gold and david team gb. the 21 year old is the new olympic champion in the men s mountain bike cross country. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at 6pm. there was a flurry of gold in tokyo today, as team gb won medal after medal, in the space ofjust a few hours. first up was adam peaty, who made history, as he won the 100 metres breaststroke, becoming the first british swimmer to defend an olympic title. he was followed, just hours later, by the diver tom daley, at his fourth olympic games, with two bronze medals to his name, he finally struck gold with his team mate matty lee in the synchronised ten metres platform. and before the celebrations were even over, another gold for team gb, from tom pidcock, in the cross country mountain biking. at the end of day three,
rostrum over there, and about to be announced as olympic champions, and then to hear the national anthem play, i was gone. i couldn t even sing. history from adam peaty, as he wins the 100 metre breaststroke, making him the first british swimmer to defend an olympic title. i haven t felt this good since 2016. itjust means the world to me. and there was a third gold this morning, from 21 year old tom pidcock, in the cross country mountain biking. we will have all the details. also tonight. there s been another big fall in the daily covid cases, for the sixth day in a row. a man describes how he tried in vain to save his wife and nine year old son, after they got into difficulties in loch lomond. and extreme weather across the globe wild fires, flash floods, landslides now some of the world s leading scientists warn that not enough is being done to tackle climate change. and, coming up on the bbc news channel, tom pidcock completes a