Brazil vs Ivory Coast LIVE result: Tokyo 2020 Olympics final score and reaction
Relive all the action from the Olympics fixture
Playing with 10 men for most of the game, Brazil held the Ivory Coast to a 0-0 draw on Sunday in the group stage of the men’s Olympic football tournament.
Brazil are the defending Olympic champions after winning on home soil at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, but they were at a disadvantage early when Douglas Luiz, who plays for Aston Villa, was sent off in the 13th minute.
Ivory Coast midfielder Eboue Kouassi was sent off in the 79th. Both Luiz and Kouassi won’t be able to play in their teams’ final group matches.
The Brazilians won their Group D opener over Germany 4-2. Richarlison scored a hat trick.
Ivory Coast midfielder Franck Kessie scored the winner in his team’s opening 2-1 victory over Saudi Arabia.
Brazil captain Dani Alves, at 38, is the oldest player in the tournament, which features under-23 teams on the men’s side with coaches allowed to bring three older players.
Relive all the action below:
Tokyo Olympics: Skateboarding makes its mark
Report from the skatepark:
As Jagger Eaton stood on the lip preparing to drop into his second run, his head began bouncing to the beat. It is safe to assume the skatepark is the only place over the next couple of weeks where Olympic athletes will be listening to AirPods while they work, and there won’t be many gymnasts, sailors or 110m hurdlers wearing jeans, either. Skating is here and its doing things differently.
The sport made its Olympic debut under the blistering Tokyo sun, and it was captivating ride. Some in the skateboarding community have been deeply sceptical about its move into the mainstream, who feel skating is selling its soul to grey men in suits. But if anything skating managed to achieve both: finally performing on the Olympics’ uniquely global stage while retaining an entirely alternative ethos from the rest.
Eaton had to regather one of those AirPods when he took a tumble but he did enough over the course of the final to win bronze, achieving a dream his mother, a former US gymnast, never did. Aged only 20, the Arizonan has some future ahead of him. Brazil’s Kelvin Hoefler won silver and the mesmerising local talent Yuto Horigome won the first skateboard gold in Olympic history, to the delight of the few Japanese officials and media lucky enough to witness it.
Skateboarding embraces Olympic stage as Tokyo’s Yuto Horigome beats US star Nyjah Huston
Skating made a captivating Olympic debut managing to shine on the global stage while retaining its alternative ethos from the rest of the Games
After a delay of one year, the Tokyo Olympics have finally arrived. But how many countries are participating this year, which country has the largest contingent and which has the smallest? Which of the competing nations have won the most medals and which ones are yet to debut?
Read this report by Harry Latham-Coyle to catch on the trivia:
How many countries are participating at the Tokyo Olympics?
How many countries are participating at the Tokyo Olympics?
Simone Biles, who won four gold medals in the Rio Olympics for Team USA, enters the Games this year with a real shot at taking five golds. Widely regarded as one of the greatest gymnasts, here is a run-down of when you can see her in action:
Why is Russia banned from the Tokyo Olympics? And if it is banned from participating, then what is ROC? All this and more in this report by Jack Rathborn
Tokyo Olympics: Ashleigh Barty knocked out
Women’s tennis world number one Ashleigh Barty is out of the Tokyo Olympics after she was beaten earlier by Spain’s Sara Sorribes in two straight sets in the first round.
Speaking about her victory, Sorribes said: “It’s an amazing feeling. I still can’t believe it. It’s something incredible for me, it’s something that I’ve been dreaming all my life - being here and even more, beating the world number one, so yeah, I’m super super happy.”
Barty was visibly dejected after losing the match to the 48th-ranked Spaniard. She declined to address reporters after speaking briefly to the Australian media.
Sorribes, who will also compete in a doubles match later today, is looking forward to playing alongside compatriot Paula Badosa.“I’m playing with Paula who is one of my best friends and we are super happy to have been here playing the doubles and yeah we will enjoy, doesn’t matter the conditions,” she said. “We’re here to play, we are here to enjoy and that’s what we will try to do.”
Tokyo Olympics: Osaka wins in first round after Zheng fightback
Naomi Osaka has won her first-round match, after a straightforward first set and a more challenging second that she won 6-4.
Zheng led the second set at one point, after going up 1-0. But Osaka was quick to bounce back and maintained a lead after going 2-1 up. She had two match points on Zheng’s serve before it went to 5-4, after which she held serve easily.
Tokyo Olympics: Competition schedules may be reshuffled due to heat
The schedule of competition at the Tokyo Olympics could be reshuffled due to intense heat and humidity. The International Olympic Committee on Sunday said that it would back such plans, if needed.
The development comes after several athletes across a number of sports complained about their performance being hampered with temperatures regularly hitting or exceeding 33 degrees celsius.
Tennis players Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev led calls on Saturday for organisers to move matches to the late afternoon for the rest of competition, to prevent players from competing in stifling heat. In the tennis tournament, the first four matches currently start at 11am, forcing players to endure the hottest part of the day.
“Competition schedules have been built where possible to avoid the hottest parts of the day but that is not possible with every sport,” the IOC’s sports director Kit McConnell said on Sunday.
The International Tennis Federation, which is looking after tennis at the Games, said that they are monitoring the weather and will decide on possible suspension of play if the temperatures rise.
“If the temperatures increase, the Wet Bulb Globe temperature (WBGT) threshold for a possible suspension of play will be determined by an internal advisory group,” the ITF said in a statement.
The WBGT refers to a measure of the heat stress in direct sunlight and takes into account temperature, humidity, wind speed, sun angle and cloud cover.
“In planning for a possible suspension of play, the group will convene once the WBGT threshold reaches 30.1°C to consider the weather forecast for the current day plus the prior 1-2 days and next 1-2 days, as well as expert medical advice and all variables that determine player safety,” it said.
Tokyo Olympics: First skateboarding medal is another gold for hosts
The hosts have taken another medal as Yuto Horigome wins gold for Japan in the first skateboarding final at this Olympic Games. He nailed four of his five tricks, all scoring in the 9s. His total of 37.18 was followed by Brazil’s Kelvin Hoefler who took silver with 36.15, while Team USA’s Jagger Eaton won bronze.
Tokyo Olympics: Osaka wins the first set
Osaka has raced into a one-set lead, taking the first against Saisai Zheng 6-1. Japan’s favourite – who after Ash Barty’s loss is now the top seed in the women’s singles – won the first five straight games before Saisai took the sixth. Osaka quickly claimed the final game, however. This could be a short one.
Tokyo Olympics: Osaka on centre court
The star of the Games and Japan’s final torch-bearer Naomi Osaka is on centre court now for her first match, and is flying against Saisai Zheng of China.
Osaka is now up in the first set 4-0.
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