’s 3m springboard), crusing (blended Nacra 17, males’s Finn), weightlifting (males’s 109kg), wrestling (ladies’s freestyle 68kg, males’s Greco-Roman 77kg, males’s Greco-Roman 97kg).

Highlights

Dina Asher-Smith is again. The ladies’s 200m (13:50) might be a part of a giant day for Team GB if issues go to plan. Asher-Smith is the 200m world champion however faces the daunting prospect of Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and the quickest girl over 200m on the earth this 12 months, US sprinter Gabby Thomas.

This might be Britain’s second within the velodrome, too. Both Laura and Jason Kenny can be in motion because the ladies’s group pursuit (09:05) and males’s group dash (09:35) medals are determined. Laura Kenny has received the group pursuit at two Olympics in a row. Jason Kenny has received the group dash at each Games since Beijing 2008.

Jack Laugher, against this, needed to accept second place in diving’s 3m springboard occasion in 2016. Tuesday brings his likelihood to go one higher (07:00-08:30). At the 2019 World Championships, he led heading into the ultimate spherical earlier than in the end selecting up bronze.

There are large medal alternatives on the water for Britain, too. Giles Scott, a Rio Olympic champion, defends his title within the Finn class medal race (06:30-07:00). He’s a five-time world champion within the occasion. In the blended Nacra 17 class (07:30-08:00) Britain’s John Gimson and Anna Burnet are the 2020 world champions.

Meanwhile, boxing palms out its first medals. Pat McCormack, the 2019 world silver medallist within the males’s welterweight division, will hope to succeed in the Tokyo closing (11:05). Earlier within the day, ladies’s featherweight world bronze medallist Karriss Artingstall might be in motion (05:05).

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As if there weren’t sufficient alternatives above, Joe Fraser is an actual medal risk for GB on the ultimate day of creative gymnastics. Fraser was the 2019 world champion on parallel bars and that closing begins at 09:00. Immediately after which you can count on Simone Biles within the beam closing and Japan’s Kohei Uchimura might produce one thing particular within the final occasion, the spectacular males’s horizontal bar closing.

Showjumping begins (11:00-14:45) with three Britons in motion: Ben Maher and Scott Brash, who every helped GB to a primary showjumping group Olympic title in 60 years at London 2012, are again alongside Holly Smith for Tokyo.

On prime of all that, males’s hockey reaches the semi-finals (02:30 and 11:00), which might but contain Team GB.

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The ladies’s 800m closing (13:25) is an opportunity to observe Uganda’s Halimah Nakaayi, who carried out a victory dance with team-mate Winnie Nanyondo after successful world gold in 2019. They have been the primary Ugandan ladies to succeed in a middle-distance world closing. GB’s Laura Muir withdrew from the 800m to focus on the 1500m, so Keely Hodgkinson and Jemma Reekie are joined by Alexandra Bell within the British contingent.

The males’s 400m hurdles (03:20) might be one among Tokyo’s most entertaining finals as a number of stars bid to succeed Kerron Clement, who received gold in Rio however is not within the US group this time. Norwegian world champion Karsten Warholm is on the prime of the listing, having damaged the 400m hurdles world document – which was 29 years outdated – at first of July.

Brazil’s Thiago Braz delivered one among Rio’s defining photographs when he received the 2016 host nation’s solely athletics gold medal within the males’s pole vault (11:20). Braz hasn’t reached a significant podium since however might nonetheless be a contender in Tokyo, the place the principle risk is anticipated from Sweden’s Armand Duplantis and American Sam Kendricks.

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Sport climbing makes its Olympic debut with qualification for the males’s mixed occasion (09:00-14:40). There are three disciplines and the winner would be the athlete who performs greatest throughout all three. Speed climbing will see athletes race head-to-head to tag a buzzer on the prime of a climb, bouldering means navigating units of climbs and not using a rope that emphasise bodily and gymnastic skill, and lead climbing will measure how far athletes stand up a taller wall with every handhold incomes some extent. Combining these three into one occasion is a reasonably new idea, and turns the Olympic occasion right into a type of climbing triathlon.

Wednesday, 4 August – day 12

Medal occasions: 17

Artistic swimming (duet), athletics (ladies’s 400m hurdles, ladies’s 3,000m steeplechase, males’s hammer, males’s 800m, males’s 200m), boxing (males’s light-heavy), biking (males’s group pursuit), equestrian (particular person), marathon swimming (ladies), crusing (ladies’s 470, males’s 470), skateboarding (ladies’s park), weightlifting (males’s +109kg), wrestling (ladies’s freestyle 62kg, males’s Greco-Roman 67kg, males’s Greco-Roman 87kg).

Highlights

Sky Brown, born a month earlier than the Beijing 2008 Olympics, competes in skateboarding’s park contest for GB. Born in Japan, 13-year-old Brown is a world bronze medallist on this occasion (she was 11 on the time). Both athletes who completed above her that day have been Japanese so the host nation additionally expects. Watch the motion from 01:00 to 05:30.

It’s a number of years since GB’s monitor cyclists received the males’s group pursuit world title (09:45-10:15), however their maintain on the Olympic title has been regular since 2008. Ed Clancy, who helped Britain to Olympic pursuit gold on the previous three Games, is again within the group for Tokyo. Denmark received the final world title in a world document time, whereas Australia are perennial contenders.

In Rio, Nick Skelton turned the primary Briton ever to win particular person showjumping Olympic gold. (He was 58 on the time, greater than 4 occasions Sky Brown’s age in Tokyo.) Skelton retired the next 12 months however Ben Maher might be among the many contenders for GB at this 12 months’s occasion (11:00-13:40).

Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark took 470-class crusing silver in London then went one higher in Rio 4 years later. Mills received the world title with new companion Eilidh McIntyre in 2019 and can be hoping Wednesday’s medal race (07:30-08:00) brings residence one other Olympic gold.

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Adam Gemili was fourth within the males’s 200m (13:55) on the World Championships two years in the past having led late within the race. American Noah Lyles, although, has emerged because the probably candidate to take the title Usain Bolt received 3 times in a row.

The heptathlon begins on Wednesday. World champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who completed sixth in Rio, begins with the 100m hurdles part of the seven-discipline occasion at 01:35. Wednesday additionally options the heptathlon’s excessive leap, the place Johnson-Thompson is at her strongest, shot put and 200m.

World bronze medallist Ben Whittaker will hope to be concerned as boxing’s males’s light-heavyweight division reaches its closing at 07:35. Cuba’s Arlen Lopez, who has moved division since successful middleweight gold in Rio 5 years in the past, might be a risk.

Britain has one likelihood of successful a medal on climbing‘s Olympic debut: Shauna Coxsey within the ladies’s mixed occasion. The world bronze medallist begins her problem in qualifying from 09:00 to 14:40.

Women’s hockey reaches the semi-final stage, with video games at 02:30 and 11:00.

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The ladies’s golf match begins (23:30 on Tuesday to 08:00 on Wednesday). All three medallists from Rio are again, world primary Nelly Korda of the US will participate alongside sister Jessica, and Japan’s hopes are led by Nasa Hataoka.

On weightlifting‘s final day, we transfer to the heaviest weight class: the males’s +109kg (11:50-14:00). Georgia’s Lasha Talakhadze is the favorite. Talakhadze’s carry of 485kg in April this 12 months is the best whole recorded within the sport’s historical past. That’s roughly the load of an grownup dromedary camel.

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Marathon swimming begins with the ladies’s 10km race (22:30 Tuesday to 01:30 Wednesday). Organisers say a system of underwater filters can be used to make sure the water high quality within the central Tokyo bay is suitable, whereas the race will happen at 06:30 native time to keep away from the worst of the summer time warmth. Look out for the backdrop of Tokyo’s Rainbow Bridge and a miniature Statue of Liberty. GB entrant Alice Dearing is about to develop into the primary black girl to swim for Britain on the Olympics.

Thursday, 5 August – day 13

Medal occasions: 27

Athletics (males’s triple leap, males’s shot put, males’s 110m hurdles, males’s 20km race stroll, ladies’s pole vault, males’s 400m, ladies’s heptathlon, males’s decathlon), boxing (males’s feather), canoe dash (males’s K1 200m, ladies’s C1 200m, ladies’s K1 500m, males’s K2 1,000m), biking (ladies’s keirin, males’s omnium), diving (ladies’s 10m platform), hockey (males), karate (ladies’s kata, ladies’s kumite -55g, males’s kumite -67kg), marathon swimming (males), skateboarding (males’s park), sport climbing (males), desk tennis (ladies’s group), wrestling (ladies’s freestyle 57kg, males’s freestyle 57kg, males’s freestyle 86kg).

Highlights

Katarina Johnson-Thompson‘s two-day heptathlon quest involves an finish with the lengthy leap (01:40-02:20), javelin (04:35-06:30) and the grand finale, the 800m (13:20). Johnson-Thompson’s build-up has been affected by her restoration from a severe Achilles damage however she’s nonetheless anticipated to mount a severe medal problem. Her foremost rival is Rio 2016 champion Nafi Thiam of Belgium.

GB’s reigning Olympic champion Liam Heath is anticipated to start out dash canoeing’s males’s K1 200m closing at 03:25. Heath has since added two world titles however Hungary’s Sandor Totka is shaping as much as be a formidable rival.

The males’s hockey closing begins at 11:00. Britain are nonetheless ready to succeed in the Olympic males’s podium on this sport for the primary time since successful the title in 1988. Hosts Japan have solely made the ultimate as soon as earlier than, in 1932 – helped that 12 months by the actual fact solely three groups entered within the first place.

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Matthew Walls will experience for GB in monitor biking’s omnium (07:30-10:30), after selecting up world bronze final 12 months. The omnium format has modified for Tokyo 2020: shorter dash disciplines have been dropped and it is now a mixture of 4 endurance occasions unfold over someday’s racing, together with a brand new tempo race the place riders can rating factors via sprints on nearly each lap.

Holly Bradshaw, fourth on the final world championships and fifth in Rio, competes within the ladies’s pole vault (11:20-13:30). This 12 months’s world primary is American Katie Nageotte, who ought to problem Greek Rio 2016 champion Katerina Stefanidi and world champion Anzhelika Sidorova for gold.

The males’s marathon swim (which ends shortly earlier than 01:30) will function GB’s Hector Pardoe, who received an Olympic qualifier in Portugal to e book his place. Pardoe’s coaching regime consists of swimming 90km per week.

In boxing, world bronze medallist Peter McGrail will hope to struggle for GB because the medals are determined within the males’s featherweight division (07:35).

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson dive for GB within the ladies’s 10m platform occasion (07:00-08:30).

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Ashton Eaton has retired after successful the decathlon in 2012 and 2016, so the crown within the 10-event athletics bonanza is up for grabs. Contenders embrace France’s Kevin Mayer, Canadian Damian Warner, German world champion Niklas Kaul and Estonia’s Maicel Uibo are all within the combine. The deciding 1500m race begins at 13:40.

Meanwhile, the males’s shot put closing (03:05-04:15) will function Ryan Crouser, the American who broke the occasion’s 31-year-old world document within the weeks main as much as the Games. Crouser appropriately described breaking that document as “a huge weight lifted”.

A custom-built park on Tokyo Bay will welcome the males’s park skateboarding finalists (04:30-05:20). Hawaiian Heimana Reynolds is a number one contender for gold after successful the world title in 2019, his breakthrough 12 months. Reynolds’ favorite coaching method is rock operating: selecting up a heavy rock then utilizing it to run, weighed down, alongside the ocean ground off the coast of Hawaii.

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Karate is among the closing sports activities to get below manner in Tokyo (02:00-13:40) because it makes its Olympic debut. There are two disciplines. In kata, you compete by yourself and display offensive and defensive strikes towards a digital opponent. You rating factors for method, timing and athleticism. In kumite, which in contrast to kata is split into weight lessons, you spar towards rivals in a format extra acquainted to individuals who’ve seen the likes of judo or taekwondo. GB will not have any athletes on this 12 months’s karate occasions.

Friday, 6 August – day 14

Medal occasions: 23

Athletics (ladies’s 20km race stroll, males’s 50km race stroll, ladies’s javelin, males’s 5,000m, ladies’s 400m, ladies’s 1500m, ladies’s 4x100m relay, males’s 4x100m relay), seashore volleyball (ladies), boxing (males’s heavy), biking (ladies’s madison, males’s dash), soccer (ladies), hockey (ladies), karate (males’s kata, ladies’s kumite -61kg, males’s kumite -75kg), fashionable pentathlon (ladies), sport climbing (ladies), desk tennis (males’s group), wrestling (ladies’s freestyle 53kg, males’s freestyle 74kg, males’s freestyle 125kg).

Highlights

Women’s soccer reaches its Olympic closing at 03:00. The United States have received 4 of the six Olympic ladies’s soccer tournaments, and Team GB have by no means reached the rostrum. In equity, they’ve solely entered a group as soon as earlier than: London 2012, the place Canada beat them 2-0 within the quarter-finals. Will that document change this 12 months? The US are the world’s primary group with Germany second heading into Tokyo 2020.

In hockey, it is a totally different story. Britain clinched Olympic gold in dramatic style in 2016, successful a late-night penalty shootout towards the Netherlands in Rio. But issues have not been really easy for the house nations since. England, crushed 2-0 by the Netherlands within the quarter-finals of 2018’s World Cup, at the moment are ranked fifth on the earth and the Dutch have been dominant. The closing takes place on Friday from 11:00.

Laura Muir has been there or thereabouts for a medal within the ladies’s 1500m (13:50) for years with out managing to succeed in the rostrum at out of doors world or Olympic stage. For Tokyo, Muir has dropped the 800m distance to focus purely on changing her 1500m potential right into a medal. Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon could also be tough to dislodge from the highest step of the rostrum – the Rio champion lowered her nationwide document simply earlier than this 12 months’s Games.

At the velodrome, the madison has been restored to the Olympic programme (the lads’s madison was dropped after 2008, whereas the ladies’s madison is making its debut in Tokyo). The madison, which entails groups of two riders, is all about techniques and endurance. If you have not watched it earlier than, you will in all probability be counting on the commentators to observe what’s taking place. Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny experience within the madison for GB at 09:15.

Friday might be Shauna Coxsey’s large day after years of build-up to the Olympic debut of her sport, climbing (10:30-14:20). Expect her to excel within the pace and bouldering sections, that means her success might rely on how she handles the lead climbing, which measures how far up a wall she will be able to get. The large unknown is how she has recovered from a persistent again damage. Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret is broadly anticipated to take gold.

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Everybody loves the drama of a very good 4x100m relay (14:30-14:50), the monitor equal of a penalty shootout. Names could be made, heroes and villains created within the easy passing (or not) of a baton. Britain has had an affordable quantity of relay success currently – each groups took world silver in 2019 and the lads have been world champions two years earlier.

In boxing, Cheavon Clarke is Britain’s heavyweight hope. Clarke competed for Jamaica on the Commonwealth Games seven years in the past however has since switched allegiance, incomes a European bronze medal in 2019. The heavyweight closing is at 07:05.

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Generally talking, seashore volleyball has been dominated on the Olympics by the United States and Brazil – each being nations the place enjoying volleyball on a seashore has a sure enchantment. But that is altering. Three of the previous 4 world titles within the ladies’s occasion (02:00-04:50) have gone to different nations, the most recent being received by Canada. Friday’s medal video games will assist to light up whether or not that shift in energy has reached the Olympic stage.

Rhythmic gymnastics begins on Friday with particular person all-around qualification (02:20-09:45). This sport is mainly ‘the opposite gymnastics’ to British viewers used to watching solely creative gymnastics, since Britain has barely ever entered the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics, which entails routines accomplished with ribbons, hoops, balls and golf equipment to enrich the efficiency. Russia dominates rhythmic gymnastics – this 12 months, Dina and Arina Averina might drive statisticians to search for the final time, if ever, twins took first and second place in a summer time Olympic particular person occasion.

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Perennially one of many least penetrable Olympic sports activities, fashionable pentathlon’s ladies’s occasion takes place on Friday. In a nutshell, athletes swim, fence and experience a horse to finish up with a factors rating that provides them a time handicap for a closing occasion that is a bit just like the Winter Olympics sport of biathlon: they need to run a cross-country course whereas sometimes capturing at targets. The first one over the road after the run wins.

The showjumping is often a spotlight as pentathlon’s guidelines require that the rider can’t use their very own horse however as an alternative will get equipped with one at random, generally with sudden penalties. A horse named Pingping had an notorious meltdown at Beijing 2008, destroying the hopes of Belarusian rider Yahor Lapo.

Despite pentathlon’s unlikely line-up of disciplines – designed to copy the talents a soldier might need wanted a century in the past – Britain has a superb pedigree within the ladies’s sport, with a number of Olympic medallists. Kate French and Jo Muir will compete for GB in Tokyo, and each have a shot at a medal. Events run from 06:30 to 12:15.

Saturday, 7 August – day 15

Medal occasions: 34

Artistic swimming (group), athletics (ladies’s marathon, ladies’s excessive leap, ladies’s 10,000m, males’s javelin, males’s 1500m, ladies’s 4x400m relay, males’s 4x400m relay), baseball, basketball (males), seashore volleyball (males), boxing (ladies’s fly, males’s fly, ladies’s welter, males’s center), canoe dash (ladies’s C2 500m, males’s C1 1,000m, ladies’s K4 500m, males’s K4 500m), biking (males’s madison), diving (males’s 10m platform), equestrian (leaping group), soccer (males), golf (ladies), handball (males), karate (ladies’s kumite +61kg, males’s kumite +75kg), fashionable pentathlon (males), rhythmic gymnastics (particular person), volleyball (males), water polo (ladies), wrestling (ladies’s freestyle 50kg, males’s freestyle 65kg, males’s freestyle 97kg).

Highlights

More than 30 gold medals can be found on Saturday so there’s going to be motion nearly wherever you look. The males’s soccer closing (12:30-15:00) will set up whether or not the gold medal is once more heading to Latin or South America, having been received by Argentina twice, Mexico and Brazil on the previous 4 Games. Hosts Japan reached the bronze-medal recreation in London 9 years in the past and can hope to do higher in 2021.

Tom Daley has what might be his final alternative to assert the Olympic 10m platform title that has up to now eluded him (07:00-08:30). A bronze medallist at London 2012, Daley has received the occasion’s world title twice, most lately in 2017. Daley received 10m gold at a take a look at occasion for Tokyo 2020 in May.

Athletics options the males and ladies’ 4x400m relays (13:30-14:00). The US received each these titles on the 2019 World Championships. Britain’s ladies have been lower than a second off the rostrum that 12 months – the lads obtained a DNF after a baton handoff catastrophe.

It’s the ultimate spherical of the ladies’s Olympic golf contest from 23:30 on Friday till 07:30 on Saturday. Mel Reid and Jodi Ewart Shadoff are GB’s two representatives. Reid’s world rating has sensationally rebounded lately to a profession excessive of thirtieth this 12 months.

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The males’s fashionable pentathlon (06:30-12:15) options Team GB’s Jamie Cooke, the 2018 world and 2019 European champion, alongside Joe Choong. However, this might be a late Valentine’s Day reward for France – Valentin Belaud and Valentin Prades each have a strong likelihood of taking gold.

Four boxing titles are awarded on Saturday (06:00-07:55). Among them, Charley Davison will attempt to win the ladies’s flyweight title lifted by Nicola Adams in 2012 and 2016.

Men’s madison day on the monitor biking sees Ethan Hayter and Oliver Wood group up for Britain. The pair, European bronze medallists in 2018, are thought-about an out of doors guess for a medal.

Showjumping’s group occasion reaches its conclusion (11:00) with Ben Maher and Scott Brash hoping to copy their roles in incomes GB gold at London 2012. Holly Smith is the third group member. Switzerland have a robust shot at gold with two of the world’s main riders, whereas Jessica Springsteen – daughter of singer Bruce – is within the US group.

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The males’s basketball closing (03:30) is ordinarily a coronation for the United States, who’ve received six of the seven Olympic titles since NBA gamers started competing on the Games in 1992. The incontrovertible fact that the gold-medal recreation takes place effectively earlier than the bronze-medal recreation – to accommodate US prime-time TV – tells you every thing you must find out about American confidence of their group.

The ladies’s marathon takes place in Sapporo, capital of the northern island of Hokkaido effectively away from Tokyo, after concern that Tokyo’s summer time warmth might show an excessive amount of for such a demanding occasion. Covid-19 measures will imply the bizarre sight of the marathon happening with none spectators lining the streets. Britain’s contenders are Steph Twell, Jess Piasecki and Stephanie Davis.

Handball’s males’s closing takes place at 13:00. France, Denmark and Norway will all count on to be within the combine for medals in a sport dominated by European nations. France’s hopes could relaxation on talismanic star Nikola Karabatic’s restoration from a knee damage.

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Water polo entails 4 eight-minute intervals wherein gamers cannot contact the pool’s sides or backside, so should tread water all through utilizing a specialised eggbeater kick. The sport is large in Hungary, the place the lads have received Olympic gold 9 occasions, though Hungary’s ladies have by no means reached the rostrum since their introduction in 2000. This 12 months’s ladies’s closing (08:30) might contain a resurgent Hungarian group and could be very prone to function the United States, who’re dominant.

Sunday, 8 August – day 16

Medal occasions: 13

Athletics (males’s marathon), basketball (ladies), boxing (ladies’s mild, males’s mild, ladies’s center, males’s super-heavy), biking (males’s keirin, ladies’s dash, ladies’s omnium), handball (ladies), rhythmic gymnastics (group), volleyball (ladies), water polo (males).

Highlights

Eliud Kipchoge, the defending Olympic marathon champion and world document holder, is broadly anticipated to function closely within the closing athletics occasion of Tokyo 2020 (conclusion shortly after midnight on Sunday). Kipchoge mentioned he’s “still hungry” at 36 within the build-up to those Games and dismissed issues in regards to the warmth. He mentioned circumstances in Sapporo, some 500 miles north of Tokyo, would be the similar for everybody and will not be an element. Callum Hawkins, Ben Connor and Chris Thompson run for GB.

The males’s super-heavyweight division wraps up boxing at Tokyo 2020 (06:00-07:55). Commonwealth champion Frazer Clarke is the British entrant however Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov is the favorite to win gold.

From 12:00, Tokyo says goodbye to the Olympics in its closing ceremony. Exactly what type that can take relies upon to some extent on the pandemic and related public well being measures in Japan.

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There are three different boxing finals on Sunday with doable British curiosity in all, led by 2019 world champion Lauren Price in ladies’s middleweight (06:00-07:55). Luke McCormack, twin brother of GB team-mate Pat, competes within the males’s light-weight division. Youth Olympic champion Caroline Dubois, one among 11 siblings, fights within the ladies’s light-weight occasion.

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Lang Ping received volleyball gold as a participant in 1984 then returned as coach to information her nationwide group, China, to the Olympic title in Rio 5 years in the past. Nicknamed the ‘Iron Hammer’ in a subsequent documentary, Lang is again to defend that title in Tokyo. Her group might face Japan in Sunday’s ladies’s closing (05:30), which might imply a reunion with Japan coach Kumi Nakada, one other veteran of Los Angeles 1984 – she performed as Japan took bronze.

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Schedulers have held again the males’s keirin till the final day of the Olympics (02:00-05:15), understanding the monitor biking self-discipline has an enormous Japanese following. The keirin, the place riders are paced by a motorised scooter for a number of laps earlier than a dash end, was invented in Japan and added to the Olympics in 2000 after Japanese strain. Chris Hoy (2008, 2012) and Jason Kenny (2016) have received the previous three Olympic keirin titles for GB. Kenny or Jack Carlin might be medal contenders for Britain this time round. Meanwhile, Katy Marchant goes within the ladies’s dash and Laura Kenny rides the ladies’s omnium.