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Dates: 23 July-8 August Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app. Welsh rower Vicky Thornley says it was brilliant to finally get going in the delayed Olympics after […]

Katie Mullan celebrates Ireland’s win over Canada that sealed the team’s spot in Tokyo BBC Sport NI’s Nigel Ringland has followed the Ireland Women’s hockey team for the last decade. As they participate in their first ever Olympic Games, Nigel details the characters and their journey to get to this stage. There are plenty of

Brighton Zeuner has won two X Games gold medals and and a Vans Park Series World Championship title Sixteen-year-old Brighton Zeuner has already won some of skateboarding’s biggest titles. In 2015, aged 11, she was the youngest female athlete to ever compete at the X-Games. She began competing professionally in 2016 and went on to

Seonaid McIntosh is following in the footsteps of her mother, father and elder sister as an elite rifle shooter Hosts: Tokyo, Japan Dates: 23 July-8 August Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on

Watch the BBC Sport Tokyo 2020 Olympics opening sequence, with narration from Michael Ward and a starring role for the Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers. Watch highlights of Tokyo 2020 on BBC One, BBC Two, the BBC Sport website, app and BBC iPlayer COVERAGE DETAILS: Tokyo Olympics on BBC TV, radio and online

Next fixture: Japan v Great Britain Date: 24 July Kick-off: 11:30 BST Venue: Sapporo Dome, Sapporo Coverage: Watch on BBC Red Button, iPlayer and online. Follow live text coverage on the website. Listen to commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live. Great Britain women’s football squad have “a lot of confidence” after beginning their Tokyo Games

Watch as Team GB enter the Olympic opening ceremony for Tokyo 2020, led by joint flagbearers Hannah Mills and Mohamed Sbihi. Watch highlights of Tokyo 2020 on BBC One, BBC Two, the BBC Sport website, app and BBC iPlayer COVERAGE DETAILS: Tokyo Olympics on BBC TV, radio and online

Temperatures reached 33C in the archery dome on Friday A Russian archer fainted in intense heat during Olympic qualifying and the rowing schedule was changed with the Tokyo weather in the spotlight as the Games officially opened. Svetlana Gomboeva, 23, collapsed while checking her scores. She regained consciousness and left on a stretcher. Earlier this

Fraser-Pryce won gold in the women’s 100m at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 “I’ve had big things. I’m trying to get to the great things.” In Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s world, two Olympic gold medals and nine World Championship titles only count as ‘big’. Three Olympic gold medals, now that would be ‘great’. If the Jamaican sprinter