11 gold medals on offer on packed opening day at Tokyo 2020Games schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverageSign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefingEmail Geoff with your thoughts or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 10.56am BST Sweden take the lead 3-2 against Australia in the women’s football match that’s still going. 10.55am BST More squash corro from Robert Speed. “The exclusion of squash from the Olympics is like some decades-long practical joke played by the IOC. The fact that such niche ‘sports’ (breakdancing, synchro swimming, among others) can get in but squash routinely gets overlooked is actually a travesty. They desperately want to be included, and it’s a widely played proper racket sport. I don’t even play the game, but its treatment at the hands of the IOC makes me angry.” Continue reading…
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