Tokyo Olympics: Day-by-day guide to the key events, big stars and British medal hopes

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The Olympics are finally here so what better way to plan your two weeks than with our day-by-day guide (all times BST).

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Saturday, 31 July - day eight

Medal events: 21

Archery (men's individual), athletics (men's discus, mixed 4x400m relay, women's 100m), badminton (men's doubles), fencing (women's team sabre), judo (mixed team), rugby sevens (women), sailing (women's RS:X, men's RS:X), shooting (trap mixed team, women's 50m rifle 3 positions), swimming (men's 100m fly, women's 200m back, women's 800m free, mixed 4x100m medley relay), tennis (women's singles), trampoline (men), triathlon (mixed relay), weightlifting (men's 81kg, men's 96kg).

Highlights

Dina Asher-Smith will be hoping to line up for Britain in the final of the women's 100m (13:50), an event in which she won world silver in 2019. The Briton was only the 11th fastest qualifier for the semi-finals at 11:15 but says she "has another level to give".

World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the favourite, while defending champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, Ivory Coast's Marie-Josee Ta Lou and a third Jamaican in Shericka Jackson will all be eyeing medals.

Also watch out for the new 4x400m mixed relay (13:35) - Britain scraped into the final but the United States team were disqualified for a handover infringement.

Saturday also sees the start of the men's 100m (03:35 and 11:45).

Triathlon's mixed relay makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo on Saturday (23:30 Friday until 01:00 Saturday UK time). Two men and two women on each team must in turn swim for 300m, cycle for eight kilometres, then run for two kilometres. The whole thing is over in around 90 minutes. Could it be the moment that Jonny Brownlee finally claims Olympic gold after individual bronze (2012) and silver (2016)?

Emma Wilson, whose mum Penny competed at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, is guaranteed a sailing medal heading into the RS:X windsurfing medal race but what colour will it be? (06:33-06:56). Tom Squires is in fifth place going into the men's medal race.

Women's sevens concludes on Saturday. Great Britain, fourth in Rio five years ago, take on France in the semi-finals (03:30). Fiji and New Zealand meet in the other semi-final, with the final set for 10:00.

Brit watch

It's a big day for mixed relays. In the pool, the 4x100m mixed medley relay (03:43) promises to deliver a thrilling start to the day - and another medal for Adam Peaty. Britain were the 2019 world bronze medallists in this event, behind Australia and the United States.

In shooting, Seonaid McIntosh takes on an event where she has demonstrated she can win major international titles: the women's 50m rifle 3 positions (04:00-09:10), where competitors shoot while kneeling, then lying down, and finally while standing. Meanwhile, the mixed trap team event will feature GB's two trap shooters, who have the calibre to be medal contenders (01:00-06:50).

It's 'moving day' in the men's golf with just 36 holes to go before the gold medal is decided. Great Britain's Paul Casey and Tommy Fleetwood and Ireland's Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry will seek to climb the leaderboard (23:30-08:00).

Karriss Artingstall has already guaranteed herself a boxing medal but looks to reach the final of the women's featherweight division (11:24).

Great Britain's women have yet to secure their place in the quarter-finals and take on Ireland in their final group match of the hockey tournament (12:45).

World watch

American swimmer Caeleb Dressel goes for his third gold medal when he takes part in the 100m butterfly (02:30) and could return for the mixed medley relay final later.

The women's tennis singles final takes place between Switzerland's Belinda Bencic and the Czech Republic's Marketa Vondrousova (13:00 approx), while Novak Djokovic bids to win singles bronze and mixed doubles gold.

The men's football tournament reaches the quarter-final stage with games at 09:00, 10:00, 11:00 and 12:00.

Not wanting to miss out on all the mixed action, judo launches its mixed team event on Saturday (03:00-11:50). This is new for Tokyo 2020 and involves teams of six athletes - your team has to win at least 4-2 against the other nation to progress. A 3-3 draw means a 'golden score' contest to find a winner.

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Sunday, 1 August - day nine

Medal events: 25

Artistic gymnastics (men's floor, women's vault, men's pommel horse, women's uneven bars), athletics (women's shot put, men's high jump, women's triple jump, men's 100m), badminton (women's singles), cycling (women's BMX freestyle, men's BMX freestyle), diving (women's 3m springboard), fencing (men's team foil), golf (men), sailing (laser radial women, laser men), swimming (men's 50m free, women's 50m free, men's 1500m free, women's 4x100m medley relay, men's 4x100m medley relay), tennis (men's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles), weightlifting (women's 76kg).

Highlights

For the first time since 2004, a men's 100m final (13:50) will take place at the Olympics without Usain Bolt. Who will provide the drama this time? The US has Noah Lyles though he may be an even better bet over 200m, where he's the world champion. Canada's Andre de Grasse finished third in Rio. Bolt himself thinks Trayvon Bromell, who won US Olympic trials, is the favourite. Zharnel Hughes is set to lead the British bid for a medal alongside Reece Prescod and CJ Ujah. Christian Coleman, the reigning world champion, is banned.

In gymnastics there are two finals where Brits took gold five years ago: the men's floor (09:00) and men's pommel horse (10:30), both won by Max Whitlock in 2016. Whitlock is the world champion on pommel horse, while Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan won world bronze in the same event two years ago. The women's vault (09:45) is one of the Olympics' more spectacular events - but will Simone Biles compete?

Earlier in the day, expect the return of Duncan Scott and Adam Peaty as Britain try to turn their men's 4x100m medley relay world title into an Olympic gold (03:30). Their nearest challengers in 2019 were the United States and Russia. From 02:30 watch the 50m freestyle finals to see the world's fastest sprinters in a one-length sprint for glory, possibly featuring GB's Ben Proud and Anna Hopkin.

Adam Peaty defended his 100m breaststroke title earlier in the Games

The men's singles final leads a packed day of tennis (07:00-14:00) with the women's doubles and mixed doubles finals also to come.

It's also the final round of the men's golf tournament (result expected around 08:00). Hideki Matsuyama, the first Japanese player to win the Masters, is a home favourite.

Brit watch

BMX freestyle (02:10-04:50) is new for Tokyo 2020. While you've seen regular BMX racing at the Olympics before, the freestyle event focuses instead on a minute-long series of tricks and skills. GB's Charlotte Worthington gave up a career as a chef to train full-time when freestyle was added to the Olympics, and she enters this event as a world bronze medallist. If 19-year-old two-time world champion Hannah Roberts wins for the US, she'll be the first teenage woman ever to take an Olympic cycling title. GB's men's contender is Declan Brooks.

In sailing, the medal races take place in Laser and Laser Radial (04:00-10:00). GB's representatives are Elliott Hanson (Laser) and Alison Young (Laser Radial), who's trying to improve on an eighth-place finish in Rio after she broke her ankle in the build-up to those Games.

Grace Reid dives for Britain as a 2018 European champion in the 3m springboard event (07:00) alongside team-mate Scarlett Mew Jensen.

Men's hockey reaches the quarter-final stage.

World watch

Qatar have never won an Olympic title but that could change in the men's high jump (11:10-13:00), where the first man ever to successfully defend the high jump world title - Mutaz Barshim - will compete. Maksim Nedasekau, from Belarus, will be one of Barshim's big rivals.

Colombia's flagbearer, Caterine Ibarguen, will defend her Olympic triple jump title (12:20-1340) although by her own admission she hasn't had the best of build-ups. In a Latin American duel, she's likely to be challenged by Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas, who has defeated Ibarguen to win the past two world titles. The world record in this event, which has stood for more than a quarter of a century, could fall.

Greco-Roman wrestling starts on Sunday (from 03:00). Wrestlers contributed two of Cuba's five gold medals at Rio 2016, including one from Ismael Borrero in the men's 60kg category, which leads off the Tokyo wrestling schedule. Borrero has reportedly recovered from Covid-19 to compete.

Expert knowledge

Sea Forest Park, an island of reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay, should prove a spectacular venue for the eventing cross-country stage - although the anticipated heat has already had an impact. The cross-country will run early in the Tokyo morning (23:45 Saturday to 03:10 Sunday UK time) and over a shortened course to protect the health of humans and horses. It's not the first time that change has been made: Beijing 2008's cross-country course was similarly shortened.

Monday, 2 August - day 10

Medal events: 22

Artistic gymnastics (men's rings, women's floor, men's vault), athletics (men's long jump, women's 100m hurdles, women's discus, men's 3,000m steeplechase, women's 5,000m), badminton (women's doubles, men's singles), cycling (women's team sprint), equestrian (eventing team, eventing individual), sailing (49er FX women, 49er men), shooting (men's 25m rapid fire pistol, men's 50m rifle 3 positions), weightlifting (women's 87kg, women's +87kg), wrestling (women's freestyle 76kg, men's Greco-Roman 60kg, men's Greco-Roman 130kg).

Highlights

Monday is day one inside Tokyo's Izu Velodrome. A week of track cycling begins with qualifying in the team pursuits and the entire women's team sprint competition (07:30-10:30). There's no British representation in that event, where Germany and Australia are among the favourites, but both GB pursuit teams will be in action.

Eventing reaches its climax with the team and individual gold medals being awarded (09:00-14:25). Britain are current holders of the team world title although only Tom McEwen from that success is heading to Tokyo (Piggy March, also in the world gold medal-winning team, is a Tokyo alternate for Team GB). McEwen will be joined in the team event by Oliver Townend and Laura Collett.

The big athletics event of the day is the women's 5,000m (13:40-14:00). Eilish McColgan, who recently broke Paula Radcliffe's British record, leads Team GB's hopes alongside Jessica Judd and Amy-Eloise Markovc. Kenya's Hellen Obiri won the past two world titles but has never taken the 5,000m Olympic title.

Eilish McColgan shattered Paula Radcliffe's 5,000m British women's record, which had stood for 17 years, at a Diamond League meeting in Oslo in February

Women's football reaches the semi-final stage with games at 09:00 and 12:00.

Brit watch

Monday's sailing includes medal races in the women's 49er FX and men's 49er (04:00-10:00). Saskia Tidey, who sailed for Ireland at Rio 2016, will instead represent GB at Tokyo 2020 alongside Charlotte Dobson in the 49er FX. GB's 49er representatives are Stuart Bithell and Dylan Fletcher, the 2017 world champions.

Emily Campbell won weightlifting's +87kg European title only four months before her Olympic event (11:50-14:00) so she reaches Tokyo in excellent form.

Women's hockey reaches the quarter-final stage, with games starting from 01:30 to 10:30.

In athletics heats, watch for Dina Asher-Smith in the 200m (02:30-03:20) and Laura Muir in the early stages of the 1500m (01:35-02:05).

World watch

The women's 100m hurdles (03:50) offers a chance at redemption for Keni Harrison after a five-year wait. Harrison failed to gain selection for Team USA at Rio 2016 despite going on to break the world record just days before the Olympics. At Tokyo 2020, Harrison will lead the US challenge and can expect competition from Puerto Rico's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who has set some of the year's fastest times. Reiging world champion Nia Ali will be watching from home with her newborn son (whose father is Canadian sprinter Andre de Grasse).

Two of gymnastics' showpiece events are staged on Monday. The men's rings event (09:00) is one of the Olympics' defining images of strength as athletes perform manoeuvres while suspending themselves from a set of rings. Greece's Eleftherios Petrounias, the Rio 2016 gold medallist, is probably the favourite but Ibrahim Colak is the reigning world champion after taking Turkey's first gymnastics world title in 2019.

Meanwhile, the women's floor event (09:45) is another chance for a Simone Biles masterclass. GB's Jessica Gadirova enters Tokyo 2020 as the new European champion.

Badminton concludes with the gold medal matches in women's doubles and men's singles (05:00-15:00). World number one and two-time world champion Kento Momota will hope to win the men's gold for hosts Japan in the face of stiff Chinese competition. China's double Olympic champion Lin Dan retired last year, but Chen Long could emulate Lin in winning back-to-back titles if he adds a Tokyo victory to his Rio gold.

Expert knowledge

Artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronised swimming, begins on Monday (11:30-13:45). This and rhythmic gymnastics are the two Olympic sports in which only women compete. There's a duet event with two athletes and a team event with eight. Swimmers are judged on technical and artistic merit and are not allowed to touch the bottom or sides of the pool. Russia have won every available Olympic gold medal in artistic swimming since Sydney 2000.

Tuesday, 3 August - day 11

Medal events: 22

Artistic gymnastics (men's parallel bars, women's beam, men's horizontal bar), athletics (women's long jump, men's 400m hurdles, men's pole vault, women's hammer throw, women's 800m, women's 200m), boxing (women's feather, men's welter), canoe sprint (women's K1 200m, men's C2 1,000m, men's K1 1,000m, women's K2 500m), cycling (women's team pursuit, men's team sprint), diving (men's 3m springboard), sailing (mixed Nacra 17, men's Finn), weightlifting (men's 109kg), wrestling (women's freestyle 68kg, men's Greco-Roman 77kg, men's Greco-Roman 97kg).

Highlights

Dina Asher-Smith is back. The women's 200m (13:50) could be part of a big day for Team GB if things go to plan. Asher-Smith is the 200m world champion but faces the daunting prospect of Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and the fastest woman over 200m in the world this year, US sprinter Gabby Thomas.

This could be Britain's moment in the velodrome, too. Both Laura and Jason Kenny will be in action as the women's team pursuit (09:05) and men's team sprint (09:35) medals are decided. Laura Kenny has won the team pursuit at two Olympics in a row. Jason Kenny has won the team sprint at every Games since Beijing 2008.

Jack Laugher, by contrast, had to settle for second place in diving's 3m springboard event in 2016. Tuesday brings his chance to go one better (07:00-08:30). At the 2019 World Championships, he led heading into the final round before ultimately picking up bronze.

There are big medal opportunities on the water for Britain, too. Giles Scott, a Rio Olympic champion, defends his title in the Finn class medal race (06:30-07:00). He's a five-time world champion in the event. In the mixed Nacra 17 class (07:30-08:00) Britain's John Gimson and Anna Burnet are the 2020 world champions.

Meanwhile, boxing hands out its first medals. Pat McCormack, the 2019 world silver medallist in the men's welterweight division, will hope to reach the Tokyo final (11:05). Earlier in the day, women's featherweight world bronze medallist Karriss Artingstall could be in action (05:05).

Brit watch

As if there weren't enough opportunities above, Joe Fraser is a real medal threat for GB on the final day of artistic gymnastics. Fraser was the 2019 world champion on parallel bars and that final begins at 09:00. Immediately after that fans will hope to see Simone Biles in the beam final and Japan's Kohei Uchimura could produce something special in the very last event, the spectacular men's horizontal bar final.

Showjumping begins (11:00-14:45) with three Britons in action: Ben Maher and Scott Brash, who each helped GB to a first showjumping team Olympic title in 60 years at London 2012, are back alongside Holly Smith for Tokyo.

On top of all that, men's hockey reaches the semi-finals (02:30 and 11:00), which could yet involve Team GB.

World watch

The women's 800m final (13:25) is a chance to watch Uganda's Halimah Nakaayi, who performed a victory dance with team-mate Winnie Nanyondo after winning world gold in 2019. They were the first Ugandan women to reach a middle-distance world final. GB's Laura Muir withdrew from the 800m to focus on the 1500m, so Keely Hodgkinson and Jemma Reekie are joined by Alexandra Bell in the British contingent.

The men's 400m hurdles (03:20) could be one of Tokyo's most entertaining finals as a host of stars bid to succeed Kerron Clement, who won gold in Rio but isn't in the US team this time. Norwegian world champion Karsten Warholm is at the top of the list, having broken the 400m hurdles world record - which was 29 years old - at the start of July.

Brazil's Thiago Braz delivered one of Rio's defining images when he won the 2016 host nation's only athletics gold medal in the men's pole vault (11:20). Braz hasn't reached a major podium since but could still be a contender in Tokyo, where the main threat is expected from Sweden's Armand Duplantis and American Sam Kendricks.

Expert knowledge

Sport climbing makes its Olympic debut with qualification for the men's combined event (09:00-14:40). There are three disciplines and the winner will be the athlete who performs best across all three. Speed climbing will see athletes race head-to-head to tag a buzzer at the top of a climb, bouldering means navigating sets of climbs without a rope that emphasise physical and gymnastic ability, and lead climbing will measure how far athletes get up a taller wall with each handhold earning a point. Combining those three into one event is a fairly new concept, and turns the Olympic event into a form of climbing triathlon.

Wednesday, 4 August - day 12

Medal events: 17

Artistic swimming (duet), athletics (women's 400m hurdles, women's 3,000m steeplechase, men's hammer, men's 800m, men's 200m), boxing (men's light-heavy), cycling (men's team pursuit), equestrian (individual), marathon swimming (women), sailing (women's 470, men's 470), skateboarding (women's park), weightlifting (men's +109kg), wrestling (women's freestyle 62kg, men's Greco-Roman 67kg, men's Greco-Roman 87kg).

Highlights

Sky Brown, born a month before the Beijing 2008 Olympics, competes in skateboarding's park contest for GB. Born in Japan, 13-year-old Brown is a world bronze medallist in this event (she was 11 at the time). Both athletes who finished above her that day were Japanese so the host nation also expects. Watch the action from 01:00 to 05:30.

13-year-old Sky Brown will become GB's youngest ever summer Olympian when she competes in Tokyo

It's a few years since GB's track cyclists won the men's team pursuit world title (09:45-10:15), but their hold on the Olympic title has been steady since 2008. Ed Clancy, who helped Britain to Olympic pursuit gold at the past three Games, is back in the team for Tokyo. Denmark won the last world title in a world record time, while Australia are perennial contenders.

In Rio, Nick Skelton became the first Briton ever to win individual showjumping Olympic gold. (He was 58 at the time, more than four times Sky Brown's age in Tokyo.) Skelton retired the following year but Ben Maher could be among the contenders for GB at this year's event (11:00-13:40).

Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark took 470-class sailing silver in London then went one better in Rio four years later. Mills won the world title with new partner Eilidh McIntyre in 2019 and will be hoping Wednesday's medal race (07:30-08:00) brings home another Olympic gold.

Brit watch

Adam Gemili was fourth in the men's 200m (13:55) at the World Championships two years ago having led late in the race. American Noah Lyles, though, has emerged as the most likely candidate to take the title Usain Bolt won three times in a row.

The heptathlon starts on Wednesday. World champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who finished sixth in Rio, starts with the 100m hurdles section of the seven-discipline event at 01:35. Wednesday also features the heptathlon's high jump, where Johnson-Thompson is at her strongest, shot put and 200m.

World bronze medallist Ben Whittaker will hope to be involved as boxing's men's light-heavyweight division reaches its final at 07:35. Cuba's Arlen Lopez, who has moved division since winning middleweight gold in Rio five years ago, could be a threat.

Britain has one chance of winning a medal on climbing's Olympic debut: Shauna Coxsey in the women's combined event. The world bronze medallist begins her challenge in qualifying from 09:00 to 14:40.

Women's hockey reaches the semi-final stage, with games at 02:30 and 11:00.

World watch

The women's golf tournament begins (23:30 on Tuesday to 08:00 on Wednesday). All three medallists from Rio are back, world number one Nelly Korda of the US will take part alongside sister Jessica, and Japan's hopes are led by Nasa Hataoka.

On weightlifting's last day, we move to the heaviest weight class: the men's +109kg (11:50-14:00). Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze is the favourite. Talakhadze's lift of 485kg in April this year is the highest total recorded in the sport's history. That's roughly the weight of an adult dromedary camel.

Expert knowledge

Marathon swimming starts with the women's 10km race (22:30 Tuesday to 01:30 Wednesday). Organisers say a system of underwater filters will be used to ensure the water quality in the central Tokyo bay is acceptable, while the race will take place at 06:30 local time to avoid the worst of the summer heat. Look out for the backdrop of Tokyo's Rainbow Bridge and a miniature Statue of Liberty. GB entrant Alice Dearing is set to become the first black woman to swim for Britain at the Olympics.

Thursday, 5 August - day 13

Medal events: 27

Athletics (men's triple jump, men's shot put, men's 110m hurdles, men's 20km race walk, women's pole vault, men's 400m, women's heptathlon, men's decathlon), boxing (men's feather), canoe sprint (men's K1 200m, women's C1 200m, women's K1 500m, men's K2 1,000m), cycling (women's keirin, men's omnium), diving (women's 10m platform), hockey (men), karate (women's kata, women's kumite -55g, men's kumite -67kg), marathon swimming (men), skateboarding (men's park), sport climbing (men), table tennis (women's team), wrestling (women's freestyle 57kg, men's freestyle 57kg, men's freestyle 86kg).

Highlights

Katarina Johnson-Thompson's two-day heptathlon quest comes to an end with the long jump (01:40-02:20), javelin (04:35-06:30) and the grand finale, the 800m (13:20). Johnson-Thompson's build-up has been affected by her recovery from a serious Achilles injury but she's still expected to mount a serious medal challenge. Her main rival is Rio 2016 champion Nafi Thiam of Belgium.

GB's reigning Olympic champion Liam Heath is expected to start sprint canoeing's men's K1 200m final at 03:25. Heath has since added two world titles but Hungary's Sandor Totka is shaping up to be a formidable rival.

The men's hockey final starts at 11:00. Britain are still waiting to reach the Olympic men's podium in this sport for the first time since winning the title in 1988. Hosts Japan have only made the final once before, in 1932 - helped that year by the fact only three teams entered in the first place.

Brit watch

Matthew Walls will ride for GB in track cycling's omnium (07:30-10:30), after picking up world bronze last year. The omnium format has changed for Tokyo 2020: shorter sprint disciplines have been dropped and it's now a mix of four endurance events spread over one day's racing, including a new tempo race where riders can score points through sprints on almost every lap.

Holly Bradshaw, fourth at the last world championships and fifth in Rio, competes in the women's pole vault (11:20-13:30). This year's world number one is American Katie Nageotte, who should challenge Greek Rio 2016 champion Katerina Stefanidi and world champion Anzhelika Sidorova for gold.

The men's marathon swim (which ends shortly before 01:30) will feature GB's Hector Pardoe, who won an Olympic qualifier in Portugal to book his place. Pardoe's training regime includes swimming 90km per week.

In boxing, world bronze medallist Peter McGrail will hope to fight for GB as the medals are decided in the men's featherweight division (07:35).

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson dive for GB in the women's 10m platform event (07:00-08:30).

World watch

Ashton Eaton has retired after winning the decathlon in 2012 and 2016, so the crown in the 10-event athletics bonanza is up for grabs. Contenders include France's Kevin Mayer, Canadian Damian Warner, German world champion Niklas Kaul and Estonia's Maicel Uibo are all in the mix. The deciding 1500m race starts at 13:40.

Meanwhile, the men's shot put final (03:05-04:15) will feature Ryan Crouser, the American who broke the event's 31-year-old world record in the weeks leading up to the Games. Crouser appropriately described breaking that record as "a huge weight lifted".

A custom-built park on Tokyo Bay will welcome the men's park skateboarding finalists (04:30-05:20). Hawaiian Heimana Reynolds is a leading contender for gold after winning the world title in 2019, his breakthrough year. Reynolds' favourite training technique is rock running: picking up a heavy rock then using it to run, weighed down, along the ocean floor off the coast of Hawaii.

Expert knowledge

Karate is one of the final sports to get under way in Tokyo (02:00-13:40) as it makes its Olympic debut. There are two disciplines. In kata, you compete on your own and demonstrate offensive and defensive moves against a virtual opponent. You score points for technique, timing and athleticism. In kumite, which unlike kata is divided into weight classes, you spar against rivals in a format more familiar to people who've seen the likes of judo or taekwondo. GB won't have any athletes in this year's karate events.

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Friday, 6 August - day 14

Medal events: 23

Athletics (women's 20km race walk, men's 50km race walk, women's javelin, men's 5,000m, women's 400m, women's 1500m, women's 4x100m relay, men's 4x100m relay), beach volleyball (women), boxing (men's heavy), cycling (women's madison, men's sprint), football (women), hockey (women), karate (men's kata, women's kumite -61kg, men's kumite -75kg), modern pentathlon (women), sport climbing (women), table tennis (men's team), wrestling (women's freestyle 53kg, men's freestyle 74kg, men's freestyle 125kg).

Highlights

Women's football reaches its Olympic final at 03:00. The United States have won four of the six Olympic women's football tournaments, and Team GB have never reached the podium. In fairness, they've only entered a team once before: London 2012, where Canada beat them 2-0 in the quarter-finals. Will that record change this year? The US are the world's number one team with Germany second heading into Tokyo 2020.

In hockey, it's a different story. Britain clinched Olympic gold in dramatic fashion in 2016, winning a late-night penalty shootout against the Netherlands in Rio. But things haven't been so easy for the home nations since. England, beaten 2-0 by the Netherlands in the quarter-finals of 2018's World Cup, are now ranked fifth in the world and the Dutch have been dominant. The final takes place on Friday from 11:00.

Laura Muir has been there or thereabouts for a medal in the women's 1500m (13:50) for years without managing to reach the podium at outdoor world or Olympic level. For Tokyo, Muir has dropped the 800m distance to focus purely on converting her 1500m potential into a medal. Kenya's Faith Kipyegon may be difficult to dislodge from the top step of the podium - the Rio champion lowered her national record just before this year's Games.

At the velodrome, the madison has been restored to the Olympic programme (the men's madison was dropped after 2008, while the women's madison is making its debut in Tokyo). The madison, which involves teams of two riders, is all about tactics and endurance. If you haven't watched it before, you'll probably be relying on the commentators to follow what's happening. Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny ride in the madison for GB at 09:15.

Friday could be Shauna Coxsey's big day after years of build-up to the Olympic debut of her sport, climbing (10:30-14:20). Expect her to excel in the speed and bouldering sections, meaning her success could depend on how she handles the lead climbing, which measures how far up a wall she can get. The big unknown is how she has recovered from a persistent back injury. Slovenia's Janja Garnbret is widely expected to take gold.

Brit watch

Everybody loves the drama of a good 4x100m relay (14:30-14:50), the track equivalent of a penalty shootout. Names can be made, heroes and villains created in the simple passing (or not) of a baton. Britain has had a reasonable amount of relay success lately - both teams took world silver in 2019 and the men were world champions two years earlier.

In boxing, Cheavon Clarke is Britain's heavyweight hope. Clarke competed for Jamaica at the Commonwealth Games seven years ago but has since switched allegiance, earning a European bronze medal in 2019. The heavyweight final is at 07:05.

World watch

Generally speaking, beach volleyball has been dominated at the Olympics by the United States and Brazil - both being countries where playing volleyball on a beach has a certain appeal. But that's changing. Three of the past four world titles in the women's event (02:00-04:50) have gone to other nations, the latest being won by Canada. Friday's medal games will help to illuminate whether that shift in power has reached the Olympic stage.

Rhythmic gymnastics begins on Friday with individual all-around qualification (02:20-09:45). This sport is basically 'the other gymnastics' to British viewers used to watching only artistic gymnastics, since Britain has barely ever entered the Olympic rhythmic gymnastics, which involves routines completed with ribbons, hoops, balls and clubs to complement the performance. Russia dominates rhythmic gymnastics - this year, Dina and Arina Averina could force statisticians to look up the last time, if ever, twins took first and second place in a summer Olympic individual event.

Expert knowledge

Perennially one of the least penetrable Olympic sports, modern pentathlon's women's event takes place on Friday. In a nutshell, athletes swim, fence and ride a horse to end up with a points score that gives them a time handicap for a final event that's a bit like the Winter Olympics sport of biathlon: they must run a cross-country course while occasionally shooting at targets. The first one over the line after the run wins.

The showjumping is usually a highlight as pentathlon's rules require that the rider cannot use their own horse but instead gets supplied with one at random, sometimes with unexpected consequences. A horse named Pingping had an infamous meltdown at Beijing 2008, destroying the hopes of Belarusian rider Yahor Lapo.

Despite pentathlon's unlikely line-up of disciplines - designed to replicate the skills a soldier might have needed a century ago - Britain has a fine pedigree in the women's sport, with multiple Olympic medallists. Kate French and Jo Muir will compete for GB in Tokyo, and both have a shot at a medal. Events run from 06:30 to 12:15.

Saturday, 7 August - day 15

Medal events: 34

Artistic swimming (team), athletics (women's marathon, women's high jump, women's 10,000m, men's javelin, men's 1500m, women's 4x400m relay, men's 4x400m relay), baseball, basketball (men), beach volleyball (men), boxing (women's fly, men's fly, women's welter, men's middle), canoe sprint (women's C2 500m, men's C1 1,000m, women's K4 500m, men's K4 500m), cycling (men's madison), diving (men's 10m platform), equestrian (jumping team), football (men), golf (women), handball (men), karate (women's kumite +61kg, men's kumite +75kg), modern pentathlon (men), rhythmic gymnastics (individual), volleyball (men), water polo (women), wrestling (women's freestyle 50kg, men's freestyle 65kg, men's freestyle 97kg).

Highlights

More than 30 gold medals are available on Saturday so there's going to be action almost anywhere you look. The men's football final (12:30-15:00) will establish whether the gold medal is again heading to Latin or South America, having been won by Argentina twice, Mexico and Brazil at the past four Games. Hosts Japan reached the bronze-medal game in London nine years ago and will hope to do better in 2021.

Tom Daley has what is probably his last opportunity to claim the Olympic 10m platform title that has so far eluded him (07:00-08:30). A bronze medallist at London 2012, Daley has won the event's world title twice, most recently in 2017. Daley won 10m gold at a test event for Tokyo 2020 in May.

Tom Daley became GB's second-youngest ever Olympian at Beijing 2008 and will be competing in his fourth Olympic Games in Tokyo

Athletics features the men's and women's 4x400m relays (13:30-14:00). The US won both these titles at the 2019 World Championships. Britain's women were less than a second off the podium that year - the men received a DNF after a baton handoff disaster.

It's the final round of the women's Olympic golf contest from 23:30 on Friday until 07:30 on Saturday. Mel Reid and Jodi Ewart Shadoff are GB's two representatives. Reid's world ranking has sensationally rebounded in recent years to a career high of 30th this year.

Brit watch

The men's modern pentathlon (06:30-12:15) features Team GB's Jamie Cooke, the 2018 world and 2019 European champion, alongside Joe Choong. However, this could be a late Valentine's Day gift for France - Valentin Belaud and Valentin Prades both have a solid chance of taking gold.

Four boxing titles are awarded on Saturday (06:00-07:55). Among them, Charley Davison will try to win the women's flyweight title lifted by Nicola Adams in 2012 and 2016.

Men's madison day at the track cycling sees Ethan Hayter and Oliver Wood team up for Britain. The pair, European bronze medallists in 2018, are considered an outside bet for a medal.

Showjumping's team event reaches its conclusion (11:00) with Ben Maher and Scott Brash hoping to replicate their roles in earning GB gold at London 2012. Holly Smith is the third team member. Switzerland have a strong shot at gold with two of the world's leading riders, while Jessica Springsteen - daughter of singer Bruce - is in the US team.

World watch

The men's basketball final (03:30) is ordinarily a coronation for the United States, who've won six of the seven Olympic titles since NBA players began competing at the Games in 1992. The fact that the gold-medal game takes place well before the bronze-medal game - to accommodate US prime-time TV - tells you everything you need to know about American confidence in their team.

The women's marathon takes place in Sapporo, capital of the northern island of Hokkaido well away from Tokyo, after concern that Tokyo's summer heat could prove too much for such a demanding event. Covid-19 measures will mean the unusual sight of the marathon taking place without any spectators lining the streets. Britain's contenders are Steph Twell, Jess Piasecki and Stephanie Davis.

Handball's men's final takes place at 13:00. France, Denmark and Norway will all expect to be in the mix for medals in a sport dominated by European countries. France's hopes may rest on talismanic star Nikola Karabatic's recovery from a knee injury.

Expert knowledge

Water polo involves four eight-minute periods in which players can't touch the pool's sides or bottom, so must tread water throughout using a specialised eggbeater kick. The sport is big in Hungary, where the men have won Olympic gold nine times, although Hungary's women have never reached the podium since their introduction in 2000. This year's women's final (08:30) could involve a resurgent Hungarian team and is very likely to feature the United States, who are dominant.

Sunday, 8 August - day 16

Medal events: 13

Athletics (men's marathon), basketball (women), boxing (women's light, men's light, women's middle, men's super-heavy), cycling (men's keirin, women's sprint, women's omnium), handball (women), rhythmic gymnastics (group), volleyball (women), water polo (men).

Highlights

Eliud Kipchoge, the defending Olympic marathon champion and world record holder, is widely expected to feature heavily in the final athletics event of Tokyo 2020 (conclusion shortly after midnight on Sunday). Kipchoge said he is "still hungry" at 36 in the build-up to these Games and dismissed concerns about the heat. He said conditions in Sapporo, some 500 miles north of Tokyo, will be the same for everyone and won't be a factor. Callum Hawkins, Ben Connor and Chris Thompson run for GB.

The men's super-heavyweight division wraps up boxing at Tokyo 2020 (06:00-07:55). Commonwealth champion Frazer Clarke is the British entrant but Uzbekistan's Bakhodir Jalolov is the favourite to win gold.

From 12:00, Tokyo says goodbye to the Olympics in its closing ceremony. Exactly what form that will take depends to some degree on the pandemic and associated public health measures in Japan.

Brit watch

There are three other boxing finals on Sunday with possible British interest in all, led by 2019 world champion Lauren Price in women's middleweight (06:00-07:55). Luke McCormack, twin brother of GB team-mate Pat, competes in the men's lightweight division. Youth Olympic champion Caroline Dubois, one of 11 siblings, fights in the women's lightweight event.

World watch

Lang Ping won volleyball gold as a player in 1984 then returned as coach to guide her national team, China, to the Olympic title in Rio five years ago. Nicknamed the 'Iron Hammer' in a subsequent documentary, Lang is back to defend that title in Tokyo. Her team could face Japan in Sunday's women's final (05:30), which would mean a reunion with Japan coach Kumi Nakada, another veteran of Los Angeles 1984 - she played as Japan took bronze.

Expert knowledge

Schedulers have held back the men's keirin until the last day of the Olympics (02:00-05:15), knowing the track cycling discipline has a huge Japanese following. The keirin, where riders are paced by a motorised scooter for several laps before a sprint finish, was invented in Japan and added to the Olympics in 2000 after Japanese pressure. Chris Hoy (2008, 2012) and Jason Kenny (2016) have won the past three Olympic keirin titles for GB. Kenny or Jack Carlin could be medal contenders for Britain this time around. Meanwhile, Katy Marchant goes in the women's sprint and Laura Kenny rides the women's omnium.

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