the government s handling of the covid pandemic. hello and a warm welcome to the programme. it s day three of the olympics and we have all the latest from japan. sarah mulkerrins is live in tokyo for us, where the first medal of the day has gone to norway. tell us all about it. it certainly tell us all about it. it certainly has. welcome to tokyo bay early on monday morning in the japanese capital and the behind me is where the triathlon took place. it is also where we saw that false start occur. what happened is that all triathletes were on the pontoon and ready to dive in, half went in but there was a big lack boat covering one half of them so they were blocked from entering into the bay here and they had to pull the swimmers already in the water back onto the pontoon and then they finally got under way. they had a 1500 metres swim around the bay here and then on their bikes for a0 kilometres cycle around the streets of tokyo and then they transitioned into that ten kilom
hello and a warm welcome to the programme. it s day three of the olympics in tokyo, and already the medals are starting to come in thick and fast. it was an early start for the men s triathlon, which was won by norway s kristian blummenfelt. he broke away on the final lap of the 10k run to take the title. alex yee of britain took silver with hayden wilde of new zealand taking bronze. in the pool, canada s margaret macneil took gold in the women s hundred metres butterfly finishing just ahead of china s yufei zhang. team gb s adam peaty is a red hot favourite to win gold in the men s hundred metres breaststroke. and the rugby sevens tournament has got under way. defending gold medallists fiji beat hosts japan in their first group game. we also have skateboarding coming up, sarah mulkerrins in tokyo has more on that. we also know we will have the we also know we will have the women s event of street skateboarding take place. we saw the skateboarding take place. - saw the men
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