47 Highlights from Tokyo 2020 For Everyone Who's Mourning The Loss Already

The 2020 Olympic Games are underway and thanks to the epic time difference between England and Japan keeping up with the events is slightly more difficult than when the games were based in Stratford 😉. So, to save you from becoming nocturnal, we've rounded up the highlights from the games so far. Scroll on for our favourite bits.

Olympic cyclist Laura Kenny was the official flagbearer for Great Britain at the closing ceremony. Ahead of the event, she said it was “an absolute honour to be selected as the Team GB flagbearer for the Tokyo 2020 Closing Ceremony, and it rounds off my Games experience". In total, Team GB finished with 65 medals - 22 of which were gold - making them fourth in the overall medal table.

Tom Daley is officially the first Team GB diver to win four Olympic medals. He took home gold in the 10m synchronised dive alongside Matty Lee, as well as three bronzes.

Both Joe Choong and Kate French took home the gold for Team GB in the modern pentathlon. Choong was also the first British man to win an individual Olympic medal in the sport that has been in the programme at every Games since 1912.

27-year-old Molly Seidel from the US first made her debut in the Olympic marathon event at the US trials last year, after switching from shorter distances, but wound up winning the bronze medal in what was only her third ever marathon. She completed the distance in 2:27.46, finishing just 26 seconds behind Kenyan winner Peres Jepchirchir.

33-year-old Jason Kenny is the first British athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals, making him the most successful of all time, overtaking former champion Bradley Wiggins. Kenny won nine in total, including two silvers, and there are now calls for him to be knighted.

Laura Kenny became the first British woman to win gold at three Olympic Games as she and Katie Archibald were crowned madison cycling champions for finishing first place in 10 out of 12 sprints. This made Kenny GB's most successful female athlete, as her fifth gold and sixth Olympic medal in total.

Great Britain walked away with a bronze medal in the women's hockey with a 4-3 victory against India. The win marks the third Olympic Games in a row that Team GB have won a medal in the sport, after they also bagged gold at Rio 2016 and bronze at London 2012.

Lauren Price is set to fight for a gold medal after she won the middleweight semi-final against Dutch opponent Nouchka Fontjin. She will now go up against China's 2018 world champion Li Qian.

Great Britain's Matt Walls took home the gold medal in the men's omnium cycling. This is the first time Team GB have won the men's omnium at the Olympic Games, with Ed Clancy winning bronze at London 2012 and Mark Cavendish silver at Rio 2016.

29-year-old Holly Bradshaw cleared 4.85m on her first attempt to beat Greek defending champion Katerina Stefanidi in the pole vault final. She walked away with a bronze medal - the first team GB has ever secured from the sport.

Despite withdrawing from the 200m due to a torn hamstring, Dina Asher-Smith made an epic return in the 4x100m relay heats, as she helped the squad set a new national record. Their time of 41.55 seconds secured them a place in the final.

24-year-old Alice Dearing made history when she became the first female black swimmer to compete for GB. She placed 19th in the 10km marathon swim, but while she didn’t take home a medal, her participation alone is certainly something to celebrate.

World champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson had a rocky build up to the Olympics after undergoing Achilles surgery. Sadly in her 200m heat her heavily strapped ankle was unable to take the strain. After stopping in agony she got up to finish the race, jogging to the line. British Athletics have since confirmed Johnson-Thompson had pulled out of the heptathlon, having “sustained an injury to her right calf”.

13-year-old Sky Brown made two epic achievements in the skateboarding final: she became the youngest British Olympian to compete at a Summer Games, and then walked away with a bronze medal – making her GB’s youngest ever Olympic medallist.

19-year-old Keely Hodgkinson broke Kelly Holmes' British record in the 800m race with a time of 1:55.88, and walked away with a silver medal. She was one of three British women (alongside Jemma Reekie and Alexandra Bell) to qualify for the final race - a first for Team GB in the Olympic games.

Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica made Olympic history when she became the first woman ever to win both the 100m and 200m titles in back-to-back races. Her times also made the quickest woman alive across both sprint distances.

Hannah Mills is officially Britain’s most successful female Olympic sailor, after she defended her 470 gold title at Tokyo 2020. Alongside her partner Eilidh McIntyre, they finished fifth in the race, but with a dominant 14-point lead, they only needed to rank in the top eight places to secure gold. This makes 33-year-old Mills a double Olympic champion, after she won gold at Rio 2016, and silver at London 2012.

Marking her seventh Olympic medal, the USA's Simone Biles came third and was awarded the bronze medal in the balance beam final. It was her only final of this year's games, after she pulled out of other events due to mental health concerns.

Emily Campbell performed an incredible 161kg clean and jerk and walked away with a silver medal in this +87kg category. This makes her the first British female Olympic weightlifting medallist.

After Germany stole Team GB’s team pursuit cycling world record, Laura Kenny, Elinor Barker, Katie Archibald and Neah Evans were so determined to reacquire the title on Tuesday that Katie and Neah wound up crashing into each other. Thankfully, they walked away unscathed, and did manage to slash three seconds off the world record time, but this lasted only a matter of minutes as Germany beat it by over half a second in the final heat against Italy.

Lisa Carrington walked away with three golds from the kayaking heats. This makes a total of four that she has secured in her career, with another two heats still to go. She remains unbeaten for nine years in the event.

Britain’s Stuart Bithell and Dylan Fletcher secured Olympic gold in the Men’s Skiff 49er, but it was a close call as they crossed the finish line just half a boat length sooner than Germany.

Former chef Charlotte Worthington made history when she became the first to successfully land a 360 BMX backflip in the Olympics. It secured her a gold medal, and the highest score across both the men’s and women’s events.

Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Anna Hopkin put on a spectacular swimming display in the 4x100m mixed medley relay final, finishing with a time of 3:37.58, ahead of China who won silver, and Australia who took home the bronze.

Scottish runner Laura Muir placed a solid second in the 1500m semi-finals. She started relatively slowly at third from the back, but after two minutes had passed, she stormed ahead and came just behind Canada’s Gabriela Debues-Stafford.

27-year-old Emma McKeon won seven gold medals during the swimming heats, making her the first female in the sport to ever do so. She took home four golds from the 100m freestyle, 50m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle relay, and 4x100m medley relay; and bronze in the women's 100m butterfly, the 4x100m mixed medley relay and the 4x200m freestyle relay.

Germany smashed the women’s team cycling heat as Franziska Brausse, Lisa Brennauer, Lisa Klein and Mieke Kroeger crossed the 4km finish line in a time on 3:07:307 seconds. They made a new record, pipping team GB to the post, who previously held the record with a time of 4:10.236.

Just when we thought we couldn’t love him more, Tom Daley was pictured knitting as he watched the men’s 3m springboard final on Sunday morning. His Team GB-themed masterpiece is goals.

For the first time since 1912, Italy and Qatar walked away with a shared gold medal after competing against each other in the men’s high jump heats. Both Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim and Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi ended up with jumps of 2.37m, and had no failed attempts until 2.39m. After three failures at this height each, Barshim asked an Olympic official if they could share the award, and he willingly obliged. That’s the spirit.

A heartwarming moment in the women's 200m backstroke final – Tatjana Schoenmaker having won gold and set a new Olympic record was pulled in for a congratulatory hug by her competitors. Visibly overwhelmed at her feat the two American swimmers Lilly King and Annie Lazor, and Schoenmaker's fellow South African swimmer celebrated with her.

Former WH cover star Dina Asher-Smith suffered her first defeat of the year in the 100m heats, coming in at joint 11th fastest but proceeding to the next round.

An incredible day in British cycling, Bethany Shriever and Kye Whyte secured gold and silver respectively in the women's and men's BMX final. Shriever, 22, finished just nine-tenths of a second ahead of second-place Colombia's Mariana Pajon.

For the first time ever (yep, you read that right) women were able to take part in the 1500m freestyle swimming event at the Olympics. Katie Ledecky and Erica Sullivan won gold and silver for Team USA, Ledecky's sixth career Olympic gold medal.

After an impressive display earning bronze as part of GB's dressage final team, Charlotte Dujardin has become Great Britain's most decorated female Olympian ever after winning bronze in the individual dressage event. Dujardin surpassed rower Katherine Grainger's five Olympic medals record, having now won six.

The most decorated gymnast of all time, Simone Biles, pulled out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic women's all-around gymnastics final, citing mental health issues and a need to take a step back.

'They [the coaches] saw I was going through it and they totally agreed it was not worth getting hurt over something so silly, even though it’s so big – the Olympics Games,' Biles has said. 'But at the end of the day we want to walk out of here, not be dragged out of here on a stretcher.'

A statement from US gymnastics further clarified that Biles would withdraw from the final individual all-around competition as well.

'After further medical evaluation, Simone Biles has withdrawn from the final individual all-around competition,' the statement reads. 'We wholeheartedly support Simone’s decision and applaud her bravery in prioritizing her wellbeing. Her courage shows, yet again, why she is a role model for so many.'

Team GB gymnasts became the first British gymnastic team to win an Olympic finals medal since 1928. After a shaky start – Amelie Morgan fell during her balance beam routine – the British quad moved decisively up the rankings, eventually clinching third place and four bronze medals.

After his euphoric individual win, Tom Dean secured his second Olympic gold medal in the men's 4x200m relay win. The team beat Russia and Australia to top the podium, comfortably outperforming the rest of the pool. The race marks the first time since the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 that a team has beaten the USA in the event.

Competing in the women's 55kg weightlifting category, Air Force servicewoman Hidilyn Diaz beat out world-record holder Liao Qiuyun to win the Philippines first ever Olympic gold medal.

Part of the Refugee Olympic team, Mardini swam in the women's 100m butterfly heat. Growing up in Damascus, Mardini and her family fled Syria in 2015, eventually reaching Greece by boat. When the boat's motor stopped working out in the Aegean Sea, Mardini, her sister and two other passengers tread water for over three hours to keep the boat afloat. Mardini and her family are now settled in Berlin.

2020 World Champion Georgia Taylor-Brown cruised to second place in the women's triathlon, in spite of a rear tyre puncture during the cycling section of the race.

46-year old Oksana Chusovitina celebrated her eighth Olympic Games in Tokyo, having competed in every cycle since Barcelona in 1992. Chusovitina announced that Tokyo 2020 will be the end of her Olympic career.

It was a one-two finish for Team GB in the men's 200m swimming freestyle final with Maidenhead's Tom Dean and Duncan Scott scooping gold and silver medals respectively.

After the race Dean expressed how grateful he was for the support back home saying, 'thanks so much to everyone back home, my mum, my family, my girlfriend, all the boys back in Maidenhead, thank you for staying up."

The German women's gymnastics team donned full-length bodysuits to compete. The outfits, different to the shorter leotards more commonly seen in the sport are part of a push to make women feel more comfortable to compete.

Three-time Olympian Elisabeth Seitz says the decision came to 'show that every woman, everybody, should decide what to wear,' going on to explain that it's 'about what feels comfortable.'

Earlier this year, German gymnasts competed in full-length bodysuits at the European championships with competitor Sarah Voss explaining the choice as 'a great option for everyone to stay in the sport they love and don't think about anything else about their body – just about their performance.'

After 13 years and four Olympic Games, Tom Daley finally secured a gold medal. Competing in the synchronised 10m platform, Daley and his partner Matty Lee somersaulted to a win-clinching score of 471.81 points.

Japanese skateboarder Nishiya Momiji skated to victory, winning gold at her home Olympics. The first year the sport has been an Olympic event, the 13-year-old took first place whilst her fellow 13-year old competitor, Brazil’s Rayssa Leal took second.

Team GB's first Tokyo 2020 gold medal came from title-defending Adam Peaty in the men's 100m breaststroke final. Peaty set the men's 100m breaststroke world record in Rio five years ago, swimming to a gold medal. He also scored a silver medal for the men's 4x100m medley relay.

For the fourth year running, the women's Olympic 100m backstroke record has been broken – this time by Team USA swimmer Regan Smith. Finishing in 57.86 seconds Smith secured her place in the final round on