Olympics LIVE: Kerr blasts brilliant brace

Fridolina Rolfo has scored an implicit pearler from extracurricular the container to reclaim the pb for Sweden against Australia.

Collecting the shot heavy successful Aussie territory, Rolfo was offered acold excessively overmuch abstraction by the Matildas' defence, opening up her stride and letting escaped connected a left-foot cracker that peeled distant from Aussie keeper Teagan Micah.

It's large stroke for the Matildas who had worked truthful hard to get themselves backmost into this lucifer aft battling disconnected the backmost ft from a dilatory start.

It got adjacent worse for the Aussies minutes aboriginal erstwhile Sam Kerr had a penalty, and a accidental to container a hat-trick, saved by Swedish keeper Hedvig Lindahl.

It was a aureate accidental to erstwhile again level the scores successful the see-sawing affair, and 1 that could beryllium costly for the Aussies.

Sam Kerr scores her 2nd of the nighttime to enactment Australia up against Sweden!

The Aussie superstar recovered the nett successful astir identical circumstances, directing a almighty header goalward to permission the Swedish defence mislaid for answers.

It's Kerr's 3rd extremity of the tourney and comfortably ends her goal-scoring slump that had dogged her crippled up of the Olympics.

Who other but Sam Kerr!?

The Aussie goal-scorer has got up precocious implicit the Swedish defence to conscionable a sensational transverse from Kyah Simon, heading a almighty effort goalward.

Keeper Hedvig Lindahl volition beryllium upset with that, however, aft getting her hands connected the effort but incapable to support the shot from crossing the line.

Minutes later, the Matildas person a punishment entreaty waved distant by the referee. Aussies starting to occurrence now.

The Matildas present look a daunting task successful their radical clash with Sweden aft slumping to a 1-0 shortage successful the 20th minute.

Australia made a dependable commencement to the lucifer but were blameworthy of shot watching successful defence arsenic Sofia Jakobsson and Fridolina Rolfo combined for the opening goal.

Jakobsson recovered abstraction connected the close with a marauding tally and chopped the shot backmost perfectly for an unmarked Rolfo to use a cleanable decorativeness past Teagan Micah successful the Matildas goal.

There were besides an aboriginal scare for Australia arsenic skipper Sam Kerr was limping astir aboriginal aft a clash with Caroline Seger.

But prima striker Kerr appears to person shaken disconnected that knock.Both teams won their opening games – Australia 2-1 implicit New Zealand and Sweden with a stunning 3-0 upset of satellite No.1 United States.

Ecuador prima Richard Carapaz has claimed golden successful the men's cycling roadworthy race, beating retired the remainder of the tract by implicit a minute.

The third-place finisher astatine this year's Tour de France hung with the breakaway battalion precocious successful the contention earlier tearing disconnected for a stunning solo stint to the extremity successful which helium opened up a infinitesimal connected the nearest chasing group.

Embracing his nickname of "The Locomotive," Carapaz rode distant from American breakaway buddy Brandon McNulty arsenic they approached the decorativeness astatine Fuji International Speedway.

The 2019 Giro d'Italia champion was emphatic connected his last kilometer, consenting himself connected done axenic elation arsenic it dawned connected him he'd beryllium incapable to beryllium caught by the decorativeness line.

The Ecuadorian threw his hands up arsenic helium crossed the line, and embraced members of his team. He slapped his handlebars successful solemnisation and was greeted by 1 of the fewer crowds allowed astatine the Olympics.

65-seconds aboriginal it was a antithetic communicative nevertheless arsenic the pursuit radical neared the decorativeness line, leaving Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogačar to face-off for a sprint to the line.

A photograph decorativeness was needed to divided the brace with Van Aert beating retired Pogačar to the metallic medal.

The Stingers person kick-started their Tokyo Olympics with an 8-5 triumph implicit Canada successful their radical A lucifer today.

The Australian women's Water Polo team, who were playing their archetypal planetary tourney aft astir 2 years, raced retired to a 4-1 pb contiguous with debutant Bronte Halligan notching the Stingers' opening 2 goals earlier Canada stormed back.

The Canadians notched back-to-back goals during the 2nd 4th successful the abstraction of 30 seconds to chopped the shortage to conscionable one.

But a precocious extremity astatine the extremity of the 2nd 4th to Zoe Arancini, followed by a palmy 5-metre punishment people from Keesja Gofers during the 3rd term, gave the Aussies their comfy three-goal pb back.

Two-time Olympic champion gymnast Kohei Uchimura of Japan has fallen disconnected the precocious barroom ending his hopes of glory astatine his location Games.

Uchimura's nighttime was chopped abbreviated aft helium came down hard precocious successful a sensational regular that had him successful bully stead to shake-up the remainder of the field.

It was a devastating mode to extremity his location games, and volition apt beryllium the 32-year-old's last quality astatine Olympic level.

Uchimura is simply a seven-time Olympic medalist, winning 3 golds and 4 silvers, and a twenty-one-time World medalist.

The squad of Ash Barty and Storm Sanders needed little than an hr to get past Japan's Nao Hibino and Makoto Ninomiya, winning 6-1, 6-2.

Barty volition commencement her singles run time morning, arsenic volition James Duckworth and Ajla Tomljanovic.

Stosur volition get a speedy changeable a redemption arsenic she teams up with Ellen Perez for their women's doubles clash, portion Millman teams with Luke Saville successful the men's.

Meanwhile, determination was besides bully quality for John Millman.

World No.1 Ash Barty is disconnected to a flying commencement successful Tokyo!

Barty has joined forces with chap Aussie Storm Sanders, with the brace taking the archetypal acceptable against big federation Japan, 6-1.

The Aussies raced retired to a 4-0 pb and hardly broke a sweat arsenic the Japanese struggled to find immoderate rhythm.

The Aussie volition service archetypal successful the 2nd acceptable against Nao Hibino and Makoto Ninomiya of Japan.

Great Britain's Geraint Thomas came disconnected his motorcycle with different Brit and 1 of the Italian riders, leaving him good disconnected the gait with plentifulness of clip to marque up connected if helium is to support his golden medal hopes live successful Tokyo.

Thomas is the lone antheral successful the tract to triumph a golden medal and besides triumph the Tour de France but was near covered successful humor with his apical each ripped arsenic helium suffered the consequences from the crash.

Thomas has 2 Olympic golden medals (2008 and 2012) and won the 2018 Tour de France.

With conscionable nether 125 kilometres remaining successful the men's roadworthy race, a breakaway has been established with a radical of 5 riders putting a spread of astir 16 minutes connected the peleton.

The cyclists successful the breakaway are Polychronis Tzortzakis (Greece), Juraj Sagan (Slovakian), Orluis Aular (Venezualan), Nicholas Dlamini (South African) and Michael Kukrle (Czech). Going into the contention they were not considered among the medal hopes.

Australia's contingent, which includes one-time Tour de France podium finisher Richie Porte, are good positioned successful the peleton, which is satarting to chopped into the pb held by the breakaway.