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Day 11 of #Tokyo2020 is underway!

🥇Today, #TeamGB are going for gold on land and water

Follow all the latest updates on our #Olympics liveblog👇
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#TeamGB currently hold 35 medals early on day 11

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🔎Use our interactive tool to search medals and full results by events and countries 👇
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🇧🇷By day 11 in Rio, #TeamGB had 49 medals

See the full comparison 👇
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#OlympicGames medal tally, as of early day 11:

🇨🇳China
🇺🇸USA
🇯🇵Japan
🇦🇺Australia
🇷🇺Russian Olympic Committee
🇬🇧Great Britain

See the full table 👇
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Four must-watch events today:

🏊‍♂️ Diving, men’s 3m springboard final (7am)

🚲 Cycling, men’s team sprint final and women's team pursuit (7:30am)

🤸‍♂️Gymnastics, men’s parallel bars final (9am)

🏃‍♀️ Athletics, women’s 200m final (11am)

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💔Heartbreak for Adam Gemili

He abruptly pulled up and came to a halt just two steps after coming out of the blocks in the 200m heats

🗣️ “It’s my hamstring. I had to try but I’m in so much pain right now."

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🥊 #TeamGB's Caroline Dubois was defeated by Sudaporn Seesondee of Thailand in the women's lightweight boxing quarter-final

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#TeamGB's Jack Laugher and James Heatly both qualified for the men's individual 3m springboard final.

They came in third and fourth respectively, putting them in medal contention 👇
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⛵️Over on the water, #TeamGB's Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey missed out on a medal in the women's skiff 49er.

Can Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell clinch a medal in the men's race?

Follow live updates here👇
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⏱️ NEW WORLD RECORD⏱️

🇳🇴Norway's Karsten Warholm shatters the world record by over half a second in the men's 400m hurdles final!

🇺🇸American Rai Benjamin also broke the old world record in finishing narrowly second.

What a race!
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#Tokyo2020 fact of the day from @benbloomsport ⤵️
🥇GOLD MEDAL! 🥇

#TeamGB have their first medal of the day - and it's gold!

⛵️Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell have pipped New Zealand to the post to claim gold in the men's 49er final

Read more 👇
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⛵️What a race! What a result!

Elation for Great Britain's Bithell and Fletcher

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🥇Back in Maidenhead #TeamGB's superstar swimmer Tom Dean was reunited with his friends and family

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🥇 GOLD MEDAL! 🥇

⛵️ After a dramatic start, #TeamGB's Giles Scott pulls it back to win another gold medal on the water

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🚨 BREAKING: Ed Clancy announces retirement from Great Britain cycling team ahead of Team Pursuit test against the Danes.

The three-time Olympic gold medallist has withdrawn as a result of an on-going back and sciatica issue

Read more 👇
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🥇A gold medal moment! 🥇

#TeamGB take the Men's Finn gold for the sixth #Olympics in a row

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🇬🇧GB's Jack Laugher and James Heatly are eyeing up medals in the 3m springboard final

Follow live updates 👇
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🇳🇴A Viking roar
👟Super shoes
🏃The fastest track in history

Here's how athletics' Superman Karsten Warholm obliterated the world record 👇
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⏱️ NEW WORLD RECORD! ⏱️

#TeamGB's have beaten USA in the women's Team Pursuit!

🥇They are heading to the final where they will contest for a gold medal
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🥈 SILVER MEDAL! 🥈

⛵️What a day on the water for #TeamGB!

John Gimson and Anna Burnet take #Silver in the Nacra 17

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🥉 BRONZE MEDAL! 🥉

Jack Laugher takes bronze in the 3m springboard final!

🥇🥈🥉 He's now won gold, silver and bronze medals across the last two #OlympicGames

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⛵️What a morning for British sailing!

🥇GOLD for Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithall

🥇GOLD for Giles Scott in the Finn class

🥈SILVER for John Gimson and Anna Burnet

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🚲Team GB are taking on the Danes in the men's team pursuit.

Follow live updates here 👇
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🚲Chaos on the track!

After #TeamGB fell apart with their quartet having been reduced to three riders – split into two groups– the Danes rode into Charlie Tanfield

Follow live updates from #Tokyo2020 👇
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🥇In the wake of arguably the greatest track race in Olympic history, 400m hurdles champion Karsten Warholm ignited a row about shoe technology

🗣️He called his nearest rival’s super spikes "b-------"

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👟Do you think 'super shoes' should be allowed?
🚲 Laura Kenny and Team GB are getting ready to face world record holders Germany.

Follow the women's team pursuit final live👇
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The latest from @oliverbrown_tel 👇
🥈 SILVER MEDAL 🥈

#TeamGB lose out to world-record beating Germany in the women's team pursuit final!

⏱️Germany have set a world record in every single round to reach this medal
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From @tomcary_tel in Tokyo 👇
🔴 NEW: The Olympic velodrome descended into pandemonium as Denmark and Britain collided on track.

➡️This came just hours after British Cycling’s Stephen Park said Denmark should have been disqualified for using illegal equipment

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🚲#TeamGB's men are ready to go for gold at the Izu Velodrome

Follow the men's team sprint finals live 👇
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🥈Silver for Team GB! 🥈

🚲Ryan Owens, Jack Carlin and Jason Kenny take Silver in the men's team sprint, losing out to the Netherlands

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Simone Biles has competed – and delivered – on the beam!

👏She sticks her landing, blows kisses to the crowd the other gymnasts are coming over to congratulate her.

Follow the latest with @molly_mcelwee 👇
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👑 She's back!

Simone Biles smiles with relief as she dismounts from the balance beam

#Tokyo2020
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🥉 It's bronze for Simone Biles on the beam!

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🥈A pretty successful pair!

Laura and Jason Kenny now have 13 medals between them.

#TeamGB | #Tokyo2020
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🥊#TeamGB's Pat McCormack is fighting for the welterweight gold

Follow the fight live 👇

#Tokyo2020 | #Olympics
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🥈 SILVER MEDAL 🥈

🥊Boxing legend Roniel Iglesias beats Pat McCormack, leaving Team GB with a silver medal!

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🥇Dylan Fletcher had a dream just three days before this Olympic sailing regatta began that he would leave Japan with a gold medal hanging around his neck.

Now, it's become a reality 👇
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🥇It's all in a day's work for #TeamGB

Great Britain are now 5th in the medal table, above the Russian Olympic Committee

See the full table 👇
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson goes into the Olympics off the back of a serious injury

But she has proved before that she is capable of bouncing back from setbacks 👇
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🗣️"I wanted to quit this year, quite a few times. It has been awful. I've hated it," said Jack Laugher

"It might not be a gold medal but a medal around my neck today is just the sense that I'm back, and I am ready to keep going"

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A trio of #TeamGB runners will toe the start line together in the women's 800m final this afternoon.

🥇Keely Hodgkinson, Jemma Reekie and Alex Bell all have hopes of a medal

Follow the athletics live ⤵️
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🥈SILVER MEDAL🥈

#TeamGB's Keely Hodgkinson has won silver in the women's 800m final

Read more👇
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⏱️RECORD BREAKER⏱️

#TeamGB's Hodgkinson has run a British national record in 1:55.88

Read more: telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/…
🥈"I wanted to put it all out there - I think it's going to take a couple of days to sink in. I'm pretty speechless right now," Hodgkinson said after winning a stunning silver medal

#TeamGB #TokyoOlympics
🏃‍♀️Women's 200m next up

Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are neck and neck in the last 100m

Follow our liveblog 👇
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Women's 200m final results:

🥇Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM) 21.53 NR
🥈Christine Mboma (NAM) 21.81 PB
🥉Gabrille Thomas (USA) 21.87

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce faded late on to finish fourth

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