Tokyo Olympics LIVE: Ed Clancy retires; Giles Scott takes gold; Team GB row with Denmark

Warholm, 25, smashed his own world record but only just fought off the challenge of USA’s Rai Benjamin to finish first, recording a time of 45.94 seconds. Yet while Warholm was wearing a Puma spike with a carbon plate designed by Mercedes, Benjamin was running in a Nike trainer featuring an air cushion. And afterwards, Warholm praised his own shoe while appearing to take aim at Nike, saying: ‘I don’t see why you should put anything beneath a sprinting shoe. In the middle distances, I can understand it because of the cushioning. If you want cushioning, you can put a mattress there. But if you put a trampoline I think it’s bull****, and I think it takes credibility away from our sport.’

Brazil have beaten Mexico on penalties in the Olympic football semi-final to remain on track to defend the gold medal that they won in 2016. After a frustrating goalless draw, Mexico missed their first two penalties to allow the Brazilians to go on and win the shootout 4-1. They’ll now face either Spain or Japan in Saturday’s final. Brazil have a history of stepping up in the tournament in recent years – this will be their fifth final in eight Olympic Games stretching back to 1984. Only once in that period have they not reached at least the semi-finals.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN TOKYO: The designer behind the rapid track that has seen a series of extraordinary times at the Olympics says the surface is generating ‘one or two per cent’ improvements in performances. In the latest blistering run at the Olympic Stadium, Norway’s Karsten Warholm smashed his own 400m hurdles world record by more than 0.7sec on Tuesday.  That in turn followed Olympic records by the Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn in the 100m hurdles and Elaine Thompson-Herah on her way to 100m gold.

Helen Glover, 35, (L-R) said on Lorraine this morning having son Logan James David and twins, Kit and Willow (left) with her husband Steve Backshall made her ‘stronger’ as she became the first British rower to compete at an Olympics after becoming a mother. After coming in fourth place in the women’s event in Tokyo, Helen said that physically adapting after her pregnancy was the ‘most empowering part’ after her comeback to the sport.

Great Britain have won the silver medal in the men’s team sprint at the Tokyo Olympics. The British team of Jason Kenny, Ryan Owens and Jack Carlin simply could not respond to the world champions Holland’s electric pace, as they set a new Olympic record in winning gold by more than three seconds. Despite the final defeat, Kenny wins his eighth Olympic medal to go level at the top alongside Sir Bradley Wiggins in the most decorated British Olympians of all time.

Team GB have guaranteed their best boxing medal haul for 113 years, as Galal Yafai defeated Yosvany Veitia 4-1 to reach the flyweight semi-finals. Yafai, featuring in his second Olympic Games, is hoping to add to the Commonwealth gold he won in 2018 in the same division, and he’s gone one step closer after a hard-fought points victory. It means Team GB have now won six medals in this Olympics – bettering the five they won in London 2012 – only beaten by the 14 out of 15 that were on offer in 1908 Games.

Olympic champion Tom Daley was seen knitting poolside once again as he attended the Tokyo 2020 men’s 3m springboard diving final on Tuesday. The diver, 27, who is fresh off his first-ever Olympic gold medal in the men’s synchronised 10m platform last week, decided to get out his needles and wool to craft a Team GB cardigan.

Danish rider Frederik Madsen ploughed into the back of Team GB ‘s Charlie Tanfield before screaming ‘f*** them’ at the British team after getting back up. The extraordinary clash, which saw Team GB dumped out of the competition while the Danes advanced to the gold medal final, came just hours after Denmark was accused of cheating by wearing tape to make their riders go faster. The Danes broke the Olympic record in qualifying on Monday but teams, including Great Britain, complained about the shin tape and undervests they were wearing, believing them to be illegal. Cycling bosses agreed but ruled against disqualifying Denmark from the match against Team GB, despite the team’s rule-breaking.

Great Britain have been dumped out of the men’s team pursuit in controversial fashion after Danish rider Frederik Madsen ploughed into the back of Team GB’s Charlie Tanfield before screaming ‘f*** them’ at the British team following the two nations’ cheating row. Tanfield, the late replacement for Ed Clancy, had been left behind by his British team-mates and was riding alone – still in the race – when he was hit from behind by the Dane. A furious Madsen, who wasn’t looking where he was going as the lead rider, then jumped to his feet and exchanged words with Tanfield before being caught on camera screaming ‘f*** them’ as he walked back to his team. Then, after deliberations of more than half an hour, the UCI announced that Denmark would advance to a gold medal race against Italy in the men’s team pursuit, with Britain’s medal hopes – and their 13-year-reign as Olympic champions – over.

Britain’s women’s team pursuit squad had to settle for silver on Tuesday as they were thrashed by a world record breaking German team in the final. Katie Archibald, Neah Evans, Laura Kenny and Josie Knight had no answer to the Germans, who broke their world record set earlier in the day to win the gold medal by more than six seconds in the Velodrome. The Germans won with a time of 4:04:249 as GB surrendered the title they won in Rio at the Olympics five years ago.

DAVID COVERDALE IN IZU: The Danes broke the Olympic record in qualifying on Monday but teams, including Great Britain, complained about the shin tape and undervests they were wearing, believing them to be illegal. After meetings today, cycling’s rule makers, the UCI, banned Denmark from wearing the tape and vests when they race against Team GB for a place in the gold medal race. However, despite the UCI admitting they have breached regulations, they only issued the Danes with a warning, not a disqualification. Furious British Cycling performance director Stephen Park (inset) said: ‘Do I think they should be disqualified? I don’t think there is any alternative. The rules are clear.’

Great Britain’s sailing success continued as John Gimson and Anna Burnet took silver in the mixed Nacra 17 Class in Tokyo. After Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell secured gold in the 49er FX race and Giles Scott defended his Finn class title, there was another Team GB medal to celebrate. Olympic debutants Gimson and Burnet were beaten to gold by the Italian crew of Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti, with Germany’s Paul Kohlhoff and Alica Stuhlemmer taking bronze.

Campbell (left and right) was crowned Britain’s first female medallist in the sport after lifting 161kg in the clean-and-jerk to seal an improbable second place in the women’s +87kg category. The 27-year-old had relied on donations from her community near Nottingham to fund her Olympic bid, while team-mate Zoe Smith took to crowdfunding and working in a cafe to generate enough income to continue training. But having declared itself ‘shocked and devastated’ when the sport lost its UK Sport funding in the wake of the Rio Olympics in 2016, British Weightlifting chiefs including head of performance Stu Martin (inset) now hope Campbell’s stunning example will win additional support for the three-year cycle to Paris 2024.

The tense final went down to the wire as Mihambo (inset) produced an inspired last-gasp jump to win the event and snatch gold away from USA’s Brittney Reese, who held a slim lead going into the final round. Reese, a multiple global world champion, had a best jump of 6.97m while Nigeria’s Ese Brume, who finished with bronze, also jumped the same distance as the American but Reese held top spot due to her second best mark being superior to Brume’s. However, Mihambo snatched Olympic glory at the last second with a huge 7m jump – beating Reese and Brume’s jumps by 3cm. Team GB’s Sawyers (left), 27, from Stoke-on-Trent, finished eighth with a best jump of 6.80m while Irozuru (right) came 11th with 6.51m.