After a year's delay, the Tokyo Olympics are finally under way and there's already been plenty of action involving Team GB in Japan.
Sir Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury marked themselves out as medal contenders with a brilliant first-round performance in the men's doubles at the Ariake Tennis Park.
The pair had a tough draw against second seeds and Roland Garros champions Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut but they brushed the French pair aside in a 6-3, 6-2 victory.
The Tokyo Olympics are finally under way and there has been plenty of Team GB action already
Salisbury and Murray had never played a match together before but the former is Britain's best doubles player while Murray also has plenty of experience in the format.
Murray suffered a first week exit at Wimbledon last month but played some spellbinding tennis, and is looking to add to his two Gold medals won in men's singles competition in London and Rio.
Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski were the final British players on court for the day and they saved a match point in a nail-biting 6-7 (3) 6-4 13-11 victory over Argentinians Andres Molteni and Horacio Zeballos.
Sir Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury laid down an early marker after beating top contenders
Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski also advanced in a nail-biting clash with Argentine rivals
Murray and Skupski were regular partners until the end of last year, when Murray decided to rekindle his partnership with Bruno Soares, and he was a late substitute for the Olympics after Dan Evans tested positive for coronavirus.
Murray and Skupski found themselves 3-1 down in the second set and staring at an early exit, but turned the match around before edging the tightest of tie-breaks.
In the road race, Adam Yates came closest to medalling but was outsprinted at the last, while Geraint Thomas was forced to make an early exit after crashing again.
The Welshman suffered the same fate in Brazil five years ago and could not move out of the way after Team GB team-mate Tao Geoghegan Hart's front wheel came off 70 kilometres into the race.
Geraint Thomas suffered heartbreak in the road race after crashing out on Mount Fuji
The 35-year-old bemoaned his bad luck after his team-mate front wheel fell off in front of him
'All good with me. Thanks for the messages!! Think I must have done something bad in a previous life,' Thomas tweeted to his 482,000 followers.
'Freak crash, Tao lost his front wheel and decked it in front of me. I had nowhere to go, other than the floor as well'.
Max Whitlock began his Gold medal defence strongly in the qualifying rounds of artistic gymnastics and eased through to the men's pommel final on his return to Olympic competition in Tokyo.
Whitlock scored 14.9, ranking him in third place in the standings in the penultimate qualifying rotation, which guaranteed his qualification for the eight-man individual final.
The Briton's two-year-old daughter Willow wished her dad ‘Good Luck’ and shouted ‘Go GB’ in a heart-moving home video, recorded by his wife Leah at the family home in Essex early this morning.
Max Whitlock launched his gold medal defence with a strong showing on the pommel
Elsewhere, Britain's title defence in the men's eight got off to a rocky start in Tokyo on Saturday, as the Netherlands scored a stunning victory to force the reigning European Champions into
