Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Max Whitlock wins gold, men’s 100m and more – live! | Sport

Men’s high jump: Harrison is over at 2.30, likewise Kerr, Ivanyuk, Akimenko, Nedasekau, Woo, Tamberi, Starc, Lovett and Barshim. We’re just getting going, with the bar moving up to 2.30.

And by a distance, her 15.200 beating ROC’s Anastasiia Iliankova and USA’s Sunisa Lee, who recorded 14.833 and 14.500 respectively.

Gymnastics: Derwael still leads the uneven bars with just Lu of China and Seitz of Australia to come.

Athletics: here comes the final semi of the women’s 100m hurdles, and Tapper of Jamaica gets away well, but Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico starts motoring at about 40m and screeches away! She wins in 12.26, a new Olympic record and that is a monstrous run! Tapper hangs onto second in 12.62 – that tells you how much better Camacho-Quinn was – with Visser Of Netherlands and Cunningham of USA taking third and fourth in 12.63 and 12.67 to qualify as fastest losers.

Athletics: Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar, Django Lovett of Canada, Brandon Starc of Australia, Sanghyeok Woo of Korea and Maksim Nedasekau of Belarus are all clear at 2.30m. Harrison cleared 2.27m at the third time of asking, and will soon try the next height.

Gymnastics: We’ve got the women’s uneven bars final going on, and with four competitors to come, Nina Derwael of Belgium leads from Anastasiia Iliankova of ROC and Sunisa Lee of USA.

Athletics: It’s Brittany Harrison of Jamaica who powers through, winning in a terrific time of 12.40l Harrison is second in 12.51, easing up, with Porter fifth. Clay, though, has a chance, her 12.71 the second-fastest of those not qualified. If someone beats it in the final semi, she’s out; if not, she’s through.

Athletics: Here comes the second women’s 100m semi, and we’ve had two faiuty starts … and is that a third? Kendra Harrison of USA, the world record holder, goes in this race and so does Tiffany Porter of GB, Liz Clay of Australia too. And it’s Porter who gets a yellow card for a permitted but nevertheless false start…

Athletics: In the first semi of the women’s 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan of Nigeria and Devynne Charlton of Bahamas qualified in first and second place; there’s room for two fastest losers here too, so we’ll see how things shake out.

Bigntian Su (China) 9.83

Ronnie Baker (USA) 9.83

Zharnel Hughes (GB) 9.98

Fred Kerley (USA) 9.96

Andre De Grasse (Canada) 9.98

Enoch Adegoke (Nigeria) 10.00

Akani Simbine (RSA) 9.90 (fastest loser)

Lamont Marcell (Italy) 9.84 (fastest loser)

Confirmation that Trayvon Bromell is out!

Gymnastics: Max Whitlock tells BBC he’s “lost for words”, “completely overwhelmed,” and it’s “totally surreal”. It’s been an incredible journey, he says, and retaining the gold is “a million times harder”, noting “the most pressured environment I’ve ever been in”. He’s only getting older, but “experience pays a lot” and he “can’t quite believe it”.

He doesn’t know if it helped going first. It’s easy to say with the gold around his neck now, but every gymnast knows it’s hard to go first and he had to lay down a big routine, he couldn’t wait to see what others did. He can’t believe he’s done it, but he’s done the job, scored near his target score, and knew that if someone beat it, he’d still done his job. He now has six Olympic medals and when he was younger, he only did the sport because he enjoyed it – he wasn’t aiming for or expecting medals. It “feels very, very surreal” and he thinks he’s almost going round in circles trying to make sense of it.

From pommel horsing in his garden – the price of covid – he’s got to here, and he thanks his family for their support, saying he can’t wait to get home. What a lovely man, what an incredible competitor.

Gymnastics: Max Whitlock has another gold dangling around his neck! What a total hero!

Athletics: Here comes the third man’s semi, and Bingtian Su leads from the gun, but Ronnie Baker of USA and Lamont Marcell of Italy chase. Marcell and Su almost collide on the line, with Su hanging on for a 9.83, Baker getting the same time and Marcell a 9.84. Chijindu Ujah of GB is fifth in 10.11.

Gymnastics: Rhys McClenaghan tells BBC that one finger misplacement cost him, which is elite sport. But he’s an Olympian, has improved, will improve, and will use what happened today for motivation. He’s the first Irishman to qualify for a gymnastics final, brought himself to tears thinking about how motivated he was for this, and will come back hard. This is a really brilliant, mature and inspirational interview; what a young man.

Athletics: In the high jump final, various – JuVaughan Harrison among them – have cleaed 2.24m.

Athletics: Bromell only sneaked through yesterday, and he couldn’t deliver when it mattered! He’s down on his haunches, but he may well have to go!

Athletics: I think Zharnel Hughes of GB takes this! He does, powering through in a season’s best 9.98, ahead of Enoch Adegoke of Nigeria! Trayvon Bromell of USA, the favourite, is out if he’s not a fastest loser!

Gymnastics: Lee of Chinese Taipei and Kaya of Japan take solver and bronze respectively.

Gymnastics: That was a monstrous effort, it really was. He opted not to defend his floor title, looking to make sure of one, and he absolutely nailed it! Beth Tweddle reckons it was the best routine of his career, which tells you all you need to know – I’ve not a clue what it must take to do that kind of thing on such a stage, because it’s unknowable to all but those who are able. The smoothness, composure and control were absolutely mind-boggling.

What a performance that was! He went first, he dispensed near-perfection, and sat back to enjoy! Six Olympic medals for him now! You’d take it!

Athletics: Kerley wins in 9.96, De Grasse of Canada qualifies too in 9.98.

Gymnastics: Kameyama of Japan is the last man, and this is nothing like Whitlock’s routine! Whitlock is going to defend his title!

Athletics: Blake gets away well, but the speed endurance isn’t there and Kerley comes through to take it in what I think is a slow time, with a photo for second between De Grasse and Omurwa….

Gymnastics: At 22, McClenaghan has time to come again, and he does a decent job getting back on, but he looks devastated because he is. Sport, what an absolute expletive.

Gymnastics: OH NO! RYHS MCCLENAGHAN COMES OFF THE HORSE! He misses a hand placement and winds up face and body down on the horse! That’s horrible to see … unless you’re Max Whitlock, who can almost taste that gold.

Athletics: And it’s Prescod of GB who’s penalised! He’s out! Dear me, that’s brutal, and I still, all these years later, cannot grasp the need for this rule. It’s to make sure races go when they’re meant to go, I believe – a telly thing – but seriously, this is the Olympic Games.

Gymnastics: Kaya of Japan is nowhere near Whitlock, but Rhys McClenaghan of Ireland comes next, and he has a serious chance. This is going to be great; this is intense.

Athletics: The men take their mark for the first 100m semi; the first two go through. And it’s a false start…

Gymnastics: Lee of Chinese Taipei goes next and performs every skill in flare position – this is lovely stuff! – but is the difficulty enough? No it is not! It’s 6.700, 8..700 for execution, and 15.400 puts him second.

Athletics: The men are out for the first 100m semi. GB’s Reece Prescod runs in lane two, Yoahn Blake of Jamaica in lane five, and Fred Kerley, whose 9.86 makes him the fastest in the field this season, goes in seven.

Gymnastics: David Belyavskiy lays down a decent routine, but it’s not as clean as Whitlock’s – at dismount particularly. Whitlock’s 7.0 difficulty coupled with the cleanliness of his execution makes him almost uncatchable, reckon the Eurosport commentary team, and Belyavskiy takes 14.833 to go second.

Athletics: We’re watching the medal ceremony for the women’s 100m, in which regard check out how beautiful this is.

Gymnastics: Ach. Poor Sun Wei of China misses his swing and misses his hand down, so comes off. He gets back on and performs nicely, but he’ll not be troubling the podium today.

Gymnastics: 14.566 for Yoder, which tells you just how ludicrous Whitlock’s performance was. He was so smooth and composed out there; going first made him even more of a problem for the others than otherwise.