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26 Jul, 17 tweets, 14 min read
#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

Cheung stunned Italy's reigning Olympic champion Daniele Garozzo 15-11 in the men's foil
#Olympics #Tokyo2020
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
#Tokyo2020
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
#BREAKING Japan's Naomi Osaka knocked out in Olympics tennis third round
#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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