👀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)
🥇🥈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 telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/…
🥈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.
🥇"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" telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/…
🥋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
💧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.
🚴♀️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 telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/…
🚴♀️#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.
🤸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 telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/…
🔴BREAKING: SIMONE BILES PULLS OUT
We're hearing Biles has pulled out of the competition.
"Simone has withdrawn from the team final competition due to a medical issue.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" telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/…
🗣️ "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."
"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
Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.