Tokyo 2020 Olympics womens 100m final in athletics Djokovic beaten again and more live

Men’s discus: Australia’s Matthew Denny leads the field after the first round of the first field final of these Games.

Men’s football: Hosts Japan have edged out New Zealand 4-2 in a penalty shootout to reach the men’s semi-finals, while Spain survived a scare in an extra-time win over Ivory Coast.

Kon’nichiwa everybody. You join me just as Great Britain get their third competitor into the women’s 800m final. Keely Hodgkinson will join her team-mates Jemma Reekie and Alex Bell in Tuesday’s showdown. Well done to them.

Dina Asher-Smith pulls out of the sprint events injured, as per our story below.

Trayvon Bromell nearly missed qualifying for the men’s 100m semis, but snuck in, while Australia have a rare semi-final qualifier.

New Zealand won gold over France and Fiji their first women’s Olympic medal with bronze over Great Britain in the rugby sevens

Novak Djokovic lost his bronze singles tennis match to Pablo Carreno Busta and then pulled out of his bronze doubles match, handing the medal to Ash Barty and John Peers.

Turkey got gold in the men’s individual archery, Switzerland in the women’s 50m rifle, France in the mixed teams judo.

New Zealand’s men just lost 4-2 on penalties to Japan in the football, so the home team will go through to an Olympic semi-final.

It’s been another fun day. That’s enough from me, Barry Glendenning will be your next guide through the catacombs of sport.

Here’s our full story on Dina Asher-Smith.

How many ways are there to stab someone? Lots. That’s why we have so many fencing events. The Russians get the job done 45-41 over France.

Boxing: Missed this earlier, but Great Britain’s Karriss Artingstall missed out on proceeding to a gold medal bout, instead taking bronze against Japan’s Sena Irie in the women’s featherweight earlier. Very close: split decision, one point difference with each judge, three judges went with the Japanese boxer.

Athletics: Got the qualifiers for the men’s long jump final, too. Tajay Gayle the world champ looks in trouble though, he’s injured his knee and had it heavily strapped. Landed badly on one jump, seemed to get his foot jammed in the sand and maybe hyperextended the joint? So there’s a lot of doubt about whether he can come good for the final.

Cuba: Juan Miguel ECHEVARRIA
Spain: Eusebio CACERES
Sweden: Thobias MONTLER
Jamaica: Tajay GAYLE
China: Changzhou HUANG
Italy: Filippo RANDAZZO
Finland: Kristian PULLI
Germany: Fabian HEINLE
USA: Juvaughn HARRISON
Greece: Miltiadis TENTOGLOU
Japan: Yuki HASHIOKA
Cuba: Maykel MASSO

Athletics: Rohan Browning has just produced the run of his life! A personal best of 10.01, and first place in the heat. This sort of thing doesn’t happen very often. Australia doesn’t have much form producing sprinters. But Browning in Lane 1 goes out hard, takes it up to Yohan Blake in the middle, and beats the Jamaican who used to take it up to Usain Bolt. You could see Blake looking across in surprise to see someone coming up the inside rail. He runs 10.06 to qualify second, while GB’s Chijindu Ujah runs 10.08 in third.

That’s heat seven, and done.

Here’s what Dina Asher-Smith had to say on television in an emotional address, at one point pausing while in tears.

“In the trials final I actually pulled my hamstring at 60 metres. I was initially told in Manchester that it was a rupture, and I would require surgery, and it would take three to four months to get back. It’s been a lot to deal with because that diagnosis, you’re like, yeah I just can’t go to Tokyo. We had this whole statement ready to go. But then I thankfully went and got a second opinion. It was a slight misdiagnosis, even though there was still quite a major tear, it wasn’t a rupture. So we turned over every single stone to make sure that I could stand on the line.

“I think the most frustrating thing for me was the fact that I was in really good shape, I was in the shape of my life, and I can say that with my hands on my heart about six weeks ago I was very confident I was gonna win this, because I knew that every part of my race, my start, my transition and my finish was better than some of the fastest women in the world.

“I’m really proud to have been able to execute my races here today and I’m really proud of everything that I’ve done to this point, but when you’re talking about the standard that I want to be, that I know I’m capable of. There’s plenty more championships for me to come and kill. We’re in the middle of a four to five year cycle. And yes, I got a hamstring tear at the most inconvenient time, but it doesn’t really change the fact of the calibre of athlete I actually am.”

Athletics: Another qualifier from South Africa in the men’s 100 metres, Akani Simbine in a cruisy 10.08. Arthur Cisse gets Cote d’Ivoire a spot in 10.15, and Paulo Andre Camilo from Brazil in 10.17.

It sounds like Asher-Smith has had a bad hamstring tear for the past four weeks and has been trying to run through it. The timing of that, having waited five years for this Olympics, is hard to fathom.

Massive news, huge blow for Great Britain’s campaign. Asher-Smith has just told BBC radio that she’s pulling out of her pet 200 metres event. Says that she has a hamstring injury from before the games and can’t make it work. She did run the 100 metres heats an hour or so ago, and didn’t look entirely comfortable, but still turned in a pretty fast time. That’s very sad.

Athletics: Reece Prescod for Great Britain gets a reprieve for a false start in heat five: he didn’t visibly break, but the weight sensor in the starting blocks says his foot lifted 0.093 seconds after the bell. They give a green card as a warning.

Then there’s another false start, this time Divine Oduduru of Nigeria. Same thing, slight movement, barely visible. But he gets disqualified. So what is the reasoning here? His reaction time was 0.096, slower than Prescod’s. But Oduduru is shown the red card.

Andre de Grasse wins the heat for Canada in 9.91, ahead of Fred Kerley (USA) in 9.97 and Ferdinand Omurwa of Kenya in 10.01. That’s a national record for Kenya too.

Here’s Kieran Pender on Ash Barty’s bronze.

Finally, someone can withstand Japan in a gold judo match. It ends up 4-1 in the teams final, with the sixth bout not required.

The winning team is Clarisse Agbegnenou, Axel Clerget, Romane Dicko, Teddy Riner, Sarah Leonie Cysique, Guillaume Chaine.

Athletics: Lamont Marcell Jacobs sets a new Italian record while winning the third 100m heat in 9.94. The young Jamaican Oblique Seville runs second in a personal best of 10.04, with Shaun Maswanganganyi of South Africa qualifying in 10.12.

Much slower in the fourth heat, another South African in Gift Leotela winning in 10.04. The powerful Chinese running Bingtian Su eases up at the end after leading and is happy to come in second in 10.05. Jason Rogers representing St Kitts and Nevis qualifies third.

Baseball: The USA have come back with a couple of home runs in the fourth to lead Korea 2-1.

Football: Japan and New Zealand have gone to extra time in the men’s quarter finals and still nary a goal to be found. Brazil lead Egypt 1-0, and Korea-Mexico is scoreless.

Athletics: The men’s 100m heats start up. Ronnie Baker wins the first in 10.03 for the USA. Jimmy Vicaut of France second and Usheoritse Itsekiri of Nigera third. They’re the automatic qualifiers.

Another Nigerian gets through to win the second heat, Enoch Adegoke in a personal best of 9.98. His first time in three figures. Massive boilover though, because USA’s Trayvon Bromell has slumped to fourth. He’s routinely run times under 10 seconds but gets through today in 10.05. Beaten by Qatar’s Femi Ogunde and Zharnel Hughes of Great Britain.

Football: Speaking of Cote d’Ivoire, they’ve had a spectacular implosion in their quarter final. They went ahead 2-1 in the 91st minute, then not only let in a goal after that to take the match to extra time, but ended up losing 5-2. Rafa Mir scored a hat-trick that started after 93 minutes of play!

Lane 2: Darryl Neita (GBR)
Lane 3: Teahna Daniels (USA)
Lane 3: Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM)
Lane 4: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)
Lane 5: Marie-Josee Ta Lou (CIV)
Lane 6: Jackson Shericka (JAM)
Lane 7: Ajla del Ponte (SUI)
Lane 8: Mujinga Kambundji (SUI)

Three Jamaicans and two Swiss, interesting there. One each for the Brits, the US and Cote d’Ivoire.

For all of our GB readers invested in that country’s queen of the track, she’s missed out by five hundredths of a second. Ran the 10th-fastest time across the three semis.

Heat 3
Jamaica: Shelly-Ann FRASER-PRYCE 10.73
Switzerland: Mujinga KAMBUNDJI 10.96
USA: Teahna DANIELS 10.98 PB
Great Britain: Daryll NEITA 11.00
Nigeria: Nzubechi Grace NWOKOCHA 11.07
Gambia: Gina BASS 11.16
Cote d’Ivoire: Murielle AHOURE 11.28
Italy: Anna BONGIORNI 11.38

... and she qualifies fastest! Runs through in 10.73, no one anywhere near her, her bright yellow and red hair streaming out behind her.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is in the third heat...

Heat 2: women’s 100m
Cote d’Ivoire: Marie-Josee TA LOU 10.79 (.784)
Jamaica: Shericka JACKSON 10.79 (.787)
Trinidad & Tobago: Michelle-Lee AHYE 11.00
Germany: Alexandra BURGHARDT 11.07
USA: Javianne OLIVER 11.08
Canada: Crystal EMMANUEL 11.21
China: Manqi GE 11.22
Great Britain: Asha PHILIP 11.30

Athletics: Ta Lou and Jackson is an absolute ding-dong battle at the front! They were way ahead of the pack but were locked in with each other. Jackson was hanging on and hanging on. They end up clocking the same two-digit time - 10.79 - though Ta Lou shades her on the deeper decimals by three thousands of a second. Y’know, sprint things.

Shericka Jackson of Jamaica, GB’s Asha Philip, Cote d’Ivoire’s Marie Josee Ta Lou in this second heat...

Heat 1: women’s 100m
Jamaica: Elaine THOMPSON-HERAH: 10.76
Switzerland: Ajla del PONTE 11.01
Great Britain: Dina ASHER-SMITH 11.05
USA: Jenna PRANDINI 11.11
Canada: Khamica BINGHAM 11.22
Bahamas: Tynia GAITHER 11.31
Germany: Tatjana PINTO Tatjana 11.35

The first two qualify, the others will have to wait and see what comes next.

Athletics: The Jamaican runs 10.76 to come in first. Flies through her first 50, burns off the rest of the field in the second half. Asher-Smith was in second for a lot of the race but got reeled in by del Ponte of Switzerland.

Dina-Asher Smith smiles and blows kisses as the camera pans past her. Looks comfortable.

Athletics: We’re about to start the women’s 100 metres semi-finals on the track. Three races, 23 spots after a drug violation ban took out one racer earlier today, coming down to eight for the final.

Baseball: Interesting start with Korea leading the USA 1-0 in the first inning.

Football: Meanwhile, Japan and New Zealand are still 0-0 in their match, into the second half. Same score for Brazil and Egypt who just started.

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