started. it was just below ours in a tokyo bay where they were swimming. there was a false start. the triathletes were all along the pontoon, and half of them thought it had started, diving into the water and went to swing on. however, half of the field were being blocked by a big black boat in front of them, so they had to restart a few minutes later. however, that all then went to plan. 1500 metres swim, then a 40 kilometre bike ride around tokyo, then a ten kilometre run. it was eventually the norwegian, kristian blummenfelt who broke away on the final lap. he was in a trio including alex yee from great britain and hayden wilde from new zealand. interesting to note that there were lots of people out watching them on the streets, we know that because of the coronavirus pandemic they