Okay, before we do a sweep around Tokyo how about the effort of Sifan Hassan to get knocked down in her 1,500m heat, get up and win the race? Don’t take it from me, take it from Reuters: Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan’s dream of an unprecedented treble looked under threat on Monday as she tumbled and fell in her 1,500 metres heat but she recovered brilliantly and pushed hard to win her race and advance to the semi-finals. Hassan, a 5,000m world bronze medalist and world champion in the 1,500m and 10,000m, confirmed she will bid to win medals in all three races, in what would be an Olympic first. It didn’t go smoothly for her on Monday. At the start of the last lap of her 1,500m run, she got tangled up with Kenya’s Edinah Jebitok, who had just tripped and gone to ground in front of her. Hassan fell but quickly picked herself up and pushed hard, running from 11th with 600m remaining, to win in 4:05.17, her resilience ensuring she qualified for Wednesday’s semi-finals. The Ethiopian-born 28-year-old will have to recover quickly as she is scheduled to run in the 5,000m final on Monday night. A major rival for gold, the defending Olympic champion, Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon, easily won her 1,500m heat with a dominant performance that paved her path to the semi-final, keeping her on track to retain the title she won five years ago in Rio. Other qualifiers from Monday’s 1,500m heats include Britain’s Laura Muir, who came second in her heat to advance. Muir, who had also contemplated running in the 800m, said she will withdraw from the shorter distance. “I’d hate to be mediocre at both and, while it was emotionally a tough decision to make, mentally it was clear to me that the 1500m is where I needed to be,” she told BBC Sport. Take it away, Chumbawamba. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (PUR) wins women"s 100m hurdle gold! Camacho-Quinn dominates a top-notch field, clearing away from the sixth jump to win in 12.37 and cap an incredible season in sprint hurdling. USA’s Kendra Harrison (12.52) claims silver - her first Olympic medal - in a photo finish over fast-finishing Jamaican Megan Tapper (12.55). Harrison did well to steady herself after clipping the eighth jump. But this was all about Camacho-Quinn. It seems nobody can hold a candle to her. A stunning display of power, precision and technical brilliance from the Puerto Rican. Women’s 100m hurdles final: incredibly high-quality race coming up, if that needs to be said for an Olympic final. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn is the woman to beat. Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE) wins men"s long jump gold! Huge, huge jump by Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece to jump 8.41m and knock Juan Miguel Echevarria out of gold medal contention on countback. Echevarria has a chance to better the Greek’s leap with his final jump but pulls up on his approach to the sand, clutching his leg. Oh the drama! Gold to Tentoglou! So first position in the high jump was shared and now the first two men in the long jump final cannot be separated by distance, only countback. Tentoglou has been the standout jumper this season but that was cruel on Echevarria, who was all over a gold medalist until the very end. Bronze goes to Cuba’s Maykel Masso with a jump of 8.21m. Women’s 100m hurdles final next. Men’s long jump final: Righto, we are at the business end now: the sixth and final round of jumps. Cuban Juan Miguel Echevarria still holds away in gold medal position with that jump of 8.41m. Sweden’s Thobias Montler just put in what looked to be a superior jump - and it was - but agonisingly it was a foul, barely centimetres over the stripe. Heartbreak for the Swede. But rules are rules. Spaniard Eusebio Caceres has just put his best foot forward, registering a seasonal best to move into bronze position behind Echevarria and Cuba’s Maykel Masso (8.21m). USA’s Juvaughn Harrison will not be medaling after closing with a jump of 7.49m - his best of the final was 8.15m. Perhaps it’s the sexiness of the 100m, perhaps it’s because Australia has been starved of a male sprinter of note for what seems like a lifetime. Perhaps it’s both. Even though he failed to back up his sizzling heat run in the semis, there is barely a sports fan down under who does not know the name Rohan Browning. Women’s 200m: the seventh and final heat has gone the way of USA’s Jenna Prandini, who looked to run well within herself in a time of 22.56 - not the quickest of the morning but by no means the slowest. And a big run by Australia’s Riley Day to finish third and qualify for the semi-finals. Splitting the pair was Gambian Gina Bass. “I’m into the semi-final, It’s unreal. I think I handled myself well,” said Day, AKA the Beaudesert Bullet. Her plan for the semis? “Absolutely floor it.” Take it away, Starsailor. Men’s long jump final: the springheeled Cuban Juan Miguel Echevarria is still showing the way with that jump of 8.41m but the big mover is USA’s Juvaughn Harrison, who has leapt into bronze medal contention with a jump (his fifth of the final) of 8.15m. A bit of Covid news, anyone? Bad luck if the answer is no. Tokyo Olympics organisers reported on Monday 17 new Games-related Covid-19 cases including one athlete, bringing the total number since 1 July to 276. Women’s 200m: no such dramas for 100m gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah, who like Jackson left plenty in reserve in the penultimate heat but didn’t make the mistake of failing to qualify for the semis. The Jamaican was content to sit in third in the run to the line, behind Canadian Crystal Emmanuel (22.74) and Team GB’s Beth Dobbin. Women’s 200m: big news out of the fifth heat with 100m bronze medalist Shericka Jackson fairly well ambling down the straight to be nosed out of third place - and out of the event. She finished 0.004 - that’s four one-thousandths of a second! - behind Dalia Kaddari in what is a big-name casualty from the women’s 200m. The Jamaican looked to ease up on the line. As the kids say, WTF?!?! The heat was taken out by Bahaman Anthonique Strachan in a sluggish 22.76. Women’s 200m: a couple more heats have been run and won, with Swiss Mujinga Kambundji claiming a five-runner third heat in 22.26. But the action was really up a notch or two in the fourth heat. Namibian Christine Mbomba ran a national record 22.11 and was pushed all the way by USA’s Gabrielle Thomas. Daylight was third in what was a two-woman race. Well, that’s not entirely true. Third place went to Nigeria’s Aminatou Seyni, who was a half second and change behind Thomas in a time of 22.72. In sprinting, that is a big gap. Men’s long jump final: some moving and shaking after the second round of jumps. At least there was. Gold medal favourite Juan Miguel Echevarria had slipped to fourth fourth place but is now back where many think he will stay - on top - after nailing a 8.41m jump early in the third round. Cuba’s Maykel Masso and Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou are presently in medal positions but there is a way to go in this final. The best USA’s Juvaughn Harrison, fresh from his exertions in the high jump, can do after two jumps is 7.70m. Women’s 200m: Easy does it for Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the Jamaican who ran second in the 100m final, leading throughout from lane six to clock 22.22. Also guaranteed a spot in the semis is Namibian Beatrice Masilingi and Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers, the Rio silver medalist who toiled into third place. She really does look a power of the past. She fairly well glides over the track, does Fraser-Pryce. She’ll be there at the business end of this event. Women’s 200m: the first heat has been taken out by fourth placegetter in the 100m final, Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Côte d’Ivoire in a time of 22.30. She did it rather easily to finish in front of, Shaunae Miller-Uibo (Bahamas) and Nigeria’s Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha. All three are automatically through to tonight’s semi-finals. Men’s long jump final: the first round of jumps is under way. The red-hot gold medal favourite, Juan Miguel Echevarria of Cuba, has shown up early with a leap of 8.09m. Long way to go. More on that shortly. Now, however, attention turns to the women’s 200m heats. Thanks Tom. Stellar work as usual from your good self. Plenty on - mostly at the National Stadium - but my doesn’t the end of the swim meet seem to leave a a big hole in the Olympics. I might well be saying that as an Australian... Anyhoo, on with the Games. I’ll hand over to the esteemed Scott Heinrich now. Enjoy the rest of the day’s fun... In the men’s hammer throw, Group A have finished their throws. France’s Quentin Bigot and Ukraine’s Mykhaylo Kokhan threw past the automatic qualification distance of 77.50m GBs Nick Miller finished third with 76.93m and will almost certainly make the final too. USA’s Alex Young was 11th and will struggle to move on. Next is the men’s long jump final. USA’s Juvaughn Harrison is worth a note: he competed in the high jump final last night. No Aussie, British, NZ or Canadian athletes in this one. In the Canoe Sprint Women’s K1 200m, GB’s Deborah Kerr and Emily Lewis missed out on the top two spots in their heats, which would have seen them go straight through to the semifinals. They will get another chance in the quarters though. NZ’s Lisa Carrington won her heat though and is straight into the semis. The third and final heat of the 1500m stars the reigning Olympic champion, Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon. She duly wins by a mile (not a literal mile, pedant). I believe that is what is called “sending a message”. And the commentator duly says she “sent a message”. It’s the fastest heat, which makes sense as they knew what they needed to run to get to the semis. Other qualifiers from the heat are Uganda’s Winnie Nanyondo, Australia’s Linden Hall, Japan’s Tanaka Nozomi, USA’s Heather MacLean and GB’s Katie Snowden. USA’s Cory McGee is through as a fastest loser but GB’s Revee Walcott-Nolan missed out by 0.01 seconds. Eeesh. The brilliant Dutch runner Sifan Hassan is next in heat two of the women’s 1500m. She, you may remember, is also competing in the 5000m and 10000m. In fact she’s back for the 5000m final later today. She hangs at the back of the pack for much of the race (she won the 1500m at the 2019 world champs - and the 10,000m while she was at it). Oh, and she falls on the final lap! But she’s back up. She has to sprint to get back in contention, which she does and qualifies as winner. Of course she does. Told you she was brilliant. That may well take it out of her for tonight’s 5000m final though... The other automatic qualifiers are Australia’s Jessica Hull, Czech star Diana Mezuliáníková, USA’s Elle Purrier St Pierre, Italy’s Gaia Sabbatini and Ethiopia’s Lemlem Hailu. GB’s Revee Walcott-Nolan is seventh and may end up as a fastest loser. Alix Klineman and April Ross of the USA are through to the quarter-finals of the women’s beach volleyball with a 2-0 victory over Cuba’s Leila Martínez and Lidiannis Echevarria. A fairly slow few laps before a burst on the final one for a winning time of 4min 03sec. Laura Muir qualifies comfortably in a heat won by Canada’s Gabriela Debues-Stafford. Finland’s Sara Kuivisto ran a national record to make the next round alongside Winny Chebet of Kenya and Freweyni Hailu of Ethiopia. USA’s Cory McGee is eighth and probably won’t make it as a fastest loser. Australia’s Georgia Griffith was 14th and her campaign is over. On to the women’s 1500m now. And Britain’s Laura Muir goes in heat one. She has easily the best personal best out of any of the other athletes in the heat. She finished seventh in Rio and fifth at the world championships. The first six in the heat go through. USA’s Cory McGee and Australia’s Georgia Griffith will also hope to qualify. It’s 30C/86F in Tokyo and only just past 9.30am. Yikes! GB’s Nick Miller is just short of the mark for automatic qualification for the hammer final with a throw of 76.93m. But that should be good enough to make the final anyway. He’s now in third place after a foul on his first attempt. The US pair of Ross and Klineman won every game in the group stages of the women’s beach volleyball and they’re going along pretty well in the last 16. They’re up 1-0 in sets at the moment to Cuba’s Martínez and Echevarria. There was a surprise winner in the men’s 100m yesterday in Tokyo and our man at the Olympic Stadium, Andy Bull, has some Thoughts: Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the fastest man on the planet, the face of the 2020 Games, your new Olympic champion, wait, wait, I’ve got it here somewhere, on one of these pieces of paper, yes: Marcell Jacobs. If you don’t know – and plenty didn’t – you do now. Jacobs, a 26-year-old former long jumper, born in Texas, raised in Italy, won a wildly unpredictable and wide-open men’s 100m in 9.80sec. Which is pretty damn quick. And would have won almost every other Olympic final, including, yes, the last one at Rio in 2016, when Usain Bolt finished in 9.81sec. And there he is, unavoidably. I say almost every Olympic final because there are two exceptions, Bolt’s twice-in-a-lifetime runs in Beijing in 2008 and London 2012. If you were watching on Sunday, you’ll have seen that World Athletics have started blacking out the stadium at the beginning of the sprint finals. It’s one of the new tricks they’re using to make the sport more appealing now that they’re having to do without their biggest star. Maybe they’re hoping that in the pitch blackness, no one will notice the shadow Bolt still casts over the sport. But I could see him in my mind’s eye, maybe you could too. If it helps any, so could Jacobs. “I can recall every one of his races because I watched them all,” he said, “It’s unbelievable that I am here today, where he was before.” To his credit, Jacobs resisted making any comparisons. “He was the face of the entire sport, which he has changed forever. I’ve just won an Olympic medal, it’s not time to compare myself to him,” he said. In his pomp, Bolt would have obliterated this field. The men competing here will likely have to live with his 100m times for a long while yet, just like the women have lived with Florence Griffith Joyner’s. France’s Quentin Bigot has the first action of the day at the Olympic Stadium. He throws 76.10m in the men’s hammer qualification. Also coming up in the next hour: Cuba v USA in the women’s beach volleyball; the heats of the women’s K1 200m canoe sprint; the women’s 1500m heats; and Germany v Argentina in the women’s hockey quarter-finals. The women’s 1500m heats start in around 30 minutes. The Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan will attempt to make the next round. Just getting to this stage is impressive enough, but Hassan will be on the track again this evening in Tokyo in the 5000m final. Oh, and she’s also running in the 10,000m later this week. She’s not here to make up the numbers either. She won the 1500m and the 10,000 at the 2019 world champs. Oh, and got bronze in the 5000m at the 2017 world champs. So think about that the next time you’re boasting about doing 12,000 steps in a day. The only live sport going on at the moment is the Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol. And it’s only qualification! Not even the final! Sorry, I don’t make the schedule. These guys would be incredibly annoying to play online in Call of Duty, especially if, like me, you only play it once a year at a friend’s house where you spend your time getting shot 28 times in a minute by some 14-year-olds on the other side of the world (they have really powerful rifles). The standings so far today: France’s Clément Bessaguet and Jean Quiquampoix are first and second; Germany’s Christian Reitz third; and South Korea’s Han Daeyoon in fourth. Australia’s Sergei Evglevski is 19th. For USA, the Leverett (brothers?), Henry and Jack, are 21st and 25th. There has been some debate on the sports desk about the shared gold in the high jump yesterday in Tokyo. For those of you catching up Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi and Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim passed up the chance for a sudden death jump off for gold and instead decided to share the Olympic title. “I still can’t believe it happened,” Tamberi said. “Sharing with a friend is even more beautiful. ... It was just magical.” Some people thought it devalued the level of competition. I thought it was quite nice and, even better, annoyed the “everyone gets a trophy these days” brigade. Here’s what Bakwaas says in our comments section: And it’s a big day for the United States women’s soccer team, who take on their rivals to the north, Greenla Canada in around eight hours. The last time they met in an Olympic semi-final it ended with a 4-3 victory to the US in extra-time. Here’s Suzanne Wrack, who will be at the match for us, on what to expect: As tight as that game was and as much as it added to an already spicy rivalry, the Canadians have struggled to get the better of the US. The last time Canada beat USA was 20 years ago, in March 2001. Of the 61 games played between the two teams the US have won 51 times, lost three and seven have ended in draws. That record does not mean there is any room for complacency, said Andonovksi. “They’re a very good team. They have very good individuals,” he warned. The Chicago Red Stars defender Casey Krueger said: “Any time you’re playing Canada you’re going to be up for it because of the rivalry. We know they are going to bring their best and we have to do the same. We hope to bring that energy.” After a remarkably successful week in the pool, Team Australia turn their eyes toward other disciplines. Today, the Hockeyroos play a quarter-final against India, Australia’s sailors target more medals, while there is hope of equestrian success and the Matildas seek to continue their charge towards a medal against Sweden. Here’s a full rundown of what to expect from the Aussie athletes: Preamble Hello. And so we bade farewell to swimming yesterday but we still have the athletics/track & field, cycling and, of course, the modern pentathlon. Actually let’s check if we have the modern pentathlon coming ... Yep! On the fifth. So that’s nice Anyway, here’s my colleague Martin Belam with what’s coming up today. Key events for Day 10 All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for Edinburgh, 13 hours for New York and 16 hours for San Francisco. 🌟If you only watch one thing: 3.30pm-6.30pm, Track cycling – cycling moves indoors to the Izu Velodrome, and opens with the women’s team sprint competition. The final starts at 6.09pm 🥇 9am, Beach volleyball – it is the round of 16 in both the men’s and the women’s sections 9am-11.55am and 7pm-10pm, Athletics – another packed programme in the stadium. The medals will come from the women’s 100m hurdles final (11.50am), women’s discus (8pm), the men’s 3,000m steeplechase (9.15pm) and the final race of the day at 9.40pm is the women’s 5,000m 11.50am and 3.50pm and 7.50pm, Weightlifting – it is the women’s 87kg and +87kg groups in the morning, and then the final of the 87kg group at 3.50pm, with the evening final being the +87kg. The +87kg category will feature Laurel Hubbard 🥇 1pm and 8pm, Badminton – the afternoon sees the bronze and gold medal matches in the women’s doubles. The evening session is the climax of the men’s singles 🥇 5pm, Artistic gymnastics – there are medals in three disciplines. The men have the rings final and vault final, and the women have the floor exercise final 🥇 5pm and 8.45pm, Equestrian – it’s the final day of the eventing competition and the team and individual medals will be decided by showjumping 🐴🥇 5pm and 8pm, Football – the women’s semi-finals are on Monday. USA v Canada in Kashima first, then Australia v Sweden in Yokohama 7.30pm, Artistic swimming – it is the opening free routine preliminary round. You can find our full interactive events schedule here. It also acts as a live scorebaord during the day so you can see exactly what is happening where. As it stands Here’s how the emoji table stood at 10.25pm Tokyo time: 1 🇨🇳 China 🥇 24 🥈 14 🥉 13 total: 51 2 🇺🇸 USA 🥇 20 🥈 23 🥉 16 total: 59 3 🇯🇵 Japan 🥇 17 🥈 5 🥉 9 total: 31 4 🇦🇺 Australia 🥇 14 🥈 3 🥉 14 total: 31 5 ◽️ Not Russia 🥇 12 🥈 19 🥉 13 total: 44 6 🇬🇧 Great Britain 🥇 10 🥈 10 🥉 12 total: 32 7 🇫🇷 France 🥇 5 🥈 10 🥉 6 total: 21 8 🇰🇷 South Korea 🥇 5 🥈 4 🥉 8 total: 17 9 🇮🇹 Italy 🥇 4 🥈 8 🥉 15 total: 27 10 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🥇 4 🥈 7 🥉 6 total: 17