Brazil vs Ivory Coast LIVE result: Tokyo 2020 Olympics final score and reaction

Relive all the action from the Olympics fixture

Naomi Osaka lights Olympic cauldron as Tokyo 2020 Games begin

Playing with 10 men for most of the game, Brazil held the Ivory Coast to a 0-0 draw on Sunday in the group stage of the men’s Olympic football tournament.

Brazil are the defending Olympic champions after winning on home soil at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, but they were at a disadvantage early when Douglas Luiz, who plays for Aston Villa, was sent off in the 13th minute.

Ivory Coast midfielder Eboue Kouassi was sent off in the 79th. Both Luiz and Kouassi won’t be able to play in their teams’ final group matches.

The Brazilians won their Group D opener over Germany 4-2. Richarlison scored a hat trick.

Ivory Coast midfielder Franck Kessie scored the winner in his team’s opening 2-1 victory over Saudi Arabia.

Brazil captain Dani Alves, at 38, is the oldest player in the tournament, which features under-23 teams on the men’s side with coaches allowed to bring three older players.

Relive all the action below:

Key Points

[25 July 2021 13:57 · Tom Kershaw]

Sinden lands headkick to keep gold hopes alive

The contest was running away from Sinden, with Rashitov routinely landing kicks to the trunks to stretch his lead to seven points. But just before the end of the second round, Sinden finally manages to land a headkick that cuts the gap to just four. The Briton is still very much in this heading into the final round!

[25 July 2021 13:52 · Tom Kershaw]

Sinden trails after first round of final

After a promising start for Sinden, two brilliant headkicks in the space of as many seconds totally swing the momentum in Ulugbek Rashitov’s favour. The 19-year-old Uzbekistani takes a five-point lead in the second round.

[25 July 2021 13:46 · Tom Kershaw]

Sinden goes for gold

Can Bradly Sinden win Team GB’s first gold of the Tokyo Olympics? His date with destiny has arrived after the USA’s Anastasija Zolotic defeated Russia’s Tatiana Kudashova in a thrilling women’s final.

[25 July 2021 13:39 · Tom Kershaw]

Dujardin stays on golden course in dressage

Charlotte Dujardin scored a magnificent 80.693% on her horse, Gio, in their qualifying test to breeze into Wednesday’s final as she aims to become the first British woman to win golds at three different Olympics.

Dujardin, Carl Hester and Lottie Fry are also safely through to the final for Team GB in the team competition.

[25 July 2021 13:30 · Tom Kershaw]

Giles cherishes starting Team GB’s medal haul in birthplace of judo

Chelsie Giles collected Great Britain’s first medal of the Tokyo Olympics and revealed afterwards that winning bronze in the country where judo was founded was “extra special”.

The Coventry judoka overcame Macedonia’s Arbresha Rexhepi and Morocco’s Soumiya Iraoui in the women’s -52kg category on Sunday before losing to home favourite and eventual gold medallist Uta Abe at the quarter-final stage.

But the repechage offered the 24-year-old an alternative route to a podium place and she duly grasped the chance, defeating Belgium’s Charline van Snick and then Switzerland’s Fabienne Kocher by Ippon at the Nippon Budokan.

“It feels very special to do it in Japan,” she said. “It’s an amazing arena, the atmosphere was amazing and to do it where judo started makes it extra special.

“I felt really good in the warm-up and I was taking each fight as it came. It went really well, I believed that I could do it and my coach has always believed I can do it and it showed in my performances.

“I never underestimate any of my fights, I think that’s when mistakes are made, so I go into the fight knowing what they do and knowing what I’m capable of doing.

“With my best performance I know I can beat some of the top players and my performances showed that.”

[25 July 2021 13:22 · Tom Kershaw]

USA take on France in men’s basketball

An all-star USA team are in action in the men’s basketball, with Kevin Durant quickly notching up five points as they take a 22-13 lead in the first quarter.

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[25 July 2021 12:56 · Sarah Rendell]

GB are out of 4x100 men’s freestyle

The men’s 4x100m relay freestyle heats have seen Team GB not progress to the next round.

Eight teams have qualified and they are: Italy, United States, Australia, France, Brazil, Hungary, Canada, ROC.

[25 July 2021 12:52 · Sarah Rendell]

Van Vleuten mistakenly thinks she won gold

An astonishing story from the Olympics today comes from the women’s road race.

In the biggest upset of the games so far, Anna Kiesenhofer took gold and the expected winner Annemiek van Vleuten won silver.

But as Van Vleuten crossed the line she believed she had taken first place!

[25 July 2021 12:48 · Sarah Rendell]

Finalists confirmed for the women’s 400m freestyle

The finalists have been confirmed for the women’s 400m freestyle, no semi-finals in this competition.

They are: USA’s Kathleen Ledecky, China’s Bingjie Li, Australia’s Ariarne Titmus, New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather, Canada’s Summer McIntosh, Germany’s Isabel Gose, USA’s Paige Madden, China’s Muhan Tang.

[25 July 2021 12:45 · Sarah Rendell]

Biles out of uneven bars

Germany’s Elisabeth Seitz has recorded a 14.700 in the uneven bars which has pushed USA’s Simone Biles out of the competition.

She wasn’t anticipating to compete in the event but it’s still a surprise to fans.

Biles still holds seventh in the beam but there are a lot more gymnasts to come. Updates throughout the day to see if she can hold onto that qualifying spot.

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