Ireland won their first gold medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy triumphed in the lightweight men's double sculls earlier today.

This is the welcome they were given on their return to the Olympic village.

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Team GB's last man standing in the Archery, 19-year-old James Woodgate, has been eliminated at the round of 32 in his first Olympics. The youngster lost out to Kazakhstan's Ilfat Abdullin.

Bryony Pitman will compete in the women's event tomorrow, she is GB's last remaining athlete in the event.

Great Britain needed a last-play try from Abbie Brown to see off the Russian Olympic Committee in their first pool game earlier this morning.

It gets trickier in their second. They are up against Rio 2016 silver medallists New Zealand.

Sir Matthew Pinsent
Four-time Olympic rowing champion on BBC TV

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I think there has been a concerted campaign across all the sports to have equal parity, equal medals between men and women.

[Great Britain] has got a great track record in the men's C2, you may remember medals coming in - particularly in London 2012 - then it was announced the men's C2 would be phased out and the women's C1 would be coming in.

It was controversial. There were some discussions, shall we say, among the paddling circles about its merits, but I think that competition proves it.

Well worth its Olympic status. And a competition of that level just proves it.

BBC Radio 5 Live

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Tom Dean and Matthew Richards, half of the gold medal winning 4x200m freestyle relay team, caught up with BBC Radio 5live earlier this morning.

Tom Dean pipped team mate Duncan Scott to the gold medal in the men's 200m freestyle final, on their rivalry Tom said: “We push each other on and I think we’ve moved the 200m freestyle along in British swimming. We challenge each other at every race but we are great mates both in and out of the pool.

“I think it’s quite healthy, for example I’ve looked up to Jimmy for ages because he’s done amazing things in the pool, he’s my training partner, he’s a great mate but a few times a year you have to switch that off for a few minutes! At the end of the day he’s just another competitor. But what more could you want? Competing at the highest level of international racing and bringing home medals with your mates from the same team, it doesn’t get better than this!"

Britain's Giles Scott has now won four races in a row to boost his hopes of defending his Finn class title.

Great Britain's Matthew Coward-Holley said he was "a little bit lost for words" after winning bronze in the men's trap shooting final.

"It's my first Olympics so to come away with a medal, it's phenomenal," he said.

The world and European champion, 26, was among Team GB's gold medal hopes but paid the price for a slow start, missing three of his first 10 targets.

He recovered with 14 successive hits to climb into medal contention.

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And breathe...as Britain claims its 17th and 18th medals of the Games, let's have a little look at some of the stories of Day Six so far.

• Britain's Mallory Franklin wins silver in the first women's canoe slalom event at the Tokyo Olympics.
• Matthew Coward-Holley claimed bronze in the men's trap shooting final.
• Two-time British medallist Helen Glover, 35, and Polly Swann, 33, finished fourth in the women's pair, with Glover ruling out a tilt at Paris 2024.

• America's Caeleb Dressel set an Olympic record on his way to winning the men's 100m freestyle gold medal as he seeks to become one of the most successful swimmers at an individual Games.

• Duncan Scott, fresh from winning relay Olympic gold on Wednesday, qualified second fastest for the 200m individual medley final.
• Team GB riders Kye Whyte and Bethany Shriever reached the men's and women's BMX semi-finals.
• In hockey, Sam Ward scored twice as GB men came from behind to draw 2-2 with the Netherlands.
• GB's women's rugby sevens team won their opening pool A match against the Russian Olympic Committee 14-12.
• British boxer Frazer Clarke won his opening super heavyweight bout.
• Ireland won their first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics as Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy won the lightweight men's double sculls.

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Surprised Elena Rybakina's racquet is still intact. Most other players would have nuked it after not taking any of SIX set points and losing the opener.

The Kazakh 15th seed led 5-2 against Swiss opponent Belinda Bencic in their women's singles semi-final and was unable to take two set points at 5-4.

Four more went begging at 6-5, again on Bencic's serve, and then the almost-inevitable happened - the ninth seed cruised through the tie-breaker.

Over on court one, another breaker was needed to separate France's Ugo Humbert and Russian Karen Khachanov in the first set of their men's quarter-final.

Neither man broke serve before Khachanov made a fast start in the first-set decider and won 7-4.

Alistair Bruce-Ball
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live

Mallory Franklin set a fantastic time, I don't think she will have any regrets.

She is still only the second British woman ever to win silver in the slalom!

Sir Matthew Pinsent
Four-time Olympic rowing champion on BBC TV

I find it difficult to watch that sport!

Mallory Franklin... does everything right, goes down the course in a fantastic time, then you have got to stand there in the tent and watch everyone else come down and gradually they reshuffle the podium positions.

Then there's a moment you're guaranteed a medal, then it's still up for grabs right at the end!

But hats off to Jess Fox. A champion's performance. Not easy when you know exactly what's required of you, sitting in the start gate, as the last one to go.

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This was Mallory Franklin's silver medal-winning run.

Considering Jessica Fox's domination of the event, I don't think the Briton would take it back.

Jessica's father by the way is Richard Fox, a 10-time world champion who finished fourth in the men’s K1 at the 1992 Olympics for Great Britain. She maybe there is a small slice of the gold that Britain can claim....

Andy Murray leads the cheers for Mallory Franklin after her silver medal in the canoe slalom...

Alistair Bruce-Ball
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live

Right at the death Mallory Franklin is moved from the top of the podium to the silver meal position.

It's still a stunning silver - she couldn't have done any better in her run!

Sometimes you just have to take your hat off and say under that sort of pressure and knowing the time she had to beat, that was flawless by Jessica Fox.

You just have to applaud that, honestly that was absolutely sensational!

Patrick Winterton
Canoeing commentator on BBC TV

How many years has that been in the making for Jessica Fox!

At last she does it. Her fourth Olympic medal and it's a golden one.

Can you imagine the tension when she was sitting at the top of the course?

Jessica Fox slaps the surface of the water in delight as she comes through the timing gate, 3.64 seconds better than Mallory Franklin and the clear Olympic champion.

It completes a full house of Olympic medals for the Australian after silver at London 2012 and bronze at Rio 2016.

A touch at gate 16, but Fox still leads Franklin by four seconds...

Here we go. Australia's Jessica Fox attempts to wrestle gold from Britain's Mallory Franklin.

It is a duel for the top step.

Patrick Winterton
Canoeing commentator on BBC TV

It's now going to be down to the Fox-Franklin battle.