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

Tennis: Oh my. Ash Barty is off her game today, and she’s on the cusp of being upset by the tenacious Sara Sorribes Tormo. The unseeded Spaniard has just broken a sloppy service game from the world number one to lead by a set and 4-3. Yikes!

Swimming: More from Kieran Pender poolside on a triumphant session for Australia’s swimmers.

Surfing: More good news in the water for Australia with Stephanie Gilmore setting a new highest score in the women’s shortboard. She’s dominated heat three, winning with a score of 14.50. Earlier, Sally Fitzgibbons set the previous highest score with 12.50 in heat two.

Taekwondo: Huge disappointment for Team GB’s Jade Jones. The top seed was bidding for a third consecutive gold medal in the 57kg category but she lost a nail-biter to Kimia Alizadeh, who continues her incredible Games under the flag of the Refugee Olympic team.

Tennis: And now Barty has dropped serve with her opening service game of the second set, Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo is the world number 47, by the way. She’s 24, has one singles title on her CV, but has yet to pass the second round of a grand slam. This would be a career-best victory.

Tennis: And despite a Barty fightback, Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo takes the opening set of their first round match 6-4.

Tennis: Gah! I wondered yesterday how Andy Murray’s bionic hip would hold up this week. It doesn’t sound good. A huge opportunity for Aussie Max Purcell though.

Take a bow Bronte Campbell, Meg Harris, Emma McKeon, and Cate Campbell. The Aussies started as favourites and boy did they deliver. The world record marker was pushed from go to woah as the gold caps swam a race of their own, obliterating their rivals, touching under 3.30.00 for the first time in women’s swimming history. That was a monumental swim.

Canada came from nowhere to pick up silver, and Team USA took bronze. Great Britain finished fifth.

Swimming: The final medal event in the pool this session coming up with the women’s 4x100m relay. Australia hot favourites…

Swimming: The line-up for the final of the men’s 100m breaststroke has just been decided. Team GB’s Adam Peaty will start as favourite after dominating the second semi-final and setting the fastest qualifying time. Compatriot James Wilby finished third in semi-final one to also make it into tomorrow’s medal race.

Wow! Bulgaria’s Antoaneta Kostadinova led throughout this final but things got nervy towards the end and the Russian shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina came through with the final effort to pinch gold and set a new Olympic record. Jiang Ranxin takes bronze for China.

Shooting: A medal will be awarded soon in the women’s 10m air pistol shooting. Bulgaria’s Antoaneta Kostadinova is in pole position.

Surfing: Australia’s Sally Fitzgibbons has started her Olympic campaign brightly, posting the highest score of the round one heats so far.

Tennis: I don’t want to alarm any Australian readers, but Ash Barty is 1-4 down in the opening set against Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo.

The host nation celebrate gold in the pool! The Japanese swimmer went out hard and led from the front throughout. Emma Weyant (USA) pushed hard towards the end to take silver, with teammate Hali Flickinger (USA) collecting bronze. The Iron Lady Hosszu camein fifth. Great Britain’s Aimee Willmott faded back in seventh.

Swimming: Apologies, I omitted to warn you of the women’s 400m IM final. It’s underway with Katinka Hosszu the centre of attention…

Hockey: It was 0-0 at half-time between Australia’s Hockeyroos and Spain, but there’s been a flurry of goals since with Australia now up 3-1 into the fourth quarter.

The news not so good for Team GB.

Tennis: Ash Barty is on court in her opening match in the women’s singles. She’s up against Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo, and this match has begun with consecutive service breaks.

Swimming: We’ve got the men’s 100m breaststroke semis coming up, then the final medal event of this session in the pool, the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay. Australia are strong favourites in that one.

Swimming: Kieran Pender was poolside for the men’s 400m IM. The medal ceremony for that event is taking place as I type.

Tunisia’s Ahmed Hafnaoui has won his country’s fifth all-time gold medal in a major upset in the men’s 400m freestyle (out of lane eight!). Australia’s Jack McLoughlin took silver and Kieran Smith of the United States earned the bronze.

Chase Kalisz and Jay Litherland have won gold and silver for the United States, respectively, in the men’s 400m individual medley. That’s the seventh time Team USA have gone 1-2 in the event overall and first since Michael Phelps and Erik Vendt at Athens 2004, which was Phelps’s first career gold.

“This is the last thing I wanted to accomplish in my swimming career,” the 27-year-old Kalisz says in the aftermath.

The bronze went to Brendon Smith, the 21-year-old Victorian who captured Australia’s first medal of the Tokyo Games after powering home from last place with 100m remaining in the freestyle leg in only his second Olympic swim.

It’s Great Britain 1-1 Germany at half-time after an exceedingly long VAR decision awarded the Germans a penalty stroke shortly before the break, which Viktoria Huse calmly converted. More work ahead for the reigning Olympic hockey champions.

American swimmer Simone Manuel, the reigning Olympic champion and two-time defending world champion in the 100m freestyle, made history in Rio when she became the first African American woman to win an individual swimming gold medal, then backed it up with eight more titles at the 2017 and 2019 world championships.

So it was a massive surprise when she failed to qualify for her signature event at the US trials, an outcome she later attributed to overtraining syndrome and depression.

And yet, USA Swimming has slotted Manuel to anchor the Americans’ 4x100m free relay final at 11.45am local time, roughly an hour and a half from now, even if it still might not be enough to close the gap against the heavily favored Australians.

USA’s April Ross and Alix Klineman have a win under their belt after beating the Chinese pair in the beach volleyball in straight sets.

USA/Hawaii’s John John Florence who won back-to-back world titles in 2016 and 2017, has had a bit of a blip in the surfing. He finished third in his heat and does not progress automatically to round three (that’s reserved for the top two in the heat). He’ll now try his luck in the second round, where he will get another chance to progress.

Australia’s Owen Wright and Morocco’s Boukhiam Ramzi finished first and second in the heat.

Results from heat three of the men’s surfing. Peru’s Lucca Mesinas and USA’s Kolohe Andino are through to round three after finishing first and second respectively. Rio Waida of Indonesia and Australia’s Julian Wilson will have to make do with the second round after finishing third and fourth.

Tom Dart is at the skateboarding for us and has sent a wee update:

Nosegrind, nollie, fakie and gnarly entered the Olympic vocabulary at the Ariake Urban Sports Park as skateboarding made its Games debut, with the American, Jagger Eaton, and the Frenchman, Vincent Milou, setting the initial scores to beat in the prelims in sweltering early-morning temperatures on the purpose-built course.

In the street discipline, athletes make timed runs on a course of slopes, stairs and rails, then perform their best trick attempts. They are scored out of ten by panel of judges based on difficulty, originality, speed, timing and execution.

The Californian superstar, Nyjah Huston, is due to skate later in the day, with the final scheduled to start at 12.25pm local time (in around three hours). Standing between the 26-year-old and the gold medal is expected to be the 22-year-old Tokyo-born Yuto Horigome, who beat Huston in last month’s world championships in Rome.

The temperature on the sand at the women’s beach volleyball is 45C/113F – and it’s only just past 9am. They’re watering the sand down during breaks in play but it’s going to get toasty as the day goes on. USA’s team of Ross and Klineman have just clinched the first set over China’s Xue and Wang 21-17.

Jagger Eaton goes into the lead after a superb last run in heat one. His total score of 35.07 would have got him in the top eight at the world championships and he will probably make the final today. A reminder that the best eight skaters from the four heats go into the final. The other finishers are France’s Vincent Milou (34.36), Canada’s Micky Papa (30.39), Brazil’s Felipe Gustavo (24.75) and Colombia’s Luis Jhancarlos Gonzalez Ortiz (23.57).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* actual writer may not be in Tokyo