World number one Oliver Townend gave Great Britain's eventing team a flying start to their medal quest at Tokyo Equestrian Park. Townend, competing at his first Olympics, was second to go in the opening phase of dressage aboard his 2017 Burghley champion Ballaghmor Class. And the 38-year-old Yorkshireman did not disappoint, posting a score of 23.60 to lead after the first group of 21 riders.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN TOKYO: Dina Asher-Smith is up and running. The concern ahead of her summit assault this weekend is the multitude of women who are up and running considerably faster. We have only seen the heats, of course. And it's true the sole imperative of the first round is progress, which she attained on Friday with an 11.07sec run to reach the 100m semi-finals on Saturday evening.

The world No 1 was looking to become the first man in history to win all four grand slam titles and Olympic singles gold in the same year but Zverev fought back brilliantly after losing the first set to win 1-6 6-3 6-1. It is the third time Djokovic has lost in the semi-finals at the Olympics, with his only medal a bronze in Beijing in 2008. Djokovic had breezed through to the last eight, losing just two games against Kei Nishikori in the quarter-finals, but Zverev has also been playing well and this always looked like the biggest hurdle. Zverev will take on Karen Khachanov of the Russian Olympic Committee for the gold medal, and he was in tears on the court afterwards.

The east Londoner, 22, started the sport on a second hand bike with borrowed kit after her school (inset with her brother) urged her to 'give it a go' and this morning she became a household name in Britain after grabbing gold (left and inset). The victory caps a rollercoaster journey for Shriever, who left the GB setup to go solo in 2019 and aimed to raise £50,000 via crowdfunding to enable her to even compete after Team GB decided only to fund male riders. And as well as the financial hurdles to overcome, Shriever's path to becoming an Olympian was hampered by eye-watering injuries, breaking the same wrist three times and suffered a tibia and fibula fracture, which required metal plates to be inserted into her leg - only for the procedure to have to be repeated some 18 months later after another crash. Due to Covid-19 Miss Shriever's 'tight family' group of her parents and boyfriend Brynley (together right) who were watching live on Friday morning from their home near Chelmsford in Essex. And she was cheered on by her training partner Kye Whyte, who grabbed silver in the race before, leaving her crying tears of joy for her friend as she stood on the start line of the biggest race of her life.

Team GB's Luke Greenbank questioned whether he was racing against 'clean' swimmers in the 200m backstroke after taking the bronze medal behind Ryan Murphy and the winner, Evgeny Rylov of Russia. It was silver medallist Murphy who first raised concerns over the event, and Greenbank added to this by admitting it was 'frustrating' at the ROC were competing despite the country being banned. Russia were prevented from taking part after a state-sponsored doping programme was uncovered, and they were also found guilty by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after failing to comply with a World Anti-Doping Agency probe. Rylov, who completed a 100m and 200m backstroke double with an Olympic record, is allowed to represent Russia's Olympic Committee rather than the flag along with hundreds of others, a decision that has been widely criticised.

The two riders cut emotional figures, both having clinched a medal of their own after Whyte took silver, and displayed touching support for each other during their races. Footage taken from the Ariake Urban Sports Park shows Shriever making her way around the course, narrowly in the lead, while Whyte roars her on from a distance. Whyte, 20, became more animated as Shriever closed in on history - Great Britain's first gold medal in the discipline - but then nervously watched her reach the line. A clearly exhausted Shriever was hoisted into the air, after the silver medallist had thrown his bottle to the floor in jubilation and dashed down the course to her.

The Scot was the sixth competitor to take to the water, with Germany's Hannes Aigner leading with a time of 97.11 seconds. However, Forbes-Cryans made a costly error on the fifth gate, being taken off course by the strong current as the 26-year-old desperately tried to get his charge back on track. He crossed the line with a time of 100.58secs, well off the pace to challenge for a medal.

DAVID COVERDALE IN TOKYO: After nervously waiting 90 seconds for her score to flash up on the screen, brilliant Bryony Page then bounced as high as she had on the trampoline. The 30-year-old's twists and tumbles had received 55.735 points and, with just two gymnasts left to perform, she knew that had secured her a second successive Olympic medal. The bronze was not all she had won. When she was starting out in the sport aged 12, Page's dad Steve promised to buy his daughter a new leotard every time she upgraded the difficulty of her routine.

Jacquie Hughes (right with Tom), a former BBC boss now working for broadcasting complaints watchdog Ofcom, has spoken out as she experienced the pure joy of seeing her son become the first British male swimmer to win more than one gold at a single Olympics in 113 years (left). In London 2012 and Rio 2016, the corporation aired 2,500 hours on countless live streams on its red button. But this time US broadcaster Discovery paid £920million to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to control European coverage and will now only allow the BBC to show two live events at any one time. The corporation has also been blasted by angry viewers for tweeting spoilers of British Olympians winning their first medals after not showing their events live. Ms Hughes said: 'The number of people that have raised this with me and said, "I can't believe I can't get all the games on the BBC...I've watched the Olympics my whole life". It's sad from a viewers point of view, but it's funny for me having been party to those conversations and those debates my whole life - to be suddenly on the receiving end of it.'