Main highlights of Day 3 at #Tokyo2020
π₯ Titmus wins 400m freestyle duel with Ledecky
π₯ Peaty and Dressel also triumph in the pool
π₯ Men's triathlon marred by false start
π₯ Momiji Nishiya, 13, becomes first women's skateboard champion
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Tom Daley's first Olympic diving title adds a golden chapter to a life lived in the public eye, during which he has become one of Britain's most recognisable athletes and prominent voices on gay rights u.afp.com/UauR
#Tokyo2020 - Novak Djokovic strolled into the third round of the Tokyo Olympics tennis tournament on Monday as Japanese star Naomi Osaka's path to gold opened up further after a host of leading women's seeds exited u.afp.com/UauD #AFPSports
#BREAKING Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz wins first ever Olympic gold for Philippines #Tokyo2020
#BREAKING Russian men win rare Olympic artistic gymnastics team gold #Tokyo2020
#UPDATE Weightlifter #HidilynDiaz made history on Monday when she became the first athlete from the Philippines to win an Olympic gold medal, claiming top spot in the women's 55kg class u.afp.com/UabY#AFPSports#Tokyo2020
#UPDATE Nikita Nagornyy led the Russian team to the coveted men's artistic gymnastics gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday to add to their world title, with Japan taking silver and China bronze u.afp.com/UaEo#AFPSports#Tokyo2020
#UPDATE Japanese mixed doubles pair Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito claimed their country's first ever Olympic #tabletennis gold medal on Monday, ending years of Chinese dominance with a comeback victory on home soil u.afp.com/UaEb#AFPSports#Tokyo2020
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At least 16 people were injured and five missing after an explosion at a chemical park in Leverkusen, western Germany, officials said Tuesday, urging residents to stay indoors as a huge column of black smoke billowed from the site u.afp.com/Ua9H
#BREAKING One dead, four missing after blast at German chemical park: site operator
#UPDATE At least one person was killed and 16 injured after an explosion at a chemical park in the western German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday, the site's operator said, with four people still missing
Main highlights of Day 4 at #Tokyo2020
π Osaka crashes out of tennis competition
π Ferreira and Moore win inaugural surfing golds
π Triathlete Duffy scoops famous gold for Bermuda
π McKeown upstages Smith in women's 100m backstroke
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#BREAKING Simone Biles out of US team during Olympic final
#UPDATE Biles, the four-time gold medallist at the 2016 Rio Games, produced a lacklustre opening vault and then briefly left the competition floor, before she was replaced in the three concluding routines on the uneven bars, beam, and floor
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
#BREAKING Tunisian president annnounces suspension of parliament, dismisses PM
#BREAKING Tunisia's ruling party slams president's decision to suspend parliament as 'state coup'
#UPDATE Tunisian President Kais Saied suspends parliament and dismisses Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi following a day of protests against the ruling party, who have condemned the move as a "coup d'etat"
US gymnastics star Simone Biles launches her bid for Olympic immortality at the Tokyo Games as surfing and skateboarding make their debuts as part of a drive to attract young audiences #Olympics#AFPsports u.afp.com/UaPV
Australiaβs Cate Campbell, Emma McKeon, Meg Harris and Bronte Campbell shatter the women's 4x100m freestyle world record to win gold clocking 3mins 29.69 secs to better their own mark set three years ago #Olympics#AFPsports
#BREAKING Defending champion Andy Murray out of Olympics singles with injury: Team GB