Tokyo 2020 Olympics athletics and football finals plus more GB golds live

Women’s football final penalty shootout.

Nathalie Björn scores for Sweden to pull it back to 1-1 and then Ashley Lawrence has her shot saved. It’s 1-1 after two penalties each.

Women’s football final penalty shootout.

The women’s gold medal match has never before been decided on penalties but after a 1-1 draw between Sweden and Canada over 120 minutes in Tokyo, we have a shootout.

Kosovare Asllani to shoot first for Sweden. She hits the post.
Can Canada take the lead? They can. Jessis Fleming scores for Canada. 1-0 to Canada after one each.

Women’s football final: It’s going to penalties after a 1-1 draw between Sweden and Canada.

Men’s 4x100m relay: A few quotes from the British silver medallists.

Nathaneel Mitchell-Blake, who ran the last leg, said: “Apologies if I seemed ungrateful at first. It’s just we put a lot of work and effort into this. We believe we’re the best quartet in the world and we wanted to display that when the time comes. We want to show the world we deserve to be on the platform we are.”

Mitchell-Blake’s teammate Richard Kilty was really positive and supportive, saying: “This man ran an amazing leg. He looked disappointed but this is a team â€" he’s been part of three of the fastest teams in British history. He’s a legend and he brought us home in incredible style.”

An email from Des Brown:

Interesting stat. Team GB have won 58 medals with two days left. At London 2012, with two days left, the total was 57. It is entirely possible that by Sunday afternoon Team GB could exceed their London 2012 total (albeit with fewer golds).

Here is the full medal table.

Men’s 4x100m relay: Look at how close Team GB were to Italy at the finish line. It looks like one of those VAR decisions that holds up Premier League games by five minutes.

Team GB (@TeamGB)

SO CLOSE.

Our men's 4x100m team have to settle for silver after a photo finish in the relay.#TeamGB pic.twitter.com/SQ0KgoCSho

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Wrestling: The American Gable Steveson beat the triple world champion Geno Petriashvili to win the super heavyweight gold medal earlier today. Petriashvili did not take it well. He punched a sign and shouted in despair as he returned to the dressing room, and did not raise his head once during the medal ceremony. Here’s our full report.

Women’s football: Meanwhile we’re at the midway stage of extra-time in the final between Canada and Sweden. It’s still 1-1. If no one scores in the next 15 minutes, the Olympic gold medal will be decided on penalties.

USA beat Australia 4-3 to win the bronze yesterday.

Men’s 4x100m relay: The four British runners are speaking to the BBC. They say they are a team. They are proud. And they are silver medalists. All four of them are smiling and laughing together now. That’s good to see. Another medal for Team GB.

By the way, Jamaica, the big favourites, finished fifth.

1. Italy - 37.50
2. Great Britain - 37.51
3. Canada - 37.70
4. China - 37.79
5. Jamaica - 37.84
6. Germany - 38.12
7. Ghana - 38.40
8. Japan - DNF

Filippo Tortu is sobbing. He can’t believe what he’s just done. And quite frankly, neither can I. That was the stuff of dreams.

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, meanwhile, looks gutted. He ran the last leg for Great Britain and clearly feels as if the gold should have been theirs. That is tough for him.

Italy won that relay final by the smallest of margins. Their time was 37.50 and Great Britain’s was 37.51.

Filippo Tortu ran the final leg for Italy and he looked like a man possessed. He believed in himself and hunted down the British runner Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, leaning over the line to clinch gold. It was an outrageous finish. That was one of the moments of the Games for me.

1. Italy - 37.50
2. Great Britain - 37.51
3. Canada - 37.70

Oh wow! Great Britain looked set to win the gold, but Italy came steaming through at the end to clinch gold. That was sensational. What a storming finish from the Italians. My goodness.

Italy are having quite the summer. The Euros, the 100m sprint, the 4x100m relay, and even the Eurovision! I did not see this coming. Canada won bronze.

The women’s football final is going to extra time! It’s Sweden 1-1 Canada after the full 90 minutes.

Next up on the track we have the men’s 4x100m relay final.

These are the eight finalists:

Ghana
Germany
Canada
Jamaica
Great Britain
China
Italy
Japan

Jamaica won gold in the event in 2012 and 2016.

You’ll notice that the United States are not in the final. They finished sixth in their semi-final and missed out. Carl Lewis, the man with 10 Olympic medals, was far from impressed.

There are some great details about 10-time Olympic medallist Allyson Felix in here. I particularly enjoyed the part about her winning her medal while wearing a shoe she designed for a company she created.

Women’s football: It’s still Sweden 1-1 Canada in the final, with just seven minutes of normal time to play. It looks like we could be heading for extra-time and maybe even penalties. That would be fun.

Women’s 4x100m relay: Asha Philip, Imani Lansiquot, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita are celebrating on the track and, after a second look at the race, it seems the changes were fine. A bronze for Team GB.

Jamaica dominated that race to win gold, with USA picking up silver and Great Britain claiming bronze. There are a few worried faces on the track though â€" some of those changes were smooth so these positions may change.

Athletics: It’s relay time on the track. Women’s 4x100m up first.

Jamaica are the favourites, but USA and Great Britain are also hoping to win gold. Switzerland are also fancied. Here are the eight teams:

Netherlands
France
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Switzerland
Jamaica
China

Women’s football: Canada have equalised from the penalty spot in the final. It’s Sweden 1-1 Canada midway through the second half. We have a game on our hands!

Jessie Fleming scored the penalty and she has just gone close again. Canada are on top.

Laura Muir has been talking about her silver medal to the BBC.

I don’t know what to say â€" I’ve worked so hard for so long. I’ve been fourth, fifth twice, sixth and seventh every year since 2015 and with everything last year being postponed and not knowing what was going on - I got a silver!

I just tried to be as best prepared as possible for any situation and I just trained as hard as I could that this would happen and I’ve been so nervous all week. Why is the 1,500m at the end?!

I want to thank everyone supporting me â€" mum, dad and gran are they’re all supporting me at home â€" and Jemma I couldn’t wish for a better friend and training partner. And my coach Andy has sacrificed the last 10 years for that four minute performance.

It felt like 3.54 because it was hurting - that last 100m I don’t think I’ve ever been so scared in my life that someone was going to come past me and I would drop to fourth. I just tried my absolute hardest in that last stretch. That medal is mine.

The Jemma she mentioned is Jemma Reekie (I think), who finished fourth in the 800m final earlier this week.

Janja Garnbret wins gold for Slovenia in the women’s climbing final!

Just as I mention the climbing, Janja Garnbret goes and wins the event. She was first, first and fifth in the three events, leaving her with an unbeatable score of five points.

Two Japanese climbers â€" Miho Nonaka (45 points) and Akiyo Noguchi (64 points) â€" have won silver and bronze.

Climbing: there is a lot going on right now. Not just the athletics and the women’s football final but also the women’s climbing final.

Here are the finalists:

Aleksandra Miroslaw (Poland)
Anouck Jaubert (France)
Jessica Pilz (Austria)
Miho Nonaka (Japan)
Chaehyun Seo (South Korea)
Akiyo Noguchi (Japan)
Brooke Raboutou (USA)
Janja Garnbret (Slovenia)

British climber Shauna Coxsey did not make it through.

Climbing has been a big hit at the Games but is it fair?

Kári Tulinius has been in touch via email to discuss the women’s football final, which Sweden lead 1-0 against Canada.

In recent years, women’s finals in major international tournaments have tended to be either tense, gripping affairs or one-sided walkovers. Sweden v Canada somehow manages to be both. The time that the Swedish goalmouth has been in view of the camera could be measured in seconds, and yet the feeling is there that all Canada need is one good counterattack. And if it hadn’t been for an unlucky deflection, the game would still be nil-nil.

The second half has just kicked off.

Laura Muir is enjoying a victory lap with Faith Kipyegon. She has a big smile on her face and rightly so. Muir has won a silver medal for Team GB.

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Yes, @lauramuiruns! 🤩

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August 6, 2021

All hail Allyson Felix!

Olympics (@Olympics)

Ladies and gentlemen, the first woman to ever win 10 #Athletics medals at the Olympics...

Take a bow, @allysonfelix! #USA #StrongerTogether | @Tokyo2020 | @WorldAthletics pic.twitter.com/id7qzKEw1l

August 6, 2021

Sifan Hassan sets out in the lead. Remember, she is trying to do something no one has done before: win gold in the 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m races.

She keeps the lead throughout much of the race, with Faith Kipyegon on her shoulder. Laura Muir stays with them in third.

But Kipyegon is going for it. She overtakes Hassan late in the race. As does Laura Muir! They have timed that to perfection.

Kipyegon wins gold with an Olympic record; Muir gets silver with a personal best; and Hassan wins bronze. That was a brilliant race from Laura Muir. She is in tears.

Women’s 1,500m final: Laura Muir will be trying to stop Sifan Hassan. My colleague Sean Ingle has been telling the Muir story.

I love the first line of his article: “When Laura Muir was a teenager, she was so fast that local farmers employed her to catch newborn lambs before they got lost.”

Now for the women’s 1,500m final.

Here are the runners.

Gabriela Debues-Stafford (Canada)
Elle Purrier St. Pierre (USA)
Linden Hall (Australia)
Winnie Nanyondo (Uganda)
Tanaka Nozomi (Japan)
Jessica Hull (Australia)
Freweyni Hailu (Ethiopia)
Marta Pérez (Spain)
Laura Muir (Great Britain)
Faith Kipyegon (Kenya)
Sifan Hassan (Netherlands)
Kristiina Mäki (Czech Republic)
Cory McGee (USA)

Sifan Hassan is trying to make history here. She is trying to win gold in the 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m races at these Games. “Many people think I am crazy,” she says. She won the 10,000m and 1,500m at the World Championships in Doha in 2019 but doing the treble is unprecedented. It is an incredible amount of running: two 5,000m, three 1,500m and one 10,00m. That’s 24,500m over eight days, much of it in incredible heat and humidity.

Women’s football final: It’s Sweden 1-0 Canada at half-time. Canada are yet to have a shot on target.

Allyson Felix has made history with that bronze, her 10th Olympic medal. As my colleague Andy Bull pointed out before the Games, the fact that she is in Tokyo this year is an incredible achievement.

Women’s football final: Sweden have a 1-0 lead over Canada in the final thanks to a goal from Stina Blackstenius.

Miller-Uibo dominated that race, winning with a personal best of 48.36. That was a stunning run. There was no one near her at the end. Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic was second with a personal best and Allyson Felix picked up the bronze â€" another Olympic medal for her. Jodie Williams finished sixth.

Women’s 400m final: Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas is probably favourite to retain the 400-metre title from Rio five years ago. She finished last in the 200m final so this is her chance to win gold.

Jodie Williams will be representing Great Britain after running a personal best in her semi-final. The 27-year-old sounded very confident after that race earlier in the week, saying: “I came here to medal. I came here to win, honestly.”

Athletics: the women’s 400m final is up next on the track.

Here is the start list:

Quanera Hayes (USA)
Roxana Gómez (Cuba)
Candice McLeod (Jamaica)
Marileidy Paulino (Dominican Republic)
Stephenie McPherson (Jamaica)
Shaunae Miller-Uibo (Bahamas)
Jodie Williams (Great Britain)
Allyson Felix (USA)

You’ll notice the name Allyson Felix at the end of that list. Felix is one race from history at Tokyo 2020. She is level with Merlene Ottey on nine Olympic medals and can go clear as the most decorated woman in Olympic track and field athletics history with a podium finish in this race. Felix has six golds and three silvers at the Olympics (five of those six golds have come in relays, with her sole individual gold coming in the 200m at London 2012). This is her fifth Olympics, having made her debut at Athens in 2004, when she won 200m silver behind Veronica Campbell.

Andy Bull wrote about Felix before the Games, detailing her achievement in getting this far.

Women’s football final: Canada pulled off one of the surprises of the Games when they beat USA in the semi-final of the women’s football. It was the first time Canada had beaten USA in 20 years.

That victory in the semi-finals was masterminded by Canada coach Bev Priestman, a 35-year-old from Consett in County Durham. My colleague Louise Taylor has been telling her story.

Men’s 5,000m: Cheptegei missed out on the 10,000m, finishing second behind Selemon Barega, but has got his gold in the 5,000m. Despite the talk about Katir before the race, he didn’t challenge. Andrew Butchart finished 11th.

Cheptegei wins gold for Uganda. He had the lead with a lap to go and held off challenges, stepping on the gas to quicken his pace and secure the victory. He won with a time of 12.58.15.

Mohammed Ahmed of Canada picked up silver, with Paul Chelimo of USA throwing himself over to line to earn bronze.

Women’s football: the final between Sweden and Canada has kicked off. It’s 0-0 after eight minutes. The final was meant to be played earlier today but, due to fears about the heat and humidity in Tokyo, it was pushed back.

Men’s 5,000m: There are a few contenders in the 12-and-a-half-lap race â€" and a few absentees.

Mo Farah, who won gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m in Rio and London, is gone; and the the reigning 5,000m world champion Muktar Edris did not made the Ethiopia team.

Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda is the world record holder, with a time of 12:35.36, and he won silver in the 10,000m last week, when Jacob Kiplimo won bronze. Selemon Barega, who won the 10,000m race is not competing in the 5,000m. Mohamed Katir is the pick of the runners on the BBC commentary.

Cheptegei has taken an early lead but the pack is right up behind him.

Athletics: the men’s 5,000m final has begun.

Here are the runners:

Luis Grijalva (Guatemala)
Justyn Knight (Canada)
Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli (Kenya)
William Kincaid (USA)
Mohamed Katir (Spain)
Mohammed Ahmed (Canada)
Dawit Fikadu (Bahrain)
Jacob Kiplimo (Uganda)
Jimmy Gressier (France)
Birhanu Balew (Bahrain)
Paul Chelimo (USA)
Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda)
Milkesa Mengesha (Ethiopia)
Oscar Chelimo (Uganda)
Grant Fisher (USA)
Andrew Butchart (Great Britain)

Andrew Butchart will be representing Team GB in the final but he nearly missed the Games altogether over comments he made on a podcast about a Covid test. Strange.

Hi all. Paul here. Thanks Barry. Drop me an email at Paul.Campbell@theguardian.com or send me a tweet.

Sayōnara from me. Thanks for your company and with the women’s football final, men’s 5,000m final and women’s javelin final all either just under way or about to start, I’ll hand over to m’learned friend Paul Campbell.

Skateboarding: Canine pursuit skating hasn’t yet been introduced to the Olympics but looking at this video of some totally rad pugs, I can’t be alone in thinking it can’t come soon enough.

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August 6, 2021

Athletics: Double Olympic 5,000m champion Mo Farah is not at these Games, a state of affairs that means his crown is up for grabs. Those hopeful of winning it are in the stadium and are scheduled to start at 1pm (BST). The women’s javelin final is also being contested, with 12 women duking it out for the podium places.

Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee president has hailed athletes for giving “soul” to the Games and admitted he feared for the event after almost all spectators were barred.

However, his claims that the Tokyo Games had “far exceeded my personal expectations”, and had been a great success were widely criticised on Japanese social media with users calling him “an Olympic aristocrat who is trapped in a delusional shell”. Sean Ingle has the latest from Tokyo ...

Athletics: It’s USA, Botswana and Trinidad & Tobago in a one-two-three in the opening heat of the 4x400m and those teams q1ualify automatically for the final. Italy and the Netherlands will have to wait to see if they qualify as fastest losers. Britain finished a disappointing sixth or possibly seventh.

Athletics: For now, our attention turns to the athletics track, where the preliminaries are under way in the men’s 4x400m relay. As I type, the Brits are running in heat one.

Women’s football: The gold medal match between Sweden and Canada is due to kick off in a little over 30 minutes. It could be a belter.

Medals: Great Britain have added to their tally on Day 14, taking gold and bronze in the velodrome, gold in the modern pentathlon, bronze in the women’s hockey and another guaranteed gold or silver in the boxing ring.

Jason Keen (@Jason_Keen)

Imagine: You come 4th in Rio, you go again, train so hard, ‘Tokyo will be my Games’. The big day comes and it’s going brilliantly, you have one of the biggest leads in #Olympics history. And then a random horse ruins your dream. Crushing for Annika Schleu pic.twitter.com/sbXI3C8Ox1

August 6, 2021

Men’s football: Kaoru Mitoma scored a late consolation for Japan in the bronze medal match but it was too little, too late for the hosts. Mexico have beatn them 3-1 to earn themselves a spot on the podium.

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