The latest Olympics news from Tokyo and around the world on Wednesday. Web links to longer stories if available:

12:50 a.m.: Team Canada has reportedly asked Olympic organizers to move the women’s gold-medal soccer match, which is slated for 11 a.m. local time, to later in the day to avoid extreme heat during the finals on Friday.

The Canadian Olympic Committe released a statement supporting the time change early Wednesday: “The COC supports Canada Soccer’s request to change the time of the women’s soccer final. It is in the best interest of the athletes,” said COC official Eric Myles.

More to come.

12:32 a.m.: Damian Warner of Canada is leading the Olympic decathlon with 2,966 points after the first three events.

Damian Warner of Canada is leading the Olympic decathlon with 2,966 points after the first three events. The 2016 Olympic bronze medallist is 223 points clear of fellow Canadian Pierce Lepage and 255 ahead of 2018 world junior champion Ash Moloney of Australia.

12:31 a.m.: Sakura Yosozumi of Japan has won the inaugural Olympic women’s park event in skateboarding, solidifying Japan’s dominance of the sport making its Olympic debut.

The silver went to Kokona Hiraki, who at 12 became Japan’s youngest Olympic medalist.

Britain’s Sky Brown prevented a Japanese medal sweep, taking the bronze.

12:21 a.m.: Kyra Constantine, Brampton, Ont., was 21st overall in women’s 400 qualifying (51.69) to earn a semifinals berth; Natassha McDonald, Brampton, Ont., was 36th (53.54), and did not advance.

11:50 p.m. (Updated): Canada’s Damian Warner opened his quest for an Olympic decathlon title in emphatic fashion.

The 31-year-old from London, Ont., ran 10.12 seconds in the 100 metres to tie his decathlon world record in the event.

Warner then crushed the field in the long jump, soaring 8.24 metres, the longest in Olympic decathlon history, and a distance that would have earned him a bronze medal in the open men’s long jump earlier in the week.

Warner was 11th in the shot put, but still earned enough points to maintain a commanding lead after three of 10 events with a score of 2,966.

10:42 p.m.: Sydney McLaughlin comes in first in the women’s 400 m finals, edging out her fellow American Dalilah Muhammad and setting a new world record.

Muhammad, who got out hard in the race and led through a majority of the race, took second in 51.58 and got under the previous world record of 51.90 that McLaughlin took from her at the U.S. Olympic Trials. 21-year-old Dutch star Femke Bol ran a personal best of 52.03 for a new European record and bronze.

10:25 p.m. (Updated): Damian Warner, London, Ont., posted the fastest time in the 100 m (10.12) and set an Olympic decathlon record of 8.24 metres in the long jump.

Pierce LePage of Whitby, Ont., finished the 100 m in 10.43, and 7.65 in the long jump. After the first two events, Warner leads the field with 2,189 points and LePage is third (1,964).

10:20 p.m.: on Sunday, Raven Saunders won a silver medal in the shot-put at the Tokyo Games. On Tuesday, NBC reported that her mother had died in Orlando, Florida, where she had gone to attend an Olympic watch party for her daughter.

Saunders called her mother, Clarissa Saunders, her “number one guardian angel” in a message on Twitter.

10:07 p.m.: In long jump, Pierce Lepage and Damian Warner came in first in their groups with a best score of 7.65. and 8.24, respectively.

9:43 p.m.: Several equestrian jumpers say a life-size sumo wrestler statue on the 14-jump Olympic course may have distracted several horses in qualifying for the individual jumping final Tuesday night.

The statue is positioned to the left of a jump placed in the corner of the arena. Hunched over and seemingly ready to attack, the wrestler is facing away from approaching riders, meaning that when they complete a sharp turn to take on the jump, the first thing horse and human see is the wedgie created by the wrestler’s mawashi.

“As you come around, you see a big guy’s (butt),” British rider Harry Charles said.

9:30 p.m.: In canoe 200m sprint, Katie Vincent of Mississauga (46.391) and Laurence Vincent Lapointe of Trois-Rivières, Quebec (45.408) both won their qualifying heat to earn a berth in the semifinals.

In men’s kayak 200m sprint, Mark de Jonge of Halifax (36.110) and Nicholas Matveev from Toronto (36.190), both finished fourth in their opening heats and will need to go through the quarterfinal round to advance.

8:51 p.m. (Updated) Canada’s Damian Warner opened his quest for an Olympic decathlon title in emphatic fashion.

The 31-year-old from London, Ont., ran 10.12 seconds in the 100 metres to tie his decathlon world record in the event.

Pierce LePage of Whitby, Ont., ran 10.43, the third-fastest time on the morning. Australia’s Ashley Moloney was second (10.34).

8:50 p.m.: Canadians Nicholas Matveev (36.190) and Mark de Jonge (36.110) qualified for the next round of men’s kayak single 200m.

8:44 p.m.: Canadian Georgia Ellenwood came in fifth in her heat in 100 m hurdles in women’s heptathon with a time of 13.47.

8:17 p.m.: Canadians Damien Warner and Pierce LePage came in first and third, respectively, in the third heat of 100 m in men’s decathlon.

8:15 p.m.: (Updated): Toronto’s Kate Sanderson finished 18th overall in two hours, four minutes and 59.1 seconds in the women’s 10-kilometre marathon swim.

8:11 p.m.: Bev Priestman’s message to the Canadian women’s soccer team before Thursday’s Tokyo 2020 final against Sweden will be straightforward.

“We’ve come this far,” Canada’s coach said after her team’s semifinal win over the United States. “I think that’s got to be the message. I think the group won’t go out to the final just happy to be there and go home with silver. I think if you’re going to do something, you may as well do it well.”

There will be little room for any lapse in discipline from the Canadian defence, particularly against a similarly disciplined Swedish team. One mistake in France bore a heavy cost.

The latest from Laura Armstrong: Canadian soccer women have come this far at the Olympics, coach says, they might as well go home with gold

8 p.m.: Following her triumphant comeback Tuesday, four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles revealed that her aunt died just two days prior to competing in the balance beam event.

Biles, 24, withdrew from four individual finals — all-around, vault, floor and uneven bars — last week citing mental health concerns and “the twisties,” a condition when gymnasts lose their sense of awareness in the air.

Biles’ coach Cecile Cantqueteau-Landi opened up to reporters Tuesday about what Biles had been going through during the Tokyo Games including her aunt’s unexpected death.

7:30 p.m. (Updated): Canada missed the podium in women’s 10 km marathon swim. Brazil took gold, with Britain and Venezuela in second and third.

6:15 p.m.: So you want to jump on the Canadian women’s soccer bandwagon, but you don’t know where to start.

Look no further.

The national team inspired one nation and shocked another on Monday, when it beat the United States for the first time in more than 20 years to advance to the gold medal game. The win galvanized soccer fans across Canada, while also drawing in viewers who are new to the sport.

Check out the full story by Laura Armstrong: Hopping on the Canadian women’s soccer bandwagon? Here’s what you need to know before the Tokyo gold-medal game against Sweden

4:50 p.m.: It was a kind of northern “Steel Magnolias” cast — the ladies who were patrons in the beauty salon of Camryn Rogers’ mother — that convinced Camryn Rogers to take up the hammer throw.

“My mom is a hairdresser (in Richmond, B.C.) and she has a lot of clients and friends who were a part of the track club at home. They had told me for a really long time, ‘You should come out, you should try.’”

Rosie DiManno has the story: Canadian hammer thrower Camryn Rogers is just getting started with a fifth-place finish in Tokyo

4:45 p.m.: As reporters waited to speak with Jessica Springsteen on Tuesday night, they were warned not to ask about her family. Reporters who promised to ask about her performance in the qualifier at Equestrian Park were identified, and theirs were the only questions taken before a media manager from U.S. Equestrian halted the interview after 1 minute and 26 seconds.

That nearly equaled the amount of time Springsteen lasted in her Olympic debut. She finished in an 11-way tie for 31st place, needing to finish 30th or higher to advance to the individual final. Her 12-year-old horse, Don Juan van de Donkhoeve, toppled a few bars toward the end of a routine he finished in 87.15 seconds on an uncharacteristically cool, breezy night.

4:30 p.m.: Time flies. So do Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown.

The two Canadian men advanced to Wednesday’s Olympic 200-metre final, the first time in 93 years a brace of Canadian sprinters has pulled off that Olympic 200-final feat. Percy Williams and John Fitzpatrick did it in 1928 in Amsterdam. Williams won gold, Fitzpatrick finished fifth.

Read more from Rosie DiManno: Canadians Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown blaze into Olympic 200-metre final — shades of the Bailey-Surin days

4 p.m.: Sushi, sushi everywhere/Nor any nigiri to eat.

Not exactly “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” but definitely scans with a growling belly and a mouth salivating for maguro.

The Star’s Rosie DiManno writes from Tokyo: an Olympic reporter’s salvation: 15 minutes at a Tokyo 7-Eleven

3:50 p.m.: If you wanted to take Canada’s performance in the women’s beach volleyball tournament at these Olympics and spin it positively, you probably had to freeze-frame the action at the headiest of moments.

Stop the tape in the giddy wake of the round of 16, when there were eight teams left in the competition and Canada was the only nation that could boast two, and you had yourself a shiny plot line. For the Canadian duos of Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes, and Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson, being one match away from playing for a medal was a testament to a program on the rise, not to mention the fruits of five years of hard slogging in the wake of the Rio Olympics. It looked like a recipe to deliver Canada’s first Olympic podium in women’s beach volleyball.

If you stopped the action there, you had a happy, hopeful ending.

The newest from Dave Feschuk: Canadian beach volleyballers go from blazingly hot to dumbfoundedly not in pair of Tokyo quarterfinal losses

3:30 p.m.: On today’s Tokyo Daily, Brendan Dunlop talks with the Toronto Star’s Bruce Arthur in Tokyo about Andre De Grasse’s personal best time in the men’s 200-metre semifinal run, the gold medal match for Christine Sinclair and women’s soccer, what it’s like in the mixed zone in Tokyo and more.

Watch the latest episode of Tokyo Daily here: Simone Biles and Ellie Black have greatness in common at Tokyo Olympics

12:30 p.m.: José Bautista did something for Dominican Republic on Tuesday that Blue Jays fans are quite familiar with.

He flipped his bat.

The 40-year-old Bautista, 0-for-8 at the Olympics before Tuesday, was left out of the Dominicans’ starting lineup as they faced Israel. He entered the game in the fourth inning after teammate Emilio Bonifacio suffered a hamstring injury. Bautista walked and flied out in his first two at-bats.

Read more from the Star’s Laura Armstrong: José Bautista gives his trademark bat flip an Olympic spin in Tokyo

11:20 a.m.: Simone Biles choked on her words, suddenly, her throat closing. A few minutes before, Ellie Black had choked on her words, suddenly, her throat seizing up. Simone Biles spoke about how grateful she was to just be there, to try to stay on the balance beam, to compete. A few minutes before, Ellie Black had said, more or less, the same thing.

Canadian gymnast Ellie Black is not Simone Biles, because nobody is Biles, now or ever. Nobody faces that pressure, nobody can do what Biles does, nobody had their Olympics go sideways as publicly, and suddenly become the face of athlete mental health. That Biles was even in the balance beam final was a surprise, even to her. She wasn’t sure she would ever perform in gymnastics again. She thought she had let people down.

The Star’s Bruce Arthur has the story: Simone Biles battled mental health. Ellie Black battled injury. Competing in beam in Tokyo might be their greatest triumphs

Previously: Simone Biles and Canadian Ellie Black made impressive showings on the balance beam; Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown qualified for 200-metre final; beach volleyball players Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes lost to Australia in quarterfinals after tearing through the competition.

For a full write-up of what you missed on Day 9 of the Tokyo Olympics, click here.

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