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#BREAKING Flora Duffy wins women's triathlon for Bermuda's first-ever Olympic gold
#UPDATES Flora Duffy makes #Olympics history, winning women's triathlon in 1hr 55min 36sec over a minute ahead of Britain's Georgia Taylor-Brown

Duffy's success makes Bermuda the smallest nation in terms of population to ever win a medal at a Summer Games
Edgar Cheung Ka-long says Hong Kong went "insane" after he won the Chinese territory's first Olympic gold in 25 years and only its second ever

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Britain's Tom Dean scorches to the men's #Olympics 200m freestyle gold medal, overpowering team-mate Duncan Scott
Dean came from behind in the final 50m to touch in a new national record of 1min 44.22sec
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Australia's Kaylee McKeown sets new #Olympics record to win women's 100m backstroke upsetting arch-rival Regan Smith

McKeown touched in 57.47sec, fractionally outside her own world record, with Canada's Kylie Masse second and American Smith third #Tokyo2020
Evgeny Rylov leads a Russian one-two to win the men's 100m #Olympics backstroke

The 24-year-old hit the wall in 51.98sec to edge team-mate Kliment Kolesnikov, who touched in 52.00, ahead of American defending champion Ryan Murphy in 52.19 #Tokyo2020
US teenager Lydia Jacoby stuns team-mate and defending champion Lilly King to claim the 100m #Olympics breaststroke gold

The 17-year-old swims a scintillating final 50m to edge South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker, with King taking bronze #Tokyo2020
History-chasing gymnastics superstar Simone Biles goes for her first gold at #Tokyo2020 after Flora Duffy delivers #Olympics glory for tiny Bermuda

Home favourite Naomi Osaka is also in action as she pursues tennis gold u.afp.com/UaK5
Tom Daley's first #Olympics 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/UaKg
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#UPDATES Japan's Naomi Osaka suffers a 6-1, 6-4 loss to Marketa Vondrousova in an error-strewn display in the third round #Olympics crushing her dreams of winning gold on home soil #Tokyo2020
"Swearing on TV! I will have to have a word to her later"

Kaylee McKeown may have some explaining to do to her mum after the Australian sensation drops an F-bomb on live TV after scorching to victory in the women's #Olympics 100m backstroke
Japanese star Naomi Osaka crashes out of #Olympics tennis competition after Flora Duffy delivers gold for Bermuda for the first time in the tiny island's history u.afp.com/UaK5
A tropical storm churns towards Japan and the #Olympics whipping up welcome waves for surfing medal hopefuls but disrupting other events with rain and strong winds u.afp.com/UaK2
Brazil's Italo Ferreira claims #Olympics surfing’s first ever gold beating Japan's Kanoa Igarashi in men's final

Ferreira, who learned to surf on a foam box his father sold fish from, scores 15.14 to Igarashi's 6.60 with Australia’s Owen Wright third
#BREAKING US surfer Carissa Moore wins women's Olympic gold
#UPDATE America's Carissa Moore wins the first-ever Olympic women's surfing gold medal, beating South Africa's Bianca Buitendag in the final

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