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Tokyo Olympics: Laura Muir by and medals on the playing cards on day 10

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Tokyo Olympics: Laura Muir through and medals on the cards on day 10

Laura Muir completed seventh within the 1500m remaining at Rio 2016Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8Protection: Watch dwell on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Purple Button and on-line; Hear on BBC Radio 5 Reside, Sports activities Further and Sounds; dwell textual content and video clips on BBC Sport web site and app.

Laura Muir is into the 1500m semi-finals whereas Monday might ship extra medals for Nice Britain because the Olympics rolls into its remaining week in Tokyo.

Followers spoiled by early-morning gold rushes on the weekend have grow to be used to waking as much as information of Workforce GB success in Japan.

Nevertheless, a lot of the motion remains to be to unfold on day 10, with Britain nicely positioned to assert medals in eventing.

One spherical of present leaping from 09:00 will resolve the workforce medals, with the main particular person contenders leaping once more at 12:45.

World primary Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen lead the workforce occasion, with Townend topping the person standings.

Britain had been additionally hoping to compete for podium locations within the crusing, however a scarcity of wind in Enoshima has seen each the ladies’s 49er FX and males’s 49er races postponed till Tuesday.

Twins Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova additionally compete within the girls’s ground remaining, whereas Emily Campbell is aiming to grow to be the primary British lady to win an Olympic weightlifting medal.

Laura Kenny, seeking to win gold for a 3rd successive Video games, begins her girls’s workforce pursuit defence alongside Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker and Josie Knight because the observe biking begins at Tokyo’s Izu Velodrome.

Kenny already has 4 gold medals and will grow to be Britain’s most adorned feminine Olympian, with the 29-year-old additionally set to compete within the omnium and madison occasions.

Muir ‘extra ready than ever’

Muir clocked 4 minutes 3.89 seconds to end second in her 1500m warmth and attain the semi-finals, saying she felt “extra ready than ever”.

GB team-mate Katie Snowden additionally progressed in 4:02.77 however Revee Walcott-Nolan got here seventh to overlook out.

In the meantime, Britain’s Nick Miller made the hammer remaining and Deborah Kerr certified for the ladies’s kayak single 200m semi-finals.

There have been gold medals available in athletics early on Monday.

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn gained Puerto Rico’s first Olympic observe and discipline gold medal, topping the rostrum within the girls’s 100m hurdles in a time of 12.37 seconds.

Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou used his final effort to leap 8.41m and take the lengthy soar title, edging Cuba’s Juan Miguel Echevarria by advantage of his second-best soar on the day being longer than that of his opponent.

What’s developing on Monday?

Eventing: Workforce GB go for gold in workforce and particular person occasions (09:00)Gymnastics: GB twins Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova compete in girls’s ground remaining (09:57)Athletics: Workforce GB’s Beth Dobbin will run within the 200m semi-finals (11:25 BST)Weightlifting: GB’s Emily Campbell competes within the girls’s +87kg (11:50)Hockey: Britain face Spain within the girls’s quarter-finals (13:00)Around the BBC - SoundsAround the BBC footer - Sounds