![]() ![]() For Australia it is Argentina at 10.30am and Korea at 6pm. Team GB face Canada at 9.30am and Japan at 4.30pm. 9.00am-7pm Rugby sevens – there are pool games throughout the day, starting with Rio gold medallists Fiji against the hosts.8.30am-12.25pm Skateboarding – it is the women’s street contest on Monday □.Add an hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for York, 13 hours for New York and 17 hours for San Francisco. All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Meanwhile, here is my colleague Martin Belam on what to look forward to today. We’re all go in the men’s triathlon while round three of the women’s surfing and the debut of women’s skateboarding (there was a home win for Japan yesterday in the men’s competition) will start shortly. Hello and welcome to another day of action in Tokyo. You can read Justin’s full article below: TV reporters interviewed Takato’s delighted parents, watching with friends and supporters in his hometown, while the victor received a congratulatory call from the prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, who must have delighted in relinquishing his role – however briefly – as the bearer of bad tidings. On Saturday, news bulletins led with breathless accounts of Japan’s first gold medal in the Games, which went to the judoka Naohisa Takato in the men’s 60kg. Newspapers more accustomed to framing Tokyo 2020 against the gloomy backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic are running headlines that are an unashamed celebration of sporting achievement. ![]() The answer in Japan, after a weekend in which it brought its gold medal tally to five, is a qualified yes. Having invested so much in opposing the Games, would it then be possible, in good conscience, to take pleasure in the feats of the athletes once they became an inevitability? Two days of Olympic sport in Tokyo have created a moral dilemma for millions of people in the host country who had hoped the day would never come when Japan’s athletes would win their first gold medals of the summer. Feel free to drop me an email or a tweet (see details at the top of the page) if you think something particularly noteworthy requires a shout out. I shall not be blind to other non-medal events (in particular women’s street skateboarding, rugby 7s, and surfing) but attention will be trained primarily on the pool. In amongst all that we have the semis of the men’s 200m free, women’s 100m breaststroke, and men’s & women’s 100m backstroke. I Canada (lane 1) keep this up much longer. If that made you Hungary, they’re in lane 7. Italy qualified fastest and they provide the lane 4 meat in a testosterone sandwich with Australia (lane 3) and USA (lane 5) providing the bread in this incredibly tortured metaphor. 32 of the biggest boys in pool school flexing their muscles and swimming like billy-o.
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