July 25 Tokyo 2020 Olympics news and results

Day two of the Tokyo Olympics and the action and headlines are coming thick and fast. 

A total of 18 gold medals will be won on Sunday -- you can see the full schedule here.

Japanese world champion Yuto Horigome has been crowned the first Olympic skateboarding gold medallist -- and it felt sad that no Japanese fans were there to witness it.

There has also been drama in the pool. Chase Kalisz wins the first US swimming gold in the men’s 400m medley, while Tunisia’s Kalisz Hafnaoui pulls off a major upset by winning the 400m freestyle.

Meanwhile, Japan’s Yui Ohashi won gold in the women’s 400m individual medley and Australia smashed the world record in women’s freestyle relay.

There has been a fascinating story emerging in taekwondo, where Iranian refugee Kimia Alizadeh is through to the quarter-finals in the women’s -57kg category after defeating Team GB’s two-time Olympic champion Jade Jones.

Some big names are crashing out of the tennis, including Andy Murray, who was forced to withdrew from the men’s singles with a thigh strain, but is set to remain in the doubles, while world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty has been knocked out of the women’s singles.

Simone Biles, widely considered the greatest gymnast of all time, starts her Olympic campaign Sunday in gymnastics qualifying.

Just before Tokyo 2020 got underway, the five-time Olympic artistic gymnastics medallist, became the first Olympic athlete to have a personalised Twitter icon -- the hashtags #SimoneBiles or #Simone generates a goat in a leotard performing a split leap with a gold medal around its neck shows up.

Away from the action, 10 new games-related cases of Covid-19 have been reported, including an unnamed US athlete.

The Dutch rowing team appears to have an outbreak after a coach tested positive following a rower on Friday.

Meanwhile US golf star Bryson DeChambeau tested positive before leaving the United States and is out.

The IOC has said masks on the Olympic podium are a “must-have.”

And keep an eye on the weather at the Olympics.

The sweltering conditions continue to impact events, with tennis players given extra recovery time between games and sets due to the extreme heat. 

Tropical Storm Nepartak is also approaching Tokyo, meaning rowing events have already been moved from Tuesday to Wednesday and Thursday.

Skateboarder Nyjah Huston had been the pre-event favorite to win the men's street final, but as the American reflected on seventh place he said he's "never felt so much pressure."

Huston added that he was looking forward to getting back "real skateboarding life" and not feeling so much pressure all the time.

International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said masks on the Olympic podium are "not a nice to have, it's a must have," according to Reuters.

In an interview off-camera responding to a reporter asking whether mask rules had been relaxed, Adams said, "There is no relaxation, and we would urge and ask everyone to obey the rules, whatever stakeholder you are, us, the IOC, media, athletes, everyone. It's not a nice to have, it's a must have."

Adams urged everyone to follow the rules of the playbook, adding, "It is really in our own interest and the interest of everyone and in the interest of a safe and secure Games that we do obey these rules."

The Tokyo 2020 Playbook says masks should be worn at all times except when eating, drinking, training, competing, or sleeping.

Yuto Horigome of Japan has won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in skateboarding after the men's street final on Sunday. 

Horigome finished with a score of 37.18.

Brazil's Kelvin Hoefler won silver with a score of 36.15, and American Jagger Eaton won bronze with a score of 35.35. Pre-event favorite Nyjah Huston of the United States failed to medal in the event, finishing in seventh with a score of 26.10.

Horigome's win is Japan's third gold medal so far during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, bringing the host country's total medal count to four. 

Kimia Alizadeh, an Iranian taekwondo athlete competing for the IOC Refugee Olympic Team has defeated two-time Olympic gold medalist Jade Jones in the round-of-16.

Alizadeh became the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal competing for Iran after claiming bronze in taekwondo at the 2016 Rio Olympics. 

In 2020, she announced that she permanently left her birth country for Europe amid searing criticism of the regime in Tehran.  

Alizadeh will face Lijun Zhou in the quarterfinals. 

"I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years," the athlete wrote in an Instagram post in 2020 explaining why she was defecting. 

Alizadeh was granted refugee status in Germany and now lives in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg, according to Reuters.   

According to the IOC website, 29 athletes will compete for the IOC Refugee Olympic Team in the Games. 

Read more about her here.

US golfer Bryson DeChambeau will not compete in the Olympic Games after testing positive for Covid-19 prior to departing for Tokyo, according to USA Golf.

"Bryson DeChambeau tested positive for Covid-19, as part of the final testing protocol before he left the United States for the Olympics 2020 in Japan. He will be unable to compete for Team USA," USA Golf said in a press release. 

Two-time Olympian Patrick Reed will replace DeChambeau. His first round of competition is set for Thursday, July 29.

DeChambeau has won eight times on the PGA Tour including one major championship, the 2020 US Open.

Australia has won the women's 4x100-meter freestyle relay gold in world-record fashion at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. 

Australia’s winning time of 3:29.69 beat the previous world record of 3:30.05, which was also set by Australia in 2018.

This was Australia’s first gold medal of these Olympics and their third total medal.

Canada won silver with a time of 3:32.78, giving Canada its first medal in Tokyo. The United States took bronze with a time of 3:32.81, giving the US its sixth total medal of the Games.

Australian tennis star Ashleigh Barty was knocked out of the Olympic women’s singles tournament in Tokyo in the first round by Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo. 

Barty was the tournament’s top seed and the number one ranked woman in the world coming off a championship at Wimbledon.

Sorribes Tormo defeated Barty in straight sets 6-4, 6-3.

Meanwhile, British tennis player Andy Murray has withdrawn from the men’s singles tennis tournament due to a quad strain, Team GB announced. He will continue to compete in the men’s doubles tournament.

 Murray won men’s singles gold at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.

A US Olympic athlete has tested positive for Covid-19 in Tokyo, according to the US Olympic Committee.

It did not reveal the identity of the athlete.

"Of the 1,038 US Olympic delegates in Japan on July 24, one Covid test was confirmed positive based on daily results," the committee said in a tweet on Saturday night.

The committee announced on Friday that it would report daily positive cases from US Olympic athletes in Tokyo.

"Additionally, of the nearly 60% of the US Olympic delegation who was expected to travel to Japan from July 1-23, six US athletes and officials tested positive for Covid-19 as part of the rigorous pre-departure testing process and were not permitted to travel," the committee said Friday. 

"The remaining 40% of the US delegation for the Olympic Games will arrive in Tokyo periodically over the coming weeks as pre-departure testing and monitoring continues," it added.