Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Hashimoto wins men’s gymnastics final, heat forces tennis change and more – live!

Men’s gymnastics: British gymnasts James Hall and Joe Fraser have been chatting to the BBC following their top ten finishes in the men’s all-around.

Hall: “I’m over the moon and after the last year the uncertainty and not knowing what will happen or where my gymnastics is at,” he said after finishing ninth. “It’s refreshing to break into that top eight again – I’m speechless. Credit to Joe [Fraser], he had a couple of mistakes and wasn’t far behind me so that is refreshing to see, he is the future.

“The whole thing has been a pleasure – the guys I have been with and the way I’ve competed, it’s just a shame my personal coach isn’t here but I know he’ll be at home watching with his whole family and I know he’ll be proud.”

Fraser: “I made a few mistakes along the way, that’s gymnastics,” he said. “Mistakes happen and I take it on the chin and try to improve moving into the next apparatus. I tried to put on a show on high bar so to get through that routine was great, it’s the first time I’ve done that routine in a competition. So to do it on the biggest stage in the world I’m very happy with that.

“I’m excited for the parallel bar final, I’ve got six days to rest and recover and get myself ready for the final – I’m excited. All the top people in the world all fighting it out on the parallel bars so I can’t wait.”

Men’s 3×3 basketball: Latvia have won the gold, triumphing over ROC by 21-18 in the final.

Men’s football: Defending champions Brazil have advanced to the quarter-finals after a 3-1 victory over Saudi Arabia on Wednesday helped them top Group D while Ivory Coast booked their berth by sending Germany home.

Japan advanced after delivering the knockout blow to 10-man France with a 4-0 win to stay perfect in Group A. Takefusa Kubo, Hiroki Sakai, Koji Miyoshi and Daizen Maeda all scored for the rampant hosts while Randal Kolo Muani was sent off for France.

They take on New Zealand in the quarter-finals while Mexico, who pipped France to second place in Group A with a 3-0 win over South Africa, will meet South Korea.

Cycling: A German cycling coach has apologised after being overheard on camera using racist language while encouraging a rider in today’s men’s Olympic time trial in Fuji.

Patrick Moster used derogatory language when urging Nikias Arndt to try to catch Eritrean rider Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier and Algeria’s Azzedine Lagab and his comments were picked up by German TV station ARD.

“‘If I heard that correctly he said ‘get the camel drivers!’,” said ARD commentator Florian Nass. “Something like that has no place in sport. This is absolutely underground. Sorry, I can’t think of anything … that is unworthy.”

Following the conclusioon of the time-trial, which was won by Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic, Moster, 54, made his way to the mixed zone to apologise for his comments. “‘I was in the feed zone and cheered on Nikias Arndt,” he said. “In the heat of the moment and with the overall burden that we have here at the moment, my choice of words was wrong. I am sorry. I’m so sorry, I can only sincerely apologise. I didn’t mean to discredit anyone.”

Germany’s Olympic Federation released a statement in the aftermath of the controversy. “Team Germany represents Olympic values like respect, fair play and tolerance throughout the competitions and beyond,” it said. “It is important that Moster apologised while the race was still on. Nonetheless we will discuss the matter with him directly.”

Moster is understood to have made his way to the Algerian team’s spot in the paddock to apologise after the race, but they had already left.

More on the medals table: “Rick Leskowitz is wrong, I’m afraid,” writes Dan Catton. “The Guardian is using the traditional method for assigning places, with gold being the main criteria used, not total medals won.

If you go to the official website of the Tokyo Olympics and view the medals table there, you’ll see that that’s the case.

“Whether that’s the fairest or most accurate way to do is open to question but it is the way the Olympics themselves do it.”

An email: “As a point of comparison as to how well Team GB are doing, here were the medals for Team GB today compared to after the end of Day Five at the last three Olympics,” writes Des Brown.

• Beijing 2008 : two golds, two silvers, three bronze. Total: seven.
• London 2012 : two golds, three Silvers, four bronze. Total: nine.
• Rio 2016: three Golds, three silvers, six Bronze. Total: 12.
• Tokyo 2020: five golds, six Silvers, five bronze. Total: 16.

Gymnastics: Daiki Hashimoto, 19, is Japan’s new gymnastics superstar after winning the men’s all-around by a whisker from China’s China’s Xiao Ruoteng and ROC’s Nikita Nagornyy. Hats off to Great Britain’s Joe Fraser and James Hall, who finished just inside the top 10.

Women’s 3×3 basketball: The USA have beaten the Russian Olympic Committee to win the first Olympic gold medal in the sport.

Equestrianism: Charlotte Dujardin has been reflecting on her achievement in becoming the most decorated British female Olympian of all time after taking third place in the dressage.

“People say it, and I can’t quite believe it,” she said. “Being level with Katherine Grainger was good enough, and now I have beaten her. It’s incredible, and I can honestly say I am proud of myself. I knew I wasn’t going to go down without a fight.

“I wanted to go out and enjoy it, and he gave me absolutely everything. To win medals individually and in the team in the last three Games, I couldn’t be prouder. And to do it with a new dance partner, I couldn’t be prouder.

“I was literally throwing him from one thing to another thing, and he just keeps going. What he has done here is phenomenal.”

Gymnastics: It’s official! Daiki Hashimoto wins the men’s all-around with a final score of 88.465.

Gymnastics: Japan look to have nicked the gold medal in the men’s all-around with the very last performance of the day by 19-year-old Hashimoto Daiki. We’re just waiting on the judges but he certainly seems to think he’s won after an epic performance on the high bar.

Equestrianism: “Double Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin has cemented her place in the history books as the most decorated British female Olympian of all time, winning a bronze in the individual dressage – her sixth Olympic medal,” writes Alexandra Topping. Read on …

An email: “I’m a big Guardian fan from America and am following the Olympics via your updates,” writes Rick Leskowitz. “Thank you! But I have one major complaint: how the medal count is tallied.

“At the moment, Japan is atop the table with 12 gold and 9 others (silver plus bronze), while the USA is in third with 10 gold and 20 silver plus bronze. But this tally overvalues gold. Would Japan still be in first with their current totals if the USA had, say, 15 silver plus 15 bronze to go with ‘only’ 10 gold? Clearly not, so it’s time for a re-do.

“The traditional scoring method is more accurate: three points for gold, two for silver, one for bronze. The current standings would now read:

• 1. USA – 61 total points
• 2. China – 52
• 3. Japan – 49
• 4. ROC – 42
• 5. Great Britain – 32
• 6. Australia – 29

“Note – I’m not just being a chauvinistic American. This method also bumps Great Britain up from 6th to 5th!”

Quite apart from the fact that you’ve made my head hurt, is there any way you could devise a system that would bump Ireland nearer the top with their one bronze?

Men’s all-around gymnastics: With just the high bar to come in the men’s all-around China’s Xiao Ruoteng leads from ROC’s Nikita Nagornyy and Japan’s Hashimoto Daiki. British representatives James Hall and Joe Fraser are in 11th and 12th place respectively.

Men’s rugby sevens: Fiji retained their Olympic title earlier today in what was one of the feel-good highlights of the Games so far in the humble opinion of this reporter. Floods and covid-19 have made life extremely difficult for the South Pacific islanders in the past year and their rugby team have not seen their friends or families since Easter. They can rest assured that they haven’t been forgotten …

Kon’nichiwa everybody. Plenty of medals have been won today and there are a few more up for grabs, specifically in the men’s and women’s 3×3 basketball, men’s all-around gymnastics and men’s 73kg weightlifting. We’ll all also look back on the day’s events thus far, bringing you all the reaction and look ahead to tomorrow’s schedule.

And with that, I’m going to pass the blogging baton over to Barry Glendenning. You may email him here. Bye!

3×3 Basketball: It’s crunch time in the 3×3 basketball, with all the medals to be decided in the next couple of hours. First up is the women’s bronze medal game, and China are 14-10 up against France with just a couple of minutes to go.

Dressage: It’s a German one-two in the individual dressage! Jessica von Bredow-Werndl wins gold, Isabell Werth comes second in this event for the fifth time, and Charlotte Dujardin claims bronze to become Britain’s most decorated female Olympian!

Swimming: Erika Brown wins the swim-off! Earlier Australia’s Emma McKeon broke the Olympic record over the same distance, and was just the smidgiest smidge away from a world record. “I didn’t expect to go so fast,” McKeon said. “Obviously seeing it was that close I wish had longer fingernails.”

Dressage: Dorothee Schneider appears to be having a difficult time on her horse, Showtime. Dujardin might end up with a medal here!

Swimming: The last race of the day is the women’s 100m freestyle swim-off between Erika Brown and Wu Qinfeng, with the last place in the semi-finals at stake.

Swimming: Australia destroyed their women’s 4x200m freestyle heat, winning by nearly 7sec, and overall were the fastest team by nearly 3sec. They therefore storm into the final, where they are joined by USA, China, Canada, ROC, Germany, France and Hungary.

Dressage: Dujardin’s 88.543% is good enough to put her in third place. Two Germans in Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and Isabell Werth are above her, and Dorothee Schneider is the last rider out and can seal a German clean sweep of the medals.

Dressage: There was also “a slight irregularity in the hind leg”. It’s a hopeless case.

Dressage: Dujardin’s horse was also “a bit eager to come into the trot”. I’m not sure there’s any way back from this.

Dressage: Apparently Dujardin’s horse offered too much in the piaffe.

Dressage: Isabell Werth can get no better than silver this year, and could be pushed out of the medals altogether if the last two hit the horsedancing heights, sitting as she currently does in second place. Charlotte Dujardin is out now.

Cycling: Geraint Thomas has posted his reaction to today’s time trial, where he finished 12th:

Tennis: Andy Murray has posted his reaction to today’s doubles defeat, probably his last ever Olympic action:

Dressage: Down to the last three in the horsedancing. Isabell Werth, the 52-year-old German and individual gold-medallist in Atlanta in 1996 (and team gold-medallist all the time because she’s German) is at her sixth Olympic games, has never finished below second, and is horsedancing as I type.

Swimming: The men’s 200m IM heats have finished, and Britain’s Duncan Scott is safely through with the sixth-fastest time, though he was very nearly a second behind the fastest finisher, Michael Andrew.

Cycling: Here’s a piece on Rohan Dennis, the Australian who won time trial bronze for Australia today:

Three years ago, reflecting on a career that, until that point had been defined by adversity rather than triumph, Rohan Dennis insisted: “If you keep knocking on the door, one day it will open.” It was an apt mantra for Dennis, a mercurial cyclist from South Australia. In the three years since, the door has opened – to two individual time trial world championship titles. On Wednesday, five years after a devastating mechanical ruined his medal hopes at the 2016 Olympics, the door opened again – to a bronze medal at Tokyo 2020.

Much more here:

Athletics: Action in the Olympic Stadium starts on Friday. Here’s Sean Ingle on the key British hope, Dina Asher-Smith:

When Dina Asher-Smith ran her first cross-country race in primary school she hated it so much she nearly stopped – only for her parents to bribe her with an ice cream to keep going. It worked – and then some. Asher-Smith ended up sprinting through the field to finish fifth out of 400 and a glittering athletics career was born.

Now, at the age of 25, Asher-Smith has accumulated an athletics CV to die for. It includes five world championship medals – including world 200m gold and 100m silver in Doha in 2019 – as well as a 4x100m bronze at the Rio Olympics and numerous British records. Now she is at her peak and seeking to achieve what no British female sprinter has accomplished before: win Olympic gold over 100m or 200m.

Much more here:

Dressage: The individual horsedancing competition is gradually approaching a conclusion. With five to go Denmark are in first and third, through Cathrine Dufour and Carina Kruth, but the favourites are still to come.

Fencing: It’s gold for South Korea in the men’s team sabre! It was a one-sided final, with Italy thumped 45-26. Aldo Montano went down 5-0 to Oh Sanguk and 5-1 to Kim Junghwan, which didn’t really help.

Swimming: Next up are heats for the men’s 200m individual medley, one of the great Olympic swimming events in my humble opinion. Britain’s Duncan Scott, who won gold in the 4x200m relay earlier today, is among the favourites to win it and goes in the sixth and final heat alongside one of the other favourites, Andrew Michael of the US.