About the results
The cycling road race, which is traditionally one of the first events, is also unusual in being a one-off medal event. Most of the other medals are awarded after a number of heats or other preliminary events.
In particular, the team games, such as football, rugby and basketball are organised as cup competitions with gold going to the winner of the final, silver to the runner-up in the final and bronze settled with a third-place playoff.
Bear in mind too that personal bests, Olympic records and world records can all be beaten in heats as well as in medal events.
New to the Olympics for the Tokyo 2020 games are: sport climbing, surfing, skateboarding and karate. Baseball and softball also return having been absent at London 2012 and Rio 2016.