reekie in the final on tuesday. on her olympic debut, emma wilson has won bronze in the women s windsurfing. the 22 year old s mother, penny way, is a former world champion, who narrowly missed out on a medal in the 1992 and 1996 olympics. and four time olympic champion simone biles has withdrawn from two more gymnastics events sunday s vault and uneven bars finals. she withdrew from tuesday s women s team final as well as thursday s individual all around final, saying she had to focus on her mental health. fighting is raging around three major cities in southern and western afghanistan as the taliban try to seize them from government forces. taliban fighters have entered parts of herat, lashkar gah and kandahar. let s speak to our correspondent, secunder kermani, in the afghan capital, kabul. how close is the taliban to taking
19 year old keely hodgkinson timed her run well to finish second in her heat. she lljoin alex bell and jemma reekie in the final on tuesday. on her olympic debut, emma wilson has won bronze in the women s windsurfing. the 22 year old s mother, penny way, is a former world champion, who narrowly missed out on a medal in the 1992 and 1996 olympics. the four time olympic champion simone biles has withdrawn from two more gymnastics events sunday s vault and uneven bars finals. she withdrew from tuesday s women s team final as well as thursday s individual all around final, saying she had to focus on her mental health. as we ve been saying, it was an historic win for team gb in the pool. great britain claimed a fourth swimming gold at an olympics for the first time in 113 years. the quartet of kathleen dawson, adam peaty, james guy and anna hopkin won the inaugural axioom mixed medley relay in a world record time three minutes 37.58 seconds.
simone biles has withdrawn from two more gymnastics events sunday s vault and uneven bars finals. she withdrew from tuesday s women s team final as well as thursday s individual all around final, saying she had to focus on her mental health. we have all been hearing about alex yee and he has just and he hasjust tweeted and he has just tweeted so let s show you his twitter feed there. you can see beyond proud, this is my home referring to a tweet of congratulations coming from his home town of brockley. congratulations to our local gold medallist olympian alex at the of course he s won gold in that mix triathlon but also silver in the triathlon as well so it s wonderful to see these messages of congratulations and also pride in their own achievements.
in the women s windsurfing. the 22 year old s mother, penny way, is a former world champion, who narrowly missed out on a medal in the 1992 and 1996 olympics. and four time olympic champion simone biles has withdrawn from two more gymnastics events sunday s vault and uneven bars finals. she withdrew from tuesday s women s team final as well as thursday s individual all around final, saying she had to focus on her mental health. as we ve been saying, it was an historic win for team gb in the pool. great britain claimed a fourth swimming gold at an olympics for the first time in 113 years. the quartet of kathleen dawson, adam peaty, james guy and anna hopkin won the inaugural ax100m mixed medley relay in a world record time. earlier, i spoke to mark skimming, who coached anna hopkin at bath university. i was trying, actually, to be really quiet and not wake up other people in the house. so i was cheering loudly in my head