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4 Aug, 42 tweets, 24 min read
Day 12 of #Tokyo2020 is underway!

🥇Will #TeamGB run, skateboard or cycle their way to another gold?

Follow all the #olympics coverage on our liveblog 👇
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#TeamGB currently hold 43 medals early on day 12

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🔎Use our interactive tool to search medals and full results by events and countries
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📈By day 12 in Rio, #TeamGB had 49 medals

See the full comparison 👇
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#OlympicGames medal tally, as of early day 12:

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

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

🏌️‍♀️Golf, women’s first round (11:30pm-8am)

🚲Cycling, men’s team pursuit final (7:30am)

🏃Athletics, men’s 800m final (10:30am)

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🥉 BRONZE MEDAL! 🥉

Sky Brown is Britain's youngest summer Olympic medallist!

🛹She takes bronze in skateboard park final at just thirteen-years-old.

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🛹The remarkable story of Sky Brown

From Instagram star to Team GB’s youngest-ever summer Olympian 👇
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#TeamGB's Katarina Johnson-Thompson has made a solid start in the women's heptathlon after winning the 100m hurdle heat.

@TelegraphSport to the people closest to her about her path to becoming the world’s best 👇
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💔There was heartbreak in the hockey.

Team GB were comprehensively beaten 5-1 by the Netherlands in their semi-final.

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⏱️ New world record! ⏱️

Less than 24 hours after the men's 400m hurdlers produced the “greatest race in Olympic history”, their female counterparts did it again!

🥇The USA's Sydney McLaughlin took 0.44sec off her world record to win gold

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Olympic #Bronze medallist at just thirteen years old

👏Take a bow, Sky Brown!

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From @PippaField23 at the #Tokyo2020 skate park 👇
🥉"Considering everything Simone Biles has overcome in the last week - I think this makes her Olympic bronze on beam one of the most stunning achievements of her entire career" | Writes @Bdownie

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🥉 The medal moment 🥉

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⛵️ Team GB's Luke Patience and Chris Grube are vying for bronze in the 470-class final.

Follow live updates 👇

#Tokyo2020 | #Olympics
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🥉 13 years and 28 days old

Here's Sky Brown's story 👇twitter.com/i/events/14227…
🥊Team GB's Frazer Clarke is going for glory in the men's super heavyweight semi-final

Follow the fight live 👇

#Tokyo2020 | #Olympics
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Here's the #Olympics action you missed overnight 👇

🛹Sky Brown is Britain's youngest Olympic medallist with skateboarding bronze

🏃‍♀️Katarina Johnson-Thompson makes steady start in heptathlon

🏑GB's hopes of defending hockey title ended by Holland

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🥉 BRONZE MEDAL 🥉

🥊Frazer Clarke takes bronze in the men's super-heavyweight boxing

"To get in there with one of the best was a pleasure for me, an honour for me... I'm an Olympic bronze medallist, never could I see that for myself."

#Tokyo2020
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🥇Will Ben Whittaker get the gold?

Follow the men's light heavyweight final live 👇

#TeamGB | #Tokyo2020
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🥈 SILVER MEDAL 🥈

🥊Cuba's Arlen Lopez wins on points by split decision, meaning Ben Whittaker takes silver.

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🥇 GOLD MEDAL! 🥇

⛵️ Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre are Olympic champions in the women's 470 class

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👏 History maker

⛵️With her new #gold medal, Hannah Mills becomes Britain's most successful ever female Olympic sailor

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Katy Marchant is flying the flag for #TeamGB in the women's keirin

Follow the #Tokyo2020 cycling live 👇
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🥇Two days. Three golds!

Another sailing gold means that Team GB finish the #Tokyo2020 regatta as the most successful single nation in the #Olympics

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🇬🇧🚴‍♂️Team GB are back on track in the battle for seventh in the men's team pursuit

Follow live updates 👇
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#TeamGB's Shauna Coxsey in action at the #Tokyo2020 speed climbing

Follow the latest updates 👇
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"There are moments where, amid all the wunderkind hype, you are reminded starkly that you are dealing with a child" | Writes @oliverbrown_tel

#Tokyo2020 | #Olympics
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🇬🇧The first women's 1500m semi-final, which includes #TeamGB's Katie Snowden, is under way.

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#TeamGB's Laura Muir progresses comfortably in second place in the 1500m semi-final after a superbly-judged run

Follow #Olympics athletics live 👇
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👟Katarina Johnson-Thompson is going into the Olympics off the back of a serious injury....

🏅But she has proven before that she is capable of bouncing back from setbacks👇
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⏱️Why are so many world records tumbling at Tokyo 2020?

@benbloomsport reports on the technology behind a track built for speed 👇
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👏Jodie Williams qualifies for the women's 400m final!

⏱️It's a massive personal best too: 49.97secs

#Tokyo2020 | #Olympics | #TeamGB
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🇬🇧Katarina Johnson-Thompson dropped back to fifth in the heptathlon standings after the shot put.

She now moves on to one of her strongest events - the 200m

Follow live updates 👇
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🏃‍♀️ Women's 3000m steeplechase

#TeamGB Lizzie Bird finishes in a creditable ninth place, in a new national record of 9:19.68!

Keep up with all the live updates here 👇

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Heartbreak for KJT 💔 #TeamGB

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🥇 GOLD MEDAL! 🥇

🐴Team GB's Ben Maher takes gold in the showjumping!

👏He won the Olympic jump off with Explosion W

#Tokyo2020 | #Olympics
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🏃‍♂️Men's 200m result🏃‍♂️

🥇Andre De Grasse (Canada) 19.62 NR
🥈Kenny Bednarek (USA) 19.68 PB
🥉Noah Lyles (USA) 19.74

Follow our Olympics liveblog here👇
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🥇Will #TeamGB manage to hold onto 5th place in the medal table?

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