tennis third round. that s just coming into us in the last few minutes. also following events for us there, our correspondent rupert wingfield hayes. he s at choshi beach near tokyo. all eyes today have been on the weather, rupert? from where you are, we can certainly see why. that s right, ben. the last few days in tokyo, particularly sunday and monday, everybody was talking about the heat and how it was affecting tennis players and triathletes in particular, he were really suffering. now we are talking about something completely different, that is a tropical storm. typhoon number eight has been downgraded to a tropical storm. as you can see from where i am standing it is very windy. it has picked up in the last couple of hours. the storm is tracking north. it has
affected some events. particularly the sad thing. the final was meant to be tomorrow and has been brought forward to today. when you think of japan, you do not think of surfing, it is not the first thing that comes to mind. as we had been finding out, japan has a huge surfing culture. this is the pacific coast of japan, an hour and a half s drive is of tokyo. this is popular with local surfers. the waves is unlikely because we have a typhoon going in. many think of surfing, you probably think of the north shore of hawaii, the gold coast, may be barley but not japan. the gold coast, may be barley but notjapan. surfing is really popular injapan. it is estimated 2 million japanese regularly get on to a surfboard. this group of young surfers left home in tokyo at four o clock this morning in order to be in the water by six. the ways are
in terms of the trajectory of the storm, the severe weather, what to we know about the outlook? there is aood we know about the outlook? there is good news we know about the outlook? there is good news he we know about the outlook? there is good news. he would we know about the outlook? there is good news. he would not we know about the outlook? there is good news. he would not know- we know about the outlook? there is good news. he would not know it - we know about the outlook? there is i good news. he would not know it from where i am standing on the coast because the wind is really picking up. according to the meteorological office, the storm centre is about 200 nautical miles off the coast. the good news for tokyo is it is dragging due north along the coast and it will mess tokyo. it has brought torrential rains and has affected some events this morning. it will head north and hit the post. that is when some of the football, the socket events are taking place. that could be
for the island nation of bermuda! a first olympic gold medal for them as florida duffy won the women s triathlon. the tropical storm that hit tokyo was no problem for her. they had a delayed start but once she got in and got through her swim and navigated the slippery roads on the bike around tokyo, she was the one who was able to pull clear on her10 km run to win olympic gold. such a good result for her. she has two world titles already. she had been a dominant force in the sport but she has been struggling with injury, she stepped away from the sport. she didn t quite know whether this olympic dream would happen for her. when she crossed the line and held her hands aloft and celebrated, you could see the joy and the relief etched on her face. meanwhile it has been a brilliant morning in the swimming pool as well. we had fourfinals, a great morning for great britain. tom dean winning gold in the men s 200 metres freestyle and his compatriot duncan scott