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Tokyo Olympics 2020: Tom Dean, Duncan Scott lead Great Britain to gold medal in 4x200m relay

Led off by recently-crowned 200m champion Dean and brought home by Scott, they touched in 6min 58.58sec, just outside the 6:58.55 global mark held by the United States.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Britain's Tom Dean beats out teammate Duncan Scott to claim 200m freestyle gold medal

Dean came from behind in the final 50m to touch in a new national record of 1min 44.22sec, with Scott taking silver (1:44.26) ahead of Brazil's Fernando Scheffer (1:44.66).

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Emotional Tom Daley pays tribute to late father after winning gold in synchronised 10m platform diving

Daley, 27, who revealed that he might have missed the Games after knee surgery, wiped away tears on the podium as he finally added gold to the bronzes he won at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Mohamed Sbihi set to become Britain's first-ever Muslim flagbearer at opening ceremony

The gold-medal winning rower will share the flag bearing duties with another gold medallist sailor Hannah Mills.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Favourites US Women thumped by Sweden while Dutch score 10 against Zambia in football

The 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: Defending 10,000m champion Mo Farah fails to qualify for Games after falling short of stipulated time

The four-time Olympic champion missed the qualifying time in an invitational 10,000 at the British athletics championships in Manchester.

Coronavirus pandemic: British athlete Guy Learmonth says Tokyo Olympics 2020 should be postponed

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) must give athletes some “clarity, transparency and flexibility” by postponing the Tokyo Games over the coronavirus pandemic, British athlete Guy Learmonth has said.