Australia has already had its first taste of both victory and defeat, the threat of COVID-19 lingers and what downtime is like in the athlete's village. Here are the best bits from day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics so far.
tomorrow morning, with the men's team to facehas set a new Olympic Record in the women's 10m air rifle, with a total score of 251.8 to win the first gold medal of the Games.of the Russian Olympic Committee going into the round with a 0.2 point lead.TV network apologises for opening ceremony broadcast
A South Korean TV network has apologised after using inappropriate images and captions to describe countries during the opening ceremony.and salmon for Norway, when athletes from those countries entered the stadium for the opening ceremony. In its captions, the network referred to the Marshall Islands as "once a nuclear test site for the United States" and Syria as the country that has had "a civil war going on for 10 years".Inappropriate images and captions
were used to introduce some stories. We apologised to those countries including Ukraine and our viewers".Lots of fingers are crossed that tonight our athletes will combine those two and go in strong as swimming heats begin at
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