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

7.57am EDT 07:57

Men’s high jump final: Here, Tamberi is over 2.35 too! He’s still not missed a jump.

7.55am EDT 07:55

“Love this Commentary of the 800m semi on BBC,” says Ben Bamford. “Elliot Giles is going to have to run quicker than he’s ever done before – but he is capable of that.”

Ha, of course he is. He actually looked in decent shape coming down the home straight, opening up his legs to show his class, but he faded like Dave McFly and ended up third – in a time not quite quick enough for a fastest-loser slot. Those go to Tual of France and Ben of Spain, both from the first race.

7.52am EDT 07:52

Men’s high jump final: It’s going off! Barshim, Woo and Starc are over 2.35; the rest are still fighting with 2.33.

7.51am EDT 07:51

Men’s 800m semi-finals: Aaaarrrgggh! Amos clips the back of USA’s Jewitt, Jewitt goes down, Amos goes down, and both are finished! But what a man Jewitt is, bending down to shake hands and help his rival off the track; a different character totally loses it there, because that was not on him. Meantime, Rotic of Kenta and Tuka of Bosnia and Herzegovina finish first and second, Rotic waving and pointing in the process.

7.47am EDT 07:47

Men’s 800m semi-finals: The third race is away, with Giles Elliot repping for GB and Jeffrey Riseley for Australia; Nijel Amos of Botswana, who came second to Rudisha with his less aesthetic but extremely effective style, is also involved.

7.45am EDT 07:45

Men’s high jump final: Brandon Starc, younger brother of Mitchell, attacks his third attempt at 2.33 with serious pace, intent and moustache … and he’s over! We’ve got seven men left, two of whom – Barshim of Qatar and Tamberi of Italy – have cleared each height first go.

7.42am EDT 07:42

Women’s triple jump final: Rojas still leads thanks to the Olympic record she set in round one; Mamona of Portugal is second, a full 50cm behind.

7.41am EDT 07:41

Men’s high jump final: Woo of Korea sails over 2.33, a personal best; Akimenko of ROC and Harrison of USA are also over. Baby, this is serious, as Celine Dion once said.

7.39am EDT 07:39

Men’s 800m semi-finals: A superb run from Australia’s Peter Bol sees him come around the final corner and ease into the lead; Murphy of USA qualifies with him, forcing his way by Tual of France on the line.

7.37am EDT 07:37

The next men’s 800m semi is away, so here’s an interview from a whole ago with David Rudisha – who, I can assure you, is just as sound a bloke as his running style suggests.

7.35am EDT 07:35

It’s a funny thing, really – the standard of sprinting tends to improve with every Games, but Usain Bolt took things so far away in Beijing that it’ll take a while for the rest of humanity to catch up.

7.34am EDT 07:34

Reflections on the men’s 100m semis – the final will be with us in 57 minutes!

7.33am EDT 07:33

Men’s high jump: Tamberi of Italy goes over at 2.33, joining Barshim and Nedasekau with first-time clearances at the height. The others still involved are currently struggling with 2.30.

7.30am EDT 07:30

Men’s 800m semi-final: Patryk Dobek of Poland looks boxed as they come down the home straight, but Lopez of Mexico allows him through! Dobek wins in 1:44.60 and Korir of Kenya also goes through; Lopez and Bel of Belgium will have to see what happens in the remaining two races, with just the two fastest losers making it.

7.26am EDT 07:26

Yulimar Rojas of Venzuela jumps 15.41m to break the Olympic triple jump record with her first effort in the final!

But Caterine Ibargüen, the defending champion, is still to go.

Yulimar Rojas, of Venezuela, lands in the pit. Photograph: David J Phillip/AP

Updated at 7.36am EDT

7.21am EDT 07:21

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.

7.19am EDT 07:19

Gold! Nadine Derwael of Belgium wins the women’s uneven bars!

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.

Nina Derwael, of Belgium, on her way to gold on the uneven bars. Photograph: Jeff Roberson/AP Derwael celebrates. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters

Updated at 7.35am EDT

7.13am EDT 07:13

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

7.12am EDT 07:12

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn breaks the Olympic record in qualifying for the final of the women’s 100m hurdles!

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.

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, flies over a hurdle. Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

Updated at 7.18am EDT

7.07am EDT 07:07

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.

7.04am EDT 07:04

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.

7.02am EDT 07:02

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.

7.00am EDT 07:00

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…

6.57am EDT 06:57

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.

6.55am EDT 06:55

Qualifiers for the men’s 100m final

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!

6.50am EDT 06:50

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.

6.41am EDT 06:41

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

Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

Updated at 7.27am EDT

6.40am EDT 06:40

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.

6.37am EDT 06:37

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.

6.35am EDT 06:35

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

6.33am EDT 06:33

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!

Updated at 6.55am EDT

6.30am EDT 06:30

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!

Zharnel Hughes of Great Britain (left) crosses the line to win the semi-final next to him is Nigeria’s Enoch Adegoke who finishes second. Photograph: Paweł Kopczyński/Reuters

Updated at 6.44am EDT

6.29am EDT 06:29

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

6.28am EDT 06:28

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.

6.26am EDT 06:26

Gold! Max Whitlock defends his Olympic title and wins the pommel horse for Great Britain!

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!

Max Whitlock of Great Britain celebrates after winning gold. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

Updated at 6.51am EDT

6.25am EDT 06:25

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

6.23am EDT 06:23

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

6.23am EDT 06:23

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….

Updated at 6.24am EDT

6.21am EDT 06:21

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.

6.19am EDT 06:19

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.

Updated at 6.20am EDT

6.18am EDT 06:18

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.

Reece Prescod of Great Britain (second left) during a false start. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Updated at 6.25am EDT

6.17am EDT 06:17

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.

6.16am EDT 06:16

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

The men race out the blocks but are stopped because of a false start. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Updated at 6.23am EDT

6.15am EDT 06:15

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.

6.13am EDT 06:13

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.

6.10am EDT 06:10

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.

6.08am EDT 06:08

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

6.05am EDT 06:05

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.

6.04am EDT 06:04

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.