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Team GB went in search of their first medal success on day two of competition in Japan.
After an inauspicious start, Britain finally got their first medal through judoka Chelsie Giles, who claimed bronze in the women’s -52kg event.
GB’s first true gold medal hope came and went in the taekwondo on Sunday as Jade Jones was beaten in the first round of the women’s -57kg tournament. Kimia Alizadeh of the Refugee Olympic Team stunned the double Olympic champion 16-12.
In the men’s -68kg taekwondo, Bradly Sinden had to settle for silver after a pulsating final defeat by Uzbekistan’s Ulugbek Rashitov.
Earlier on Sunday, GB’s defending women’s hockey champions lost to Germany in their Pool A opener but Adam Peaty cruised into the men’s 100m breaststroke final as teenage Tunisian swimmer Ahmed Hafnaoui produced a shock upset in the men’s 400m freestyle.
Andy Murray was forced to pull out of the tennis singles event, but will continue in the doubles, while women’s world no1 Ashleigh Barty was eliminated as Naomi Osaka cruised through.
Lizzie Deignan finished 11th in the women’s cycling road race which ended with the major upset of the Games so far as Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer claimed a stunning victory ahead of the Netherlands’ Annemiek van Vleuten, who thought she had won.
Elsewhere, Dina Asher-Smith has been named as Team GB’s athletics captain, offering a rousing speech that will surely inspire her team-mates to glory.
Golfers Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm will not be competing in Tokyo after both testing positive for Covid-19.
