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The opening day of athletics at the 2020 Tokyo #OlympicGames will take place at the Olympic Stadium on Friday. #AFPSports looks at five stand-out events 👟 u.afp.com/URph

China's unrelenting domination of #Olympics #Diving has rivals in #Tokyo2020 wondering not just how they can beat them, but also whether the country's approach is desirable or even healthy

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#BREAKING American Robert Finke wins #gold medal in inaugural #Olympics men's 800m freestyle swimming event

#UPDATE USA's Robert Finke has become the first men's #Olympics 800m freestyle champion ahead of Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri.

Paltrinieri led virtually from the start before Finke passed him in the final 50m to touch in 7min 41.87sec

#BREAKING American Caeleb Dressel wins men's #Olympics 100m freestyle #gold

#BREAKING China's Zhang Yufei proved untouchable in the #Olympics 200m butterfly final, blasting to the #gold medal in the third fastest time ever.

The 23-year-old has been in red-hot form this year and hit the wall in a new Olympic record time of 2mins 03.86sec

#UPDATE USA star Caeleb Dressel blazed to victory in the #Olympics 100m freestyle final.

The 24-year-old powered to the wall in a new Olympic record time of 47.02sec to dethrone Australian defending champion Kyle Chalmers, who came second. Russia's Kliment Kolesnikov took bronze

#BREAKING World pole vault champion American Sam Kendricks is out of #Olympics after testing positive for Covid: USOPC

📸 File photo of Kendricks competing in May 2021

#BREAKING China win women's #Olympics 4x200m freestyle relay in world record time

#UPDATE China's Li Bingjie (bottom R) is congratulated by teammates Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan and Zhang Yufei after they set a new World Record to take #gold in the final of the #Olympics 4x200m freestyle relay swimming event

.#Olympics snapshots:

- Wheels up in the BMX racing men's quarter-finals.
- Taijikistan's Siyovush Zukhurov and France's Mourad Aliev meet in boxing super heavy preliminaries.
- Japan's Mima Ito serves to China's Sun Yingsha.
- Australia and Japan tackle a rugby sevens match

Multiple members of Australia's track and field team have been placed in isolation on the eve of the Tokyo #Olympics athletics competition after US pole vaulter Sam Kendricks tested positive for Covid

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China's women stunned the field to smash the world record and win the #Olympics 4x200m relay.

The team finished in 7mins 40.33 seconds ahead of USA (7:40.73) and Australia (7:41.29). It is the first time neither Australia nor USA have won gold since 1996

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#BREAKING Most of Australian #Olympics athletics team out of isolation after Covid scare: officials

#UPDATE All but three of Australia's track and field team at the Tokyo #Olympics have been released from isolation after a coronavirus scare, officials say.

The three, close contacts of Covid-positive US pole vaulter Sam Kendricks, have tested negative but remain in isolation

Australia's track and field team was briefly placed in isolation on Thursday as a coronavirus scare caused fresh jitters on the eve of the #Tokyo2020 #Olympics athletics programme
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Switzerland's Belinda Bencic came through a marathon match against Kazakh player Elena Rybakina on Thursday to reach the women's tennis final at the Olympics and keep her bid for double gold alive
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Australia's Jessica Fox has won her first #Olympics gold medal in the women's canoe slalom, an event she pushed to have added to the programme for #Tokyo2020
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Novak Djokovic has eased into the #Tokyo2020 #Olympics men's tennis semi-finals with a straight-sets thrashing of Japanese hope Kei Nishikori
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#Tokyo2020 - Former world number one golfer Rory McIlroy has backed @Simone_Biles over her Olympic withdrawal, saying the superstar gymnast was "100%" right to prioritise her mental health
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