in the first medal of the day florian wellbrock of germany powered to gold in the men's 10km marathonghout the race, with competetors facing incredibly warm waters of 29 degrees celcius, the gold is germany's 9th at the 2020 olympiad. i'm not sure i would quite fancy swimming in 29 degrees heated waters down below us in tokyo bay, where that marathon swim took place. that gold for florian wellbrock, such a dominant comfortable performance for him, he is the world champion and also added that open water marathon gold medal to his bronze in the 1500m in the pool but the temperatures and the heat are becoming a big talking point. we know there are issues as well at the women's golf potentially. they may have to shorten that. like the womens' football to be moved because it's about 35 degrees here, temperatures very high in the water this morning, and about 85% humidity, so that is something the athletes will have to be battling with over the next couple of days. however, there are still going to be 27 medals upfor grabs, gold medals today, let's take a quick look at what else date 13 has

in the first medal of the day, florian wellbrock of germany powered to gold in the men's10km marathone lead throughout the race, with competetors facing incredibly warm waters of 29 degrees celsius. the gold is germany's 9th at the 2020 olympiad. for more on this, we can now cross live to tokyo and sarah mulkerrins tell us more about that first medal of the day, and what we can expect a bit later. i'm not sure i would quite fancy swimming in 29 degrees heated waters down below us in tokyo bay, where that marathon swim took place. that gold for florian wellbrock, such a dominant comfortable performance to him, he is the world champion and also added that open water marathon gold medal to his bronze in the 1500m in the pool but the temperatures and the heat are becoming a big talking point. we know there are issues as well with the women's golf potentially. they may have to shorten that. we've had certain events removed and requests for that to be moved because it's about 35 degrees here, temperatures very high in the water this morning, about 85% humidity, and that is something the ath

in the first medal of the day, florian wellbrock of germany powered to gold in the men's10km marathonck maintained the lead throughout the race, with competetors facing incredibly warm waters of 29 degrees celsius. the gold is germany's ninth at the 2020 olympiad. for more on this, we can now cross live to tokyo and sarah mulkerrins. it went to the german swimmer, but i have to tell you it was so warm down here. the last couple of days we had the women's event. it was just below us at tokyo bay. the water is about 29 degrees. the temperature outside of the water is about 31—32. the humidity is about 80%. very tough for them, nearly two hours in the water. they were needing refreshment stop somewhere. people would use fishing rods to give them to them. tough conditions in the water. the german won the gold medal but there is plenty more to come. there are 27 medal events coming up for day 13 of the olympics in tokyo. let's start off by looking ahead to some of the action. canada's damian warner will see if he can maintain his lead in the mens decathlin as the final 5 events are played

one of the performances of these games came from germany's florian wellbrock, who led the ten kilometren in the pool earlier in these games, in such hot conditions in the tokyo waters. the temperature was almost at the level that would have seen the event cancelled. for the british swimmer hector pardoe though there was a more fraught end to his race. he couldn't finish as he sustained a cut above his right eye after being elbowed in the face while in the chasing pack. i thought i had lost the eye. my goggles came off completely. i like to think whenever i was going to get an injury that i would finish the race, but my goggles company fell off and i could not get them and i couldn't see anything for i thought my i had fallen out in the water and i was going up to the lifeguards and saying, my eye, my eye! anyone who says that open water swimming is not a contact sport, it is. you can only really see what happens on the surface of the race, but underneath, there are so many kicks and scratches and it is brutal. alice dearing made history earlier this week when she finished 19th in the wo