Who are Team GB s athletes to watch
Team GB is represented by its largest ever delegation for an Olympic Games on foreign soil, with 376 athletes and a further 22 reserve athletes competing across 26 sports at the Tokyo 2020 Games. It is second only to the 541 athletes selected for the London Olympics in 2012.
For the first time in its 125-year history, Team GB has also taken more women than men to a summer Olympic Games.
Of the 376 athletes selected, Team GB took 201 female (53.5%) and 175 male athletes (46.5%) to Tokyo thanks to impressive qualification performances from British female athletes across sports and an increased number of female events at the Games.
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24 July 2021: Badmintons world No 13 Busanan Ongbamrungphan and mixed doubles No 2 Dechapol Puavaranukroh/Sapsiree Taerattanachai began their campaigns in the Olympic Games TOKYO 2020 in style with comfortable wins at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza in Tokyo on Saturday.
In her Games debut, the Orleans Masters World Tour Super 100 winner Busanan had to overcome her nerves before outclassing unfancied Daniela Macias of Peru 21-4 21-9 in 31 minutes in the women s singles group D.
In Group B of the mixed doubles, Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai vanquished Joshua Hurlburt-Yu and Josephine Wu of Canada 21-13 21-6 in just 30 minutes.
« C était un mauvais match. Ils ont très bien joué. Nous leur avons donné beaucoup de points faciles et vous ne pouvez pas gagner contre ce genre de paire en donnant autant de points. » Le Bretillien Thom Gicquel n’a pu masquer sa déception, ce dimanche, après avoir enchaîné une deuxième défaite en autant de rencontres lors du premier tour du tournoi de double mixte des Jeux Olympiques de Tokyo, associé à sa partenaire habituelle Delphine Delrue.
Défaits samedi par les Britanniques Marcus Ellis et Lauren Smith (21-18, 21-17), le Breton et la Francilienne, qui constituent la 10e paire mondiale, ont cette fois chuté face aux Thaïlandais Dechapol Puavaranukroh et Sapsiree Taerattanachai, 2es mondiaux, de nouveau en deux manches (21-9, 21-15). C’est leur troisième défaite en quatre confrontations avec ces adversaires.