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Tokyo Olympics 2020: Caeleb Dressel, Katie Ledecky hunt more gold as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce seeks 100m treble
• 4 years agoKatie Ledecky is the runaway favourite in the women's 800m free, winning gold at the last two Olympics and four straight world championships.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Richarlison fires Brazil into quarter-finals with win over Saudi Arabia; Germany knocked out
• 4 years agoReigning champions Brazil, who won gold for the first time on home soil in Rio de Janeiro five years ago, finished top of Group D and will face Egypt in the last eight on Saturday.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Netherlands trounce China 8-2 to set up women's football quarter-final with USA
• 4 years agoEuropean champions the Netherlands finished top of Group F having scored 21 goals, after a 10-3 thrashing of Zambia and 3-3 draw with runners-up Brazil, who beat the Zambians 1-0 on Tuesday.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Reigning champions Brazil held by Ivory Coast, Andre-Pierre Gignac scores hattrick in France win
• 4 years agoBrazil, who won gold for the first time five years ago on home soil in Rio, could have moved to the brink of qualification for the knock-out stage in Yokohama but were denied by a stubborn Ivory Coast.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Mexico thrash France as Richarlison hat-trick helps Brazil hand Germany 4-2 loss
• 4 years agoSylvain Ripoll's France are looking for a first Olympic medal since winning gold in 1984, but collapsed in the second half at Tokyo Stadium.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Favourites US Women thumped by Sweden while Dutch score 10 against Zambia in football
• 4 years agoThe US have won four of six Olympic titles since women's football was introduced to the programme in 1996, but suffered a heavy defeat by the same team that knocked them out on penalties in the quarter-finals in Rio.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: COVID-19 cases linked to Games highlight herculean task organisers face to contain virus
• 4 years agoThe positive tests came as some of the 11,000 athletes and thousands more team officials expected from across the globe began arriving, having traveled through a pandemic to get to Tokyo.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Britain women's football team will take a knee at Games
• 4 years agoThe Olympics start next week with Britain opening their group-stage campaign against Chile in Sapporo and then playing host Japan and Canada and Chile.
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Tottenham star Son Heung-min left out of South Korea football squad
• 4 years agoSpurs striker Son was excused an 18-month stint in the armed forces after winning a gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Eric Garcia, Unai Simon among six Euro players named in Spain's squad for Games
• 4 years agoThe only players from non-Spanish clubs in the Olympic squad are Olmo of Leipzig and Rafa Mir of Wolverhampton Wanderers.