Usain Bolt may have hung up his spikes in 2017, but the Tokyo #Olympics are the first summer Games in 17 years not to feature the incomparable Jamaican sprinter #AFPSports u.afp.com/Uahc
Kristian Blummenfelt of Norway has won the men's triathlon at #Tokyo2020 in an #Olympics race that began with a false start after a boat blocked some athletes from entering the water.
Jack Yee of Britain took silver and Hayden Wilde of New Zealand took bronze
Australian seven-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore's dream of winning #Olympics surfing's first gold medal ends in shock defeat.
Gilmore was bundled out by unheralded South African Bianca Buitendag. The exit has opened up the field for USA world number one Carissa Moore
- Competitors throw up after finishing the triathlon.
- Fun trunks at a swimming training session.
- Brazil's Icaro Miguel Martins Soares receives medical attention during a taekwondo bout
- Staff dry the floor during a handball match
Fast and furious: Germany's Andre Sanita (L) competes against Hong Kong's Cheung Siu Lun in the men’s individual foil qualifying bout at the #Tokyo2020#Olympics at the Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba City
At the Tokyo park where skateboarding's first Olympic gold medallist, Yuto Horigome, learned to grind, ollie and kick-flip as a child, the sport is now banned.
Fans hope Japan's strict attitude to skateboarding will change following Horigome's victory
Britain's Adam Peaty celebrates winning the gold in the final of the men's 100m breaststroke at #Tokyo2020#Olympics
Canada's Maggie MacNeil powered to the women's 100m butterfly gold medal in the third-fastest time ever to unseat Swedish defending champion and world record holder Sarah Sjostrom
South Korea's Lee Kwanghyun (L) faces Russia's Kirill Borodachev.
Australian surfer Sally Fitzgibbons celebrates with her coaches.
Japan softball player Yu Yamamoto falls into a media pit.
Argentina's Lautaro Bazan Velez scores a try against Australia
Australia's Ariarne Titmus won a thrilling 400m freestyle duel with America's Katie Ledecky in the pool as Caeleb Dressel launched his bid for a seven-gold #Olympics spree.
World-record holder Adam Peaty defended his title to give Britain its first gold
#UPDATE Japan's Momiji Nishiya becomes one of the youngest Olympic champions in history by winning the skateboarding gold aged of 13 years and 330 days.
Nishiya beat Brazil's Rayssa Leal - who at 13 years and 203 days could have been the youngest ever individual Olympic champion
Fencing qualifiers.
Russia's Kirill Borodachev defeats USA's Nick Itkin.
France's Enzo Lefort celebrates beating Japan's Toshiya Saito.
France's Manon Brunet celebrates after winning against Russia's Olga Nikitina
Britain's Marcus Mepstead faces Egypt's Mohamed Hamza #Olympics
#BREAKING Britain's Tom Daley, Matty Lee win Olympic gold in synchronised 10m platform diving
#URGENT Britain's Tom Daley and Matty Lee edged out favourites China to win gold in the men's synchronised 10m platform diving at the Tokyo #Olympics.
China's Chen Aisen and Cao Yuan, both twice Olympic gold medallists, were in pole position but made a mess of their fourth dive
China's Cao Yuan and China's Chen Aisen win silver in the men's synchronised 10m platform diving final event during the #Tokyo2020#Olympics .
Britain's Tom Daley and Matty Lee won gold
Japan's Momiji Nishiya became one of the youngest individual #Olympics champions in history when she won the inaugural women's skateboarding gold at the age of 13
#BREAKING Romania's constitutional court orders recount of first round of presidential vote: statement
#UPDATE Romania's constitutional court on Thursday ordered a recount of votes cast in the first round of the presidential election, after a rival far-right contender filed a legal challenge ➡️ u.afp.com/597X
#BREAKING TikTok gave 'preferential treatment' to far-right candidate who won Romania election first round: presidency
#UPDATE A referendum on Moldova joining the EU passed with a razor-thin majority on Monday as pro-Brussels President Maia Sandu blamed the outcome on foreign meddling in a veiled reference to Russia, which denied the accusations ➡️ u.afp.com/5zL7
BREAKING France's high-speed train system disrupted by vandalism: operator
#UPDATE Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris #Olympics , France's high-speed rail network has been hit by "malicious acts" including arson attacks that have disrupted the transport system, train operator SNCF says.
"This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyse the TGV network," SNCF told @AFP, adding that many routes will have to be cancelled and the situation would last "at least all weekend while repairs are conducted"
BREAKING The arson attacks on France's high-speed rail network were coordinated acts of "sabotage", a source close to the investigation tells @AFP
#BREAKING 104 police, 30 journalists among injured in Bangladesh clashes: TV
#UPDATE Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police statement said.
"The miscreants have already torched, vandalised and carried out destructive activities," on the offices of state broadcaster BTV and the national disaster management agency along with "various" police and government buildings, said the statement, issued after a nationwide internet shutdown
Bangladesh wakes to torched government buildings, internet blackout.
This week's unrest has killed at least 39 people including 32 on Thursday, with the toll expected to rise further after reports of clashes in nearly half of the country's 64 districts
#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco