Day 13 of #Tokyo2020 is in full swing!

🥇Will #TeamGB manage to hold onto 5th place in the medal table?

Follow all the #Olympics action on our liveblog 👇
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#TeamGB currently hold 49 medals early on day 13

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📈By day 13 in Rio, #TeamGB had 54 medals

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#OlympicGames medal tally, as of early day 13:

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

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

🏃Athletics, men’s 110m hurdles final (7am)

🥊Boxing, women's lightweight semi-final (6am)

🚴‍♂️Cycling, men’s omnium (7:30am)

🏑Hockey, men’s gold medal match (11am)

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🥉 BRONZE MEDAL 🥉

Liam Heath claims bronze for #TeamGB in the canoe sprint final!

Read more 👇
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🏊‍♂️British marathon swimmer Hector Pardoe was forced to withdraw from the 10km open water race due to being on the receiving end of a a fellow swimmer's elbow.

The 20 year old thought he'd lost an eye and was initially in some distress

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⏱️NEW BRITISH RECORD⏱️

Serious speed sees #TeamGB's quartet of Dina Asher-Smith, Asha Philip, Imani-Lara Lansiquot and Daryll Neita win their 4x100m relay heats!

👏They finished in 41.55 seconds which is a new British record!

#Olympics | #Tokyo2020
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Dina Asher-Smith might yet leave #Tokyo2020 with a gold medal after all!

🗣️"It was essential [I ran today] there was never any doubt I wouldn’t run. I've been training hard and was ready," she said

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👏Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson have both made it to the women's 10m platform final

The #TeamGB duo will go for medals at 7am ⤵️
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#TeamGB qualified for the 4x100m relay final by coming second in the first heat!

🥇Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake said, "We all have to raise our game. We are here for gold. We regroup and go again."
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🇺🇸The USA crashed out of the men's 4x100m after a disastrous heat.

US sprinting royalty Carl Lewis called it a 'total embarrassment'

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⏱️Why are so many world records tumbling at #Tokyo2020

Here's how the track is built for speed 👇telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/…
🇦🇺"The race between #TeamGB and Australia is tighter than the Sydney’s lockdown restrictions, more fraught than a kangaroo boxing bout, as tense as a Steve Smith press conference" | Writes @jimw1

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🥊#TeamGB's Galal Yafai takes on Kazakhstan's Saken Bibossinov in men's flyweight semi-final

Follow the fight live 👇
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🥊Team GB's Galal Yafai will box for Olympic gold after winning a nail-biting semi-final!

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🇬🇧Team GB's Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson are hunting for medals in the women's 10m diving platform final

Follow the action live ⤵️
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🇬🇧Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix may be in her first #Olympics final but, at 16 years old, the British diver can still be embarrassed by her dad

@molly_mcelwee spoke to Fred and Andrea ahead of #Tokyo2020
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🚴‍♂️Team GB's Jason Kenny, Jack Carlin and Katy Marchant all back on track this morning.

Follow the action live from the Izu Velodrome ⤵️

#Tokyo2020 | #Olympics | #TeamGB
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🛹"I rolled my eyes when I saw some people on social media complaining about too much hugging at the end of each run."

"Never underestimate the importance of social networks, and of sticking together in victory and defeat" | Writes @JudyMurray

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🗣️"My apartment in the Olympic Village is a mess. Because the whole thing is made of cardboard, there’s this game we’ve all been playing where you see how big a hole you can make in the wall."

Go behind the scenes at #Tokyo2020 with The Secret Olympian ⤵️
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💔"It will be brutal for Kat to return from this, but she has done it before. Picked herself up and come back from disappointment"

@J_Ennis on Katarina Johnson-Thompson's heptathlon heartbreak ⤵️
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🚴‍♂️Team GB's Jack Carlin reaches the men's sprint quarter-finals

#Tokyo2020 | #Olympics
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💔Heartbreak for Katy Marchant

Her dream of an Olympic keirin gold is over after she went down in a high-speed crash

Read more ⤵️
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🚴‍♂️Jason Kenny keeps his sprint campaign alive!

He wins his repechage and progresses to the quarter-finals

#Tokyo2020 | #Olympics | #TeamGB
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🚴‍♂️Jason Kenny must win his next race or he is out of the men's sprint.

Follow the #Tokyo2020 cycling live ⤵️
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🚴‍♂️What a ride from Jack Carlin!

👏The 24-year-old Scot blows away Maximilian Levy, a rider 10 years his senior, with an explosive attack

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❌🇺🇸American sprint legend Carl Lewis has blasted America's 4x100 metres relay team as embarrassing.

Lewis said the USA's relay team were "worse than kids" as they crashed out in the heats
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🚴‍♂️Team GB's Matthew Walls takes the lead in the omnium!

#Tokyo2020 | #TeamGB
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Jason Kenny's reign as Olympic sprint champion is over.

➡️He's beaten by Harrie Lavreysen, a 24-year-old Dutchman

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🚴‍♂️The men's omnium points race is under way!

It's looking good for #TeamGB's Matthew Walls who gains five points at the second sprint to extend his lead

Follow the race live ⤵️
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🛹Dallas Oberholzer of South Africa is two years older than the three women's skateboarding champions combined

Meet the olympic oldies making history 👇
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🥇 OLYMPIC CHAMPION🥇

Matt Walls takes #GOLD!
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🥇From Matt Walls to Tom Pidcock, here are the next wave of British cyclists set to rule the roads
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🧶After days of work, the most eagerly anticipated piece of Olympic clothing is complete
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🥇Will #TeamGB's Holly Bradshaw get a medal in the pole vault final?

Follow the final live here ⤵️
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📲Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix shared an emotional poolside video call with her father, Fred Sirieix, after finishing seventh in an extraordinary Olympic 10m platform

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TV's Fred Sirieix and daughter Andrea spoke to @molly_mcelwee on her diving debut at #Tokyo2020

🗣️ “She gives her all every time. Whether she wins or loses, she’s my daughter, I want her to be happy and to have fun."

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Team GB's Holly Bradshaw is guaranteed a medal in the women's pole vault!

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What colour will it be? 👇
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🥉 BRONZE MEDAL! 🥉

It's bronze for Bradshaw in the pole vault!

👏What a result

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🥉👏A story of courage and resilience
🥉The moment Holly Bradshaw won #TeamGB's first Olympic pole vault medal in history!

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📸You can find our round-up of the best #Tokyo2020 pictures of the day here 👇

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#TeamGB currently hold 43 medals early on day 12

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📈By day 12 in Rio, #TeamGB had 49 medals

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