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10.44pm BST

Britain's Holly Bradshaw, who won bronze in the pole vault, described Tokyo 2020 as special" despite a lack of spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Bradshaw, who was among the Team GB athletes to land at Heathrow Airport this evening, told PA: I think every Olympics is different anyway but this has felt very different in that it's all about the performance and not about going out and exploring or anything like that.

10.23pm BST

As her father lay dying last August from the coronavirus at a Georgia hospital in the US, Lindsay Schwarz put her hands on his arms and softly sang him lines from their favorite songs.
Associated Press reports:

Eugene Schwarz had been admitted three weeks earlier, but the hospital had not allowed his daughter to visit him for fear of spreading the virus. The 72-year-old looked nothing like the ebullient, crisply dressed cardiologist who used to kiss her on the forehead before heading off to work.