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Jul 27, 2021, 49 tweets

🔴Day four of #Tokyo2020 Olympics is underway.

🥇🥈#TeamGB have secured a gold and a silver medal so far today.

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🇬🇧#TeamGB are placed 5th on the leaderboard early on day four.

🇺🇸USA lead the way with 19 medals.
🇯🇵Hosting nation Japan are currently holding second place.

🔎Use our interactive tool to search medals and full results by events and countries
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⛵️Sailing
🥊Boxing
🥋Taekwondo

See the full schedule of #TeamGB events on day four👇
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👀Four key events according to our Olympics experts:

Diving, women’s 10m platform synchro (7am)
Equestrianism, team dressage final (9am)
Taekwondo, men’s +80kg final (11am)
Gymnastics, women’s artistic team final (11.45am)

The full day four schedule👇
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🥇🥈Team GB secured their first one-two finish in an Olympic swimming event for 113 years.

Tom Dean beat team-mate Duncan Scott to gold by 0.04 sec in a dramatic finale to the men’s 200m freestyle
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🥈Britain’s Georgia Taylor-Brown heroically clawed her way back from a puncture to win triathlon silver.

With a 22-second deficit to make up on the run, she managed to claim what will likely prove one of Britain's most dramatic silver medals of these Tokyo Games

The weather is continuing to wreak havoc on a number of sports today.

🎾Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury's second round doubles match has been halted due to rain with the Brits leading 2-1.

Follow all the latest updates on our #Tokyo2020 liveblog👇
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🏑Germany have defeated #TeamGB in Men's Hockey Pool B, 5 - 1.

🇩🇪Germany move to the top of pool B with GB in third.

#Tokyo2020 live updates👇
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🔴BREAKING: Naomi Osaka is out of the tennis competition.

🇯🇵Osaka has been knocked out in the third round as she's beaten 6-1, 6-4 by Marketa Vondrousova.

All the latest👇
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Yorkshire was being hailed for its "extraordinary" pedigree at the #Olympics, having already secured two golds and a silver medal.

A familiar pattern is emerging at #Tokyo2020 after the county previously contributed:
🇧🇷14 medals (2016)
🇬🇧12 medals (2012)
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🥇"What doesn’t get spoken as much is how powerful a motivation fear can be – and specifically, the fear of not living up to the standards set by team-mates or people around you"
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🥋Bianca Walkden advances to Taekwondo semi-final!

Walkden defeated Cansel Deniz of Kazakhstan 17-7.

Following Lauren Williams silver medal yesterday, Walkden is just one win away from guaranteeing at least silver.

Her semi-final will begin at approximately 8am this morning

📸In pictures: #Tokyo2020 Olympics Day Four
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🎾Tennis: Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury resume double's match.

All on track for Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury in their men's doubles match now play has finally resumed on the outside courts following heavy rain.

Follow the latest updates👇
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💧Diving: Nervy start for Eden Cheng and Lois Toulson

#TeamGB's Eden Cheng and Lois Toulson are underway in the final of the women's 10m doubles diving final and find themselves in last place after the first round.

Live coverage of the medal event👇
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🚴‍♀️Women's mountain biking: Evie Richards up to second

Evie Richards has moved into second place in the women's cross-country mountain biking, 19 seconds back of Swiss leader Jolanda Neff
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🚴‍♀️#TeamGB's Evie Richards is losing ground on the leading pack of Swiss riders as she's fallen down to 5th in the women's cross-country mountain biking.

She's currently 3 seconds shy of Linda Indergand, who occupies the bronze medal spot
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💧Diving: #TeamGB finish 7th.

Cheng and Toulson scored 289.26 on their Olympic debuts.

🇨🇳Gold: China
🇺🇸Silver: America
🇲🇽Bronze: Mexico

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🎾Tennis: Murray & Salisbury win in straight sets!

A great win for the British men's double pairing of Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury defeating Germans Kevin Krawietz and Tim Putz 6-2 7-6.

➡️They are through to the third round
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🔴It's time for Bianca Walkden's semi-final in the +67kg women's taekwondo!

She's up against Lee Da-bin of South Korea.

Live updates👇
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🇬🇧Bianca Walkden loses semi-final in the +67kg women's taekwondo.

🇰🇷Lee Da-bin of South Korea will progress to fight for gold.

Walkden will fight for bronze.

See the highlights👇
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🚴‍♀️Women's mountain bike: Evie Richards finishes 7th.

After a strong start saw #TeamGB in 2nd place, Richards slipped to 7th.

🇨🇭Switzerland took all three medals
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#TeamGB's Kimberley Woods finished in last place in the women's K-1 slalom final.

She completely missed the 17th gate, which cost her a 50 point penalty from which she could not recover.

Latest #OlympicGames updates👇
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💪My Olympic muscles: How I got the body that took me to Tokyo 2020

Shauna Coxsey, Sarah Davies and Deborah Kerr explain how they came to love their potentially medal-winning physiques
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🎉WATCH: The moment family and friends back home see Tom Dean win #Gold for #TeamGB at #Tokyo2020

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🏉Rugby Sevens: GB launch furious comeback to advance to semi-final!

🇬🇧🇺🇸The second half momentum swung in favour of GB, as the USA lost a man early to a yellow card

All the highlights👇
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🐴Dressage: #TeamGB are second after first round.

We're are off to a flying start in the Team Dressage Grand Prix.

Carl Hester turns in a strong first round, getting 78.344 per cent for the young horse
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🔴NEW: Disgraced American athletics coach Alberto Salazar has been banned from athletics for life due to “sexual” and “emotional” misconduct.

Salazar helped guide Mo Farah to four Olympic titles.

He is already banned for four years due to doping offences
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🗯️"Surely at the joyful peak of a career, a life perhaps, the odd rude word will be immediately forgiven" | Writes @thomgibbs

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⛵️Sailing: Britons claim two victories in opening skiff races.

Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey got their Olympic challenge off to a strong start with two wins in their first three races.

The first medal races are scheduled for Saturday
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🎾Tennis: a career-best result for singles player Liam Broady sees him enter round three on Men's singles.

The 27-year-old, ranked 131 places lower than his opponent, won 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 to reach the third round where he will face Frenchman Jeremy Chardy

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🏊‍♂️Swimming: Jacob Whittle wins 100m freestyle heat.

#TeamGB's Jacob Whittle has won his 100m freestyle swimming heat to advance through to the next round at the Olympics
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🔴BREAKING: Simone Biles has walked off.

Will give you updates as soon as we have them.

Looks like Chiles will compete uneven bars instead
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🤸Confirmation: Biles will not compete uneven bars.

"Chiles has officially replaced her. It is not an outrageous decision - uneven bars is not her strongest. But this is a late decision" | Writes @molly_mcelwee
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🔴BREAKING: SIMONE BILES PULLS OUT

We're hearing Biles has pulled out of the competition.

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🇺🇸Simone Biles, one of the faces of this Olympic Games, has been ruled out of the remainder of this team final, with an apparent injury.

More from @molly_mcelwee here👇
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🤸‍♀️After the shocking news Biles has pulled out, competition has continued.

Current rankings:
1. ROC
2. USA
3. Italy
4. China
5. Japan
6. France
7. GB
8. Belgium

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🔴USA Gymnastics statement:

"Simone has withdrawn from the team final competition due to a medical issue. She will be assessed daily to determine medical clearance for future competitions"
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🥉Taekwondo: Bianca Walkden wins bronze!

#TeamGB add another medal to the board, with Walkden defeating Pole Aleksandra Kowalczuk.

Live updates and all the highlights👇
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🥉 BRONZE MEDAL 🥉

A dramatic women's team gymnastics final ends with a bronze medal for #TeamGB

👏What a turnaround! What a fantastic result!

#Tokyo2020
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🥉 ANOTHER BRONZE MEDAL 🥉

🐎 Charlotte Dujardin used all her experience to drag #TeamGB into the medal positions in the Grand Prix dressage

#Tokyo2020
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👏 History makers

🥉 #TeamGB's first #Bronze in the women's gymnastics team final since 1928

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🚨BREAKING: Simone Biles speaks:

🗣️ "I’m ok, just dealing with things internally, that will be fixed in the next couple of days. So proud of this team. It’s made us stronger, for sure."

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🐎"When it comes to bringing out the dancing horses, the Germans are currently simply the best"

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"At 24, Biles has accumulated 25 global medals.

"But while such a bounty brought expectations of an encore, the hysteria sadly neglected the fragility of the young woman required to cope with it," writes @oliverbrown_tel

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