Brazil vs Ivory Coast LIVE result: Tokyo 2020 Olympics final score and reaction
Relive all the action from the Olympics fixture
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:
Biles makes uncharacteristic errors
The USA came second to ROC in the gymnastics qualification earlier this morning and star Simone Biles made some mistakes.
She made some uncharacteristic errors on the vault and the floor in the first two rotations and her teammates also failed to impress as the US didn’t finish first for the first time in a World Championships or Olympics since 2010.
In the all-round standings Biles does lead despite her mistakes with a score of 57.731. She is closely followed by USA’s Suni Lee who has 57.166 and then ROC’s Angelina Melnikova on 57.132.
With two round of athletes still to go Biles is in a qualifying place for all five finals. We will keep you posted on if that changes throughout the morning.
Li Fabin wins gold in weightlifting
China’s Li Fabin has won gold in the 61kg weightlift.
The star set Olympic records with his lifts, tallying 313 kilograms. He did attempt to set a new world record with a lift of 178kg but he couldn’t quite complete it.
Silver goes to Indonesia’s Eko Yuli Irawan and bronze to Kazakhstan’s Igor Son.
Brazil 0-0 Ivory Coast: Still no way through
After half an hour in this match there still hasn’t been a goal to break this deadlock.
Brazil are playing with ten men after Douglas Luiz was sent off.
Whoever wins this match will be through to the knock-out rounds.
Sinden reaches taekwondo final
Bradly Sinden has reached the -68kg taekwondo final to guarantee Britain's first medal of the Tokyo Olympics.
He will be against Uzbekistan’s Ulugbek Rashitov which takes place at 1.45pm BST.
Red card for Brazil’s Douglas Luiz
The ref had initially given Douglas Luiz a yellow for a challenge at the edge of the box but after a consultation with VAR it has been upgraded to a red! Still 0-0
Team GB’s Giles through to bronze medal match
Great Britain’s Chelsie Giles is through to the bronze medal match in the women’s 52kg judo competition. The 24-year-old, competing in her first Olympics, came through the repechage against Belgium’s Charline Van Snick.
Brazil make fast start against Ivory Coast
Brazil have immediately taken the upper hand in the early stages in Yokohama, with Richarlison darting down the left wing and sending panic through Ivory Coast’s defence. It has not been entirely one-way traffic, though, with AC Milan’s central midfielder, Franck Kessié, able to settle the tempo a little.
Brazil face Ivory Coast
Brazil started their Tokyo Olympics campaign in spectacular fashion with a 4-2 thashing of Germany in their first group match and victory against the Ivory Coast will all but guarantee their place in the knockout stages.
While there can be no doubting the quality on show for the reigning champions, who won on home soil in Rio five years ago, Ivory Coast will still provide firm opposition, with Manchester United pair Eric Bailly and Amad Diallo both featuring.
Tokyo Olympics women’s road race
The Netherlands’ Anniemiek van Vleuten finishes second and Italy’s Elisa Longo-Borghini takes the bronze medal. Here’s the moment Kiesenhofer took gold:
Kiesenhofer wins Tokyo Olympics road race
Anna Kiesenhofer has stormed home to victory in the womens’ cycling road race on the Fuji International Speedway track. Similarly to yesterday’s men’s race, which was won by Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz, there is a whole pack of chasers now sizing each other up as they chase the other two medals.
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