The golfer took to Instagram to post a picture of himself at the Olympic venue for the men’s golf competition, which starts on Thursday.

“No greater honour than to represent Great Britain,” he wrote.

Halfway through the 40km bike stage of the women’s event Team GB’s Jessica Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown are leading a breakaway group of six that have built a two-minute lead over the chasing pack.

California’s Kolohe Andino was defeated 12.60-11.00 by Japan’s Kano Igarashi, who moved onto the semi-finals in heavy weather conditions.

The gold medal surfer will have to take to the stormy waters three times today to claim victory. The defeat means that Team USA has now lost both of its competitors in the first ever men’s competition.

The flowers being handed to medalists at the Olympics, eustomas, sunflowers and gentians, were chosen to symbolise the country rising again after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan.

More than 20,000 died when the twin tragedies struck the country and the flowers come from the three prefectures that were hit by all but 100 deaths.

The first of the quarterfinals sees Team USA’s Kolohe Andino taking on Japan’s Kano Igarashi in the 19-minute event being held in stormy weather.

Team GB’s Jessica Learmonth was leading the 1,500m swim leg of the event at Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo.

Learmonth was the first woman out of the water and onto her bike for the 40km bike stage of the race.

Olympic BMX rider Niek Kimmann collided with an official during a high-speed crash mid-race on a day of blunders at Tokyo 2020.

The 25-year-old Dutchman was getting some last-minute training in on the Japanese circuit ahead of the start of his heats on Thursday.

Footage captured the extreme sportsman taking to the air over the track’s hills seconds before crashing full-speed into an official walking across.

She is one of two women representing Team USA in surfing’s first ever appearance at the Olympics and she has been a star in the sport since she was a child

Surfing prodigy Caroline Marks, 19, grew up as one of six children in Melbourne Beach, Florida.

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She is the most successful and high-profile female surfer in the world.

And reigning world champion surfer Carissa Moore also shares something in common with a former US president.

For the Hawaii native went to the same private school attended by Barack Obama as he grew up on Oahu.

Kolohe Andino celebrated his Olympic victory over fellow Team USA surfer John John Florence by making a throat-slash gesture towards his rival.

Andino, 27, knocked out his fellow American, who is the two-time world champion and was tipped for gold, in their heat on Monday.

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