they are both competing. laura won the team pursuit at two olympics in a row and jason kenny has won the team sprint at every games since beijing in 2008. another event makes its olympic debut in sport climbing, which promises to be one of the toughest gold medals to win in tokyo. you have to take part in three events in that. and of course gymnastics fans around the world will be very pleased to see america s star gymnast, simone biles, returning to action. she is going to be taking part in the beam final. remember she had missed some of the events here, saying she needed to prioritise her mental health. plenty of action to come, sally, but i think everybody who has been watching the olympics and particularly interested in the track and field are going to take a little bit of time to just process that world record we saw, the phenomenal performance from norway s karsten warholm
the entire city of wuhan 11 million people will be tested. the travel industry welcomes a decision by the uk government to abandon plans for a further change to its traffic light system for international travel, but labour says it s in total chaos. hello and welcome to bbc world news. a sprinter from belarus, who refused her team s order to fly home early from the olympics, has been granted a humanitarian visa by poland. krystina tsimanouskaya is at the polish embassy in tokyo, and it s believed she plans to go to warsaw on wednesday. the athlete says she was forcibly taken to the airport for criticising coaches, but belarus says she was removed from the team because of her emotional state. mark adams from the international
along with this image of the two of them you can see that her flight landed in warsaw airport. can see that her flight landed in warsaw airport. today ms timanovskaya flew back via austria. on sunday, the sprinter was taken to the airport against her will by belarusian officials because she had criticised her coaches on social media. she then took refuge in the polish embassy in tokyo before leaving japan. bethany bell is at the airport in warsaw. we ve the airport in warsaw. been told that she s not planning to we ve been told that she s not planning to come out in public this evening. she ll be taken to a of safety. it s been a very long journey as you say, she began in tokyo earlier today. she flew via vn. that was a change in plan we understand she had been due to fly directly here to poland. there were