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with eight medals. duncan scott brought the team home to become the first british athlete in any sport to win four medals at a single games. injapan we ve met the new stars of team gb. but we still cherish the old. both have delivered. both have gold. natalie pirks, bbc news, tokyo. apologies for some of the science problems with that report. sound. italy has won its first ever gold medal in the men s 100m with a surprise victory for lamont marcelljacobs. but there was frustration for team gb s zharnel hughes, the first british man to reach a 100m final since sydney in 2000. he was disqualifed, after a false start. here s our sports editor, dan roan. empty seats but one of the most watched events in world sport. the men s 100 metre final remains among the biggest moments of any olympics. for the last three games,
states president biden has asked states to other individuals up to $100 each to get vaccinated. offer individuals. the headlines on bbc news. in the last few minutes the italian sprinter lamont marcelljacobs has won the men s100 metres final in tokyo. and gymnast max whitlock took team gb s tally of golds to ten retaining his olympic pommel horse title. young people in england will be offered incentives to have their first covid jab like discounts for takeaway food and taxi journeys. tourists have been evacuated from beaches in south western turkey, where raging wildfires are now threatening hotels and homes. firefighters have been struggling since wednesday, to contain dozens of fires around several popular tourist towns which have now killed at least six
south and it s enhancing some sharp, possibly thundery downpours to develop a little bit later on in the day. also, a northerly flow means that it s quite cool out there, particularly on exposed north sea coasts. there will be a good deal of dry weather but, as i say, quite a lot of cloud around as well. so top temperatures, 12 20 degrees at the very best. it looks likely that the best of the weather as we go through the week, though, will be monday and tuesday, as this little bump of high pressure will build in from the atlantic and keep things relatively quiet. so if you ve got some outdoor plans, certainly monday and tuesday look likely to be the best days but it s not going to be very warm for the early half of august, with top temperatures of 20 degrees. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the italian sprinter lamont marcelljacobs has won the men s 100 metres final in tokyo.
but it s jacobs over on the far side, this could well be italy s gold medal. it is! italy take the gold! lamont marcelljacobs shock victory the first by a european in this event since 1992. the most unlikely of successors to bolt had been crowned. well, what a moment this is. in a sport dominated by one man for so long, track and field tonight finally has a new star. jacobs remarkable victory representing a tearing up of the established order in olympic sprinting. it s amazing, fantastic. it s a gold medal, it s forever. a gold medal is forever in my home and i m very happy. a devastated hughes, meanwhile, telling me what happened. my left calf cramped up on me. when i went in my set position, itjust cramped and i couldn t hold back. ijust ended up moving. i know for a fact if i was in that race, i would have got a medal, there s no doubt about it. as recently as three years ago, jacobs was a long jumper. his switch proving to be one of the most inspired in sporting history. dan roan