Tokyo Olympics live updates Team GB one-two in pool as Australia and US win more gold Osaka exits and more

Bianca Walkden is preparing for her taekwondo women’s +67kg semi-final against 2019 world champion South Korean Lee Da-bin. Watch her in action in about 20 minutes.

We’ve had a Mike Tyson moment in the boxing. In the men’s heavyweight round of 16, Moroccan fighter Youness Baalla attempted to bite the ear of New Zealand’s David Nyika. Nyika won via unanimous decision and was comfortable throughout, but the bout was overshadowed by Baalla’s conduct in the final round.

“He didn’t get a full mouthful,” Kyika said afterwards. “Luckily he had his mouthguard in, and I was a bit sweaty. But come on man, this is the Olympics, get your shit together.”

Ben Damon (@ben_damon)

Morocco’s Youness Baalla tried to bite the ear of New Zealand’s David Nyika!!! #Boxing #Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/N6LJIqjb6S

July 27, 2021

Meanwhile, the women’s mountain bike cross country has started. Rebecca McConnell is representing Australia, The US have Hayley Batten, Erin Huck and Kate Courtney and Team GB Evie Richards, who is currently in second Switzerland’s Jolanda Neff.

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The women's mountain bike race is underway with @bec_mcconnell looking for Australia's first Olympic medal in the sport! 🇦🇺

Watch LIVE: https://t.co/xTOlJttDXI#Tokyo2020 | #7Olympics pic.twitter.com/qJQagzc3jc

July 27, 2021

Fox is away in the kayak semi-final and my, those rapids are fast. So far it’s flawless. Many of the field struggled on this course but she is a picture of control. At first split Fox is already ahead of the pack. Same with the second. She finishes in 105.85, 3.33 seconds faster than her nearest competitor, Slovak Eliška Mintálová. The Australian qualifies first for the final. Team GB’s Kimberley Woods is there too, qualifying sixth.

Here’s that celebratory wave.

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BRONZE FOR AUSTRALIA! 🥉🥳@RealOwenWright DOES IT, defeating two-time world champion Gabriel Medina in a fantastic Bronze Medal match! 🏄🇦🇺 #7Olympics | #Tokyo2020 | #Surfing pic.twitter.com/Z7LWo7S33x

July 27, 2021

Wright is out of the water now and the Australian contingent is at the shore to meet him. There’s a lot of congratulating going on. Now they’re in a huddle, Wright in the middle, for an “Aussie Aussie Aussie” situation.

This is pretty big for Australia. Medina was the form surfer coming into the Olympics.

All the Australian had to do was block Medina from the 5.98 score he needs, but the latter looks as if he can’t get back out the back. He’s ducking and diving. There are 30 seconds to go and he’s still paddling. Wright is in chase. He just needs to wait it out. And he jumps on a wave to celebrate!

Medina is somewhat frantically paddling away from Wright, who can use his priority to defence his score if he stays close. The Brazilian pops up on another wave, gets some serious air and then crashes. The wind might have had something to do with that. 1:40 on the clock.

The surf is soupy and decent waves are tough to come by. But come by one Medina does. It is a genuinely crap wave but he gives it a shot anyway, bounces along and turns it into a score of 6.00. That was class. Medina is still a smidge behind and needs 5.98 with just over three minutes on the clock.

Medina surfs his eighth wave of this match and it’s so-so. Nothing special but did the trick. It’s a 5.77. Wright replies with a more impressive ride. He floats along the top, dips and then rises again, before turning back on himself as the whitewash gets heavy. That was adjudged a 5.47, and I know I’m biased but it looked the better of the two. Wright has the priority now with a tick under eight minutes remaining and he’s still in front with a total 11.97 to Medina’s 11.20.

Medina has the right of way, meaning if both surfers go for the same wave Wright must stand down. The Brazilian double world champion is up and he has to egg himself forward to properly get onto the lip but once he’s there it’s go time, and he finds some nice air before coming unstuck. Wright is sitting on a total of 8.6 and Medina 6.53.

Owen Wright is up and away in his surfing bronze medal match against Gabriel Medina. Medina has been on two waves already for a total score of 1.77, so slow start.

American swim star Lilly King has criticised the media for allegedly distorting her words and said that her Australian rivals, who are currently equal with the United States in the swimming medal tally with three golds each, are “swimming just fine”.

King courted controversy before Tokyo 2020 when she expressed her belief that the American women could win every individual gold medal at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. With five individual medals race for the women held so far, the Australians have secured two golds, while the USA, Canada and Japan have one apiece.

But King dismissed a journalist’s question on Wednesday after she claimed bronze in the women’s 100m breaststroke.

“I feel like that quote has been twisted ... and I’ve commented on that since,” she said. “I said I believed that the Americans could win every single individual gold medal. All I was saying was that I believed in my teams and that I think we have a good shot at swimming well. But that was twisted. The Aussies are swimming just fine.”

Happens to the best of us.

David Mark (@davymark1)

Just did a cross with @abcnews and referred to Owen Wright as Owen Wilson. Sorry @RealOwenWright - I'm sure you're a wonderful actor, but you're also bloody good at surfing. Good luck today - we're all watching.

July 27, 2021

It’s time to switch to the canoe slalom, where Australian Jess Fox is contesting the women’s kayak semi-finals and then, all going well, the final, as she hunts a full set of Olympic medals having won bronze and silver at past Games. The 27-year-old is 24th on the start order from a field of 24, so we have a little waiting to do before she’s up.

For the uninitiated, in the kayak, or K1, competitors sit in a cockpit and hold one paddle with a blade on each end.

Kiwi doctor Jane Nicholas has just completed her run and cost herself valuable seconds paddling back upstream to get through the gate. She finishes in 144.84, which is the slowest time of the four already done. Switzerland’s Naemi Brändle was quickest so far with 121.91.

There is some serious giant-killing going on in the women’s tennis singles and the Japanese star is the latest to go after losing in straight sets to Czech third-round opponent Marketa Vondrousova.

Tumaini Carayol (@tumcarayol)

Naomi Osaka is OUT of the Olympic games.

Marketa Vondrousova wins 6-1, 6-4.

July 27, 2021

Flora Duffy won Bermuda’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in the triathlon

For the first time since 1908, Great Britain won a swimming gold and silver in the same race thanks to Tom Dean and Duncan Scott in the men’s 200m freestyle

Alaska’s first Olympic swimmer became its first Olympic champion in Lydia Jacoby’s 100m breaststroke gold

Kaylee McKeown added to Australia’s gold tally in the pool with a stunning late run in the women’s 100m backstroke

Australian surfers Sally Fitzgibbons and Owen Wright both fell short of the final but Wright will go for bronze against Brazil’s Gabriel Media

In the men’s hockey, Germany have just scored a fourth goal against Great Britain to make it 4-1 with about eight minutes to play in the fourth quarter. It’s some turnaround for the Germans, who lost 3-1 to Pool B leaders Belgium yesterday. Barring something incredible from the Brits, this will be their first loss after two early wins against South Africa and Canada.

For the musically inclined, Lydia Jacoby, the unheralded Alaskan 17-year-old who won gold in the women’s 100m breaststroke earlier today, is a singer and plays double bass. Here she is doing both with the Snow River String Band at the 2018 Anchorage Folk Festival.

The only US swimmers younger than Jacoby to win an individual Olympic title in the last 20 years are Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin.

Naomi Osaka in trouble!

Tumaini Carayol (@tumcarayol)

Upset alert: Marketa Vondrousova takes the first set 6-1 against Naomi Osaka at the Olympics.

July 27, 2021

Sally Fitzgibbons has spoken to Seven about her quarter-final loss and says her “heart is shattered” after the most difficult defeat of her career.

“It hurts so bad ... always remember being the first surfing Olympians. Hopefully just goes from strength to strength. Our sport’s here to stay. I am going to work really hard and hopefully see you all in 2024,” she said through tears. I hope all the young groms can pick up a board for the first time, go out there with a smile on their face and ride waves. It brings the most joy in life. Every day it puts a smile on my face.

“Everybody’s going through super tough times. So, love and hope, thanks everyone. Go the Aussies in the rest of Olympics. To my family, I just want to say thank you so much. Thanks for the sacrifices. And thanks for just being in my corner all the way. I surfed every wave out there for you there. Thank you so much.”

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"It hurts so bad... my heart is shattered."

All of Australia loves you, @Sally_Fitz ❤️ pic.twitter.com/hSnPBXtRRg

July 27, 2021

Ferreira is through. Wright just couldn’t get on a wave at the end there and because the Brazilian had priority he kept edging closer and closer to his opponent as a means of stopping Wright from claiming a wave and therefore defending his lead. That’s all she wrote for the Australians in the surfing. Ferreira will face Japan’s fifth seed Igarashi Kanoa for the gold medal. Wright will face Brazil’s Gabriel Medina for bronze. Action get under way in a little over an hour.

This will go down to the wire. Wright is on a wave and makes a backhand turn, slides the tail and then throws that tail as he lands. He starts paddling immediately out the back because he is running out of time. Ferreira, meanwhile, just had to wait it out. One minute to go. Needs 6.7.

The Australian cheer squad loved that. They are hollering from their armchairs. It is WINDY out there and the surf a little messy. Wright seems to be eager to complete his waves consistently, while Ferreira is going big every time. Ferreira is back on for his 10th wave, looks to lose control just a little before recovering, to earn a score of 6.67. Wright is now on his sixth wave and scores a 6.47. The Australian is under pressure and needs 6.70 with five minutes to go.

Wright has just made a flat 6.00 via a first snap that set up the second with was a lovely back-hand vertical re-entry. It brings both competitors equal on 11.00 with just under 12 minutes to go.

If Wright wins this, he will contest the final against Kanoa Igarashi after the Japanese saw off Brazilian great Gabriel Medina in a thriller of a semi.

Hello! Let’s jump straight back into the surfing because Owen Wright is midway through his semi-final against Ítalo Ferreira. The Brazilian has just made some serious height but didn’t complete the move. Ferreira’s total is 11.00 and Wright needs 6.01 to take the lead with 18 minutes remaining.

Ok, now the pool’s over I can hand you on to Emma Kemp. Thanks for joining me today, enjoy the rest of the action.

Swimming: Kate Douglass (USA) wins the second semi-final of the women’s 200m IM. It’s a Great Britain 2-3 with Abbie Wood leading in Alicia Wilson.

The times mean Hosszu DOES sneak into the final in seventh place.

Surfing: The first men’s semi-final is absolutely unreal. Second seed Gabriel Medina (BRA) was flying, racking up 16.76 effortlessly. But just now fifth seed Igarashi Kanoa (JAP) found some incredible air to land a 9.33! He now leads with 17.00. Five minutes remaining.

Swimming: Alex Walsh (USA) wins the first women’s 200m IM semi from China’s Yiting Yu and Japan’s Jui Ohashi.

In her fifth Games, the Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu ended fifth and looks unlikely to reach the final.

Swimming: The last event in the pool tonight is the women’s 200m IM semis. In the first heat we have Hungarian legend Katinka Hosszu.

Shooting: 🥇

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#CHN wins the inaugural 10m air pistol mixed team Olympic gold!#Shooting @ISSF_Shooting pic.twitter.com/A1eDdTSXZI

July 27, 2021

Silver for ROC, bronze for Ukraine.

Rugby sevens: The men’s quarter-final line-up is now complete:

New Zealand v Canada

Great Britain v USA

South Africa v Argentina

Fiji v Australia

Surfing: The men’s semi-finals are underway. First up is Japanese fifth seed Igarashi Kanoa against Brazilian second seed Gabriel Medina.

In around half-an-hour from now it will be top-ranked Brazilian Italo Ferreira against Australian seventh seed Owen Wright.

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